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Ian's Destruction Only Beginning To Become Known: Methane
Pollution From Flaring 5x Higher Than EPA Estimates:
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Date: October 2, 2022, 5:50 pm
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September 29, 2022
[move]11 Fact-Checked Tweets That Show Hurricane Ian’s
Catastrophic Damage[/move]
Hurricane Ian slammed into Southwest Florida Wednesday afternoon
as a monstrous Category 4 storm with winds of 150 mph, causing
catastrophic flooding and widespread damage.
The storm was downgraded to a tropical storm Thursday morning as
winds weakened to 65 mph. However, Ian continues to batter
Florida as it marches north. More than 2.6 million Florida
energy customers are still without power Thursday, according to
the tracker PowerOutage.us. The storm is poised to become one of
the costliest storms in U.S. history, according to the National
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All that politically virtuous principled behavior championed by
people of good will became moot around 1978.
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 4, 2022, 1:03 pm
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Originally posted in 2020. Now with Biden, we have another
iteration of Obama, giving lip service to Catastrophic Climate
Change reality, while, not only not doing SQUAT to stop the
profit over planet rampage of the Hydrocarbon Fuels "Industry",
but CONTINUING the "susbsidy" SWAG we-the-people are coerced to
provide those
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January 01, 2020
[center]The World Understands This, Even if Many Americans
Prefer to Bury Themselves in Illusions and
Self-deception[/center]
🤔 Agelbert NOTE: What goes unsaid in too many of these
articles, like the one below, that correctly expose the FACT
that virtually ALL the social and environmental problems dooming
our civilization are the product of the wholesale EMBRACE by
TPTB of unethical behavior, is that no amount of prinicipled
behavior from the media will stop Catastrophic Climate Change.
Sorry to burst all those idealistic political bubbles out there,
but all that politically virtuous principled behavior championed
by people of good will became moot around 1978.
You see, in 1978 is when we went into the baked in extinction
phase of the Global Warming inertia. Sure, most people alive
today will live out there natural lives as the biosphere becomes
more and more degraded. But the fact remains that human food,
shelter and health needs CANNOT be met on a planetary atmosphere
averaging 2 degrees C and above.
The following article correctly points out that the U.S. went in
exactly the wrong direction in the last decade. True. But, that
is what the U.S. has done ever since it KNEW, back in 1976, how
dire the situation was for the human species, during the Carter
Adminstration. President Carter was blocked at every turn from
beginning the transition to 100% Renewable Energy that he
supported.
The Reagan and Bush fossil fuel lackeys rigged the election so
Carter would lose and the rest, all the way up to 2020, is a
clear extinction trajectory. In fact, EVERY decade after the
year 1978, even higher temperatures have become baked in, even
if we stopped all the GHG pollution at any given point after
1978.
Here we are in 2020 with about 4 to 6 degrees C (those are the
conservative estimates - it's probably a LOT worse) baked in by
2100. Back in 1978, we weren't supposed to get past human
civilization destroying 2 degrees C warming before 2100. Now
it's projected for 2050. Some are already saying THAT is wrong
too and we will pass 2 degrees C by the end of THIS decade, not
30 years from now.
My point is that there is no political point any longer. Do YOU
think most politicians are going to grow a conscience any time
soon? Do YOU think ethical behavior is anything but a joke to
TPTB? We are ruled by people who WORSHIP UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR!
Let's get real here, shall we? These spiritually depraved elites
are NOT going to change.
The Inertia of Catastrophic Climate Change is NOT going to be
slowed. If anything, The Inertia of Catastrophic Climate Change
will become more massive as the polluters continue to (as the
below article stated in regard to the corporate media) abdicate
from principled behavior, with no hesitation, in favor of a
craven devotion to the
🐍🦀🐘🦕🦖 reigning
orthodoxy.
So, what is to be done by little people like you and I who read
the news with increasing dread?
Please hear me out. This is what we all should do:
In life, we must always prioritize what to do among our daily
list of pending tasks. As a species, we also have priorities
that, though somewhat of a general nature, apply to each and
every intelligent, responsible adult person now alive.
The most important priority we all have now is to tell the truth
about the unstoppable nature of Catastrophic Climate Change. The
importance of our politics does not mean squat in comparison to
the importance of countering all lies claiming climate change is
"no big deal".
Taxes, health care, "isms" and so on are all lost causes if we
do not have the ability to grow our food and preserve the
biosphere we all depend on. We can argue and fight about ethics
all we want, but it will do nothing to stop our extinction
trajectory.
