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📢 It is now abundantly clear that President Biden must
declare a 🚩 climate emergency.
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Date: July 1, 2022, 12:59 pm
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Anthony,
Climate change is here, and the stakes couldn't be higher.
Yesterday's Supreme Court decision limiting the Environmental
Protection Agency’s authority to regulate coal- and gas-fired
power plants makes it abundantly clear that President Biden must
declare a climate emergency.
Officially declaring the climate crisis a national emergency
would unlock the tools needed to steer the economy away from
fossil-fueled climate catastrophe toward a sustainable, just
future. Biden needs to hear from you.
Urge President Biden to be a #ClimatePresident by immediately
declaring a 🚩 climate emergency.
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reading this do the same
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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." --
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Supreme 👿🦖😈🐘🐍🦕
Court: "the US EPA cannot Protect the Environment in the
United States" 🤦‍♂️
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Date: July 2, 2022, 1:00 pm
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July 1, 2022
Anthony,
Climate change is here, and the stakes couldn't be higher.
Yesterday's Supreme Court decision limiting the Environmental
Protection Agency’s authority to regulate coal- and gas-fired
power plants makes it abundantly clear that President Biden must
declare a climate emergency.
Officially declaring the climate crisis a national emergency
would unlock the tools needed to steer the economy away from
fossil-fueled climate catastrophe toward a sustainable, just
future. Biden needs to hear from you.
Urge President Biden to be a #ClimatePresident by immediately
declaring a 🚩 climate emergency.
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AGelbert NOTE: I did, I recommend all ethically grounded people
reading this do the same
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Cat's Paw > AGelbert
The girls wrote a good dissenting opinion.
Time to put the Old Confederacy down.
I favor the proposal to add justices. 29 of them.
The same number as 9th appeals court.
AGelbert > Cat's Paw
👍 Well said. I hope that happens VERY SOON!
When our Supreme (fascist polluter bought and paid for)
🦖🦍 Court goes 🐍 full Orwell by using
dial-a-text-definition sophistry to 😈 "establish" that
"the United States Envronmental Protection Agency cannot Protect
the Environment in the United States" 🤬, they have lost
any credibility they ever had.
The Dissenting Opinion actually told those
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This goes way past the Old Confederacy (i.e. wanton asset
stripping abusive economy) into Obi-Won Kenobi's quote (see
below).
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We are running out of time to stop AND REVERSE Catastrophic
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[move]The 🦕🦖 Hydrocarbon 👹 Hellspawn
Fossil Fuelers DID THE Clean Energy Inventions suppressing,
Climate Trashing, Government corrupting, human health depleting
CRIME. Since [Color=Brown]they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and
conscience free
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/>they are trying to AVOID [/color]DOING THE TIME or PAYING THE
FINE! Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!
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... far worse than all the procedural, regulatory and
constitutional mishigas is the likely impact of the ruling:
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Date: July 2, 2022, 9:59 pm
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July 2, 2022
AGelbert: The 🐉🦕🦖 Hydrocarbon 😈
Hellspawn DID THE Clean Energy Inventions suppressing, Climate
Trashing, Government corrupting, human health depleting CRIME.
Since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks,
they are trying to AVOID DOING THE TIME or PAYING THE FINE!
Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!
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newestbeginning Mod > AGelbert
Would you be able to put together an article on this subject?
AGelbert > newestbeginning
Thank you for the suggestion but the following article I read
yesterday at Counterpunch pretty well covers the murderous
environental damage that will result because of this calloused
ruling by the
👿🦖😈🐘🐍🦕 Supremely
Corrupt Court:
COUNTERPUNCH
JULY 1, 2022 by STEPHEN F. EISENMAN ✨
SNIPPETS:
In fact, as Justice Eleanor Kagan
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/>argued in dissent, Congress expressly empowered the EPA to act
to protect the environment because legislators cannot – they
lack the time or expertise to draft complex rules. That’s what
government agencies are for. As Kagan wrote (with some snark):
“It is EPA (that’s the Environmental Protection Agency, in case
the majority forgot) acting to address the greatest
environmental challenge of our time.” ... ...
