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Staggaly

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I have no idea of what to say about myself. I am not particularly interesting, certainly not of any significance. I do like to be nice to people. I find that to be the best way to go in this world.

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Staggaly, to random
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Porto Alegre from space. Really shows the extent of the horrific flooding in Brazil.

The southern coastal region of Brazil showing the green landscape without river flooding.

NatureMC, to nature
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    Staggaly,
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    @NatureMC @firstdogonthemoon “All the trees are dying.”
    This reminds me of Gail Zawacki and her (far ahead of its time) blog about tree mortality. Sadly, many of the links to her research are no longer valid but many more certainly are. At first I thought she was nuts. When I spent the time reading through her links to research papers, and then looking around my own area, my life changed forever.

    http://witsendnj.blogspot.com/p/basic-premise.html

    Staggaly,
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    @NatureMC I understand your points. I looked at only the things I was negative about at first myself. The links that only pointed towards a fringe thinking that I didn’t agree with. Things changed when I read her story. She is not a scientist at all. Merely a gardener that noticed things changing around her. When she realized the scope of what we are losing, well, we all have our own ways of dealing with grief. That ozone has a devastating impact on plants is well documented though.

    Staggaly,
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    @NatureMC That trees everywhere are not as healthy as they should be, that is a widespread issue that has many aspects. That ozone has a detrimental effect that is compounded over time, is perhaps underestimated. Anyway, I don’t want to try and make an argument over it. I respect your opinion. And yes, for myself, I do very much enjoy planting trees. I have a special love for them and what they mean for my area. Cheers.

    JaneinNJ, to random
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    I just want to say how wonderful everyone is here and express special gratitude to @GottaLaff for her unbelievable work keeping us up to the minute on the trial in NYC. What a tremendous service you’re providing, @GottaLaff! Thank you thank you thank you!

    Staggaly,
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    @JaneinNJ @GottaLaff This a thousand times over!
    Not a day goes by that I don’t think to myself that @GottaLaff does more for democracy by 9 am than most people do in a lifetime. Huge debt of gratitude for your work!

    CelloMomOnCars, to HashtagGames
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    Bird of Paradise Lost


    Staggaly,
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    @CelloMomOnCars Sympathy For The Rhododendron

    CelloMomOnCars, to random
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    "Highly skilled firefighters are the last line of defense against wildfires, but that line is fraying because the government decided long ago that they’re not worth very much.

    The effects of this chronic neglect have now become strikingly clear as the fire service is finding it difficult to fill its ranks, prefiguring what advocates are calling a national security crisis."

    https://www.propublica.org/article/wildland-firefighters

    Staggaly,
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    @CelloMomOnCars Warfighters that are every bit the heroes that are the military members that we celebrate so often.

    If only these firefighters fought to protect oil interests instead of civilian homes and property, they would have the money and resources that they need.

    CelloMomOnCars, to random
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    "Once a booming trade, Rockywold Deephaven Camps is one of the few places left in New England that harvests ice each winter. The camp was founded in 1897, and has since trained generations of workers on how to cut, haul, and store lake ice.

    But as climate change warms New Hampshire’s winters, the harvest is facing new threats. "

    https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2024-03-08/on-thin-ice-how-warming-winters-are-changing-the-squam-lake-ice-harvest

    Staggaly,
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    @CelloMomOnCars Great article. There is a sign along the bike path that runs next to Lake Congamond in Southwick, MA. The sign marks the place where a thriving ice harvesting business once was. Reading that sign today, next to a lake that often doesn’t freeze enough to safely skate on, much less harvest ice, is like reading about life that existed on a different planet.

    GottaLaff, to random
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    Via Politico:

    Senate Minority Whip John Thune said he was open to discussing term limits on the next Republican leader, with a critical caveat that the topic needs to be part of a broader conversation within the Senate GOP.

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    @GottaLaff Please don’t stop there John. We can just keep going into term limits for the whole lot of you!

    Staggaly, to random
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    Sometimes it is easy to not see just how far we have moved into another realm. My wife and I were walking along a stream in the forest last week. She remarked that it would be neat to see it cranking with the high water of the Spring melt. When I gently reminded here that it was Spring now and there was no snow anywhere near us, I could see the pause on her face as what “should be”, suddenly caught up to “where we are” in her mind.

    stevesilberman, to random
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    This duet version of "Blowin' in the Wind" by Bob and Joan Baez on the Rolling Thunder tour is mindblowing because it's so elemental. Amazing to think that this song needed to be "written" by someone - that it wasn't always there, outside of time like a cliff face, and as relevant as ever. https://youtu.be/QJX9pT2ugKk?si=knlVOXSmk8dCc_vW

    Staggaly,
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    @stevesilberman If there was a way to communicate the awe-inspiring gravity and light of this performance, you just did it perfectly.

    pvonhellermannn, to random
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    A power company that has received £6bn in UK green subsidies has kept burning wood from some of the world's most precious forests, the BBC has found.

