The awareness of climate change and its contributors is building. We are not yet at a tipping point but it is coming. Likely, the tipping point will be in the cost of adaptation--unfortunately a reactive approach. A +5C degree world now seems to be on the near time horizon. That will mean food shortages and the need to adapt to a diet for a hotter planet. It will mean the inability to insure a home against storms or wildfires and a collapse of the housing market. It will also strike with more pandemics with having to avoid other humans. You covered it well in Last Hours.
Here in Baghdad By the Sea, even the Republicans monitor sea rise, the temperature of the Gulfstream, as well as hurricane frequency. We have had an insurance crisis as long as I have lived here that applies not only to the cost of home owners' insurance, but other lines, even automobile coverage, while our legislature and our current governor are in complete denial.
As El Tipo DeSantis signed a bill that deleted mention of climate change from state law, he did when most of South Florida faced record high temperatures.
" Dangerous heat levels are becoming routine in Florida as state leaders look the other way and do little to combat global warming.
“The heat index rose as high as 109 degrees Fahrenheit in Fort Lauderdale, 107 degrees in Hollywood and Kendall, 105 degrees in Key West and Opa-locka, and 104 degrees in Miami,” WSVN-TV reported."
Although Republican lives may be at risk here in Baghdad By the Sea, they don't blame actors like BIG OIL and give the Fascist Republican state goverfnment a pass.
Try as he might to play the Flawriduh version of King Canute in denial of rising sea levels, salinization and increased temperature. According to scientific data on heat increase, at the current 2 degrees C Florida will have 189 days of heat above 100F by 2050.
The tipping point Dr Doug was 350 ppm, it is now 425 ppm of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the damage done is irreversible, and yet we keep adding more. the latest estimate is we have until 2054, but estimates keep getting revised downward.
Climate migration is already a river and it will become a flood, overpowering the ability of nation states to not only hold it back, but to absorb the populations and that means starvation, violence, cultural and social decay..
Gaia is doing her thing but constantly inventing virus to throw at us.
We are headed fast towards +5C. The IPCC models are starting to capture the faster inflection. At that temp we are close to massive methane release and the potential of +10C by 2100. That would mean a population decline of mammals around 90% or more. No EV will solve that.
At 5ºC, the biosphere that humans rely upon for survival, will have already collapsed, faltering at 3ºC, and in full collapse at 4ºC. Without a functioning biosphere, humanity will not survive.
Author Jeff Goodell of the NYT premised his book “The Heat Will Kill You First” and Wallace-Wells author of the “Uninhabititle Earth” model to a large degree on a forseeable 4 degree Fahrenheit increase by 2100 as “catastrophic”
4°C temperature rise could shrink the global GDP by over 30%, more than double the economic impact of the Great Depression.
Climate damage could cost the global economy $551 trillion—nearly twice the wealth of the entire world today.
By 2050, 35% of the global population could be exposed to deadly heatwaves annually, compared to just 1% today.
In a 2°C (3.6 degree Fahrenheit) warmer world, regions in the Middle East and South Asia may experience heat levels beyond human survivability for over 500 million people.
Another excellent commentary. Just a quick append: A direct line can be drawn between Fox News' Trump propaganda and Rupert Murdoch's fossil fuel holdings. Since there’s no question about the causal link between FF and climate disaster, or big oil’s coverup of that link, look to SCOTUS to vastly re-write product liability law. Four of the six partisan federalists on the bench come from FF wealth, or are currently supported by it.
We’ve certainly passed the tipping point trajectory propelling the planet into devastating consequences. The great dumbing down is an airborne contagion.
It just dawned on me Philip. Is the human race worth saving and preserving? Really.
Yes we who care will do down with the ship, but think of it, all the religious fanatacism, ideological insanity, power and greed hunger, the autocracies, the fascists, the totalitarians, the oil company executives the investors, the billionaires who have brought this upon themselves, they are the instruments of their own demise.
We humans had our chance and we fucked it up.
Musk is in a hurry to get to Mars,only the dumb as bag of rocks fuck, doesn't realize that man cannot colonize, much less terraform Mars. The limitation is it's .38 earth gravity.
