Heat

Most of us have heard the tale of the frog in boiling water. If you try to put a frog in boiling water, it will hop out, but if you place it in the water and heat it slowly, it will sit and cook to death. The Republican party has...

More
  • November 30, 2022

Sidney Poitier was a dual citizen of the Bahamas and the United States, born in Miami when his parents were in Florida. He has shown brightly in my life since 1966. The Bahamas’ national flower is the Tecoma stans, commonly called the Yellow Elder. It is bright yellow with a...

More
  • January 7, 2022

The 26th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP-26), scheduled to open on 10/31/21 in Glasgow, Scotland. COP brings wealthy and developing nations together to discuss fighting climate change as one entity. The conference for this year will attempt to finish the rules for the carbon market, not completed at...

More
  • October 27, 2021

Democratic voters are depressed, demoralized, and tuning out — and there's no use in denying it. Amanda Marcotte In a couple of weeks, the world will come together in Glasgow, Scotland, in what is yet another attempt for worldwide action to attempt to prevent planetwide devastation trajectory we have yet to slow...

More
  • October 16, 2021

As she walked through Ronald Reagan airport, Senator Krysten Sinema of Arizona confronted climate activists and others over her ongoing obstruction of the 3.5 trillion dollars build-back better plan. The former Green Party activist who campaigned for Ralph Nader in 2000 (which helped Goerge W Bush win the presidential election...

More
  • October 5, 2021

As she walked through Ronald Reagan airport, Senator Krysten Sinema of Arizona was confronted by climate activists over her ongoing obstruction of the 3.5 trillion dollars build-back better plan. The 3.5 plan is where the majority of climate provisions can be found. It is strongly opposed by the fossil fuel interests that...

More
  • October 5, 2021

If you were old enough and curious enough, most of us can remember where we were when tragedy struck. Historically sad events have a way of freezing that point in time like it is suspended in dry ice; only thawed by the heat of another heartbreak. Again, if you are...

More
  • September 13, 2021

When I was a boy and strayed way, way past the rules of behavior set by my great-grandmother, she would say, “ enough is enough, and too much (sic) stinks.” Well, we reached that point in Afghanistan on Sunday. From the time then-National Security Director Zbigniew Brzezinski convinced then-President Carter,...

More
  • August 18, 2021

This is not a joke. This is what Texans must live through. A governor and his party that has Texas in a state of disarray. Texas Governor needs electricity, not a wall See full episodes here. It was just a few months ago when Texas suffered one of its worst...

More
  • June 15, 2021

Republicans desperately want you to forget the events of Jan. 6 and their aftermath. Unfortunately, the guy who caused the riot (at least according to Mitch McConnell) is still the face of their party, and so they have to do an awkward little dance where they pretend he’s actually not a...

More
  • April 25, 2021

According to new findings from the University of California San Diego and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, primarily in summer, unprecedented quantities of heat from the Pacific are pouring into the Arctic Ocean through the Bering Strait. This likely explains the rapid decimation of sea ice in the region. The decline has...

More
  • April 23, 2021

“Dadirri listens and knows, witnesses, feels, empathizes in the pain under the anger, and, if the anger is accompanied by action, seeks to understand the thoughts and feelings behind the action. Dadirri then seeks to find the source of that pain in knowledge-building for a deepening understanding of the more...

More
  • April 23, 2021

Very little is known about rainfall in Antarctica; precipitation falls as snow on the bitter cold ice-covered continent. But during the austral summer of 2013-2014, an Adélie penguin colony near Dumont d’Urville station on coastal Adélie Land experienced “unusual and dramatic rainfall event that occurred on January 1, 2014, and that was...

More
  • April 22, 2021

“Concurrent extreme events of more than one kind, rather than isolated events of a single type, will be the ones that actually harm people, society, and the economy.”  Katrina Bennett, Los Alamos National Laboratory hydrologist and lead author of the study Over 40 million people in the western United States rely on...

More
  • April 14, 2021

Two stories posted on Political Wire near each other (probably deliberately) caught my attention. First: Republicans pray for truce after Trump attacks on McConnell (Politico) Though the Senate GOP is tantalizingly close to retaking the majority next year and largely united in opposition to President Joe Biden’s agenda, the ongoing...

