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This will be short and sweet (with a strong dose of speculation)... Question fo real-estate lawyers and lenders: It has been reported that a lot of Trump’s real-estate holdings have mortgages on them, and such loan agreements typically come with a...
by Doc Savage
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on Mon Feb 26, 2024 at 05:22 PM PST
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Anyone who blogs on Daily Kos is aware that the world's ice is melting, causing sea level rise, changes in the balance of fresh versus salt water in the oceans of the world, a loss of reflection of solar energy back into space that has significantly...
by Pakalolo
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on Sat Feb 24, 2024 at 05:55 AM PST
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“Let me warn fisherfolk, those with vessels, those with jet skis, swimmers, whomever, please avoid the area as much as possible. Don’t go purposefully sightseeing and sailing into the area. It’s not an opportunity to go sightseeing isn’t an opportunity...
by Pakalolo
225 comments
on Sun Feb 11, 2024 at 04:54 AM PST
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Vidar Helgesen, former Minister of Climate and Environment in Norway, made history when he warned the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in 2017 that “What happens in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic.”. At the time, the Arctic was clearly showing signs...
by Pakalolo
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on Wed Feb 14, 2024 at 04:10 PM PST
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As if we need more snarky news on how much apocalyptic trouble we are in, The Guardian chimes in and shares this feel-good story: How do you stop a glacier from melting? Simple – put up an underwater curtain. John Gibbons asked nobody in particular,...
by Pakalolo
22 comments
on Sat Feb 10, 2024 at 10:03 AM PST
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According to data from NOAA and the North American Ice Service, the world’s ice is in serious trouble not only in the polar regions but also in the Great Lakes, partly due to climate change. Lake Ice in the Great Lakes has declined over the past fifty...
by Pakalolo
137 comments
on Wed Jan 03, 2024 at 03:45 AM PST
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Sorry to harsh the holiday vibe. Violence, climate change, consumption, and racism are accelerating. The gods may move slow, but when they do move, they move inexorably. We feel like we have control over climate collapse but we don’t. This change has been a long time coming and we just happen to be here when it plays out. It’s like being on the beach...
by Pakalolo
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on Mon Nov 27, 2023 at 04:05 AM PST
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It’s hard to imagine that any human activity could bring peace to the I/P conflict. But I believe human activity will bring peace to these lands; the most awful peace possible; a peace that will render all of the conflict today into violence without...
by AndyT
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on Wed Nov 08, 2023 at 01:00 PM PST
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Since the start of the industrial revolution, methane has caused maybe 30% of the atmospheric warming to date. Currently an estimated 40% of methane discharge into the atmosphere comes from leaks in the petroleum industry. To give you an idea of the...
by ohthatoneguy
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on Wed Oct 18, 2023 at 09:40 PM PDT
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No, this is not a diary about that painful nitwit Kevin McCarthy and his merry band of chaos monkey nudniks. Sorry. I know they’re vastly entertaining, but this is not about that. This is a diary about the climate, in which I echo John Gibbons in...
by SninkyPoo
247 comments
on Thu Oct 05, 2023 at 01:34 PM PDT
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Are we already in the early stages of societal collapse? Or are we, like a frog being slowly boiled, still unaware of what may come? We’ve read what’s been happening in San Francisco. “A very similar MO from what’s been reported in other cities, and...
by Adventurist
87 comments
on Tue Sep 05, 2023 at 04:34 PM PDT
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The Sonoran Desert is the only area where the iconic Saguaro cactus grows. The Desert covers southern Arizona and the State of Sonora in Mexico. The California Sonoran habitat is limited to the Whipple Mountains, and Imperial County has only 30 Saguaro...
by Pakalolo
129 comments
on Sat Jul 29, 2023 at 05:19 AM PDT
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A new study published in Nature Sustainability found that ecosystem collapse will come sooner than previously thought. The researchers discovered how tipping points of nature "can amplify and accelerate one another." One-fifth of the earth's...
by Pakalolo
215 comments
on Fri Jun 23, 2023 at 05:28 AM PDT
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Where the fuck is the media? Most of them are completely useless for today's challenges. Northern Mexico will endure temperatures up to 122 degrees Fahrenheit as a relentless heat dome provides no relief from deadly temperatures that have baked the...
by Pakalolo
230 comments
on Mon Jun 26, 2023 at 06:10 AM PDT
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"Fire isn't going away. We're going to be burning for this entire century. We're going through a global regime change and a whole bunch of things are going to catch on fire, and catch on fire again, until something new grows there, something different...
by Pakalolo
221 comments
on Sat May 13, 2023 at 03:06 AM PDT
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“You can compare it to a loaded gun. The magazine is full, but the atmosphere hasn’t pulled the trigger yet.” Prof Axel Timmermann, IBS Center for Climate Physics. Pusan National University in South Korea. Hundreds of miles along the Pacific at the...
by Pakalolo
136 comments
on Sat May 06, 2023 at 03:03 PM PDT
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You wouldn't know it from today's media coverage, but news of a superhot ocean is a much more consequential event for our world than the firing of a conspiracy-slinger on a right wing TV network that profits off disinformation and lies. Jeff Goodell,...
by Pakalolo
98 comments
on Wed Apr 26, 2023 at 02:19 AM PDT
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The Barents Observer reports that Russia continues excavating the high Arctic permafrost on land and under the sea to open new Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) terminals and dig channels for transporting the LNG in the shallow continental shelves and bays...
by Pakalolo
79 comments
on Tue Feb 21, 2023 at 07:09 AM PST
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Rainfall disruption by the warming climate brings more drought and more flooding to Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve and the Serengeti, where the largest terrestrial migration of Wildebeest, Gazelle, and Zebra has so damaged the ecosystem that the...
by Pakalolo
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on Tue Feb 14, 2023 at 07:30 AM PST
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I believe that water is the closest thing to a god we have here on earth. We are in awe of its power and majestic beauty. We are drawn to it as if it's a magical, healing force. We gestate in it, are made of it, and need to drink it to live. We are...
by Pakalolo
291 comments
on Fri Feb 03, 2023 at 06:25 AM PST
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