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The wild finish to the Olympic women’s figure skating final

When the dust settled at Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing Thursday, presumed favorite <a href="https://www.vox.com/22927130/kamila-valieva-doping-trimetazidine-ban-olympics-2022">Kamila Valieva</a> did not win an Olympic medal for women’s figure skating, setting off a series of extraordinary events. The International Olympic Committee (IOC), probably breathing a sigh of relief, was allowed to conduct a medal ceremony for the top three finishers: Russia’s Anna Shcherbakova (gold) and Alexandra Trusova (silver); and Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto (bronze). Had Valieva qualified for a medal, the ceremony would have been postponed because of an investigation into her <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/2/14/22933431/kamila-valieva-olympic-ruling-allowed-to-skate">failed drug test</a>.
But instead of relishing a moment of joy and accomplishment in winning a silver medal, Valieva’s training partner and teammate Trusova threw a temper tantrum (in Russian) saying she hates the sport, hates that everyone has a gold medal, possibly hates their teammate Shcherbakova, and hates their coach Eteri Tutberidze.
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What was also possible to hear in the broadcast:
Trusova: “I will never go on the ice again in my life! I hate this sport, I hate it! You can't do it this way! You can't do it this way! Everyone has a gold medal, but not me. You knew everything!"<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/figureskating?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#figureskating</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Beijing2022?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Beijing2022</a>
— FS Gossips (@fs_gossips) <a href="https://twitter.com/fs_gossips/status/1494319351171665924?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Trusova reportedly told Tutberidze, “you knew everything” in the moments leading up to the medal ceremony. <a href="https://www.vox.com/22929275/kamila-valieva-trimetazidine-eteri-tutberidze-olympics-2022">Tutberidze has a history of skaters</a> that have talked about her restrictive, even abusive coaching methods — she <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLz8WPGWUAAwfbW?format=jpg&name=900x900">lectured Valieva</a> after her free skate.
Trusova <a href="https://olympics.com/en/news/figure-skater-alexandra-trusova-coach-evgeni-plushenko">left</a> Tutberidze in 2020 to train with Evgeni Plushenko and left Plushenko in May 2021 to <a href="https://fs-gossips.com/alexandra-trusova-left-angels-of-plushenko-and-returns-to-eteri-tutberidze/">reunite</a> and train with Tutberidze heading into the Olympics.
Under the cloud of Valieva’s doping controversy and Trusova’s post-medal fireworks, there was also skating that happened. Heading into Thursday’s free skate competition, there was an outcry from skating fans and <a href="https://fs-gossips.com/evgeni-plushenko-judges-were-incredibly-generous-to-valieva-she-made-a-serious-mistake-but-got-fabulous-scores-honestly-im-surprised/?fbclid=IwAR3Cv1Yc_qAe_n7HY90L4xyW-yzCPYcLmtEZlMlQFFQv2Hkyb6Z5MzUAoOE">experts</a> about Tuesday’s short program and how Trusova and Valieva had been over-scored despite having made egregious mistakes in their routines. Here’s how it all went down.
If skating was purely a jumping competition, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/2/3/22912876/figure-skating-scoring-explained-winter-olympics-2022">which some critics say it’s already become</a>, Trusova would have a right to be upset about not winning the gold. In her free skate, Trusova landed five quadruple jumps. That’s astonishing when you consider that before these Olympics, no woman had ever landed a quad in Olympic competition. (Nathan Chen landed five quadruple jumps in his free skate this year as well.) By landing these jumps, she amassed a huge technical total of 106.16 points:
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<figcaption>Trusova’s free skate scoresheet from the 2022 Olympics.</figcaption>
<cite>ISU</cite></figure>
Trusova’s technical score put her well ahead of almost the entire women’s field, the very distinct majority of whom do not throw quads into their programs. The only other women who can hit quads are her teammates Shcherbakova and Valieva.
In recent years, skating broadcasts have made it super easy for casual fans to follow along with the routine. For example, in NBC’s broadcast there’s a small box that tells you the jump or technical element a skater just performed and the GOE-adjusted number of points they got. It allows viewers at home to tell who’s in the lead and where the current skater stacks up; skaters in competition can make these same calculations.
