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Lil Liberal Laura's JournalTrump White House Counsel ADMITS ON TAPE that Trump scheme was ILLEGAL in New Jan 6 Video
I can only shake my head.
Agriculture emissions pose risks to health and climate
Source: ScienceDaily
Date: June 21, 2022
Source: Rice University
Summary: Environmental engineers determine the economic cost of reactive nitrogen emissions from agriculture, and their significant risks to populations through air pollution and climate change.
The study led by Daniel Cohan, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, and graduate student Lina Luo quantifies emissions of nitrogen oxides, ammonia and nitrous oxide from fertilized soils over three years (2011, 2012 and 2017) and compares their impacts by region on air quality, health and climate.
While seasonal and regional impacts differ across types of emission, the study found total annual damages from ammonia were much larger overall -- at $72 billion -- than those from nitrogen oxides ($12 billion) and nitrous oxide ($13 billion).
Air pollution damages are measured by increased mortality and morbidity and the value of statistical life, while monetized damages from climate change include the threats to crops, property, ecosystem services and human health.
On that basis, the researchers found the health impact of air pollution from ammonia and nitrogen oxides, which react to form particulate matter and ozone, substantially outweighed climate impact from nitrous oxide in all regions and years.
The highest social costs arose from agriculture-heavy regions of California, Florida and the Midwest, where ammonia and nitrogen oxides form air pollution upwind of population centers. For both pollutants, emissions peak in the spring after fertilizers are applied.
Read more: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220621091415.htm
I'm sorry for the unrequested overload of adrenaline, but this is an important subject.
You Don't Get Away That Easy!
As I said the first time, there will be no safe cities! Or towns! Or villages! Or fucking outhouses!
Come Scylla, come Charybdis, I shall continue to nail this point home!!!
India's 49C heatwave - how extreme heat became the norm
If you don't want to see more posts like these, you're going to have to ban me. Sorry.
Extinction In Real Time / Christopher Titus / Armageddon Update
Yes, I am harping on this issue! It's just that I'm a bit under 30, married, and have always wanted to have children, but that option is diminishing fast, as Hub and I are extremely reluctant to bring children into a world that, within their lifetimes, will turn into a manmade Hell.
'Upset no matter what happens': Senate gun deal leaves voters on both sides unsatisfied, frustrated
Source: Yahoo News
Candy Woodall and Rick Rouan
Sat, June 18, 2022, 11:31 AM
Pastor Michael Fox is pissed.
Actually, the 60-year-old Sanford, North Carolina, Presbyterian corrects himself: He's "very pissed."
Fox is among the Republican voters who feels betrayed by GOP senators for supporting a bipartisan gun deal they say chips away at their constitutional right to bear arms.
North Carolina's two Republican senators are among a group of GOP lawmakers backing a gun reform deal in principle for the first time in about 30 years — legislation that was prompted by two mass shootings last month in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas.
This is a massive shift in a party that has always been a firewall against any attempts to restrict gun rights.
However, the 10 Republican senators supporting the deal say they can save lives without sacrificing Second Amendment rights. Most of them are either retiring or won't face voters until 2026.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/upset-no-matter-happens-senate-080005964.html
Seeing as how this story was uploaded over two hours ago, I'm wondering if someone here may have already posted it, even though I checked and didn't see anything. If this is, in fact, a duplicate, just let me know and I'll delete it.
Spain battles wildfires as it swelters in heatwave
Source: Reuters
June 18, 2022
8:52 AM GMT-2:30
MADRID, June 18 (Reuters) - Firefighters battled to bring raging wildfires under control in several parts of Spain on Saturday amid dry and windy conditions, as a heatwave pushed temperatures close to record highs.
Spain was heading towards its hottest early summer temperatures in decades on Saturday, with forecasts of between 40-42 degrees Celsius (104-108 Fahrenheit) in Zaragoza in the northeast and areas of Navarre and La Rioja in northern Spain, according to national weather agency AEMET.
Many areas of Western Europe have been sweltering under unseasonably hot temperatures over the past few days, compounding climate change fears.
In Spain, Zamora, near the border with Portugal, and Catalonia, in the east, were among the worst hit by wildfires.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/spain-battles-wildfires-it-swelters-heatwave-2022-06-18/
There will be no safe place. Anywhere. This is why Hub and me haven't had any kids.
'It's not tolerable anymore': Southwest residents endure more severe heat waves thanks to CC
Source: Yahoo News
Ben Adler·Senior Editor
Thu, June 16, 2022, 7:15 PM
The Southwest suffered through another intense heat wave over the weekend, with Denver, Las Vegas and Phoenix all posting record high temperatures over 100 degrees Fahrenheit on Saturday. Death Valley, in California, reached a record high for June 11 of 122 degrees. In Las Vegas, the mercury rose to a record-setting 109 degrees two days in a row. Then the heat dome moved eastward, with a high temperature of 96 degrees in the Twin Cities of Minnesota.
“Now the heat dome is languishing over the Tennessee Valley and bringing highs of 95 to 100 degrees from the Corn Belt to the Carolinas, with exceptional humidity in the Midwest exacerbating just how sultry it feels,” the Washington Post reported on Wednesday afternoon. “High humidity levels are contributing to heat index values pushing 115 degrees in spots.”
This dramatic heat wave before summer has even officially begun isn’t a freak occurrence; it’s an increasingly common, and dangerous, condition due to climate change. A 2019 study found that severe heat events per year in Las Vegas increased from an average of 3.3 events per year from 2007-2009 to 4.7 per year from 2010-2016. Since 2017, 570 people have died of heat-related causes in Clark County, which includes Las Vegas, up from 241 heat-related deaths in the previous five years, according to the Southern Nevada Health District.
Residents of some of the hottest cities say extreme heat is having a devastating impact, especially on the most disadvantaged residents.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/its-not-tolerable-any-more-southwest-residents-endure-more-severe-heat-waves-thanks-to-climate-change-171400830.html
With apologies to those in Vegas and especially Phoenix, these cities are unnatural and should not even exist.
Poll: Half of Americans now predict U.S. may 'cease to be a democracy' someday
Source: Yahoo News
Andrew Romano·West Coast Correspondent
Wed, June 15, 2022, 11:00 AM
A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that most Democrats (55%) and Republicans (53%) now believe it is “likely” that America will “cease to be a democracy in the future” — a stunning expression of bipartisan despair about the direction of the country.
Half of all Americans (49%) express the same sentiment when independents and those who do not declare any political affiliation are factored in, while just a quarter (25%) consider the end of U.S. democracy unlikely and another quarter (25%) say they’re unsure.
At the same time, however, a large number of Americans seem indifferent to the high-profile hearings by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol — an effort to get to the bottom of one of the most dramatic assaults on the democratic process in U.S. history.
In fact, the new survey of 1,541 U.S. adults — which was conducted from June 10 (the day after the committee’s first hearing) to June 13 (the day of its second) — found that fewer than 1 in 4 (24%) say they watched last Thursday’s initial primetime broadcast live. Only slightly more (27%) say they caught news coverage later. Nearly half (49%) say they did not follow the hearings at all.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/poll-half-of-americans-now-predict-us-may-cease-to-be-a-democracy-someday-090028564.html
Why are Republicans in "despair" about us losing our democracy? They're the ones pushing it!
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