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For your situational awareness about our good friend and neighbor to the north. Conservative Party legislators in the Canadian Parliament recently blocked a New Democratic Party (NDP) motion to "officially recognize the State of Palestine," a step that...
by C0RI0LANUS
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on Fri Mar 22, 2024 at 10:43 PM PDT
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Iceland's Current Eruption now a Potential Threat to Northern Hemisphere's High Latitude Ozone Layer Last week I provided an update on the volcanic fissure eruption in Iceland, the 4th such eruption in the past 3 months, and the first time in ~800 years that this particular volcanic system has come back to life — not that Iceland hasn’t experienced...
by Irontortoise
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on Thu Mar 21, 2024 at 03:49 PM PDT
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Corrupt SCOTUS Further Delays Trump Election Theft Trial for Absurd 'Immunity' Case: 'BradCast' 2/29 Guests: Heather Digby Parton of Salon, 'Driftglass' of 'Pro Left Podcast'... I should be in bed nursing my illness (whatever it is), rather than doing today's BradCast. But given the firehose of news, some of it huge, that broke after yesterday's...
by TheBradBlog
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on Thu Feb 29, 2024 at 05:32 PM PST
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For the tens of millions of Americans who rent, whose roofs and yards are unsuitable for solar panels, or whose wallets aren’t ample enough to cover upfront costs of $20,000 or more, collecting on the promise of getting cheap, clean energy from the sun...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Jan 07, 2024 at 08:00 AM PST
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Some of the Arctic's coldest and remotest rivers and tributaries are turning orange. Iron-bearing minerals in thawing permafrost soils from global warming are believed to be subject to weathering and meltwater delivering the mineral-laden soil...
by Pakalolo
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on Thu Dec 21, 2023 at 01:34 PM PST
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U.N. climate conference wraps in Dubai Bad news for Trump in three courts Heartbreaking testimony as Giuliani heads for world of hurt... This week in Dubai, the U.N.'s Climate Secretary declared "the beginning of the end" of the fossil fuel era. Also...
by TheBradBlog
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on Thu Dec 14, 2023 at 10:03 PM PST
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Earth Matters: U.S. wind takes some blows; Mike Johnson thinks the Rapture will solve climate change Two-and-a-half years ago, President Joe Biden announced plans to jumpstart an offshore wind industry in the United States, calling for 30 gigawatts of electricity-generating capacity to be installed by 2030. That would be enough to power 10 million...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Nov 05, 2023 at 08:00 AM PST
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Lisa Kudrow and Randy Rainbow are delightful proof the complaint voiced early in the 21st Century that politicians had killed parody was wrong. Self parody is also still going strong. Because, as many regular Earth Matters readers know, the 28th...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Oct 01, 2023 at 08:00 AM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Sep 15, 2023 at 09:57 PM PDT
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Guest: Meteorologist, author Guy Walton Also: Rudy admits he lied about GA election workers Trump 'Wall' scammer gets 5 years in prison Bundy found liable for $50M in defamation suit... Hot enough for ya? Well, you ain't seen nothing yet. More on that...
by TheBradBlog
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on Wed Jul 26, 2023 at 07:17 PM PDT
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A new study from The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has reaffirmed that human fingerprints are all over climate change warming the Earth's atmosphere (or the troposphere where Earth weather takes place), and also found that the same...
by Pakalolo
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on Thu May 25, 2023 at 07:03 AM PDT
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The entire town of Rolling Fork, Mississipp i, was demolished by a tornado. Snowstorms and tornados are gutting California . The Florida coast�are�drowning ...
by msouza
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on Thu Mar 30, 2023 at 06:00 AM PDT
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A new study has found methane emissions from natural wetlands this century have outpaced the grimmest worst-case scenarios possible. The RCP 8.5 scenario ( Representative Concentration Pathway ) will deliver a 4.3-celsius increase in the world's...
by Pakalolo
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on Wed Mar 22, 2023 at 05:40 AM PDT
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It will affect the entire Earth because the north and south pole is something like a radiator of the Earth, the air conditioning system of the Earth. And the situation we observed indicates the air conditioner is not working well. Hiroshi Sumata A new...
by Pakalolo
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on Thu Mar 16, 2023 at 05:49 AM PDT
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The supreme irony of the Biden administration’s decision announced Monday to green-light ConocoPhillips’ massive, $8 billion Willow oil and gas project in a pristine part of Alaska’s North Slope can be found in a word: thermosiphons. Since the 1960s,...
by Meteor Blades
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on Mon Mar 13, 2023 at 07:35 AM PDT
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A recent study published in Nature Climate Change determined that the central Arctic and the Barents-Kara seas are experiencing anthropogenic-driven warming that is increasing the frequency of Atmospheric Rivers and driving the extreme early winter sea...
by Pakalolo
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on Tue Mar 07, 2023 at 05:56 AM PST
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Earth Matters: Biden's 30-city tour can boost Dems in '24, which is crucial to expand climate policy From his cornering of Republicans for proposing cuts to Social Security and Medicare to his dozen calls to “finish the job” on a range of crucial issues, President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address was brimful of optimism. And, wherever one sits...
by Meteor Blades
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on Thu Feb 09, 2023 at 02:23 PM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but are not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Jan 27, 2023 at 09:18 PM PST
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Michael Crown from the University of Alberta warns about a new study that has found�a new source of greenhouse gases that will compete for the most emissions with the likes of the European Union, ...
by Pakalolo
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on Fri Dec 16, 2022 at 10:16 AM PST
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