More
  • April 13, 2021
  • 1

I’m not sure what Matt Gaetz expected. After all, the only exercise Donald Trump ever gets involves golf, languorous coitusTM, and throwing former “friends” under the bus. (Again, Trump has no actual “friends.” He has acquaintances he’s yet to shiv in the liver.) For years, people have filled Gaetz’s head...

More
  • April 6, 2021
/ 2000 / 2019 / 2020 / 2021 / 2021election / 2022 / 2022Election / 2022midterms / alone / AmercianRescuePlan / Authority / Ballot / Beck / Becoming / Blue / BlueWave / BrianSims / businesses / Campaign / Campaigns / Candidate / Capitol / Censure / Census / CEO / Change / CHIP / Choice / ChuckSchumer / Climate / Climate Change / ClimateChange / College / Community / Congress / Congressional / Congressman / Conservative / Contributions / CoronaVirus / Corporations / Court / COVID / Covid-19 / Dad / Data / Democracy / Democrats / Dems / Difference / disarray / Donald / Donald Trump / Donate / Donation / Duck / e / Economics / Election / Elections / Employment / Energy / England / Facebook / FAIR / Families / Family / Federal / Fetterman / Fight / Floyd / Fundraising / Future / Gay / General / Gerrymandering / give / GOP / Government / Governor / Grassroots / Health / Health Insurance / Heat / Help / History / Hope / Hunger / Impeachment / incident / Independence / Independent / infection / Information / Insurance / Insurrection / Internet / Jews / Joe / John / Kids / Law / Leaders / Legislation / letter / Local / Mail / Mandates / mask / Mass / Mayor / members / News / Occupation / PA / Pandemic / Party / Pennsylvania / Philadelphia / Philly / plans / Police / Politics / Power / President / Primary / Prison / Progressives / Protest / Race / Redistricting / Reelection / Reform / Registration / Representation / Republican / Republican Party / Republicans / Right / Riot / Salmon / School / Schools / Senate / Senators / Service / Sports / State / Stop / supporters / Technology / Time / Trump / Tweet / Twitter / Volunteers / Vote / Voter / Voters / Voting / Washington / Wife / Women / Workers / World / Writing / Zoom

Here’s some big news today out of Pennsylvania: .@JohnFetterman announces he raised $3.9 million in the first quarter for his Pennsylvania U.S. Senate run, through 140,000 contributions. A big haul of 💰 at an early stage. — Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) April 1, 2021 Lt. Gov. John Fetterman said he raised...

More
  • April 1, 2021
/ 1972 / 2008 / 2018 / 2019 / 2020 / 2021 / 2022 / Access / ACM / Administration / alone / Anger / AnticapitalistChat / AntiCapitalistMeetup / Arizona / Assault / Authority / biden / birth / BLM / Border / Brown / Business / California / Campaign / Capital / Capitalism / Carbon / CarbonCapture / Cartel / Challenge / Change / China / Choice / Choices / Christian / Cities / Citizens / Climate / Climate Change / CO2 / Coal / Collapse / Collusion / Community / comparisons / Con / Connect / Conservation / Convention / Conviction / Cooperation / CoronaVirus / Corporations / Corrupt / Counties / Crazy / Crime / Crisis / damn / Data / DC / Debate / Debt / Decision / Deforestation / Degrowth / Delaware / Democracy / demonstrations / Destruction / Difference / Diversity / e / Ecocide / Ecology / Economic / Economics / Economist / Economy / Ecosocialism / Ecuador / effort / Electric / Electricity / email / Emergency / Emissions / Energy / Environment / Environmental Justice / Equality / EU / Europe / Evidence / Exercise / EXTRA / Extreme / ExxonMobil / Fail / Family / Farmers / Federal / Fight / Financial / financialization / focus / Food / Forests / France / Freedom / Fuel / Future / GDP / Gender / General / give / gnd / GOP / governing / Government / Guilt / Hamilton / Happy / Heat / Help / highlights / History / Holland / Idaho / IDEA / Ideas / Immigration / Income / Inequality / Information / Infrastructure / International / interrogation / Introduction / Iran / Italy / Jobs / John / junk / Justice / Killed / King / Law / Legal / Livestock / Lobbyists / Local / Logging / Macron / Manufacturing / Marx / members / mergers / Messaging / Minneapolis / Minnesota / Monarchy / Nationalism / Nature / negative / Nevada / New Jersey / News / NPR / October / Oil / Oregon / p / Pandemic / Paris / Party / Pennsylvania / plans / Plants / policies / POTUS / Power / President / Press / Primary / principles / problem / Protest / Protests / Public / Questions / Rage / REAL / Recession / Recovery / Reform / Relationship / Representation / Representatives / Republican / Republican Party / Resistance / Resolution / Response / Responsibility / Reuters / Revolution / Rich / Right / Roots / Rules / Sage / Sanctions / Science / Security / Solar / Solutions / Space / Spain / species / Spencer / State / Stop / stranded / Strategy / Strikes / Subsidies / suburbs / Tax / Technology / Texas / TheEconomist / Thinking / Threat / Time / Trade / Transition / Trump / Twitter / unhealthy / Union / urgency / Utah / Values / Victims / Video / Vote / Wall / Washington / Water / Wealth / Weather / Wildfires / Wildlife / Wind / Winter / World / WSJ / Yale / YouTube

