The Environmental Watchdog MasterThread

**Frownland** · 07-26-2020, 08:47 AM

I think they're just not cleaning it up anymore lol. Most of the parks with trails are like that in socal.

OccultHawk · 07-26-2020, 09:02 AM

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I think they're just not cleaning it up anymore lol. Most of the parks with trails are like that in socal.

That makes sense. All the tourists without the staff. And too many ****ing people.

OccultHawk · 07-28-2020, 06:22 AM

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Check out the final straw podcast if interested

OccultHawk · 08-18-2020, 08:47 AM

(CNN) - A record-breaking heat wave coupled with rare summer thunderstorms are fueling wildfires across California, with nearly 30 burning more than 120,000 acres as of Tuesday morning.

OccultHawk · 08-19-2020, 06:01 AM

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(CNN) - A record-breaking heat wave coupled with rare summer thunderstorms are fueling wildfires across California, with nearly 30 burning more than 120,000 acres as of Tuesday morning.

and in Brazil

A year ago this month, the forest around the town of Novo Progresso erupted into flames — the first major blazes in the Brazilian Amazon’s dry season that ultimately saw more than 100,000 fires and spurred global outrage against the government’s inability or unwillingness to protect the rainforest.

This year, President Jair Bolsonaro pledged to control the burning — typically started by local farmers to clear land for cattle or to grow soybeans, one of Brazil’s top exports. He imposed a four-month ban on most fires and sent in the army to prevent and battle blazes.

But this week the smoke is again so thick around Novo Progresso that police have reported motorists have crashed because they can’t see.

As smoke wreaths Novo Progresso, this year’s burning season could determine whether Bolsonaro, an avid supporter of bringing more farming and ranching to the Amazon, is willing and able to halt the fires. Experts say the blazes are pushing the world’s largest rainforest toward a tipping point, after which it will cease to generate enough rainfall to sustain itself, and approximately two-thirds of the forest will begin an irreversible, decades-long decline into tropical savanna.

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Even if it’s just soybeans it wrecks the ecosystem but 7 plus billion people gotta eat folks.

OccultHawk · 08-21-2020, 05:24 AM

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Greenland lost a record amount of ice during an extra warm 2019, with the melt massive enough to cover California in more than four feet (1.25 meters) of water, a new study said.

After two years when summer ice melt had been minimal, last summer shattered all records with 586 billion tons (532 billion metric tons) of ice melting, according to satellite measurements reported in a study Thursday. That’s more than 140 trillion gallons (532 trillion liters) of water.

That’s far more than the yearly average loss of 259 billion tons (235 billion metric tons) since 2003 and easily surpasses the old record of 511 billion tons (464 billion metric tons) in 2012, said a study in Communications Earth & Environment. The study showed that in the 20th century, there were many years when Greenland gained ice.

Nothing to see here.

TheBig3 · 08-21-2020, 11:59 AM

Turkey defies EU by sending drilling ship to waters off Cyprus

A war over oil looks like it's about to kick off between Greece and Turkey.

OccultHawk · 09-02-2020, 05:45 AM

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South and North Korea brace for two typhoons within a week

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Psy-Fi · 09-02-2020, 07:30 AM

"I am not banning fracking. No matter how many times Donald Trump lies about me."

OccultHawk · 09-08-2020, 03:42 PM

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California governor says fires already way worse than a year ago
California Gov. Gavin Newsom says*wildfire count*in the state so far this year is far beyond the number last year, evidence of the effects of climate change.
Newsom tweeted that there have been 7,606 fires so far this year, compared to 4,927 last year. And when it comes to acreage, fires have blackened 7,606 acres so far in 2020, up from 118,000 acres in 2019.

USA Today

and think about it... we’ve barely scratched the surface when it comes to global warming

07-26-2020, 08:47 AM	#691 (permalink)
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