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  1. 1 day ago on Prickly City

    2018 – In Court… Under Oath….

    A replay of the Tobacco Companies techniques to convince people that tobacco doesn’t cause cancer…

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    The plaintiffs are the coastal cities of San Francisco and Oakland.

    They’re suing five major oil companies (Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, ConocoPhillips and BP) to pay for the cities’ costs to cope with the sea level rise caused by global warming.

    Chevron’s lawyer presented the science for the defense, and most notably, began by explicitly accepting the expert consensus on human-caused global warming, saying:

    “From Chevron’s perspective, there is no debate about the science of climate change.”

    (Yep, burning oil / coal causes climate change to speed up drastically.)

    The judge mandated that those submitting briefs detail their funding sources, and they listed a litany of oil companies and fossil fuel-funded think tanks. Among those listed by Monckton and Soon’s group were ExxonMobil, the Heartland Institute, and the Charles G. Koch Foundation.

    Among those listed by Happer, Koonin, and Lindzen were the Heritage Foundation, Peabody Coal, the Cato Institute, and the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

    It’s a perfect example of the oil industry’s two-faced behavior.

    For decades their own scientists quietly published peer-reviewed research concluding that humans are causing global warming.

    That was the face we saw from Chevron’s lawyer.

    But at the same time, oil companies were funding contrarian scientists and think tanks to spread denial and doubt about that same science.

    That was the face revealed in the denier briefs.

    Although they accept the expert climate consensus, the oil companies obviously don’t want to be held liable for the costs of the climate damages their products cause.

    ~

    The Guardian

    In court, Big Oil rejected climate denial

    If even oil companies accept human-caused global warming, why doesn’t everybody?

  2. 3 days ago on Prickly City

    Bitter cold continues to grip the United States as unusual freezing temperatures stretch as far south as Florida this week. Even more chilly weather is in store through the weekend, putting more than 80 percent of the US population under some type of cold weather advisory.

    But this jarring cold snap is sandwiched between the end of what was the hottest year on record and the start of another year that could be even hotter.

    And even as temperatures plunge to new depths, the recent weather isn’t remotely enough to derail an ominous trend.

    As the climate changes, the bottom of the temperature scale is rising faster than the top. This pronounced winter warming is often less palpable than the triple-digit summer heat waves that have become all the more frequent across much of the country, but no less profound.

    According to Climate Central, more than 200 locations around the United States have lost almost two weeks of below-freezing nights since 1970. By 2050, 23 states are projected to lose upward of a month of freezing days.

    “In general, winters have been getting warmer across the country, and really across the world,” said Pamela Knox, an agricultural climatologist at the University of Georgia extension. “It turns out that the colder seasons are warming up more quickly than the warmer seasons.”

    Warmer winters are one of the strongest examples of how humanity has changed the world with its ravenous appetite for fossil fuels, which emit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and drive up global temperatures.

    That doesn’t just mean fewer good ski days or the end of white Christmases for some regions; cold weather is an important, essential signal for plants and animals, and losing it has far-reaching effects on the economy, food production, and health.

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    Vox

    Why have our winters gotten so weird?

    Yes, it’s freezing now. But winters are actually warming dangerously fast.

  3. 4 days ago on Frazz

    One of the earliest known references to spring cleaning is found in the Jewish tradition of Passover, which is observed annually in March or April.

    People remove all traces of chametz or leavened bread, which is prohibited leading up to the holiday.

    Its removal symbolizes the haste with which the Israelites fled Egypt, unable to wait for their bread to rise before their journey to freedom.

    Similarly, Catholics clean altars in churches on Maundy Thursday ahead of Good Friday, which is held annually in the spring in March or April.

    Nowruz, celebrated around the vernal equinox in March, involves the tradition called khāne-takānī or “shaking down the house.”

    People wash clothes, blankets, and textiles in preparation for this approximately 3,000-year-old holiday—which can be traced back to Zoroastrianism, one of the world’s first monotheistic religions.

    Before the Lunar New Year, it’s common to cleanse the home of bad luck and misfortune in China. Known as “sweeping the dust,” cleaning makes way for the new year’s good luck and prosperity, says Patten.

    Cleaning must be done before the holiday, typically in January or February, since sweeping after the festivities is seen as removing good luck.

