Climate change propaganda

[em2nought]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

[B] Ireland Looking To Kill 200,000 Cows To Fight Climate Change; Are US Herds Next?
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I guess this is where those estimated huge Western Civilization population declines come from.

Hope their potato crop doesn't fail.

Personally, I think they could jam some kind of collection bag into a cow and they'd look a bit like Samurai riding around with their Horo billowing behind them.

[Rockstar]

[Skybird]

"Save Italy or the climate?

Parts of Italy first suffered from drought, then the north was hit by a flood disaster. And in all cases - if you believe most of the German media - climate change is responsible. But perhaps we should first take a look at the recent past.

The year 2017 was also very dry in Emilia Romagna, with the Po River not even filling half of its bed. I asked the host of our agriturismo, located about 10 km from the Po, how he was coping with the drought. Our host just laughed, and explained that was no problem: he only needed to drill a good meter deep and already reached the groundwater.

Large areas of the Po Delta lie below sea level. The first attempts to cultivate the marshy plains were made by Duke Alfonso II De'Este, Duke of Ferrara, starting in 1580. It was not until the 1970s, with the help of steam-powered pumps, that large areas of the Po Valley were drained and made habitable and cultivable. Rice cultivation in the upper Po Valley in particular depends on fine control of drainage and irrigation.

In order to maintain a permanent balance between drying out and drying up in this hydrogeologically difficult terrain, the so-called Consorzii di bonificazione were formed, institutions under public law, financed by levies. These are responsible for the perpetual task of maintaining and developing dams, ditches, retention basins and pumping stations. These public institutions have had their work cut out for them in recent years: Wildlife and nature conservation considerations have been pushed to the forefront, bringing the maintenance work of the consorzii to a virtual standstill.

The mayor of Ravenna, Michele de Pascale, said that in recent years nonsensical priorities have been set. For example, priority had been given to protecting the nutrias that dig holes in the dikes. And one had largely renounced the cutting back of the vegetation. The relevant administrative regulations, the mayor said, "...protect the trees and the nutrias more than the people."

De Pascale demands more power and new means to be able to do again what is necessary in terms of bonificazione.

One precautionary measure taken by the municipality of Ravenna concerned e-vehicles. After a wet e-car caught fire, the municipality ordered that e-car owners cannot use their cars for 15 days, for the sake of public safety. The cars must be parked outside, at least 5 meters away from other vehicles or buildings.

Is there a political person responsible for the flood disaster? "Piove - governo ladro / it's raining, gang of thieves government" is a saying that caricatures the Italian tendency to blame the government for every evil. The government in Rome has only been in office for eight months, so attributing responsibility will be difficult. Although there are hardcore leftists like Roberto Saviano, the former mafia hunter, who are also trying to do that, indicting the government for not stopping climate change so far.

Emilia Romagna, however, like Tuscany, has been firmly in the hands of the left since the end of the war, formerly the PCI, now the Partito Democratico. The old left used to have a reputation for clean administration. The new left in Italy is also woke and ecosocialist. More important than maintaining the complex irrigation and drainage systems of the Po Valley, and more important than the projected but so far only partially realized construction of new retention basins, is the fight against climate change. And in Italy, that means above all installing photovoltaic systems. If climate change is also to blame for the last devastating flood, these plants must consequently be the best protection against further flooding.

Massimiliano Fazzini, the geologist responsible for climate risks at the Italian Society for Environmental Geology, explains in an interview that the political pressure for climate protection in the regional government of Emilia Romagna was so massive that nothing has been done in terms of infrastructure in the last ten years. Fazzini: "You can't say no to everything, otherwise we'll be ruined in 10 years." "
https://www.achgut.com/artikel/italien_retten_oder_das_klima

[mapuc]

Something has to be blamed, when our environment goes berserk and what wouldn't be better than give Climate change the blame.

Markus

[Rockstar]

[Skybird]

In this country, too. In eastern Germany it is drier, there are more and more long-lasting fires in the spruce monoculture farms (I don't want to call these areas forest), in eastern Germany it is drier and hotter than in the other parts of the country. Greens, however, always enforce to leave dead wood lying, because this is "natural" and forms a primeval forest. They also rely on experiences in Bavaria, where the bark beetle led to a huge forest dieback in the 80s, but the forest was left to regenerate on its own, which it did, and now a more species-rich forest exists on these areas than before. A complete success.


But at that time it was not so hot and not so dry, the danger of forest fires was much lower.


Today, the same recipe is a manual for literally provoking fires and helping them spread faster.


My poor squirrels. The fir and especially the spruce forests are doomed to extinction in Germany, which is a catastrophe for the European red squirrel, because cones are an indispensable part of its food supply. Newly planeted firs and cone-producing trees need 40, 60, 80 years before they are so big that the build cones. As the forests in Germany are replaced, the red squirrel in its natural habitat and outside urban areas will disappear from Germany in the next decades, from most if not all of Central Europe. The population will retreat further and further to the northeast, at least according to current climate data. The populations will only remain in the cities - and then only if humans help. That's why I maintain a large feeding station in our neighborhood, and it's not cheap, it costs me several hundred euros a year.

