Cabbage White (Pieris rapae)
Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA
2021-05-09 _F2A3437aaa
A Blue Ocean Event and arrival of el Nino in 2023 may well herald start of accelerated warming.
It will be over with soon.
“El Niño likely to start mid-2023 and cause global average temperatures to exceed 1.5C in 2024”
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The priorities of rich people go before country, political parties, and of course 99% of Americans.
Oil investment is an investment in a wealth concentrating scheme that uses a necessary purchase to bleed working Americans and transfers it to a stock market predominantly owned by the rich.
Using energy as the underlying good because it is a good all Americans have to buy to function and stay alive and this particular good has paid to have the vast bulk of its costs fobbed off on to consumers making it highly profitable. Also, the cash cost to consumers of energy is at the core of inflation. Energy effects the price of everything. It is key to the basic cost of living. The basic cost of living, in turn, effects labor’s demand for wage levels. By emphasizing that the cash costs to producers of energy are minimized govt can put downward pressure on wages and upward pressure on profits of business owners outside the energy industry.
But the unrecognized costs of energy don’t go away. These costs manifest in other ways in current and future generations. Then it becomes Govt’s mission to obscure the relationship of these cost manifestations have to energy
A fossil fuel company in Virginia is expanding and upgrading gas infrastructure through tribal lands, fragile waterways and underserved neighborhoods.
Almost 50% of the population along the route live below the poverty line and more than half are people of color.
The next generation will pay for them
“A fossil fuel company in Virginia is expanding and upgrading gas infrastructure through tribal lands, fragile waterways and underserved neighborhoods.
Almost 50% of the population along the route live below the poverty line and more than half are people of color.”
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“ISES Solar Cycle Sunspot Number Progression”
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Sun Spots Arctic Blog News
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“The importance of Methane”
“The Climate Plan (by Sam Carana) tackles methane on multiple lines of action”
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“A whopping 94% of rainforest carbon offsets from the biggest provider used by corporations such as Disney and Shell are “worthless.” Many of the credits are likely “phantom credits” which do not represent any climate benefits.”
“"The proposed development will include the construction of up to 250 oil wells, 37 miles of gravel roads, 386 miles of pipelines, airstrips and processing facilities." via The Hill
“Don’t make Indigenous people pay Willow’s price”
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Build a giant hood over the Arctic – including ocean – to capture it?!
“Can We Mitigate a Methane Burst?”
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“Lockdown methane INCREASE!! What's going on??”
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