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[Jopsy Pendragon]

I am indeed moving to AZ with Tigress. For several reasons, some of which include that we’ll be moving in with her best friend from childhood , renting at a very favorable rate, it’s desert and we both love the desert. ( I spent two years at George AFB in CA and loved it.) The cost of living is low and since I’m retiring and will be on a fixed income, that matters hugely. Tigress’ only income is SS disability.

We’ll be up in the mountains (about 5,000+ feet) so I’m not really worried about my taillights melting

why do you call it a danger zone?

My folks live at that altitude, it's far more comfortable than tucson or phoenix. They even see snow sometimes. Mom said they had no monsoon season at all this year though, first in like 40 years without one.

Still, 5000' is probably safer than above 6000', where the flammable ponderosa pine grow like weeds. I used to live up in Flagstaff, ... Probably the only reason it hasn't completely burned down is there's a lot less air up at 7000'.

 

[Tigar]

My folks live at that altitude, it's far more comfortable than tucson or phoenix. They even see snow sometimes. Mom said they had no monsoon season at all this year though, first in like 40 years without one.

Still, 5000' is probably safer than above 6000', where the flammable ponderosa pine grow like weeds. I used to live up in Flagstaff, ... Probably the only reason it hasn't completely burned down is there's a lot less air up at 7000'.

We don’t has a cactus emoji, so ya get a flower. I’m really lookin’ forward to it. And I spent the weekend hangin’ out with my son and daughter in law, and I was happy to learn that they don’t plan ta has kids.

I kinda hate to say that, but I’d so much rather know that my grandkids won’t exist than that they’re gonna have a good chance of dyin‘ of the heat, or the side effects of it.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

How our warmer oceans are contributing to climate breakdown

A more stable ocean sounds idyllic, but it creates a dangerous feedback loop for our warming planet

www.theguardian.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Amazon near tipping point of switching from rainforest to savannah – study

Climate crisis and logging is leading to shift from canopy rainforest to open grassland

www.theguardian.com

 

[Beebo Brink]

Emissions of Nitrous Oxide, a Climate Super-Pollutant, Are Rising Fast on a Worst-Case Trajectory - Inside Climate News

Emissions of nitrous oxide, a climate super-pollutant hundreds of times more potent than carbon dioxide, are rising faster than previously thought—at a rate that not only threatens international targets to limit global warming, but is consistent with a worst-case trajectory for climate change, a...

insideclimatenews.org

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Free]

There are some people I honestly wish a long, long life so they can be around when the real reckoning comes. And it's not going to be the Biblical one.

 

[Sredni Eel]

Well. When the planet is disposed of, those Christians won't have anywhere else to go. I've never met anyone so willing to die than whackadoodle Christians who think that Heaven is worth dying for.

I love this planet, but it will survive long after we die out.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

The only thing remarkable about this is that one of them actually dared to say it out loud.

It's been clear to me since my childhood that this is one of the core enabling tenets of christendom. "Take what you want, forget the consequences, Earth is just a disposable testing ground for souls and will cease to exist when the Rapture comes during our lifetime... so screw taking any responsibility for its condition or suitability for our children or their children."

"God will bring us escape pods when it's time" -- suuuuuure he will.

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

The only thing remarkable about this is that one of them actually dared to say it out loud.

It's been clear to me since my childhood that this is one of the core enabling tenets of christendom. "Take what you want, forget the consequences, Earth is just a disposable testing ground for souls and will cease to exist when the Rapture comes during our lifetime... so screw taking any responsibility for its condition or suitability for our children or their children."

"God will bring us escape pods when it's time" -- suuuuuure he will.

Ironically, the VERY first command given Adam and Eve [or maybe Lilith.... Genesis has some serious timeline issues], was TAKE CARE OF MY WORLD.

If a Christian can't even manage that one, they are not managing the rest [and those kind never are], so if their god exists? I wanna be there when he goes 'WTF, folks - I didn't ask all that much of you and you botched it.'

 

[Free]

Ironically, the VERY first command given Adam and Eve [or maybe Lilith.... Genesis has some serious timeline issues], was TAKE CARE OF MY WORLD.

Even more on the point of Earth's permanence:

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

 

[Beebo Brink]

There was no ice on the water, says captain of tall ship Sedov about Arctic voyage

'We had at least expected some minor pieces,' says Mikhail Novikov as his 100 years old sailing ship exits the Northern Sea Route.

thebarentsobserver.com

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Ironically, the VERY first command given Adam and Eve [or maybe Lilith.... Genesis has some serious timeline issues], was TAKE CARE OF MY WORLD.

If a Christian can't even manage that one, they are not managing the rest [and those kind never are], so if their god exists? I wanna be there when he goes 'WTF, folks - I didn't ask all that much of you and you botched it.'

Well, there was also that bit about not eating certain fruit.

I have zero respect for the notion of the deity they claim to worship. "Hey, I'll create a creature who's ignorance, curiosity, defiance, corruptibility and selfishness guarantees sooner than later they will completely disobey me, and I'll burn them for all eternity for it. Muahahahah!"

Sounds like pure evil to me, but I guess christians are able to squint the right way and see it as morality, goodness and love.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Canada's last intact ice shelf broke off. It took our research station with it

Researchers studying the area in the Arctic for years describe the day of the calving event – and where they go from here

www.theguardian.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Big oil's answer to melting Arctic: cooling the ground so it can keep drilling

Technology is keeping patches of permafrost frozen to preserve infrastructure but Alaska’s indigenous residents face effects of climate crisis alone

www.theguardian.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Honda ditches diesel and phases out pure petrol models three years early

Diesel cars have been withdrawn from sale by a leading manufacturer in the clearest sign yet that their days on British roads are numbered. The Times has learnt that Honda has stopped selling new diesel cars, with the last vehicles expected to be out of dealerships within a few weeks.The Japanese co

www.thetimes.co.uk

Evernote link because paywall

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Alarm as Arctic sea ice not yet freezing at latest date on record

Delayed freeze in Laptev Sea could have knock-on effects across polar region, scientists say

www.theguardian.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

"Scientists also have a political agenda"

I wanna take a dirty flyswatter and smack anyone that says that in the face, repeatedly.

"Hey shitforbrains, if the government doesn't like scientific community's "Political Agenda", maybe they should go back to funding science like they used to instead of letting their political agenda be dictated by the for-profit corporations who've jumped in when the government got too cheap to care about our future?"

 

[Aeon Jiminy]

AOC and Jane Fonda 3.0 speak out on Green New Deal and support Joe Biden, even though Biden doesn't support it. Nothing weird about that.