It's inability to hold water to it's surface, except as ice at the poles and subsurface, and thus inability to grow food, especially carbohydrates and protein.
Musk is an autistic asshole, who lives in his own mind, a mind fashioned by NAZI sci fi literature.
The neuro link is as stupid as his Occupy Mars obsession. Neither will ever happen. Maybe he can convince some stupid wealthy, or get Trump's regime to pass a law that legalizes involuntary implants in prisoners.
Elon's Dad a NAZI sympathizer was a fan of Wernher von Braun, and hi1953 book "Mars Project" by famous rocket scientist Werner Von Braun says the leader of Mars shall be called "Elon"
There‘s a darkly funny anecdote from “Operation Paper Clip“ by Annie Jacobson where she writes about Von Braun‘s linkage to Nazi slave labor and war crimes and his coming to America to advance our rocket technology.
In any case Von Braun is holding this major press conference to announce his effort to launch a rocket that will go into earth orbit. A reporter rose and asked if Von Braun could assure the viewing audience that the rocket would not hit London.
Operation Paperclip, is a bete noir to many on the left, especially those of the Jewish persuasion.
I don't feel the same, Were it not for von Braun and the rest of the scientists, we would be under the Soviet Heel.
No thank you. and besides I doubt that von Braun and his scientists were real NAZI's, in the ideological sense. In a totalitarian society one must belong to the party to get a job, or get ahead. Scientists, except social scientists and political scientists, but the physical scientists are generally non political. Even in America there are scientists that don't pay attention to politics ore even current affairs. My son and granddaughter are both scientists and politics is the last thing on their mind.
I had a break through with my son over Christmas, we usually don't talk politics, but he did say this is 1933.
I guess showing up for work every day to make the weapons that would destroy London and bring victory for Hitler was just another day at the office. You know science, there is no moral consideration, just the work…
The problem with going subterranean is that humans require great quantities of carbs and proteins, and they require sunlight, we also require manufacturing and that means industry if for nothing else than to replace and repair the parts that we need to run our subterranean society.
Now we have really tread into HG Wells territory, the Morlocks (Murdochs) and the Eloi.
Apparently, he was named for a character in a novel written by Von Braun. In his onlt novel Von Braun has the Mars colony as appraently a Nazi Fourth Reich underground society.
Does good exist without evil? I guess this life’s opportunity requires the ying and yang for the full immersive experience. But so much human induced suffering, seriously? The meter is moving to the undeserving.
From the aspect of the leopards cubs, the mother is good when she drags back an antelope to eat, from the aspect of he antelope the leopard is evil.
from the aspect of an eagle she is good when she brings a chihuahua into the nest for her eaglets to eat, from the aspect of the chihuahua and its human owner the eagle is evil.
From the aspect of the Gazan, HAMAS was good and heroic on Oct 7th, from the aspect of the Israeli's HAMAS is evil.
And so it goes, choose your situation.;
Are good and evil absolute. Certainly not, it all depends on whose ox is being gored.
Yes, very much so. I love, cherish and am in constant awe of this opportunity to sense and make sense of everything. It’s so much an individual journey and challenge to recognize and evaluate how well one can do what’s right. I often reflect that if I were to attempt to design an environment for where intelligence can mature, the Earth is everything and more. I really like being able to imagine how it is, like you say, from other perspectives.
"Will Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman or California Attorney General Rob Bonta have the courage to hold these companies and/or their executives accountable for the lies and deceptions they’ve funded that this week are killing Angelinos?"
Thom, I've posted some of this previously. California and 11 other states are in litigation with BIG OIL alleging:
*Oil and gas executives have known for decades about the dangers of the fossil fuels they produce.
*Industry-funded reports directly linked fossil fuel consumption to rising global temperatures and damage to our air, land, and water.
*Oil companies intentionally suppressed that information from the public and policymakers to protect their profits, and spent billions of dollars to spread disinformation on climate change and delay our transition away from fossil fuels.
