On March 21, 1907 it was 103F in Oklahoma, and California was trying to start a war with Japan.
“It is usually the case that the people who bring on a war are not the ones who fight the battles.”
Mar 22, 1907, page 2 – The Friend Telegraph at Newspapers.com
“Nothing much has changed with the Democrat party…they used to burn a cross in your front yard..now they are burning Teslas”
The Arctic has gained a record amount of sea ice so far this month, even as the press claims the exact opposite.
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Greenland has also gained record amounts of glacial ice this winter.
The new shade of green is apparently white.
“A recent study reveals that the icy Antarctic Peninsula, the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica, has experienced a nearly twelve-fold increase in plant cover over the last 35 years. The greening, driven primarily by the spread of mosses, has accelerated notably since 2016, researchers found.”
Climate change is turning Antarctica green, but not in a good way: study
“In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill … The real enemy, then, is humanity itself”
Club of Rome 1991
Experts say that southeast Greenland is losing ice very quickly, in a region where a WWII aircraft was found under hundreds of feet of ice and snow.
Mass and Height Change: Polar Portal
A Greenland Expedition Society crew member begins the 250-foot descent on the icy Gopher shaft to reach the P-38. (courtesy photo)
Greenland has gained 200 billion tons of new snow and ice over the last 60 days, which has led to record global snow volume.
Surface Conditions: Polar Portal
Last week the BBC announced the “rapid shrinking of Greenland’s ice.”
‘The ice melted beneath our feet’: The huskies that revealed the rapid shrinking of Greenland’s ice
The Biden administration worked hard to block any factual information about climate and energy, by labeling it as “misinformation.”
June 10, 2022
“When it comes to responsibility for the spread of climate misinformation, the White House has its eyes on Big Tech.
During an Axios event on Thursday, Gina McCarthy, the White House’s climate adviser, said tech companies need to crack down on the spread of false and misleading information about the climate crisis. While flat-out climate denial has waned, McCarthy said misinformation on major social media platforms persists in a different but “equally dangerous” form.
“The dark money is still there,” she said. “The fossil fuel companies are still basically trying their best to make sure that people don’t understand the challenge of climate.”
Specifically, she said a small but vocal group of users are repeatedly using tech and social media platforms to sow doubt about the feasibility of the energy transition. The transition to zero-carbon technologies isn’t just doable; it’s necessary. And most importantly, it’s happening. Yet McCarthy said the entrenched fossil fuel interests are “seeding, basically, doubt about the costs” of the clean energy.
“We need the tech companies to really jump in,” she added.
Major tech companies — including, mostly recently, Twitter and Pinterest — have tried to tackle some forms of misinformation. In the case of Twitter, the company said it would block advertisements that “contradict the scientific consensus on climate change.”
However, the stripe of misinformation that McCarthy is most worried about continues to be insidious and widespread. A recent Media Matters study on the spread of climate and energy misinformation on Facebook found that a large portion of posts use “energy independence” as a justification for drilling for more fossil fuels, amid a lot of hand-wringing about our dependence on foreign energy. These kinds of posts are replete with inaccuracies and lies, but are rarely labeled as misinformation nor are they fact-checked.
Another report out this week from a coalition of advocacy groups shows misinformation tends to tick up around major events, such as last year’s climate conference in Glasgow. Similar to McCarthy, the report’s authors called for more concerted action by tech companies to ensure lie-laden posts don’t spread, including potentially working together to prevent falsehoods from moving across platforms. Giving researchers and regulators more access to data could also help, as could coming up with common definitions of misinformation. It’s clear from McCarthy’s comments that the Biden administration is acutely aware of what’s happening on social media, and it’s watching what tech companies are — and aren’t — doing to help stop the spread of misinformation.”
McCarthy tells tech to crack down on climate misinformation – Protocol
“Sea ice has declined by more than 12 per cent every decade since 1978, when satellite imagery – the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer or ‘SMMR’ – started recording Arctic sea ice growth and retreat.”
There has been no trend in Arctic sea ice extent since 2007, when Al Gore predicted an ice-free Arctic by 2014.
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