Climate Change? Nahhh ...

Air pollution linked to almost a million stillbirths a year

Almost a million stillbirths a year can be attributed to air pollution, according to the first global study.

The research estimated that almost half of stillbirths could be linked to exposure to pollution particles smaller than 2.5 microns (PM2.5), mostly produced from the burning of fossil fuels.

 

EPA Grants Mississippi $500k for Air Monitoring in Pascagoula — ProPublica

The Environmental Protection Agency has granted the state of Mississippi $500,000 to conduct air monitoring in Pascagoula, a year after ProPublica reported elevated cancer risks from industrial air pollution in the city.

Residents in the Cherokee Forest subdivision had long complained of toxic fumes and persistent health problems including headaches, dizziness and nausea. The neighborhood is surrounded by industrial sites, including a Chevron oil refinery and a shipbuilding facility that Bollinger recently purchased from VT Halter Marine.

 

Eh. You’re not getting rid of fossil fuels right now if you had a choice, either.

If the argument is “these people aren’t the nuts you make them out to be” then fine. Make that argument.

 

Actually this is tremendously well done. I stole this to start talking about climate change with my geography kiddos and how it could be affecting people.

 

Who among the "zealots" and "activists" you cite so often holds any elective office?

Who among them runs Chevron? ExxonMobil? BP?

Biden gives Chevron permit to restart Venezuelan oil sales

A Letter to President Biden from Chevron CEO Mike Wirth

https://chevronsglobaldestruction.com/chevrons_global_destruction_report.pdf

 

Again - if your argument is they hold no power or they're not as extreme as some say, fine. That's a legit argument. I guess we'll see.

 

in the meantime

Officials fear ‘complete doomsday scenario’ for drought-stricken Colorado River

In the 23rd year of the Western drought, Lake Powell’s once crowded boat ramps end in sand. Dirt bikes roar across newly exposed shores. Exquisite arches and rock formations, lost when the reservoir filled in the 1960s, are re-emerging.

As the water has receded, so has the ability to produce power at Glen Canyon, as less pressure from the lake pushes the turbines. The dam already generates about 40 percent less power than what has been committed to customers, which includes dozens of Native American tribes, nonprofit rural electric cooperatives, military bases, and small cities and towns across several southwestern states. These customers would be responsible for buying power on the open market in the event Glen Canyon could not generate, potentially driving up rates dramatically.

 

Well, at Exxon it's a hedge fund called Engine No. 1. They effectively launched a palace coup on the company's board of directors.

Exxon loses board seats to activist hedge fund in landmark climate vote

Exxon Mobil One Year Later | Engine No. 1

Other zealots — or opportunistic conmen might be a better description in some cases — are in unelected offices that wield an insane amount of power. Some of the things John Kerry has said and put forward on this issue are terrifying in the scope of what they'd do to world economies. It's basically a "destroy the world to save it" approach, that have the odd benefit of making the people driving the agenda (like Kerry) very wealthy.

 

Money's hard to spend when the planet is a dried-out hellscape.

 

Cool!

Although it's not really the storming of the Bastille.

It's two former oil execs and a guy from Google. And they're being brought in because Exxon was underperforming in the transition to alternative fuels.

 

Meanwhile