*Oil companies used this information for their own profits, developing new technology to explore the Arctic for oil production because they knew Arctic sea ice was melting.
*The deception continues today: Oil companies promote fossil fuel products as “clean” or “green” or “low-emissions” that still produce carbon pollution, and they tout their renewable fuel products that actually make up a fraction of a percent of their earnings.
The Defendants include the American Petroleum Insitute and Exxon, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and BP.
I'm sure that if criminal actions are brought, the defendants will assert the "act of God" defense.
OPEC policy has been to maximize the use of fossil fuels and our "allies" the Saudis own numbers of US assets and that includes interests in companies like the defendant Exxon. The high price of fossil fuels has financed undermining our economy and supports proxy wars against the USA and our allies since 1973.
What's the connection between Global Warming, the Los Angeles fires, Clarence Thomas luxury trips and Trump's nominee for EPA? Money!
- MAGA Supreme Court justices cripple the EPA’s fight against Global Warming
- Lee Zeldin, Trump's nominee for the EPA vows to "roll back regulations"
- Doug Burgum, Trump's billionaire nominee for Dept. of Interior vows to have more oil drilling on public lands.
Who profits and who suffers from weather disasters caused by Global Warming? Who are Trump's nominees who have vowed to roll back regulations against oil firms? Who has promised more drilling on public lands? Who are the Global Warming profiteers that donated to Trump and Republicans?
Your quote: ""Americans are dying because these paid-off shills have either failed to act or actively blocked any meaningful change in our nation’s climate policy. They have blood on their hands, with more to come as every year brings more severe floods, storms, and drought. We can no longer tolerate this morally criminal level of political malpractice, particularly since there is still time to act. And we must move quickly."
Perhaps one more to consider is the game to buy votes and purchase Greenland. Many of the ice projects cataloging increases in CO2 are done at Danish polar research institutions. https://polarportal.dk/en/home/.
For example, much our knowledge of the pre-human levels of CO2 comes from ice core analysis done at these institutes. If Greenland becomes part of the U.S., suppressing all this research would be very "convenient" until the ice is melted. Someone needs to connect the dots on this one!
Everything you say here is true, yet the same people who believe oil executives should be prosecuted voted for a felon who has promised to drill baby drill and dismantle the “green new scam”. Oil execs are surely amoral but the real problem is us-the collective we that blamed Biden and the Dems for high gas prices and “voted the bums out” because they’re pissed off about it. The collective we that are unwilling to suffer some inconvenience in their lives so that our planet, the only one we have, can continue to support human life. An inconvenient truth!
As with most impending disaster, I think we will stand and watch, then pickup the pieces. We will have a major reset of humanity on this planet. Gaia will prevail and people will go along for the ride in geologic time.
It is rare that I see mention of the primary agent for fossil fuel pollution - the late Henry Ford.
Ford was the Elon Musk of his era. Ford was an automotive entrepreneur who conspired with J.D. Rockefeller to put competing electric cars & trollies out of business by providing convenient access to fossil fuel for combustion automobiles and busses. Standard Oil Gas stations started popping up along US highways and street corners. Soon cities were ripping up their trolley tracks and buying diesel-fume-belching buses promoted as making it easier to change routes even though most trollies ran down main streets.
Like Musk, Ford was not just a ruthless businessman, he was also a hateful racist and pro-Nazi fascist.
Ignorant of American history perhaps, Musk failed to follow Ford’s example to convince the gas station industry to install EV chargers. Or maybe he tried and they refused. In any event, he convinced the Biden administration to subsidize installing public chargers to help promote his business interests.
When Biden's senility made it clear that Trump was likely to win in 2024, Musk quickly transformed from Green liberal to the Red MAGA co-president. DOGE will facilitate keeping or even increasing regulations affecting the gas auto industry. It will also enable cutting the regulation of EVs while locking in more federal loans and subsidies for his business expansion.
It is a profound example of self centeredness, when making money, knowing it will ultimately kill millions and actually make the earth uninhabitable.
Where does all this extreme indifference to lives go ?
It will ultimately kill the earths population.
It breeds the hate and intolerance that fuels wars .
