Sometimes I try to imagine what all of that responsibility FEELS like. For whatever it's worth I can't even begin to get close to what it must be like.
I'm having a good time lately trolling my coworkers about the lower gasoline prices.
"You're welcome."
"???"
"That's the president after I gave him your message thanking him for the current gas price. He says it's big of you to do so after blaming him when it was high."
I work with mostly good people. They aren't MAGA types except for one. All of their information comes from the mainstream and they have inherent bias anyway. I just tell them what the straight dope is and they accept it as best they allow themselves to. No one messes with me because I'm prepared and Wonkette has raised my snark game to expert level.
When the super volcano in Italy blows, it'll trigger a multi-year winter worldwide and global warming won't be a thing anymore! BOOM! Just like that -- our problems are all over!
I'm actually seriously into the idea of this kind of solution, create some form of "non toxic" nuclear/volcanic winter for a few years to get us back in line temperature wise after getting our emissions under control.
I'm actually also a super crazy SF nerd and I was solar sails that block out a percentage of the sun and use it to generate energy for orbital stardocks
There's an episode of a funny British show called The Fix. One of the episodes has climate as the problem being discussed and the winning answer is "volcanoes are yay!"
I have spent far too much time arguing with global warming 'skeptics' on the Intertubes -- mostly troglodytes who point and say "Al Gore, ha ha!", but occasionally somewhat more sophisticated ones. There's a small cottage industry that supports Brave Maverick Scientists (TM) who argue against the usual consensus.
There is one point that is still very uncertain, namely the magnitude (and possibly even the sign) of feedback effects that could add to the baseline warming. But it seems very unwise to me to "just assume" that these will be small.
"Brave Maverick Scientists" (TM) is a phrase often used by the great Orac, author of the Respectful Insolence blog, to describe antivaxx doctors and scientists. He is being, obviously, sarcastic.
My theory is this--ok, let's assume the Earth is not warming, or is not warming due to human action. So why shouldn't we curb the use of pollutants because we happen to breathe that air?
Or find more sustainable forms of energy so we aren't dependent on fossil fuel supply fluctuations?
While we're waiting for Uncle Joe to learn us, I can summarize and say Climate change: it's bad, bad, bad. Worse than we thought, happening fast, and things are happening now we thought we wouldn't see until the end of the century. End of everything bad, like if you don't have grandkids yet you probably don't want to.
The time is now to shift *every way we can* away from fossil fuels. There's only so much we can do w/ national/international policy but we can
- make a huge difference locally -- push for non-car transportation infrastructure, make sure your city council knows your name, be a pain in the ass at the state leg
- work those tax credits & get all the good solar & electrical shit that you can if you're a property owner
- spend local and eat local. No more Chilean blueberries in January (although they're sooooo goood).
- shoot for zero carbon/ zero waste; it may be using reusable bags & combining errands, avoiding single use packaging and heavily packaged items (looking at you, Trader Joes & Costco), planning vacations around domestic rail destinations, thrifting rather than buying new, reusing and repairing items, etc.
I wake up every day and say to myself, "not one more pound of carbon." Sometimes I manage it and sometimes I don't, but I figure if everyone's trying, it's ok that no one is perfect.
I talked to someone from Austria and their mass transit system is awesome. Trams, buses, trains , you name it. I would totally take trams if they were available.
amen. turn off the tap now, figure out how to live later. However bad life is tomorrow if we stop burning oil today, it will be 1000 times easier than if we wait for total collapse.
I swear, if I knew how to do crimes to the oil and gas infrastructure, I totally would, I just don't really know how.
There is a guy up north who I really want to join. He goes to methane wells, tests to see if they're leaking, documents it for the state & the EPA, and then illegally caps them. I think that's so fucking cool.
I think Dems should be involved - and insist the CR is not some silly stunt. In a 2-step process, which bills will get worked on first? Agriculture, Defense, Health and Human Services? I also love how The New Guy is fighting both US and his own RWNJs.
If Johnson needs Dem votes, the Dems should be open and proud about it--"sure, since Mike Johnson desperately begged us, like an obedient dog, for our votes, we will give them to him since he is agreeing to let us keep all the woke liberal spending in the CR...."
Make this politically painful for him, because he's an asshole, and his caucus can rot in hell. Make them fight.
I'm here for the paddling.
