HELENE Set to Devastate Several Red States
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That’s more the Destin/Panama City area.Unfortunately, the GFS model has another one headed to Tally next weeked.
Way, waaaaay more coastal development there than in Stienhatchee.
Meanwhile, even though TN is under water, this country’s bizarre infatuation with maintaining the empire must go on. Talk about horrific timing. 
www.tn.gov
Tennessee National Guard Task Force deploying to Middle East
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – More than 700 Soldiers from the Tennessee Army National Guard’s 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment are departing Saturday, September 28, on the first leg of a year-long deployment to the Middle East.
Yep. The cynicism of the people astroturfing this BS about people supposedly being ignored is disgusting, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
This is just an excuse that you’ve been fed by the oil industry/GOP.
The US is the greatest polluter per capita. We are the ones that have to change and other countries will follow.
That climate bill really looks good now
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Biden-Harris Administration Announces Historic $20 Billion in Awards to Expand Access to Clean Energy and Climate Solutions and Lower Energy Costs for Communities Across the Nation | The White House
Vice President Harris and Administrator Regan to visit Charlotte, North Carolina to announce selectees under the Inflation Reduction Act’s Greenhouse Gas
And you got MAGA pieces of shit saying don't donate to the Red Cross
Libs beat'em to it:
https://www.vox.com/conversations/2...cross-houston-hurricane-harvey-irma-interview
The easiest thing to do after a disaster strikes is to make a quick donation to the Red Cross. Millions of us have done it: You send a text, contribute $10 or $20, and imagine you’ve done a good deed.
But in an article last week for Slate, journalist Jonathan Katz urged readers to stop doing that. Katz, who was the Associated Press’s bureau chief in Haiti during the 2010 earthquake (and later wrote a book about it), argued that the Red Cross “has proven itself unequal to the task of massive disaster relief.”
The problem, as Katz sees it, is that the Red Cross is a dysfunctional organization that excels at raising money but has shown little evidence of its ability to spend that money wisely or meaningfully. The Red Cross takes in close to 3 billion annually, refuses to open its books to the public, and, according to Katz, has consistently failed to produce a useful breakdown of its spending after major disaster efforts.
Course not. He will always double down on his ignorance. Sad.
It's all orange. Was Bonespurs close to that eruption? There goes last week's hair coloring session.
Screw anyone who at this point would vote for Trump. You’re a stupid asshole if you do. He’s the absolute worst this country has to offer. He’s gotta go away.
A few issues with this post ... because there's always folks who like to point to isolated alarmist takes as evidence that alarmism-takes have little credibility.
First: Herculean efforts were taken to reduce pollution to Lake Erie ... significant environmental controls were implemented to reduce a lot of said pollution.
Second: In the USA, because actions were taken AND because infrastructure was funded to deal with water-treatment, potable water is relatively available in the USA. However, world-wide, accessible potable-water is a signficant issue world-wide.
Third: As it relates to global-warming, it's not isolated voices raising the alarm ... it's a freaking chorus. What's more, the data that clearly demonstrates it is freely-available for anybody to peruse and draw their own conclusions. Skeptics with scientific aptitude who actually check out the data often end up being the most-vocal alarmists ... the data is that obvious (and damning).
Fourth: Energy is what makes everything "go." We see direct observations of global warming manifest by the fact that more of Earth's EM-radiation (as infrared) remains trapped due to the "greenhouse-effect." With the Earth storing more energy and given the heterogenous nature in how it's distributed - this creates gradients (in temperature, pressure, and humidity) that are all crucial as it relates to weather patterns. Given that oceans are "dark" as viewed from space, hopefully it's obvious that they're immense absorbers of this energy. Given sea- and ocean-temperature data, it's equally obvious that ocean temperatures are higher than they've ever been. What used to be ordinary tropical storms or hurricanes get amplified due to the increased availability of energy. Thus, the question isn't that we get storms ... but rather, that those storms end up being more catastrophic than they ever were before.
The saddest thing about this is that so many folks are scientifically illiterate ... and the only way that they choose to be informed is from unvetted sources of information ... information flowing from individuals like politicians, pastors, and the like.
For instance, my father-in-law loves to bring up how a scientist in the 70s/80s was being an alarmist as it relates to global-cooling. However, the problem with the analysis of that scientist was that they were using principle-component analysis to describe dynamics that were inherently non-normal. Folks who know anything about local stability analysis of non-normal operators know that PCA fails miserably ... you need to care more about doing a singular value analysis instead. The point here being that scientific and mathematical illiteracy prevents people from discriminating between proper analysis and bullshit ... and the populace ends up just latching on to whatever is consistent with whatever narrative serves as confirmation bias of their own world-view.
Now, re-read what you posted in light of Chevron Doctrine being overturned.
Where judges will make decisions on all kinds of regulatory policies with little to no STEM background.
President Biden is on the ground in Florida, seeing firsthand the storm damage and speaking with local officials.
Props to Senator Scott for stepping up and welcoming the president. As for Governor DeSantis, he was invited but didn’t show—probably too worried about catching heat from Trump.