But far worse than all the procedural, regulatory and
constitutional mishigas is the likely impact of the ruling:
Government paralysis in the face of the greatest threat that
humans have ever known. ... ...
Heat, drought, and fire, paradoxically paired with more frequent
and intense hurricanes, high tides, and flooding, will displace,
and impoverish hundreds of millions, if not billions of people.
The current die-off of non-domesticated animals and mass
extinction of species will accelerate. In many parts of the
world, water will be unavailable either for energy or
irrigation. At 2.0°C and higher, heat will become a major,
global killer, as will water-born and vector-borne diseases. ...
...
Wars over food and water will be fought within and between
nations states. Negative climate feedbacks, also called climate
tipping points – for example, the loss of Arctic permafrost
(with consequent release of methane), and the melting of
Antarctic and Greenland ice caps — will trigger sudden leaps in
both temperature and sea level that no amount of planning or
adaptation can manage. To call the world of 3.0°C to 6.0°C rise
chaotic would be generous in the extreme – a better word would
be apocalyptic. ☠️😵😱🥵
Full article: 🦉
“A Fancy Piece of Homicide” at the U.S. Supreme Court
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The behavior of the Roberts Court is, like Adam's posts here,
Prima facie evidence of morally bankrupt ideology.
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: July 3, 2022, 3:38 pm
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AGelbert: The 🐉🦕🦖 Hydrocarbon 😈
Hellspawn DID THE Clean Energy Inventions suppressing, Climate
Trashing, Government corrupting, human health depleting CRIME.
Since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks,
they are trying to AVOID DOING THE TIME or PAYING THE FINE!
Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!
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newestbeginning Mod > AGelbert
Would you be able to put together an article on this subject?
AGelbert > newestbeginning
Thank you for the suggestion but the following article I read
yesterday at Counterpunch pretty well covers the murderous
environental damage that will result because of this calloused
ruling by the
👿🦖😈🐘🐍🦕 Supremely
Corrupt Court:
COUNTERPUNCH
JULY 1, 2022 by STEPHEN F. EISENMAN ✨
“A Fancy Piece of Homicide” at the U.S. Supreme Court
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newestbeginning > AGelbert
Thanks for the suggestion, Agelbert. I just posted the article.
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AGelbert > newestbeginning
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I am still reasonably healthy for my age. I hope you and yours
are well also.
newestbeginning Mod > AGelbert
Good to hear. Ups and downs w some bumps along the road. The
clock only runs one way.
AGelbert > newestbeginning
Yep.We all have a date with destiny.
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/>Until then I know you will press on to do the right thing,
come
hell or high water. I am committed to doing the same.
larrymotuz
Here is a very interesting RELATED article:
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"Justice Elena Kagan wrote the dissenting opinion on behalf of
herself, Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Stephen Breyer, who
retired
yesterday. Kagan wrote:
“Today, the Court strips the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) of the power Congress gave it to respond to ‘the most
pressing environmental challenge of our time,’ noting that “The
Earth is now warmer than at any time ‘in the history of modern
civilization,’ with the six warmest years on record all
occurring in the last decade.”
Kagan directly challenged the majority’s view that the EPA did
not have the authority to regulate greenhouse gases, writing:
“Congress charged EPA with addressing those potentially
catastrophic harms, including through regulation of
fossil-fuel-fired power plants. Section 111 of the Clean Air Act
directs EPA to regulate stationary sources of
any substance that ‘causes, or contributes significantly to, air
pollution’ and that ‘may reasonably be anticipated to endanger
public health or welfare.’ 42 U. S. C. §7411(b)(1)(A). Carbon
dioxide and other greenhouse gases fit that description…”
Kagan also explained how the Supreme Court has been doing the
bidding of the fossil fuels industry going back to the Obama
administration, writing: “This Court has obstructed EPA’s effort
from the beginning. Right after the Obama administration issued
the Clean Power Plan, the Court stayed its implementation. That
action was unprecedented: Never before had the Court stayed a
regulation then under review in the lower courts….”