The hate is about asking the Oil companies to stand down and let people live. It’s about giving up money made upon the destruction of our beautiful world.
It’s also about the hell people will go through as the world deteriorates at the hands of oil companies, whose militant ignorance allows them to justify their money over people’s lives.
Who else benefits from this tragedy .
Evil benefits. Love is gone , people too busy putting out the fires that the Oil and Gas corporations started with full knowledge of the ultimate end .
The Native Americans are right.
We are the stewards of Gods gift to us.
We are squandering it. It’s full out insanity. At the same time it requires us to look at reality and fight to correct it.
Polluter payer principle! Bring them to court. But… with that deranged fascist trump and his corrupted maga lot entering the white house soon, it’s gonna be complicated. Didn’t he brag loud and clear: drill baby drill? What a convicted felon and moron!
Also the tobacco pushers are legal drug dealers for individuals. The petroleum ones are...well, the way I imagine countries fighting over oil is as though they are junkies battling for a needle full of poison. Incidentally there is nothing new here. A century ago the oil companies were clearly warned that putting lead into gasoline would mess up the brains and nervous systems of those exposed to its fumes. Their response was to lie, fudge the data and when finally caught in the 1970s try to threaten and bribe their way out of making changes.
Perhaps certain businesses attract people without consciences. Like the bright young recruiter at DoD who I chatted with when considering a civilian job there and had questions about it. He said, "Why do you care how your work is used? You're not the one dropping the bombs." These oil people seem no different at all...except that the ecological bell will toll for them and their children too.
Great researched article on climate change and how scientist, including Edward Teller in 1959 warning us of the consequences. From the article below:
"............In November, 1959, the famous scientist Edward Teller — the “Father of the H-Bomb” — was the keynote speaker at a conference on “The Energy of the Future” in New York, organized by the American Petroleum Institute and the Columbia Graduate School of Business. The news he conveyed to the assembled oil industry executives was stark:
“Whenever you burn conventional fuel, you create carbon dioxide. ... The carbon dioxide is invisible, it is transparent, you can’t smell it, it is not dangerous to health, so why should one worry about it? Carbon dioxide has a strange property. It transmits visible light but it absorbs the infrared radiation which is emitted from the earth. Its presence in the atmosphere causes a greenhouse effect ...
“It has been calculated that a temperature rise corresponding to a 10 per cent increase in carbon dioxide will be sufficient to melt the icecap and submerge New York. All the coastal cities would be covered, and since a considerable percentage of the human race lives in coastal regions, I think that this chemical contamination is more serious than most people tend to believe.”
The media is not able to call out deception of any kind that makes their security in the political regime of the upcoming future as they see it with Drump and crew. However, authority comes from God so nothing is sure in the world as they think of it based on their unbelief. That is going to change dramatically this year. Soon the mystery of the cosmos is going to insert itself in the minds of the majority if not all. God is going to make himself known. The future of Drump and crew hangs on nothing and will end in such a complete form history will record that its fall will be remembered for its complete disappearance more than anything else. Praise God from whom all blessing flow.
The awareness of climate change and its contributors is building. We are not yet at a tipping point but it is coming. Likely, the tipping point will be in the cost of adaptation--unfortunately a reactive approach. A +5C degree world now seems to be on the near time horizon. That will mean food shortages and the need to adapt to a diet for a hotter planet. It will mean the inability to insure a home against storms or wildfires and a collapse of the housing market. It will also strike with more pandemics with having to avoid other humans. You covered it well in Last Hours.
Here in Baghdad By the Sea, even the Republicans monitor sea rise, the temperature of the Gulfstream, as well as hurricane frequency. We have had an insurance crisis as long as I have lived here that applies not only to the cost of home owners' insurance, but other lines, even automobile coverage, while our legislature and our current governor are in complete denial.
As El Tipo DeSantis signed a bill that deleted mention of climate change from state law, he did when most of South Florida faced record high temperatures.
" Dangerous heat levels are becoming routine in Florida as state leaders look the other way and do little to combat global warming.
