Stephan: Because the MAGAts live in their bubble, listen and watch only MAGAt media they don't seem to understand that while the women in their world may accept subordination, the majority of American women do not, and that may be the miscalculation that is going to change the November election.
MAGAt Republican Representative Tom Emmer of Minnesota, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee Credit: Fox Screen capture
Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN), chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), accused Democrats of supporting a “Chinese genocide bill” because they are trying to codify abortion rights.
During an interview on Fox News, host Mike Emmanuel told Emmer that multiple Republicans had scrubbed any mention of abortion rights from their campaign websites after the U.S. Supreme Court upended women’s reproductive rights.
“I trust our candidates to know their districts and know how they’re going to appeal to their voters, to the voters that are going to turn out in November and elect them to the next Congress,” Emmer opined. “That being said, if Democrats want to make abortion the main issue when every poll we have seen says that the economy and the cost of living is the number one issue, good luck to them trying to defend their extreme position.”
“Every one of them voted for what I call the ‘Chinese genocide bill,’ which would allow abortion up […]
Stephan: I have been telling my readers for several years that if you live along a coast whether river delta or ocean you should think about how the next couple of decades will impact your property. Now, here is another voice confirming my thinking. Lands that border water are going to be radically changed.
Homes on Ridgeway Blvd. in New Orleans are surrounded by water and marshland near Lake Pontchartrain on August 23, 2019. Louisiana’s combination of rising waters and sinking land give it one of the highest rates of relative sea level rise on the planet. Credit: Drew Angerer / Getty
Hundreds of thousands of homes and other properties across millions of acres in the U.S. are projected to be at least partially submerged by seawater by 2050, according to a new analysis released Thursday, with major implications not just for homeowners but also public services in their communities as tax bases in hundreds of counties are expected to shrink.
“Emissions matter, especially as we get beyond the next 20 or 30 years. You reduce emissions, you reduce your likelihood of higher sea levels.”
The nonprofit research group Climate Central examined the sea level rise that’s been projected by experts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—which found earlier this year that sea levels in U.S. coastal areas could rise by about one foot by 2050—tidal boundary lines, and records regarding more than 50 […]
Stephan: The fires that are plaguing the world as I write, and doing more than destroying the trees essential to the earth's ecosystem, they are also changing the ozone layer of the atmosphere as this report describes. We, as a people, simply must wake up to what we are doing to our planet. That means voting Democratic because the Democrats are the only party that take climate change seriously.
Smoke fills the sky as Sydney is enveloped in a thick bank of hazardous bushfire smoke forcing authorities in Australia’s most populous city to scale back controlled forest burning nearby on May 2, 2021. Credit: Saeed Khan / AFP / Getty
Scientists were stunned in early 2020 when bush fires that spread across Australia generated their own extreme weather patterns, including thunderstorms — and a study published last Thursday revealed the blazes had an even greater climate impact than previously known.
Researchers at University of Exeter in England found that aerosols from the smoke created by the fires caused the highest temperatures in the Earth’s stratosphere in decades and likely created a hole in the ozone layer over most of Antarctica.
With global fossil fuel extraction and the global heating it causes showing few signs of slowing down, extreme weather events like the bush fires are likely to continue, said the authors of the study — and with them could come more damage to the ozone layer.
“Under global warming, the frequency and intensity of wildfires is expected to increase, […]
Stephan: I get so tired and depressed doing these stories. Yet SR is a publication about trends, and this is the dominant trend. It is so clear what we must do, and yet we don't do it. All the profit in the world will not matter in the future being shaped by greedy oligarchs as willfully ignorant ordinary people slumber away.
A group of steephead parrotfish swim above the coral reef of Taravai Island on February 17, 2018 in the Gambier Islands, French Polynesia. (Photo: Alexis Rosenfeld/Getty Images)
A new study details the disastrous consequences that would result for marine life across the world’s oceans if current levels of fossil fuel emissions are maintained, with up to 90% of ocean species facing extinction.
Daniel Boyce, a research scientist at Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Nova Scotia, Canada, led the study examining 35,000 species of marine flora and fauna as well as bacteria and protozoans, devising a new analytical tool called the Climate Risk Index for Biodiversity (CRIB).
Under the current level of emissions, which the United Nations said in 2019 were on track to raise global temperature by 3-5° Celsius, nearly 90% of marine species would be at high-to-critical risk of being wiped out and 85% of those species’ native habitats would be affected, on average.
“Sticking to the goals of the Paris agreement would have substantial benefits for marine life.”
Stephan: Here is some good news or, at least, a way to create good news, a good trend, if only we have the will and intelligence to do it.
The Gelderse Poort flood plain in the Netherlands has been rewilded with horses, cattle, beavers and more — with the help of brick-making companies.
CREDIT: GER BEEKES / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO
Back in the 1980s, the Dutch were having problems with their famous “dikes and dams” approach to delta management. The landscape was boring; waterways were lifeless; people faced ever-more-regular and costly summer floods. A local foundation offered a prize for innovative solutions. The winning entry, Plan Stork, was inspired by the radical new idea that nature could be an ally for development. It might sound odd, but key to the plan was clay mining.
Two not-for-profits — WWF-Netherlands and ARK Nature — got two brick companies to help restore the flood plain of the Gelderse Poort. Over 25 years they bought up farmland and removed the valuable silts and clays that had built up over the decades between the dikes, in the process restoring and repairing the historic system of braids and pools.
The result was a true win-win. Houses were built, money was made and […]