So, from this day on, if you actually don't want be condemned by
future generations (I'm being optimistic here) for being
willfully masochistic, stupid or hopelessly deranged, you must
NOT buy from, vote for, or support in any way, shape or form,
ANYONE who does not accept the truth that addressing
Catastrophic Climate Change, no matter if it takes over a
century, must be funded BEFORE a penny goes to any other
government activity, especially wars.
Ask people where they stand. They will tell you. Then tell them
that if they do not totally accept the dire, unvarnished truth
that making the Government Funded Mitigation of Catastrophic
Climate Change, through fostering a 100% Renewable Energy
powered economy, plus the the fining and imprisonment of all
polluters, is the number one priority, they are part of the
problem.
Then walk away, and stay away. Americans who prefer to bury
themselves in illusions and self-deceptions are a threat to
human civilization. There is no longer any way for YOU to get
around the fact that YOU or/and some family members or some
politicians or some friends are making things worse by not
facing Catastrophic Climate Change FACTS.
While it is true that, even if a crash prgram is started by the
U.S. Government and all major polluting countries all over the
world this very year (an impossibility with people like
🦀Trump, 🦖 Putin, 🦕 Bolsonaro, etc. in
power), billions of people and other life forms will die until
it is stopped and reversed, it is the only sane thing to do.
This is no longer even about ethics, as I mentioned before; this
is about SURVIVAL OF THE SPECIES.
IF we survive (a mighty big "IF"), we can be less in-your-face
with modern day arrogant self-worshipping egotists who endlessly
spout their spiritually bankrupt, corrupt status quo defending,
doubletalking sophistry, while they hold firm to their vile
belief that ethical behavior is "just for suckers and rubes".
You can call the status quo anything you want, but the truth is
that preserving the status quo is a death sentence for our
species. Anyone defending it is not your friend. It really is
GET-IN-THEIR-FACES time.
I support Senator Sanders because he understands that addressing
Catastrophic Climate Change is sine qua non for the survival of
our species, not just for our country. Medicare-for-All,
improved Social Security, taxing Wall Street and so on are all
of LESS importance than a crash program to properly mitigate
(and reverse) Catastrophic Climate Change.
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[center]A Monumentally Destructive US Decade — Symptomatic Of
Imperial Decline[/center]
By Patrick Lawrence, Consortiumnews.com
December 31, 2019 | EDUCATE!
A monumentally destructive U.S. decade — symptomatic of imperial
decline — exposed a shamefully pliant press. But we have at
least one reason to resist incurable pessimism.
--- Quote ---
> I sit in one of the dives
>
> On Fifty-Second Street
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> Uncertain and afraid
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> As the clever hopes expire
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> Of a low dishonest decade.
>
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These are W.H. Auden’s lines, written as the 1930s drew to a
close and six years of global conflagration commenced.
Eighty years later, they are pitifully, painfully apt as the
second decade of our new century gives way to the third. With
2019 staggering to its end, what do we see when we look back
over the 2010s? What when we look forward to the 2020s? These
are our questions, each to be answered without flinching,
dissembling or deflecting.
It requires a wide-eyed Boy Scout’s optimism to consider the
decade now behind us and see anything other than a steady
descent into global disorder, violence and abuse of
international law. If this seems unduly pessimistic, it is
merely because the 2010s were also a decade of probably
unprecedented mis– and disinformation, both deployed to mask
responsibility for 10 years’ worth of calamities that, with no
obvious exceptions, could have been averted.
In this same line, you would have to be Hillary Clinton or
Mickey Rooney, fresh from a rendition of “Yankee Doodle Dandy,”
to miss the rampantly pernicious character of American foreign
policy this past decade. The evident trajectory resembles what
we find on the climate-change question: Amid copious signs of
crisis, the U.S. spent the last 10 years hurtling in the wrong
direction. By any measure, it is now very arguably the primary
source of global disorder in this century.
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[center]U.S. as Major Planetary Threat[/center]
The world comes to understand this, even if many
🙈🙉🙊 Americans prefer to bury themselves
in illusions and self-deceptions.
A Pew Research Center study published earlier this year
indicated that nearly half the planet now considers the U.S. “a
major threat” to their nations. This is almost double the rate
of negative views Pew found in 2013, when it began this series
of surveys.
