Luckily Sir has become a "Whale Psychologist" and will guide our cetaceans to adapt to the windmill noise which Sir says sounds like mama whale bedtime lullabies to the whales. And OMG! All the dead flying fish!
It's sort of cute that you think that the rule of law means anything anymore. What Trump (and the religious bigots and oligarchs propping him up) wants, they will get. His courts will rule that he has divine right and only legislative action that supports what they want will be decreed "constitutional".
For Wonks on Instagram: my niece is doing a school project on climate anxiety. If you can give cca_anxietea a follow/ some interaction, I know she'd appreciate it very much! Mwah!
150 years of rising carbon pollution accumulation is now somehow an emergency because we are not even close to a world wide solution for reducing said accumulation. 4 years is not going to move the needle big picture What we need world wide is for people to wake the fuck up. Maybe these next 4 years will change some minds Not likely. But like Doc says we have momentum
WE have ourselves largely to blame. For decades we allowed AM jocks and televangelists to divide the population of the United States into two groups, "Conservatives" and "Liberals" with a hard line between the two which could not be crossed. That is such total bullshit that it goes beyond ridiculous..
In reality, most Americans agree on the vast majority of issues. You are hard pressed to find anyone who doesn't think the environment must be preserved above all else. that religious beliefs and medical treatments are deeply personal decisions and choices, which no government should be involved in, or that any group should be openly persecuted for race, gender, ethnicity, or sexual preference and that no one should be treated unfairly for any reason. The very core of being an American is a deep sense of "fairness"
Through lies and skillful manipulation, a small group of people is hijacking OUR country. They seek only to enrich themselves at the expense of everyone else. They have NO political ideology they follow save GREED. ALL of us, conservatives, liberals, libertarians, Republicans, Democrats EVERYBODY needs to accept this and realize that, at the core, we are all first and foremost AMERICANS, that we are the UNITED States not Red or Blue States. If we don't, we will go the way of Great Britain and become an inconsequential second rate, has been, world power. The War I spoke of earlier is not between left and right, but rather between real AMERICANS, of all political bent, and those who wish to destroy our outrageously successful political and economic system and replace it with what can best be described as a form of feudalism.
Three large houses around mine are already blazing full Christmas lights (no solar on their rooftops, either). This consumption is certainly a gnat's hair compared to crypto and A.I. thirst, but Nov. 8?
get regular panels, but also a smaller vanity set, scaled to match the size of donold's hardly arnoldpalmerian donger, & spellout fuck trump with those.
Even if humanity does everything in it's power to slow down carbon consumption in the next 5-10 years what about the massive wildfires? There's no way to project the full impact of millions of acres burning every year when we don't know how much is going to burn next summer, or the summer after that, or the summer after....
Honestly don't see how the US will stay united. The animosity on both sides is extreme. We don't share a set of common ethics, goals, or even simple interests. We don't agree on what problems we face let alone how they should be solved. We don't even live in the same reality anymore. Could your state make it as an independent nation? I doubt mine could.
I saw a few people talking about secession after the election. Ok, your state secedes now how does it defend itself from the United States of cHristian Nationalism and the biggest military the world has ever seen?
I still think that Trump will be too busy stealing every penny he can find while simultaneously being too lazy to accomplish most of the stuff he promised.
The MAGA cult will stick with Trump until millions of them suffer from his policies. So until we have damage at least as bad as the Bush recession, MAGA will not self destruct. And it will be reincarnated after Democrats repair most of the damage, as Clinton did after Reagan and Bush I, Obama did after Bush II, and Biden did after Trump. Just like the Moral Majority morphed into the Tea Party, which morphed into MAGA. The next reincarnation may call themselves National Socialist Party, or Christian Nationalist Party.
1. If Big business likes solar, wind and transmission efficiency projects that is no guarantee they will continue. Leopards do not care whose face they eat.
2. China has dramatically improved its pollution profile. Green saves big bucks, especially if you are a carbon energy importer.
3. India is currently going downhill fast A right wing theocratic government, surprise. Major cities are going '50s London fog. Perhaps they will get some raincoats out of it, or poor people will die. Until rich people die they probably won't change.
4. The US is rapidly moving towards desertification of the midwest. Industrial farming has for decades pushed erosion rates to pre-dustbowl levels. The major preventative practice is the use of Roundup/Roundup resistant crops. These leave benign ground cover in place and allow the crop to grow u through it. However, so far as I am aware it is mainly used for soybeans. US cattle eat more soybeans than US people. Do you remember which people eat a lot of soybeans? Yeah, China. Ask farmers what tariffs did for soybean exports. At any rate, The Roundup is pretty durable and washes down to the Gulf of Mexico. That is its own problem.
