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02/14/2025

Stacy Davis Gates, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, an AFT affiliate, is critical of Trump’s school prevacation plan saying that "today's hearing made clear that Donald Trump is not trying to roll the country back to 1950, he is trying to roll us back to 1850 by trying to install McMahon as Secretary of Education.

Linda McMahon's school choice policies, and her boss' strong commitment to converting civil rights protections into tools to police students are all reversals of what formerly enslaved Africans fought for and created during Reconstruction after the Civil War."
"Donald Trump and whoever becomes his secretary of education should think twice before dismantling the US Department of Education,"

She continued. "As a social studies teacher, it's incumbent on me to provide a brief civics lesson: We now have a system of checks and balances that prevents them from doing so. But more importantly, this isn't an obscure federal office. This is a backbone of the government that millions of families with children in our public schools rely on."

"By continuing to come for our public schools, they are further angering the Black families who count on civil rights protections, the families of children with disabilities who rely on federal standards, families in poverty who rely on federal support, and anyone who is sickened to see q***r and transgender students bullied by the US federal government," she added. "Education is meant to be the great equalizer for our children, not a great investment opportunity for the billionaires and those ransacking our federal government."

As a protester Davos disrupted of the Senate confirmation hearing for Linda McMahon, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the secretary of education, in Washington, D.C. on February 13, 2025.

02/13/2025

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10/28/2024

A DEAD EARTH IS IN THE MAKING
Earth's Surface Temperature Could Increase by 14 C Before 2100
Thus, Ending Human Life on Earth
The Following message is by Guy R McPherson

Oct 28,2024



Yes, you read that correctly: Earth’s temperature could increase by 14 C, otherwise expressed as 25 degrees Fahrenheit. The headline from 27 August 2024 at SciTechDaily reads Earth’s Temperature Could Increase by 25 Degrees: Startling New Research Reveals That CO2 Has More Impact Than Previously Thought. The article opens with a figure that is titled “A study reveals that doubling atmospheric CO2 could raise Earth’s average temperature by up to 14 degrees, far exceeding current UN estimates. The research, based on a 45-year-old Pacific Ocean drill core, highlights a stronger relationship between CO2 levels and temperature than previously understood.” Here’s the subhead: “Analysis of Pacific Ocean sediments shows doubling of atmospheric CO2 might raise Earth’s temperature by up to 14 degrees, exceeding IPCC predictions, with historical data indicating significant future climate impacts.”
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Of course, there is no guarantee that humans will be present to observe a 14 C temperature increase. Indeed, I cannot imagine we will survive the rapid rate of environmental change associated with a 4 C rise in temperature during the next several years.
The lead author of the associated peer-reviewed paper is then quoted in the SciTechDaily article: “The temperature rise we found is much larger than the 2.3 to 4.5 degrees Celsius that the UN climate panel, IPCC, has been estimating so far.” This, of course, is not surprising. The IPCC was designed to fail when it was created during the Ronald Reagan administration. It replaced the Advisory Group on Greenhouse Gases, an organization with much more realistic analyses about the future we face.
According to the article in SciTechDaily, the researchers used a 45-year-old drill core extracted from the Pacific Ocean. In the location from which the core was extracted, the ocean floor had been characterized by oxygen-free conditions for many millions of years. As a result, according a Professor working with the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, carbon is preserved because organic matter is broken down very slowly by microbes.
The researchers in this study developed a new approach to determine past atmospheric CO2 content. Specifically, they used the chemical composition of two substances found in algae: chlorophyll and cholesterol. Algae absorbs CO2 from the water and fixes the CO2 via photosynthesis. Whereas algae prefer the customary isotope of carbon, 12C, the algae will fix the rarer 13C, especially at the lower CO2 concentration found at great depth in the ocean. The 13C content is therefore a measure of the CO2 content of the ocean water. That, in turn, correlates with the CO2 content of the atmosphere. Using this new method and the subsequent analyses indicates that the CO2 concentration dropped from about 650 parts per million 15 million years ago to the 280 parts per million with which we are familiar as the Industrial Revolution began in about 1750. When the researchers in this study plotted the temperatures and atmospheric CO2 levels during the last 15 million years, they found a strong relationship. The average temperature 15 million years ago exceeded 18 C, about 4 C warmer than today. This is also about the temperature the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts for 2100 in their most extreme scenario.
Perhaps you see the problem here. As stated by the Professor working with the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, “CO2 over the past 15 million years has never before been examined from a single location.” The upper thousand meters of this newly analyzed core corresponds to the last 18 million years. From this stunningly deep core, researchers were able to determine ancient CO2 levels and the associated global temperature.
I turn now to the open-access, peer-reviewed paper in Nature Communications. Published 18 June 2024 and written by six scholars, the article is titled Continuous sterane and phytane δ13C record reveals a substantial pCO2 decline since the mid-Miocene. The title is a bit obtuse for most of us, so I will turn to information from the Abstract for a more coherent description: “Constraining the relationship between temperature and atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (pCO2) is essential to model near-future climate. Here, we reconstruct atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide values over the past 15 million years, providing a series of analogues for possible near-future temperatures and atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, from a single continuous site (DSDP Site 467, California coast). We reconstruct atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide values using sterane and phytane, compounds that many phytoplankton produce and then become fossilised in sediment. From 15 million to 300,000 years ago, our reconstructed atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide values steadily decline from 650 ± 150 to 280 ± 75 ppm volume, mirroring global temperature decline. Using our new range of pCO2 values, we calculate average Earth system sensitivity and equilibrium climate sensitivity, resulting in 13.9 °C and 7.2 °C per doubling of atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, respectively. These values are significantly higher than IPCC global warming estimations, consistent or higher than some recent state-of-the-art climate models, and consistent with other proxy-based estimates.”
This comes as no surprise for anybody paying attention to the IPCC global warming estimations. The 14 C increase in global average temperature described in this peer-reviewed paper brings to mind relatively honest assessments produced by the Advisory Group on Greenhouse Gases before it was replaced by the IPCC during the Ronald Reagan administration. For example, the predecessor to the IPCC concluded that 1 C above the 1750 baseline would trigger self-reinforcing feedback loops. Many such feedback loops have occurred and are affecting life on Earth. The Advisory Group on Greenhouse Gases warned of the relationship between societal breakdown and extinction of non-human species. This relationship is clearly on display.
The most surprising outcome of the papers in SciTechDaily and Nature Communications is the honesty expressed by paid climate scientists. Although I question the delayed timing of Earth reaching 14 C above the 1750 baseline, not to mention the survival of life on Earth between now and then, it’s good to see mention of numbers that reflect ongoing events and our likely future. Although it’s good to see mention of such numbers, and it’s also horrifying. Reality can be like that, which brings to mind a couple of quotes from Marcus Aurelius.
I have mentioned one of the lines from Aurelius previously in this space: “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” The second quote reminds us to live in the current moment: “Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.”
These thoughtful lines from Aurelius provide context for ideas such as a 14 C rise in global-average temperature within the next several decades. Most importantly, they remind us that what matters in our short lives is living in the here and now without fear. Regardless how many times I have mentioned these ideas, I doubt it’s enough.
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10/17/2024