[em2nought]

So I cancelled a magazine subscription today because they went digital. The operator told me they did it to save the trees. So "green" is save the trees, but kill the cows and my potty reading material?
https://www.nationalreview.com/corne...ountry%20meet% 20its%20climate%20targets.&text=Now%2C%20it%20is%2 0just%20one,it%20isn't%20being%20pursued.

Somebody out there is predicting drastic drops in western civilization populations and I think it's because we're going to bring famine upon ourselves with our stupid new "ideals"

[Catfish]

^ you should ask the operator if he has any idea about what those f'n servers cost and what imprint on the environment those have, running day and night so Mr or Mrs Smith can buy their next cookie decoration online 24/7

[Skybird]

When a company says it does this or that for environmental or climate concerns, it lies almost every single time. Or better: it sweats out oily mucus to cover others with slime and have them sliding towards a business deal.


They claim to be oh so authentic, but authenticity is the last thing I associate them with. To me they are just slimey glibbery goblins.

[ChristopherTarana]

It's very simple so simple, Albert Gore should have figured it out before his book! The sun is getting older! The sun is getting bigger! The sun is getting hotter!


Christopher Tarana

[Rockstar]

Believe it or not it sure beats anything Wikipedia and Greta has to say.


Drift of Earth's Pole Confirms Groundwater Depletion as a Significant Contributor to Global Sea Level Rise 1993–2010

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley....9/2023GL103509

Abstract
Climate model estimates show significant groundwater depletion during the 20th century, consistent with global mean sea level (GMSL) budget analysis. However, prior to the Argo float era, in the early 2000’s, there is little information about steric sea level contributions to GMSL, making the role of groundwater depletion in this period less certain. We show that a useful constraint is found in observed polar motion (PM). In the period 1993–2010, we find that predicted PM excitation trends estimated from various sources of surface mass loads and the estimated glacial isostatic adjustment agree very well with the observed. Among many contributors to the PM excitation trend, groundwater storage changes are estimated to be the second largest (4.36 cm/yr) toward 64.16°E. Neglecting groundwater effects, the predicted trend differs significantly from the observed. PM observations may also provide a tool for studying historical continental scale water storage variations.

Key Points
Earth's pole has drifted toward 64.16°E at a speed of 4.36 cm/yr during 1993–2010 due to groundwater depletion and resulting sea level rise

Including groundwater depletion effects, the estimated drift of Earth's rotational pole agrees remarkably well with observations

Plain Language Summary
Melting of polar ice sheets and mountain glaciers has been understood as a main cause of sea level rise associated with contemporary climate warming. It has been proposed that an important anthropogenic contribution is sea level rise due to groundwater depletion resulting from irrigation. A climate model estimate for the period 1993–2010 gives total groundwater depletion of 2,150 GTon, equivalent to global sea level rise of 6.24 mm. However, direct observational evidence supporting this estimate has been lacking. In this study, we show that the model estimate of water redistribution from aquifers to the oceans would result in a drift of Earth's rotational pole, about 78.48 cm toward 64.16°E. In combination with other well-understood sources of water redistribution, such as melting of polar ice sheets and mountain glaciers, good agreement with PM observations serves as an independent confirmation of the groundwater depletion model estimate.

[Rockstar]

make up a problem, use slave labor to make money

Hidden bloodshed and misery because of a hoax

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

make up a problem, use slave labor to make money
Hidden bloodshed and misery because of a hoax

^ this is really a good reminder of what "the west" builds it economy on

[Rockstar]

Originally Posted by Catfish

^ this is really a good reminder of what "the west" builds it economy on

Yep. In the quest to “save the planet” they are killing it, polluting it, the people, their food sources and livelihood.

[Rockstar]

We gotta save the planet!

Mining drives extensive deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-00557-w

Mining poses significant and potentially underestimated risks to tropical forests worldwide. In Brazil’s Amazon, mining drives deforestation far beyond operational lease boundaries, yet the full extent of these impacts is unknown and thus neglected in environmental licensing. Here we quantify mining-induced deforestation and investigate the aspects of mining operations, which most likely contribute. We find mining significantly increased Amazon forest loss up to 70 km beyond mining lease boundaries, causing 11,670 km2 of deforestation between 2005 and 2015. This extent represents 9% of all Amazon forest loss during this time and 12 times more deforestation than occurred within mining leases alone. Pathways leading to such impacts include mining infrastructure establishment, urban expansion to support a growing workforce, and development of mineral commodity supply chains. Mining-induced deforestation is not unique to Brazil; to mitigate adverse impacts of mining and conserve tropical forests globally, environmental assessments and licensing must considered both on- and off-lease sources of deforestation.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/04/22...s-rare-earths/

That this scramble for resources is centered on the Amazon lays bare an uncomfortable truth: Climate policy and environmental protection are not the same thing, and as the energy transition gathers pace, that trade-off is becoming increasingly evident. Indonesian rainforests have been cleared for palm oil plantations producing biofuels, and West African forests are felled for wood pellets to heat green homes in Europe. Open-pit mining is one of humanity’s most ruinous industries, razing everything in its path—while toxic runoff, tailings, and waste products can poison rivers and wreak havoc for miles.