2020-06-20 _F2A7772aaa
“Franz Oeste, Clive Elsworth, and Peter Fiekowsky are working on several climate change reduction experiments that arose from the study of Ocean Iron Fertilization. They would not use iron salt aerosols in the Arctic, for example, but titanium, since it is white and does not discolor the ice and snow and interfere with the planet-cooling albedo effect. Stephen Salter is developing nozzles and specific plans for marine cloud brightening in Hudson Bay. The purpose of this forum was to consider whether the two innovations could be explored at the same time, both on Hudson Bay. This does look feasible. However, even with both cooling mechanisms operating simultaneously, it is unlikely that they can cool Hudson Bay enough to retain ice in the summer. We discuss whether the demonstration of ice retention is a necessary condition for persuading the Canadian government to pay for such projects. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments:”
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Early 2023:
“Either all the forecasts from every major international meteorological organization are wrong or we are heading into El Niño territory by June, strong El Niño by Fall.”
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“House GOP Passes Anti-Environment Dirty Energy Package”
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Blame the American petroleum institute:
“India, on course to becoming the world’s most-populous country, risks approaching the limit of human survival as it experiences more intense and frequent heat waves.”
“Record heat waves push India closer to limit of human survival”
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“Cheers to the woman at the ER with the brain bleed who, after being told she was being airlifted to a better equipped hospital, told the doctor ‘I’m not getting no $100k bill for a helicopter, I’ll drive myself or let me die.’
Take a bow , US healthcare”
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Richard D. Wolff:
“Over last decade, US Labor Dept reports 2505 criminal investigations of union leaders yielding 821 convictions (mostly for misusing union funds). During that time, no Wall St exec went to jail.”
“The Double Standard for Keeping Capital and Labor Honest
Today on TAP: There is far more corporate crime than crimes by unions. But corrupt labor officials are prosecuted and jailed, while executive thugs walk.”
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“Worst drought on record forces Tunisia to cut off drinking water for seven hours every night”
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“Reproductive rights advocates on Monday angrily vowed to fight back after Florida's Republican-controlled Senate approved a bill banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy—a point at which many people don't even know they're pregnant.”
“'People Are Going to Die': Florida Senate Republicans Pass Abortion Ban
"This is a devastating day for our state and freedoms," said one Democratic Florida state lawmaker. "This six-week abortion ban is deeply unpopular, dangerous, and un-American."”
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Henry David Thoreau:
“If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.”
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Prosecuting Trump is just scratching the surface:
“George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and the vile living corpse of Henry Kissinger should be serving substantial prison sentences for directing and orchestrating the gravest of criminal activity: war crimes, writes Jeremy Scahill.”
“The Prosecution of Trump Is a Good First Step. Now Do Bush.
New York’s case against Trump would be a mere footnote of history if the U.S. actually believed in holding presidents and other top officials accountable.”
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Good observations, however, this is a guy running for President and may contain be a list topics he feels need mending, not all of which could be positive:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.:
“The collapse of U.S. influence over Saudi Arabia and the kingdom’s new alliances with China and Iran are painful emblems of the abject failure of the Neocon strategy of maintaining U.S. global hegemony with aggressive projections of military power.
China has displaced the American Empire by deftly projecting, instead, economic power. Over the past decade, our country has spent trillions bombing roads, ports, bridges, and airports. China has spent equivalent building the same across the developing world. The Ukraine war is the final collapse of the Neocon’s short-lived “American Century.”
The Neocon projects in Iraq and Ukraine have cost $8.1 trillion, hollowed out our middle class, made a laughing stock of U.S. military power and moral authority, pushed China and Russia into an invincible alliance, destroyed the dollar as the global currency, cost millions of lives and done nothing to advance democracy or win friendships or influence.”
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“In April 1938, Guy Callendar published his seminal paper showing that Earth’s land areas had warmed over the previous 50 years.
He also suggested that man-made CO₂ emissions had caused around half of the observed warming.
85 years ago.”
“The artificial production of carbon dioxide and its influence on temperature”
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The re-design of the American flag is now flying:
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