Two years ago, the Council on Foreign Relations convened a
workshop of Europeans to consider “Managing Global Disorder,” as
the event was titled. “To some,” CFR reported afterward, “the
principal source of instability has been the overzealous actions
of the United States — particularly in the wake of 9/11 — in
promoting democracy, human rights, and regime change around the
world in contravention of established principles of state
sovereignty.”
The good people at Pew seem intent on sanitizing the 2010s by
dropping the blame for this rise in anti–American sentiment on
Donald Trump’s doorstep. The president certainly bears
responsibility for souring the global mood, notably in pulling
out of the Paris climate pact in 2017, the Iran nuclear accord a
year later, and various arms-limitations agreements with Russia.
But let us disabuse ourselves on one important point. The
world’s wariness and weariness of America’s conduct beyond its
shores was well in train before Mr. Trump went to Washington.
🐍 Bearer of Many Clever Hopes
President 🐍 Barack Obama
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/>then a year in office, was the bearer of many clever hopes
when
the 2010s began. It was not two weeks into the new decade before
the first signs arrived that these were to be years of blighted
expectations and media manipulation by way of a shamefully
pliant press.
The decade announced itself on Jan. 12, 2010, when a magnitude
7.0 earthquake struck just outside Port–au–Prince, killing some
250,000 Haitians, injuring 300,000 more, and leaving 5 million
displaced. In less than a month, it was clear that the U.S. was
using its contribution to the rescue effort to establish a
formidable military presence in Haiti. This 🦍 corruption
foreshadowed the many 👹 frauds to come under the
Responsibility to Protect rubric.
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A year later and at Washington’s insistence, the U.N. Security
Council cited the R2P doctrine as it authorized a disastrous
military intervention in Libya. Low and dishonest hardly do
justice to 👹 Hillary Clinton’s determination to destroy
an entire nation. It was Clinton, as Obama’s secretary of state,
who persuaded the Russians not to veto the Security Council’s
resolution by promising to limit the mission to humanitarian
amelioration. NATO bombing operations then led to Muammar
Gaddafi’s gruesome assassination — about which Clinton
infamously cackled, “We came, we saw, he died.” >:(
One year in, the decade’s 🦍 template was already
evident. Let us note its constituent parts as these recur again
and again.
In 2012, the U.S. began its not-very-covert regime change
operation in Syria by arming the very types of jihadist militias
it claimed to be countering. Seven years later, this story
continues. We now have liberals and “progressives” howling in
defense of U.S. intervention when Trump proposes even a minor
withdrawal from Syrian soil.
🦍Regime-Change ☠️ Ops
The coup in Egypt was the premier event in 2013. This was a
classic case of wholesale deception. The director of this
“regime change” op was Susan Rice, Obama’s national security
adviser, who green-lighted the Egyptian military’s move against
the legitimately elected Mohamed Morsi hours before it began.
The New York Times reported Rice’s role — once, on July 6, three
days after the coup was complete. This was plainly judged an
error, for Rice’s telephone call to Cairo was never again
mentioned anywhere in the American press. A few weeks later, the
Times dutifully quoted John Kerry, Obama’s secretary of state by
this time, as he praised the Egyptian generals “restoring
democracy.”
Neat and nice. The U.S.–cultivated coup in Ukraine, on Feb. 21,
2014, by contrast, was neither neat nor nice. There is abundant
evidence of Washington’s key role in this “regime change” — not
least a recording of Victoria Nuland, the State Department
apparatchik, as she directed the op against the (once again)
duly elected president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych.
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Ukraine talk after their bilateral meeting in Warsaw, June 4,
2014. (White House/Pete Souza)[/center]
Fabrications Known as Russiagate We still live with the
resulting mess, of course. But the U.S. press has not once
reported accurately on the events leading to Yanukovych’s
ouster, instead pretending that the Ukraine crisis began when
Moscow, entirely out of the blue, annexed Crimea (after a
properly conducted referendum) to protect its naval base on the
Black Sea. Neither has there been any acknowledgement of Kiev’s
post-coup dependence on neo–Nazi militias for its survival.
On the decade goes. In 2016 the fabrications collectively known
as “Russiagate” began their long life, setting back any prospect
of a constructive new détente with Moscow by at least a decade
and very probably more. Two years later the Pentagon declared
Russia and China America’s two most threatening global
adversaries.
This brings us to the year now ending. January gave us the
attempted-and-failed coup in Venezuela, starring a jumped-up
flunky named Juan Guaidó, whose moment, we now read, has passed.
