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Date: March 24, 2025 at 23:08:15
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: odds and ends...literally... |
URL: https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/03/24/roaming-charges-schlock-and-chainsaw/ |
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+ Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: “The Defense Department doesn’t do climate change crap. We do training and warfighting.” The US military emits more than 59 million tons of carbon a year, a carbon footprint that’s larger than many industrialized nations.
+ Last year, atmospheric C02 levels reached an 800,000-year high, leading to at least 151 “unprecedented” extreme weather events in 2024.
+ The Trump administration plans to pull the plug on the Mauna Loa Observatory, one of the world’s most crucial monitoring stations for atmospheric CO2.
+ The global average increase of atmospheric CO2 concentration in 2024 not only set a record at 3.7%, but represented a 25% increase over the previous record.
+ According to an IPSOS poll, climate activism continues to decline even as concerns about climate change increase.
+ A new report by the Boston Consulting Group and Cambridge University (Too Hot to Think Straight, Too Cold to Panic) predicts that by 2100, 13 major climate tipping points will be reached:
Greenland ice sheet collapse (1.5C)
West Antarctic ice sheet collapse (1.5C)
Extinction of tropical coral reefs (1.5C)
Abrupt thawing of permafrost (1.5C)
Barents Sea ice loss (1.6C)
North Atlantic subpolar gyre collapse (1.8C)
Tibetan Plateau snowmelt (2.0C)
West African monsoon shift (2.8C)
East Antarctic subglacial basins collapse (3.0C)
Boreal forest southern dieback (4.0C)
Gulf Stream disruption (4.0C)
Boreal forest northern retreat (4.0C).
+ At the onset of tornado season in the center lanes of tornado alley, the National Weather Service will be without weather balloons. Maybe the Chinese could loan them a couple (as long as the Air Force promises not to shoot them down this time)…
+ A recent study on congestion pricing in NYC (The Short-Run Effect of Congestion Pricing in New York City) documents increased commuter speeds and decreased emissions. The study found “no significant difference between neighborhoods with different incomes.”
+ Bees pollinate 70% of the world’s crops, but their population has dropped by 40% in the U.S. alone since 2006.
+ The Department of Energy estimates AI data centers could consume up to 12% of total U.S. electricity by 2028, up from just 4.4% in 2023.
+ While South Africa continues to generate 82% of its electricity from fossil fuels (mainly coal), Kenya has made a radical transition. It now generates 88% of its electricity from geothermal, wind, hydro, biofuels, and solar.
+ Javier Blas, energy columnist at Bloomberg News: “A senior executive of an American oil company told me, ‘We thought that Chris Wright, the energy secretary, was “our guy,” someone from the industry. And here in Houston we just realized that Mr. Wright is Trump’s guy. He’s not our guy. He’s going to do what the White House is telling us to do. And if that means $50 oil and bankruptcies in the oil patch, so be it.’”
+ The deglaciation of Glacier National Park is nearly complete: “In 1850, the area that is now Glacier National Park had approximately 80 glaciers; as of 2015, there were 26—all shrinking. In the last decade, 13 of those have broken apart and can no longer technically be considered glaciers.”
+ Paul Hawkins: “When people say we’re going to “fix” the climate … to me, it’s just so emblematic of this profound disconnection between self and other. We don’t have a climate crisis; the climate cannot have a crisis. We are the crisis”.
+ The Chinese EV maker BYD announced this week that its new line of cars can be fully charged in about the same time it takes to refill a gas-engine vehicle at the pump. It takes about 8 hours to fully charge a Tesla at home and up to 30 minutes to fully charge a Tesla at a “super-charging” station on the road…if you can find one.
+ Sandeep Vaheesan, author of Democracy in Power: “China pursues an abundance of tech while the United States opts for an abundance of tech billionaires.”
+ Elon Musk is sending rockets to deliver (and return) scientists to a space station where the kind of experiments being done are similar to the ones his DOGE wrecking crews are defunding back on Earth.
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Date: March 26, 2025 at 07:54:42
From: chaskuchar@stcharlesmo, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: odds and ends...literally... |
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lol. especially about the weather balloons
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Date: March 28, 2025 at 15:01:48
From: ao, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: odds and ends...literally... |
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Gee, Charlie, doesn’t all that depress the hell out of you? Especially since
you advocated for all of this.. don’t you feel anything?
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Date: March 28, 2025 at 16:47:46
From: chaskuchar@stcharlesmo, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: odds and ends...literally... |
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i only advocate following the ten commandments. if a
custom complies with the laws, its ok with me. hope you
agrfee.
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Date: March 28, 2025 at 20:28:05
From: ao, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: odds and ends...literally... |
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I agree that you advocate for your interpretation of.. and your interpretation
suits you.
It seems to me beliefs are limitations.. the greater we give form to them the
smaller their universe. Which is, itself, a testament to the power of our minds..
to enslave.. and liberate. I hope yours serve you well.
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Date: March 26, 2025 at 11:50:49
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: odds and ends...literally... |
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hmmm...not sure what you found funny there other than the balloon comment...the rest of it is prety depressing imo...
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