Trump White House blocked the FBI from Investigating Kavanaugh
Free Speech For People has repeatedly called on the US House of Representatives to begin hearings on whether to impeach Justice Kavanaugh on multiple counts of sexual assault, perjury, and bringing the judiciary into disrepute. We renew that call today. Senator Whitehouse’s report confirms all the more why we must have an impeachment investigation against Justice Kavanaugh.

10/11/2024

Florida was once thought to be the future. The weather’s balmy in winter, the beaches are divine and there’s no personal income tax. All that and a lower cost of living had set off a sizeable migration of companies from New York, Chicago and California. Between 2021 and 2023, Florida was the fastest-growing state.
Now as a second monster hurricane in two weeks smashes the western coast, many Floridians have been turned into serial refugees. Florida is no stranger to the occasional big “blow,” but climate change may have completely rewritten the meteorological future, and it’s not sunny.
We can’t say no one expected this. Nor is the western coast the only area under threat. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration projects that by 2100, more than 30% of Southeast Florida could be underwater, including much of Miami and Fort Lauderdale. Other more extreme scenarios put that figure closer to 70%.
Yet the extent of the threat has been kept under wraps by politicians unwilling to do the hard work.
Former Florida Gov. Rick Scott was said to have banned the use of “climate change” by the state’s government agencies. He denies doing that, but employees report being pressured not to use the term, especially in documents related to environmental and coastal policies.
Donald Trump issued a tweet in 2016 that called climate change a “hoax” created by China.
Project 2025, the blueprint for another Trump term, criticizes Joe Biden’s climate initiatives as “radical” and “extreme.” (Trump called it “the green new scam.”). The Project says, “The Biden Administration’s climate fanaticism will need a whole-of-government unwinding.”
The document totally lost it over the Biden administration’s promotion of “international partnerships” to address the crisis. The transition to a low-carbon economy must be worldwide.
Project 2025 went so histrionic over Biden’s climate law that even big oil has been urging Trump not to gut it. The likes of Exxon Mobil, Occidental Petroleum and Phillips 66 oppose the Project’s call “to fully repeal recently passed subsidies in the tax code, including the dozens of credits and tax breaks for green energy companies.”
Major oil companies have themselves become part green-energy enterprises. They’re using the Inflation Reduction Act tax credits to invest in renewable fuel, carbon capture and hydrogen. These are expensive ventures that need government support to get off the ground.
Back in Florida, fierce weather has raised insurance premiums by as much as 400% over five years. As a result, Floridians are having an extra hard time selling their properties. And those rebuilding homes smashed up by storms are finding that the policies have become a lot tougher, with higher deductibles and stricter limits on what’s covered. Few cover flood damage. (Few homeowners have separate flood insurance issued by FEMA.)
Personal wealth goes only so far in protecting people from dislocation. Dynasty Financial Partners was one of the companies that left New York City in 2019 for St. Petersburg, Florida. Its chief executive lost his home in Hurricane Helene. The family moved into a cramped condo downtown. As Hurricane Milton barreled their way, they had to evacuate again.
First Street foundation reports that 3 million Americans became climate migrants between 2000 and 2020 — many of whom lived far from coastlines. Texas Hill Country, for one, is known as Flash Flood Alley. Entire blocks have been hollowed out of residents. Meanwhile, Progressive says it will join others no longer writing home insurance policies in Texas.
And the world saw how Hurricane Helene visited devastation on lovely Asheville, North Carolina, up there in the mountains, far from landfall in Florida’s Big Bend area.
Climate change is coming for Florida and elsewhere. Americans can confront the crisis or not. The weather doesn’t care.
— Froma Harrop is a syndicated columnist with Creators.

