January 29, 2021: NASA Say 2020 Was the Hottest Year on Record

 1/29/21: Reject Don is gone – hopefully for good. President Biden has been in office eight days and hasn’t insulted anyone. 

Biden has also made it clear that taking on the threat of climate change will loom large on his agenda. 

 

NASA calls 2020 the hottest year ever. 

You can argue about plans, and our leaders should. You cannot argue that the issue isn’t real. The British just announced moves to ban sales of gasoline- or diesel-powered cars starting in 2030. As the threat becomes clearer (except to members of the Trump cult, and the High Priest, himself), nations are reacting. 

The British had planned to put that restriction in place, starting in 2040, but thought better of delay in the light of growing evidence of danger. 

NASA, for example, just reported that 2020 was the hottest year, globally, ever. 

NOAA (look the agency up if you don’t know what the initials stand for) has slightly different numbers. Their list of the ten warmest years on record, however, should give pause: 

2016

2020

2019

2015

2017

2018

2014

2010

2013

2005

 

Their prediction is also grim: that the next ten years will end up the globe’s ten warmest.

 

Japan has also announced plans to ban new gasoline- and diesel-powered automobiles by 2035. Hybrids will be allowed. 

The Province of Quebec and the State of California have announced bans for 2035. The deadline in Norway, where 60% of automobiles sold are already all-electric, will go into effect in 2025. 

General Motors has announced that it will stop selling gasoline- and diesel-powered cars by 2035. The company hopes to be carbon-neutral by 2040. 

The European Union has voted on a legally binding agreement, that all members must achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

 

The Chinese estimate that by 2035, at least 50% of all automobiles sold in that country will be NEV models, “New Energy Vehicles.” 

Change will be forced upon us. We just have to hope we handle the challenge better than the Mayans, the people of Kush, and the people of Angor Wat. 

Degradation of the environment led to the Mayan collapse.

 

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IN OTHER NEWS, parents of victims of the Sandy Hook and Parkland school massacres protest the decision by Republicans to place Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on the House Education and Labor Committee. 

Putting her in such a position, they say, “is an attack on any and every family whose loved ones were murdered in mass shootings that have now become fodder for hoaxers,” the parents said. 

Mark Barden, whose son Daniel was cut down by bullets at age six, during the bloodbath at Sandy Hook, released this statement from the group today: “We’re grateful for people like Rep. Jahana Hayes, who understand that hateful conspiracy theories and suggestions that our children’s’ violent deaths never happened have no place in our society, much less the United States Congress.” 

Greene has repeatedly stated that both these shootings were staged. But Jewish-controlled space lasers zapping forests and starting conflagrations in California? Yeah. Rep. Greene believes that’s real. 

(Hayes is a Democratic member of Congress, and represents Connecticut, the state where the Sandy Hook shooting occurred.) 

 

F***ING POSTSCRIPT: Rep. Lauren Boebert, one of the few members of Congress capable of challenging Greene for the title of “Biggest Lunatic in the House of Representatives,” gets into a Twitter fight with David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland shooting. 

After he criticizes Greene and Boebert, she responds dismissively in a tweet of her own, “David, please. We all saw how tough you were when questioned face to face. Give your keyboard a rest, child.” 

She refers to an incident where Greene chased the teenager down a Washington D.C. sidewalk, talking about how she was carrying a gun, and why was he trying to take her gun away? 

Something akin to a man chasing a rape victim down the street, and telling her all about his penis.

 

Boebert, of course, has been accused of encouraging the rioters on January 6, and another Twitter user responds by posting screenshots of her tweets from that day, and the day before.

A second Twitter user then posts another set of Boebert tweets, all of which support the idea of “fighting for freedom” (if you don’t like the outcome of the free election which was just held):

In another tweet, from last summer, Boebert says simply, “I am the militia.” Which is technically incorrect – since the National Guard is today’s militia. And you get the feeling, Rep. Boebert would be happy to start shooting other Americans, to ensure that she and her like-minded friends get their way.