12/21/19: The evidence continues to build…okay, not the evidence against Trump… because
he’s still stiffing congressional investigators.
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Matt Shea, center, has a plan for a biblical nation. |
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More methane was released from that site than some nations
spew into the atmosphere in a year.
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We mean evidence of climate catastrophe in the making. Australia just set a dubious record: hottest day ever on the continent, December 18, with an average temperature of 107.4 F.
That broke the old record set…on December 17.
And that broke the old record set in 2013.
If that isn’t enough evidence (and for Trump and the Trumplican Party there may never be enough), we can turn to a report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA. Relying on more than 26,000 weather stations round the globe, and even more devices to chart ocean temperatures, NOAA notes that June, July and September this year were the hottest those three months have ever been. August tied for second hottest, with August 2015 and August 2017. March, April, October, and November were all the second hottest ever, in 2019.
Paris, where records date to 1658, had its hottest day ever at 108.7 F (42.6 C)
this past summer.
Signs of trouble continue to multiply. And the Trump administration does less than nothing to address the threat. Under Trump, government agencies are actually thwarting efforts to protect the environment. New studies by NOAA also indicate that California coastal waters are acidifying at twice the rate of waters in other parts of the world, “threatening major fisheries and sounding the alarm that the ocean can absorb only so much more of the world’s carbon emissions.”
Why worry? The Los Angeles Times sums up just a few of the problems in one tightly-written paragraph:
Across
the globe, coral reefs are dying, oysters and clams are struggling
to build their shells, and fish seem to be losing their sense of smell and
direction. Harmful algal blooms are getting more toxic — and occurring more
frequently. Researchers are barely keeping up with these new issues while still
trying to understand what’s happening under the sea.
Meanwhile, pesky scientists, using satellite imaging, discover that “a little known gas-well accident at an Ohio fracking site” last year “was in fact one of the largest methane leaks ever recorded in the United States.”
How bad was it? More methane was released from that site than some nations spew into the atmosphere in a year.
A Dutch-American team detected the problem and findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week. Methane, as some people – and all scientists know – is a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. But don’t worry. President Trump has our backs when it comes to strong-flushing toilets. Plus, he’s good at insulting teenage climate activists. (See: 9/23/19.)
(Trump’s EPA has rolled back
rules to control methane emissions, despite the fact methane is estimated
to do as much as 30 times more damage to the atmosphere, molecule for molecule,
than carbon dioxide.)
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What this country needs is a theocracy!
IF YOU HAVEN’T NOTICED, a growing number of Trump supporters want to save the country by launching a civil war and killing all the Americans they don’t like. Namely, liberals, socialists, immigrants, non-Christians, Democratic lawmakers, Trump critics, and individuals of darker pigmentation.
The latest in the growing line of murderously-inclined “patriots” is six-term Washington State lawmaker Matt Shea. This week, despite being charged with domestic terrorism, Shea refused to resign his seat.
Your
devoted blogger is just waiting for Shea to claim charges against him are part
of a “witch hunt” and a “hoax.”
Independent investigators found that Shea had engaged in the training of young people to fight a “holy war.” Shea helped prepare a manifesto with a kind of a Uni-Bomber vibe, titled Biblical Basis for War.
Just as Jesus and the Founding Fathers intended, the government of the United States would be replaced by a theocracy. Shea’s plans – and he had many supporters – were even too nutty for Fox News. As Fox reported, Shea talked of a “Holy Army” that would “kill people who flout ‘biblical law.’” In Biblical Basis for War, Shea condemns same-sex marriage and abortion, and serves warning that those who refuse to follow biblical law should be punished.
Stoning, maybe?
“If they do not yield, kill all males,” Shea adds.
According to the Spokane Spokesman-Review, Shea “espouses far-right conspiracy theories, mingles with militia groups, considers the U.S. ‘a Christian nation’ and champions a push for a fifty-first state called Liberty.” That’s right: a state called Liberty. And kill all males who resist.
More women left for Shea and
his supporters!
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