“Science Museum Just Killed Its 'Own Reputation,' Says Greta Thunberg After Docs Reveal Gag Clause With Shell
"It essentially creates a 'chilling effect,' where museum staff must refrain from speaking openly about the reality of Shell's activities."”
Pearly Crescentspot (Phyciodes tharos)
Driftless Area South Central Wisconsin, Dane County USA
2017 6/8 149aaa
“Shell boss: we have no plans to change strategy despite emissions ruling
‘Unreasonable’ court ruling does not need new strategy, Van Beurden says, as firm reveals multibillion-dollar shareholder windfall”
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“The Amazon Is Fast Approaching a Point of No Return
Brazil’s rainforest is being stolen and cleared at an accelerating pace, and the Bolsonaro government is fanning the flames.”
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“While it is well recognized that the frequency and intensity of flood events are increasing worldwide, the environmental, economic, and societal consequences of remobilization and distribution of pollutants during flood events are not widely recognized. Loss of life, damage to infrastructure, and monetary cleanup costs associated with floods are important direct effects. However, there is a lack of attention towards the indirect effects of pollutants that are remobilized and redistributed during such catastrophic flood events, particularly considering the known toxic effects of substances present in flood-prone areas. The global examination of floods caused by a range of extreme events (e.g., heavy rainfall, tsunamis, extra- and tropical storms) and subsequent distribution of sediment-bound pollutants are needed to improve interdisciplinary investigations. Such examinations will aid in the remediation and management action plans necessary to tackle issues of environmental pollution from flooding. River basin-wide and coastal lowland action plans need to balance the opposing goals of flood retention, catchment conservation, and economical use of water.
The article is freely accessible from the publisher’s following link for the next six weeks:”
“Remobilization of pollutants during extreme flood events poses severe risks to human and environmental health”
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“In a fertilized pasture where they use herbicides to knock out [weeds], they remove a potentially stabilizing diversity and increase the system’s tie to water availability.”
“Excess Fertilizer Causes a New Challenge: Low Crop Yields During Drought
New research suggests that farmers who over-fertilize grassland crops like corn and wheat could face significant problems in dry conditions.”
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“IS THE BUFFER GONE?
This NASA Worldview image shows the sea ice on July 29, 2021, north of Greenland, where once the thickest sea ice was located.
An often-used threshold for a Blue Ocean Event (BOE) is that a BOE occurs when sea ice extent falls below 1 million km². Similarly, a threshold for the latent heat tipping point of Arctic sea ice could be sea ice thickness.
Disappearance of the buffer constituted by subsurface sea ice could be measured by a threshold of most sea ice becoming less than 0.5 meter thin. By that measure, the buffer is now virtually gone, implying that virtually no further heat arriving from the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean in the Arctic Ocean can be absorbed in the process of melting of sea ice.
As sea ice gets thinner, ever less ocean heat gets consumed in the process of melting the subsurface ice, to the point where there is only a thin layer of ice left at the surface. While this thin layer of ice may remain at the surface for as long as air temperatures are still low enough, and this ice will still consume some heat at the bottom, at the same time it acts as a seal, preventing heat from the Arctic Ocean to enter the atmosphere.
Albedo loss, latent heat loss, storms and changes to the jet stream can add up to dramatically amplify the temperature rise of the water in the Arctic Ocean, which comes with the danger of destabilization of hydrates at its seafloor, resulting in eruption of huge amounts of methane from hydrates and opening up pathways for release of even further amounts of free gas from underneath these hydrates.
From the post 'Arctic sea ice disappearing fast', at:
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“Western Wildfires May Take Weeks To Months To Contain”
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“Turkey Battles Wildfires for 6th Day; 10,000 Are Evacuated”
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“The circular economy
Humans store excess energy as fat, greed, and arrogance. They release it as CO2
Earth stores excess energy as heat. It releases it as storms, floods, and extinction of humans”
George Tsakraklides
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“Red algae’s airborne spread has shown to be affecting people as far as 10 miles away. We’re fighting for meaningful regulations in Florida to restrict the pollution that causes it.”
“Florida’s Red and Green Slime Crisis
A short guide to the toxic red and green pollution in Florida’s waterways that’s killing marine animals and threatening residents’ way of life”
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DeSantis is guilty of ecocide
“Florida failed to prevent the Piney Point wastewater disaster and is failing to take meaningful action to prevent the next.
