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Methane capture makes sense, and it's not one of those get-rich-quick schemes that the wealthy are always promoting. I've already pencil-whipped a 30% reduction in CO2 emissions using current technology. Actions that benefit America now and in the future, like regenerative farming, coal to gas conversion, forest management, etc. Add methane capture and that's already a big step in the right direction. If done properly, it will help American production.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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False claims are obstructing climate action, say researchers
By Damian Carrington | Thu 19 Jun 2025 07.00 EDT
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/19/climate-misinforma
tion-turning-crisis-into-catastrophe-ipie-report
Rampant climate misinformation is turning the crisis into a catastrophe, according to the authors of a new report.
It found climate action was being obstructed and delayed by false and misleading information stemming from fossil fuel companies, rightwing politicians and some nation states. The report, from the International Panel on the Information Environment (Ipie), systematically reviewed 300 studies. https://www.ipie.info/research/sr2025-1
The researchers found climate denialism has evolved into campaigns focused on discrediting solutions, such as the false claims that renewable energy caused the recent massive blackout in Spain.
Online bots and trolls hugely amplify false narratives, the researchers say, playing a key role in promoting climate lies. The experts also report that political leaders, civil servants and regulatory agencies are increasingly being targeted in order to delay climate action.
Climate misinformation – the term used by the report for both deliberate and inadvertent falsehoods – is of increasing concern. Last Thursday, the UN special rapporteur on human rights and climate change, Elisa Morgera, called for misinformation and greenwashing by the fossil fuel industry to be criminalised.
Donald Trump, who has called climate science “a giant hoax” and “bullshit”, is identified as a key influencer, “whose logical fallacies, unfounded claims and cherrypicking of findings were heavily” reposted by other social media users, including many bot accounts.
Much more at https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/19/climate-misinforma
tion-turning-crisis-into-catastrophe-ipie-report
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:
False claims are obstructing climate action, say researchers
This is quickly becoming the only topic you have left to talk about.
How strong you feeling about this mattering to anyone if we start drilling and opening up the coal mines and letting that natural gas flow and prices for everything start dropping on top of all the other wins that have come our way?
I think that would make this just another 80/20 issue that you're on the wrong side of, buddy.
The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Thorium seemed good, you cant really make a bomb from it and more clean and 'Green' for the environment
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Quote:. Good in theory, but too many obstacles for material science so far. Thorium reactors would run as a molten salt, and would need a material that withstands molten salt but also passes neutrons.
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Thorium seemed good, you cant really make a bomb from it and more clean and 'Green' for the environment
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Eco-Hypocrites Take Hundreds Of Private Jets To Bezos Wedding
Saturday, Jun 28, 2025 - 08:40 AM
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,
Around a hundred private jets carrying celebrities have descended on Italy to deliver eco-hypocrites including Leonardo DiCaprio, Oprah Winfrey and Bill Gates to the wedding of tech billionaire Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez.
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Stalled Global Circulation Signals "Stout Heat Dome In July"
Sunday, Jun 29, 2025 - 06:55 AM
For readers waking up across the Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City metro areas, conditions remain gloomy with overcast skies and mild temperatures hovering in the mid-70s°F—quite a change from triple-digit heat that gripped the region earlier last week, straining power grids and sending electricity prices soaring.
However, a new outlook from private weather forecaster BAMWX warns that the heat dome may return in force next month.
"I would recommend none of us sleep on this trend ahead into next week, esp heading into Holiday markets," said BAMWX meteorologist Kirk Hinz.
Hinz noted, "Simply put - the global circulation/momentum has HALTED ... Translation - there will be a stout Heat Dome in July, question is just "where"...stay tuned."
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Heat Domes Are Hotter and Lingering Longer—Because of the Arctic
A rapidly warming Arctic is driving long-lasting summer extremes, such as this month’s sweltering temperatures, new research suggests
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/heat-domes-are-hotter-and-l
ingering-longer-because-of-the-arctic/
Not so new. The northern jet stream is driven by the temperature difference between the Arctic and the equator. Since the Arctic is undeniably warming, and warming much faster than the equator, the jet stream slows down, makes big loops, and stop precessing. This isn't a model, it's observation.
