' The truth - We will go extinct, very soon.'

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SECOND

Monday, June 3, 2019 6:31 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 1kiki:
The good news is we'll probably nuke ourselves before global warming really gets going.

We already nuked ourselves: As of 1993, worldwide, 520 atmospheric nuclear explosions (including 8 underwater) have been conducted with a total yield of 545 megaton (Mt): 217 Mt from fission and 328 Mt from fusion, while the estimated number of underground nuclear tests conducted in the period from 1957 to 1992 is 1,352 explosions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests

The key idea for not nuking yourself to death is to stop. It is the same key for global warming.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_denial Republicans are very prominent deniers, for some reason.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

REAVERFAN

Monday, June 3, 2019 8:01 PM

'So much land under so much water': extreme flooding is drowning parts of the midwest
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/03/so-much-land-under-so-
much-water-extreme-flooding-is-drowning-parts-of-the-midwest

Weeks of flooding is drowning large parts of the midwest, wrecking communities & turning farms into inland seas. On top of that, a near record number of tornadoes has whipped through the region, smashing homes & claiming nearly 40 lives so far. - the wettest 12 months in the US since records began.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, June 3, 2019 9:53 PM

Yeah. I've had just about enough of the rain myself.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

SECOND

Wednesday, June 5, 2019 11:44 PM

David Wallace-Wells’s new book, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, reads at once as an innovative look at manmade climate change and also as old news. As Wallace-Wells himself states at points, not much in his book is new. Even the scariest near-term predictions and assessments, like the possibility that “should the planet warm 3.7 degrees . . . climate change damages could total $551 trillion—nearly twice as much wealth as exists in the world today,” or that, at the upper end of temperature predictions for the end of this century, “humans at the equator and in the tropics would not be able to move around without dying,” have been accessible to the general public online or in academic articles. What is new is the candor of the narrative and relative impassivity with which Wallace-Wells, a career journalist, elucidates the distressing implications of the facts that he reports.

“For decades now,” he reports, "there have been few things with a worse reputation than “alarmism” among those studying climate change. For a concerned class, this was somewhat strange; you don’t typically hear from public health experts about the need for circumspection in describing the risks of carcinogens, for instance. James Hansen, who first testified before Congress about global warming in 1988, has named the phenomenon “scientific reticence,” and in 2007 chastised his colleagues for editing their own observations so conscientiously that they failed to communicate how dire the threat really was. That tendency has metastasized over time, ironically as the news from research grew bleaker, so that for a long time each major publication would be attended by a cloud of commentary debating its precise calibration of perspective and tone — with many of those articles seen to lack an even balance between bad news and optimism, and labeled “fatalistic.”

More at https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/eating-the-frog/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

REAVERFAN

Thursday, June 6, 2019 1:12 AM

Trump’s EPA Exempts Factory Farms From Reporting Harmful Emissions
https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/n...-from-reporting-harmful-emission
s-2019-06-04/

The Environmental Protection Agency published a rule today exempting huge factory farming operations from federal safety and transparency laws that require the reporting of hazardous substance releases.

Today’s rule creates a reporting loophole for industrial facilities with thousands of farm animals. These factory farms are known to release harmful airborne pollutants like ammonia and hydrogen sulfide that are linked to respiratory and other health problems.

“The Trump EPA’s deeply unjust exemption unlawfully hides information about factory farms’ noxious emissions from emergency workers and at-risk neighbors,” said Hannah Connor, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. “Instead of protecting people from these hazardous releases, Trump officials are shielding polluters and keeping the rest of us in the dark.”

The federal Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act requires facilities such as factory farms to report releases of hazardous substances like ammonia and hydrogen sulfide to state and local authorities. Those reports must be made available to the public.

The reporting requirements enable communities and emergency responders to protect themselves against harmful exposure to pollution. They also support the development of emergency-response and preparedness plans.

Ammonia and hydrogen sulfide are identified under federal law as extremely hazardous substances. These respiratory irritants can decrease lung function and cause severe headaches, nausea and eye and skin damage. Acute exposure can even lead to death.

Ammonia and hydrogen sulfide releases can also contaminate air, water and soil and harm wildlife.

REAVERFAN

Thursday, June 6, 2019 3:18 AM

COMPANIES EXPECT CLIMATE CHANGE TO COST THEM $1 TRILLION IN 5 YEARS
https://www.wired.com/story/companies-expect-climate-change-to-cost-th
em-one-trillion-dollars-in-5-years/

In January, climate change claimed its first corporate victim. Facing billions in liabilities after contributing to some of California’s deadliest and most devastating wildfires, PG&E filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. This spring, flooding in the Midwest ruined fields, grain silos, and infrastructure. The agriculture conglomerate Archer Daniels Midland reported that the floods would cost it between $50 and $60 million in the first quarter of the year.

The costs of a disturbed climate are becoming increasingly burdensome and apparent. In 2018 the US sustained $91 billion in damages from climate-related disasters, including tropical cyclones, severe storms, inland floods, droughts, and wildfires.

REAVERFAN

Thursday, June 6, 2019 3:25 AM

The Great Insect Dying: A global look at a deepening crisis
https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/the-great-insect-dying-a-global-look
-at-a-deepening-crisis/

Recent studies from Germany and Puerto Rico, and a global meta-study, all point to a serious, dramatic decline in insect abundance. Plummeting insect populations could deeply impact ecosystems and human civilization, as these tiny creatures form the base of the food chain, pollinate, dispose of waste, and enliven soils.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, June 6, 2019 5:14 AM

Germany and Puerto Rico are more than welcome to come over here and take all of the ants.

There's a billion more of them under my idiot neighbor's 3 feet of unmowed grass they can have too.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

JO753

Thursday, June 6, 2019 10:02 AM

Tried to save a small snapping turtle today. He wuz stalled on the side uv the street in front uv my house, dehydrated and barely alive. I took him to the lake and put him on a rock in shallow water so hiz noze wuz not under water.

Hope he revived.

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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early

http://www.7532020.com .

REAVERFAN

Friday, June 7, 2019 1:07 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by JO753:
Tried to save a small snapping turtle today. He wuz stalled on the side uv the street in front uv my house, dehydrated and barely alive. I took him to the lake and put him on a rock in shallow water so hiz noze wuz not under water.

Hope he revived.

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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early

http://www.7532020.com .

Good job.

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