"Infants under 6 months old remain the highest-risk for Covid-19 hospitalisation". By @jeremyfaust open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

Infants under 6 months old remain among highest-risk groups for Covid-19 hospitalization.

That and other stories in "Five on Friday" for September 27, 2024...

if I can't violate labor laws and dump toxic heavy metal wastewater into coastal wildlife preserves all human progress will immediately end

Being an Afghan woman is enough to qualify for asylum (i.e., no need to show that the particular woman applying would be subject to persecution in Afghanistan)Being an Afghan woman is enough to qualify for asylum (i.e., no need to show that the particular woman applying would be subject to persecution in Afghanistan)

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on today's CJEU judgment on Afghan women refugees and EU law www.theguardian.com/law/2024/oct...

EU court rules gender and nationality enough to grant Afghan women asylum

ECJ ruling follows Afghan women’s challenge to Austrian court refusal to give them refugee status

Did I miss it, or did ADPH not mention the importance of ventilation (and/or HEPA filters, UV) to reduce the spread of respiratory pathogens like flu, Covid-19, and whatever the next airborne pandemic will be? www.adph.org.uk/resources/ad...

Apparently it is "irrational" and "inconsistent" to sack police officers who lie about smelling cannabis to justify their racist actions. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Bianca Williams: Met PCs win appeal over search sacking

Jonathan Clapham and Sam Franks win an appeal against their dismissal from the Met last year.

Quiet Riot has quickly become my favourite current affairs podcast.

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"LNG is not a bridge fuel to clean energy," said one expert. "It's a highway to climate hell." “"The greenhouse gas footprint for LNG as a fuel source is 33% greater than that for coal" in terms of its 20-year global warming potential” (Howarth, Cornell University)

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On the heels of Hurricane Helene devastating the U.S. Southeast and sparking fresh calls for action on the fossil fuel-driven climate emergency, a long-awaited study revealed Thursday that the planet-heating pollution from liquefied natural gas is worse than that of coal.

Cornell Study Shows LNG Worse for Climate Than Coal | Common Dreams

A new study revealed that LNG pollution is worse for the climate than coal.

This is absolute madness. Carbon capture and storage has failed time and again. Labour has slashed reliable green programmes, to pour vast sums of our money into a complete crock. The only possible explanation is lobbying by fossil fuel companies.🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Labour to commit almost £22bn to fund carbon capture and storage projects

Investment will fund two CCS clusters – but environmental campaigners have criticised plans

Great piece by @IanDunt "One year on: the hate machine". open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

One Year On: The hate machine

Hard to believe it's been a year.