    The way and others can keep on burning wood because it counts as is just scandalous. We really must drop the language of (a hangover from peak oil worries anyway) and go for energy instead.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68381160

    Staggaly,
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    @pvonhellermannn I was recently in the Southeast US with a group of coworkers. As we drove over a bridge, below us was a train loaded with car after car of wood chips. I remarked that it was likely southern pine forest that was headed to a power plant in England.

    The level in which everyone else at that moment thought I was completely nuts is hard to overstate.

    CelloMomOnCars, to Bulgaria
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    "Right-wing politicians have launched a bid to block the passing of the ’s flagship nature protection law, which scientists have described as a “cornerstone of food security and human health”.

    Derailing the law could come at significant cost to farmers, who are facing increasingly uncertain conditions due to climate and loss."

    https://www.desmog.com/2024/02/23/scientists-condemn-last-minute-push-to-overturn-eu-nature-law/

    Staggaly, (edited )
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    @CelloMomOnCars Fridays for Future is also not directed and inspired and funded by the Russian government. Much of this farm disturbance is driven by the Russian initiative of asymmetric warfare which aims to destabilize the EU, undermine Ukraine and of course, push fossil fuels forever.

    Staggaly,
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    @CelloMomOnCars Actually proving funding and direct involvement in instigation is difficult but it is often discussed. That they are behind efforts to amplify the protests across social media isn’t as difficult. Here is s good article on it.

    https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-farmer-protest-russia-war-propaganda/

    CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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    leads to extreme precipitation, which takes the form of snow when it's cold. In addition, a changing jet stream means that weather systems can stall over one area, allowing large amounts of total precipitation.

    This can lead to events like Nova Scotia getting 150 cm (6 feet) of snow in early February.

    https://www.canadianunderwriter.ca/insurance/as-planet-warms-ferocious-snowfalls-like-the-one-that-hit-nova-scotia-could-increase-1004243128/

    Staggaly,
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    @CelloMomOnCars One of my home-brewed climate fears is a storm like this dumping feet of snow here in New England but then followed up within days by a pouring rain that then crushes roof as the snow soaks up the rain. Given how fast our weather whiplash goes these days, I feel like we are rolling the dice every winter.

    ElleGray, to random
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    my favorite thing about hummingbirds is how you expect them, with their delicate beauty, to be so quiet but they actually sound like tiny fighter jets buzzing by

    there's five of them at this feeder rn and it's basically a mini air show

    Staggaly,
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    @ElleGray My favorite is the unexpected earblast when you are outside and one rips past your head from behind you!

    RickiTarr, to random
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    AI is scary, and it can do a lot of scary things. It is also amazing, and can do things like get a Covid vaccine out faster, help people with disabilities, and help us figure out problems faster, and more efficiently. AI is a tool, and like all tools can be used as a weapon. Should we stop progress, because of the possibilities?

    Also never ever ever forget none of this happens in a vacuum. The rich and powerful would love for you to be distracted by a tool, instead of the people wielding it. We cannot always control the rate of progress, but we can vote for people who want to regulate it.

    Staggaly,
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    @RickiTarr You make an excellent point and it is food for thought.
    I guess what frightens me the most is the uniquely human trait that ensures that if a weapon “can” be built, then it will be built by those with the ability, simply because they fear that an adversary may be building it first.

    CelloMomOnCars, (edited ) to coffee
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    Carmakers say that the American public can't afford electric SUVs.
    But won't sell smaller affordable EVs.

    Still .

    "Under the revised final regulation expected to be made public as soon as next month, the EPA will slow the pace of its proposed yearly requirements through 2030. The new pace is expected to result in accounting for less than 60% of total vehicles produced by 2030, the sources said."


    https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/biden-administration-relax-ev-rule-tailpipe-emissions-ny-times-2024-02-18/

    [Edit to add "American"]

    Staggaly,
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    @Lyle @CelloMomOnCars I was wondering the same. It would seem that the US auto makers would never allow this to enter the market here without massive tariffs.

    pvonhellermannn, (edited ) to random
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    SERENDIPITY!

