2021-08-20 _F2A8998aaa
“Low-income households are falling behind on car bills”
“U.S. subprime auto delinquency rate”
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“Negative Equity Surges: Millions of Americans Now Underwater on Auto Loans”
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“Fossil Fuel Executives See a ‘Golden Age’ for Gas, If They Can Brand It as ‘Clean’
At an industry conference, top executives lamented they had “lost the narrative” on natural gas, and outlined an effort to sell their product as the “cleanest energy in the world.””
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“Sandy Hook Families Are Fighting Alex Jones and the Bankruptcy System Itself
As the families seek more than $1.4 billion awarded by courts for Mr. Jones’s lies, a New York Times review shows he is transferring millions of dollars to family and friends, potentially out of reach of creditors.”
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“The fringe group that broke the GOP’s brain — and helped the party win elections
The John Birch Society pushed a darker, more conspiratorial politics in the ’50s and ’60s — and looms large over today’s GOP, argues historian Matthew Dallek.”
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Raising interest rates won’t cure all forms of inflation without inflicting a new problem:
“Argentina's inflation crosses 100% as people pay double for food amidst historic drought
Prices in Argentina have doubled for a large number of consumer products since 2022.”
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Don’t let a good disaster go to waste, and the rich see the switch away from fossil fuels as a disaster:
“Net Zero is the Plan for Peak Oil in disguise
An imminent peak of world crude production is why we have carbon credits, traffic controls, plastic bans, vegan nudging, and humanity walking into a digital trap”
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“Whether elected leaders know it or not, Net Zero is all about coordinating, across countries and continents, the inevitable down-scaling of the global economy. The advantages to the 1% of selling their PPO [Plan for Peak Oil] as a climate emergency, with the promise of improved cities and health, are clear. For starters, nobody has to concede that they were complicit in the illusion that this finite resource could last infinitely.
Second, by framing it as a broad moral imperative (the planet, community, health) they hope to recruit almost all youth as evangelists, while opponents from any angle can be easily smeared. Thirdly, a more widely-defined mission enables a more comprehensive agenda to be pushed, with moveable climate targets and priorities permitting policies be to introduced at variable pace in diverse regions.”
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Methane hydrates are the bottom of the ocean at deep deaths:
Val Eisman\Climate Alert
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“"'The Blob' - deep under
"Researchers have been investigating marine heat waves at the sea surface for over a decade now," said lead author Dillon Amaya, a research scientist with NOAA's Physical Science Laboratory, in a press release.
"This is the first time we've been able to really dive deeper and assess how these extreme events unfold along shallow seafloors."
The so-called bottom marine heatwaves can be more powerful and continue longer than hot spells at the ocean surface. However, it varies from coast to coast, according to their examination.
They may also occur together with heat waves on the surface and show little to no evidence of surface warming. "That means it can be happening without [fishing] managers realizing it until the impacts start to show," explained Amaya.
The study comes amid concerns about increasingly common marine heat waves, which significantly negatively influence the global health of ocean ecosystems.
Over the past century, the ocean has warmed by roughly 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), absorbing nearly 90 percent of the extra heat caused by global warming.
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Abnormally warm bottom water temperatures have been linked to changes in the survival rates of young Atlantic cod, the spread of invasive lionfish along the southeast coast of the United States, coral bleaching, and subsequent declines in reef fish. Not to mention, the disappearance of near-shore lobster populations in southern New England."
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