While forest management techniques can be helpful in reducing the severity of some wildfires, they aren’t effective for all ecosystems and the fires in California were exacerbated by hot, dry conditions with extreme winds. Global warming has made this worse, as we've seen from the analyses of the scientists at World Weather Attribution i…
While forest management techniques can be helpful in reducing the severity of some wildfires, they aren’t effective for all ecosystems and the fires in California were exacerbated by hot, dry conditions with extreme winds. Global warming has made this worse, as we've seen from the analyses of the scientists at World Weather Attribution in respect of the wildfires in Eastern Canada in 2023, central Chile and the Pantanal last year. This is going to get worse unless the US starts to reduce its CO2 emissions. What's Trump's response? 'Drill, baby. drill'!
He's apparentlly received $170m in donations towards his inauguration. Heaven knows what he's going to spend it on. The last time various artists politely declined his invitations and he was left wuth country singers, an America's Got Talent contestant and of course Lee Greenwood. This time he might be forced to fall back on his Spotify playlist with endless versions of Schubert's Ave Maria.
Trump refused to the sign the transition document that would have required him to disclose those donors. Some of them have been told they will not be getting VIP access to various events which are already fully booked up with sycophants. The NYT reports that money left over will go towards the Trump Presidential Library. This reminds me of Gore Vidal telling a joke about the Reagan library. He said that sadly it had been burnt to the ground and both books had been destroyed. Even more regrettably, the president hadn't finished colouring them in. I cannot imagine what books would be allowed in the Trump library (apart from 'The Art of the Deal' and his knock-off bible).
I doubt George Soros would have made any contribution to the Trump inauguration and to call this 94-year-old philanhropist a "Musk wanna-be" is way off the mark. Indeed, after Biden awarded Soros the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Musk joined the MAGA chorus deploring this decision and Musk accused him of "fundamentally hating humanity". In the past, Musk has likened him to Magneto, a Marvel jewish supervillain an antisemitic trope if there ever was one. Emily Tamkin at Slate describes this as classic projection with the pathetic Musk imagining himself as doing all the good works that Soros has actually accomplished through his Open Society Foundations.
That’s what he ran on. Drill baby drill. And it has nothing to do with him. He is going to unleash drilling, fracking, as he promised and 77 million voted for him for that and the border
The climate fix isn't soon in coming I'm afraid, Russell. Apart from being a slow ship to turn or slow, we still run a net increase in petro burning, which means more up up and away....
Native So Californian here for 68 years. We love our beautiful state, but the leadership here has been out of control for YEARS! IM so so sorry it had to take a tragedy and loss of life to finally wake some of these people up. Praying for the first responders and all those affected by this fire. Going fwd, I hope we can do what’s best for those who live here and NOT POLITICS AS USUAL! They keep budgeting for infrastructure for water retention, water reclamation, and never allocated and so they never get built. IN 2020/ $1 billion was allocated and it’s still sitting there.
While forest management techniques can be helpful in reducing the severity of some wildfires, they aren’t effective for all ecosystems and the fires in California were exacerbated by hot, dry conditions with extreme winds. Global warming has made this worse, as we've seen from the analyses of the scientists at World Weather Attribution in respect of the wildfires in Eastern Canada in 2023, central Chile and the Pantanal last year. This is going to get worse unless the US starts to reduce its CO2 emissions. What's Trump's response? 'Drill, baby. drill'!
He offered to give unlimited drilling rights to companies in return for $1B. I’m concerned some companies may take him up on the offer.
He's apparentlly received $170m in donations towards his inauguration. Heaven knows what he's going to spend it on. The last time various artists politely declined his invitations and he was left wuth country singers, an America's Got Talent contestant and of course Lee Greenwood. This time he might be forced to fall back on his Spotify playlist with endless versions of Schubert's Ave Maria.
I take it one thinks that is an amount 'known', not an actual amount (over the table, not under the table)? A loose least lower bound?
Lying about bribes one has received may take a wee bit of life-long education and finesse, but hey, as one becomes senile, that's what bitcoin is for.
Trump refused to the sign the transition document that would have required him to disclose those donors. Some of them have been told they will not be getting VIP access to various events which are already fully booked up with sycophants. The NYT reports that money left over will go towards the Trump Presidential Library. This reminds me of Gore Vidal telling a joke about the Reagan library. He said that sadly it had been burnt to the ground and both books had been destroyed. Even more regrettably, the president hadn't finished colouring them in. I cannot imagine what books would be allowed in the Trump library (apart from 'The Art of the Deal' and his knock-off bible).
2 billion dollars ring a bell? 80 billionaires and one George Soros. A Musk wanna be.
I doubt George Soros would have made any contribution to the Trump inauguration and to call this 94-year-old philanhropist a "Musk wanna-be" is way off the mark. Indeed, after Biden awarded Soros the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Musk joined the MAGA chorus deploring this decision and Musk accused him of "fundamentally hating humanity". In the past, Musk has likened him to Magneto, a Marvel jewish supervillain an antisemitic trope if there ever was one. Emily Tamkin at Slate describes this as classic projection with the pathetic Musk imagining himself as doing all the good works that Soros has actually accomplished through his Open Society Foundations.
That’s what he ran on. Drill baby drill. And it has nothing to do with him. He is going to unleash drilling, fracking, as he promised and 77 million voted for him for that and the border
The climate fix isn't soon in coming I'm afraid, Russell. Apart from being a slow ship to turn or slow, we still run a net increase in petro burning, which means more up up and away....
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Native So Californian here for 68 years. We love our beautiful state, but the leadership here has been out of control for YEARS! IM so so sorry it had to take a tragedy and loss of life to finally wake some of these people up. Praying for the first responders and all those affected by this fire. Going fwd, I hope we can do what’s best for those who live here and NOT POLITICS AS USUAL! They keep budgeting for infrastructure for water retention, water reclamation, and never allocated and so they never get built. IN 2020/ $1 billion was allocated and it’s still sitting there.
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