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Greenhouse Effect is a Hoax
The rise in temperature, has nothing to do with infrared absorption or heat retention by GHGs like CO2.
But with the increase in the average kinetic energy (movements) of all molecules, by increase in their speeds.
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Greenhouse Effect is a Hoax
Have you ever wondered how heat retained by GHGs is measured? answer; there is no way to prove it.
because thermometers measure only the kinetic energy (movements) of the molecules, we call it temperature.
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Greenhouse Effect is a Hoax
Temperature and heat on the planet are caused by the kinetic energy of atoms and molecules.
When the atmosphere increases its temperature 1°C, the average kinetic energy of its molecules increases by 12.46 J.
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Believe it or not, there are quite a few ways that humans influence the weather, whether on purpose or by total accident! Here are 5 human activities that can produce more rain:
“The earth is telling us something about our conduct of living, as well as about our abuse of this covenant we live upon. Not one of us can believe himself or herself untouched by these messages, no matter where she or he lives, no matter under what illusion of safety or uninvolvement we may pretend to hide. Each one of us has some power that can be used, somewhere, somehow, to help save our Earth.”
– Audre Lorde – Of Generators & Survival – Hugo Letter, December 17, 1989
As an organizing center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans, and Gender Non-Conforming (LGBTSTGNC) people of color in New York City, the Audre Lorde Project stands in solidarity with communities working and taking actions towards climate justice. We also want to acknowledge and honor the many movements; especially the People of Color led Environmental Justice Movement that has laid the groundwork for the Climate Justice Movement.
We recognize that our current climate crisis and the violence experienced by our communities share the same roots: a system that values money over our life—all species and the earth. Colonialism created a legacy of oppression that targeted and silenced our communities and violated our relationship with the earth. In this system, the planet’s worth and our communities’ worth are defined by production and labor, which ultimately lead to the exploitation and devaluing of us all.
Existing social and economic inequalities that are based on class, race and gender oppression will be magnified by climate change. Our LGBTSTGNC people of color communities, in particular two spirit, trans, and gender non-conforming people of color, live on the front lines. We have and will continue to bear the burdens of climate change.
* Climate change increases the frequency and severity of storms. In anticipation of the coming storms, we think back to hurricanes Katrina and Sandy. During Hurricane Katrina, black lesbians and Trans women of color were disparately affected. In Katrina’s aftermath, the suffering of these same communities was invisibilized as New Orleans prioritized reviving its gay tourism industry. We remember Hurricane Sandy, which displaced and worsened the NYC housing crisis for thousands of homeless people including many LGBTSGNC People of Color. Currently in NYC, 54,000 homeless people sleep in shelters, and countless others remain unsheltered. Nationally, it is estimated that 40% of all homeless people identify as LGBT. We are fully aware that future storms can deeply impact our communities.
* Climate change will negatively impact our community’s health and wellbeing. In NYC, it will result in extreme heat and intensified urban air pollution. These changes will severely impact many low-income LGBTSTGNC people of color who suffer from asthma, and both trans and gender non-conforming people of color, who already face several barriers to health care.
* Climate change will also negatively impact food systems, making food even more costly and difficult to access for our community. This has already been demonstrated with extreme inflation and rising food prices.
* The global impact of water shortages and the privatization of water has demonstrated an extreme circumstance of valuing the cost of water over the lives of those who need it. The global water war (currently, over 1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water; over the next 10-50 years, climate change will increase water scarcity, leaving governments to control and manage groundwater sources) and then locally, Detroit’s Water War, have shown us the impact of the complete removal of safety and access to water for low income communities, especially Black and communities of color. These incidents are a reminder that our current system considers us expendable for capital gain, and warn us of the potential threats water scarcity will inflict on our communities.
Globally, climate change will most greatly impact those communities that are least responsible for causing it. Whole countries, who have negligible emissions, will be displaced. We know that these communities, like ours, will bear the burden of climate change. Decades of colonialism, globalization, and capitalism have targeted and policed our communities, and exploited the lands we call home. Once again, we will have to prove our resilience and legacies of survival traditions. And once again, we know that those in power will try to control us and the sustenance we receive from the earth, which ensures our survival and wellbeing. We call out these injustices and stand in solidarity with communities on the front line of climate change around the earth, and those who seek to center and resource the survival and livelihood of indigenous and people of color communities.
