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"... tracking of over a million dollars in climate
disinformation ads on Facebook, primarily from API's Energy
Citizens
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Date: November 8, 2022, 11:45 am
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November 8, 2022
[center]COP, Look 👀, Listen For 🔊 Regular
Readouts of COP27 🦖😈🐍
Disinformation[/center]
SNIPPETS:
While we usually write these columns with little more at our
disposal than our wits and a web browser, the Institute for
Strategic Dialogue
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some
3,000 social media accounts, millions of posts, and 250 media
outlets, and we're working with them to produce regular
bulletins
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There's also a section on the Russia-Ukraine narrative, some
tracking of over a million dollars in climate disinformation ads
on Facebook, primarily from API's Energy Citizens 😇
front 🦖 group and their "American Oil First" framing, "a
thinly-veiled dog whistle to former President Trump's
anti-immigrant "America First" policy" and a section on how Elon
Musk's Twitter takeover showed how right-wing 😈
"comedians" strategically use humor to spread disinformation.
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Big Oil's Big Lies Revealed In Emails Obtained By House
Oversight Investigation
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: December 12, 2022, 3:24 pm
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SNIPPET:
[center]Big Oil's Big Lies Revealed In Emails Obtained By House
Oversight Investigation[/center]
Major 🦕🦖🐍 oil companies BP, Chevron,
Exxon, and Shell, and the trade group the American Petroleum
Institute, 😈 intentionally crafted the appearance
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/>of support for clean energy and environmental protection while
internally working to ensure "the continued promotion of
☠️ natural gas," documents released Friday by the
House Committee on Oversight and Reform show.
The documents, released as a part of an ongoing House
investigation into the
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/>oil and gas industry's climate denial and greenwashing,
"demonstrate how the fossil fuel industry ‘greenwashed’ its
public image with promises and actions that oil and gas
executives knew would not meaningfully reduce emissions, even as
the industry moved aggressively to lock in continued fossil fuel
production for decades to come — actions that could doom global
efforts to prevent catastrophic climate change,” Chair Carolyn
B. Maloney (D-N.Y.) and environment subcommittee chair Rep. Ro
Khanna (D-Calif.) said in a statement.
The internal emails include a warning from 🦖 Bob Stout,
BP's former U.S. VP and head of regulatory affairs, admitting
BP's intention to make methane gas a permanent "destination
fuel,"
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implicitly concede the point by referring to ☠️ it
mainly as a ‘bridge.'"
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The documents also include incredulity at criticism of oil
majors' sale of oil and gas assets to smaller, less accountable
firms. (Washington Post $, Reuters, The Guardian, NBC, Bloomberg
$, CNN, CNBC, The Hill, Politico, NBC, E&E $, Al Jazeera)
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How to unpick a company net zero target in 7 steps
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: December 17, 2022, 1:16 pm
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[move]"On closer inspection, countless ambitious-sounding
pledges ring hollow. Many commitments are little more than vague
declarations of intent. Others hide huge chunks of a company’s
CO2 pollution, or rely on dubious promises to compensate
continued emissions, while lacking efforts to reduce fossil fuel
use."[/move]
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Dossiers
CLEW focus: 'Climate neutral'
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/>products and companies - Greenwashing or sign of serious
action?
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How to unpick a company
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😈 Social Darwinist 🦖 Business as ☠️
Usual
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Date: December 22, 2022, 4:41 pm
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[center]Here’s Why 32,000+ Abandoned & Orphaned Offshore Wells
Litter the Outer Continental Shelf[/center]
SNIPPET:
In all, it’s estimated that the Taylor Energy spill has released
up to 140 million gallons of oil to date.
Not all stories of abandoned and orphaned offshore wells are
like Taylor Energy’s. Some have been decommissioned the right
way, while others are long forgotten and pose unknown
environmental and marine life risks. Inadequate records and
limited monitoring have made it challenging to accurately track
the number of abandoned wells and whether they’ve been
adequately plugged.
