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Heating Up

dimanche 7 juillet 2019 à 02:00

Anchorage, Alaska, hit 90F. This follows a whole month of June which was 5F hotter than the past average.

June 2019 was globally the hottest month ever measured.

Reportedly one wildfire in Spain started because a field of manure spontaneously combusted. With another few degrees of global heating this will happen frequently.

Alaska's Republican governor wants to cut 40% of the University of Alaska budget, and especially the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy.

The planet roasters know if they can starve climate research for 20 years, we will miss the chance to use it to avoid disaster.

Gaslighting

dimanche 7 juillet 2019 à 02:00

Don't stretch the term "gaslighting" too far — it will lose its useful meaning.

Census Question

dimanche 7 juillet 2019 à 02:00

The bully is still hunting for an excuse to add a citizenship question to the US census.

"In the real world, the fact that the executive branch plans to offer 'a new rationale' [for the citizenship census question] is proof it has been lying. In the legal world, however, this maneuver might yet succeed."

Given the evidence of its real purpose, any other supposed purpose must be another lie.

Immigrant Policy

dimanche 7 juillet 2019 à 02:00

Australia has a policy of making immigrant families leave if they have a baby that turns out to have an expensive disease.

Deforestation

dimanche 7 juillet 2019 à 02:00

A plague of forest-destroying monsters are rapidly converting the Amazon forest into a minimalist ecosystem of pasture, cattle, and soybeans.

I think the first decade of food shortage, a few decades from now, will look like this all around the world, as agribusiness pushes to compensate for loss of yield by pushing even marginal land into production.