“Warmer, wetter, hotter, drier — February caps unending stretch of record temperatures.
“The global average temperature in February was 1.77C above the pre-industrial average and marked the ninth month in a row of record heat, the Copernicus Climate Change Service said.
“The rise in global average temperatures continued to trend above the critical benchmark of 1.5C higher than pre-industrial levels, and over the past 12 months have surpassed the 1850 to 1900 average by 1.56C.”
https://www.ft.com/content/8a436da0-0531-4561-b6f8-35fcd79b6d79
“Breaking News! Code FFS.
“Another new [global sea surface temps] record. 21.19°C today. I’d give the y-axis one more day.”
https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson/status/1765393958803517447
“Record Ocean Temperatures Push Coral Reefs to Brink of Fourth Mass Bleaching Event…
“Speaking with Reuters, the coordinator of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Coral Reef Watch Derek Manzello said it was likely that the entire Southern Hemisphere would experience bleaching this year.”
“Climate change is warping the seasons…
“If you’re in the northern hemisphere, you may have noticed plants flowering earlier than usual. It’s not your imagination: a 2022 study revealed that spring blooms are arriving a month sooner in the UK due to climate change.”
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/climate-change-warping-seasons-174512016.html
“Catastrophic sugar beet harvest delays due to record rain [UK]…
“Over this last year, there have been increasing reports of delays to both the sowing and harvest, with some farms being close to a month behind.. Andrew Blenkiron, a farmer and director at Euston Estate in Suffolk, advised that the conditions have been “frustrating and costly” for sowing and harvesting crops this year.”
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/catastrophic-sugar-beet-harvest-delays-due-to-record-rain/
“Weatherwatch: pothole problem to deepen amid climate crisis.
“Climate models show worsening weather will exacerbate rail and road infrastructure problems… Londoners had a taste of this during the heatwave of July 2022, when timber beams supporting railway caught fire, bringing trains to a halt.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/07/weatherwatch-pothole-problem-deepen-climate-crisis
“Rain floods southern France for third time in six months…
“In Saintes, the river Charente is once again overflowing its banks. It is impossible to move about in the streets without beams. This scenario is being repeated just three months after the last flood, which affected thousands of homes.”
https://www.euronews.com/2024/03/05/rain-floods-southern-france-for-third-time-in-six-months
“Malaga [Spain] needs to triple quantity of water in its reservoirs across the province to overcome current drought crisis…
“Across the province, the hydrographic response varies from area to area, but an estimate would place the required water reserves at more than 250 cubic hectometres (the storage capacity is 611.48 cubic hectometres (hm³). This is practically three times higher than the current level of the reserves…”
“Brussels warns of water conflict danger in EU…
“Water scarcity risks sparking conflict among European Union countries unprepared for a warming world, the bloc’s executive will warn next week, according to a leaked document obtained by POLITICO.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/water-fights-will-come-if-europe-doesnt-act-climate-brussels-warn/
“Morocco winter breaks heat records: meteorologists [also set a national heat record of 50.4C last summer].
Morocco experienced record heat this winter, including the hottest January since measurements began, the country’s meteorological department told AFP, placing the blame on climate change… The North African kingdom… is facing a sixth consecutive year of drought.”
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240306-morocco-winter-breaks-heat-records-meteorologists
“Dry weather hits southern Africa’s farmers, putting key maize supplies at risk: how to blunt the impact…
“Given that South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe are among the largest maize producers within the Southern Africa region, a potential decline in the harvest in these countries suggests there could be an increase in the risk of food insecurity.”
“43.3 [109.9F] Beitbridge ZIMBABWE: National record for March highest temperature smashed.
“Hundreds of records in dozens countries might seem the “main course” but hell it’s just the appetizer of the insanity we will witness next days: Prepare for something never seen before.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1765080143301873756
“Floods Displace 500,000 in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchistan…
“Severe flooding has ravaged farms, mud houses, rural roads, and local infrastructure, closing roads and isolating villages from nearby cities and each other. With roads flooded, bridges broken, and pathways washed out, air assistance has become the only feasible means of aid.”
