Man-caused climate change is not just about a gradually warming planet or extreme weather events, it’s also about increasing health emergences for everyone…

From The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/nov/16/from-cholera-to-kidney-disease-10-ways-the-climate-crisis-is-wrecking-peoples-lives-acc? mosquitoes, ticks, disease, illness, death

In a letter to the Carbon County News, the extremist Carbon County Republican Women group again hides political attacks and misinformation behind a thin veil of pseudo-Christianity, as so many MAGA-types do…

First there is the political attack on the current administration for its response to the challenges of the "Southern border," that Montana Republican pols like...

Apologies to the anti-masker/anti-science crowd, but the Cochrane study they love was flawed and misinterpreted, and masks can help you stay healthier…

From Scientific American: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-went-wrong-with-a-highly-publicized-covid-mask-analysis/ MAGA, Trump, narcissistic selfishness, unChristian to not to want to protect others

Yet more proof that ivermectin is only effective for helping political grifters con gullible MAGA cult members and QAnon adherents (sorry for the redundancy)… #MAGACult #Trump

From jamanetwork.com: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2801828 Anti-science, anti-vaxxer, deadly misinformation, horse pill, dewormer, suckers, GOP, right-wing extremism

COVID may be forgotten but it’s definitely not gone – great read here answering your questions, including about the bivalent booster we should all get (if we haven’t already)…

From Johns Hopkins: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2023/common-questions-about-bivalent-covid-19-boosters#:~:text=How%20do%20I%20know%20if%20I've%20already%20gotten%20the,people%2012%20years%20and%20older. people still dying, vaccines work (of course), vaccines safe, anti-vaxxers getting people killed, right-wing extremism

A Carbon County local, on Facebook, recently ranted about alternative lifestyles being “in your face” and all over the news, perhaps he should ask Republican politicians to stop obsessing about culture wars, which keeps those issues in the news…

Besides being fascist and immoral, those culture wars are bad politics. From rollcall.com: https://rollcall.com/2023/03/31/republicans-fixation-on-trans-issues-could-backfire-pollsters-say/ fascism, pseudo-Christian, intolerance, try live and let live

From our man-caused climate change section: incredibly, Montana is already experiencing wildfire smoke season, as record high temps plague the Pacific NW, wildfires burn in Canada & the MT legislature makes things worse…

From cnbc.com: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/17/wildfires-burn-millions-of-acres-in-canada-send-oil-prices-higher.html From Montana Free Press: https://montanafreepress.org/2023/05/12/gianforte-signs-climate-change-analysis-ban-into-law/ unprecedented drought, tar sands oil, climate change denial, Gianforte, HB971