Gaius Publius
State of Emergency in West Virginia After 100-Car Oil Train Derails, Explodes
by Gaius PubliusThere are two ends to the climate crisis story, the output end and the input end, chained together in a way that can't be broken. Each side drives the other, is needed by the other, and each side is deadly to humans.At the output end, we have carbon emission from burning fossil fuels.
Global Air Pollution Has Offset Arctic Warming By 60%
by Gaius PubliusIt looks like my two-part Arctic warming and ice-loss discussion is turning into a triptych. Here's a third part, a capper. In the first piece we saw that one of the most rapidly diminishing glaciers in Greenland has dramatically accelerated its destruction.
New PPP Poll Shows Democratic Base Lukewarm to Clinton
"Shine Bright, Jamie Dimon" — written and performed by Lauren Windsor by Gaius PubliusI haven't seen this very widely reported, so I'll take it on here. This is a Warren story, a Clinton story, and a "What are we gonna do?" story.The Warren part of the story is clear and clean. According to Politico, a group of people who are clearly Not Ready For Hillary have commissioned a poll by the highly respected firm PPP to find out just how vulnerable Hillary Clinton is. What's the Warren part?
And Another — "Arctic Glacier’s Galloping Melt Baffles Scientists"
[Click to enlarge.]by Gaius PubliusA fast follow-up to this recent post about disappearing glaciers. That piece was about the rapidly accelerating march of Greenland glaciers to the sea. This is about disappearing Arctic ice.
Greenland Ilulissat Glacier Break-Up — Largest Calving Event Ever Recorded
[Click to enlarge.]by Gaius PubliusMore and more people — as opposed to billionaire-driven corporations — are becoming aware that we are entering a new age, a new "normal," with respect to earth's climate and its conditions. We see this especially in the rapid approach of tipping points, irreversible changes, many quite visible.Of those tipping points, none is more visible, more immediately "gettable," than the rapid disappearance of standing ice everywhere on the planet.
The President's Budget Proposal — Cuts to Spending, Cuts to Medicare
America's Achilles Heel: Withholding from the "Undeserving" Poorby Gaius PubliusPresident Obama released his budget recently, and there's a lot in it, both to like and to not like. Rather than give an overview of its many provisions, let's focus on just two.
Gorbachev: The New Cold War With Russia Could Turn "Hot"
by Gaius PubliusIt's not on most people's radar, I think, that what's going on inside Ukraine is a proxy war between the West — mainly the U.S., aided by the E.U. — and Russia. In the same way, the long "internal" Nicaraguan conflict of the Reagan '80s was a proxy war between, yet again, the U.S. and Russia (also, between the U.S. and anyone in Latin America who didn't want to live under U.S.