“Iran Faces Dwindling Water and Escalating Climate Pressures, Aggravating Displacement Threats…
“Nearly 85 percent of Iran is in an arid or semi-arid zone, meaning that even as millions are confronted by deluges, many also face a lack of water and heightened vulnerability to droughts. ”
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/iran-climate-migration
“Climate change pushes Malaysia’s coastal fishermen away from the sea…
“…erratic weather, warming seas and declining fish stocks caused by climate change are slowly pushing them away from the seas they and generations before them once depended on.”
“Absolute madness in Southeast Asia: Medan INDONESIA March warmest night 3 times in a row Tmin 27.6 [81.7F]; MALAYSIA Penang March warmest night Tmin 27.8.
“THAILAND: 42C at Bua Chum. Nearly every single station at record level with March records also beaten by big margin like 41.2 Roi Et.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1765375168610738333
“On the northeast coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island, the first of two annual dry seasons led to a spike in wildfires in some peatland areas in February.
“In the week ending March 2, Indonesian peatland NGO Pantau Gambut said 34 hotspots, possibly fires, were identified by satellite on peatlands in Riau province.”
“Korea saw historically wet winter: weather agency…
“From Dec. 1 through the end of February, up to 236.7 mm of rain was observed here, marking the highest amount of precipitation to be recorded in the cited period since 1973, when the Korea Meteorological Administration started collecting the related data.”
https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20240307050731
“Climate change is causing fish to shrink [in NW Pacific]: Japanese study.
“A University of Tokyo study published in the journal Fish and Fisheries analyzed medium-term data on the weight of 13 fish species over a 33-year period (1995-97 to 2018) and long-term data on the weight of four fish species over a 40-year period (1978 to 2018).”
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/climate-change-causing-fish-shrink-220834435.html
“Pūkaki Airport [NZ] recorded its lowest ever rainfall total for summer…
“The National Institute of Weather and Atmospheric Research’s summer climate summary said temperatures were above average (0.51-1.20C above average) or well above average (more than 1.20C above average) for most of the country.”
https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/350204149/record-low-rainfall-pukaki-airport-over-summer
“Highway to Amazon collapse.
“Lucas Ferrante uncovered the impacts of the proposed BR-319 highway in the Amazon rainforest: it could trigger biome collapse and biodiversity crisis… Ferrante’s research findings highlight the danger this project poses to 63 indigenous territories and 18,000 indigenous people…”
https://theecologist.org/2024/mar/07/highway-amazon-collapse
“‘There aren’t seasons any more’: a childhood without water in north Colombia…
“The expansion of coal mining and large-scale agriculture in the 20th century also caused shortages, as industrial needs were prioritised over those of local communities. Now the effects of the climate crisis have intensified the frequency and severity of droughts, putting further pressure on water supply.”
“Historic day in COSTA RICA. 41.0 [105.8F] Cerro Huacalito highest temperature ever recorded in the country for any month.
“Second highest 40.3 Palo Verde. Nearly every single tropical country has broken records in these 6 days.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1765628603968913773
“Texas wildfires: Firefighter killed responding to blaze as state pleads for hay to stem cattle losses…
“The Smokehouse Creek Fire has burned more than 1.3 million acres across the Texas Panhandle and destroyed 500 structures. It’s now the largest fire in the state’s history and one of the largest in the US’ history.”
“US regulators approve significantly scaled back climate disclosure rule.
“US regulators have voted to require large, publicly traded companies to disclose climate change-related information to investors, though the rule’s scope has been significantly scaled back from the original draft proposal.”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/06/us-sec-climate-change-emissions-disclosure
“Higher temperatures force New England fishers off ice early: ‘Global warming is real’.
“New England fishers are on thin ice this winter as warming temperatures force them to abandon their lake perches months ahead of schedule, an alarming reality that could jeopardize the future of a deeply rooted recreational tradition.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/06/ice-fishing-new-england-bob-houses-climate-change
“As drought persists on the Prairies, some farmers are selling off their herds… Prairies in the midst of multi-year drought…
“Pomeroy said the drought became “really severe” last year when the seasonal snowpack melted roughly one month early in the Prairies, the mountains and across the North, contributing to hot and dry conditions in the summer.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/prairies-drought-farmers-alberta-1.7134770
“Winter in La Ronge [Saskatchewan, Canada] driest on record…
“In addition, La Ronge, Prince Albert and Yorkton all had its second warmest winter on record. In La Ronge, the seasonal mean temperature was -11.6 C, which represents a 5.3 C departure from normal.”
https://larongenow.com/2024/03/05/winter-in-la-ronge-driest-on-record/
“Several Canadian cities have broken record temperatures during one of the mildest winters in history.