I strongly recommend this article.
Edit: spacing only
AGelbert > larrymotuz
👍👍👍 I also strongly recommend this
article. Thank you for bringing it the attention of the readers
here.
🦖 Hydrocarbon Hellspawn talking points parroted by the
bought and paid for politicians, judges and pundits are a
nothing but a thin economic-sounding pretense for their
misanthropic, self-centered rants, that happens to expose how
their 'free-market' punditry is merely plain-old cruelty wrapped
in an economic-sounding pretense for prioritizing private
polluter profits over public health and the environment (with,
as Nancy MacLean documents in [I]Democracy in Chains[/i], a
deeper utility in opposing the Civil Rights Act and subsequent
racial justice policies).
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🐘 Adam G. Yoksas
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> At it's core, this case--like most cases that come before the
Court--is a federalism case. In other words, who has sovereign
jurisdiction over what goes on in West Virginia? Is it the
states, states like West Virginia (and all of the other states
that enjoined WV against the EPA)? Or is it the Environmental
Protection Agency?
>
> Now the key issue in this case is ... ...
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gets
to his point, which is, of course, part of the plan to divert us
from the actual CORE issue:
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> Now the specific language here is over the term "air
pollutant," and whether this term authorizes the agency to
regulate anything and everything which emits carbon dioxide,
including the effective prohibition of anything that emits
carbon dioxide. Previously in Utility Air v EPA, the Court ruled
that the carbon dioxide from powerplants, specifically, are
within EPA's charge. But what this ruling concluded is that the
EPA's charge does not include the closure of powerplants, based
only on their estimated CO₂ emissions.
>
> That's the basis of this decision, and why it was rendered as
it was.
--- End Quote ---
AGelbert > 🐘 Adam G. Yoksas
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If I had nickel for every doubletaliking sophist with a law
degree mouthing Orwellian pretzel-speak to deliberately (see:
MENS REA) avoid the REAL CORE ISSUE, I would be a millionaire.
SEE CORE ISSUE below:
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🐘 Adam G. Yoksas > AGelbert
So the "core issue" consists of a rambling cut-and-paste meme
containing sensational headlines and polemics, while the legal
explanation is the "Orwellian pretzel speak." Marx was right
about you lumpenproletarians. People like you are so driven by
your ignorance, you're easily led by whatever demagogue makes
the most sensationalist pitch.
Now you can disagree with the reasoning of the Court, but I'd
like to hear a rationale for doing so. What gives the EPA the
authority to do what it wants to do in West Virginia, against
what West Virginia has determined for itself? Can you point to
something, a statute, a decision, an authority, or a principle,
that gives the EPA this authority?
AGelbert > 🐘 Adam G. Yoksas
"Can you point to something, a statute, a decision, an
authority, or a principle, that gives the EPA this authority?"
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🦉 Justice Kagan ✨ did exactly that. 👍
👉 Kagan directly challenged the majority’s view that the
EPA did not have the authority to regulate greenhouse gase,
writing: “Congress charged EPA with addressing those potentially
catastrophic harms, including through regulation of
fossil-fuel-fired power plants. Section 111 of the Clean Air Act
directs EPA to regulate stationary sources of any substance that
‘causes, or contributes significantly to, air pollution’ and
that ‘may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or
welfare.’ 42 U. S. C. §7411(b)(1)(A). Carbon dioxide and other
greenhouse gases fit that description…”
Why are you avoiding debating her sound legal opinions, if not
because you want to cloud the CORE issue in order to serve an
genda to confuse the public about the REAL core issue here?
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The only one rambling with sophistry laden long winded
diversionary cut and paste is you, counselor. Neither pounding
the law (any precedent you cite is irrelevant to the CORE issue
here) or wordy ad hominem "indignant" table pounding is gonna
work here, counselor.
