NickB79
NickB79's JournalWhile U.S. Debates Free Speech, Pro-Hamas Rhetoric in France Is a Crime
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/france-pro-hamas-speech-crime-d6968380?mod=e2fb&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0VFjR2xfgLIzKIt6mkUxbuxJMBUUYY0OGxElkx_UdzVxb4IekNjNbkIvg_aem_AcT8TNZAsRYSamj8Mjx9cVPaICzLtsMFtIL9O_xmJ688vtPftNjW-nRqiTLhtmedH_6Aczmg2u22ycUeh5xBiRCzIn France, government authorities are stepping in to draw the line. Courts have ruled that public speech condoning the Oct. 7 attack or legitimizing Hamas as a resistance movement amounts to condoning terrorisma crime under French law, punishable by up to seven years in prison. French prosecutors are investigating politicians on the far-left, union officials and hundreds of other people for allegedly condoning terrorism and inciting antisemitism since October.
They turned cattle ranches into tropical forest -- then climate change hit
https://www.theverge.com/24137380/forest-restoration-costa-rica-guanacaste-conservation-treeThe dry season is about two months longer than it was when Janzen arrived in the 1960s. Climate change is making seasons more unpredictable and weather more erratic across the planet. And thats posing new risks to the sanctuary scientists like Janzen and Hallwachs have created at ACG.
María Marta Chavarría, ACGs field investigation program coordinator, describes the unpredictability as el alegrón de burro. Strictly translated from Spanish, it means donkey happiness. Colloquially, it describes a fake-out: short-lived joy from a false start.
Chavarría, who speaks with the upbeat tilt of an educator excited to teach, explains it like this, A big rain is the trigger. Its time! The rainy season is going to start! Trees unfurl new leaves. Moths and other insects that eat those leaves emerge. But now, the rains dont always last. The leaves die and fall. That has ripple effects across the food chain, from the insects that eat the leaves to birds that eat the insects. They perish or move on. And next season, there are fewer pollinators for the plants. The big trigger in the beginning was false, Chavarría explains. They started, but no more.
No insects, and the rain forest ecosystem shatters. The pictures of their light traps in 1984 vs 2007 are stark and disturbing.
"Alpha Male" Andrew Tate Mocked Mercilessly After Claiming Sleeping With Women Is "Gay"
https://www.boredpanda.com/andrew-tate-trolled-after-claiming-sleeping-with-women-is-gay/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=BP_POST_c6227b67-602a-413c-b950-5b5e54ec9ff6&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3GZMk2HerMXH-1NoOs-VqsIXnkBX1B7N4TFebqSf3CvpyM90T2oxaHjME_aem_AUkP1wlL7pSf6Fu0u_ZuWK74D16_dPWFB5dzu9BfdgkZYvF03bG_XK05vJP6n8K7spVGIi4lPlUpQvNnqhkRDz1dAndrew Tate, notable for making controversial statements, exceeded his reputations expectations after claiming that being intimate with women defined a mans queer sexual identity.
Taking to his X page (formerly known as Twitter) on Wednesday (April 24), Andrew wrote: Sex is for making children.
Any man who has sex with women because it feels good is gay.
"Intifada is Revolution is Armed Struggle. Glory to the Resistance."
Front page of the Minneapolis Star Tribune today.
Found the outright Hamas supporter on the University of Minnesota campus.
Experts say Minnesota's Northwoods could disappear within 50 years. Here's what's being done about it.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/minnesota/news/minnesotas-northwoods-on-the-brink-heres-whats-being-done-about-it/Etterson's research reveals that warming temps are stressing our forests.
"We have been thinking about what we can do now to help our forests transition as climate changes around them," she said.
And if that help doesn't arrive soon, she and other researchers say the deep, dark boreal forests we know in northern Minnesota could become mostly grasslands within the next 50 years.
"Become mostly grasslands" is code for dies, dries out and burns catastrophically.
The Minnesota DNR is now starting to plant oaks, maples and hickories that are native to southern Minnesota hundreds of miles north, closer to the Canadian border.
FACT-Iran has been arming and training terrorists across the Middle East for decades
Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria, Houthi rebels in Yemen.
Their missiles were fired by the Houthis they trained, with coordinates they supplied, at US warships this winter, with one only seconds from impacting a US destroyer when it activated it's last-ditch defenses and shot it down.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/02/middleeast/phalanx-gun-last-line-of-defense-us-navy-intl-hnk-ml/index.html
Iran doesn't have a moral leg to stand on in this fight. They've been stirring up shit in the ME for decades. Iranian generals operating outside of Iran, like the one killed in the Damascus strike, have made themselves fair game by their own actions.
After climate tipping points, change will come slowly, then all at once
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/4585835-after-climate-tipping-points-change-will-come-slowly-then-all-at-once/amp/Could this sudden shift happen? Unfortunately, the answer is yes.
We can see it in the ice core record. About 11,500 years ago, during the Younger Dryas era, temperatures in Greenland leapt 10 degrees Celsius in a decade, with the rest of the world seeing a matching jump to a new state in a matter of decades, not centuries.
Sea levels rose rapidly by tens of meters, driven by Greenland ice melt and other ice loss in the Arctic and Antarctic. An entire area of northern Europe, Known as Doggerland, which linked the United Kingdom to Europe, disappeared forever beneath the waves. Until the shock of the Younger Dryas warming, my ancestors could have walked from Scotland to the Netherlands.
The 21st century is gonna see some things.
Water scarcity and clean energy collide in South Texas (green hydrogen strikes again)
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/12/texas-corpus-christi-water-shortage-hydrogen-clean-energy/Avinas Nueces Green Ammonia plant plans to separate the hydrogen from water, convert it to ammonia and export it as a high-tech fuel alternative to oil and gas. Its one of several such projects currently proposed in Texas, driven by federal subsidies. Governments and scientists say this technology plays an important role in the transition away from fossil fuels.
But officials in the nearby city of Corpus Christi have warned that the project could threaten water supply for more than 600,000 regional customers.
And we're still early in this scheme. Some people want to ramp it up 100-fold.
Ocean currents threaten to collapse Antarctic ice shelves, study finds
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-ocean-currents-threaten-collapse-antarctic.ampLed by Taewook Park and Yoshihiro Nakayama, an international team of researchers from the Korea Polar Research Institute, Hokkaido University, and Seoul National University employed advanced ocean modeling techniques to investigate the underlying forces behind the rapid melting ice shelves.
In a departure from prior assumptions linking ice shelf melting primarily to winds over the Southern Ocean, this study underscores the significant role played by the interactions between meandering ocean currents and the ocean floor in driving the melting process.
The Pine Island and Thwaites ice shelves are among the fastest-changing in Antarctica and are of particular interest due to their vulnerability to warming ocean waters. They act as massive barriers restraining the glaciers behind them from flowing into the ocean.
Taking CO2 out of the air would be an absurdly expensive way to fight climate change
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/11/24127331/carbon-dioxide-removal-costs-rhodium-group-reportThe suite of technologies emerging to attempt that task all fall under an umbrella called carbon dioxide removal, or CDR. Its still risky and astronomically expensive. But theres been growing chatter about it, particularly as the US continues producing record amounts of oil and gas.
According to the new report by research firm Rhodium Group, the US needs to spend roughly $100 billion a year on CDR in order to scale up to a level that would help the country meet its climate goals. A majority of that needs to come in the form of supportive policies like tax credits and procurement programs.
It's largely greenwashing hopium designed to trick us into thinking we can take our time cutting emissions, when in reality we can't.
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