Just another over-hyper notice of a seasonal occurrence..
Heatwave turns already arid Kazakh steppe into mass grave for horses
4 hrs ago

AKSHYMYRAU, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - Dead horses lie scattered across the arid steppe of Kazakhstan's Mangistau peninsula where severe drought has left the animals without food or water, threatening the livelihoods of hundreds of farmers.











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AKSHYMYRAU, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - Dead horses lie scattered across the arid steppe of Kazakhstan's Mangistau peninsula where severe drought has left the animals without food or water, threatening the livelihoods of hundreds of farmers.

 

It's said there are 5 seasons there, the 5th being fire season.

 

It's happening.... We just lost Greenville.

 

Deniers and naysayers are betting our children's future!

Here is a stark warning.

https://www.theguardian.com/science...rreversible-change-to-climate-scientists-warn

Thinskin

 

Every breath we take, every bite of food we eat, every foot we travel, every light we switch on, every bath we take, every tiny thing we do, ultimately affects the lives of those who come next.

Actions speak louder than words, always have, always will.

 

So when are the holier than thou leftwing hacks going to start practicing what they preach?

John Kerry family jet already emitted estimated 30 times more carbon in 2021 than average vehicle does in year
The jet has spent roughly 26 hours in the air, according to flight records.


So far this year, John Kerry's family jet has already emitted 30 times the amount of carbon emitted by a typical passenger vehicle per year, data reviewed by Fox News show.

A Fox News review of flight data and an industry emissions calculator found that the jet emitted an estimated 138 metric tons of carbon on trips dating from Jan. 10 to Aug. 6.

The numbers come as Kerry, President Biden's climate envoy, emphasizes the need for climate action amid the United Nation's latest report.

"Today's report from the @IPCC_CH shows that we cannot afford further delay," he tweeted. "The science has been certain for decades, but the latest report makes it abundantly clear – the climate crisis is not only here, it is growing increasingly severe."

Fox News reported last week that Kerry's family jet took at least 16 flights in 2021. With additional data, those numbers have been updated to include two flights on Aug. 6 and one on Jan. 10. Fox News previously excluded another flight because it was recorded as only 10 minutes long and had the same departure and destination location.

In total, Kerry's private jet has taken at least 20 trips this year (including the brief 10 min. flight) with 1597 combined minutes, or more than 26 hours. Many of these flights occurred within Massachusetts, including Martha's Vineyard and Boston International Airport. At least two flights took place between Massachusetts and New Jersey.



Based on Paramount Business Jets' emissions calculator, the Kerry family jet's carbon emissions would have reached an estimated 303,309 lbs. or 138 metric tons.

For comparison, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says that the average passenger vehicle emits 4.6 metric tons of carbon dioxide in a given year. It's unclear how much more the Kerry family jet will fly this year but so far, it has racked up 30 times more than the annual amount for the average passenger vehicle.

"John Kerry’s climate hypocrisy is writ large," said Steve Milloy, a former member of President Trump's transition team and founder of JunkScience.com

In a statement to Fox News, he added that "f climate is such an immediate and existential crisis, how does [Kerry] dare own a home on the island of Martha’s Vineyard? The only question about all this is the flavor of Kerry’s hypocrisy – elitist, cynical or both?"

"Elitist Kerry has justified his massive carbon footprint by saying that he is an important guy and must jet everywhere to save the planet. On the other hand, cynical Kerry has admitted that even if the world cut emissions to zero, that would not solve the ‘climate problem’ … Sure, Kerry makes a good poster child for climate hypocrisy, but he is not alone. Al Gore, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Leonardo DiCaprio, Barack Obama are some other mega-carbon footprint-making climate alarmists that come to mind. Having learned nothing from Marie Antoinette, these climate hypocrites sabotage their own efforts."

The news comes as Biden advances a plan to "make half of all new vehicles sold in 2030 zero-emissions vehicles, including battery electric, plug-in hybrid electric, or fuel cell electric vehicles."

Earlier this year, footage surfaced in which Kerry defended flying via private jet to receive an environmental award in Iceland in 2019. He called flying private "the only choice for somebody like me who is traveling the world to win this battle."

Since those reports, Kerry has remained relatively quiet about criticism that his family's travel habits are hypocritical. When Kerry appeared before Congress in May, he told a House committee that he needed to leave at a certain point as he was flying commercial.



A State Department spokesperson for Kerry told Fox News: "Secretary Kerry travels commercially or via military air in his role as Special Presidential Envoy for Climate." The spokesperson later clarified to Fox News that Kerry himself wasn't on any of the flights noted for this year. They did not respond to an inquiry as to whether he and his wife continued to benefit financially from Flying Squirrel LLC. That's the name the name previously reported for Teresa Heinz-Kerry's private charter jet company and the registered owner listed on the Federal Aviation Administration's website.