The sparse number of actual carbon capture and sequestration projects plus weak carbon markets amplify the problems of the climate crisis yet to be revisited, post-Trump. Two heartland examples in North Dakota and Texas show how there are several interlocking problems addressing the climate crisis that must be included in future environmental policy. More specifically...

More
  • February 28, 2021
/ 15minimumwage / 2018 / 2019 / 2020 / 2022 / 2022Election / 2022midterms / Addiction / Agriculture / Alcohol / AltRight / Arrest / Arts / bars / Belief / biden / Bipartisan / Black / Blow / Blue / BlueWave / Brazil / Broken / Budget / Business / Campaign / Campaigns / Candidate / Cannabis / Capitol / CDC / Change / Children / ChuckSchumer / ClimateChange / Community / CoronaVirus / Courage / CriminalJustice / Death / Deaths / Debate / Debates / Decision / Democrat / Democrats / Disease / Donate / e / Economic / Endorsements / Environment / Evidence / Exposure / Families / Family / Fetterman / Flag / Flags / Fracking / freedoms / friends / Fuel / gain / Gay / Gender / GOP / Government / Governor / Guilt / hanging / HealthCare / Heat / Helping / History / Hobby Lobby / Hope / IDEA / incident / Inspiration / Integrity / Interview / Jobs / John / Justice / Kids / Law / Legal / Legislation / LGBT / LGBTQ / lifestyle / Local / Love / Mail / Marijuana / Mayor / Medical / Message / Money / moral / Mother / Movies / MSNBC / Murder / Murphy / New Jersey / new york / News / ok / PA / Pandemic / Party / Pennsylvania / Philadelphia / Pittsburgh / Plants / Police / Power / President / Primary / principles / problem / Progressive / Progressives / Public / Questions / Race / Representatives / Republican / Republicans / Right / Safety / SAT / School / Senate / Senators / Shooting / Soldiers / Solutions / Space / Spotlight / State / StateHouse / stereotypes / Stimulus / Tax / Threat / Time / Twitter / Unions / Values / Video / Vote / Wages / Wife / Wolf

From The Hill: Spoiler: Passing laws would indeed make my flags go away. Just not that one. Let’s do the right things for Pennsylvania. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 — John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) February 24, 2021 Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, a Democratic Senate candidate, has replaced the pro-weed and LGBTQ rights flags hanging from...

