For Bernie fans - Billmon tweets

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Saturday February 06, 2016 · 5:07 AM PST

2016/02/06 · 05:07

...and somehow try to make it sound like it equals this: https://t.co/hcWXZipwLy
A Swift Boat strategy -- go after opponent's strength. 2/2
— Billmon (@billmon1) February 6, 2016

...in the hopes that enough low info voters will conclude both sides say the other side is doing it and who the hell knows anyway? 2/2
— Billmon (@billmon1) February 6, 2016

But it's all Clintons & their team know to do: Cheap, petty tricks.They've failed at going positive; now they're failing at going negative.
— Billmon (@billmon1) February 6, 2016

Sea level by 2050

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Wednesday August 27, 2014 · 9:17 AM PDT

2014/08/27 · 09:17

currently thought plausible amounts of rise in sea level are for 2040 and 2050 TJ? People have been asking me a lot lately. But the last estimate I can recall is from way long ago and I'm remembering 18 inches which has probably changed by now.

Well, here's a guesstimate: Read More

Cuomo waited about one day

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Sunday June 01, 2014 · 2:17 PM PDT

2014/06/01 · 14:17

In a video showed at the W.F.P. convention last night, Cuomo expressed support for a number of key progressive initiatives, like allowing municipalities to raise their minimum wage, an issue he balked at previously.
When I pressed him about the video shown last night, Cuomo said that the change in the minimum wage he supports would be governed by a formula, which means it would be capped and regulated throughout the state.
“What we’re saying, [in] the video last night I said we have to recognize the difference in the cost of living in different markets and I would allow localities within a state-prescribed formula to adjust a local wage,” he said. “But not that the locality gets to set rate wherever they want. I’m against that. I was against it. I am against it.”

Whiteouts at Fukushima

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Saturday February 08, 2014 · 9:34 AM PST

2014/02/08 · 09:34

This hopefully may be nothing but fog. But starting last evening the Fukushima webcam started whiting out. At 7 pm EST it was overcast with snow flurries and crane activity could be seen. At 9 PM the reactor buildings, tower, and cranes were obscured (although an instance of a bird flying between the buildings and the cameras was not). Right now the camera lens is totally obscured by what appears to be condensation.

Might be a steam release, might not.

Here's the webcam link, if you want to take a look.

Fukushima

The End of the Beginning

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Saturday February 01, 2014 · 8:30 AM PST

2014/02/01 · 08:30

Emergency measures

Amid severe drought conditions, California officials announced Friday they won't send any water from the state's vast reservoir system to local agencies beginning this spring, an unprecedented move that affects drinking water supplies for 25 million people and irrigation for 1 million acres of farmland.

But it's not terrorism, so it will probably be ignored by DC.

Fukushima Prefecture Earthquake

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Friday October 25, 2013 · 11:06 AM PDT

2013/10/25 · 11:06

Keep an eye on this, could be bad news.

An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 struck Saturday morning off Japan's east coast, near the crippled Fukushima nuclear site, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Japan's emergency agencies declared a tsunami warning for the area.

Huffpost

Murder Inc.

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Sunday September 01, 2013 · 7:13 AM PDT

2013/09/01 · 07:13

via Atrios

BBC

Last week the plant's operator reported radioactive water had leaked from a storage tank into the ground.
It now says readings taken near the leaking tank on Saturday showed radiation was high enough to prove lethal within four hours of exposure.
.....
The new reading will have direct implications for radiation doses received by workers who spent several days trying to stop the leak last week, the BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports from Tokyo.

Hell of a job, TEPCO.

Here's the dependent NSA review board

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Thursday August 22, 2013 · 11:35 AM PDT

2013/08/22 · 11:35

ABC

The recent acting head of the CIA, Michael Morell, will be among what President Obama called a “high-level group of outside experts” scrutinizing the controversial programs.
Joining Morell on the panel will be former White House officials Richard Clarke, Cass Sunstein and Peter Swire. An announcement is expected Thursday, a source with knowledge of the matter told ABC News’ Jon Karl.

Tank Farm of Death

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Wednesday August 21, 2013 · 8:57 AM PDT

2013/08/21 · 08:57

Reuter's article on the Fukushima leak. Good images on the "temporary" tank farm for radioactive water.

Fukushima

Especially check out the slideshow and the video. You'll get a very good idea why they have leak problems and why they're likely to get worse. Basically, I see large tanks packed together, set on what appears to be asphalt or in one slide right on the dirt, and completely inadequate dikes.

Dear TEPCO, temporary does not mean two years.

10 Years. Max.

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Tuesday July 31, 2012 · 11:53 AM PDT

2012/07/31 · 11:53

First:

NYTimes

My total turnaround, in such a short time, is the result of careful and objective analysis by the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project, which I founded with my daughter Elizabeth. Our results show that the average temperature of the earth’s land has risen by two and a half degrees Fahrenheit over the past 250 years, including an increase of one and a half degrees over the most recent 50 years. Moreover, it appears likely that essentially all of this increase results from the human emission of greenhouse gases.

Larger than the .8 deg C McKibben figure.

Copenhagen_Diagnosis_Fig_21

Source (PDF):
Copenhagen_Diagnosis

Slope of the line from 2000-2100 = .06 deg C/yr

Time to +2.0 deg C (from 1.4 now) ~ 10 years.

Which at 2 ppm CO2/yr will put us at ~ 420 ppm.

2022 is the cliff's edge.

Final days of the (financial) empire

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Monday November 28, 2011 · 7:20 AM PST

2011/11/28 · 07:20

Problem:

$7.77 trillion

$7.77 Trillion
The amount of money the central bank parceled out was surprising even to Gary H. Stern, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis from 1985 to 2009, who says he “wasn’t aware of the magnitude.” It dwarfed the Treasury Department’s better-known $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. Add up guarantees and lending limits, and the Fed had committed $7.77 trillion as of March 2009 to rescuing the financial system, more than half the value of everything produced in the U.S. that year.

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Thursday September 15, 2011 · 9:29 AM PDT

2011/09/15 · 09:29

Danger room

The FBI is teaching its counterterrorism agents that “main stream” [sic] American Muslims are likely to be terrorist sympathizers; that the Prophet Mohammed was a “cult leader”; and that the Islamic practice of giving charity is no more than a “funding mechanism for combat.”

Or did we become a theocracy and I didn't notice? A brain-dead theocracy, at that.

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