“Edmonton had the warmest winter on record, Vancouver had the warmest December on record, and Montreal had the second warmest winter on record, according to Environment Canada.”
“Arctic rivers face big changes with a warming climate, permafrost thaw and an accelerating water cycle − the effects will have global consequences…
“More old carbon is already showing up in samples gathered from Arctic rivers, attributed to permafrost thaw. Carbon dating shows that some of this carbon has been frozen for thousands of years.”
“The Arctic could become ‘ice-free’ within a decade, say scientists…
“…a new study out of the University of Colorado Boulder… suggests that the first ice-free day in the Arctic could occur over 10 years earlier than previous projections, which focused on when the region would be ice-free for a month or more. The trend remains consistent under all future emission scenarios.”
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-arctic-ice-free-decade-scientists.html
“Breaking News! Code FUBAR!!! February CO₂ data was just released by NOAA, a 4.25ppm gain year-over-year!”
https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson/status/1765371637808103710
“Methane concentrations reached a record high of 1934 ppb! An increase of 168% from preindustrial levels!
“This is already higher than the assumed peak of IPCC’s mid range scenario, SSP2-4.5. Don’t let anyone use bad assumptions to downplay near term climate change!”
https://twitter.com/LeonSimons8/status/1765482095168672146
“Plastic pollution amplified by a warming climate…
“Rising temperatures and moisture alter plastic characteristics, contributing to waste, microplastic generation, and release of hazardous substances. Urgent attention is essential to comprehend and address these climate-driven effects and their consequences.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-46127-9
“22 Countries Most Likely To Survive Climate Change [weird list but for interest].
“To compile our list of the 22 countries most likely to survive climate change, we utilized the ND-GAIN Country Index. The index evaluates the preparedness of a country against climate change through two key dimensions, vulnerability and readiness.”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/22-countries-most-likely-survive-121024979.html
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Semiconductor factories are coming back to the US, and they’re going to use a lot of energy.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/6/24091367/semiconductor-manufacturing-us-electricity-consumption-renewable-energy-report
A new report warns that a boom in computer chip manufacturing in the US could fuel demand for dirty energy, despite companies’ environmental claims. The solution for manufacturers, surprisingly, might be to act more like other big tech companies chasing climate goals.
New semiconductor factories being built in the US by four of the biggest manufacturers — Intel, TSMC, Samsung, and Micron — could use more than twice as much electricity as the city of Seattle once they’re operational. These companies claim to run on renewable energy, but according to an analysis by nonprofit Stand.earth, that’s not entirely true.
Semiconductors happen to make up a big chunk of a device’s carbon footprint. And unless companies turn to clean energy, they could wind up driving up greenhouse gas emissions as domestic chip manufacturing makes a comeback.
Use clean energy…sure there is such a thing…use it myself when I hang out my clothes to dry
The methane spike and ocean temps and droughts and floods..along with the highway in the jungles of the Amazon (those poor natives living there now)…a full plate to take in Justin
Bitcoin “blockchains” and the new “Large Language Model” chat bots also require huge server farms that suck massive amounts of energy.
Given how systemically critical semiconductors are, it is probably a good thing, from an economic standpoint if not an environmental one, that their manufacture will no longer be restricted to Taiwan, where production is vulnerable to drought and, potentially, geopolitical upheaval.
I posted an article the other day about TSMC opening up a plant in Japan. Even the UK wants in on the fun. This is the official UK government strategy document:
“Semiconductors are one of the five technologies of tomorrow, along with quantum, AI, engineering biology and future telecoms. They are critical to the UK’s economic and national security and to the strategic advantage we will secure on the global stage.”
