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Fracking crimes pay

vendredi 16 décembre 2022 à 11:47

Just after Cabot Oil & Gas (part of Coterra Energy) accepted 15 criminal charges for polluting the water of Dimock. Pennsylvania, the state government allowed it to resume fracking there.

Fracking should be illegal. The risk of poisoning groundwater for centuries or more is too high a price to pay for some more fossil fuel to burn -- especially since burning it is harmful globally.

Devastated crops, FL

vendredi 16 décembre 2022 à 11:33

Extreme weather (which is partly caused by global heating) has devastated the Florida orange crop.

We must expect all sorts of crops to be harmed by global heating effects.

Musk leading for QAnon

vendredi 16 décembre 2022 à 11:33

Musk urged his Twitter followers to adopt QAnonsense.

Maybe he is trying to compete with the wrecker to seize power in the US.

Amazon anti-forestry chaos

vendredi 16 décembre 2022 à 10:47

*Brazil goldminers carve illegal ‘Road to Chaos’ out of Amazon reserve.*

They use bulldozers and power-diggers, and carry submachine guns.

Fusion power reality

vendredi 16 décembre 2022 à 10:47

Explaining the enormous challenges of going from "ignition" in a laser-fusion target to the production of commercially useful power, and why this is likely to take decades.

We need to quit using fossil fuels fast -- we can't wait for fusion to be usable for this job.