“The heat index rose as high as 109 degrees Fahrenheit in Fort Lauderdale, 107 degrees in Hollywood and Kendall, 105 degrees in Key West and Opa-locka, and 104 degrees in Miami,” WSVN-TV reported."
Although Republican lives may be at risk here in Baghdad By the Sea, they don't blame actors like BIG OIL and give the Fascist Republican state goverfnment a pass.
We used to think that atomic bombs were the major danger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUfUAnqRJTQ
Try as he might to play the Flawriduh version of King Canute in denial of rising sea levels, salinization and increased temperature. According to scientific data on heat increase, at the current 2 degrees C Florida will have 189 days of heat above 100F by 2050.
The tipping point Dr Doug was 350 ppm, it is now 425 ppm of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the damage done is irreversible, and yet we keep adding more. the latest estimate is we have until 2054, but estimates keep getting revised downward.
Climate migration is already a river and it will become a flood, overpowering the ability of nation states to not only hold it back, but to absorb the populations and that means starvation, violence, cultural and social decay..
Gaia is doing her thing but constantly inventing virus to throw at us.
We are headed fast towards +5C. The IPCC models are starting to capture the faster inflection. At that temp we are close to massive methane release and the potential of +10C by 2100. That would mean a population decline of mammals around 90% or more. No EV will solve that.
At 5ºC, the biosphere that humans rely upon for survival, will have already collapsed, faltering at 3ºC, and in full collapse at 4ºC. Without a functioning biosphere, humanity will not survive.
And then there is the AMOC, we are only 32 years out from the sci fi film The Day After Tomorrow becoming reality https://rickylanusse.substack.com/p/are-we-only-32-years-away-from-the
Author Jeff Goodell of the NYT premised his book “The Heat Will Kill You First” and Wallace-Wells author of the “Uninhabititle Earth” model to a large degree on a forseeable 4 degree Fahrenheit increase by 2100 as “catastrophic”
4°C temperature rise could shrink the global GDP by over 30%, more than double the economic impact of the Great Depression.
Climate damage could cost the global economy $551 trillion—nearly twice the wealth of the entire world today.
By 2050, 35% of the global population could be exposed to deadly heatwaves annually, compared to just 1% today.
In a 2°C (3.6 degree Fahrenheit) warmer world, regions in the Middle East and South Asia may experience heat levels beyond human survivability for over 500 million people.
Another excellent commentary. Just a quick append: A direct line can be drawn between Fox News' Trump propaganda and Rupert Murdoch's fossil fuel holdings. Since there’s no question about the causal link between FF and climate disaster, or big oil’s coverup of that link, look to SCOTUS to vastly re-write product liability law. Four of the six partisan federalists on the bench come from FF wealth, or are currently supported by it.
We’ve certainly passed the tipping point trajectory propelling the planet into devastating consequences. The great dumbing down is an airborne contagion.
It just dawned on me Philip. Is the human race worth saving and preserving? Really.
Yes we who care will do down with the ship, but think of it, all the religious fanatacism, ideological insanity, power and greed hunger, the autocracies, the fascists, the totalitarians, the oil company executives the investors, the billionaires who have brought this upon themselves, they are the instruments of their own demise.
We humans had our chance and we fucked it up.
Musk is in a hurry to get to Mars,only the dumb as bag of rocks fuck, doesn't realize that man cannot colonize, much less terraform Mars. The limitation is it's .38 earth gravity.
It's inability to hold water to it's surface, except as ice at the poles and subsurface, and thus inability to grow food, especially carbohydrates and protein.
Musk is an autistic asshole, who lives in his own mind, a mind fashioned by NAZI sci fi literature.
Lest we forget Musk’s “Neurolink” venture that seeks to put microchips into people’s brains.
This from a 2022 Harper’s Mag Index:
Portion of monkeys implanted with Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain chips between 2017 and 2020 that have died : 7/10
May 2022 • Source: Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (Washington)
The neuro link is as stupid as his Occupy Mars obsession. Neither will ever happen. Maybe he can convince some stupid wealthy, or get Trump's regime to pass a law that legalizes involuntary implants in prisoners.
