Microsoft, Stripe, Shopify, H&M — hell, even Coldplay — are some of the big-name clients paying Swiss company Climeworks to take carbon dioxide out of the air. Climeworks became the first company to sell the service, using its new-fangled “direct air capture” technology, in 2017. 

There’s still protest from some environmental advocates over this strategy for tackling climate change. They’d rather see these brands stop pumping out pollution. Unfortunately, that’s not happening nearly fast enough to keep global temperatures from rising. And demand is rising for ways to clean up all the carbon dioxide pollution building up in our atmosphere.

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"We live in Florida, and more so, we live in Polk County, and most people are armed," Haines City Police Department Chief Greg Goreck said in a Friday press conference, according to Fox News.

 A California police officer and father-to-be was shot and killed this week by a convicted felon who was given early release from prison. Fresno County District Attorney Lisa Smittcamp blamed Governor Gavin Newsom (D) for creating a “warped” criminal justice system.

 Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) rebuked the Biden administration for proposing new energy conservation rules that would, according to Manchin, prohibit most gas stoves.

 A New York state school district has been blasted for racism after calling a snowman created by fourth graders "just as diverse as our students."

 Locals and Groundhog Day enthusiasts alike were caught off-guard today, as the eponymous groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, emerged from his burrow and declared to the crowd gathered at Gobbler's Knob that there was a cache of documents marked "Classified" in his underground home.

"I know you're all here waiting to find out if I saw my shadow and if there will be six more weeks of winter and all that stuff," Phil said, "but I thought you all might want to know that there's a big stack of files and folders down there stamped ‘Classified' and ‘Top Secret' in red ink. Not sure where they came from. These are probably important, right?"

DOJ officials scrambled to retrieve the documents from Phil's burrow as word began to spread among the assembled media that yet another hidden stash of Joe Biden's classified documents had been discovered. The White House quickly issued a statement on the incident. "These documents do, in fact, belong to the President," Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. "The documents were, indeed, temporarily stuffed into the burrow of one Punxsutawney Phil by an unknown person. The documents, are, however, highly classified, therefore I am not at liberty to discuss the situation any further."

Another video of Pfizer director Jordon Trishton Walker has been released.

In this video he admits to being concerned about potential negative effects on women’s reproductive health from the COVID-19 vaccine.

BREAKING: @Pfizer Director Concerned Over Women's Reproductive Heath After COVID-19 Vaccinations

"There is something irregular about their menstrual cycles…concerning…The vaccine shouldn't be interfering with that…It has to be affecting something hormonal…"#Pfertility pic.twitter.com/XAuMPJNShD

— Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas) February 2, 2023

When talking about the vaccine and its side effect, specifically on women, Walker said that there is a connection between the vaccine and women’s reproductive health.

“There is something irregular about the menstrual cycles. So, people will have to investigate that down the line,” Walker said. “The [COVID] vaccine shouldn’t be interfering with that [menstrual cycles]. So, we don’t really know.”

 

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NASA's Curiosity rover has found another meteorite on Mars.

The space rock is about 1 foot (0.3 meters) wide and consists primarily of iron and nickel, Curiosity team members announced via Twitter on Thursday (Feb. 2). And the meteorite has a name.

"We're calling it 'Cacao,'" the Curiosity team wrote in the Twitter post(opens in new tab), which includes a photo of the rock.

 The office of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis charged Thursday that state universities drastically under-reported diversity, equity, and inclusion spending after the Republican leader told administrators to provide state lawmakers with the data.

The United States is a country completely run by special interests in the Biopharmaceutical complex… big Pharma drives all policy decisions in Washington. Big Pharma makes a boat load of money off of gender reassignment surgeries… is it any wonder that the Biden administration is happy to go along with these horrific surgeries?

Nearly 2.6 million pounds of canned meat have been recalled for packaging issues that could cause the food to rotten - or allow pathogens to enter and infect it.

Conagra Brands, based in Fort Madison, Iowa, is recalling over the defects. Brands whose products were recalled include Goya, Kroger and Great Value meats. 

In total, 18 products were affected. Products were produced between December 12 and January 12, and sold across the country.

Northern states are bracing for an arctic blast as a cold front from Canada blows through the Upper Midwest and an ice storm heads north after devastating the South.

The National Weather Service warned of below zero temperatures in the Northeast and New England on Friday morning through Saturday, where wind chills could dip as low as negative 50 degrees due to a cold front moving from Canada. 

'The wind chills have the potential to be [a] once in a generation cold late Friday into early Saturday,' the NWS warned. 

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