"This should be a wake-up call for everybody that we can't continue business as usual." — Jaclyn Lopez, Center for Biological Diversity”
“Months after the Piney Point wastewater disaster, a massive red tide has killed 1,600-plus tons of marine life—a huge blow to the local fishing community”
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"One key takeaway is that there are a significant number of lives that can be saved by reducing emissions," study author R. Daniel Bressler told NPR.
“Reaching Zero Emissions by 2050 Could Save 74 Million Lives”
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“I need Everyone in the Group to Politely Contact Senator Sanders and Senator Whitehouse either by phone or email, and tell them about MEERS instead of Solar geoengineering. Feel free to bother Michael Mann as well, but do not do it the Joey Casey did last time Michael Mann blocked me.... I need to be able to cover him. I have to cover the most famous climate scientist, the most famous Doomer, Peter Wadhams and James Hansen. My personal feelings aren't supposed to matter. Be sure to emphasize that Bill gates and David Keith are moving forward without Government assistance. If the climate is destroyed by accident it's their fault for doing nothing. I mean Solar geo SHOULD work but even if it does, if they use sulfates it will bring back acid rain, a fleet of jets 5 miles high dumping 2 million tons of chemicals is very expensive, and when done every 24 months creates a huge amount of GHGs. Also MEERs only costs 1/25th the airline bailout or 1 billion dollars while solar geo will cost trillions. and a giant mirror is pretty much a permanent solution and safe in addition to cheap. Those senators are ridiculously easy to reach.”
“Dr. Ye Tao of the Rowland Institute at Harvard talks about Mirrors for Earth’s Energy Rebalancing”
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The lulumon lady that brough a cake to the $15 hr wage vote:
“Sinema says she does not support $3.5 trillion reconciliation package Democrats plan to pass along party lines”
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“Hobby Lobby took out a full page ad in the Register-Guard this morning. Talking about about how America should only be led by Christians.
Absolutely frightening. Please remember that Michaels, Joanns & your local craft/hobby shops are always on excellent place to spend your money.”
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“A Trump supporter was arrested after a church prayer group member sent texts to the FBI that showed him inside the Capitol on January 6”
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“The right-wing-funded legal challenges are about maintaining a conservative base of voters heading into 2022 and beyond.”
“Trump Loyalists Are Behind Lawsuits Excluding Farmers of Color From Debt Relief”
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“A 'Massive Melting Event' Has Struck Greenland Due to Northern Hemisphere Heatwave”
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“How many years until we must act on climate? Zero, say these climate thinkers”
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In September, the state of Texas will open up abortion bounty hunting.
The law will allow any U.S. citizen to sue Texas-based abortion clinics, doctors, and anyone who helps someone get an abortion. Even if you drive a loved one to their appointment.
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“Workers Beg Joe Manchin to Save West Virginia Pharma Plant as His Daughter Walks Away with $31M”
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July 30, 2021:
GREENLAND ICE MELT SINCE SUNDAY TURNING HEADS---The World Meteorological Organization is reporting 18.4-billion tons of ice has melted in Greenland since Sunday-----8.4-billion tons on Tuesday alone. The meltwater from Tuesday's meltdown would cover the an area the size of Florida with 2" of water.
The meltwater off Greenland's shrinking glaciers has created a cold pool there which has been dubbed the "cold blob"--and is believed to be playing a role in the slowdown of the Gulf Stream which a recent report puts as the slowest in 1,000 years.
The consequence to weather patterns and the climate of Europe which would result from changes in the Gulf Stream--a warm current of water which runs from the Florida Straits all the way to Europe carrying more than 30 times the water of all the rivers of the world combined---are enormous. The New York times reported, in a article this past spring on the Gulf Stream, the current delivers an amount of energy 78,000 times the current energy output of Scandanavia to that part of the world.
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Jamie Dimon must face Ecocide charges:
“US banks have funneled $1.2 trillion dollars into fossil fuels in the past 5 years. The good news is that the Federal Reserve has the legal authority to intervene. 350.org is launching a new campaign for a fossil-free Federal Reserve. Listen to US Climate Finance Policy Analyst Tracey Lewis explain how we’re going to make the Fed stop funding climate destruction.”
“A strong climate leader for the Federal Reserve Bank?”
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“Professor Guy McPherson, Mimi German and Kevin Hester discuss the convergence of abrupt climate change and the nuclear industry.”
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The depravity and lack of social conscience in today’s self-interested greed is ASTOUNDING!
“Investing 0.1% of global GDP could avoid breakdown of ecosystems, says UN report””
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