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Man I've been gone for so long, I almost forgot I still have an account here, until I saw 1+ million acres burned in....Oregon, of all places. Not California, Oregon. Oh yes, and the Blade Runner 2049 skies over San Francisco just a few days. One two punch made me remember this thread today. Similar...

Frightening calculation on how the Amazon, once deforested enough, can enter into a negative feedback cycle that destroys itself and transforms into a far less efficient and less biodiverse savannah: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/world/americas/amazon-rainforest-fires-climate.html Before Jair B...

Speaking about the Amazon.... https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1164515943483138055 According to the real "correct" models of climate change, increasingly burning down the Amazon large chunk by chunk per year should have very little to no impact on the global climate. Therefore, the re...

While Cyclone Vayu bears down on the coast, northern India is gripped by a stifling heatwave. Temperatures have soared for weeks. The Delhi metro area and the 26+ million people who live there recently experienced their hottest June day on record https://twitter.com/jscarto/status/11391436762218987...

While Cyclone Vayu bears down on the coast, northern India is gripped by a stifling heatwave. Temperatures have soared for weeks. The Delhi metro area and the 26+ million people who live there recently experienced their hottest June day on record https://twitter.com/jscarto/status/11391436762218987...

not really - qld and nsw have that kind of right wing so you can find them - but for the rest of Australia the right wing is largely pro immigration. Katter party (QLD) and National party (NSW/VIC) would be those types, the liberal party as the mainstream right wing party has usually had higher lev...

A bit of a surprise in the Aussie federal election. not for me particularly, labour shat the bed with an attack on housing (which I actually agree with) but thats a no go area in this country. may the houses ever get more expensive. amen. https://www.news.com.au/national/federal-election/federal-el...

There are many things that should be said about this migrant issue. I will let loose with the first, most obvious one: The American MSM is nothing less than the Lügenpresse when it comes to this. Just barely a month ago they were bloviating and fully gaslighting about Trump the Bumbling, Paranoid Li...

Two observations on this as we approach the one month mark for the massacre: 1. Bowers was not just a virulent anti-semite, in retrospect he showed signs of virulent anti-Trump rage as well. Possibly even comparable to the average shock trooper in Anti-FA. Viewing in that lens, his massacre was not ...

https://twitter.com/WBJPPP/status/1064468748797542400 Apparently conspiracy theory passing among the Japanese that the tax dodging/embezzlement issue is a sham. Real meat and guts was Ghosn-san attempting to pass % stake of Nissan to the actual French govt, via Renault since its partially own by Fra...

Japan's most accomplished Gaijin now on the line for involuntary seppuku it seems: http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201811190046.html Photo/Illustraion Tokyo prosecutors were questioning Carlos Ghosn, chairman of Nissan Motor Co., on Nov. 19 over suspected under-reporting of his corporate salary ...

After 7 years of almost complete absence, save for occasional snipes at the global climate change thread, I have now returned and ready to post "full time" in the rest of this forum. Complex personal factors led me away 7 years ago, and complex factors has led me back here again as well. M...

Just as climate change scientists predicted, the effects on California has been devastating in the past decade, with yearly fire storms getting ever more numerous, stronger, and more blood thirsty for human property and lives: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-woolsey-fire-oak-park-2018110...

More gloom and doom for insects under climate change: https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/10/15/hyperalarming-study-shows-massive-insect-loss/ Hopefully there's a random blog out there that will quickly act to correct that record and tear down the study for overestimating dead bugs in Puerto...

Record breaking typhoons yet again in Japan, now a great earthquake in the far north of Hokkaido. Truly fulfilling the native Japanese expression of the Island of Catastrophes.

Let us pray (with both hands) the Colonel continues to prosper and be well, hopefully in the full safety of the Kanto region

Meanwhile, still no answers as to these increasingly frequent phenomenon: Yes, there is an answer. It's called "nature". Contrary to claims, the frequency of such events has not increased. The official Japan Meteorological Agency says otherwise: https://twitter.com/ShingetsuNews/status/10...

Meanwhile, still no answers as to these increasingly frequent phenomenon: https://www.axios.com/european-heat-wave-portugal-spain-records-03f2a891-a4af-4dac-851d-19bc1107182e.html The global picture: The latest heat wave comes in the wake of the hottest-ever day on the Korean Peninsula, hottest July...

More doom on the way: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/climate/antarctica-ice-melting-faster.html Between 1992 and 2017, Antarctica shed three trillion tons of ice. This has led to an increase in sea levels of roughly three-tenths of an inch, which doesn’t seem like much. But 40 percent of that in...

The Great Barrier Reef has never been in better shape than before:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/worl ... -reef.html

http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/09/13/food-nutrients-carbon-dioxide-000511 It’s also difficult, but not impossible, to run farm-scale experiments on how CO2 affects plants. Researchers use a technique that essentially turns an entire field into a lab. The current gold standard for this typ...

The Great Barrier Reef is dying: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/07/the-great-barrier-reef-a-catastrophe-laid-bare Perhaps most disturbingly, what Marshall and Vevers have witnessed on Lizard Island is in no way unique. In the upper third of the 2,300km reef it’s estimated that abou...

Someone will inevitably state two simultaneous truths about this phenomenon: 1. There is nothing to worry about because those coral reefs are never going anywhere because they have always recovered in the past from warm temperatures and 2. In any case warming sea temperatures can't possibly be the c...

We were all told by the dear Colonel that nothing went wrong 6 years ago, that everything was in control, that there was no incompetent handling by the technocrats at all, and that things will quickly come back to normal for that region: https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-a-first-japanese-court-blames-...

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