Take your knowledge of "Letters" and try to use them for the
good of mankind instead pushing an underhanded defense of the
jursisIMprudence profit over planet status quo along with
feeding your oversized ego.
The legal principle of Ubi jus, ibi remedium was completley
discarded by the US legal profession several decades ago when
the Social Darwinist justification for profit over people and
planet modus operandi became the 'greed is good' norm.
That graphic I posted details exactly how the US legal
profession was corrupted, yet you seem to have (accidentally on
purpose) difficulty identifying CORE causes for HOW we got here.
Here's some graphics that went into that collage I made that you
can pretend are "irrelevant."
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IF the following is not a CORE ISSUE to YOU, then I will waste
no more time trying to make you think beyond your thread-bare
rationalizations (i.e. "logic and reason" limited to statutes,
decisions, an authority, or a principle Procrustean Bed).
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June 29, 2020 Milwaukee federal judge U.S. District Judge Lynn
Adelman tells it like it IS about the supremely UNETHICAL
Roberts Supreme Court and gets charged with "ethics" violation
in the Orwellian world of the US "Justice" system.
The longtime Milwaukee jurist created a bit of stir with his
piece, "The Roberts Court's Assault on Democracy" in the Harvard
Law & Policy Review. He identifies two key ways the court
erodes democracy: by making it harder for the poor and
minorities to vote, and by "reinforcing the enormous imbalance
in wealth and political power" in America.
By now it is a truism that Chief Justice John Roberts’ statement
to the Senate Judiciary Committee that a Supreme Court justice’s
role is the passive one of a neutral baseball 'umpire who
(merely) calls the balls and strikes,' was a masterpiece of
disingenuousness. Roberts’ misleading testimony inevitably comes
to mind when one considers the course of decision‐making
by the Court over which he presides."
🦉
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The behavior of the Roberts Court is, like your posts here,
Prima facie evidence of morally bankrupt ideology.
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Chinese Vessel Snapped In Two By Typhoon Chaba ☠️
Dozen Bodies Retrieved
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A vessel is seen sinking after it snapped in two as tropical
storm Chaba passed through, according to authorities, in waters
off Hong Kong, China July 2, 2022. Hong Kong Government Flying
Service/Handout via REUTERS
SNIPPETS:
BEIJING, July 4 (Reuters) – Chinese search and rescue officials
pulled 12 bodies on Monday from waters southwest of Hong Kong
after an engineering vessel snapped in two as tropical storm
Chaba passed through, state television said. ... ...
Four of its crew were rescued by Monday, although rescue
officials in the global financial hub had warned the previous
day that “very slim” chances remained of finding others alive.
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Seven planes and hundreds of boats and fishing vessels are
joining the search effort, state television said.
The sunken vessel,🦖 ‘Fujing 001’, with a crew of 30,
was at an anti-typhoon anchorage in waters near Yangjiang in
Guangdong when its anchor chain snapped.
Full article:
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Agelbert REMINDER: It will Get MUCH WORSE, MUCH SOONER, than the
deluded fools and knaves that refuse to responsibly address CORE
environmental ISSUES (SEE: U.S. Supreme Court AND the
Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Fuels "Industry"), think.
🚩 Learn why:
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"There isn’t one simple answer."
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Date: July 10, 2022, 9:34 pm
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JULY 8, 2022 BY RICK THOMAN
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Roaring 🌊 Oceans!
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Date: July 15, 2022, 3:33 pm
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July 14, 2022 By Mike Schuler
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[center]Ultra-Large Containership APL Vanda Loses Boxes
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SNIPPET:
A CMA CGM-operated mega containership apparently lost an
undisclosed number of containers overboard while underway in the
Indian Ocean off the coast of Djibouti earlier this month.
The revelation puts to rest several questions concerning APL
Venda’s status after it unexpectedly arrived at a Djibouti
anchorage on July 6.