Shcherbakova, who had a six-point lead after the short program, skated after Trusova. She probably saw the jumps that Trusova threw and knew her score. Shcherbakova would know that she needed to hit at least one if not both quads to keep up with Trusova’s technical score and remain in the hunt for the medal. She landed both a quadruple flip-triple toe loop (4F+3T) combination and quadruple flip (4F) as well as combinations in the back half of her program, which gives her a 10 percent bonus. Her technical score finished at 100.49; while not as high as Trusova’s, it was enough to keep her close.
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<figcaption>Shcherbakova’s scoresheet from the 2022 Olympics.</figcaption>
<cite>ISU</cite></figure>
But there’s another important score that viewers don’t see (but skaters do) and doesn’t get much explanation. It’s called the Program Components Score (PCS) and is considered the presentation and artistry aspect of skating.
A PCS tally has five categories: skating skills, transitions, performance, composition, and interpretation of the music. Judges are looking for features like speed and control when it comes to “skating skills” and are looking for elements like intricate footwork and body positions when it comes to “transitions.” The last three categories in a PCS have to do with performance, rhythm, and the execution of a routine; they’re a little more self-explanatory.
Given that Trusova’s technical score virtually erased the lead Shcherbakova had, what decided the gold medal between the two was Shcherbakova’s PCS. Shcherbakova tallied a 75.26 factored score (blue):
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<figcaption>Shcherbakova’s PCS scores.</figcaption>
<cite>ISU</cite></figure>
Trusova trailed her with 70.97 points, roughly four points behind.
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<figcaption>Trusova’s PCS scores.</figcaption>
<cite>ISU</cite></figure>
The <a href="https://results.isu.org/results/season2122/owg2022/CAT002RS.htm">final tally</a> was essentially in that PCS differential, as Shcherbakova finished the two-day competition with 255.95 points to Trusova’s 251.73 points. Kaori Sakamoto finished well behind them with 233.13 points.
Valieva had a dismal skate, with falls and under-rotation on many of her jumps. She finished out of medal contention about nine points behind Sakamoto at 224.09.
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<figcaption>Valieva’s scoresheet from the 2022 Olympics.</figcaption>
<cite>ISU</cite></figure>
According to former skaters, insiders, and experts, those Program Component Scores are arguably inflated.
“In terms of quality, you’re always looking for skaters with the most speed, skaters that show a lot of power, but at the same time are able to do intricate footwork and turn and toe steps that use real skating tricks on the ice ... rather than just skating and pushing on two feet or being super plain, or skating but only using only your arms in movements,” Polina Edmunds, a former US Olympian and US National silver medalist, told me after Tuesday’s short program.
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<figcaption>Anna Shcherbakova skating!</figcaption>
<cite>Matthew Stockman/Getty Images</cite></figure>
For the Russian gold and silver medalists, this artistry has traditionally been lacking. Edmunds says that Shcherbakova “is actually a skater that appears to look like a ballerina, but as soon as she starts moving, you can tell that she’s not trained” and that “a lot of her movements are very unaesthetic and unappealing.”
Trusova, similarly, is known in the sport as an athletic jumper, and her free skate tends to resemble something more along the lines of a warmup to music than a routine; jump after jump, with not much artistry in between. A former skater who asked that their name not be used described Trusova’s skating as “so unpleasant.”
Experts like Dave Lease, who runs the skating analysis YouTube Channel <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSkatingLesson?app=desktop">The Skating Lesson</a>, tell me they’ve questioned how the judges have marked Trusova and Shcherbakova, both in PCS and grade of execution of her jumps. Of Trusova, he says, “There was no attempt at a program, no attempt at performance execution, and zero attempt at interpretation.”
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<figcaption>Trusova!</figcaption>
<cite>Fred Lee/Getty Images</cite></figure>
Lease and Edmunds explained to me, separately, that skaters like Trusova and Shcherbakova’s teammate Valieva, or Japan’s Sakamoto and Wakaba Higuchi all possess markedly better skating skills (that should be rewarded in their PCS numbers). Yet somehow Russians tend to be given higher scores over their competitors.