More
  • February 25, 2021
/ 2016 / 2016 Election / 2018 / 2020 / 2021 / 2022 / 2022Election / 2022midterms / 2024 / Abbott / Abuse / Administration / Affair / Affordable Care Act / alone / AltRight / Americans / AntiTrust / appearance / asshole / Austin / Authority / Ballot / Base / biden / Blow / Blue / BlueWave / Bribery / Business / California / Campaign / Campaigns / Cancun / Candidate / Candidates / Capitol / carter / Census / Challenge / Change / CHIP / Choice / ClimateCrisis / Coalition / Confirmation / Congress / Congressman / Conservative / Contributions / Cornyn / CoronaVirus / Corrupt / Court / Courts / Crimes / Crisis / Dallas / Data / Decision / Democracy / Democrat / Democrats / Deportation / Deportations / Donald / Donald Trump / DonaldTrump / Donate / Donors / Dumb / Election / Elections / Electric / Electricity / Emergency / Energy / Enforcement / Extreme / Failure / FBI / Federal / Financial / Florida / Fraud / Fundraising / Future / General / Georgia / Google / GOP / Government / Governor / Health / Health Insurance / HealthCare / Heat / Helping / House / Houston / Idiot / Immigration / Income / Injunction / Insurance / Investigation / Investigations / Joe / John / Judge / Justice / Latino / Law / LawSuits / Legal / Legislation / legislators / letter / Losing / March / Mayor / members / Mexico / Michigan / Money / new york / New York Times / News / Obama / Obamacare / October / Opinion / PAC / Pandemic / Party / Paul / Pennsylvania / plans / Police / policies / Power / President / Presidential / Press / Press Release / Public / Race / REAL / Real Estate / Reelection / Registration / Republican / Republicans / Reputation / Response / risks / Science / Senate / State / State House / Strength / Strike / Target / Tax / Taxes / Ted Cruz / Texas / Time / Trial / Trouble / Trump / Turnout / Twitter / Utah / Voter / Voters / Washington / Washington Post / Weather / Whistleblower / Winter / Wisconsin

Texas really is full of dumb GOP fuckers: x NEW: Texas AG Ken Paxton left the state during the deadly power outages last week to meet with his counterpart in Utah. Paxton's spox did not answer Qs about when he left or returned and why the trip was not postponed....

More
  • February 22, 2021

Scientists have successfully cloned an endangered black-footed ferret from the genes of an animal named Willa that had died over thirty years ago. After Willa died, her remains were frozen and sent from Wyoming to San Diego Zoo Global that maintains a bank of frozen tissues for over 1,100 endangered and...

More
  • February 19, 2021

Ted Cruz tried to slither around the coverage of his holiday in Cancun, including an interview on Hannity to offset a series of lies once social media caught him at the airport.  #TedFled because he’s really not all about the accountability or even patriotism considering his role in the insurrection. Cruz's...

More
  • February 19, 2021

Good God almighty. Well, this proves Ted Cruz isn’t the Zodiac Killer, because even the Zodiac Killer wouldn’t be sociopathic enough to blame his fucking kids for the biggest asshole move in Texas history. New Statement from @tedcruz: pic.twitter.com/0WMni5O9R1 — Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) February 18, 2021 The full text: Statement...

More
  • February 18, 2021

The “Arctic is already under such threat from so many angles, and while production there is expensive, it is also very, very high risk. It requires absolutely the strongest levels of global oversight.” Phoebe Barnard, Professor at Washington’s Conservation Biology Institute Putin’s Russia made history today when the Christophe de Margerie, the enormous...

More
  • February 16, 2021

Received this e-mail today from the progressive organization, Indivisible: When we woke up this morning, Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) was trending on Twitter. And you should be pissed off. Yesterday, she told Politico that she’s opposed to including raising the federal minimum wage to $15 in the COVID-19 relief package moving through...

More
  • February 13, 2021

Received this e-mail today from Attorney General candidate, Charlie Bailey’s (D. GA) campaign: Hi folks — Here’s what the Georgia GOP themselves have had to say about their new voter suppression laws — they’re not even trying to hide the obvious anymore: Gwinnett Elections Board Chairwoman Alice O’Lenick: “I'm like a...

More
  • February 9, 2021

There’s that old adage about evil people doing evil things and good people standing by and doing nothing. It’s a powerful reminder that we all have to remain diligent in order to preserve the wispy bonds of comity and goodwill that hold our fragile republic together.   There might also be a...

More
  • January 28, 2021

Eunice Foote was born in NY state in 1819. She had gone to university at the Troy Female Seminary (N/K/A Emma Willard School), where she was encouraged to attend a nearby college to study science. It was there where she learned her scientific skills for her free-thinking experiments.  In fact, she was not...