According to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, however,
more than 32,000 of the 55,000 offshore wells across the
10.9-million-acre Outer Continental Shelf are abandoned or
orphaned.
But why? How can tens of thousands of oil wells sit out in the
Atlantic, Arctic, and Pacific Oceans without demanding further
attention or accountability?
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Offshore wells are abandoned when they do not produce enough to
offset operating costs. Some wells never produce at all. Some
“dry up,” their accessible reserves exhausted based on current
extraction methods. Some of these wells are temporarily
abandoned, with the idea or promise that the owner will return
to attempt extraction sometime in the future. Yet, the average
length of time since the 3,364 “temporarily” abandoned wells in
the Outer Continental Shelf were last drilled is 38 years.
Wells are considered orphaned when they have no owner. Offshore
oil wells are often orphaned if the companies that own and
operate them go bankrupt or close their doors for any other
reason. With no known owner, orphaned wells present significant
challenges when it comes to shutting in and decommissioning
them.
Full article:
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/>Agelbert NOTE: Only in the good old United States of Petroleum
can a pollution contaminated site, irresponsibly abandonded
without plugging and cleanup by profit over planet oil loving
greedballs, be affectionately called an "Orphaned" Oil and Gas
Well. Friends, if YOU made that kind of a mess in your yard, the
authorities would have a hazmat team sent there quickly,
followed by the police charging you with unlawful contamination.
The wells spewing methane and other (even MORE toxic - i.e.
Cancer causing) contaminants were 🦕 IRRESPONSIBLY
😈 ABANDONED, not "orphaned" by an "unfortunate" bit of
Hydrocarbon Business "bad luck". It is absolutely breathtaking
how the Hydrocarbon Hellspawn keep getting a free pass from the
media for in-our-faces toxic pollution dumping on we-the-people.
"Orphaned
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/>Oil and Gas
Well❓❓❓
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Other euphemisms worthy of Orwell that we have all been
subjected to:
😠 ☠️ Highly toxic fisson reactor Uranium
fuel 👉
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/> "Enriched" Uranium
😠 ☠️ Abortion
👉
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/>"Reproductive Right"
😠 ☠️ 🦕 "Natural" Gas
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/>"Bridge Fuel"
😠 😈 Greed is Good, 🦍 Might is Right,
Losers Finish Last, It doesn't matter how you play the game, but
whether you Win or Lose (etc. you get the morally bankrupt
Social Darwinist Ideology Idea)
👉
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/>🦖 "Evolutionary Advantage" of "Apex Predators"
[move]AND all this time you actually believed the BIG LIE that
"it was the Communists, not the Capitalists", that had the GOAL
of CORRUPTING the Language. Now you know better.
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the 🦖 fossil fuel industry has been 😈 lying
about "natural" gas for nearly a hundred years!
DIR By: AGelbert
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[center]The Gas Stove Backlash Is The Product of Nearly A
Century of 🦖😈🐍 Industry
Propaganda[/center]
If you bought something and it didn't work, you probably
wouldn't buy it again the next year, or the year after, or every
year for the foreseeable future. The 🦖 fossil fuel
industry is no different—if it wasn't seeing a return on its
annual investment in disinformation, it wouldn't keep spending
billions of dollars on climate
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/>disinformation 🐍 campaigns.
The explosion of support for gas stoves in Republican circles is
the latest example of how the fossil fuel industry's
near-century of public relations expenditures has created a
surround-sound media machine to manufacture
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/>backlash against even the barest hint of a pending regulation.
In a disinfo-free world, Republicans eager to show their support
for rural and working-class communities wouldn't be so quick to
lend their support to gas stoves because they're primarily used
in urban areas, where Democratic voters are concentrated.
Furthermore, gas stoves are often promoted by home renovation
shows as a luxury good for the fanciest of kitchens. So, since
new gas stoves are either a prized feature of lavish, elite
kitchens or a common fixture in the poor Black and Hispanic
communities that the GOP spends more time attacking than
defending, the Republican gaslighting on gas stoves seems to
make little sense.
