Screw Your Comfort: How NATURE Magazine Became a Nagging Preacher

 Watts Up With That?  

This is moral preening masquerading as efficiency. The message is not that emissions can be reduced. The message is that passengers should expect less — less comfort, less choice, less accommodation — and that resistance to this outcome is a problem to be managed.

"There was a time when publication in Nature signaled restraint. Not correctness, not consensus, but seriousness: an awareness of uncertainty, an allergy to grand prescriptions, and a reluctance to turn provisional findings into marching orders. That version of Nature treated science as a method, not a ministry.

"The version now publishing climate-policy optimization exercises like “Large carbon dioxide emissions avoidance potential in improved commercial air transport efficiency” operates very differently. It does not merely describe the world. It scolds it. It does not explore trade-offs. It resolves them in advance. It does not ask whether its preferred objectives are justified. It assumes they are, and then works backward to discipline behavior accordingly.

"This is not an aviation paper in any meaningful sense. Aviation is the prop. The real subject is moral instruction — how people ought to travel, how airlines ought to behave, and how policy ought to coerce them when they fail to comply.

"The collapse of Nature from scientific journal to nagging preacher is not subtle anymore. This paper is a clean, almost didactic example.

"The authors begin with the now-ritual framing: aviation emissions are growing, technological progress is insufficient, and therefore “efficiency gains will be an important pillar of any decarbonisation strategy” . Notice what is absent already. There is no serious interrogation of whether the scale of the problem warrants the scale of intervention implied. There is no cost-benefit framing in any human sense. The premise is treated as settled.

"From that point on, the paper becomes an exercise in moralized accounting. A single metric — grams of CO2 per revenue passenger kilometer — is elevated to supreme status. Everything that does not optimize this metric is reclassified as inefficiency, regardless of why it exists.

Comfort becomes inefficiency. Choice becomes inefficiency. Redundancy becomes inefficiency. Even economic viability is treated as a secondary consideration, mentioned only as a constraint to be overcome.

"Nowhere is this clearer than in the discussion of seating configurations. The authors write, approvingly: 

“Business and first class seats are up to 5 times more CO₂-intense than economy class seats… An all-economy class configuration would consequently reduce emissions.”

  Greta’s Sweden Is ‘Retreating From Its Bold Green Ambitions’ – Energy has ‘drained out of the (Greta’s) climate campaign’

. . . "Two protesters, a small cardboard sign and a quiet vigil.

"The energy that’s drained out of the campaign mirrors a broader deflation of green ambitions in Sweden and across the continent. Populist groups are pushing back against environmental initiatives, spurred on in part by Donald Trump’s anti-green agenda, and there’s been a weakening of near-term emission-reduction measures, especially where climate and cost-of-living policies have clashed." . . .

Antizionism: A Plot to Kill a Nation

Phyllis Chesler  

"We must reclaim them unapologetically. Zionism is a mainstream political movement advocating for Jewish self-determination and protection in the state of Israel"**. 

. . . "These redemptive scripts are already operating inside feminist spaces, and they are reshaping whose suffering counts, whose testimony is believed, and which women qualify for solidarity.

"A case in point is the denial or minimisation of sexual violence on October 7th. Many feminist organisations or advocates publicly cast doubt on rapes committed by Hamas against Israeli women, because acknowledging these crimes introduces moral complexity and undermines the idea that eliminating Israel is a universal emancipatory act. A few examples will illustrate this.

"UN Women, for example, initially failed to acknowledge the sexual violence, issuing only generic statements about civilian protection. It was only weeks later, under pressure, that they explicitly condemned the October 7th attacks and the reports of gender-based atrocities. Both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch delayed or hedged their statements, questioning the evidence. Influential voices in the international women’s rights movement amplified narratives dismissing the reports as ‘propaganda’. And feminist networks, too many to mention - groups that normally insist “believe women” - suddenly applied caveats and warnings that complaints of rape were being weaponised. In response, the hashtag #MeTooUnlessYoureAJew began trending.