The easiest and most frustrating explanation for the PCS numbers from the free skate and the controversial results of the short program is that as much as skating tries to be an objective sport, it’s not.
“Even though we like to feel and say that everyone has an equal chance when you step on the ice, depending on the warm-up group you’re in, depending on your past titles and medals, and depending on your history, you already have a set point that you start out at,” Edmunds told me.
Edmunds explains that judges have a preconceived idea of what the winning order of skaters is supposed to look like. They tally numbers corresponding to that order, and things like high PCS scores are given perhaps because of the history of the skater rather than what they’re putting in their programs. Lease confirms that judges “already sort of knew who the top five skaters were going to be in the short program.”
This helps explain why, for example, Trusova fell in Tuesday’s short program but still received higher PCS marks and comparable technical marks to Japan’s Higuchi, who skated much cleaner. This placed order benefit of the doubt may also affect the technical elements that the Russian skaters wield. Shcherbakova and Trusova have a tendency to pre-rotate their jumps (i.e., rotate before they’re in the air), a shortcut to getting a high number of revolutions, but this technical deficiency is not often reflected in how their jumps are scored.
Edmunds, who’s seen both sides of the sport, says this score inflation does a disservice to casual fans who tune in at big events like the Olympics and can’t understand the discrepancies. But, she told me, the most discouraging effect is on the athletes.
“It undercuts achievement from people who have a different style on the ice,” Edmunds said. “Speaking of the rest of the season leading up to this, and in the past few seasons, this has absolutely happened. And that’s just unfortunate because there are strong athletes from all over and they all deserve the same recognition.”
Heading into the women’s event, the big story was whether or not Valieva would win a medal. Valieva was allowed to skate at the event because of an arbitration decision, but the International Olympic Committee said that because she was under investigation for doping, she would only be awarded a medal after the case closes and if she were ostensibly found not guilty. Given the protests to her skating in the first place, the IOC probably was relieved she didn’t place so as to avoid another round of controversy about the medal ceremony.
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<figcaption>Valieva and her coach Eteri Tutberidze.</figcaption>
<cite>Jean Catuffe/Getty Images</cite></figure>
But just because she didn’t win and just because the Olympics are coming to a close doesn’t mean that the saga will stop. The World Anti-Doping Agency said that because Valieva is a minor, they will be investigating the adults supervising Valieva — which the skating world has taken to mean coach Eteri Tutberidze and her entourage.
There’s also the matter of Tutberidze not only coaching Valieva but coaching Shcherbakova and Trusova too. The shadow of Valieva’s doping extends to them and their results because of their shared mentors. And this all is punctuated by Trusova’s teary-eyed tantrum about Tutberidze “knowing everything” and Tutberidze <a href="https://twitter.com/Fran_klymydear/status/1494315172890091524?s=20&t=0m4vSxOEh__2CI_y-QP2GA">reportedly telling</a> Trusova “this is your defeat.”
Though the Olympic women’s event wrapped up on Thursday, the drama, controversy, and investigation surrounding Russia’s team show no signs of stopping.
 
 
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Migrants stranded in southern Mexico because of US and Mexican border policies are taking increasingly drastic measures to draw attention to their plight. On Tuesday, a dozen migrants staged a protest in which they <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/migrants-sew-their-mouths-shut-quest-mexico-passage-us-border-2022-02-16/">sewed their lips together</a> and went on a hunger strike.
They are among the thousands staying in what has become known as an “open-air prison” in the city of Tapachula on Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala. Migrants there have struggled to access food and shelter, and have reported being preyed on by government officials.
Facing pressure to find ways to limit the number of migrants requesting entry to the United States, Mexican immigration authorities will not permit the migrants to leave the city unless they have some form of legal immigration status allowing them to move freely through the country, such as asylum. Hundreds <a href="https://apnews.com/article/immigration-caribbean-central-america-mexico-737dfc9255c4b82dee04c3273ecd8124">tried to escape</a> last month, but were intercepted and detained by Mexican immigration authorities.