The fervent worship of gas stoves seems especially nonsensical
since Consumer Reports finds that the innovative alternatives to
gas stoves are so much better in every conceivable way:
“Induction ranges and cooktops in particular often heat the
fastest, simmer steadily, and provide quicker temperature
changes when you adjust a burner.” (They also won't melt plastic
measuring cups when you turn on the wrong burner…)
But this pro-gas hullabaloo begins to make sense when you
consider the fact that the fossil fuel industry has been lying
about 🦕 [b]methane gas for nearly a hundred years[/b],
as Rebecca Leber explained in Mother Jones
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/>In the 1930s, "the 🦕😈 industry embraced the
term
'natural 😇 gas', which gave the impression that its
product was cleaner than any other fossil fuel" and promoted the
now-ubiquitous catchphrase "cooking with gas".
The 🦕 methane gas industry has been at it ever since. As
recent reporting at the New York Times exposed, the industry is
sponsoring TV shows to promote gas stoves, part of the hundreds
of millions the industry has spent on disinfo organizations and
the billions that it has spent on trade associations and public
relations.
So when a federal regulator suggested looking into gas stove
regulations, especially given the latest study showing that gas
stoves cause as much asthma in children as second-hand smoke,
the fossil-funded Republicans snapped into action, and the
industry barely even needed to misrepresent past studies and
activate its faux-media outlets and propagandists — though it
still did.
The Wall Street Journal's
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was true to form with its "Biden is Coming for Your Gas Stove"
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/>editorial, falsely ginning up fears that jackbooted Big
Government agents were on their way to your kitchen.
Professional PR people like Alex Epstein also sent talking
points, but that was little more than an opening of the other
barn door after the horses had already run all around the farm.
The Daily Caller discovered a so-called 'conflict of interest'
and did a story attempting to make the fact that the study was
funded by an advocacy group into a controversy, which is an
interesting frame for an organization funded to be a
conservative advocacy group posing as a media outlet.
Overall, the Right generated plenty of noise but not much heat,
and that's sort of the point. Make enough noise so that
regulators, who have been aware of gas stoves' health risks for
decades, will be too scared to protect the public from that
particular source of pollution.
Because it's certainly not about the quality of 🦕 gas
stoves.
Literally the only thing Consumer Reports found that gas stoves
did better than electric stoves is that they have a scary flame:
"The visual feedback provided by a flame growing and shrinking
as you adjust a burner is valuable when gauging heat." (A
problem that was literally solved in 2015.)
So if you're so 🐵 dumb you need to see a 🔥
[b]flame to know the stove is on, then
🐘🦖😈 Republicans have your back, and your
stove.[/b] Hopefully it's worth the asthma and the
climate-killing emissions.
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CO2 is plant food so MORE CO2 from Burning Hydrocarbon Fuels is
😒 "GOOD"? 🙄
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Have you been told by the 😈🦖 Deniers that
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/>CO2 is plant food so MORE CO2 is 😒 "GOOD"? 🙄
Well, that is one of those 🐍 [glow=brown,2,300]Orwellian
tricks[/glow] by the 🦖 [glow=red,2,300]Hydrocarbon
😈 Hellspawn[/glow] that take advantage of the fact that
most people do not have enough knowledge about HOW a
[glow=green,2,300]plant leaf[/glow] absorbs CO2 AND 💧
[glow=blue,2,300]water VAPOR[/glow] from the air to see through
that 🐍 [glow=red,2,300]clever legerdemain[/glow].
Let me connect the 🌞 photosynthesis 'how it works'
🌱 DOTS for those here that didn't study Botany in
college so you can call out the 🐍 liars for 🦖
hire claiming 🙃 burning hydrocarbon based fuels
"😇 INCREASES the greening of our biosphere".
