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“BERNIE SANDERS TO BRING YEMEN WAR POWERS RESOLUTION TO THE FLOOR AS SOON AS NEXT WEEK
Backers of a war powers resolution say that a strong vote in the Senate will send a signal to Saudi Arabia that it does not have a free hand to restart hostilities.”
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“People been voting their asses off for decades and no harm has been reduced. The harm has only intensified. Yet “harm reduction” is still used as the#1 justification for supporting the so-called “lesser evil” of the bourgeois political class.
How long can this charade go on?”
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“South Africa is home to 80% of the rhino population, with 28,000 left in the wild. But figures show that last year, 1,028 rhinos were killed - that's three a day.”
“Experts Warn That Rhinos Could Be Extinct In As Little As 15 Years”
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“Just Stop Oil’s message to Suella Braverman: threaten us all you like – we’re not listening”
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Sam Carana:
“THE IPCC HAS BETRAYED THE VERY SCIENTIFIC BASIS IT WAS SUPPOSED TO REFLECT
The IPCC keeps insisting that there was a carbon budget, and this goes hand in hand with peddling the notion that the temperature rise was still less than 1.5°C. As discussed in an earlier analysis, the temperature has been rising for thousands of years and may have crossed the 1.5°C mark long ago.
Furthermore, the Paris Agreement instructs the IPCC to specify pathways to limit the rise to 1.5°C. In its arrogance, the IPCC on the one hand keeps insisting that 1.5°C has not been crossed, while on the other hand bluntly refusing to specify credible pathways to keep it that way. The untenability of this attitude is illustrated by a recent UN news release Climate change: No 'credible pathway' to 1.5C limit, UNEP warns.
Finally, many studies point at ways improvements could be facilitated, such as by support for solar panels, wind turbines, heat pumps, biochar, vegan-organic food, air taxis, etc. A recent analysis and an earlier post agree and also conclude that local feebates work best and that it is preferable for decision-making regarding their implementation to be delegated to local communities. The IPCC on the one hand refuses to contemplate policy instruments, yet on the other hand it keeps peddling pet projects pushed by polluters, such as cap-and-trade, nuclear power, bioenergy and BECCS (bioenergy with carbon capture and storage).
The situation is dire and the right thing to do now is to help avoid or delay the worst from happening, through action as described in the Climate Plan and at the recent post Transforming Society.
From the post 'There is no Carbon Budget', at:
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Volcanic eruptions can be the consequence of Climate Change. For instance, as a consequence of Isostatic rebound (the weight of a tremendous amount of ice can be alleviated by melting):
“This world is not to be saved! Life on uncertain ground- When will the big bang come?- Volcano Activity Worldwide! #MaunaLoa, Semeru volcano, Aleutian volcanoes, Villarrica volcano, #Etna, Shiveluch #volcano
While spectacular aerial footage of Haiwaii's Mauna Loa volcano, which is spewing lava after an earthquake swarm after 38 years, is being shown in the media, more volcanoes have erupted.
Not only was there a record of devastating earthquakes in November 2022, but the following volcanoes are active again in that period alone: San Miguel in El Salvador, Klyuchevskoy in Russia, Copahue in Chile-Argentina , Ahyi and Takawangha in the United States.
Four volcanoes in the Aleutian Islands have been under heightened alert for about a year. Now a fifth has been added.
As reported by INGV, a vent at the northeast base of Etna's Southeast Crater opened at 2,800 meters on November 27, 2022, around 6 p.m., releasing a lava flow.
Semeru volcano also erupted on the island of Java in Indonesia. Indonesia raises highest volcano warning after Semeru erupts.
Several people were injured on White Island in New Zealand when a volcano erupted there.
Thousands of scientific listening posts register the earth's unrest and try to warn in time, because the destructive potential of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions is enormous.
Volcanoes can even influence the weather and the earth's climate.
The consequences of a volcanic eruption can be seen in the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano, which triggered a tsunami and sonic boom that circled the globe twice.
The eruption pumped so much water into the Earth's atmosphere that it even weakened the ozone layer.
Recent studies show that the crater of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano is 700 meters deeper than before the eruption.”
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“Stromboli volcano erupts, caused the formation of a tsunami 1.5 meters high”
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“At Least 128 Members of Congress Invested in Fossil Fuel Industry”
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“Scientists just revived a 48,500years old virus buried in Ice called "ZOMBIE VIRUS"”
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“The Foreboding Hyperthreat Looms Large!
It’s Time for Plan E”
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