Eastern pine elfin (Callophrys niphon)
Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit, Wisconsin, USA
2017-05-09 168aaa Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit
Biden’s EPA is fueling the Mass Extinction one Manatee at a time
Florida’s manatees are starving.
In 2021 we lost 12.5% of all manatees in Florida. The EPA hasn’t stepped in as pollution killed the manatees’ food source, and now hundreds of manatees are starving.”
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Jason Scherl\Climate Alert on FB:
“Watch the Jet Stream collapse then AMOC shut down on Climate Alert on YouTube & Facebook”
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“LA rain: Cars stranded in flooded intersection near Burbank airport, 5 Freeway turns into river”
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Nature has a way for dealing with mal adapted, irrational species:
“madness! In the desert of Saudi Arabia with temperatures of often over 45 degrees Celsius is one of the largest dairy farms in the world, with a mega barn with about 50,000 cows. This mega barn even made it into the Guinness Book of Records!
Al Safi Danone (ASD) is a joint venture between Al Fai Dairy Company of Al Faisaliah Group and Groupe Danone of France. Since Saudi Arabia suffers from a lack of water and thus cannot grow animal feed, the desert state has bought up large tracts of valuable farmland in other countries, such as Sudan. There the people suffer from hunger.
And after prices were raised in Saudi Arabia for yogurt, cheese and milk, citizens in Saudi Arabia called for a boycott of dairy products.
And so Almarai, the largest dairy company in Saudi Arabia has destroyed its dairy products in the Sahara.
It is not the first time that Almarai is criticized for price increases, the Saudis accuse the company of greed. And so there is always a boycott campaign and the products then end up in the desert, while there, where Saudi Arabia has stolen valuable farmland for animal feed, people are starving.”
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“War is seriously destructive in terms of emissions. This is not an exaggeration. Excerpt:
“War is a Climate Killer”
"Based on the global CO₂ budget, humanity has less than eight years to ensure it still hits its 1.5-degree warming target. To do so, we need to urgently implement reforms in all areas, to bring about “systemic change,” as the IPCC report from early April puts it. The military sector barely gets a mention in this almost 3,000-page document, however, with the word “military” coming up just six times. You might thus conclude that the sector is of little relevance to the climate emergency.
The reality is rather different. Using military hardware results in huge quantities of emissions. In the war in Ukraine, 36 Russian attacks on fossil fuel infrastructure were recorded in the first five weeks alone, leading to prolonged fires that released soot particulates, methane and CO₂ into the atmosphere, while oil infrastructure has been ablaze on the Russian side too. The oil fields that were set on fire in 1991 during the second Gulf War contributed two per cent of global emissions for that year.
While greenhouse gas emissions are one of the most significant impacts of war, the quantity emitted depends on the duration of the conflict and on what tanks, trucks, and planes are used. Another is the contamination of ecosystems that sequester CO₂. Staff from Ukraine’s environment inspectorate are currently collecting water and soil samples in the areas around shelled industrial facilities.
MILITARY EMISSIONS
The ramifications for the climate can be catastrophic in scale. According to a study by the organisation Oil Change International, the Iraq War was responsible for 141 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalent emissions between its outbreak in 2003 and the report’s publication in 2008. By way of comparison: some 21 EU member states emitted less CO₂ equivalent in 2019, with only six states topping that figure.
Post-war rebuilding also produces significant emissions. Estimates suggest that reconstruction in Syria will lead to 22 million tonnes of CO2 emissions. The rebuilding in Ukraine, too, will consume vast amounts of resources. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that at least 5 billion US dollars of reconstruction funding was needed per month. Every effort should thus be made to achieve an immediate ceasefire – both for the sake of the climate and to avoid further human suffering." Snip”
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