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1157753/national_semiconductor_strategy.pdf
As for those poor natives living in the Amazon: Israel has murdered > 30,000 Semites while blasting critics as “anti-Semitic”, so 18,000 dead Amazonian natives isn’t even a consideration.
Meanwhile, I noted the 4.5ppm yesterday, since the weekly figures are still being published ( the NOAA has stopped publishing the Daily CO2 numbers, a figure they have been posting for decades, but which, since ~ November, they have been posting only sporadically, until the last 2 weeks, during which they have simply stated, “data unavailable”.
The decadel accumulation has been 25ppm, so this acceleration, (although a possible anomaly), given the deliberate withholding of the data, suggests the scientists themselves feel that something more dire is taking place.
Meanwhile here in the good ole USA, the avatar of ‘climate change is a hoax” sails unobstructed to east victory as his party’s presidential nominee while his contender pours borrowed trillions into replacing ICE machines with what they refer to as Green vehicles, each of which contains as much steel, aluminum, and plastic as the chemical weapons of mass destruction (which we all now know is what automobiles basically are) they are replacing.
so the solution of steamrolling the last vestige of humanity that has the requisite knowledge and ability to survive in a post-industrialized world under the vast, uncontrollable machinery of Capitalist expansion even unto our ruin, is cheered on as Progress. Yeah us!
I’ve always used: – https://www.co2.earth/daily-co2
Latest
Daily CO2
“A reminder that our world is pushing the planet’s thermostat beyond safe levels of 350 ppm CO2, and that more people are needed to combine our ingenuity and resources to keep the present overshoot brief.”
Feb. 26, 2024 425.40 ppm
Mar. 6, 2023 421.36 ppm
1Year Change 4.04 ppm (0.96%)
Last CO2 Earth update: 3:35:02 AM on Mar. 7, 2024, Hawaii local time (UTC -10)
Data source: NOAA GML (Mauna Loa Observatory)
Units: parts per million (ppm)
This table presents the latest, daily average reading for atmospheric CO2 on the planet. Updates happen once a day with few exceptions.
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I never realized they were only using NOAA GML (Mauna Loa Observatory) data.
On the co2.earth home page they provide a link to Scripps, which includes CO2 data from a 13 Scripps CO2 Sampling Stations, which normally includes Mauna Loa data.
I thought Mauna Loa (NOAA) was still messed up from the last volcanic eruption there, but don’t quote me on that.
https://scrippsco2.ucsd.edu/
“Meanwhile here in the good ole USA, the avatar of ‘climate change is a hoax” sails unobstructed to east victory…”
Yes, politics increasingly pathological over here, too… I’ve really noticed an uptick in trolling and climate denial in the various corners of social media I haunt. This from Jan ’23:
“False information about climate change flourished online over the past year, researchers say, with denialist social media posts and conspiracy theories surging after US environmental reforms and Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover.”
https://phys.org/news/2023-01-climate-disinfo-surges-denial-conspiracy.html
fracking extended the party a little longer, but at the cost of emitting a lot of methane. as they say in premier league – it was always going higher.
the comedic entry – “22 Countries Most Likely To Survive Climate Change” is pretty amusing. I wanted to check out the list, but the top 5 is behind an insane amount of spam. I got to 5 – kyrgystan, and 4 – barbados. sure. why not.
The top three are then New Zealand, Georgia and, in the gold medal position, Finland.
It is a baffling list overall. Of course, no nation is exempt and you can argue a relative case for and against a lot of places but Tunisia and Morocco? Really?
Japan? Maybe because the population will just wither and blow away in the nearish future? South Korea? A tiny portion of a peninsula already overcrowded and unable to feed itself as heating stresses existing agriculture. And China is just so massive as to be a hot mess of variables beyond any somber prognostication. The list was just hilariously suspect as soon as Tunisia showed up. And I kept picturing Grenada or Dominica surviving a drought or a CAT 6 hurricane…
Record smashing global temps. The world’s poorest getting hammered by both floods and droughts. Thawing permafrost releasing 1,000 year old carbon and vast “activated” wetlands accelerating methane emissions.
The drums of doom thunder from the abyss.
What bit of news did I linger on? Why, the flowers blooming early, of course! Lovely!
