Easy prediction (given current developments): Get ready for more, (organized) citizen actions such as this↓; ref. the (2014) video below. Those represented below -- plus many more -- have not "gone away". Nor will they...



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12/16 insert. (No affiliation.):



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↓(Previously written:)↓
Post-U.S. presidential election, 2016: Three items to (try to) keep front-and-center (article links below), if/when a U.S. administration generally hostile to the environment takes form. Off-site article links, no affiliation. New windows open:
http://time.com/4573414/climate-change-americas-cities/?


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-25/clean-energy-jobs-surpass-oil-drilling-for-first-time-in-u-s


http://www.lowcarbonusa.org/


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5/4/16, Fort McMurray, Alberta, CN. (No affiliation with posting org.)

More info. here (off-site link): https://twitter.com/hashtag/FortMcMurrayhttps://twitter.com/hashtag/FortMcMurray

..Off-site news story excerpt (linked): "...Unseasonably hot temperatures combined with dry conditions have transformed the boreal forest in much of Alberta into a tinder box. Fort McMurray is surrounded by wilderness in the heart of Canada's oil sands..."

--> More about this (off-site article link, new window opens): http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/science/global-warming-cited-as-wildfires-increase-in-fragile-boreal-forest.html?

More: (8/16 off-site article link) http://time.com/4456011/california-wildfires-natural-disasters/?

More: (10/16 off-site article link) http://time.com/4525178/climate-change-forest-fires/?

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5/16: Hey...way, way more people check in with Jimmy Kimmel than this tiny blog. So, pls. have a listen (if you can get past Sarah...(Unnecessary bad language near the end of the video)):







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Climate change is not 'theoretical'. Effects are already occurring, in the United States. Today:

(Off-site 9/3/16 article link. New window opens. No affiliation:)



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4/16 must-read: More fact than fiction...?

Off-site article link, new window opens: http://www.theonion.com/article/exxonmobil-ceo-relieved-it-finally-too-late-do-any-52732

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3/16: Wake-up call ...yet another. ((If such projections are bolstered via add'l research:) Kids! 'Let's play pack-up and move to higher ground' (someday).):

(Off-site 3/30/16 article link, new window opens)

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/science/global-warming-antarctica-ice-sheet-sea-level-rise.html?

(3/31/16 editorial. Off-site link, no affiliation: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/01/opinion/the-danger-of-a-runaway-antarctica.html?)
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(↓Previous blog entries:)


(Update (warning: contains facts/inevitable facts): 2015 is Earth's hottest year on record (off-site news article link). 2011-2015 is the warmest five-year period recorded (off-site article link).)
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>>>>Oh, please: ..How can puny mankind's activities possibly alter the Earth's environment..??




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... on a global scale?? --> (one off-site link:) http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/11/141118-nasa-video-carbon-dioxide-global-warming-climate-environment/


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10/2015: 'Surprise'...Exxon understood about climate change -- through their own research -- back in the 1970s; supported misinformation about the concept for years after. Off-site 10/26/15 article link:


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- "Against logic there is no armor like ignorance." - Laurence J. Peter
- "It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes." - George Washington

- "97 percent of American scientists say that climate change is happening..." (link, new window)

- "Each of the last ten years features in the top 11 warmest years recorded in all [primary monitoring agency] datasets." (12/10 article link, table)

- "How hot was it? 2013 joins the top ten for temperatures..." (link)

- "... 'Flat Earth Society'? - Kerry slams climate change skeptics" (link)

- Risk management: "Even if it somehow could be determined that it is a coin flip -- 50/50 -- that 97% of climate scientists are (essentially) correct re climate change (link), don't present-day inhabitants (still) have the (moral) obligation to effectively address as much of the issue as is safely possible?
I.e.: Too great of a risk to future generations to ignore.. Or to paralyze with excessive deliberation." -- Anonymous



- "I'm not sure what the 'height of insanity' might be, but this seems a candidate: Modern, advanced societies ignoring - or deliberately distorting - principal findings of climate scientists -- who the same civilizations train and educate to become experts ..." (P.S. If it needs stating, we know what one of the 'rea$on$' (i.e., for denying) is...)
-- Anonymous





and,

- "...I have a better idea: do something, Congress. Do anything to help working Americans. Join the rest of the country. Join me, I'm looking forward to working with you...." --- President Barack Obama (7/2014)

9/2014: Also..."BP Plc Held Grossly Negligent for 2010 spill..."(article link). Appeals will be coming, but (if interested) you'll find a few older posts from a few years ago here, discussing the 'negligent ones' and certain attempts to deflect blame/responsibility.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Earth Day irony: And our administration wants to expand offshore oil drilling??

Today is "Earth Day"....right??

4/22/10 AP news story (link follows, below). What a sick joke. This type of event (even worse) is one big reason why the environmental movement, Earth Day (etc.) ramped up 40 years ago (link).

Pray for better luck ...perhaps that's the 'contingency plan' this time.

(story link:) 

4/23/10 update: "No leak"....YET. (Link to AP story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100423/ap_on_bi_ge/us_louisiana_oil_rig_explosion )

Re update: If luck happens to prevail in this situation, nothing asserted here (in this post) is invalidated. Environmental issues have been raised (again). Dirty energy sources should be questioned. Offshore oil drilling is not "safe"(link). America's oil addiction leads to problems.

4/24/10 AP news story,new update (link):http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100425/ap_on_bi_ge/us_louisiana_oil_rig_explosion 


(Old photo, Santa Barbara off-shore oil spill, 1969, Google/LIFE archives)

Yeah.....'drill baby drill'. How about ...."spill baby, spill"?? U.S. "commitment"  to the environment remains at joke levels. Energy policies? Total hypocrisy. It's basically about finding any way to ensure that "drill-queen" Sarah Palin and zillions of others can drive their fat-ass SUVs/pickups -- solo,on-road, and with a "cargo" of air the majority of the time.....

(Background story: Obama to open more offshore areas for oil drilling (link to NYT 3/30/10 article): http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/science/earth/31energy.html )


More sick "Earth Day" incongruity: Wisconsin energy bill dies on Earth Day (NYT, link): http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/04/22/business/AP-WI-Wisconsin-Clean-Energy.html?src=busln 

"Earth day", 2010: We're all doing such a fantastic job of (planet) "stewardship":
"Deadly fungus could wipe out bats" (link to article)

 and

 - Bees dying at alarming rate (link): http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/honey-bees-dying-scientists-suspect-pesticides-disease-worry/story?id=10191391 

- Acid in oceans worsening (link to 4/22/10 article): http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36713115/ns/us_news-environment/

Oh well....Cheer up with a lovely song (link): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHPOzQzk9Qo&fmt=18
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