Some thoughts and info on climate change via https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph/ observational data on polar sea ice fields
https://substack.com/profile/157525103-hoovervilles/note/c-43635298?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2lsb5b
OT: But not, the National Academies are having a webinar on 11/16 on the Future of Fossil Fuels in a net-zero USA.
https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/41164_11-2023_climate-conversations-future-of-fossil-fuels?mc_cid=9db433fff4&mc_eid=6bde371a93
:::::::::: Brings snowball to Wonkette commentary ::::::::
OK Wonks! Explain THIS
it's been cold in the Mojave, which is a desert, so climate change is obviously a Chinese Hoax™ and also HAARP.
*Holds up 5TB of climate data*
Explain THIS!
Why is it yellow?
Ask Frank Zappa. And watch out where them huskies go.
Firesign reference?
"Will you sign the CR?"
Does it even exist yet?
How could there be frost this morning with global warming?
https://substack.com/profile/76665937-weejee/note/c-43635523?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=19n7td
I love me some Joe, but I think he sounds a bit like he has a cold...
He looks tired to me.
Sometimes I try to imagine what all of that responsibility FEELS like. For whatever it's worth I can't even begin to get close to what it must be like.
I tend to think it's all the BS that really turns their hair grey. But I guess handling BS falls under the responsibility column.
Follow his calendar and you will marvel at the man's stamina for his age. This is just today.
https://factba.se/biden/calendar
Jaysus.
I need a nap after just reading through his schedule!
Bookmarked!
You know why Trump never looks tired? Because he never works, especially when he was President. EXECUTIVE TIME!
Along with every other American in the Northeast. I think I've had one long cold since September.
My brother and sister in Cali are suffering, look out, it's spreading!
I haven't had a cold since Covid started. I like masks.
Same, but even with a mask, kids wiping their snot on you tends to creep in.
Way to go Joe! Standing there on the bully pulpit with WIND TURBINE rotating in the background works.
But don't get too close! Don't you know it causes cancer?
I'm having a good time lately trolling my coworkers about the lower gasoline prices.
"You're welcome."
"???"
"That's the president after I gave him your message thanking him for the current gas price. He says it's big of you to do so after blaming him when it was high."
"-_-"
Thank you.
I work with mostly good people. They aren't MAGA types except for one. All of their information comes from the mainstream and they have inherent bias anyway. I just tell them what the straight dope is and they accept it as best they allow themselves to. No one messes with me because I'm prepared and Wonkette has raised my snark game to expert level.
Thank you very much!
"Thank you, Brandon" needs to be our counter chant.
I like it. Thank you, Brando.
Biden is coughing - COVID!!!!!
Impeach!!!!!!!!!!!
yet another reminder that Biden is OLD!!!!!
He's clearly at death's door!
"I don't want to go on the cart."
Bring out yer dead!
When the super volcano in Italy blows, it'll trigger a multi-year winter worldwide and global warming won't be a thing anymore! BOOM! Just like that -- our problems are all over!
The volcano that volcanos were named after "Vulcano" is in Italy off the coast of Sicily. So your non-comment checks out.
Who needs crops for a couple of years?
Or Italy?
We'll be growing all our food hydroponically indoors because of climate issues anyway
My hydroponic supercorn will sustain the chosen!
The only chance the commoners have is to get a job picking the corn for the chosen 1%.
I'm actually seriously into the idea of this kind of solution, create some form of "non toxic" nuclear/volcanic winter for a few years to get us back in line temperature wise after getting our emissions under control.
Not trivial, the non-toxic bit.
But yeah, we could buy a few more years to get busy with net zero.
If I were governor of California I'd be giving serious thought to funding a major geo-engineering project.
I'm actually also a super crazy SF nerd and I was solar sails that block out a percentage of the sun and use it to generate energy for orbital stardocks
I liked the idea of a machine sat at the solar Lagrange point, making glass bubbles from space rocks.
It's the only geoengineering method we have actual historic data for.
There's an episode of a funny British show called The Fix. One of the episodes has climate as the problem being discussed and the winning answer is "volcanoes are yay!"
Prima la musica, poi i vulcani.
Lording it over us with their food! And fashion, and cars, and wine...
Can we wait till after the winter Olympics? I want to go to that.
Wait, if we're going to destroy a peninsula, Florida's right there.
I'll tell my family in Catania you send your best.