In November we saw the coup — and to be clear, there is no other
word for it — against the (again, duly elected) Evo Morales in
Bolivia.
Even this pencil sketch of the 10 years gone by yields six
U.S.–directed coup operations on three continents, four of them
successful (Egypt, Ukraine, Honduras and Bolivia). We end the
decade with two officially declared adversaries in the Cold War
mold — both of which are on the record preferring a cooperative
relationship with the U.S. in the interest of securing a global
order we do not now enjoy.
What conclusions are to be drawn? Let us derive one from our
backward glance and another from our look forward.
If the 2010s have a single lesson for us, it is that the U.S.
has entered its late-imperial phase — those years when its
preeminence as a global power begins to fray at its edges and
its conduct abroad takes on a hue of desperation.
Look back: America has cast itself as global spoiler these past
10 years — forlornly attempting to hold back an arriving era the
way Cú Chulainn, the mythical Irish warrior, wielded his sword
to battle back the incoming tide. For all the damage the U.S.
has done elsewhere this past decade, notably but not only in the
Middle East, it has done as much or more to itself.
There may seem little of good in prospect as we peer into the
2020s, but before succumbing to incurable pessimism and yet more
of the deadly ennui that saps our energies, let us consider a
few more lines from Auden’s “September 1, 1939.” These appear
toward the poem’s end:
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> Defenseless under the night
>
> Our world in stupor lies;
>
> Yet, dotted everywhere,
>
> Ironic points of light
>
> Flash out wherever the Just
>
> Exchange their messages…
--- End Quote ---
At the end of our low, dishonest decade, we find that the ranks
of those able to see this nation for what it is—so recognizing
the urgent need for remedies and redirection— have swollen
considerably since 2010. There are more of us, with our ironic
points of light, and newcomers arrive by the day. This already
matters, and it will matter ever more as the new decade
proceeds.
In this connection, the collapse of corporate media’s ethics and
professional standards over the past decade — and hence their
credibility — is of special importance. These media bear much of
the blame for the messes just outlined. This assign is an
ever-greater responsibility to what is commonly called “the
alternative press.” This is a phenomenon easily discerned these
past 10 years. As these media grow into this responsibility,
they stand to re-establish the press as an independent pole of
power — a station our corporate media have (with no apparent
hesitation) abdicated in favor of a craven devotion to the
👹💵🎩🦍🍌🦀🏴‍☠️
reigning orthodoxy.
In truth, there is no such thing as alternative media: There are
only media, good and bad, of greater or lesser resources, of
greater or lesser loyalty to principle. If the 2020s turn out at
all well, this will become ever-more evident. If we are to make
more sense of the decade to come than we find in the decade now
ending, these media will have much to do with it.
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🚩 Ingram Barge Declares 📢 Force Majeure
🚨 Due to Low Water on Mississippi
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 7, 2022, 11:57 am
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October 6, 2022 Reuters
[move]The Mississippi River is by far the largest domestic
shipping channel for US soybean exports. The narrower route is
already reducing the size of a single shipment by as much 38%,
and the price for loading a barge of soybeans on the Upper
Mississippi this week stands about 33% higher than a year ago,
according to Steenhoek, citing US Department of Agriculture
figures. [/move]
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[center]Ingram Barge Declares 🚨 Force Majeure Due to Low
Water on Mississippi[/center]
Oct 6 (Reuters) – Ingram Barge Company, one of the country’s
largest barge shippers, said Thursday it was “providing formal
notice of a force majeure event” as low water on the Mississippi
River disrupted its operations on the major shipping waterway.
The declaration would affect the portion of Ingram’s operating
network at locations downriver from Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
Ingram Barge Chief Executive John Roberts said in an emailed
statement.
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Coast Guard: Barge Groundings Increasing on Parched Lower
Mississippi River
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Mississippi River Barge Backlog Swells as Water Levels Shrink
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Shrinking Mississippi River Puts American Farm Trade at Risk
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(Reporting by Karl Plume in Chicago; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
(c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2022.
