Question Mark (Polygonia interrogationis)
Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit, Wisconsin, USA
7/31/2017 242aaa2
Coup in Peru: as American as,... the bombing of the Nord Stream pipeline
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“Rent and Food Push ‘Living Wage’ Up 17 Per Cent
In Vancouver, two people each need to make $24 an hour to support a family of four.”
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Biden, Manchin, and the Democrats:
“Global Coal Consumption On Track To Hit An All-Time High”
“The International Energy Agency expects coal consumption to hit an all-time high this year, breaking 8 billion tons for the first time ever.
Soaring natural gas prices have been the key factor pushing coal demand higher, with coal consumption set to rise by 1.2% this year.
The IEA maintains that the current energy crisis and Russia’s war in Ukraine will accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels.”
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“Climate Honesty – are we ‘beyond catastrophe’?”
“…reassuring predictions are now being popularized…” by Washington
Quote: “…reason for those reassurances being shaky is that they have relied on the subjective and sometimes arbitrary choices by computer modellers, which are made within a context where colleagues, funders, bureaucrats, politicians and journalists all want to hear findings that they can work with.”
Such reassuring projects are sadly not at all representative of where we are going:
“if we look at the geological records of past climates with greenhouse gas concentrations like today, we might expect a world average temperature rising from our current 15C to around 18C due to greenhouse gases that humanity has already added to the atmosphere. Or if we simply look at CO2 concentrations over recent years, we are tracking a graph that lands us at between 3.3C to 5.7C of warming by the end of the century, according to the cautious Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC). That would mean an uninhabitable Earth for most of the children being born today.
And it gets worse,…
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“What the Battle for the Soul of Our Societies Is Really About
What It Means to (Really) Be on the Side of Civilization and Democracy”
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Food, they just aren’t making it anymore:
“Some of America's biggest vegetable growers fought for water. Then the water ran out”
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Washington and Western Corporate\Banking interests once again raping democracy’s in South and Central America:
“Peru court extends ex-President Castillo’s jail time by 18 months
Pedro Castillo’s arrest on charges of ‘rebellion’ and ‘conspiracy’ has fuelled a political crisis.”
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More dirty energy:
“Shell intends to produce hydrogen using power from small nuclear power stations.”
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