Members phkrause Posted April 8 Author Members Share Posted April 8 We can now stop worrying about the planet: FL Legislature has written climate change out of the law You probably think Ron DeSantis and the yahoos, grifters, simps, dolts, and dunderheads who populate the Florida Legislature are collectively incapable of solving even one of the bazillion issues facing this state. https://floridaphoenix.com/2024/04/08/we-can-now-stop-worrying-about-the-planet-fl-legislature-has-written-climate-change-out-of-the-law/? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted April 11 Author Members Share Posted April 11 Exxon Declares War On Its Dissenters ExxonMobil has launched an extraordinary lawsuit against two investment firms for the alleged offense of filing climate-focused shareholder proposals. The fossil fuel giant’s underlying goal: killing a federal regulatory effort that would make it easier for all U.S. shareholders to voice environmental and social concerns about the companies they own. https://www.levernews.com/exxon-declares-war-on-its-dissenters/? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted April 17 Author Members Share Posted April 17 Handing Taxpayers The Climate Cleanup Bill New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Democratic legislative leaders nix a landmark proposal that would have made Hochul’s fossil fuel donors pay for their pollution. https://www.levernews.com/handing-taxpayers-the-climate-cleanup-bill/? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted April 22 Author Members Share Posted April 22 Climate Change Is Coming For Your Insurance As financial safety nets collapse, regulators are letting insurers off the hook. https://www.levernews.com/climate-change-is-coming-for-your-insurance/? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted May 5 Author Members Share Posted May 5 Climate change Ben Affleck as Batman in 2021 film "Zack Snyder's Justice League." Photo: HBO Max A growing number of Hollywood blockbusters explicitly mention the threat of climate change, Los Angeles Times climate columnist Sammy Roth writes from a new academic analysis. 🍿 Roughly 10% of the most popular movies of the past decade include a scene in which the characters address climate change. 🌊 That includes, for example, a scene in "Justice League" in which Batman says, "Mankind's melting the polar ice caps, destroying the ecosystem." Read the column ... Read the report. Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted May 15 Author Members Share Posted May 15 New survey shows 68% of Floridians want state to do more on climate change A survey of more than 1,400 Floridians shows that 68% want the state government to do more to combat climate change and 69% want the federal government to do more to address the issue. However, less than half of all respondents (48%) said they would be willing to pay $10 a month to support strengthening the state’s infrastructure to contend with inclement weather. https://floridaphoenix.com/2024/05/14/new-survey-shows-68-of-floridians-want-state-to-do-more-on-climate-change/? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 2 Author Members Share Posted June 2 Vermont becomes 1st state to enact law requiring oil companies pay for damage from climate change Vermont has become the first state to enact a law requiring fossil fuel companies to pay a share of the damage caused by climate change after the state suffered catastrophic summer flooding and damage from other extreme weather. https://apnews.com/article/vermont-climate-change-superfund-oil-companies-b6565729f23e85eed4d3da44b04ae2e5? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted July 5 Author Members Share Posted July 5 Trump dodges climate change question despite its effect on Florida He echoes the little dog in the burning house saying, ‘This is fine,’ but Hurricane Beryl shows it’s not https://floridaphoenix.com/2024/07/04/trump-dodges-climate-change-question-despite-its-effect-on-florida/? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonnie1962 Posted July 6 Share Posted July 6 July 5, 2024 Climate change season is upon us! By Charles Landon Summer is here,which means climate change season Indeed, one of the biggest fallacies of our time is the assumption that falsely so-called “climate change” is a provable, global reality that must be accepted as such without question. The fact that very little of the climate change narrative can be empirically seen or demonstrated is conveniently ignored by those perpetuating the scam In the recent presidential debate between Biden and Trump, a CNN moderator posed a question to both participants in the debate by preceding it with this statement: Another persistent challenge was the climate crisis. 2023 was the hottest year in recorded history and communities across the country are confronting the devastating effects of extreme heat, intensifying wildfires, stronger hurricanes and rising sea levels. Where to begin with this leftist mélange of conjecture, falsehood, and leading statements? Let’s start with the concept of climate. Climate has been called the long-term average of prevailing weather patterns. But the political left, which controls the narrative, assumes there is a single, universal, all-encompassing climate — a sort of one-size-fits-all environment — that can easily be boxed up and presented as being identical all over the world. But can we compare the climate of, say, Antarctica to that of southern Florida? Of course not — they are two completely different climates, and what’s true for one isn’t necessarily true for the other. The truth is, there are thousands of climates around the world: regional climates, local climates, micro-climates and even artificial climates. But the idea that there’s a single worldwide climate is a fallacy. The second fallacy is that the global climate (which doesn’t actually exist) is somehow changing, or, more specifically, getting warmer due to the activities of man. But in point of fact, temperatures are not rising in the aggregate, but have remained steady for at least the last 20 years if not longer. As