As a political organizing center in the so-called “United States,” we recognize the historical responsibility of the U.S. in perpetuating climate change. The United States, which holds only 4% of the world’s population, emits 25% of the world’s greenhouse gases that cause climate change. We hold those with systemic power accountable, for like many oppressions, we never gave our consent to this deathly and unsustainable system, but are silenced to support it.
We call for communities who will be impacted by climate change at home and globally to be recognized as decision makers around any proposal affecting climate change (i.e. any decision that may further climate change, as well as the various proposals for solutions). We recognize the inherent ageism, ableism, racism, sexism, colonialism, and xenophobia of climate change, and call our communities to voice our lived experiences.
We stand against false systemic solutions that do not address the root causes of climate change. This includes climate adaptation proposals that recommend increased police presence in our communities and increased militarization globally. These proposals target us as taking resources and both blame and shame our communities for resource inequities, when a history of colonization and imperialism shows war as one of the largest destructions of natural resources. We reject these false solutions and remember through our community experiences that heightened policing only leads to our further oppression.
Given the deep roots of climate change, we acknowledge that facing climate change is deeper than adapting to survive severe storms. It is necessary to fundamentally challenge the systems of oppression that continue to exploit the earth and our communities. We call for an end of capitalism and imperialism’s systematic desecration, including the exploitative fossil fuel era. We will build our collective resistance and resilience in solidarity with indigenous and people of color communities locally, nationally, and globally. We call for a return to communities and the earth; for valuing one another, fellow species, and the earth, so we can all live and thrive.
In Solidarity,
The Audre Lorde Project
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I dont want to get too off topic on this blog but since this is a somewhat big platform I want to talk about whats going on as we are facing the climate crisis head on.
Thousands of scientists all over the world are currently on protest in tears. No media is bringing this up. We should be seeing news about NASA scientists being arrested for asking to be heard but instead it is silent. Scientists say we have 3 years left to stop everything, we have the answers, but our governments arent listening. That we need to stop all new projects. Over 110,000+ new fossil fuel projects have been signed off in 2022. That should be concerning. Oil, gas and coal need to be stopped if we want a chance at survival and it needs to be talked about. We have 3 years, we have answers, we have alternatives and we need to government to act now. Theres a man on hunger strike just so the government will read the latest IPCC report. Just to look at a scientific document. They cant even do that.
A woman from Just Stop Oil was one of the only interviews in media ive seen as of recent, where she was mocked for her clothes and not given the chance to truly speak on the science as she was interrupted to be told her ego is too big. It was a copy and paste situation to the interview from the movie Dont Look Up. This response of mockery over a genuine concern for humanity should terrify all of us.
Despite Bidens word, he has signed off more new oil, gas and coal works.
Did you know that Congo just sold more oil blocks in their rainforest and river.
The arctic passed over 30 degrees celsius this past month. Both sides of the earths ice experiencing heat waves. The arctic is bubbling METHANE.
And so so so so much more from flooding, new oil sign offs, etc.
If you are in a country thats just about to start elections, please look into parties that will do their part for the climate crisis. If you are not signed to vote, enrol asap. If youre in Australia, like me, you can enrol here by TODAY. (And maybe look into our third party system and what the greens have to offer? But i didnt tell you that..)
Look into protest groups like the Extinction Rebellion and see what protests are hapening nearby and what you can do to help. This is quite literally life or death for humanity and we cant risk ignoring it and letting it be ignored. We have to educate ourselves on whats going on, get mad and fight it. Because media is refusing to let us know of the doom were facing if our government continues to support oil, gas and coal the way they are. This isnt to make you feel doom, but encourage you to act to prevent doom.
Join the Youth Climate movement! http://thisiszerohour.org/
They’re also looking for volunteers to help out on July 21st. Here is the link to sign up: http://dcambs.us15.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=7226b7f33b93d067830d57870&id=aca2e9370e
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Sky high: Carbon dioxide levels in air spike past milestone
The amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has shot past a key milestone – more than 50% higher than pre-industrial times – and is at levels not seen since millions of years ago when Earth was a hothouse ocean-inundated planet, federal scientists announced Friday.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said its long-time monitoring station at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, averaged 421 parts per million of carbon dioxide for the month of May, which is when the crucial greenhouse gas hits its yearly high. Before the industrial revolution in the late 19th century carbon dioxide levels were at 280 parts per million, scientists said, so humans have significantly changed the atmosphere. Some activists and scientists want a level of 350 parts per million. Industrial carbon dioxide emissions come from the burning of coal, oil and gas.