10/01/2024

Americans in the southeastern part of the country are struggling with the wreckage caused by Hurricane Helene. At least 119 people have died and hundreds more are missing after the huge hurricane pummeled Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee, destroying many homes and devastating communities. The death toll could surpass 600, and more than 2 million people remain without power which will take weeks to restore. Such storms could be avoided if the DOE would willingly work with new concept technologies by supporting validation demonstrations. The small firm at www.AAECorp.com has had technology that could slow and then stop induced climate change since 1990 but DOE policy seems to be focused on large firms that can pay the way for their children to attend college. See www.aaecorp.com for more.

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09/26/2024

Since 1990 I’ve contacted many politicians both Republicans and Democrats and pleaded for support for the United States to begin pulling out all the stops in the urgent war against human induced global warming and climate change - and none have responded responsibly from Kansas, and this has invited the severe weather event we now are seeing blowing ashore in Florida.

09/25/2024

Dear Friend of The Nation,

On October 3, Historians for Peace and Democracy (H-PAD) and co-sponsors will host an online national teach-in, “MAGA and Project 2025: Historical Perspectives and Present Dangers.”Our goal is to educate the public, and students in particular, about the origins of the U.S. radical right, the MAGA movement, and the Project 2025 policy plan prepared by the Heritage Foundation for a second Trump administration.

09/25/2024

Kamala Harris' Promises 'Bold Action' on Climate After Home Targeted by Protesters
Story by Jesus Mesa
Kamala Harris' Promises 'Bold Action' on Climate After Home Targeted by Protesters
Story by Jesus Mesa
Vice President Kamala Harris has vowed to take significant action on climate change following a demonstration outside her Los Angeles home.
On Monday, shortly after youth activists from the Sunrise Movement staged a protest outside Harris' Brentwood residence—bringing a burnt couch and ash from nearby wildfires to symbolize the devastation caused by climate change—Harris responded on Twitter.
"Our young leaders have grown up knowing only the climate crisis. They understand what's at stake for their future. As president, I will confront the climate crisis with bold action, building a clean energy economy, advancing environmental justice, and increasing resilience to climate disasters," Harris posted on X.
The protest, made up of a group of 25 people, aimed to push the vice president to present a climate plan addressing the ongoing wildfire crisis and broader impacts of climate change, particularly in Southern California.
One of the protesters, Corina McDonald, 24, whose home was nearly destroyed in the Bridge Fire, urged Harris to meet directly with residents and commit to a concrete plan.
"Kamala Harris must visit our neighborhoods to convince us that she cares," McDonald said. "She needs to meet us face-to-face and announce a clear plan to prevent climate destruction while creating good jobs and transitioning the country to 100% renewable energy."

09/10/2024

The kids today are not all alright, and they are going to just keep getting far more agitated and troubled, knowing that their lives are increasingly threatened because the world is latterly on fire with the ravages of the climate crisis which is fueling crime and violence as our youth begin to lash out.
The rise of enraged youth is fueling the rest of the youth who can hopefully convince a critical mass of parents and grandparents to get off the sidelines and into the game. Slowly, it is beginning to happen. After inviting adults to join them for a worldwide climate strike on September 20, 2019, more than 4 million people in 160 countries took to the streets. Then 2 million more struck. And about then it was the pandemic that struck, knocking the movement out of pretty much everywhere and everyone.
Something we hear a lot, usually from older generations, is how inspiring young people are, and how they will solve the climate crisis. In times past, it was common for adults to put their hopes in the next generation to set things right. Unfortunately, that doesn’t work with the climate emergency. We. Don’t. have that kind of time. With this crisis, we all must take responsibility. It is not okay to just passively put the burden on our young people to fix the problem if and when they grow up. For if we wait until then, it will simply be too late.
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country.”
~ President John F. Kennedy

09/06/2024

Project 2025 is anti-American and anti-environment and should not be passed. But living in Red State Kansas I doubt this is of any real concern to most of my elected officials. Republicans are only out to protect the super-rich and not the environment and many Dems are DINOS, Democrats in name only. Les Blevins, Lawrence Kansas