5. Water in the midwest is going to be a big problem also. The major aquifers are looking every bit as bad as Lake Mead, only you can't see them from the air. Water laws for the 19th and early 20th century are totally inadequate for the situation. Can you say "consolodation" of farms? Bye-bye family farmer.
Outside of the midwest the east coast, from Florida right up to Vermont has been subject to unusual flooding. West has been burning most summers for a while now, and snow pack and glaciers that feed rivers and in some cases municipal water supplies (sorry, Boulder) are dwindling.
Couple that with Rethugs deciding that putting new age robber barons in charge of fiscal policy and regulation is a great idea, what could go wrong this time? and we are looking at a repeat of the Great Depression. Hey, the Great Recession was cool, but they can do better... or worse.
So, Buy T bills, pay off your homes, hunker down, and encourage smart young women to get educated and involved. Smart young men may find out the hard way that following an idiot into war is vary bad for your health.
Ta, Dok. I'll take any good news and nice times I can get.
Dok, you’re saving my life with this! Looking forward to the second dose.
Luckily Sir has become a "Whale Psychologist" and will guide our cetaceans to adapt to the windmill noise which Sir says sounds like mama whale bedtime lullabies to the whales. And OMG! All the dead flying fish!
It's sort of cute that you think that the rule of law means anything anymore. What Trump (and the religious bigots and oligarchs propping him up) wants, they will get. His courts will rule that he has divine right and only legislative action that supports what they want will be decreed "constitutional".
Any vote not for Trump is suspected of demonic influence!!
For Wonks on Instagram: my niece is doing a school project on climate anxiety. If you can give cca_anxietea a follow/ some interaction, I know she'd appreciate it very much! Mwah!
I just did both.
150 years of rising carbon pollution accumulation is now somehow an emergency because we are not even close to a world wide solution for reducing said accumulation. 4 years is not going to move the needle big picture What we need world wide is for people to wake the fuck up. Maybe these next 4 years will change some minds Not likely. But like Doc says we have momentum
WE have ourselves largely to blame. For decades we allowed AM jocks and televangelists to divide the population of the United States into two groups, "Conservatives" and "Liberals" with a hard line between the two which could not be crossed. That is such total bullshit that it goes beyond ridiculous..
In reality, most Americans agree on the vast majority of issues. You are hard pressed to find anyone who doesn't think the environment must be preserved above all else. that religious beliefs and medical treatments are deeply personal decisions and choices, which no government should be involved in, or that any group should be openly persecuted for race, gender, ethnicity, or sexual preference and that no one should be treated unfairly for any reason. The very core of being an American is a deep sense of "fairness"
Through lies and skillful manipulation, a small group of people is hijacking OUR country. They seek only to enrich themselves at the expense of everyone else. They have NO political ideology they follow save GREED. ALL of us, conservatives, liberals, libertarians, Republicans, Democrats EVERYBODY needs to accept this and realize that, at the core, we are all first and foremost AMERICANS, that we are the UNITED States not Red or Blue States. If we don't, we will go the way of Great Britain and become an inconsequential second rate, has been, world power. The War I spoke of earlier is not between left and right, but rather between real AMERICANS, of all political bent, and those who wish to destroy our outrageously successful political and economic system and replace it with what can best be described as a form of feudalism.
Three large houses around mine are already blazing full Christmas lights (no solar on their rooftops, either). This consumption is certainly a gnat's hair compared to crypto and A.I. thirst, but Nov. 8?
I hope at least they are using LEDs
Can't wait until CA starts to burn more and we won't get any disaster relief funds because we voted blue. We'll just get a bunch of rakes. IF that.
Well if we didn't have to flush our toilets 12-13 times, think about how much extra water we'd have.
Omg I am going to haaaate these next 4 years.
Don't forget about that giant faucet. It takes a whole day to turn but I'm sure it'll help.
Thinking about getting solar panels on my roof. Can I get them to spell out "FUCK TRUMP"? Probably not. Roof isn't big enough.
Goddess, I wish I could get solar, but I have trees on the east and west sides of my property and my neighbor has one on my south side.
get regular panels, but also a smaller vanity set, scaled to match the size of donold's hardly arnoldpalmerian donger, & spellout fuck trump with those.
