Climate Change? Nahhh ...

Regarding the "heat wave" in Europe, Frankfurt, Germany is a steady 47ºF - 37ºF high and low all week with typical drizzle every day. The exact same as Dallas' forecast tomorrow.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/11/14/california-drought-bottled-water/

Wells are running dry in California at a record pace. Amid a hotter, drier climate and the third consecutive year of severe drought, the state has already tallied a record 1,351 dry wells this year — nearly 40 percent over last year’s rate and the most since the state created its voluntary reporting system in 2014. The bulk of these outages slice through the center of the state, in the parched lowlands of the San Joaquin Valley, where residents compete with deep agricultural wells for the rapidly dwindling supply of groundwater.

 

The Guardian view on Cop27: this is no time for apathy or complacency | Editorial

Climate change is a global problem that requires cooperation between all nations. That’s why today more than 30 newspapers and media organisations in more than 20 countries have taken a common view about what needs to be done. Time is running out. Rather than getting out of fossil fuels and into clean energy, many wealthy nations are reinvesting in oil and gas, failing to cut emissions fast enough and haggling over the aid they are prepared to send to poor countries. All this while the planet hurtles towards the point of no return – where climate chaos becomes irreversible.

Since the Cop26 UN climate summit in Glasgow 12 months ago, countries have only promised to do one-fiftieth of what is needed to stay on track to keep temperatures within 1.5C of pre-industrial levels. No continent has avoided extreme weather disasters this year – from floods in Pakistan to heatwaves in Europe, and from forest fires in Australia to hurricanes in the US. Given that these came about from elevated temperatures of about 1.1C, the world can expect far worse to come.

 

goin' great!

 

but the wind farm ruins the view!

 

An area I worked in rejected windfarms, citing destroying the views of their cross-tipped churches.

There’s a giant ethanol plant you can see from 10 miles away there.

 

If you stand on the front porch of the Homestead Heritage National Park Education Center in Beatrice, Nebraska and look north, the effluent steam from the Koch Brothers Anhydrous Fertilizer Works fills the horizon.


https://clui.org/ludb/site/koch-nitrogen-beatrice-plant

 

US approves largest dam removal in history to save endangered salmon

 

Terrific work here.

https://harpers.org/archive/2022/12/apocalypse-nowish/

 

Guilt offering comin’ up!

U.S. eyes shifts on climate payments, in possible breakthrough at summit

I especially like the “China has to do it too!” clause. As if it’s some sort of treaty. China will, or won’t, do whatever the hell it wants to do, and China won’t feel bad for a second no matter what it decides to do.