I have spent far too much time arguing with global warming 'skeptics' on the Intertubes -- mostly troglodytes who point and say "Al Gore, ha ha!", but occasionally somewhat more sophisticated ones. There's a small cottage industry that supports Brave Maverick Scientists (TM) who argue against the usual consensus.
There is one point that is still very uncertain, namely the magnitude (and possibly even the sign) of feedback effects that could add to the baseline warming. But it seems very unwise to me to "just assume" that these will be small.
BMS are a contradiction in terms, because science is fluid and consensus-based, not one egomaniac hammering their "truth" into tablets of stone.
"Brave Maverick Scientists" (TM) is a phrase often used by the great Orac, author of the Respectful Insolence blog, to describe antivaxx doctors and scientists. He is being, obviously, sarcastic.
My theory is this--ok, let's assume the Earth is not warming, or is not warming due to human action. So why shouldn't we curb the use of pollutants because we happen to breathe that air?
Or find more sustainable forms of energy so we aren't dependent on fossil fuel supply fluctuations?
While we're waiting for Uncle Joe to learn us, I can summarize and say Climate change: it's bad, bad, bad. Worse than we thought, happening fast, and things are happening now we thought we wouldn't see until the end of the century. End of everything bad, like if you don't have grandkids yet you probably don't want to.
The time is now to shift *every way we can* away from fossil fuels. There's only so much we can do w/ national/international policy but we can
- make a huge difference locally -- push for non-car transportation infrastructure, make sure your city council knows your name, be a pain in the ass at the state leg
- work those tax credits & get all the good solar & electrical shit that you can if you're a property owner
- spend local and eat local. No more Chilean blueberries in January (although they're sooooo goood).
- shoot for zero carbon/ zero waste; it may be using reusable bags & combining errands, avoiding single use packaging and heavily packaged items (looking at you, Trader Joes & Costco), planning vacations around domestic rail destinations, thrifting rather than buying new, reusing and repairing items, etc.
I wake up every day and say to myself, "not one more pound of carbon." Sometimes I manage it and sometimes I don't, but I figure if everyone's trying, it's ok that no one is perfect.
I talked to someone from Austria and their mass transit system is awesome. Trams, buses, trains , you name it. I would totally take trams if they were available.
amen. turn off the tap now, figure out how to live later. However bad life is tomorrow if we stop burning oil today, it will be 1000 times easier than if we wait for total collapse.
People just don't get it.
I swear, if I knew how to do crimes to the oil and gas infrastructure, I totally would, I just don't really know how.
There is a guy up north who I really want to join. He goes to methane wells, tests to see if they're leaking, documents it for the state & the EPA, and then illegally caps them. I think that's so fucking cool.
OT: POPCORN! GET YER POPCORN!
𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗚𝗢𝗣 𝗮𝗶𝗺𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗴𝗮𝗽 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4308234-house-gop-stopgap-funding-bill-live-coverage/
I think Dems should be involved - and insist the CR is not some silly stunt. In a 2-step process, which bills will get worked on first? Agriculture, Defense, Health and Human Services? I also love how The New Guy is fighting both US and his own RWNJs.
Best look for poison pills in that bill. The GQP would love to blame us for not swallowing the arsenic.
The Dems have been stroking Johnson.
Stroke this Johnson and send a 5-alarm warning to his son's phone. Umm, no.
Hey, that's my job!
-Boebert
Ew.
So the only way he can pass anything is with Democratic votes.
I think this is where I came in ...
Send in the clowns...
Don't bother, they're here.
If Johnson needs Dem votes, the Dems should be open and proud about it--"sure, since Mike Johnson desperately begged us, like an obedient dog, for our votes, we will give them to him since he is agreeing to let us keep all the woke liberal spending in the CR...."
Make this politically painful for him, because he's an asshole, and his caucus can rot in hell. Make them fight.
No, you say this just AFTER the vote. You don't want him pulling the CR and blaming it on Dems' "incivility".
Shocking!
Bye Shady Johnson!
Rapey McForehead readies his Speaker-seat vacating button again...
Look at that warm, beaming smile on Uncle Joe's face.
The man is incredibly proud of this young woman and America's young people at large. He is just a damned decent man.
Don't be fooled! The man has gills!
He's always been decent and that's why I lurve him.
Pix or it didn't happen.
"We Will Begin Shortly"
Don't call me Shortly.