Many of Tapachula’s migrants have already applied for legal status so that they can travel north to the US border. Mexican immigration authorities are supposed to process those applications within 90 business days. But some migrants have been waiting for more than a year due to a surge in applications that has led to backlogs. In 2021, <a href="https://www.gob.mx/cms/uploads/attachment/file/690741/Cierre_Diciembre-2021__1-Enero-2022_.pdf">nearly 90,000 people applied</a> for asylum in Tapachula, more than triple the number who did so the year before. Applications from vulnerable groups — including children, pregnant people, victims of crimes, people with disabilities, older adults, and their immediate family members — are currently being <a href="https://www.gob.mx/segob/prensa/reprueba-inm-exposicion-de-personas-migrantes-a-autolesiones">prioritized</a>.
The migrants reportedly <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/migrants-sew-their-mouths-shut-quest-mexico-passage-us-border-2022-02-16/">used plastic needles and thread</a> to sew their mouths as a means of pressuring COMAR, the Mexican refugee agency, to speed up processing of their applications. Migrants have also asked the Mexican government to let them leave the city and establish a <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/28/we-cant-survive-migrants-in-mexico-protest-slow-asylum-system">humanitarian corridor</a> so that they could get safe passage to the US border. Though the migrant community in Tapachula has staged vigils and <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Migrants-in-Hunger-Strike-to-Demand-Free-Transit-through-Mexico-20210914-0009.html">hunger strikes</a> before in protest, Tuesday’s actions represent an escalation and a sign that Mexico isn’t able to meet their humanitarian needs.
That said, Tapachula’s migrants wouldn’t be trapped in the city — and the protesting migrants wouldn’t be pushed to such tactics — if it weren’t for Trump-era immigration policies that the Biden administration has adopted as its own.
Migrants are being kept from entering the US under a pandemic-related border restriction first implemented by the Trump administration, known as the Title 42 policy, which allows the federal government to bar noncitizens from entering the US for health reasons. Although <a href="https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/research/program-forced-migration-and-health/epidemiologists-and-public-health-experts-reiterate-urgent-call-end-title-42">public health experts</a> have said Title 42 doesn’t help to stop the spread of Covid-19, the Biden administration has embraced it. That has allowed the Biden administration to carry out 1.1 million expulsions to Mexico in the past year, including to the <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/01/1108892">state of Chiapas</a>, where Tapachula is located.
In 2019, the Mexican government agreed to <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/07/13/740009105/how-mexico-beefs-up-immigration-enforcement-to-meet-trumps-terms">ramp up immigration enforcement</a> on its southern border in order to avert US tariffs Trump had threatened. Though the Biden administration hasn’t continued to threaten those tariffs, it has dangled carrots of <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/biden-mexico-immigration-coronavirus-vaccine/2021/03/18/a63a3426-8791-11eb-8a67-f314e5fcf88d_story.html">vaccine doses</a> and <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2021/12/02/immigrants-remain-in-mexico-policy-restart-asylum/">development funds</a> in exchange for Mexico’s cooperation on limiting migration to the US border.
The effect of those policies has been to keep migrants away from US borders and out of mind for most Americans. And it’s been largely successful in silencing migrants unless they go to extreme lengths to be heard.
“We are going to sew our mouths ... so that they listen to us,” one migrant in Tapachula <a href="https://twitter.com/CiroGomezL/status/1493820978002022402?s=20&t=bPKP5UCgd2nIeRMIvWJCyQ">told</a> the Mexican news agency Imagen Noticias in Spanish.
In a <a href="https://www.gob.mx/segob/prensa/reprueba-inm-exposicion-de-personas-migrantes-a-autolesiones">statement</a> issued in Spanish on Tuesday, Mexico’s National Institute of Migration (INM) condemned the migrants’ actions as “senseless,” and claimed that it is already tending to their needs.
“It is also worrying that these measures have been carried out with the consent and support of those who claim to be their representatives, with the intention of putting pressure on the immigration authorities regarding care that is already provided,” the agency said.