Here's hoping you find yourself a really innovative green energy contractor. :D
I like your thinking....
Even if humanity does everything in it's power to slow down carbon consumption in the next 5-10 years what about the massive wildfires? There's no way to project the full impact of millions of acres burning every year when we don't know how much is going to burn next summer, or the summer after that, or the summer after....
Most of the CO2 is coming from internal combustion engines. Smoke from wildfires has a much higher heavy particulate content.
(boatporm)
waterworld is the 90s movie villenueve should be remaking, not american psycho.
Honestly don't see how the US will stay united. The animosity on both sides is extreme. We don't share a set of common ethics, goals, or even simple interests. We don't agree on what problems we face let alone how they should be solved. We don't even live in the same reality anymore. Could your state make it as an independent nation? I doubt mine could.
We could give a try to a Truth and Reconciliation type of process, but the chuds think everything liberals stand for is "weak" "perverted," etc.
How do you talk to someone like that? You can't. And you're right: we don't even share objective reality.
I've never seen anything like it and it's very distressing.
How do you debate when one side deems anything they don't want as lies or fake news? There cannot be debate unless there is a common starting point.
I saw a few people talking about secession after the election. Ok, your state secedes now how does it defend itself from the United States of cHristian Nationalism and the biggest military the world has ever seen?
Hopefully not all of the military would go along with any such nonsense.
Climate change under Trump? Well, definitely not getting wetter, but the smell is probably HORRIBLE....
Not wetter except for flooding from hurricanes, severe thunderstorms, and sea level rise.
Oh, I meant like physically under the dude.
I still think that Trump will be too busy stealing every penny he can find while simultaneously being too lazy to accomplish most of the stuff he promised.
Take solace that he never did anything he said he was going to do like build a wall
And Muskrat is just as bad. Hopefully the Regime self destructs before it can do too much damage.🤞
The MAGA cult will stick with Trump until millions of them suffer from his policies. So until we have damage at least as bad as the Bush recession, MAGA will not self destruct. And it will be reincarnated after Democrats repair most of the damage, as Clinton did after Reagan and Bush I, Obama did after Bush II, and Biden did after Trump. Just like the Moral Majority morphed into the Tea Party, which morphed into MAGA. The next reincarnation may call themselves National Socialist Party, or Christian Nationalist Party.
And they'll always (ALWAYS) find a way to blame the Dems.
There are some problems for which no easy and peaceful solution exists no matter how much we wish otherwise.
We are NOT getting out of this easily. And obviously not with voting. We have too many hateful, stupid dunderheads among us.
He will blame it on his apprentices and fire them regularly. We have seen this show.
Some thoughts:
1. If Big business likes solar, wind and transmission efficiency projects that is no guarantee they will continue. Leopards do not care whose face they eat.
2. China has dramatically improved its pollution profile. Green saves big bucks, especially if you are a carbon energy importer.
3. India is currently going downhill fast A right wing theocratic government, surprise. Major cities are going '50s London fog. Perhaps they will get some raincoats out of it, or poor people will die. Until rich people die they probably won't change.
4. The US is rapidly moving towards desertification of the midwest. Industrial farming has for decades pushed erosion rates to pre-dustbowl levels. The major preventative practice is the use of Roundup/Roundup resistant crops. These leave benign ground cover in place and allow the crop to grow u through it. However, so far as I am aware it is mainly used for soybeans. US cattle eat more soybeans than US people. Do you remember which people eat a lot of soybeans? Yeah, China. Ask farmers what tariffs did for soybean exports. At any rate, The Roundup is pretty durable and washes down to the Gulf of Mexico. That is its own problem.
5. Water in the midwest is going to be a big problem also. The major aquifers are looking every bit as bad as Lake Mead, only you can't see them from the air. Water laws for the 19th and early 20th century are totally inadequate for the situation. Can you say "consolodation" of farms? Bye-bye family farmer.
Outside of the midwest the east coast, from Florida right up to Vermont has been subject to unusual flooding. West has been burning most summers for a while now, and snow pack and glaciers that feed rivers and in some cases municipal water supplies (sorry, Boulder) are dwindling.
Couple that with Rethugs deciding that putting new age robber barons in charge of fiscal policy and regulation is a great idea, what could go wrong this time? and we are looking at a repeat of the Great Depression. Hey, the Great Recession was cool, but they can do better... or worse.
So, Buy T bills, pay off your homes, hunker down, and encourage smart young women to get educated and involved. Smart young men may find out the hard way that following an idiot into war is vary bad for your health.