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🚩 Antarctic sea ice extent sets a new record low, AGAIN
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: February 28, 2023, 10:43 am
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February 27, 2023
[center][glow=blue,2,300]Antarctic sea ice[/glow] settles on
record low extent, again :o[/center]
On February 21, Antarctic sea ice likely reached its annual
minimum extent of 1.79 million square kilometers (691,000 square
miles). This the lowest sea ice extent in the 1979 to 2023 sea
ice record, setting a record low for the second straight year.
Overview of conditions
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Figure 1. Arctic sea ice extent for February 21, 2023 was 1.79
million square kilometers (691,000 square miles). The
[glow=blue,2,300]orange line[/glow] shows the 1981 to 2010
average extent for that day. Sea Ice Index data
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 5, 2023, 10:07 pm
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So are we actually doomed as some commentators suggest, or is
there any way at all that we can drag ourselves out of
☠️
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 31, 2023, 2:45 pm
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[glow=blue,2,300]Just Have a Think [/glow]489K subscribers
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The United Nations climate body, The Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change, has just given us the bluntest verdict yet on
the scale of the climate emergency. So are we actually doomed as
some commentators suggest, or is there any way at all that we
can drag ourselves out of our self inflicted train wreck?
Perhaps the kids and grandkids might appreciate a straight
answer this time!!
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[glow=blue,2,300]IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report - Summary for
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2022 was the WORST YEAR on RECORD in Global Climate
☠️ Chaos CAUSED COSTS.
🤦‍♂️
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: April 1, 2023, 5:20 pm
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[center]2022: A Year in Climate
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The spark for the first 🌍 Earth Day was the 1962
publication of Rachel Carson’s ☠️ Silent Spring.
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: April 22, 2023, 3:21 pm
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Heather Cox Richardson from Letters from an American
April 21, 2023 By [glow=blue,2,300]HEATHER COX RICHARDSON[/glow]
Tomorrow is [glow=blue,2,300]Earth Day[/glow], celebrated for
the first time in 1970. Coming the same week that House
Republicans demanded that Congress rescind the money Democrats
appropriated in the Inflation Reduction Act to address climate
change, Earth Day in 2023 is a poignant reminder of an earlier
era, one in which Americans recognized a crisis that transcended
partisanship and came together to fix it.
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The spark for the first Earth Day was the 1962 publication of
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. A marine biologist and
best-selling author, Carson showed the devastating effects of
people on nature by documenting the effect of modern pesticides
on the natural world. She focused on the popular pesticide DDT,
which had been developed in 1939 and used to clear islands in
the South Pacific of malaria-carrying mosquitoes during World
War II. Deployed as an insect killer in the U.S. after the war,
DDT was [glow=maroon,2,300]poisoning[/glow] the
[glow=teal,2,300]natural food chain[/glow] in American
[glow=blue,2,300]waters[/glow].
[glow=red,2,300]☠️ DDT[/glow] sprayed on vegetation
washed into the oceans. It concentrated in fish, which were then
eaten by birds of prey, especially ospreys. The DDT caused the
birds to lay eggs with abnormally thin eggshells, so thin the
eggs **** in the nest when the parent birds tried to incubate
them. And so the birds began to die off.
Carson was unable to interest any publishing company in the
story of DDT. Finally, frustrated at the popular lack of
interest in the reasons for the devastation of birds, she
decided to write the story anyway, turning out a highly readable
book with 55 pages of footnotes to make her case.
When The New Yorker began to serialize Carson’s book in June
1962, chemical company leaders were scathing. “If man were to
faithfully follow the teachings of Miss Carson," an executive of
the American Cyanamid Company said, "we would return to the Dark
Ages, and the insects and diseases and vermin would once again
inherit the earth." Officers of Monsanto questioned Carson's
sanity.
But her portrait of the dangerous overuse of chemicals and their
effect on living organisms caught readers’ attention. They were
willing to listen. Carson’s book sold more than half a million
copies in 24 countries.
Democratic president John F. Kennedy asked the President’s
Science Advisory Committee to look into Carson’s argument, and
the committee vindicated her. Before she died of breast cancer
in 1964, Carson noted: "Man's attitude toward nature is today
critically important simply because we have now acquired a
fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of
nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against
himself? [We are] challenged as mankind has never been
challenged before to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of
nature, but of ourselves."
