Sunday, October 23, 2016

I can't vote for someone so out of touch with the worse problem the global community has identified. 

Russia signed the Kyoto Protocols. Donald Trump claims to have some affection for President Putin and Russia. Really? There is at least one conversation Donald Trump did not have with President Putin and it was the danger of the Climate Crisis. Russia lost 50,000 people in one year to fires in Russia. The USA never even sent condolences. I guess it didn't happen then.


This figure shows how annual average air temperatures have changed in different parts of the United States since the early 20th century (since 1901 for the contiguous 48 states and 1925 for Alaska). Source: US EPA (2015).

Climate change (click here) and the heat island effect interact in two important ways. First, our warming climate will increase already higher temperatures in heat island areas. Second, cooling strategies to reduce heat islands can help communities adapt to the impacts of climate change as well as lower the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change....

This is still Annex A. I started the "Industrial processes." Mineral products are primarily mining. Concrete has it's own energy footprint, but, the mining of the compounds needed to produce concrete has it's own environmental impact. When I think of concrete, the first strategy is eliminating heat islands.


There are other issues with mining limestone. Florida is primarily limestone. Late Quaternary and Quaternary are periods of Earth time. It was more or less prehistoric time. The time period is 2.588 million years ago to 11.7 thousand years ago.(click here)

The issue of the Floridian Aquifer and the limestone that is Florida only goes to prove the really poor regard the USA has for it's people and it's natural resources. The states compete for industry and try to undercut each other to provide for their people with jobs, but, this recent disaster with the Floridian Aquifer show how completely ridiculous that method of building an economy and jobs has been administered.

As I work though "Industrial processes" it will be painful to realize how the USA DOES NOT govern itself well.

Industrial processes (click here)
 Mineral products 
 Chemical industry 
 Metal production 
 Other production  
 Production of halocarbons  and sulphur hexafluoride 
 Consumption of halocarbons and sulphur hexafluoride 
 Other

Heat islands only scratch the surface to the issues outlined so briefly as "Industrial processes" in Kyoto Protocol. But, at least it is started. Minerals are a very big deal, so it is important to understand it before moving to the chemical industry.

But, I can't vote for people that don't care to understand the brevity of the climate crisis. This is no joke. This is not a political issue. It is real and urgent.