The MAGAt politicians who are in complete submission to the petroleum corporations either are not smart enough to comprehend what climate change means or they just don’t care what happens to the Americans they represent. I don’t know, but their actions speak for themselves. Not just in Florida but in every Red state in the union, and in the U.S. Congress. What always amazes me is that they seem to believe that they and their families will somehow remain untouched by what is happening to Earth.
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Roughly three months before Florida was clobbered by this week’s climate-intensified hurricane, eight of the state’s Republican lawmakers pressured federal regulators to halt a proposal requiring businesses to more thoroughly disclose the risks they face from climate change. Those lawmakers have raked in more than $1 million of campaign cash from oil and gas industry donors, according to data reviewed by The Lever.
The proposed rules from the Securities and Exchange Commission are designed to give investors, government officials, and the general public much more information and details about the dangers of climate change. But even in Florida — one of America’s most climate-threatened states — top Republicans are trying to help fossil fuel industry lobbyists block such disclosure mandates that could better inform communities about climate risks. Those mandates could also help identify which carbon-emitting companies are most responsible for the climate crisis.
On June 15th, seven of Florida’s House lawmakers signed a letter to SEC Chair Gary Gensler demanding he rescind a proposal that […]
This is how our Supreme Court became so corrupt, and this is what traitor Trump did and will do again if he is elected in November. This election is going to determine whether we become a corrupt christofascist oligarchy or remain a democracy. It is that serious.
The bureau shamefully allowed itself to be used as a prop in political theater, orchestrated by the Trump administration. Maybe it was always obvious that the whole thing was a sham. Back in 2018, when Christine Blasey Ford, Deborah Ramirez, and others accused then supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, the powerful testimony of Blasey Ford before the Senate judiciary committee briefly seemed like it might derail the nomination. This was the height of #MeToo, remember: at the time, many women were coming forward with their own stories of sexual violence, and the accounts were numerous enough and had sufficient moral authority that powerful people felt it necessary to pretend that they cared.
Republican senators wanted to confirm Kavanaugh quickly: the judge, who was then seated on the DC circuit, would provide the crucial fifth vote to overturn Roe v Wade, as well as supporting efforts to enshrine various other Republican policy agendas into law. Women, however, were causing a scene: two cornered then Arizona senator Jeff […]
Adam Clark Estes, Senior Technology Correspondent - Vox
Stephan:
Climate havens is another misinformation fallacy, as this articles describes, and Ashville, North Carolina has just demonstrated. Please take the time to do research on what your situation really is. I have just heard from readers in both North Carolina and Florida who have lost their houses and everything in them, and both have discovered that getting insurance is not a trivial undertaking.
The cleanup effort for Hurricane Helene had just begun in North Carolina when Hurricane Milton crashed into Florida as a Category 4 storm on October 9. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty
The term “climate haven” never made much sense. After Hurricane Helene dumped two feet of rain on western North Carolina, manymajormediaoutletsmarveled at how Asheville, which had been celebrated as a climate haven, had been devastated by a climate-related disaster.
Some in the media later reported accurately that climate havens don’t actually exist. But that still raises the question: Where did this climate haven concept even come from?
Well before humans began putting billions of tons of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, entire populations would migrate toward better conditions in search of a place with milder weather or more fertile soil or the absence of drought.
Because of its speed and scale, however, human-caused climate change is especially extreme, and everywhere will be impacted by some degree of risk. There is no completely safe haven.
Which is part of how we ended up talking about the idea of climate havens. It’s […]
I have been warning you for years that if you live in an area that is likely to face a climate change catastrophe you would be well advised to see what your insurance situation is. It is also going to matter how you vote because when Congress comes back after the election you want the Democrats to be in control because they support the best governmental help. Also if you live in Florida I would begin thinking about where you might move. The insurance industry is going to bail on Florida, it has already started, and Helene and Milton are going to accelerate the industry’s withdrawal. Also, large parts of Florida are going to become unlivable.
Hurricane damage as a result of Hurricane Helene. Credit: AP
Hurricane Milton, a monstrous storm set to hit western Florida Wednesday night, is poised to deplete the finances of the government’s chronically indebted flood insurance program. Congress is already bracing for a fight over what to do about it.
Key lawmakers and aides are beginning to game out the likely impact on the National Flood Insurance Program, which is the primary option for millions of American homeowners to protect their finances from catastrophic flooding.
The emerging view from several lawmakers and staffers is that NFIP claims spurred by Milton and last month’s Hurricane Helene will likely exhaust the program’s nearly $5 billion in funds and force it to tap $9.9 billion in Treasury borrowing authority. While the NFIP collects premiums and pays out claims similar to a typical insurer, it’s been upside down financially because of weaknesses in how it assessed flood risks for decades and giant losses […]
While the MAGAt Republicans spew endless lies that put millions at risk as Hurricanes Helene and Milton have devasted the lives of Americans, and the carbon industries bribe politicians with tens of millions of dollars to keep us in the carbon energy era, scientists are screaming as loudly as they can that we must end this era. Read this and get clear why you have to vote only for Democrats. They may be far from perfect but they do live in a fact-based reality. To read the BioSccience journal report upon which this article is based see: https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biae087/7808595.
As Hurricane Milton barreled toward Florida’s Gulf Coast, demonstrating the dangers of global warming, international scientists on Tuesday published a terrifying annual analysis that highlights the need to swiftly phase out planet-heating fossil fuels.
“Our aim in the present article is to communicate directly to researchers, policymakers, and the public,” the coalition wrote in BioScience. “As scientists and academics, we feel it is our moral duty and that of our institutions to alert humanity to the growing threats that we face as clearly as possible and to show leadership in addressing them.”
“We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster. This is a global emergency beyond any doubt. Much of the very fabric of life on Earth is imperiled. We are stepping into a critical and unpredictable new phase of the climate crisis,” warned the 14 experts from Australia, Brazil, China, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Their latest edition, “The 2024 State of the Climate Report: Perilous Times on Planet Earth,” shows that 25 of the 35 “planetary vital signs” the […]
George Barns, PhD, Director of Research - Cultural Research Center - Arizona Christian University
Stephan:
Here is a very careful survey about people who define themselves as Christians, done by researchers who also define themselves as Christians. It describes something unexpected. Christians not voting. This is an aspect of the upcoming election I had not seen previously. Personally, since many of these people are MAGAts, I would be very happy if none of them voted because it would help Democrats Harris and Walz as well as Senators and Representatives to win in November. I am really concerned about this election because it is going to determine how the United States’ federal and state governments deal with the crisis of climate change, gender fairness, a revision of the tax system so the uber-rich pay their fair share, and a restructuring of the Supreme Court to make it once again an honorable institution.
As the final weeks of the 2024 presidential election campaign unfold, it appears that the outcome of the close race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will depend on which candidate does a more effective job of getting their supporters to vote. A new national survey by the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University, led by Dr. George Barna, indicates that voting enthusiasm is significantly lower than in 2020, and that a massive number of Christians who regularly attend church services are not likely to vote in November. Christian churchgoing voters have historically supported the more conservative major-party candidate in a presidential race and appear poised to do so again this election cycle—albeit with fewer of them casting a ballot than in the most recent presidential race. The research indicates that as many as 104 million people of faith are unlikely to vote in this upcoming election—and among those, 32 million self-identified Christians who regularly attend church won’t cast their ballots. If that expectation holds true, the impact bodes more poorly for President Trump’s prospects for reelection than […]