Elon's Dad a NAZI sympathizer was a fan of Wernher von Braun, and hi1953 book "Mars Project" by famous rocket scientist Werner Von Braun says the leader of Mars shall be called "Elon"
There‘s a darkly funny anecdote from “Operation Paper Clip“ by Annie Jacobson where she writes about Von Braun‘s linkage to Nazi slave labor and war crimes and his coming to America to advance our rocket technology.
In any case Von Braun is holding this major press conference to announce his effort to launch a rocket that will go into earth orbit. A reporter rose and asked if Von Braun could assure the viewing audience that the rocket would not hit London.
Operation Paperclip, is a bete noir to many on the left, especially those of the Jewish persuasion.
I don't feel the same, Were it not for von Braun and the rest of the scientists, we would be under the Soviet Heel.
No thank you. and besides I doubt that von Braun and his scientists were real NAZI's, in the ideological sense. In a totalitarian society one must belong to the party to get a job, or get ahead. Scientists, except social scientists and political scientists, but the physical scientists are generally non political. Even in America there are scientists that don't pay attention to politics ore even current affairs. My son and granddaughter are both scientists and politics is the last thing on their mind.
I had a break through with my son over Christmas, we usually don't talk politics, but he did say this is 1933.
I guess showing up for work every day to make the weapons that would destroy London and bring victory for Hitler was just another day at the office. You know science, there is no moral consideration, just the work…
He also owns the Boring Company. Had plans for huperloops, an inderground existence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw6rsBZoa9g
Reminds me of HG Wells.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGxjIBEZvx0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9fuNWGrX4U
Maybe we can go subterranean. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGxjIBEZvx0
The problem with going subterranean is that humans require great quantities of carbs and proteins, and they require sunlight, we also require manufacturing and that means industry if for nothing else than to replace and repair the parts that we need to run our subterranean society.
Now we have really tread into HG Wells territory, the Morlocks (Murdochs) and the Eloi.
Apparently, he was named for a character in a novel written by Von Braun. In his onlt novel Von Braun has the Mars colony as appraently a Nazi Fourth Reich underground society.
As I type, I am watching a program re DOGE, which is a Musk controlled crypto currency that happens tp have the same name as Trump's commission. https://www.tipranks.com/news/dogecoin-gears-for-big-comeback-after-sitting-in-the-shadows
musk exising government contracts. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musks-ties-trump-pose-110005858.html
Does good exist without evil? I guess this life’s opportunity requires the ying and yang for the full immersive experience. But so much human induced suffering, seriously? The meter is moving to the undeserving.
Phillip, Good and evil are subjective.
From the aspect of the leopards cubs, the mother is good when she drags back an antelope to eat, from the aspect of he antelope the leopard is evil.
from the aspect of an eagle she is good when she brings a chihuahua into the nest for her eaglets to eat, from the aspect of the chihuahua and its human owner the eagle is evil.
From the aspect of the Gazan, HAMAS was good and heroic on Oct 7th, from the aspect of the Israeli's HAMAS is evil.
And so it goes, choose your situation.;
Are good and evil absolute. Certainly not, it all depends on whose ox is being gored.
Yes, very much so. I love, cherish and am in constant awe of this opportunity to sense and make sense of everything. It’s so much an individual journey and challenge to recognize and evaluate how well one can do what’s right. I often reflect that if I were to attempt to design an environment for where intelligence can mature, the Earth is everything and more. I really like being able to imagine how it is, like you say, from other perspectives.
"Will Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman or California Attorney General Rob Bonta have the courage to hold these companies and/or their executives accountable for the lies and deceptions they’ve funded that this week are killing Angelinos?"
Thom, I've posted some of this previously. California and 11 other states are in litigation with BIG OIL alleging:
*Oil and gas executives have known for decades about the dangers of the fossil fuels they produce.
*Industry-funded reports directly linked fossil fuel consumption to rising global temperatures and damage to our air, land, and water.