Meanwhile, a number of scientists followed up on Carson’s
argument and in 1967 organized the Environmental Defense Fund
to protect the environment by lobbying for a ban on
☠️ [glow=red,2,300]DDT[/glow]. As they worked,
Americans began to pay closer attention to human effects on the
environment, especially after three crucial moments: First, on
December 24, 1968, William Anders took a color picture of the
Earth rising over the horizon of the moon from outer space
during the Apollo 8 mission, powerfully illustrating the beauty
and isolation of the globe on which we all live.
Then, over 10 days in January–February 1969, a massive oil spill
off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, poured between
80,000 and 100,000 barrels of oil into the Pacific, fouling 35
miles of California beaches and killing seabirds, dolphins, sea
lions, and elephant seals. Public outrage ran so high that
President Nixon himself, a Republican, went to Santa Barbara in
March to see the cleanup efforts, telling the American public
that “the Santa Barbara incident has frankly touched the
conscience of the American people.”
[glow=red,2,300]And then, in June 1969, the chemical
contaminants that had been dumped into Cleveland’s Cuyahoga
River caught fire.[/glow] A dumping ground for local heavy
industry, the river had actually burned more than ten times in
the previous century, but with increased focus on environmental
damage, this time the burning river garnered national attention.
In February 1970, President Richard M. Nixon sent to Congress a
special message “on environmental quality.” “[W]e…have too
casually and too long abused our natural environment,” he wrote.
“The time has come when we can wait no longer to repair the
damage already done, and to establish [glow=green,2,300]new
criteria[/glow] to guide us in the future.”
“The tasks that need doing require money, resolve and
ingenuity,” Nixon said, “and they are too big to be done by
government alone. They call for fundamentally new philosophies
of land, air and water use, for stricter regulation, for
expanded government action, for greater citizen involvement, and
for new programs to ensure that government, industry and
individuals all are called on to do their share of the job and
to pay their share of the cost.”
Nixon called for a [glow=teal,2,300]37-point program with 23
legislative proposals and 14 new administrative measures to
control water and air pollution, manage solid waste, protect
parklands and public recreation, and organize for action[/glow].
“As we deepen our understanding of complex ecological processes,
as we improve our technologies and institutions and learn from
experience, much more will be possible,” he said. “But these 37
measures represent actions we can take now, and that can move us
dramatically forward toward what has become an urgent common
goal of all Americans: the rescue of our natural habitat as a
place both habitable and hospitable to man.”
Meanwhile, Gaylord Nelson, a Democratic senator from Wisconsin,
visited the Santa Barbara oil spill and hoped to turn the same
sort of enthusiasm people were bringing to protests against the
Vietnam War to efforts to protect the environment. He announced
a teach-in on college campuses, which soon grew into a wider
movement across the country. Their “Earth Day,” held on April
22, 1970, brought more than 20 million Americans—10% of the
total population of the country at the time—to call for the
nation to address the damage caused by 150 years of unregulated
industrial development. The movement included members of all
political parties, rich Americans and their poorer neighbors,
people who lived in the city and those in the country, labor
leaders and their employers. It is still one of the largest
protests in American history.
In July, at the advice of a council convened to figure out how
to consolidate government programs to combat pollution, Nixon
proposed to Congress a new agency, the Environmental Protection
Agency, which Congress created in 1970. This new agency assumed
responsibility for the federal regulation of pesticides, and
after the Environmental Defense Fund filed suit, in June 1972
the EPA banned DDT. Four months later, Congress passed the Clean
Water Act, establishing protections for water quality and
regulating pollutant discharges into waters of the United
States.
Today, even as [glow=maroon,2,300]🦖 Republicans are
attacking [/glow]the EPA by suggesting that Congress cannot
delegate major regulatory powers to it, President Joe Biden
issued an executive order to promote environmental justice. In
the past generation we have come to understand that pollution
hits minority and poor populations far harder than it does
wealthy white communities: the government and private companies
target Indigenous reservations for the storage of nuclear waste,
for example, because the reservations are not covered by the
same environmental and health standards as the rest of the
country.
Today, Biden said, “To fulfill our Nation’s promises of justice,
liberty, and equality, every person must have clean air to
breathe; clean water to drink; safe and healthy foods to eat;
and an environment that is healthy, sustainable,
climate-resilient, and free from harmful pollution and chemical
exposure. [glow=green,2,300]Restoring[/glow] and
[glow=teal,2,300]protecting[/glow] a healthy
environment—wherever people live, play, work, learn, grow, and
worship—is a matter of justice and a fundamental duty that the
Federal Government must uphold on behalf of all people.”
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Amen.
Happy Earth Day 2023.
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