proof of this, I offer the following chart, which I myself have meticulously recorded in an Excel spreadsheet every day since the mid-2000s. It shows the daily high temperature of my corner of the southeastern coast of the U.S., and as you can see, there’s no discernible rising temperature trend over the last two decades. As for rising sea levels, as a 25-year resident of an Atlantic coastal town, I can assure you that none of the local beaches is being inundated by water at high tide — an observable fact in beaches all over the country. Another point is that CNN’s claim that last year was the “hottest year ever” — the same exact claim that has been made every year for the last few years — is demonstrably untrue. Note in the temperature chart that the last major spike in summer temperatures for my neck of the woods was in 2009. That’s 15 years since my part of the country has seen a “hottest year” in the last two decades. Now, before anyone protests that I’m showing an isolated example, remember that the claim of the left is that the entire globe is getting hotter. I hasten to point out that my town is a part of that globe, and what’s true for the globe — according to leftist thinking — must necessarily be true for my corner of it. Clearly, that is not the case. As an aside, it has never been explained to us exactly how these left-leaning climatologists are collecting and collating their temperature data. In other words, they’re not “showing us their math,” nor are they explaining to us how they arrive at the conclusion that global temperatures are getting hotter. For instance, are they using a simple average of every temperature point on the planet? Every town, city, state, province, etc.? Or are they using a selective average of just a relative handful of temperature points to make their case? This of course assumes they aren’t outright manipulating the data, as recent research suggests they are. But even if they’re being honest, the question remains: how are they averaging global temperatures? To date, that question has never been answered. The third fallacy of the climate change falsehood is that, even if we accept there’s a global temperature problem, we’re expected to believe that the governments of the world can collectively solve the problem. For anyone who remains skeptical that governments are anything other than corrupt and incompetent, I would remind you of the worldwide manufactured crisis we all just passed through just a few short years ago. I’m referring to the COVID episode. Before that, it was the two-decades-long War on Terror. At no time during these last two events have we seen any evidence that government response to an alleged crisis has been anything other than abject failure. In fact, government policies that were predicated on fixing these phony crises only made matters worse for most citizens. At the end of the day, the so-called climate crisis is yet another attempt by government to grab more power and tax dollars at the expense of the ever-shrinking middle class. Even if there was truly a temperature problem, government would certainly have no way of making those temperatures decline. But since there is no temperature crisis — and hence no climate disaster — the response of government to a non-event will only serve to create major problems for the entire country in the years ahead. Our task as citizens, therefore, is to resist the climate agenda of the left and refuse to even acknowledge it, let alone comply with any of its demands. The future of our republic depends on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted July 18 Author Members Share Posted July 18 As climate change alters lakes, tribes and conservationists fight for the future of spearfishing HAYWARD, Wis. (AP) — Chilly nights on northern Wisconsin’s Chippewa Flowage don’t deter 15-year-old spearfisher Gabe Bisonette. He’s been learning the Ojibwe practice for so long now that when his headlamp illuminates the eye-shine of his quarry, he can communicate the sighting to his dad with hardly a word. https://apnews.com/article/spearfishing-ojibwe-tribe-climate-change-6c93f72c06db0086bc361271ec402681? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted July 21 Author Members Share Posted July 21 The “greenhouse effect”: How an oft-touted climate solution threatens agricultural workers To harvest tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers, to clip herbs, people work in oppressive heat and humidity. Some contend with headaches, dizziness and nausea. Some collapse. Many do so not out in farm fields, but indoors – under the roofs of greenhouses where workers describe unbearable humidity paired with temperatures sometimes soaring past 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Read more. Why this matters: They work in a gray area – they’re both indoor and agricultural workers, but are not always included in efforts to protect the latter. There are no federal heat protections in the U.S. for agricultural workers, nor are there federal guidelines specifically requiring greenhouses to measure temperatures and humidity. Heat combined with humidity makes it harder for sweat to evaporate to cool the body, creating a potentially more dangerous scenario. In those conditions, workers who don’t get enough breaks in cooler environments, whose shifts are not pushed earlier or later in the summer and whose managers ignore their concerns are the most at risk. Between 2010 and 2019, nursery and greenhouse operations nearly doubled their hiring of H-2A agricultural visa holders, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. Without some legally binding protections, workers’ ability to speak up about conditions becomes harder. RELATED COVERAGE ➤ Greenhouses are becoming more popular, but there’s little research on how to protect workers Things to know about heat deaths as a dangerously hot summer shapes up in the western US Green agendas clash in Nevada as company grows rare plant to help it survive effects of a mine Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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