*Oil companies intentionally suppressed that information from the public and policymakers to protect their profits, and spent billions of dollars to spread disinformation on climate change and delay our transition away from fossil fuels.
*Oil companies used this information for their own profits, developing new technology to explore the Arctic for oil production because they knew Arctic sea ice was melting.
*The deception continues today: Oil companies promote fossil fuel products as “clean” or “green” or “low-emissions” that still produce carbon pollution, and they tout their renewable fuel products that actually make up a fraction of a percent of their earnings.
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/09/16/people-of-the-state-of-california-v-big-oil/
The Defendants include the American Petroleum Insitute and Exxon, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and BP.
I'm sure that if criminal actions are brought, the defendants will assert the "act of God" defense.
OPEC policy has been to maximize the use of fossil fuels and our "allies" the Saudis own numbers of US assets and that includes interests in companies like the defendant Exxon. The high price of fossil fuels has financed undermining our economy and supports proxy wars against the USA and our allies since 1973.
Thom: I quoted you in this blog / infographic this morning.
GLOBAL WARMING profiteers hide during Los Angeles fire tragedy
https://thedemlabs.org/2025/01/10/global-warming-profiteers-hide-during-los-angeles-fire-tragedy/
What's the connection between Global Warming, the Los Angeles fires, Clarence Thomas luxury trips and Trump's nominee for EPA? Money!
- MAGA Supreme Court justices cripple the EPA’s fight against Global Warming
- Lee Zeldin, Trump's nominee for the EPA vows to "roll back regulations"
- Doug Burgum, Trump's billionaire nominee for Dept. of Interior vows to have more oil drilling on public lands.
Who profits and who suffers from weather disasters caused by Global Warming? Who are Trump's nominees who have vowed to roll back regulations against oil firms? Who has promised more drilling on public lands? Who are the Global Warming profiteers that donated to Trump and Republicans?
Your quote: ""Americans are dying because these paid-off shills have either failed to act or actively blocked any meaningful change in our nation’s climate policy. They have blood on their hands, with more to come as every year brings more severe floods, storms, and drought. We can no longer tolerate this morally criminal level of political malpractice, particularly since there is still time to act. And we must move quickly."
Perhaps one more to consider is the game to buy votes and purchase Greenland. Many of the ice projects cataloging increases in CO2 are done at Danish polar research institutions. https://polarportal.dk/en/home/.
For example, much our knowledge of the pre-human levels of CO2 comes from ice core analysis done at these institutes. If Greenland becomes part of the U.S., suppressing all this research would be very "convenient" until the ice is melted. Someone needs to connect the dots on this one!
Did any oil executives show up at Jimmy Carter's funeral? How about George H. W. Bush's funeral? Probably a "no" and a "yes" in that order.
Everything you say here is true, yet the same people who believe oil executives should be prosecuted voted for a felon who has promised to drill baby drill and dismantle the “green new scam”. Oil execs are surely amoral but the real problem is us-the collective we that blamed Biden and the Dems for high gas prices and “voted the bums out” because they’re pissed off about it. The collective we that are unwilling to suffer some inconvenience in their lives so that our planet, the only one we have, can continue to support human life. An inconvenient truth!
As with most impending disaster, I think we will stand and watch, then pickup the pieces. We will have a major reset of humanity on this planet. Gaia will prevail and people will go along for the ride in geologic time.
It is rare that I see mention of the primary agent for fossil fuel pollution - the late Henry Ford.
Ford was the Elon Musk of his era. Ford was an automotive entrepreneur who conspired with J.D. Rockefeller to put competing electric cars & trollies out of business by providing convenient access to fossil fuel for combustion automobiles and busses. Standard Oil Gas stations started popping up along US highways and street corners. Soon cities were ripping up their trolley tracks and buying diesel-fume-belching buses promoted as making it easier to change routes even though most trollies ran down main streets.
Like Musk, Ford was not just a ruthless businessman, he was also a hateful racist and pro-Nazi fascist.
Ignorant of American history perhaps, Musk failed to follow Ford’s example to convince the gas station industry to install EV chargers. Or maybe he tried and they refused. In any event, he convinced the Biden administration to subsidize installing public chargers to help promote his business interests.