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 7, 2022, 12:32 pm
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TOO MUCH flooding AND SIMULTANEOUSLY TOO MUCH drought =
Catastrophic Climate Change
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 7, 2022, 1:21 pm
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[center]COP27 plagued by access 🦖😈
barriers[/center]
SNIPPET:
(ENVIRONMENTAL) RACISM: Mississippi city with water woes also
faces trash trouble (AP), States are stepping up prosecutions
for voter fraud. But who gets the harshest punishment? (The
19th* News
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☠️ death toll hits 101 (AP), Black survivors of
Hurricane Ian struggle similarly to Katrina victims (Black Wall
Street Times), Black residents in 2 Florida neighborhoods say
they have been left out of Hurricane Ian relief efforts (CNN),
10 days later, Cubans still recovering from Hurricane Ian (AP),
Hurricane deaths have fallen over time, but Ian was a setback
(Washington Post $), Hurricane Ian 🌊 floods leave mess,
insurance questions behind (AP
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CENSUS TRACTS: Hurricane hit areas led US with missing 2020
census data (AP)
STILL ⅙ OF THE COUNTRY: Pakistani FM says water receded
50% in flood-ravaged Sindh (AP
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NORTHERN HEMISPHERE HEAT & DROUGHT: 'Absolutely no doubt':
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Arctic System 🚨 Collapse? Devastating new research.
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DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 10, 2022, 3:08 pm
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[center]Arctic System 🚨 Collapse? Devastating new
research. 🚩[/center]
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The arctic region is a key driver of global climate patterns. In
the summer of 2022, three peer reviewed research papers were
published, all of which showed the systems that have kept the
arctic stable for thousands of years are now collapsing far more
quickly than previous analysis and modelling had suggested. A
fourth paper, published at the same time, shows us what the
consequences are likely to be.
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DEADLY Rains and Storms + DEADLY DROUGHTS = 🚩 Global
Climate Chaos ☠️
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 11, 2022, 11:47 am
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[move]Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that
offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! It
were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck,
and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of
these little ones. -- Luke 17:1-2[/move]
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October 11, 2022
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/>Hurricane Julia Kills Dozens Across Central America[/center]
At least 28 people are dead across Central America after
Hurricane Julia dumped as much as 15 landslide-inducing inches
of rain across multiple countries. The region is still
recovering from the one-two punch of Hurricanes Eta and Iota two
years ago. Julia made landfall early Sunday near Laguna de
Perlas, Nicaragua, blowing roofs off houses and toppling trees.
In Guatemala, five people died in Alta Verapaz, when a hillside
collapsed and buried them alive in their home and another nine
died in Huehuetenango. (AP, Washington Post $, Yale Climate
Connections, New York Times $; Storm track: Washington Post $;
Climate Signals background: Hurricanes)
[center]Megadrought Threatens Navajo Lifeways, Drives Up Food
Prices[/center]
The 23-year megadrought across what is now the Southwestern U.S.
is driving up food prices, and threatening lifeways across the
Navajo Nation. European colonizers took 99% of Indigenous
nations' lands since arriving on the continent more than 500
years ago, and climate change, caused mainly by the
industrialized world's extraction and combustion of fossil fuels
— in some cases inflicting disproportionate harm directly on
Indigenous populations — is further undermining traditional
practices. Growing up, raising sheep, corn, beans, and squash on
her family's ancestral lands, “We did not want for anything,”
Candice Mendez told The Guardian. Once drought hit in the early
1990s, however, “All of sudden we were eating canned food …
[t]he land could no longer provide for us.” Mendez, who now has
to drive more than 100 miles per week to get water for her
animals, worries, “At some point it may just get to be too hard
and too expensive," but even more, "If we lose these animals, we
lose a big part of our identity." (Megadrought: NPR, CNN; Navajo
Nation: The Guardian; Food prices: Axios, Reuters, The Gazette;
Water shortages: Washington Post $, The Independent; Climate
Signals background: Western megadrought)
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 13, 2022, 10:51 am
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Last Updated: 10/13/2022 11:00:00 AM EDT
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[tr][td]STRENGTH[/td][td] POSITION[/td][td] PRESSURE[/td]
[td] MOVING[/td] [td] WIND SPEED[/td][/tr][tr]
[td]Tropical Storm[/td][td] 21.7, -93.9[/td][td] 1002mb -
Steady[/td][td] SSE at 10mph[/td][td]
51mph[/td][/tr][/table]
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[move]MESSAGE to Global Warming Deniers: THIS IS YOU VERY SOON.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
October 13, 2022
[center]Watch Scientists React to the
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/>Claims of 🦖 Big Oil 😈 CEOs[/center]
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform is investigating the
decades-long, ongoing campaign by the fossil fuel industry to
spread disinformation about climate science and delay climate
action. Late last year, the CEOs of ExxonMobil, BP, Chevron, and
Shell testified before Congress but, despite being under oath,
they continued to deny the role they and their companies play in
creating the climate crisis. In our new video, UCS experts Drs.