Plants absorb CO2 and H2O via pores calles STOMATA. Stomata are
openings (i.e. epidermal pores) in the shaded part (i.e. bottom)
of plant 🍃 leaves. Stomata are present in LARGE numbers
in plant leaves. Stomata control the passage of gases into and
out of a plant.
Please note that GASES are what is controlled. Liquids DO NOT
get into a plant leaf via the stomata (Liquids get into plants
almost exclusively via the roots).
To more fully understand why plants are 🚩 VERY
NEGATIVELY affected by Catastrophic Climate Change, you need to
fix in your mind that Stomatas are tiny.
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A micrometer is one millionth of a meter (or one thousandth of
a millimeter, 0.001 mm, or about 0.00004 inch). A skin cell is
about 30 micrometers (i.e. 30 millionths of a meter) across.
Stomata are only about HALF across, at the longest part, as a
human skin cell. The distribution of stomata on a leaf is, on
the average, over 100 to the square millimeter. The mean size of
the open pores is I7.7 X 6.7 millionths (i.e. micrometers) of a
meter.
SOURCE: THE NUMBER AND SIZE OF THE STOMATA
Marked variations in number and size of stomata occur, not only
in different varieties of the same species, but in the same
varieties grown under different external conditions. So far as
my observation goes, however, the variation is greater in number
than in size. ... ...
[glow=green,2,300]"... it is to be remembered, as BROWN and
ESCOMB have shown,5 that in the passage of gases through
stomata, it is the linear dimensions, and not the area, which is
important."[/glow]
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[glow=purple,2,300]AGelbert NOTE:[/glow] So, you now know that
🍀🍃 plant leaves have, on the bottom side, about
100 tiny pores per square square millimeter, called Stomata,
each which is smaller across than half the length of a skin
cell, that take up gases to make the sugars that enable the
plant to survive and thrive.
SO WHAT? 🤷‍♂️ Well, I'm glad you
asked 😁. You see, Stomata are VERY sensitive to relative
humidity. You all know what relative humidity is. During a 24
hour cycle, Stomata adjust their size to capture gases. "The
pores of the stomata were found as a rule to be widest open at
about 10 A. M. ..."
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However, the plant Stomata size WILL NOT reach its optimum size
(i.e. 10 A.M.) IF the relative humidity is too low (i.e. DRY
AIR).
WHY is that BAD for plants?
1. Low relative humidity tends to suck moisture OUT of the plant
through the Stomata. The plant Stomata reduce the opening size
to preserve the plant's moisture content to keep it from dying
from dehydration.
2. THUS, the plant CANNOT get enough H2O (AND CO2, even though
the there is 🦖 MORE CO2 in the atmosphere!) through the
Stomata to efficiently photosynthesize CO2 and H2O into sugars.
3. Consequently, the plant growth is arrested and withering will
follow if dry conditions remain or increase.
And Lo and Behold, you will never guess what BURNING
HYDROCARBONS does to the atmosphere. Well, most here will. There
are a lot of smart cookies here. Yep, you've got it; THE EARTH
IS BROWNING! 😵😱🥵
Here is the IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE, along with a peer reviewed
scientific paper. Please watch the video and pass both it and
these graphics to anyone who is brainwashed into thinking that
the hydrocarbon fuels based economy isn't DEGRADING PLANT LIFE!
Browning Earth from Catastrophic Climate Change:
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Atmospheric Drying Reducing Terrestrial Vegetation Growth Since
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"It is not difficult to rip up 🦖 Al-Jaber’s
😇 green 😈 facade."
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 8, 2023, 4:05 pm
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March 7, 2023 By [glow=green,2,300]Andy Rowell[/glow]
[center][glow=brown,2,300]COP28 🦖 President[/glow]
pushes [glow=red,2,300]false[/glow] [glow=brown,2,300]fossil
fuel [/glow]solutions, such as [glow=red,2,300]CCS[/glow], at
🦖💰🦀🐘🦕🐍🦍🐉
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For anyone in the oil and gas industry, there is only one place
to be this week. The great and good of the industry has
converged on 🦖 [glow=brown,2,300]Houston for
CERAWeek[/glow], which bills itself as the world’s premier
🦕🦖😈 [glow=brown,2,300]energy[/glow]
event.