But the kind of care provided to migrants in Tapachula isn’t adequate. The city simply doesn’t have the infrastructure to support a sudden influx of people. For months, some 3,000 migrants were living at a <a href="https://nacla.org/news/2022/01/06/tapachula-haitian-migrants">campsite</a> at Tapachula’s Olympic Stadium, where they had no access to clean water, food, health care, and other basic services, and shared only a few portable toilets.
That camp was disbanded in December, but there still isn’t enough <a href="https://www.borderreport.com/hot-topics/immigration/mexico-migrants-sew-lips-shut-at-border-protest/">affordable housing and room in local shelters</a> to support the migrant population and it’s not clear whether or when the Mexican government will build more shelters. Many are <a href="https://twitter.com/CiroGomezL/status/1493820978002022402?s=20&t=t3KTbMF0ACYLOp3pxSqf9Q">sleeping on the streets</a> near INM’s local offices and don’t have work permits, meaning that they can’t secure stable employment that would allow them to support themselves while they wait. And they have <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CDHFrayMatias/photos/pcb.5051016201598738/5050902678276757">reported</a> being mistreated, arrested in violent and arbitrary manners, and robbed of their money and their phones by Mexican authorities.
Though Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard has <a href="https://aldianews.com/articles/politics/new-record-asylum-applications-mexico/68746">promised</a> to reduce wait times by streamlining the bureaucracy around the asylum process, he has also acknowledged that the government simply doesn’t have the staffing and resources to meet the explosion in need.
The US could share the load by resuming processing of migrants at its own borders and allowing them to pursue claims to humanitarian protection, as is their legal right. Instead, it has offloaded its immigration responsibilities onto its neighbor.
 
 
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Video: Trump Promises “Justice Is Coming For Hillary Clinton”

In an interview with Sean Hannity Thursday, President Trump urged that America cannot take much more of the Biden administration’s policies, urging that central American countries are being allowed to “empty their prisons into the U.S.”
Trump said that “All they (had) to do was leave (the border) alone. The wall was almost complete… one thing you didn’t see was drugs. Drugs were at their lowest point, in particular Fentanyl, which is a brutal drug. It was stopped, it was at a level we had not seen in a long time.”
“Now it’s coming in at levels that we have never seen: Three, four, five times more than we ever had coming in… There’s something wrong,” Trump added, further declaring “You wouldn’t believe you could even say this, but somebody doesn’t love our country.”
“When they allow this to happen to our country, we have hundreds of thousands of people pouring in every two weeks,” Trump emphasised, adding that Central American countries are “emptying their prisons into the United States.”
“Some of the toughest people on earth are being dumped into the United States because they don’t want them. They don’t want to take care of them for the next 40 years. These people that are the roughest prisoners, anywhere, are being dumped into the United States for us to take care of them,” the former President explained.
“What are they doing? They are destroying our country,” an exasperated Trump asked.
Elsewhere in the interview, Trump commented on the <a href="https://summit.news/2021/10/06/16983/">Biden administration targeting parents</a> who do not want their children being subjected to vaccine mandates and the teaching of critical race theory in schools.
“The country can’t take much more of it, they can’t do it,” Trump said, adding “Those school parents — those are parents that love their country and they love their children. And they don’t want all of this nonsense that’s being fed to their children. They just don’t want it. And, you know, they are trying to make them out to be terrorists.”
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The mystery of methane gone missing

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Scientists have spent the past few years deploying aircraft and satellites to untangle one of climate science’s greatest mysteries: pinpointing exactly what’s causing methane, a particularly powerful greenhouse gas, to rise so fast in the atmosphere.
When it comes to the single biggest contributor to climate change, carbon dioxide, there’s no mystery: It’s mainly coming from tailpipes and smokestacks. But nailing down the sources of the second-biggest climate problem is trickier. Methane can come from a huge variety of sources, both natural and manmade. Marshes and swamps generate a lot, but humans are also responsible for methane that comes from rice production, landfills, animals raised for meat consumption, and oil and gas.
