Eastern tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucus), female, dark color form
Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit, Wisconsin, USA
8/16/2011 IMG_1489aaaa2 2022 Photos\Old Photos Retouched\2022 April
“Andy Lee (Pangloss) Parker @AndyLeeParker1
The three P's of successful military recruitment in the U.S. are:
1. Propaganda
2. Poverty
3. Prison
Propaganda is 24/7, poverty is deliberately maintained, and judges give young petty criminals the choice between jail and the military. #CannonFodder
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Peter Carter April 7 at 12:33 PM:
PERMAFROST THAW EMITTING ALL 3 GHGs (IPCC AR6)
AR6 Permafrost thaw greenhouse gas feedback
Not included in IPCC AR6 projections
IPCC AR6 WG1, Box 5.1
Excellent diagram:
“Permafrost thaw feedback emissions is the greatest global warming risk and inevitable long-term impact
Permafrost holds double atmospheric carbon and carbon release from permafrost thaw will continue for centuries. Permafrost thaw is releasing all three greenhouse gases (AR6 below). IPCC projections do not include permafrost or peatland emissions.
IPCC ARB WG1, Box 5.1 | Permafrost Carbon and Feedbacks to Climate
“In conclusion, there is high confidence that the permafrost region has acted as a historic carbon sink over centuries to millennia, and high confidence that some permafrost regions are currently net sources of C02.
There is robust evidence that some CH4 emissions sources for some regions have increased over the past decades.
Since AR5, there have been new studies showing that permafrost thaw also leads to nitrous oxide (N2O) release from soil a previously unaccounted source.”
“Currently thawing soils due to anthropogenic warming are losing carbon from the decomposition of old frozen organic matter undergoing rapid permafrost thaw, of dissolved organic carbon in rivers draining watersheds and of methane (CH4) produced in thawing lakes’
The IPCC 2019 SROCC (ocean cryosphere) assessed that warming under a high-emissions scenario (RCP8.5 or similar) would result in a loss of permafrost carbon by 2100 of 10s to 100s of PgC, with a maximum estimate of 240 PgC.’”
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Scott Duncan:
“We just observed Earth's 2nd warmest March on record. Some of the strongest hotspots with many records were found in Argentina and across a vast area reaching from NW Africa all the way through Asia.
It wasn't warm for everyone though. Swipe through...
Intense cold lingered over large portions of North America. Some very striking cold anomalies and particularly stormy weather for the west coast (delivering much needed rain and mountain snow). It was also cold in Iceland & Fennoscandia. Very notable intensity to the cold especially late in the month.
But the area of significant warmth from Morocco to Kamchatka really is impressive. Large portions of Central Asia averaged more than 5°C warmer than the 1981-2010 baseline.
A look at the Southern Hemisphere... Relentless heatwaves in South America with the Bullseye in Argentina. Long-standing monthly records were broken.
Also, no more La Niña...”
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“The U.S. must move to a greener, fairer energy economy. Public lands and waters should be a part of that future. 🌿
How? ➡️ The agencies who manage these lands must prioritize climate protection, human connections and conservation – not corporate profits.”
“Westerners support 100% clean energy, less oil drilling — even in red states”
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“World Bank criticizes China's African loans. Really? Predatory loans for centuries by Europeans then Americans, ongoing still, yet the bank's President (American) dutifully attacks China's few decades of loans.”
“China's loans to Africa worry World Bank President David Malpass”
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If technology is such a salvation in our planet’s death, then where are the solutions to the water crisis?
"in a 'business as usual' scenario, where we fail to meaningfully curtail fossil fuel burning in the decades ahead, we can expect a substantial — that is, nearly 100% loss — of water availability to downstream regions of the Tibetan Plateau," Prof Michael E. Mann.
“What happens when we run out of water? Thanks to climate change, a dystopian premise is coming true
Experts say climate change is depleting or polluting our freshwater sources. Can we survive in a drier world?”
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Peter Carter April 6 at 6:45 PM
“2023 ANTARCTIC RECORD SEA ICE LOW – ICE SHEET DESTABILIZER
Feb 2023 was a record Antarctic sea ice low, may be start of Antarctic sea ice decline. If so Thwaites glacier could collapse faster, speeding up destabilization of whole vast ice sheet.
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“With hundreds of thousands of people arrested and jailed for minor offenses like subway fare evasion, loitering, jaywalking, or selling single cigarettes, isn’t it time we applied the Broken Windows Theory to political crimes and hold to account the people who enforced it on others?”
The latest “Roaming Charges” by Jeffrey St. Clair
“People griping about the trivial nature of the charges against Trump seem to have forgotten that the aggressive enforcement of trivial offenses has ben the hallmark of American policing for 40 years, put into vicious deployment by Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani with Trump cheering him on.”
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“Dept. of When Fascism Comes to America: Tennessee’s famously the birthplace of the KKK. The one member who wasn’t expelled was a white lady. Jones — in words that echo through history — compared this to a lynching. Not of him and Justin Pearson — but of democracy.”
“The Day Fascism Came to Tennessee — And Why the GOP Won’t Stop There
The GOP’s Now Openly Authoritarian — And It’s Doubling Down on Destroying Democracy From Within”
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We need justice for the Environmental degradation that took place in the presence of politicians that didn’t prevent or stop it.
“The U.S. lets corruption in government run unaccountable.”
“Countries where leaders have been jailed or prosecuted after leaving office”
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