...Researchers (click here) found that, in 2021, importing 4.7 million containers on more than 1,650 ships generated 3.5 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions. That’s roughly equivalent to carbon dioxide emissions from 754,000 typical gas-powered cars in a year. At the same time, ships spewed enough smog-forming nitrogen oxide to equal the annual emissions of seven coal-fired power plants.
Walmart, Target and Home Depot — purveyors of practically everything that fills a home — accounted for the bulk of emissions analyzed in the study. The companies represented the first, second and third largest shares, respectively, of both climate-harming emissions and air pollution from maritime imports.
Many of those goods moved through just a handful of hubs: the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in California, the Port of Houston in Texas and the Port of Savannah in Georgia....
China's exports probably contained the virus simply because they were manufactured there.
The explosive growth of China’s container ports (click here) has turned one of the most important vendors in shipping into a best-in-class industry leader, whose cranes can now be found in 300 wharves in 100 countries, with 70 per cent of the global market share....
And what is China's defense after the FBI stated the lab leak started the entire pandemic?
March 3, 2023
By Rory Elliott ArmstrongChinese Foreign Ministry (click here) spokesperson Mao Ning has accused FBI Director Christopher Wray's claims on the origin of the coronavirus and says they only further hurt US credibility.
Speaking on Fox News on Tuesday, Wray said that the bureau believes COVID-19 "most likely" originated in a "Chinese government-controlled lab". According to the BBC, it is the first public confirmation of the FBI's classified judgement of how the pandemic virus emerged.
Wray's comments follow a report earlier this week which said the US Department of Energy had determined that a leak from a Chinese lab was the most likely cause of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Many scientists have rejected the lab leak theory as lacking in evidence and other US government agencies have drawn differing conclusions from the FBI's. Some of them have said - but with a low level of certainty - that the virus did not start in a lab but instead could have jumped from animals to humans at one of Wuhan's seafood markets.
The market is near a world-leading virus laboratory, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which conducted research into coronaviruses....
China never let any scientist into the Wuhan labs to validate any concerns about the origins of the virus. Why? Because they have a lot to hide, then and now. Wuhan Institute of Virology is a national security issue for China. It is never going to allow access.
And another thing, FOX News backed the lies about the insurrectionist's Big Lie. What is any USA military anybody giving FOX News credibility either. STOP APPEARING ON THAT PROPAGANDA NETWORK!
December 12, 2019
A cluster of patients in China’s Hubei Province, (click here) in the city of Wuhan, begin to experience the symptoms of an atypical pneumonia-like illness that does not respond well to standard treatments....
The CDC stated it was from the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market and it was closed.
By Jon Cohen
As confirmed cases (click here) of a novel virus surge around the world with worrisome speed, all eyes have so far focused on a seafood market in Wuhan, China, as the origin of the outbreak. But a description of the first clinical cases published in The Lancet on Friday challenges that hypothesis.
The paper, written by a large group of Chinese researchers from several institutions, offers details about the first 41 hospitalized patients who had confirmed infections with what has been dubbed 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). In the earliest case, the patient became ill on 1 December 2019 and had no reported link to the seafood market, the authors report. "No epidemiological link was found between the first patient and later cases," they state. Their data also show that, in total, 13 of the 41 cases had no link to the marketplace. "That's a big number, 13, with no link," says Daniel Lucey, an infectious disease specialist at Georgetown University.
Earlier reports from Chinese health authorities and the World Health Organization had said the first patient had onset of symptoms on 8 December 2019—and those reports simply said "most" cases had links to the seafood market, which was closed on 1 January.
Lucey says if the new data are accurate, the first human infections must have occurred in November 2019—if not earlier—because there is an incubation time between infection and symptoms surfacing. If so, the virus possibly spread silently between people in Wuhan—and perhaps elsewhere—before the cluster of cases from the city's now-infamous Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was discovered in late December. "The virus came into that marketplace before it came out of that marketplace," Lucey asserts....
...Andersen posted his analysis of 27 available genomes of 2019-nCoV on 25 January on a virology research website. It suggests they had a "most recent common ancestor"—meaning a common source—as early as 1 October 2019....
