Government produces the super rich – period:
“How the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Poorer”
Waved Sphinx (Ceratomia undulosa)
Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit, Wisconsin, USA
2021 6/13 _F2A5860aaa
“Why Nobody Cares about Climate Change
We can’t fix a problem if we don’t face its root cause.”
“Climate action is sacrifice, whether you are a single person, a corporation, or the US government. If reducing carbon were profitable, it’d be gone already. If we all worked together, we’d get the best outcome. However, if one entity cheated just a bit, they would be better off. Unfortunately, the more people cheat, the more those who don’t will be penalized, and the more irrational honesty becomes.”
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“World Health Organization confirms 92 cases of monkeypox with outbreaks in 12 countries”
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“Google and Amazon are both set to help build “Project Nimbus,” a mammoth new cloud computing project for the Israeli government and military that is spurring intense dissent among employees and the public alike.”
“GOOGLE AND AMAZON FACE SHAREHOLDER REVOLT OVER ISRAELI DEFENSE WORK
“Project Nimbus” would insulate the Israeli government’s cloud computing from political pressures stemming from the military occupation of Palestine.”
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Never Happen:
“A new proposed tax on Big Oil's profit markups offers a solution for cash-strapped Americans”
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“‘There Is No Way To Fool Physics’: Climate Breakdown And State-Corporate Madness
“In his 2020 novel, ‘The Ministry for the Future’, Kim Stanley Robinson depicts an intense heatwave in India. People are struggling to cope with unbearable heat and humidity. It is the combination of the two, measured by the so-called ‘wet-bulb temperature’, that is potentially fatal. When it approaches the core body temperature of 36C, sweat cannot evaporate and humans can no longer cool themselves down.
Last month was India’s hottest April in 122 years and Pakistan’s for 61 years. Exhausted and dehydrated birds fell from the sky, an apocalyptic portent if ever there was one.”
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“Anthropologist shares unexpected tip for staying cool during heat waves: ‘We all need to study this’”
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Every Square foot counts:
“A do-it-yourself, homegrown national park”
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“Historic heatwave poised to hit dozens of US states this weekend
Temperatures expected to be 20F to 30F above average for this time of year, breaking records and raising health fears”
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Eat Boris Johson?:
“Skipping meals and shrinking portions — Brits are being warned of ‘apocalyptic’ food price rises !!!”
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Nina Turner for President 2024:
“This is what a rigged and corrupt system looks like.
Effective Tax Rate:
0.1%: Warren Buffett worth $111 billion
1.1%: Jeff Bezos worth $131 billion
1.8% Mike Bloomberg worth $82 billion
2.1%: Elon Musk worth $210 billion
13.5%: Registered Nurse”
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“Welcome to the final Hunger Game
The odds were NEVER in your favor”
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In our desperation we will deliver the final blow to our existence. But Big Oil and Koch are calling the shots, the people who will die:
“Geoengineering Affects You, Your Environment, and Your Loved Ones”
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“We are going over a cliff.”
Dr. Genevieve Guenther:
“Real talk: anyone who claims that unchecked global warming *won’t* destabilize the conditions of our current civilization and potentially kill billions is a f*cking climate denier”
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“(This memoir is the first to review all of Antarctica’s volcanism between 200 million years ago and the Present. The region is still volcanically active. The volume is an amalgamation of in-depth syntheses, which are presented within distinctly different tectonic settings. Each is described in terms of (1) the volcanology and eruptive palaeoenvironments; (2) petrology and origin of magma; and (3) active volcanism, including tephrochronology. Important volcanic episodes include: astonishingly voluminous mafic and felsic volcanic deposits associated with the Jurassic break-up of Gondwana; the construction and progressive demise of a major Jurassic to Present continental arc, including back-arc alkaline basalts and volcanism in a young ensialic marginal basin; Miocene to Pleistocene mafic volcanism associated with post-subduction slab-window formation; numerous Neogene alkaline volcanoes, including the massive Erebus volcano and its persistent phonolitic lava lake, that are widely distributed within and adjacent to one of the world’s major zones of lithospheric extension (the West Antarctic Rift System); and very young ultrapotassic volcanism erupted subglacially and forming a world-wide type example (Gaussberg).)”
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Mark Trewick:
“Antarctic volcano blowing its top?”
“(Improving our understanding of subglacial volcanic activity across the province is important both for helping to constrain how volcanism and rifting may have influenced ice-sheet growth and decay over previous glacial cycles, and in light of concerns over whether enhanced geothermal heat fluxes and subglacial melting may contribute to instability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Here, we use ice-sheet bed-elevation data to locate individual conical edifices protruding upwards into the ice across West Antarctica, and we propose that these edifices represent subglacial volcanoes. We used aeromagnetic, aerogravity, satellite imagery and databases of confirmed volcanoes to support this interpretation. The overall result presented here constitutes a first inventory of West Antarctica's subglacial volcanism. We identified 138 volcanoes, 91 of which have not previously been identified, and which are widely distributed throughout the deep basins of West Antarctica, but are especially concentrated and orientated along the >3000 km central axis of the West Antarctic Rift System.)”
“A new volcanic province: an inventory of subglacial volcanoes in West Antarctica”
Mark Trewick:
“GLOBAL EMISSIONS MONITORING”
“Click the link below to discover where these high concentrations of methane are coming from.
It's not from where you'd expect it to be.”
“AntVolc - Expert Group on Antarctic Volcanism
“Seismic evidence for a warm Antarctic mantle, consistent with recent volcanic activity
Earthquakes are happening all around the world, and may be detected many thousands of km from their sources. Similar to how sound travels faster in water than air, the seismic waves will travel faster in colder, 'stiffer' parts of the earth and be slowed down by warmer, 'stickier' parts of it. Seismologists can combine together the data from many different earthquakes to create 3D 'wave velocity' maps of the subsurface. Slow anomalies in these maps are generally associated with warm, tectonically active regions.
Calculating these 3D mantle structure maps has been difficult in Antarctica due to the small number of seismometers in the area. Recent projects such as the Polar Earth Observing Network (POLENET) have helped to bridge this gap, and better study the Antarctic subsurface. Lloyd et al (2015) calculated the subsurface seismic velocities along a transect of the West Antarctic Rift System, and Lucas et al (2020) recently calculated a P and S wave velocity model for most of West Antarctica.
The results of the different studies are consistent and show a large negative seismic velocity anomaly underneath Marie Byrd land, extending into the Amundsen Sea Embayment. This is interpreted as the underlying mantle temperature being up to 150 °C hotter than average, possibly related to plume activity and rifting. Lucas et al find that the central part of the Rift System is seismically fast, suggesting that it is not tectonically active.
Seismic velocity maps can be difficult to interpret in terms of tectonics and volcanism. The fast seismic velocities in the central part of the Rift System suggest that some of the volcanic edifices identified by Van Wyk de Vries et al. (2017) have not been recently active. The findings of low seismic velocities throughout much of coastal W Antarctica are however consistent with reports of active volcanism (e.g. Corr and Vaugan, 2008; Lough et al., 2013; Loose et al., 2018) and high heat flux beneath many of the glaciers (e.g. Schroeder et. 2014). Altogether, these suggest that volcanism is likely in some of the most vulnerable area of the W Antarctic Ice Sheet. The low-velocity anomalies may also be associated with very low mantle viscosities (e.g. Lloyd, 2019), leading to rapid Glacio-Isostatic adjustment and slowing of ice retreat (e.g. Nield et al., 2018).
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