More
  • January 26, 2021

More will be revealed now that Trump is out of power and Congress is moving quickly to the second impeachment as the trial begins 8 February. Lawfare ahead, getting medieval again. They won't! Nor will the Kremlin (same thing.) Unless he and his sycophants are prosecuted they will continue to...

More
  • January 23, 2021

We were warned, now a new study has determined that the Earth’s plants' ability to sequester carbon emissions through photosynthesis will be halved by the 2030s or 2040s from what it is today at ten percent. That kind of loss will turn the natural world into a heat and carbon source, bringing...

More
  • January 19, 2021

We were warned, now a new study has determined that the Earth’s plants’ ability to sequester carbon emissions through photosynthesis will be halved by the 2030s or 2040s from what it is today at ten percent. That kind of loss will turn the natural world into a heat and carbon source, bringing...

More
  • January 19, 2021

Now this is how you get a Trump’s attention—peel away her unearned and undeserved social status. Vanity Fair: Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have only been landowners in Miami’s exclusive “Billionaire’s Bunker” enclave since December, but it seems the couple is already having some issues with their new neighbors. While...

More
  • January 14, 2021

Lauren Boebert (R-CO) just had a brief stand off with Capitol police because her emotional support Glock would have set off the metal detectors. or maybe the bag search would have found the extra magazines. x Congresswoman Lauren Boebert was in stand-off on Capitol Hill after refusing bag search. She...

More
  • January 13, 2021

The big day is here! Grassroots groups are pushing to  help boost Democratic Election Day  turnout in Georgia and here are a few ways you can help. I received this e-mail just now from Serve America  PAC: Today is the big day. Control of the U.S. Senate will be decided...

More
  • January 5, 2021

Antarctica researchers have become alarmed by a new finding that shows sub-glacial lakes under the Thwaites glacier are draining a significant amount of water to the bedrock under miles thick with ice. Once the lake water reaches the bedrock, it lubricates the glacier enough to create frictional heat at the bed...

More
  • December 28, 2020
/ 2008 / 2016 / 2018 / 2019 / 2020 / Access / Administration / Advertising / anticapitalism / anticapitalismmeetup / anticapitalist / appearance / Appropriation / Banks / Bears / Belief / Black / Bloomberg / Business / Campaigns / Capital / Capitalism / Carbon / Cars / Catastrophic / Change / Chevron / Choice / Choices / Climate / Climate Change / Coal / Common Sense / comparisons / Compensation / Congress / Conspiracy / contract / Cooper / CoronaVirus / Courts / Crisis / Culture / Cut / Danger / dangerous / Data / Dead / Debates / Decision / Destroy / Destruction / Diversity / e / Economic / Economics / Economy / Ecosocialism / Education / effort / Electric / Electricity / Emissions / Energy / Enforcement / England / Environment / Ethanol / Evidence / Evil / Extinction / ExxonMobil / Facts / Faith / Fire / focus / Forests / France / Fuel / Future / gain / General / give / God / Government / Governor / greenwashing / Guilty / harvey / Heat / Help / Helping / History / Holocaust / Hope / Humanity / Hypocrisy / IDEA / Ideology / ignorance / Income / Information / Infrastructure / Intelligence / interference / International / Interview / Introduction / IP / jail / John / Judge / Killed / Legal / letter / Liberal / Lobbyists / Local / Madison / Marx / Media / miners / Money / moral / Murray / Nature / negative / NewYorker / Oil / p / Pandemic / Pardon / Paris / Party / Paul / Plants / Policing / PoliticalEconomy / Pollution / Positive / Power / Pragmatism / Prison / problem / ProPublica / Public / Race / Rainfall / REAL / Reality / Rebellion / Reflection / Relationship / Religious / Renewal / Republican / Republican Party / Respect / Response / Rich / rise / risks / Rules / School / Science / September / Service / Slavery / Solar / species / Stanford / State / Sweden / Target / Tax / Technology / Tesla / TheGuardian / Thinking / Threats / Time / Trade / Transition / Trouble / Trump / Truth / Twitter / Union / Vaccine / value-form / Values / Victims / Wall / Wall Street / warren / Water / Wind / World / YouTube

The neoliberals’ “free market” is not going to sequester enough carbon to save the environment. Even Warren Buffett isn’t willing to take a bet on surviving an impending climate crisis catastrophe, because “the rents are too high”. Existential threats have a critical reality, about which ruthless criticism is entailed. Even...