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Electric vehicle manufacturers need to revisit the days of the Model T
Jun 24, 2025
https://www.wired.com/story/this-is-why-high-end-electric-cars-are-fai
ling/
Legacy automakers are losing out to China, at least in those countries where Chinese EVs are sold. Which is most places except the US.
According to a new report from the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA), global EV sales will surpass 20 million in 2025, accounting for more than a quarter of cars sold worldwide. In the first three months of 2025, electric car sales worldwide were up 35 percent over the previous year. And, adds the IEA, market share is on course to exceed 40 percent by 2030 as EVs—smaller, cheaper ones, mainly—become increasingly affordable in more markets.
Almost half of all car sales in China last year were electric. Emerging markets in Asia and Latin America have also become new centers of growth, with total EV sales across these regions surging by more than 60 percent in 2024, according to the IEA. Meanwhile, EV sales grew by about 10 percent year-on-year in the US.
“Our data shows that, despite significant uncertainties, electric cars remain on a strong growth trajectory globally,” says IEA executive director Fatih Birol. “Sales continue to set new records, with major implications for the international auto industry. This year, we expect more than one in four cars sold worldwide to be electric, with growth accelerating in many emerging economies. By the end of this decade, it is set to be more than two in five.”
China accounts for more than 70 percent of global EV production.
Volkswagen’s luxury marques, including Porsche, Bentley, and Lamborghini, are reassessing their EV strategies. Porsche has scaled back plans for an all-electric lineup following a 49 percent decline in Taycan sales. Bentley has pushed back the launch of its first EV from this year to next, and extended its gas-engine phase-out deadline to 2035. Lamborghini has delayed its Lanzador EV until 2029 at the earliest.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump admin tries to kill the most indisputable evidence of human-caused climate change by shuttering observatory
By Andrew Freedman | Jul 1, 2025
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/01/climate/trump-cuts-mauna-loa-keeling
The president’s budget proposal would also defund many other climate labs, including instrument sites comprising the US government’s greenhouse gas monitoring network, which stretches from northern Alaska to the South Pole.
But it’s the Mauna Loa laboratory that is the most prominent target of the President Donald Trump’s climate ire, as measurements that began there in 1958 have steadily shown CO2’s upward march as human activities have emitted more and more of the planet-warming gas each year.
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Warming depletes Arctic soil's nitrogen stores, irreversibly increasing CO2 emissions
July 2, 2025
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-depletes-arctic-soil-nitrogen-irreversib
ly.html
Half of the world's carbon is stored in the frozen soils of the Arctic and subarctic regions, covering territories such as Greenland, Canada, Alaska, Scandinavia, Siberia and Iceland. Scientists were already aware that the microorganisms living in these ecosystems have become more active because of rising temperatures, consuming more carbon and releasing it into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide (CO2).
However, the study published recently in the journal Global Change Biology, led by CREAF and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) researcher Sara Marañón, has revealed that warming also depletes nitrogen in soils.
Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for plants: Without enough of it, they grow less, absorb less CO2, and are unable to offset carbon emissions from the soil, leading to an unforeseen, irreversible increase in the overall balance. Specifically, for every degree Celsius of warming, between 1.7% and 2.6% of the nitrogen in soil is lost, resulting, according to the study's data, in a proportional loss of carbon (in the form of CO2) into the atmosphere.
The team behind the study made this discovery through a decade-long experiment conducted in Iceland, a natural laboratory where geothermal activity produces soil temperatures ranging from 0.5°C to 40°C above ambient temperature, allowing direct observation of how heat affects high-latitude soils.
"We already knew that climate change was causing Arctic soils to release more CO2, but we thought at least some of the emissions would be offset by plant growth, which increases slightly with warming," says Marañón. "But our study shows that this isn't the case. Nitrogen is lost and soil fertility decreases, preventing Arctic ecosystems from offsetting microbial CO2 emissions."