Kerry's 2021 financial disclosure recorded Flying Squirrel LLC under the section for "Spouse's Employment Assets & Income and Retirement Accounts." The financial disclosure estimates the LLC with a value of over $1 million.

It's unclear who chartered the flights. While Kerry was on an international trip in April, flight data showed that the jet traveled to Idaho from Boston. While the trip's purpose is unknown, the Idaho Press reported last year that he and his wife, Teresa, have been part-time residents in the nearby Sun Valley for decades.

Kerry has said he offsets his emissions, although it's unclear how.

 

Senators Sanders And Warren Strongly Endorse The Benefits Of Private Jet Travel (forbes.com)
Senators Sanders And Warren Strongly Endorse The Benefits Of Private Jet Travel
Somewhere Rick Wagoner, Alan Mulally and Robert Nardelli must be chuckling or perhaps shaking their heads, maybe both. The then CEOs of the big three automakers found themselves tarred and feathered back in 2008 when they each decided to fly company private jets from Detroit to Washington D.C.

Their offense for not walking or hitchhiking the 500 miles is that they were coming to the nation’s capital to make a case for a government bailout as the economy tumbled during the Great Recession.

The images that might have gotten their attention were posted on Twitter by ABC News campaign reporter Adam Kelsey (above). They showed on the left a snapshot of Vermont Senator and Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders climbing into what appears to be a large cabin private jet. The other picture claims to show Massachusetts Senator and White House apprentice Elizabeth Warren boarding a midsize Learjet.

Kelsey caption the pictures on his Tweet, “So long (for now). @BernieSanders and @ewarren are both on their way back to DC. Here they each are boarding flights from the same general aviation airport at DSM just 36 minutes apart.”

The image was posted on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2020, so apparently they were on their way back for the impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump the next day where their attendance was mandatory.

Know what caught Shooters attention in this story, you know, more than the fact that these two climate firebrands were caught using private jets to ......... jet about?
Apparently, they hadn't even considered, you know, sharing a jet. They left from the same general aviation port going to the same place, and only 38 minutes apart. What, they couldn't agree on the liquor on board?

Just more of the same old despicable "do as I say, not as I do" bullshit.​

 

climate change - Ufos - Biden - I believe in them all

 

The idea of polluter pays as outlined in the latest nature is not a new one but should be applied to CO2 emissions.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02192-4

Thinskin

 

Okay if it's getting warmer why did we have a crappy Summer?

 

Oh say, this is brilliant!!

"The authors argue that emitters should be charged for the temporary ‘storage’ of this carbon in the atmosphere. They show that this would lead both to earlier reductions in carbon emissions (decarbonization) and to earlier application of CO2-removal technologies than would otherwise occur."​

But wait.
So, who, exactly will the polluters pay?
How much, exactly, should they pay?
Where, exactly, will the CO2 be kept?
Who, exactly, will be responsible for keeping the CO2?
What happens to the CO2?

Always, but always, follow the money.

 

This is about insentivizing a cleanup effort, so a carrot rather than a stick!

Examine the cost of doing nothing!

For example just look at the state of your drinking water in the US......the free market has done a bang up job with that.

Thinskin

 

We need governments to invest in public transport and urban planning so that people can survive without cars. We also need individuals to make the changes that they can like reducing consuming animal products.

Of course there is room for improvement in the power system (husband is an electrical engineer) however it is naive to think that solar and wind can reliably supply all our energy, especially for countries with high population densities.

 

More distraction and obfuscation from the oil industry and government!

These fucking people!

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...ims-on-blue-hydrogen-costs-says-ex-lobby-boss

Thinskin

 

Given the damage these companies are responsible for these subsidies are nothing short of obscene!

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...y-subsidies-of-11m-dollars-a-minute-imf-finds

Thinskin

 

Wow, and I mean WOW!
Did you actually read that article? It included all of the “projected costs” of climate change, human health problems and animal habitat loss, as subsidies.
You’ve reached new heights or is that lows, of deception.

The production of the end product does not cause that level of damage, it’s the user of the product that does.

 

You cannot be that naive!

Remember when big tobacco told us smoking caused no harm?

The point is given the profits of the energy industry why is it subsidised?

Thinskin

 

Naive? Nope, not even a little. But, I do have to question your gullibility. The tobacco companies and the energy industry are as different as night and day, when it comes to culpability to environmental damage.

Everyone on the face of the earth consumes the energy that the fuels produce. Absolutely nothing that is needed for human life on this planet is not affected by the use of these fuels. Tobacco is/was used by a minority of the population, it’s use was for pleasure, not necessity.

Over the course of the energy industry’s life cycle, regulation of it’s uses have been implemented. The end users of the product were not enticed by the producers to use more, whether it’s transportation, production of foods or goods, energy to heat/cool/light buildings (including homes), the onus over the last several decades had been to use less.

Every single facet of the production of fuel has been regulated, by governments. Not one facet of tobacco growth has been, the taxation by the government being the exception.