More
  • December 27, 2020

If Marco Rubio really wants to upbraid people who have lied and been disingenuous about COVID-19, he doesn’t have to look far. For instance, there’s Donald Trump, who told Bob Woodward how he downplayed the virus early on and, indeed, always intended to downplay it. You also have Donald Trump, who...

More
  • December 27, 2020

The Independent writes on the intensification of melting on the Antarctic peninsula. Last year's melt season was the highest in forty years of satellite records. Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf experienced its highest rate of melting since records began 40 years ago from 2019-2020, a new study has found. The unprecedented melt at...

More
  • December 11, 2020

For starters, this  “No Trespassing” sign isn’t on private property.  It’s on Tualatin Hills Park and Recreation Lands that are open to the public as the Rock Creek Greenway, west of Portland Oregon. Fortunately there are many anglers who are simply crazed about catching fish and who would wade through Hell fire for...

More
  • December 5, 2020

Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table with other readers of Daily Kos who aren’t throwing pies at one another. Drop by to talk about music, your weather, your garden, or what you cooked for supper…. Newcomers may notice that...

More
  • December 5, 2020

We will remember 2020 as the good old days as the climate continues to overheat due to our failure to rein in heat-trapping fossil fuel emissions. Heck, this year might even be the coolest we will experience for an unknowable number of Millenium. We have entered perilous times, and physics will...

More
  • December 3, 2020

COVID-19 patients in American hospitals has surpassed 100,000 for the first time as supply networks will be attacked by gangsters hijacking supplies, and there will inevitably be the problems of guaranteed purity and authenticity. Distribution will get compromised and regulation will be stressed. CNN: The United States reported at least...

More
  • December 3, 2020

Men argue. Nature acts. Voltaire Climate change does not respect any international borders. Disaster is coming for us all at some point, regardless of the color of our skin. People should insist on the government's actions and not worry about our beautiful minds. It’s not all about you, America. Only wealthy...

More
  • November 27, 2020

“It’s gotten so out of whack that we are now looking at survival for our children, not survival of our grandchildren.”, Peter Carter, M.D., – reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and founder of the Climate Emergency Institute. Dozens of scientists from Sweden, Russia, China, and seven other countries studied methane emissions...

More
  • November 23, 2020

“It’s gotten so out of whack that we are now looking at survival for our children, not survival of our grandchildren.”, Peter Carter, M.D., – reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and founder of the Climate Emergency Institute. Dozens of scientists from Sweden, Russia, China, and seven other countries studied methane emissions...

More
  • November 23, 2020

200g softened troll fat 200g rock salt lightly crushed 4 tsp rat droppings ½ tsp deplorable extract 175g finely sifted dandruff 85g ground confederate flags ½ tsp of ground flag pins 300g sour grapes 100ml MAGA tears 2 tsp conspiracy theory extract Throw every thing into the cats litter tray...

More
  • November 15, 2020

From The Intercept: IF SEN. DAVID PERDUE wins reelection in Georgia’s runoff in January, the Republican Party will almost certainly maintain its Senate majority. Perdue, an outspoken climate denier, urged President Donald Trump to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accords; voted against a Senate resolution that affirmed that climate change is real and that...

More
  • November 14, 2020

The Greater Glider, one of many marsupials that evolved in Australia, is three species and not one as had been previously thought. The findings from a new study mean that the population of each species is smaller than thought. The species is not a new mammal discovery by humans; we've known about...

More
  • November 11, 2020

Here’s the latest news today out or North Carolina courtesy of Emerson College’s latest poll: The final Emerson College poll before the November 3rd election finds North Carolina in a dead-heat, with former Vice President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump both at 47%. Six-percent (6%) of voters plan to...

More
  • November 2, 2020