An update from CMA CGM on July 7 said the vessel suffered an
“unexpected incident” during a westbound voyage on July 3,
delaying its arrival in North Europe by two weeks.
Casualty management firm WK Webster reported Thursday that
17,292 TEU capacity ship lost an unknown number of containers
overboard on or about July 3 and it was working verify the
severity of the incident. We now know 55 containers were lost
overboard.
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AGelbert NOTE: Incidents like 🌊 these are predicted by
Climate Scientists to increase in frequency and severity.
🦉 Learn more:
Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean
Wave Activity: Part 3 of 3 parts
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What If The American Southwest Runs 🚩 Dry?
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: July 16, 2022, 10:27 pm
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What If Geography 19.7K subscribers
The megadrought continues to be in full swing for the western
half of the United States and no where is this more acutely felt
than the naturally dry American Southwest. Home to over 60
million people (including California) there are very real
concerns over the longevity of the region's water resources. So
what happens if there simply is no more water to pull from the
rivers and ground?
Note: I understand that California is not culturally "Southwest"
and make no assumptions it is. California is included due to its
similar water issues and the fact that it's part of the Colorado
River Compact.
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World's largest carbon emitters thumb their noses at emission
cuts through bribed Government and Judiciary
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: July 19, 2022, 12:36 pm
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By Benjamin Storrow | 07/18/2022 07:12 AM EDT
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Vehicles pass by a golf course and homes across the freeway from
undeveloped desert last week in Palm Desert, Calif. The state is
now in a third consecutive year of drought amid a climate
change-fueled megadrought in the southwestern United States.
Mario Tama/Getty Images
Water levels have fallen so low on the Colorado River that they
are threatening a dam relied upon by millions of Americans. In
Texas, it was so hot last week the state’s grid operator had to
twice ask people to conserve electricity. And in western Kansas,
it is so dry that barely any wheat sprouted this year, further
straining global agricultural markets upended by the war in
Ukraine.
Such events are a sign of how climate change is altering life in
the United States. Yet they have yet to provoke a serious
response in Washington, where 😈 Sen. Joe Manchin of West
Virginia told his Democratic counterparts last week he could not
support climate provisions in a wider budget bill (E&E Daily,
July 15). In an evenly divided Senate, the pronouncement likely
kills the prospects for federal climate legislation.
The result is a collision of political and atmospheric reality.
The atmospheric reality is this: The world already has warmed by
about 1 degree Celsius from pre-industrial levels, juicing many
of the extreme weather events observed today. As long as people
continue to put more carbon dioxide and methane into the
atmosphere than machines and the Earth can absorb, the planet
will get hotter. And a hotter planet is a recipe for even more
frequent and stronger heat waves, droughts and hurricanes, among
other extreme weather events.
But the political reality is that the federal government of the
United States, which sets policies for the second largest
emitter in the world today, is not taking steps that would lead
to a significant reductions in greenhouse gases this decade.
That leaves it to states, cities and markets — not to mention
other countries — to try and make up for the lack of action in
Washington.
Few analysts believe they can deliver the needed reductions.
“There isn’t time for the 🦕🦖🐍 largest
carbon emitters in the world to 😈
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systems scientist at Stanford University.
Jackson is a leader of the Global Carbon Project, a group of
international climate researchers who track global emissions. In
2021, they estimated the world had 11 years at current emissions
rates before the planet reached 1.5 C of warming, the threshold
after which the dangers of a warming world begin to rapidly
accelerate. The planet has 32 years before it reaches 2 C of
warming, the initial target of the Paris climate accord.
In recent years, Democrats have talked up efforts to curb
emissions. And so when the party took control of the House of
Representatives, the Senate and the White House in 2020,
expectations for a federal climate bill soared. Yet the
combination of narrow legislative majorities and a slew of
historic crises have relegated climate on President Joe Biden
and congressional Democrat’s to-do list.
“The political reality is that climate isn’t a top priority for
Democrats,” Jackson said. “I think it means we will zoom past
1.5 C in a couple years and hurdle toward 2 C before we know
it.”