Delegates will listen to
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[glow=red,2,300]BP[/glow], [glow=red,2,300]Shell[/glow],
[glow=red,2,300]Exxon[/glow], and as well as political
dignitaries such as John Kelly, the U.S. Special Presidential
Envoy for Climate, and Jennifer Granholm, the U.S. Energy
Secretary.
Also addressing the conference this morning was
🦖😈 [glow=red,2,300]Dr. Sultan Al-Jaber,[/glow]
who currently fulfills two completely contradictory roles. He is
the Group CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), as
well as President for the upcoming [glow=blue,2,300]COP28
climate talks[/glow]
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Many scientific, political, civil society commentators,
including colleagues at Oil Change International, have already
pointed out how utterly incompatible it is to be the boss of and
oil company and a host of a climate conference at the same time.
It is akin to a tobacco baron organizing a conference on smoking
and health. [size=14pt]The conflict of interest is palpable.
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Speaking after his appointment, Tasneem Essop, executive
director of Climate Action Network International, told the
Financial Times that Al-Jaber’s presidency of COP28 was
“tantamount to a full-scale capture of the UN climate talks by a
petrostate national oil company and its associated fossil fuel
lobbyists.”
Even the UN is worried about the appointment. In January,
Politico reported that the secretariat of the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) had sent “a
series of questions to the presidency of the climate talks
enquiring about whether the presidency will be independent of
the oil company.”
You can see why the UN and others are worried. ADNOC, one of the
world’s largest oil and gas producers, currently plans to
increase fossil fuel production. A report by OCI published last
year, titled, Investing in Disaster, revealed that ADNOC is on
track to be one of the biggest expanders in terms of new Final
Investment Decisions (FIDs) in new large scale oil and gas
projects.
And although ADNOC has set net zero targets for Scope 1 and
Scope 2 emissions, it admits in its 2021 Sustainability report
that ADNOC “does not currently monitor its Scope 3 emissions due
to its current operational business model.”
So roughly [glow=brown,2,300]eighty-five percent[/glow] of the
company’s emissions – from consumers burning their products –
are not measured. 🤦‍♂️
Despite this, Dr. Al-Jaber was keen this morning to bolster his
climate credentials by urging the oil industry to “up its game,
do more, and do it faster." The COP28 Presidency was also eager
to tweet Dr. Al-Jaber’s comments.
"The oil & gas sector needs to up its game, do more and do it
faster." #DrSultanAlJaber lays out the next steps for action:
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> -Triple renewable capacity
>
> -Double hydrogen production
>
> -Build out the hydrogen value chain
>
> -Take carbon capture technologies to scale#CERAWeek #COP28UAE
> pic.twitter.com/FvFIoehUEI
>
> — COP28 UAE (@COP28_UAE) March 7, 2023
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It is not difficult to rip up Al-Jaber’s green
[glow=red,2,300]facade[/glow]. While any comments encouraging
the oil industry to increase action on climate change are
welcomed, as long as the industry carries on drilling, such
rhetoric is flawed.
And what type of stepping up is Al-Jaber proposing? It is a
false dawn of flawed solutions to the climate crisis, such as
hydrogen and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). These will only
prolong our use of fossil fuels, not diminish them.
Responding to Al-Jaber's speech, Romain Ioualalen, OCI Global
Policy Campaign Manager, said the COP28 President: “trotted out
the tired old playbook of delaying action and relying on
speculative technologies to ensure fossil fuel CEOs continue to
get rich, at the expense of all of us. The science is clear: the
only way to limit warming to 1.5°C is to halt all new fossil
fuel projects and shift investments to renewables.”