Personally, I’m keeping my eye on the “rhoddies”. In Oregon and Washington they would bloom in profusion (seems every yard has one) in May. Here in SE Alaska they bloom in June.
Looking forward to seeing rhoddies blooming in May in Alaska!
Jerry, I am guessing you mean rhododendrons by “rhoddies”.
We have an abundance of them here on Islay in the central woodland. I must admit I love them, even though they are a toxic pain in the arse to a lot of other plant-life.
I was amused to learn that in Nepal there is a type of honey produced by bees that feed on nectar from grayanotoxin-producing rhododendrons, colloquially known as “mad honey”. Very difficult to harvest due to the mountainous terrain but worth it if you are an enthusiastic psychonaut, as you can apparently get insanely high by eating it.
“Mad Honey” What a great story! Thank you!
If human extinction comes down to climate change and not nuclear war I put my money on the shores of Lake Baikal as the last place that the bottom of human feet walk the earth. I do not think we will still be able to call that area Russia. But I think we could call those last people Russians. I guess that means that we could say that the Russians would have won World War 3 or 4 or 5 what ever one we are on now, but we could not say that Russia won the World War. Russian will be the last spoken human language. But all Russian institurions will have ceased to exist along with national institurions every where else as well.
I do not think that AI will outlast humans. But I am tecnnological dinasour so I may be proned to underestimate the future capabilities of these robots that so many people have such high expectations of.
You may be right about Lake Baikal but nowhere is without risk. Siberia susceptible to fires, of course. This from 2015:
“Raging wildfires have turned the shores of the world’s largest freshwater lake in Siberia into an inferno, threatening the health and livelihood of locals and raising questions about Russia’s ability to protect its natural heritage.”
https://phys.org/news/2015-09-wildfires-threaten-russia-unique-lake.html
None of those 22 BIG tribes are likely to survive CC, which is not a stand alone existential threat, but part of multi predicament Overshoot.
If anyone makes it out of this century alive, I’ll wager it’s these folks or others like them.
Societies of perpetual movement
Why do hunter-gatherers refuse to be sedentary? New answers are emerging from the depths of the Congolese rainforest
“The men were looking for their home. It was a home that did not stay still but roved across the rainforest of the Likouala region as their community moved through the Northern Part of the Republic of Congo. Being members of the Mbendjele BaYaka, one of the few remaining mobile hunter-gatherer groups in the world today, these men had neither permanent houses nor private possessions. This, they told us, made the search challenging, even for insiders like themselves.”
“Now, in March 2023, the camp where we had spent so much time was little more than an empty forest clearing. As we passed through it, we saw abandoned possessions and residences: spears, woven mats and baskets, and huts with only a few leaves remaining in their roofs. The Mbendjele BaYaka had moved on with barely anything they had made during their stay. They had simply gotten up one day and walked into the rainforest. Where had they gone? That was the immediate question we were asking with our four guides as we left the abandoned camp, but we also sought answers to more elusive dilemmas. Why had these peoples deliberately chosen a life of almost-perpetual motion? Why did they refuse to settle down, even in the 21st century, despite pressures and incentives to abandon their mobile way of life?”
https://aeon.co/essays/the-hunter-gatherers-of-the-21st-century-who-live-on-the-move
I think we can safely say that hunter gatherers will be better placed to survive, if indeed anyone is, than the wealthy in their penthouses. “So the last shall be first, and the first last…”
Here we could reference Scott’s work on the tribes of the SE Asian Massif or what he terms “Zomia”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Not_Being_Governed
Bottleneck, my apologies. As a first time commenter, your comments were automatically held in moderation – but welcome to the site!
From March 5th. Unpaywalled/gifted by user alloyed39 @ Reddit Collapse. In depth, long read for anyone keeping score.
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UNCOVERED
A Hidden Crisis in US Housing
In places most prone to wildfires and hurricanes, state “insurers of last resort” are absorbing trillions of dollars in risk.
By Leslie Kaufman,
Saijel Kishan and Nadia Lopez
Illustrations by John Provencher for Bloomberg Green
March 5, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. PST
Uncovered: Part 1
This story is part of Bloomberg Green’s investigation into how climate change is making parts of the planet uninsurable, leaving millions of people without a safety net. Governments and companies aren’t prepared.