The situation is reminiscent of 2009, when then-President Barack
Obama and Democratic lawmakers passed a federal stimulus bill,
health care legislation and financial reforms only to falter on
climate, Jackson said. The problem, he said, is that the world’s
emissions budget is nearly exhausted and Republicans have shown
no serious sign of engaging in climate policy.
“We don’t have the luxury of waiting another 10 years,” Jackson
said.
As Washington dithers, Americans are beginning to grapple with
the consequences of a warming planet. In the Southwest, federal
regulators recently warned states that they needed to
drastically cut back water consumption to protect the dams at
Lake Mead and Lake Powell in Nevada and Arizona, respectively.
The two impoundments are critical for managing the flow of water
along the Colorado River, making them a key source of water for
some 40 million Americans in the desert Southwest. And as large
hydroelectric facilities, they are also keystone’s of the West’s
electric grid.
At least, they have been.
Water levels were just 32 feet above the elevation needed to
generate electricity at the Glen Canyon Dam on Lake Powell
earlier this year, prompting the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to
take unprecedented efforts to bolster the reservoir’s levels
(Greenwire, May 3). In an average year, Glen Canyon Dam
generates about 5 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity,
according to Reclamation, enough to power about 466,000 homes.
But as water levels have dropped, so too has the dam’s output.
Initial Energy Department data shows it generated a little more
than 3 billion kWh of power last year.
In the middle of the country, Texas is experiencing its hottest
summer since 2011 (Climatewire, July 12). Temperatures in Austin
reached 105 degrees Fahrenheit on five consecutive days,
according to the National Weather Service, the third-longest
streak on record. The searing heat sent power demand soaring as
Texans sought the relief of their air conditioning. The Electric
Reliability Council of Texas, the state’s primary grid operator,
twice asked consumers to cut back on power consumption to avoid
rolling black outs.
Further to the north, parts of western Kansas have gone more
than 300 days without recording an inch of rain. Wheat
cultivation there is suffering as a result, an unwelcome
development when the world is scrambling to find grain following
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (Climatewire, July 8 ).
Climate change alone is not solely responsible for events like
low water levels at Lake Powell or the struggles of Texas’ grid.
In both those cases, soaring population growth is taxing water
and electricity supplies. A changing electricity grid, which is
seeing old coal and gas plants replaced by renewables, is also a
factor.
But a warming planet has made those challenges harder.
“We’ve been through a degree of warming. In a sense, we at least
have a sense for the magnitude of the impacts. Two degrees of
warming would be twice as intense,” said John Nielsen-Gammon, a
professor of atmospheric science at Texas A&M University and the
Texas state climatologist. “But it gets us farther outside of
historical conditions, which means the extreme events get more
and more likely to be worse than anything previously
experienced.”
Scientists were once hesitant to ascribe individual weather
events like the heat wave that baked Texas last week to global
warming. Yet that thinking has begun to change in recent years
amid a growing body of irrefutable evidence the planet is
getting warmer.
Events such as the heat dome that enveloped the Pacific
Northwest last year are nearly impossible in a cooler world,
scientists said. So are storms like Hurricane Harvey, which
dropped up to 60 inches of rain on parts of Texas, one of the
most significant rainfall events since record-keeping began in
earnest in the 1880s.
Finding consensus over policies that can cut emissions is
difficult enough, as shown by Congress’s inability to pass
significant federal climate legislation. But the challenge is
compounded by atmospheric reality. Methane emitted today will
stay in the atmosphere for several decades. Carbon dioxide
released in the air today can stay there for centuries,
according to NASA.
“If we wake up in 5 to 10 years and say, ‘This is unbearable to
our economy, to our communities, to a livable future; we must
act,’ it will be too late to cut and stem the losses that will
be going on,” said Kim Cobb, a climate scientist at Brown
University. “This is a challenge where the decisions we make
this year, the next year and the next year will determine what
type of climate we will have at least until mid century and most
likely beyond.”