Under normal circumstances, Marañón explains, microorganisms are more active in spring and summer. They consume nitrogen and transform it into ammonium and nitrates, compounds that plants take up for nourishment. But warming affects the synchrony of the process: the microorganisms become active in winter, when plants are still inactive due to a lack of light and do not yet need the nutrients the microorganisms provide, resulting in supply outpacing demand.
The upshot is that the transformed nitrogen goes unused and is lost. Some of it may filter into groundwater as nitrates, and can contaminate aquatic systems; another part of it may be released as nitrous oxide (N2O), a greenhouse gas nearly 300 times more potent than CO2. This, warns Marañón, is "a dangerous cocktail."
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The ‘Great Dying’ wiped out 90% of life, then came 5 million years of lethal heat. New fossils explain why
By Laura Paddison | July 2, 2025 at 5:02 AM CDT
https://www.yahoo.com/news/great-dying-wiped-90-life-090025845.html
There is a sliver of hope: The rainforests that currently carpet the tropics may be more resilient to high temperatures than those that existed before the Great Dying. This is the q
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Another story about the Arctic releasing billions of tons per year of CO2:
We Are Living in the Age of Fire. And It’s Only Going To Get Worse
By Stephen Maher | Jul 2, 2025
https://time.com/7299284/age-of-mega-wildfires-climate-change/
Mike Flannigan, who has been studying wildfires as long as Joe Gilchrist has been fighting them, is scared.
In 1985, Flannigan gave his first talk predicting that climate change would lead to bigger fires. Audiences were skeptical, but he was confident that he was right. In 1991, he published a paper in the Canadian Journal of Forest Research predicting a 46% increase in annual area burned when the amount of carbon in the atmosphere doubled from pre-industrial levels, which measured 280 parts per million (ppm).
In 1991, when the atmospheric carbon levels measured 355 ppm , 2.5 million acres burned in Canada. This year, the level of C02 is 427 ppm ten million acres burnt by July 1.
Flannigan’s models were far too conservative.
“We—the modelers—have done pretty well with getting the temperature increases, but the impacts from those temperature increases has been grossly underestimated,” he says
He finds that disquieting. “It's happening faster than I would have thought, and there may be surprises coming—not just for fire—but for climate change, surprises that catch us all off guard.”
“Fire is always where people are,” Flannigan continues. “It goes with us wherever we go. But the genie is out of the bottle. Fire is now uncontrollable, and we're going to see more and more fire and more and more catastrophic fire.”
Flannigan thinks we are living in the pyrocene, the age of fire, an idea from Arizona environmental historian Stephen J. Pyne. By burning so much coal and oil, we have changed the climate and can no longer control the processes.
Canada’s forests—which make up 8.5%of all global forest area—were once a crucial storehouse of carbon, but because of the fires they have been a net carbon emitter since 2001. The fires of 2023 released 647 million metric tons of carbon, more than the total annual emissions of South Korea that year.
The fires are so hot that they are burning off the top soil in some places, which means some land that was treed will come back as savannah—grasslands which do not store as much carbon.
And the news may get much worse. Many of the trees in northern Canada spring from permanently frozen peat bogs, which contain enormous quantities of carbon. As the climate warms, and that permafrost melts, it becomes susceptible to fire, posing a horrifying climate risk: massive, unfightable northern fires spewing huge quantities of carbon into the atmosphere, which could push Earth past a climate tipping point that once crossed will cause a spiral-effect of endless warming.
“It's not a steady state,” says Flannigan. “It's not normal. We're on a downward trajectory. Sometimes I say we’re in Dante's circle of hell. I don't know which circle we're on, but I know which way we're going.”
Only one thing might stop the terrifying processes that humans have set in motion.
“The bottom line, until we deal with greenhouse gasses, fossil-fuel burning, we're going to continue to warm and we're going to continue to see more fire.”
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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