"Sexual violence as a weapon of war is well-documented and recognised globally. It is used to terrorise populations and destroy communities. Yet when Jewish women were the victims, the world fell silent – unable to confront what this brutality meant for a narrative that equates Palestinian resistance with liberation.

"Another example of Antizionism in action in feminist spaces comes from Reem Alsalem, the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls – who also denied that any rapes occurred during the October 7th massacre in a conversation on X with one of our co-founders. She then went even further on a platform known for amplifying Antizionist voices, by claiming that Israel is “normalising state violence” globally. She blamed it for violence in countries like Iran and argued that this prevents her from holding those governments accountable:" . . .  More...

The Left Doubles Down on Rage Week in Education

George Floyd Redux: Renee Good

Laurie Higgins

"When activists obstruct lawful arrests and politicians shout “murder,” the truth is lost: weaponizing a car against police turns ideology into a fatal choice."

"As the whole country knows, a trained leftist agitator was killed by an ICE agent when she intentionally and illegally impeded a legal law enforcement operation. And so, the leftist spinning begins.

"Renee Nicole Macklin Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, decided to park her car diagonally in the middle of a street to prevent ICE agents from legally arresting immigration scofflaws. She refused to comply with repeated orders to vacate her vehicle and then drove toward or into an ICE agent. Justifiably believing that Good posed a significant threat of death or serious injury to himself or other officers, he shot and killed Good." . . .

. . . But AOC, a reliable opponent of truth and law enforcement, said to reporters, “At the end of the day, what we saw today is a murder. And murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.”

"AOC’s fellow squad member Ayanna Pressley called the killing a “murder.”

"And liar-extraordinaire Hillary Clinton posted on X that “an ICE agent murdered Renee Good.”

Renee Nicole Good, the mom who was killed by a federal agent after veering her car toward him, was an anti-ICE “warrior” and was part of a group of activists who worked to “document and resist” the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota, The Post can reveal.

Good, who moved to the city last year, linked up with the anti-ICE activists through her 6-year-old son’s woke charter school, which boasts that it puts “social justice first” and involves “kids in political and social activism.” …

Good and her wife, Rebecca, 40, who were raising the child together and sent the boy to Southside Family Charter School, a K-5 academy opened in 1972, which has from its inception been “unabashedly dedicated to social justice education.”

It was through her involvement in the school community that Good became involved in “ICE Watch”—a loose coalition of activists dedicated to disrupting ICE raids in the sanctuary city. …

“[Renee Good] was trained against these ICE agents—what to do, what not to do; it’s a very thorough training.” 

. . . "Just wondering, has Jeffries ever publicly condemned his prevaricating colleagues? Richard Blumenthal, Elizabeth Warren, Bob Menendez, Adam Schiff, and Joe Biden as “stone cold liars”?" . . . Full article...

UPDATED: The American Spectator: Why the Democrats Will Fail Step Three in the George Floyd Script

"Over its entire four years, the Biden regime imported millions of illegal aliens and gave them generous government benefits with the unstated but obvious purpose of building a bought-and-paid-for political super majority that would guarantee a permanent Democrat-controlled electoral dominance. It was intended to be the capstone of Barack Obama’s pledge to fundamentally transform America.

"But now President Trump has called a halt to this transformation and is in the process of deconstructing this illegally imported voter base through ICE raids, arrests, and deportations.

"So it is that desperate Democrat officials and operatives in so-called sanctuary cities and states are using every device at their disposal to slow and block the destruction of their grand plan to replace, overwhelm, and subjugate their political opponents and the rest of the non-aligned population of the United States. (RELATED: The Media Are Agents of Propaganda)

"Among their tactics is the use of rent-a-mobs and so-called social justice warriors to impede ICE agents from rounding up and deporting illegals." . . .

"Nevertheless, Good’s death has become a rallying cry for all those Democrats and radicals who want to preserve what’s left of their imported illegal alien voting scheme. And they are not about to let the inconvenient facts of Good’s justifiable death get in the way of impeding the dismantling of that political base by federal immigration officers."