Astrid Caldas, Rachel Licker, and Delta Merner react to some of
the most outrageous statements. Watch and share the video and
help us expose their lies—together we can hold big polluters
accountable.
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AGelbert NOTE: Urged by the Union of Concerned Scientists to
write to my State Treasurer about Big Oil's disinformation, I
had to change the letter from a 'Thank You' format to a riot
act. Why? Because Beth Pearce, the State Treasurer for Vermont
(retiring this year after too many years doing what she
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/>does), has, her entire career, supported and engaged in, while
assiduously thwarting ALL anti-polluter divestment campaigns by
caring Vermonters, Investment in Hydrocarbom Fuels Based
Corporations high dividend yieding stocks for the State Pension
Fund. Consequently, I wrote the following (yeah, I know it will
go into the circular file, but maybe somebody not bought and
paid for by the fossil fuelers will enjoy reading it):
I am writing to remind you, despite your continual support for
Vermont Pension investing in Hydrocarbon Fuels Based
Corporations, to remind you that subsidizing fossil fuel
companies in the face of rapid climate change is like spraying
jet fuel on a burning home.
To put out the fire, we must first stop making the problem
worse. Ignoring the problem just because fossil fuel industry
mascots like Manchin (etc. et al) demand it is like agreeing to
take the warning labels off of cigarettes because they offend
Joe Camel. Leaders must act now to stop burning our tax dollars
and stop trashing the climate.
Climate change is a systemic and growing risk to our economy.
Yet financial institutions are failing to properly price climate
risks into financial assets, creating an unstable financial
system with broader implications for the economy and the public.
For example, research from the Union of Concerned Scientists
shows that by the end of the century, under a high sea level
rise scenario, approximately 2.5 million US coastal homes and
commercial properties currently worth more than $1 trillion
would be at risk from chronic flooding.
These scenarios are the result of decades of political
obstruction and the willful spreading of disinformation by the
fossil fuel industry and its allies. And the fossil fuel
industry continues these destructive tactics to this day. For
example, when testifying under oath before the House Committee
on Oversight & Reform in late 2021, CEOs of major fossil fuel
companies refused to stop funding groups that are promoting
climate disinformation, commit to an independent audit to verify
that they are not funding climate science denial, or stop
spending money to oppose efforts to reduce carbon emissions and
address climate change.
While you will undoubtedly point to the "risks" of not working
with hydrocarbon fuels based companies on the energy transition,
I trust you will reconsider that irrational view in the face of
Big Oil's track record of legerdemain and disingenuous hype
about being our "loyal servants", and instead, insist in
punitive action in the form of fines and asset siezures if these
companies continue to fund climate disinformation and deny
responsibility for their outsize role in climate change.
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Who needs vampires, werewolves or serial killers this Halloween
when you’ve got 🦖 oil executives, polluting companies
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 27, 2022, 10:00 pm
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[center]Wild, Incisive, Fearless.[/center]
October 26, 2022 - by John R. Platt
[center]Horror Writers Reveal Their Environmental Fears[/center]
The “invisible monsters” of climate change and extinction stalk
us all, but these experts in terror also remind us that fighting
monsters helps create hope.
“The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still
people.” — Peter Straub (1943–2022)
Who needs vampires, werewolves or serial killers this Halloween
when you’ve got 🦖 oil executives,
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/>polluting companies and 😈 climate-denying politicians?
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After all, environmental horrors don’t just happen one night or
season each year. They’re with us all the time now.
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Even some of today’s top horror novelists tell us they’re having
trouble processing the latest overwhelming climate disaster or
extinction threat.
But that’s one of the values of horror: Sometimes you just need
to know that someone else shares your fears, to acknowledge that
you’re not alone.
At the same time, horror fiction provides a safety valve for the
pressures of modern society. As the late horror director Wes
Craven (Nightmare on Elm Street) once said: “Horror films don’t
create fear. They release it.”
What environmental terrors keep horror authors up at night — and
what gives at least some of them the hope of escape?
Turn out the lights and find out:
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Alice Henderson, wildlife researcher and author of A Ghost of
Caribou
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🚩 Methane EXPLOSIVE GROWTH
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: November 3, 2022, 11:44 am
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