“When the smoke clears, the most populous US state, home to Hollywood, Silicon Valley and a real estate market worth more than $9 trillion, will be ground zero for a sweeping financial crisis.”
“Homeowners in the most risky places are now more likely to be covered by state-created, “last resort” insurance programs that provide protection where the private market won’t.
“Those plans have more than doubled their market share since 2018, and their liabilities crossed the $1 trillion threshold for the first time in 2022, according to Property Insurance Plans Service Office Inc., a research firm that tracks the programs. The most climate-vulnerable states are the most exposed: As of now, Florida’s plan could suffer $525 billion in losses; In California, it’s at least $290 billion, up sixfold from 2018.”
“But even as states have assumed more and more risk, they’ve largely dodged a fundamental question: How will they cover claims in the wake of a truly major catastrophe? There are limited options—levies on private insurers or state residents, or more state borrowing—and none of them are good.”
“Most states haven’t thought this far ahead, or if they have, they’re not explicit about where the money will come from. Out of 36 residual insurance plans that offer coverage for natural catastrophes, 21 don’t explicitly detail how they’d pay deficits, according to new research from consulting group Milliman.
States have turned these plans into “a magic hiding place to disappear risk that just gets too big for the private market,”
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-home-insurance-real-estate-crisis/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcwOTczMjM4OSwiZXhwIjoxNzEwMzM3MTg5LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTOVdHMDNEV1JHRzAwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI3OEMxRkY5NzUyNDE0Mzc2QTQ3Q0U0MkMwNDUzRkZCOSJ9.bUmipADfCGpDyQJ-4BYO3qCRFcEgWzxtVb5Ksxq1Pow
For over a decade I have predicted that there would be an, economy stomping, ‘Real Estate rush to the exits’ with Florida being the first Domino to start the show. A bunch of property value has been destroyed/devalued in Florida, but as of yet the rush to the exits has not appeared in the magical thinking Sun Shine state that banned state workers from using the terms ‘Climate Change, ‘Global Warming’ & ‘Sea Level Rise’ – 21st century BLASPHEMY! American style. Making workers who use scary climate change terms into blasphemers and conjuring up “..a magic hiding place to disappear risk” is the plan Florida’s top people came up with. Millions of Boomers will be the first to die-back when that first domino falls and sets in motion American Doom.
From Sun 8 Mar 2015
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Florida banned state workers from using term ‘climate change’ – report
‘Global warming’ and ‘sustainability’ among phrases allegedly barred at state’s Department of Environmental Protection, investigative report finds
“The report ties the alleged policy, which is described as “unwritten”, to the election of Republican governor Rick Scott and his appointment of a new department director that year. Scott, who was re-elected last November, has declined to say whether he believes in climate change caused by human activity.”
The FCIR report was based on statements by multiple named former employees who worked in different DEP offices around Florida. The instruction not to refer to “climate change” came from agency supervisors as well as lawyers, according to the report.
“We were told not to use the terms ‘climate change’, ‘global warming’ or ‘sustainability’,” the report quotes Christopher Byrd, who was an attorney with the DEP’s Office of General Counsel in Tallahassee from 2008 to 2013, as saying. “That message was communicated to me and my colleagues by our superiors in the Office of General Counsel.”
““We were instructed by our regional administrator that we were no longer allowed to use the terms ‘global warming’ or ‘climate change’ or even ‘sea-level rise’,” said a second former DEP employee, Kristina Trotta. “Sea-level rise was to be referred to as ‘nuisance flooding’.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/08/florida-banned-terms-climate-change-global-warming
Institutional denial at it’s very best. I remember when I first read about this – I almost pissed myself I was laughing so hard. Doom is absurd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umZEIuASBM0
This is the 6 mins I meant to post.
https://guymcpherson.com/science-update-earths-energy-imbalance/
https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/andrew-zimmern-explains-why-your-five-guys-order-is-24-bizarre-foods-travel-channel-beef-prices-anti-trust-inventory-cattle-texas-fire-tomatoes-labor-rights-wages-benefits-addiction-low-costs-chicken-ukraine-russia-grain-oil-fast-food
My hamburger is costing me $24 and here is why!