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Mr. Hartman is pointing out that the Polar Jet Streams (Massive air movements above normal atmospheric clouds) have been changing patterns and are hitting lower latitudes all over the world, with impressive temperature and rainfall impact https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/enso/what-jet-stream.

He should have added that similar massive ocean currents are slowing down and are anticipated having a high statistical chance of reversing themselves, with attendant huge climate impacts. https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2950/arctic-ice-melt-is-changing-ocean-currents/.

Personally, I worked two years in Northern Greenland and lived in Alaska for 26 years; the climate changes I witnessed were dramatic: 1. Greenland has lost a significant portion of its ice cover and the Chinese are mining in Greenland. https://www.rexsac.org/publications/chinese-mining-greenland-arctic-access-access-minerals/. 2. Alaska's Arctic ocean access used to be 20-24 days/year and is now close to 180 days/year. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/88597/a-nearly-ice-free-northwest-passage. 3. January temperatures in Anchorage area 1970-1995 in some areas went from -20 Degrees F to +20 degrees F. 4. Hundreds of thousands of Alaska's forests have burned. 5. The perma frost is melting, subsiding and methane spouts have increased in Alaska, Canada and Siberia. https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2785/unexpected-future-boost-of-methane-possible-from-arctic-permafrost/

According to Vaclav Smil and his research in How the World Really Works, the global energy system requires at least 50 years to convert efficiently from our current energy basis to a green system; the inertia composed of 8 -12 billion people who all want to live in urban centers and have Western amenities is a similar scientific problem to the physical inability of Exxon Valdez to change its course 1/2 degree and avoid causing one of the world's most significant environmental events. While the US and EU, Scandinavia and New Zealand are doing some good work on Greening the economy China and Africa and other developing countries with massive populations are simply cancelling the total global greening efforts.

Looking at Mr. Hartman's citation it is noteworthy that Barack Obama and other Democratic legislators joined all the GOP legislators in taking huge amounts of funding from the Global Oil & Gas Industry.

Again, voters have allowed everything we are experiencing during the last 50 years, and NOTHING WILL CHANGE TILL VOTERS AUTOMATICALLY REFUSE TO VOTE FOR ANY INCUMBENT POLITICIAN, https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2020:_Incumbent_win_rates_by_state

Mr. Hartman's Citation:

The ten top recipients of fossil fuel money in Congress so far this year are:

Manchin, Joe (D-WV) $724,270 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

McCarthy, Kevin (R-CA) $396,284

Lankford, James (R-OK) $275,148

Pfluger, August (R-TX) $268,011

Kennedy, John (R-LA) $264,788

Murkowski, Lisa (R-AK) $249,808

Sinema, Kyrsten (D-AZ) $230,160xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Fletcher, Lizzie (D-TX) $191,765xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Cuellar, Henry (D-TX) $191,450xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Scott, Tim (R-SC) $181,291

Scalise, Steve (R-LA) $181,263

Gonzales, Tony (R-TX) $174,461

Rubio, Marco (R-FL) $165,636

Amazing how little it costs to buy a member of Congress to keep your multi-billion-dollar-a-year profits flowing, isn’t it?

Here’s what opensecrets.org says are the top recipients through their careers:

Romney, Mitt (R-UT) $8,291,262

Cornyn, John (R-TX) $4,678,062

Cruz, Ted (R-TX) $4,138,421

McCain, John (R-AZ) $3,766,042

McConnell, Mitch (R-KY) $2,852,107

McCarthy, Kevin (R-CA) $2,581,832

Obama, Barack (D) $2,361,861xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hutchison, Kay Bailey (R-TX) $2,332,021

Inhofe, James M (R-OK) $2,320,139

Pearce, Steve (R-NM) $2,236,714

Barton, Joe (R-TX) $2,211,987

Brady, Kevin (R-TX) $2,087,396

Gardner, Cory (R-CO) $2,048,152

Gramm, Phil (R-TX) $1,858,679

Scalise, Steve (R-LA) $1,847,013

Murkowski, Lisa (R-AK) $1,792,602

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Thanks for this. We’ve talked enough, and must act quickly.

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