    In Thailand, during Songkran in April, it’s customary to deep clean homes, schools, and public spaces to purify them ahead of the Thai New Year.

    People toss water at each other in the streets to wash away the previous year’s bad luck and over statues of Buddha to ensure luck for the year to come.

    ~

    National Geographic

    Spring cleaning has ancient origins. Here’s why we still do it.

  4. 7 days ago on Prickly City

    You don’t know. . . Really?

    Why I’m just laughing at someone that apparently is a self-appointed ‘arbiter of the internet’ who at the same time is so completely, totally, so un-self aware to complain about someone else using an internet handle that may not fit them.

    Does that narrow it down for you?

  5. 7 days ago on Prickly City

    “You may be from FL, but You’re not worthy to be called The Dude.”

    …Wrote ‘Robin Hood’.

  6. 8 days ago on Prickly City

    The financial squeeze on the former president, who says he can’t come up with the cash to appeal his $454 million civil fraud judgment, intensifies his threat to national security. ✁

    Trump’s predicament is also the latest reminder that his financial challenges make him a national security threat — something that has been a reality ever since he was elected president in 2016.

    He’s always been willing to sell his name to the highest bidder. There’s no reason to believe that Trump, whose businesses collected millions of dollars from foreign governments and officials while he was president, won’t have a for-sale sign out now that he’s struggling with the suffocating weight of court judgments.

    Trump is being criminally prosecuted for allegedly misappropriating classified documents and stashing them at Mar-a-Lago, his home in Palm Beach, Florida.

    Without a trial and public disclosure of more evidence, Trump’s motivations for taking the documents are unknown, but it’s reasonable to wonder whether he pondered trying to sell them.

    Monetizing the White House has been something of a family affair, after all. His son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has been busy trading financially on his proximity to the former president, for example.

    ~

    Bloomberg

    Trump’s Empty Pockets Make Him an Overseas Mark

  7. 15 days ago on Sherman's Lagoon

    Nahh, it’s David Bowie’s locker from before he changed his name…

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    Before David Bowie became recognized as one of the most influential musicians of his era, he was known as David Jones, a young London singer in a local band who was infatuated with U.S. culture and Hollywood movies.

    The iconic artist died Sunday at age 69 after an 18-month battle with cancer. He was born David Robert Jones on Jan. 8, 1947, but he changed his name when he was 18 to avoid confusion with another British musician of the same name, Davy Jones, who later became the frontman for The Monkees.

    “In answer to your questions, my real name is David Jones and I don’t have to tell you why I changed it,” the singer wrote to his first American fan in 1967. “‘Nobody’s going to make a monkey out of you’ said my manager.”

    ~

    Time

    The Story Behind David Bowie’s Name Change

  8. 23 days ago on Rabbits Against Magic

    Usually it has been: “I know it when I see / hear about it.”

  9. about 1 month ago on That is Priceless

    Sorry Solstice, but I couldn’t be around Gocomics very long yesterday to post your note to everyone.

    And considering that I already have 2 strikes against me, I’m reluctant to risk a third in order to post your latest offerings…

    ~

    Yesterday from Solstice:

    I have not been totally erased, BE THIS GUY. My most recent GoComics posts can still be seen on my Profile Page, as we learned during Ish’s exile a year ago. For a variety of reasons I am reluctant to return to my previous level of output, but just in case someone sees this here, (where are you Silly Season now that I need you?) I would like for that someone to let everyone know that my GoComics profile number is 3270860. And thanks to JH&Cats for pointing out that I have been transferring many of my comments to Steve’s blog, where, (one can hope), they will not be subject to arbitrary erasure.

  10. about 1 month ago on Prickly City

    In the early nineteenth century when Shelley wrote this poem, Ramesses II, or “Ozymandias,” was a fairly obscure Egyptian king who was known almost exclusively from sources written in Ancient Greek over a millennium after his death.

    The growth of the new field of Egyptology and the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, however, changed all that and, ironically, Ramesses II is much better known today than he was in Shelley’s time two centuries ago.

    Ramesses II is renowned today as one of the greatest ancient Egyptian pharaohs. He ruled the Egyptian New Kingdom for sixty-six years. His reign began in 1279 BC and lasted until his death in the summer of 1213 BC.

    ~

    Tales of Times Forgotten

    Who Was Ozymandias?