Right now, Washington is making the decision to not to act in a
way that would seriously limit emissions this decade. Congress
passed an infrastructure law last year that shovels money into
research for technologies such as advanced nuclear, hydrogen and
carbon capture and sequestration. Yet most experts expect it
would take at least a decade before those technologies can begin
to be deployed at scale (Climatewire, Aug. 13, 2021).
In an interview with a West Virginia radio station on Friday,
🦖😈 Manchin held open the door to working on a
climate bill after Congress’ summer recess. The West Virginia
senator said he wanted to see July’s inflation figures before
proceeding with a climate bill
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Manchin’s vote, which is needed in a 50-50 senate, after seeing
him back out of two potential climate packages (Greenwire, July
15).
The Biden administration, meanwhile, is hamstrung by a recent
Supreme Court ruling that limits the options available to EPA
for regulating emissions from power plants. While the agency has
some significant tools remaining for regulating CO2, the high
court’s ruling suggests the justices would look skeptically at
future agency actions that do not have explicit congressional
approval.
For all those difficulties, emission reductions are likely to
continue. Continued renewable deployment and increasing electric
vehicle adoption means emissions are likely to fall 24 to 32
percent of 2005 levels by the end of the decade without
significant changes in policy, the Rhodium Group said in an
analysis last week. U.S. emissions were 17 percent below 2005
levels in 2021, Rhodium reported.
The problem is that those reductions fall far short of the 50-52
percent reduction targeted by Biden — and leave the United
States well adrift of achieving net zero emissions by
midcentury.
The impact of American climate inaction on global emissions
ultimately will depend on how far the United States falls from
meeting its targets, said Michael Mann, a climate scientist at
Pennsylvania State University.
“The direct impact on global emissions might be modest, but the
indirect impact could be huge,” he wrote in an email. “If the
U.S., the world’s largest historical emitter, is unable to meet
its commitments to the rest of the world, that provides an
excuse for countries like China and India, who are likely to
dominate further emissions, to ease off in their own efforts.”
The risks of a warming planet grow as temperatures rise. At 1.5
C, there will be more glacier melt and sea-level rise, causing
additional “death and destruction,” Mann said. But the impact
becomes even more
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breach, he noted.
“It is a world,” Mann said, “that we want to avoid.”
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AGelbert NOTE: Due to the polluter bought and paid for
thoroughly corrupted state of the US Government AND the
Judiciary, there is NO WAY that a 2 C (PLUS 😱) world can
now be avoided. May God have mercy on us.
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🚩Social Darwinist Ideology is the greatest material
☠️ threat humanity has EVER faced.
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: July 19, 2022, 7:48 pm
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July 19, 2022
dmorista Mod > AGelbert
It has grown increasingly astounding to me that intelligent
people can just ignore this situation and pursue short term
projects that pretend that this stuff is not going to happen!! I
am convinced that the majority of these political operatives and
business managers and owners are so greedy that they figure that
anything that is 20 or 30 years hence does not concern them.
Don't they have children or grand children whose future is some
concern to them. All the predictions made by the IPCC have
turned out to be way too conservative, and unfavorable changes
always arrived years or decades earlier than predicted.
AGelbert > dmorista Mod
🌞 Well said. However, let me metaphorically bend your
ear (or maybe unmetaphorically tire your eyes) a bit. This is a
major existential issue for all of us. I firmly believe that
the pretense the polluters and those bought and paid for by them
put up is just that. They DO KNOW the heinous environmental and
social damage they are doing. They are not fooled by the
propaganda lies they peddle to us. They KNOW the Catastrophic
Climate Change score. There is something driving them that is
FAR more destructive than human greed. By not challenging the
core belief system/ideology that the polluters and bought and
paid fors have, your words do not reach them.
