Friday, October 27, 2017

Protect the governor. The emergency manager was blamed and charged, but, somehow Snyder is still on the loose.

October 26, 2017
By Ron Fonger


Flint, MI -- The Flint water crisis (click here) occurred in part because of failures in the state of Michigan's oversight, a new report from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says.
Two years in the making, the report says the state Department of Environmental Quality failed to properly oversee and manage the city's change in water sources in April 2014, resulting in the use of lower quality raw water from the Flint River.
"The circumstances surrounding the city's switch to a lower quality water source appear to have been unusual," the report says. "But MDEQ was unprepared to deal with this situation and failed to recognize how the (Lead and Copper Rule) should have been applied, resulting in a confused and ineffective implementation of the LRC in Flint."
Ya think? See, the problem was that the switch was ordered. There was no study leading up to the conversion of one water source to another. Snyder should have ordered a study from the MDEQ to tap the Flint River BEFORE the switch.
THERE WERE NO PROPER PROCEDURES USED. There are ways departments of a state handle themselves and communicate. This was bizarre and literally, MDEQ was stumped when the switch was ordered.
The report says many deficiencies in the state drinking water program stem from inefficient and antiquated data management systems in DEQ and suggests the hiring of additional staff or contractors with specific water data management expertise."Staff departures and retirements have caused a significant loss of expertise and technical knowledge ... staff have not been replaced due to lack of resources and/or hiring constraints, which presents a threat to future implementation of an effective program."...
This is still Snyder. Republicans love to deprive the agencies of sufficient operating monies when it comes to the environment. The department was under attack by a hostile administration, people retired or moved on looking for a job that mattered. What was left was low and inefficient staff.
This is typical of Republican administrations. The people are on their own. Snyder is the worst governor Michigan has ever had and this is more proof. The blame for Flint's water poisoning falls to his office over and over due to his very poor regard for safety and human rights allowing rushed procedures with ineffective monitoring and oversight.
Snyder also has a regulation czar. He is just as responsible as Snyder.

The Greenland Ice meander has to be checked. The movement of glaciers in the north Atlantic needs to be assessed. People live below (in elevation) the glaciers and there needs to be concern for the people.

I might bring attention to the north Atlantic in the upper right corner of the satellite image below. The white streak across the image is melted ice from Greenland and Iceland that has sublimed into water vapor. I am concerned with such ice melt and how the people of those two island countries are doing. I am concerned about flooding.

This is SUDDEN climate change. This is RAPID climate change. The Greenland Ice has to be assessed for "meander" now.

There is a inverted cyclonic vortex flow over the north Atlantic. That is what is pulling the water vapor from Greenland and Iceland down to lower latitudes. There is a heat transfer system offshore of North America. It has a water vapor circulation center in the Caribbean Sea. Literally, the heat laden water vapor from the Caribbean Sea is reaching the Arctic Circle to melt the Greenland and Iceland glaciers. That heat transfer system has been there for the past two days. It had a sibling off the west coast of North America, which the remnants are still visible. The heat transfer is rapid and now the ice from Greenland and Iceland is melting.

Scientists never promised a walk down the primrose path with the climate crisis. They clearly and repeatedly have said RAPID climate change. This is not a natural cycle, it is due to excess greenhouse gases from anthropogenic emissions.

Politicians in the USA just don't listen. They are damn fools.

Oddly,  an article from the New York Times today. The Pope would say it is God speaking to the masses for the degree of coincidence to this new method by Earth to cool down. I don't know about god, but, I am also not as optimistic about the Antarctica glaciers being stable 'enough' for a couple hundred years.:

October 26, 2017
By Jugal K. Patel

Two of the frozen continent’s fastest-moving glaciers (click here) are shedding an increasing amount of ice into the Amundsen Sea each year.

The Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers are among the most critical in the world. They are currently holding back ice that, if melted, would raise the world’s oceans by nearly four feet over centuries, an amount that would put many coastal cities underwater....

The ice caps and glaciers have to be monitored for stability through an understanding of movement and mass balance. There can be no shortcuts, it is a matter of public safety. Rising sea levels, unstable ice sheets and plunging into the oceans or seas with potentially catastrophic outcomes is essential to monitor and report. I don't care if it doesn't conveniently fit someone's lousy political agenda.

October 27, 2017
1330.17z
UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of the north and west hemisphere (click here for 12 hour loop - thank you)


It is a beautiful painting and amazing the extent of the raid on society by the Nazis.

October 26, 2017
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A painting the Nazis (click here) looted from a Jewish leader of the French Resistance during World War II has been identified, German authorities announced yesterday (Oct. 25)....

...Gurlitt, who died in 2014, had inherited the collection from his father, an art dealer who had been commissioned by the Nazis to sell looted and "degenerate" art abroad. His collection included pieces from famous artists like Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Cézanne....