Exploding Denial — Republican State Treasurers Fighting Climate-Change Action

Not an unpleasant late-afternoon Saturday here in California’s Central Valley as temperatures are in the low 90s, and a gentle breeze even softens the air. Especially refreshing after a week’s worth of triple-digit heat — nice is way-better than shitty. Speaking also of maybe not so shitty, about this time back in DC the Senate…

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Joe Shines — High Job Numbers Today Caps A Winning Week

In the darkness, sometimes there’s a flash of light. Maybe not enough to blind you, but enough to see the shift in the wind — and ascertain there could be hope in the face of a shitload of shitty news. Last Tuesday’s big win in Kansas is just one example, and today is further evidence…

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Summertime ‘Danger Season’ Due To Global Warming

Hot and still this near-noon Thursday here in California’s Central Valley — temperature near 100 alfrerady and without hardly a hint of wind, makes the air heavy and creates a feeling of even more heat. Despite today, reportedly we’re in for a ‘cooling’ trend the next few days with temperatures supposedly less than three digits…

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Catastrophic Climate-Change Risks Are Unexplored — ‘We Must Do The Maths Of Disaster In Order To Avoid It’

Mid-summer’s nightmare as heat and fire together in a deadly, dangerous mix — in California, the McKinney fire near the Oregon border has burned 56,000 acres and killed four people so far, further north in Washington and Oregeon, a massive heat wave which killed more than a dozen recedes a bit up there to move…

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Nancy In Taiwan

Hot sunshine returned this Tuesday morning here in California’s Central Valley — after a few days of clouds/overcast skies and some lower temperatures, the heat of summer returns today as we’re forecast to hit triple digits later in the afternoon. Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi showed her grit earlier when she arrived in Taiwan for a visit…

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T-Rump Again: ‘Injected More Chaos’ Into GOP Primary In Missouri

In contextual appreciation of my post earlier today and the asshole antics of the T-Rump — once again another story with a hedged endorsement in Missouri, dumb-assing himself like an unhinged idiot. He is indeed very good at creating imbecilic havoc. Does he even know what day this is? There can be no real logic:…

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Scream! Climate Change, Point Of No Return, Or Not?

Our environment here this late-afternoon Sunday in California’s Central Valley is the future of the right now — musty hot with a forest-fire tinge of burnt wood.  In the real scheme of things, despite some heavy shit scattered over a wide subject area, our biggest, most-hugest problem is climate change. A crisis seemingly moving slow,…

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Despite Climate Change Already Here Now, Coal, Worse CO2 Emitter, Increases Production — IEA Report

Even just a couple of days after the Senate’s Manchin/Schumer spending agreement which included $370-billion to fight climate change (weirdly also called for increased lease sales on federal land for oil and gas drilling), coal — the biggest CO2 emitter  — is still a major problem to combating the worse aspects of climate change. A…

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