In this week’s <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/2cVV8dWSe8yVuXxrkyZQmO">episode</a> of <a href="https://www.vox.com/unexplainable">Unexplainable</a>, Vox’s science podcast on unanswered questions, University of Arizona scientist Riley Duren likens the problem of rising methane to an unbalanced checkbook: “We have a general idea of methane emissions, particularly at a global scale. But we need help with methane accounting at finer scales, particularly at the scale of individual states and cities, and facilities,” Duren said, who leads the nonprofit <a href="https://carbonmapper.org/">Carbon Mapper</a>, which has public and private partners including NASA, the state of California, and the company Planet.
A lot of Duren’s work <a href="https://www.vox.com/22613532/climate-change-methane-emissions">has focused</a> on measuring what scientists have called “super-emitters” from the oil and gas industry. Since natural gas is <a href="https://www.vox.com/22912760/natural-gas-methane-rename">primarily methane</a>, some greenhouse pollutants will inevitably escape into the atmosphere wherever gas is drilled, transported, and consumed. But Duren’s work has shown that a small number of oil and gas operations are leaking a disproportionate amount of methane. Something as simple as a minor malfunction in equipment can cause facilities to leak vast amounts that go undetected by regulators and operators.
Scientists have to first make these methane leaks visible to help countries tackle the source of the problem. “It’s like fixing leaks in your sprinkler system,” Duren said. “So if you can find the leaks, you can fix them more quickly.”
Over the next few years, a fleet of new satellites will add to improving methane monitoring on the ground that will change how the world tackles climate pollution.
Scientists have a number of techniques that help them hunt down everyday methane emissions and massive super-emitting events otherwise invisible to the eye.
One is in-situ sensors equipped with lasers, which essentially “sniff the air,” Duren explained. Then there are spectrometers that use remote sensing to measure the specific wavelengths of light that methane absorbs, like infrared.
Both of these techniques involve placing equipment at the site, in a car, or even on airplanes to find methane plumes. And spectrometers can get so specific that it’s possible to see that a plume is coming from a storage tank or a wellhead even from a plane hovering at 20,000 feet.
But there’s a big limitation to these instruments, because they offer just a snapshot of what’s happening. These leaks can be intermittent — a valve that worked one day to stop methane may be malfunctioning the next. It’s impossible for small teams of scientists to catch leaks all the time across hundreds of miles of oil and gas fields.
That’s where satellites come in. Duren’s group Carbon Mapper will launch new satellites by 2025 that give the world a more complete picture of methane emissions. He looks forward to “an emerging ecosystem of advanced measurement systems from space, air, and the land surface that didn’t even exist two or three years ago.”
Another <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/02/03/cracking-down-methane-ultra-emitters-is-quick-way-combat-climate-change-researchers-find/">study published</a> recently in the peer-reviewed journal Science showed just what these satellites are capable of doing. Using data from the European Space Agency satellite that circulates the planet 14 times a day, French and American scientists found a small number of “ultra emitters” accounted for as much as <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/02/03/cracking-down-methane-ultra-emitters-is-quick-way-combat-climate-change-researchers-find/">12 percent of methane emissions</a> from the fossil fuel sector from 2019 to 2020.
Duren predicts more satellite data “will really help improve methane accounting and accountability at all scales.”
This kind of work has another effect: making the abstract problem of methane emissions something concrete and tangible. “You could see methane, pouring out of storage tanks and there’s so much in some places you can spot it from space — these giant plumes of methane,” said Drew Shindell, who chaired the world’s first United Nations <a href="https://www.unep.org/resources/report/global-methane-assessment-benefits-and-costs-mitigating-methane-emissions">Global Methane Assessment</a> last year. According to Shindell, the growing body of research linking oil and gas to methane plumes has spurred for policymakers to act.
Roughly 100 countries at the Glasgow COP 26 climate meeting this fall rallied around the idea that “methane is the strongest lever we have,” Shindell explained. Since methane sticks around in the atmosphere for far less time than carbon dioxide, stopping especially large leaks from the oil and gas industry can have an almost real-time impact on methane concentrations in the atmosphere over the next decade.