When Biden's senility made it clear that Trump was likely to win in 2024, Musk quickly transformed from Green liberal to the Red MAGA co-president. DOGE will facilitate keeping or even increasing regulations affecting the gas auto industry. It will also enable cutting the regulation of EVs while locking in more federal loans and subsidies for his business expansion.
The corollary is that Ford was Hitler's mentor and model. Hitler had Ford's autographed portrait behind his desk.
It is a profound example of self centeredness, when making money, knowing it will ultimately kill millions and actually make the earth uninhabitable.
Where does all this extreme indifference to lives go ?
It will ultimately kill the earths population.
It breeds the hate and intolerance that fuels wars .
The hate is about asking the Oil companies to stand down and let people live. It’s about giving up money made upon the destruction of our beautiful world.
It’s also about the hell people will go through as the world deteriorates at the hands of oil companies, whose militant ignorance allows them to justify their money over people’s lives.
Who else benefits from this tragedy .
Evil benefits. Love is gone , people too busy putting out the fires that the Oil and Gas corporations started with full knowledge of the ultimate end .
The Native Americans are right.
We are the stewards of Gods gift to us.
We are squandering it. It’s full out insanity. At the same time it requires us to look at reality and fight to correct it.
Finally, someone in the media, is mentioning Climate Change as the true culprit in the apocalyptic fires in CA. Thank you, Thom.
Polluter payer principle! Bring them to court. But… with that deranged fascist trump and his corrupted maga lot entering the white house soon, it’s gonna be complicated. Didn’t he brag loud and clear: drill baby drill? What a convicted felon and moron!
Big OIL CEOs just beefed up personal security.
The difference between tobacco executives and petroleum executives? The former commit homicide, albeit on a massive scale. The latter commit ecocide.
Also the tobacco pushers are legal drug dealers for individuals. The petroleum ones are...well, the way I imagine countries fighting over oil is as though they are junkies battling for a needle full of poison. Incidentally there is nothing new here. A century ago the oil companies were clearly warned that putting lead into gasoline would mess up the brains and nervous systems of those exposed to its fumes. Their response was to lie, fudge the data and when finally caught in the 1970s try to threaten and bribe their way out of making changes.
Perhaps certain businesses attract people without consciences. Like the bright young recruiter at DoD who I chatted with when considering a civilian job there and had questions about it. He said, "Why do you care how your work is used? You're not the one dropping the bombs." These oil people seem no different at all...except that the ecological bell will toll for them and their children too.
Great researched article on climate change and how scientist, including Edward Teller in 1959 warning us of the consequences. From the article below:
"............In November, 1959, the famous scientist Edward Teller — the “Father of the H-Bomb” — was the keynote speaker at a conference on “The Energy of the Future” in New York, organized by the American Petroleum Institute and the Columbia Graduate School of Business. The news he conveyed to the assembled oil industry executives was stark:
“Whenever you burn conventional fuel, you create carbon dioxide. ... The carbon dioxide is invisible, it is transparent, you can’t smell it, it is not dangerous to health, so why should one worry about it? Carbon dioxide has a strange property. It transmits visible light but it absorbs the infrared radiation which is emitted from the earth. Its presence in the atmosphere causes a greenhouse effect ...
“It has been calculated that a temperature rise corresponding to a 10 per cent increase in carbon dioxide will be sufficient to melt the icecap and submerge New York. All the coastal cities would be covered, and since a considerable percentage of the human race lives in coastal regions, I think that this chemical contamination is more serious than most people tend to believe.”
The media is not able to call out deception of any kind that makes their security in the political regime of the upcoming future as they see it with Drump and crew. However, authority comes from God so nothing is sure in the world as they think of it based on their unbelief. That is going to change dramatically this year. Soon the mystery of the cosmos is going to insert itself in the minds of the majority if not all. God is going to make himself known. The future of Drump and crew hangs on nothing and will end in such a complete form history will record that its fall will be remembered for its complete disappearance more than anything else. Praise God from whom all blessing flow.