Washington gave billions to musk:
“SpaceX paid a flight attendant $250,000 in severance after she accused Elon Musk of exposing himself and offering to buy her a horse in exchange for a sexual massage.”
Baltimore Checkerspot (Euphydryas phaeton)
Driftless Area South Central Wisconsin, Dane County USA
2021 6/13 _F2A5506aaa
Andrea Corigliano:
“VIOLENT STORMS: THE ATMOSPHERE EXHAUST VALVE TO RELEASE ENERGY.
There are images that speak for themselves and tell us very clearly how the atmosphere tends to behave when it accumulates a large amount of energy in the form of very high temperatures. For weather dynamics, in fact, “hot” means “fuel”, that is, the gasoline that can be used to form storm clouds if there is a fuse ready to ignite the process. This fuse is the instability of the tropospheric column, a situation that occurs when fresher air interacts with hot air and therefore prepares optimal conditions for that energy to be converted into clouds, hail you also significant and furious wind gusts.
Today, Friday, May 20, this evolution of extreme type has particularly affected France and Germany, where together more than 400,000 lightning strikes have fallen. These areas were in fact located on the border between the warning of subtropical air (red arrow) that brought maximum temperatures up to 38-41 °C over southern Spain and the freshest and most unstable currents of Atlantic origin (blue arrow) c they have instead brought maximum temperatures up to 15-17 °C on the British Isles. In that narrow strip of earth the atmosphere sought balance between two diametrically opposite thermal situations, about twenty degrees apart between them.”
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“Anyone not yet familiar with what a 'Multi-Breadbasket-Failure' is, soon will be. Compounding, converging, interconnected global crises are about to cripple humanity....
as predicted, except sooner.
As expected, just faster.
Tick tock....”
"Now the EU’s Largest Wheat Crop Is at Risk From Record Heat
Share of wheat in good or very good condition declines to 73%
That adds to weather woes in other major wheat growers like US”
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“French Wheat Conditions
Share of soft-wheat rated good or very good”
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“France and Spain swelter as Cyclone Yakecan wreaks havoc in South America”
Mark Trewick:
“(Analysis: Another week of extremes with peaks pushing 40C in Spain and a rare subtropical cyclone in Uruguay and Brazil.)
All major global food producing regions are in big fucking trouble now....”
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Food: they aren’t making it anymore:
“Contagious Collapse”
“(Many people assume that the food crisis was caused by a combination of the pandemic and the invasion of Ukraine. While these are important factors, they aggravate an underlying problem. For years, it looked as if hunger was heading for extinction. The number of undernourished people fell from 811 million in 2005 to 607 million in 2014. But in 2015, the trend began to turn. Hunger has been rising ever since: to 650 million in 2019, and back to 811 million in 2020. This year is likely to be much worse.
Now brace yourself for the really bad news.)”
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Our Politicians MUST be held responsible:
“Apocalypse now? The alarming effects of the global food crisis
Composite image of a stalk of wheat sticking up above others in a field, picked out as though by a bright circle of light through a hot, menacing orange haze
A world of heat and war: ‘warnings about a global tidal wave of hunger, rendered more urgent by Ukraine, have been largely ignored.’ Composite: Getty Images
The Bank of England governor warned last week of ‘apocalyptic’ food price rises. Yet war in Ukraine, climate change and inflation are already taking their toll all over the world”
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Mark Trewick:
“Peter's Kalmus is a climate scientist and as such, he's obviously an educated fella, but he's not particularly keen to explain three crucial points about our predicament that he and we need to be mindful of.
1. The 10-40 year delay of the effects of CO2 levels in the atmosphere on global temperatures and their consequences.
2. The Aerosol Masking Effect. Whereby the 'soot' in the atmosphere is masking 55% of the Sun's heat from reaching the surface. If we end fossil fuels overnight, we're toasted within weeks.
3. The imminence of an ice free Arctic ocean and the consequent rapid loss of albedo (ice reflectance).
I picked these three because they're probably the main ones but there's dozens more and the list grows longer every day....
Tick tock...”
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“Peter Kalmus: ‘As a species, we’re on autopilot, not making the right decisions’
Ian Tucker
The Nasa data scientist explains why inaction on the climate crisis pushed him to chain himself to an LA bank – and why trusting in the ‘people in charge’ is so dangerous”
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The cost of Big Oil:
“(The U.S. has sustained 323 weather and climate disasters since 1980 where overall damages/costs reached or exceeded $1 billion (including CPI adjustment to 2022). The total cost of these 323 events exceeds $2.195 trillion.)”
“Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters | National Centers for Environmental information (NCEI)”
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“Parts of Spain are experiencing their hottest May ever with temperatures of more than 40C in some places, according to the state weather agency, AEMET.)
These are likely to be beaten again next May and every year thereafter. At 40°C (104°F), plants start to lose the ability to photosynthesise.
The UN estimates that there's about 90 days worth of global Wheat supplies left as we leave Spring and head into the hot Summer weather.”
“Spain heatwave brings record May temperatures”
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“Droughts moving northwards in a nonlinear fashion.
(Since last autumn we’ve seen “huge droughts” in Spain and Portugal and the same phenomenon has spread to southern France, Lambert said. But “what is unusual this season is that drought is affecting regions north of the Loire”, the river that divides southern and northern France.)”
“France’s unprecedented drought shows climate change is ‘spiralling out of control’”
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May 2022:
“'Mouth to hell' appears in Siberia - and nothing can be done to slow its growth”
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“Incidence of long COVID signs and symptoms”
Government wants to kill the non-rich with COVID – Don’t listen to their “profits before body count” advice:
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