This is a major reason countries, including the United States, signed onto a side <a href="https://www.globalmethanepledge.org/">voluntary agreement</a> pledging to take serious action on methane (Russia and China, other major methane polluters, did not sign on). The US itself is one of the top sources of methane emissions from the oil and gas industry, <a href="https://www.vox.com/22407581/gas-texas-biden-climate-change-methane-permian-basin">because of the Permian Basin</a> located over hundreds of miles in West Texas and New Mexico.
Climate activists have used citizen science to showcase the problems in the Permian Basin. Sharon Wilson and Miguel Escoto, two Texas activists who work for Earthworks, have traveled across the Permian armed with an optical imaging camera that measures wavelengths of light. They park on the side of public roads and use the camera to show just how common it is to see methane coming from all kinds of oil and gas facilities.
For Wilson and Escoto, then, the problem isn’t just the mystery of where the methane leaks are coming from, but the US allowing unchecked oil and gas drilling in the Permian. Despite new fleets of satellites and planes monitoring for methane leaks, regulators have few tools for stopping them. Texas has no regulation for methane emissions, and the Environmental Protection Agency has been slow to enforce better monitoring from the industry because of Trump administration rollbacks.
“You point the camera at [equipment] and you see that there is a plume of gas that’s just pumping out consistently. It’s just venting and venting.” Escoto said. The only way to stop this venting, he added, is by slowing new production in the Permian.
Listen to the full Unexplainable episode on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/2cVV8dWSe8yVuXxrkyZQmO">Spotify</a>, <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-methane-hunters/id1554578197?i=1000551256897">Apple Podcasts</a>, or <a href="https://www.vox.com/unexplainable">wherever you find podcasts</a>.
 
 
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“Who Is Footing The Bill?”: Prince Andrew Settled With Epstein Accuser And Brits Want To Know If They Are Paying For It

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A former senior aide to Bill Clinton has claimed that the former President did indeed visit Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious island, despite repeated denials, and that his daughter Chelsea Clinton also had a relationship with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Doug Band, who <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/wwws/2016-11-06/doug-band-accuses-chelsea-using-clinton-foundation-money-pay-her-wedding">previously accused Chelsea</a> of using Clinton Foundations funds to pay for her wedding, made the claims in an <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/wwws/2020/12/confessions-of-a-clintonworld-exile">interview with Vanity Fair.</a>
“Band said he had no idea about Epstein’s sex crimes back then but got enough bad vibes that he advised Clinton to end the relationship,” the report notes.
It continues “Clinton continued to socialize with Epstein and take his money. In 2006 Epstein donated $25,000 to the Clinton Foundation. Clinton made more than two dozen trips on Epstein’s jet around this time, Epstein’s flight logs show.”
“In January 2003, according to Band, Clinton visited Epstein’s private Caribbean island, Little St. James. Band said it was one of the few trips he declined to go on in his time with Clinton,” the report further notes.
Band notes that Ghislaine Maxwell was invited to Chelsea Clinton’s wedding in 2010, despite the fact that it was then known that Epstein had committed sex crimes involving underage girls.
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Chelsea had ties to Epstein and Maxwell, Band said; he showed me a photo of Bill and Chelsea posing with Epstein and Maxwell at the King of Morocco’s wedding. Chelsea remained friends with Maxwell for years after the press revealed Maxwell was a close associate of Epstein’s. For instance, Chelsea invited Maxwell to her 2010 wedding at the Brooke Astor estate in Rhinebeck, New York, after Epstein had pleaded guilty in Florida to procuring sex from a minor.
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Band says that there was one major reason Maxwell was at the wedding. “Ghislaine had access to yachts and nice homes. Chelsea needed that,” the former aide notes.
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Band says in the interview that it was only in 2011 that he began to tell Clinton staffers to cut Maxwell out of the picture.
“I knew in telling everyone to stop including Ghislaine that Chelsea and her father would be very angry. It made it harder for them to justify being close to her,” Band says.
