The sons and daughters of the uber-richby Gaius PubliusCapitalism is an economic system that encourages people to act from the most pathological individual motives and promises the best social outcome. As Noam Chomsky said, our current ideology is producing a nation, a world, of psychopaths. From an interview with Rob Kall:
Atmospheric CO2 is currently well above 400 ppm (horizontal dotted line; right scale). This chart, going back to the Cambrian Period, shows how unusual the current situation is. The last time CO2 was greater than 400 ppm was when the Indian subcontinent slammed into Asia from the south (note the rise and fall in CO2 around 50 million years ago).
by Gaius PubliusI'm just delving into the new IPCC special report on the effects of limiting, or not limiting, global warming of 1.5°C (full report here), and there are a number of bottom lines coming out of it, including this one, which we reported earlier: "IPCC Manipulating Climate Report Summary to Favor
It's hard hearing the cracking voices of our countrymen and women from the Florida Panhandle whose lives have been turned inside out by Hurricane Michael. Some of lost their homes or businesses; some lost both. There were 17 American deaths, 8 in Florida, attributed to the strongest hurricane to strike the Panhandle in recorded history, the third strongest to ever hit the U.S. mainland. It made landfall near Mexico Beach as a Category 4 storm. Insured damage is estimated to be $8 billion so far.
Global warming projections taken from an earlier IPCC special report, Emissions Scenarios, published in 2000 (graph reproduced here).
The first statewide refillable bottle system has come to Oregon, where 7 breweries now offer beer in returnable, refillable bottles. The program cuts down on plastic waste and lets people enjoy an ice-cold adult beverage without BPA and the other harmful chemicals that can leach out of the plastic lining of aluminum cans. [1]
Joel Schoening of the Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative (OBRC) explained:
The Washington Post ran a piece about Hurricane Florence (sort of) on Tuesday, Sept 11, with this headline: “Another hurricane is about to bash our coast.
Illustration from Popular Mechanics, March 1912 (source). Who knew we'd be in trouble? Everyone who bothered to look.by Gaius PubliusThis is more climate news roundup than anything more deeply analytical. The changes we're seeing, which by now almost everyone on the planet is noticing, are here to stay.