The only way we have any hope of solving climate change is to
massively increase renewable energy, a solution that has been
obvious for decades. But one, if you remain an oilman to your
core, you cannot countenance, you cannot see.
The theme of this week’s CERA Week is “Navigating a Turbulent
World: Energy, Climate and Security." Investing in more fossil
fuels and false solutions will only make our world more
turbulent and more disruptive. Any [glow=teal,2,300]climate
scientist[/glow] will tell you that. And maybe a climate
scientist, not an oilman, should have been the President of the
next COP too.
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Fossil Fuel Propaganda Modus Operandi
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 17, 2023, 11:53 am
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> Climate [glow=maroon,2,300]😈🦖
disinformation[/glow] doesn’t exist in a vacuum: it is
inextricably intertwined with [glow=red,2,300]white
supremacy[/glow], and it is a threat not only to the
[glow=teal,2,300]future of human life on this plane[/glow]t but
also to [glow=teal,2,300]Jewish people and people of
color[/glow] [glow=red,2,300]right[/glow] now.
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Climate 🦖😈 disinformation and 👿
misogynistic hate speech a are deeply intertwined.
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 20, 2023, 12:06 pm
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> The constant flood of 👿 online
[shadow=maroon,left]attacks[/shadow] against
[glow=blue,2,300]🕊️ Thunberg and
🕊️ Kianni[/glow] serves as a sobering reminder
that 🦖😈[shadow=red,left] climate
disinformation[/shadow] and 👿
[shadow=red,left]misogynistic hate[/shadow] speech are deeply
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Propagandized Christian 🙊🙉🙈 Deniers
should not shoulder the 👿🦖 biosphere degrading
blame!
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: July 5, 2023, 1:08 pm
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milo
Four reasons why warmer oceans are not a good thing.
1) Warmer waters hold less oxygen. Fish require oxygen to
produce energy. So all the higher fin fish, the ones we like to
eat, have less ocean to live in. Ergo, fewer fish.
2) Warmer water changes pH, so shellfish like clams and corals
find it more difficult to make shells. Without shells they die.
3) Warmer waters absorb less CO2. So at some point the oceans
become saturated. They stop absorbing the extra CO2 we produce
and start outgassing it back into the atmosphere. This hasn't
happened yet but will become a very big deal when it does start.
4) Warmer waters are more energetic. So besides intensifying El
Ninos they also create more violent hurricanes and extreme rain
events.
AGelbert > milo
You are right.
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milo > AGelbert
Charts like that enrage the anti-AGW crowd, who I think of as
the Flat Earth crowd, who refuse to admit such things have been
happening. Their belief systems are as brittle and well-defended
as those of the anti-vax crowd. I put a lot of effort into
refuting their claims... but I know it's an exercise in
futility. I'm up against rigid articles of belief.
AGelbert > milo
Agreed. I've often pondered about how the intractable mindset
you accurately described comes about. I have never come to a
firm conclusion as to the chain of causation that reduces an
otherwise reasonable individual into a
🙊🙉🙈 propagandized weapon against common
sense thinking and action. 🤦‍♂️
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> "By the skillfull and sustained use of propaganda, one can
make a people see heaven as hell, or an extremely wretched life
as paradise." -- Adolf Hitler
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The best I have been able to reason out is that, somewhere along
the line, a 😒 person decides that truth is "relative"
🙃. As soon as that unreality based assumption becomes
firmly ensconced, said individual is easily convinced of
irrational baloney by the morally bankrupt 🦖 legerdemian
pushing 😈 greedballs who wish to add more suckers to
their crowd of victims.
A lot of people out there claim that people don't actually
believe all the baloney they peddle and that they are just doing
it for the money. I disagree. If it was just the money, the
suckers would figure out pretty quick who is getting the lion's
share of that profit over planet at the expense of the biosphere
we all depend on and would QUIT. But, the crowd of willfully
stupid seems immune to that in-their-faces logic.
Critical Thinking Skills are in short supply in this "Brave New
World".