Band’s claims that Bill Clinton visited the notorious ‘pedo island’ dovetail with <a href="https://summit.wwws/2020/07/31/unsealed-court-docs-suggest-bill-clinton-was-on-pedo-island-with-epstein/">previously unsealed court documents</a> in the Ghislaine Maxwell, which revealed that a witness claims to have seen the former president there with Epstein, Maxwell and “two young girls”.
The documents also echo <a href="https://summit.news/2020/05/26/witness-says-he-saw-bill-clinton-partying-on-pedo-island-with-epstein/">claims previously made by a former worker</a> on Epstein’s island in a Netflix documentary.
The claims run contrary to <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/07/31/bill-clinton-denies-visiting-jeffrey-epsteins-private-island/">denials by Clinton</a> that he ever visited the island, which was reportedly the site of multiple sexual assaults of underage women by the convicted pedophile Epstein and his elite guests.
 
 
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Levi’s Brand President Says She Was Offered $1 Million to Shut Up About Being Fired Over Criticizing COVID Restrictions

Levi’s former Brand President Jennifer Sey claims she was offered $1 million dollars by the company to stay silent about why she was fired – for her criticism of COVID restrictions and particularly the closure of schools.
Sey made the assertion in an article posted to the <a href="https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/yesterday-i-was-levis-brand-president?r=rael8">Common Sense channel</a> on Substack run by Bari Weiss.
The gymnast had worked with Levi’s for two decades having previously competed at the 1986 Goodwill Games in Russia.
However, she was fired after being targeted by a mob campaign because she dared to suggest that making children wear masks and forcing them to miss school might be harmful.
“Anonymous trolls on Twitter, some with nearly half a million followers, said people should boycott Levi’s until I’d been fired,” Sey wrote. “So did some of my old gymnastics fans. They called the company ethics hotline and sent emails.”
As we previously <a href="https://summit.news/2022/01/27/speech-therapist-364-surge-in-baby-and-toddler-referrals-thanks-to-mask-wearing/">highlighted</a>, Sey is completely correct in her criticism given that speech therapists are now reporting a 364% increase in patient referrals of babies and toddlers over developmental disorders caused by mask wearing.
After CEO Charles Bergh told Sey that if she stopped speaking out, she’d eventually become the company’s next CEO, Sey briefly muted her dissent.
However, thanks to the mob pressure, Sey was told her position was “untenable” and was then offered $1 million dollars to not reveal why she was fired.
“The money would be very nice. But I just can’t do it. Sorry, Levi’s,” wrote Sey.
“I never set out to be a contrarian. I don’t like to fight. I love Levi’s and its place in the American heritage as a purveyor of sturdy pants for hardworking, daring people who moved West and dreamed of gold buried in the dirt.”
“But the corporation doesn’t believe in that now.”
“It’s trapped trying to please the mob—and silencing any dissent within the organization. In this it is like so many other American companies: held hostage by intolerant ideologues who do not believe in genuine inclusion or diversity.”
Revealing that she was also labeled “racist” for speaking out against COVID restrictions, Sey wrote that she decided to keep her voice rather than take the money.
“Early on in the pandemic, I publicly questioned whether schools had to be shut down.”
“This didn’t seem at all controversial to me. I felt—and still do—that the draconian policies would cause the most harm to those least at risk, and the burden would fall heaviest on disadvantaged kids in public schools, who need the safety and routine of school the most.”
“In the summer of 2020, I finally got the call.”
“‘You know when you speak, you speak on behalf of the company,’ our head of corporate communications told me, urging me to pipe down.”
Despite pleading that she was merely speaking in a personal capacity as “a public school mom of four kids,” Sey said the final straw was when she appeared on Fox News with Laura Ingraham and criticized further school closures.
Levi Strauss & Co. subsequently released a false statement claiming Sey had “resigned from the company.”
In reality, she was fired after intense pressure and relentless phone calls from people at every level of the company, right up to the CEO.
But remember folks, cancel culture doesn’t exist!
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revolution summit Levi’s Brand President Says She Was Offered $1 Million to Shut Up About Being Fired Over Criticizing COVID Restrictions

Levi’s former Brand President Jennifer Sey claims she was offered $1 million dollars by the company to stay silent about why she was fired –...