That is the communication problem that you will continue to have
convincing those doing most of damage to wake up, perceive the
Catastrophic Climate Change THEY are causing, and act to stop
and reverse it. You are using excellent logic but you will never
reach the polluters with it because you are not addressing the
socially destructive fault at the CORE of polluter ideology
that causes them to continue polluting for profit no matter how
much damage they do. Let us call it the "problem".
The "problem" I see with your logic is that there is no problem
with it. You, like me, live in the real world. You understand
that human society, government, business or even a single
individual that embraces unethical behavior as the CORE of
their modus vivendi/operandi (i.e. integral, indispensable,
routinely required by their ideology 👉 SEE: "Apex"
predators in general and SOCIAL DARWINISM in particular) will
always behave in a socially destructive manner.
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The reason these bought and paid fors out there don't see a
problem with that is that they honestly believe the Social
Darwinist HYPE that altruism is "for the weak" and wanton
predation, as long as it makes money, no matter how polluting
and/or murderously destructive, is the "OBLIGATION of a
SUCCESSFUL" person.
Regardless of the religious FRONT by those you see below, they
are ALL SOCIAL DARWINISTS to the CORE. Their god is Mammon. They
are the "Christo-Fascists" that are the exact opposite of what a
true Christian actually is.
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However, the greedball scum you see above represent only a TINY
percentage of the Social Darwinists destroying our biosphere for
short term profit. Making the above cretins the whipping boys is
missing the mark. The above are covert camp followers of the
Social Darwinist cultural POISON afflicting EVERY ASPECT of
human interactions in the USA today. They are a symptom, not the
THREAT itself.
I know you rightfully disdain all the bigots out there that
claim to be "Christians" and act opposite to ALL of Christ's
teachings, but the fascist threat they represent is
insignificant compared with the Social Darwinist THREAT.
Social Darwinist Ideology is the greatest material threat
humanity has EVER faced. You CANNOT reason with a person that
actually believes that "it's all good" if we-the-apex-predators
end up causing the demise of 90% of our species (and an even
higher percentage of other mammalian vertebrate species to the
point of inevitable numerous extinctions). It's just, uh,
"NATURAL SELECTION", dontcha know? It's, uh, "SCIENCE". There
"is no good and there is no bad; there is just success or
failure". If the tardigrades replace us, it's "all good";
survival of the fittest evolution and all that. We Apex
Predators just DO what we DO. Ethics? Are you a "weak = unfit"
life form? We are not going to let no silly ethics keep us from
makin' 💰🎩 real money...
REALLY?? How far can these extinction causing true believers go
with their pseudo-scientific magical thinking?
These Social Darwinist true believers KNOW EXACTLY what they are
doing. Yes, they are wrong, but their ideology cannot be easily
countered because it is a RELIGION to them. You will get nowhere
with them using reason and scientific cause and effect logic,
simply because they have swallowed the "we can do WHATEVER WE
WANT" (SEE: "might equals Predators 'R' US Right") Social
Darwinist HYPE.
The INSTANT that a social Darwinist becomes convinced that
ETHICAL BEHAVIOR is NOT optional and must be the cornerstone of
human behavior towards other humans, other life forms and the
environment we all depend on, he is no longer a Social
Darwinist. THEN, and ONLY then, can you talk some sense into
them.
My frustration as a Christian who embraces Socialism is that
every single time I finger Social Darwinsm as THE threat, not
"some" threat on a laundry list hierarchy of threats to be
addressed in order to counter and reverse CatastrophicClimate
Change, my fellow Socialists play deaf and dumb. I suspect they
are too attached to the Darwinian sacred cow and atheism to see
the THREAT. 🤦‍♂️
For we-the-humans to climb out of this Social Darwinist
constructed grave we are in, people of good will, whether they
be atheists or not, must clearly communicate with and convince
most everybody around them that all human behaviors MUST be
based on solid ethics, NOT sliding scale '"situational ethics"
UNETHICAL-dial-a-behavior-for-convenience'.
Dmorista, until we expose the THREAT of Social Darwinism and
stop it, things will continue to get worse.
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