Levels of the gas continue to rise, when they need to be falling, scientists say. This year’s carbon dioxide level is nearly 1.9 ppm more than a year ago, a slightly bigger jump than from May 2020 to May 2021.
Wait, how do I pass a Litmus Test?
The word litmushas two possible etymologies: the first possibility litmosecomes from the Old Norse combination of litrmeaningcolorandmosimeaningmoss. For the Norse, the lichen Roccella tinctoria was used for dying clothes. Ernest Weekly’s Etymological Dictionary of Modern English goes as far as to identify a probable time and date that the word entered English: around 1300 from Norway via the port town of Lynn. The Oxford Universal English Dictionary offers the Middle Dutch word leecmoosorlijcmoesfrom a combination of the Hundustani word lac(from which we get our word lacquer) meaning a dark red incrustation shed by certain insects and moes, meaning pulp. The OUED does offer the Old Norse as a related derivation.
Litmus was first identified for scientific use by Robert Boyle (Happy Birthday, Robert, born on this day, January 25, 1627) -when he identified paper treated with crushed and prepared leaves from the lichen. The resulting light blue paper will turn red in the presence of acid and back to blue in the presence of a base. The first figurative use of ‘litmus test’ not seen until the 1950s. Today ‘litmus test’ has as much political use as it does scientific use, and the current administration is applying a strict anti-climate litmus test for federal employees. Contact your Congressional Delegation if you think SCIENCE should be above simple litmus tests: https://www.congress.gov/contact-us
Image of roccella tinctoria courtesy of Leif and Anita Stridvall. You can see more of their fantastic gallery of all things plant related here: http://www.stridvall.se/la/galleries.php
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Air Pollution and SMOG
Not all science words denote progress or an advancement in knowledge or technology. Some words denote the opposite-the recognition that humans have changed things for the worse. Few words capture this regression more completely than smog. A mashup of the words smokeandfog, the word was coined in 1905 to describe London:
At a recent health congress in London, a member used a new term to indicate a frequent London condition, the black fog, which is not unknown in other large cities and which has been the cause of a great deal of bad language in the past. The word thus coined is a contraction of smoke fog “smog” – and its introduction was received with applause as being eminently expressive and appropriate. It is not exactly a pretty word, but it fits very well the thing it represents, and it has only to become known to be popular. [“Journal of the American Medical Association,” Aug. 26, 1905]
Unfortunately, not much was done to reduce smogand it wasn’t until the Big Smoke or London SmogDisaster of 1952 that the extent and danger of the problem became evident. A cold weather cyclone settled over the city of London on December 5, 1952 that lingered for a week, trapping cold air and thus causing Londoners to increase the smogby heating with coal. Visibility was so low that navigating city streets was difficult during the day and impossible at night. Although there was no panic at the time, by the end of that week undertakers and flower shops were out of space and product as the death toll climbed to 4,000. Another 8,000 or so (estimates vary) would die in the next couple of months from complications, mostly the young and the old.
The London SmogDisaster was not the first documented smogevent to have mass casualties, and would not be the last: the 1930 Meuse Valley Smog, the 1939 St. Louis Smog, the 1948 Donora Smogall preceded the London SmogDisaster, and several more have followed. By the mid-fifties, governments around the world began to tackle the issue. 1953 saw the creation of the word smaze, a mashup of smokeandhaze. Currently New Dehli is in the grip of a debilitating smog, as a micro-climate and inversion are holding smoke and haze over the city, mixed the area’s already heavy congestion and smoke from the recent festival of lights. India is fast overtaking China as among the most polluted places on earth.
Image of Nelson’s Column in London courtesy geograph.org.uk under a Creative Commons 3.0 license. Image of smog in New Dehli taken December 2014 by Kate Ellis, used with permission under a Creative Commons 3.0 license. Thanks, Kate!
Journal of the AMA quote via etymonline.com, an excellent resource.
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Climate strike in Portland, shot on a Canon rebel t6
‘DROUGHT’ (July 8th)
#ClimateChange #Weather #Temps #Climate #Climat #Drought #Sècheresse #Landscape #Paysage #Dutch #Holland #Friesland #Fryslân © #Duivelsei #LG (at Friesland, Netherlands)
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Who’s to blame for the neurotoxin poisoning the Pacific? | Verge Science
The crabbing industry in California is under siege: from toxic algae, climate change, and, some argue, Big Oil. We spent a day on a fishing boat to find out what’s really threatening commercial crabbing, and what can be done about it.
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