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milo > AGelbert
The thought that there are millions of people out there, all
agreeing to lie to us because they're getting paid to do so by
shadowy forces, and that for many decades now no one has broken
the silence surrounding the Vast Plot, is the sure sign of a
shallow, poorly thought out mind.
milo > AGelbert
It's pretty simple, really. The deniers come from authoritarian
households, where their parents assured them they knew beyond
any doubt what life was like. Usually because the Bible told
them. So in later life their worldview becomes rigid, and they
come to believe in their convictions far more than they believe
the evidence they see in the world around them. "No! It's not
getting warmer! Why just last winter we had over an inch of
snow. "
AGelbert > milo
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> "The deniers come from authoritarian households, where their
parents assured them they knew beyond any doubt what life was
like. Usually because the Bible told them. So in later life
their worldview becomes rigid, and they come to believe in their
convictions far more than they believe the evidence they see in
the world around them."
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I actually was an atheist from the age of 18 to around 28.
By force of reason I slowy became a Deist.
A decade or so later I became a nominal Christian.
Decades later, I now believe the Bible is the Word of God. I
come from an authoritarian household. My dad was an inflexible
US Army Major that admired Mussolini! My mom was a devout Roman
Catholic. I have always been able to reason out right from
wrong. I firmly believe that I owe that skill to the fact that
Truth was never taught to me as a "relative" concept. Having
Faith in a Creator God never inhibited my critical thinking
skills, though I believe I did reason well during my youth as an
atheist (that is why, as long as they are advocates of
egalitarianism and common sense, I can see atheist Socialists as
people of good will. 🌞).
Thus, while I recognize that my Faith cannot prove the existence
of God or our obligation to worship Him, when pondering causes
and consequences of irrational socially destructive behavior
among humans, I concentrate on root causes. As you surmise,
belief systems certainly can get people to go full Red Queen in
Through the Looking Glass, but misguided Christians do not have
a patent on willful denial of viable biosphere math. Making them
the whipping boy is choosing an easy target. I'm sure the
🦖 Hydrocarbon Hellspawn smile broadly 😈 when
they see Socialists placing the lion's share of the blame for
our polluted biosphere on 🦖 Fossil Fuel Industry
propagandized 🙊🙉🙈 Christians.
Though I am NOT absolving the propagandized Christians from
their folly, I suggest you look at the [glow=red,2,300]top 100
💰🦀 🐘🦕🦖🐍
🦍🐉 🎩👿 corporations[/glow] on
the planet. THEY are responsible for far more than half of the
degradation of the biosphere now dooming so many mammalian
vertebrate species to ☠️
[glow=red,2,300]extinction[/glow]. If you think there are ANY
☝🏻 Bible believing Christians in decision making
positions on those [glow=red,2,300]😈🦍 Social
Darwinist run corporations[/glow], I've got a bridge to sell you
in Brooklyn.
Mock Christians and brand the Bible as "dangerously irrational
mindfork" all you wish, that's the expected reaction of
non-Christians to Christianity (But we preach Christ crucified,
unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
1Corinthians 1:23), but recognize that the 🦍
[glow=maroon,2,300]Darwinian ideology [/glow]widely accepted as
"Evolutionary science based" is ALSO a BELIEF system (i.e.
Atheism) based speculation, not "science".
Though you will certainly disagree (with vigor 😁), think
it is irrational for any person with critical thinking skills to
believe that all the complexity of living organisms in our
biosphere "just happened" by random undirected processes. Modern
Scientific Inquiry and the Scientific Method were both
championed by God fearing, Bible believing scientists, not
atheists. If you were taught, or assume otherwise, you are the
victim of [glow=red,2,300][glow=maroon,2,300]Darwinian atheist
mendacious propaganda[/glow][/glow].
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— Let’s Hear Some for [glow=red,2,300]Darwinian Evolution[/glow]
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[glow=red,2,300]Neo-Darwinism[/glow]
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