    1/3 Daughter sent me this photo today - a massive lake in Gildredge Park in where there is normally just grass. I remembered that about a year ago the same happened and I did my very first post (before official launch). And then felt bad as I had been planning to write a blog to mark our one year anniversary, but assumed I had missed it by now; another one of my many unfinished, undone projects. BUT, i just checked:

    Staggaly,
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    @pvonhellermannn @TomSwirly @esmichelson is by far my favorite hashtag. So many snippets of what life is like on the ground from all over the world. Thank you so much for starting this!
    With love from a snowless western Massachusetts.

    CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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    The good news: White House set to back tougher climate model for , sources say

    "The adjustment is intended to more accurately account for the environmental damage caused when land is converted into farms to grow corn, while also rewarding smart farming techniques like no-till farming and covered crops."

    https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-set-back-tougher-climate-model-ethanol-sources-say-2024-02-16/

    Staggaly,
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    @CelloMomOnCars It is disheartening to see the aviation industry leading a massive greenwashing campaign by touting SAF as something that is at all working to reduce total emissions. It’s a bit like saying that my data center is going green because I bought a solar calculator to count my money with.

    CelloMomOnCars, to random
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    "Dramatic changes in energy industry and EVs reducing fossil fuel use, but shipping, aviation and industry a long way from net zero"

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/09/biggest-fossil-fuel-emissions-shipping-plane-manufacturing

    This report makes some business-as-usual assumptions. E.g.
    "Growth".
    And they forget that 40% of global shipping is of fossil fuels.
    And that countries like the US are re-shoring industries (see CHIPS act).

    Together, we still have choices.
    Let's make the right choices: on our plates, what we buy, whom we vote for.

    Staggaly,
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    @CelloMomOnCars I spent some time canvassing for signatures on petitions in support of Mass Senator Mike Barrett’s carbon fee and rebate bill years ago. I was so passionate about it because it just made so much sense. I genuinely saw it as a way of at least opening the door to meaningful action at the state level. $10/ton wasn’t asking much but you know how it goes.

    ElleGray, to random
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    I've never had a hero or a mentor but there's a huge raccoon on my street who's been stealing boots from backyards and then throwing them at people from high in her tree, and tbh she might be it

    Zoom in at the base of the tree where there's a brown leather boot, a blue flip flop and an empty can of gingerale

    Staggaly,
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    @ElleGray I am reasonably confident that I will not read anything funnier than this for the rest of 2024.

    Teri_Kanefield, to random
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    Here is the appellate court's denial of Trump's claim of immunity:
    https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cadc.40415/gov.uscourts.cadc.40415.1208593677.0.pdf

    The decision opens by summarizing the allegations in the indictment, being careful to add that guilt hasn't yet been determined.

    The court then dismisses the idea that they don't have jurisdiction over the issue and concludes that it does.

    Then, on to immunity. The court rejects Trump's "separation of powers" argument, saying this:

    That's strong language.

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    Staggaly,
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    @ZhiZhu @Teri_Kanefield That he is referred to as an “officer” - does that have implications for the insurrection charges case?

    ryanpendell, to climate

    "In 2020, I was doing dishes and a presidential debate was on TV in the background. They were talking about climate change. My three-year-old son came up to me scared. “I don’t want my house to be on fire.” I turned off the television, and I told him we are safe. But that entire week it was 80 degrees outside. In October."

    Read "Climate change is my family's life now":

    https://www.letustalkbooks.com/p/climate-change-is-my-familys-life

    Staggaly,
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    @ryanpendell 2016 “Hey dad, did you hear what has happened to the Great Barrier Reef?”

    Those words, and all the implications that they carried, were among the hardest I have ever had to endure hearing. For me, they were just a hint that my kids had cracked open the door to the world of terror that waited for them.

    BroadforkForVictory, to random

    I don’t understand and will never understand the apathy about our climate catastrophe.

    Today I saw some blackbirds when walking the dog. It occurred to me they were the first I’d seen for a while. I love seeing blackbirds.

    I wonder what species going extinct will I miss the most? It’s always dogs. Today the answer was dogs.

    and blackbirds.

    Staggaly,
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    @Hellybootwader @BroadforkForVictory I also think that we must care for our own mental health first. The little things, like composting, is our way of starting right with ourselves and building that foundation of caring that we need to face the world.

    I would love to chain myself to a gas valve somewhere in a direct action protest but the cruel reality of a capitalistic society means my family would soon be hungry when I lose my job.

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