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[Innula Zenovka]

His response is quite something.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

His response is quite something.

I suppose Andrew, mister Alpha, Tate thinks intelligence and wit are womanly traits.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Andrew Tate put in 30-day pre-trial detention in Romania after arrest

Influencer, his brother and two others held on human trafficking, rape and organised crime charges

www.theguardian.com

 

[Free]

Perhaps you'd like to repost that, Innula?

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Andrew Tate put in 30-day pre-trial detention in Romania after arrest

Influencer, his brother and two others held on human trafficking, rape and organised crime charges

www.theguardian.com

I’m not saying all climate deniers are pedophiles but it really makes you think.

 

[Soen Eber]

I’m not saying all climate deniers are pedophiles but it really makes you think.

They're constantly being put upon, for their own reasons or refusal to accept change. To keep from internalizing their failures they punch down. Simple enough.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Revealed: Exxon made ‘breathtakingly’ accurate climate predictions in 1970s and 80s

Oil company drove some of the leading science of the era only to publicly dismiss global heating

www.theguardian.com

The oil giant Exxon privately “predicted global warming correctly and skilfully” only to then spend decades publicly rubbishing such science in order to protect its core business, new research has found.

A trove of internal documents and research papers has previously established that Exxon knew of the dangers of global heating from at least the 1970s, with other oil industry bodies knowing of the risk even earlier, from around the 1950s. They forcefully and successfully mobilized against the science to stymie any action to reduce fossil fuel use.

A new study, however, has made clear that Exxon’s scientists were uncannily accurate in their projections from the 1970s onwards, predicting an upward curve of global temperatures and carbon dioxide emissions that is close to matching what actually occurred as the world heated up at a pace not seen in millions of years.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Oceans Break Heat Record for Fourth Year in a Row

The world’s oceans hit their warmest levels on record for the fourth consecutive year in 2022, fueling sea-level rise and contributing to climate disasters

www.scientificamerican.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Greta Thunberg getting carried away by the police.

 

[Beebo Brink]

The latest news about Thwaite Glacier is... alarming.

 

[Beebo Brink]

What happens when the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica, the so-called 'Doomsday Glacier,' disintegrates?

Has the word 'doomsday' lost all meaning?

mashable.com

 

[detrius]

 

[Chin Rey]

Awww, I logged on here just to post that video but you beat me to it!

Anyway, this is video is strongly recommended to everybody. I wish it went much deeper into the issues but it's only twelve minutes and there's a limit to how much they6 can cram into such a short video.

 

[Soen Eber]

It seems like we're all watching the same vids! I've got that one queued up for watching later, and it's maybe the 5th or 6th I've watched that someone else had posted independently.

But the smear campaign against wind & solar is real, I've another article set aside to read asserting the same thing.

 

[Beebo Brink]

How archaeologists are racing to uncover hidden treasures beneath melting glaciers - BBC Science Focus Magazine

Rapidly melting ice in the Alps is revealing all sorts of ancient artefacts. Researchers are now against the clock to protect these antiquities before it’s too late.

www.sciencefocus.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Their Arizona community was ideal. Then their neighbor cut off the water

Residents of Rio Verde Foothills had their water turned off by Scottsdale, which cites the mega-drought for the move

www.theguardian.com

 

[Grandma Bates]

Their Arizona community was ideal. Then their neighbor cut off the water

Residents of Rio Verde Foothills had their water turned off by Scottsdale, which cites the mega-drought for the move

www.theguardian.com

The Guardian article sounds relatively sympathetic to the people of Rio Verde Foothills with only one line about how the people there did nothing despite prior warnings:

Rio Verde Foothills getting creative after losing water source

Just days into the new year, residents in the Rio Verde Foothills community are getting creative with how they conserve and use water.

www.abc15.com

The people of Rio Verde Foothills recently lost their court bid to stop this. The response from the city of Scottsdale can be found here:

https://www.scottsdaleaz.gov/Assets/ScottsdaleAZ/News/News+Images/News+documents/Scottsdale+Response+to+TRO+Application.pdf

The city straight up calls them irresponsible:

This is a case about the allocation of dwindling municipal water, and the demands
of Plaintiffs who want the benefits of organized government with none of the burdens.
Because Plaintiffs have sought an extraordinary remedy of a mandatory injunction against
the City, they bear a nearly insurmountable burden. A cursory review of the facts
demonstrates their inability to carry their burden

They go on to state that Rio Verde Foothills never installed proper water infrastructure and has hauled water to the area in the past instead of spending money on a long term solution. The response continues a blistering litany of ways the people have been short sided and irresponsible and even ignoring many cheap alternatives because they refused to organize and pay taxes. These folks basically just started building and refused to regulate themselves. They have built in an extremely sensitive area that is driven by a regular fire cycle. I find it hard to feel much sympathy for these people when they have been acting irresponsibly for years and living off the infrastructure they have long refused to pay for.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The Guardian article sounds relatively sympathetic to the people of Rio Verde Foothills with only one line about how the people there did nothing despite prior warnings:

Rio Verde Foothills getting creative after losing water source

Just days into the new year, residents in the Rio Verde Foothills community are getting creative with how they conserve and use water.

www.abc15.com

The people of Rio Verde Foothills recently lost their court bid to stop this. The response from the city of Scottsdale can be found here:

https://www.scottsdaleaz.gov/Assets/ScottsdaleAZ/News/News+Images/News+documents/Scottsdale+Response+to+TRO+Application.pdf

The city straight up calls them irresponsible:



They go on to state that Rio Verde Foothills never installed proper water infrastructure and has hauled water to the area in the past instead of spending money on a long term solution. The response continues a blistering litany of ways the people have been short sided and irresponsible and even ignoring many cheap alternatives because they refused to organize and pay taxes. These folks basically just started building and refused to regulate themselves. They have built in an extremely sensitive area that is driven by a regular fire cycle. I find it hard to feel much sympathy for these people when they have been acting irresponsibly for years and living off the infrastructure they have long refused to pay for.

Yes, but I think the point is that, whatever the rights and wrongs of the individual case, the underlying problem is that, because of the climate crisis, the Colorado River basin is increasingly unable to support the region's demands for water.

Scottsdale’s decision to cut the water is a sign of what could await other communities in a region that, along with many, is getting drier and hotter in the climate crisis.

Twenty years ago, scientists overestimated the amount of water in the Colorado River, having measured based on an abnormally rainy season, said Sinjin Eberle, intermountain west communications director for American Rivers, a non-profit campaigning to protect and restore US waterways.

The river has 20% less water than it did in 2000, Eberle said. More than 40 million people in seven states served by the Colorado River basin – Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California, New Mexico and Arizona – depend on the mighty but dwindling watercourse that flows through the Grand Canyon.

Doubtless their community's imprudence has greatly exacerbated the problem for the residents of Rio Verde Foothills in particular, but the underlying problem is that, because of the drought, there's a lot less water available than people planned for.