The day it is too late is the day the climate of Earth evaporates.

We are in a fight for this planet and the lives of people.

Do you understand me?

We fight like we never have before and we do it well. Let's do this thing!

End of discussion.

1 September 2022
By Jude Coleman

...The stratosphere (click here) sits between roughly 10 and 50 kilometres above Earth’s surface. Smoke particles don’t typically get to the stratosphere, but smoke from the Australian fires reached heights of more than 35 kilometres owing to unusual, fire-induced pyrocumulonimbus clouds. These smoke-infused thunder clouds hold lots of black carbon, which absorbs heat and rises into the lower stratosphere like a hot-air balloon, says study co-author Jim Haywood, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Exeter, UK. Once there, the black carbon continues to absorb sunlight and warm the air.

“There were parts of the coastline that were under a haze of smoke for months on end,” says Abram. “The scale of that bush-fire season was just off the charts.”

Haywood and his team used data from polar-orbiting and remote-sensing satellites to observe changes in the distribution of smoke particles in the stratosphere, and combined this information with climate models. They found that the impact of smoke particles on stratospheric temperatures that was predicted by the models matched observed temperature spikes. Previous studies2 have used models to simulate the length and degree of warming in the aftermath of the fires, but this study incorporates a global analysis, definitively attributing the rise in temperatures to the bush-fire smoke, says Haywood.

“This is really putting another nail in the coffin,” says Clare Murphy, an atmospheric chemist at the University of Wollongong in Australia. She says the work builds on earlier studies, “extending the evidence”.

Damaged ozone layer...

September 2, 2016

A predictable pattern of winds in the stratosphere recently changed in a way scientists had not seen in more than 60 years of record-keeping.

High above Earth’s tropics, (click here) a pattern of winds changed recently in a way that scientists had never seen in more than 60 years of consistent measurements.

This disruption to the wind pattern – called the “quasi-biennial oscillation” – did not have any immediate impact on weather or climate as we experience it on Earth’s surface. But it does raise interesting questions for the NASA scientists who observed it: If a pattern holds for six decades and then suddenly changes, what caused that to happen? Will it happen again? What effects might it have?

“The quasi-biennial oscillation is the stratosphere’s Old Faithful,” said Paul Newman, Chief Scientist for Earth Sciences at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author on a new paper about the event published online in Geophysical Research Letters. “If Old Faithful stopped for a day, you’d begin to wonder about what was happening under the ground.”...

"We the people..."

 Indeed.

The highest job creation of modern history was the Carter administration, Joe Biden's record to February 2022 is following the same climb.

Chart in Wikipedia (click here)

...To be his Secretary of Labor, Carter selected Ray Marshall, (click here) a labor economist at the University of Texas. Marshall had worked and published extensively on unemployment problems, particularly for minority groups. He had also worked in such areas as industrial relations, rural development and international migrations of workers. Marshall saw his role as Secretary as setting overall policies, selecting subordinates who would best achieve these policies, and representing the Department in external relations. Like many of his predecessors, Marshall believed in refraining from unnecessary intervention in collective bargaining. He sought to improve the representation of qualified women, blacks and other minorities among the Department of Labor's political staff. He sought to develop adequate relations and liaison with groups ranging from the White House, Capitol Hill and state government to unions and business. To improve the performance of the Department, Marshall emphasized the need to simplify operations and strengthen the Department's policy analysis capabilities.

The Department played a major role in the President's economic stimulus program. It received about $8 billion for Public Service Employment and other programs under CETA. Public service jobs increased from 310,000 in 1976 to a peak of 725,000 in 1978. The Department also expanded the Job Corps and other youth training programs. It developed and tested new ways to meet employment related needs of rural workers and Native Americans. It improved on-the-job training for veterans and others through the Hope through Industry Retraining and Employment program. This program provided incentives for companies to hire and train needy persons. A Skill Training Improvement Program provided retraining for displaced workers to prepare them for jobs by giving them skills which were in short supply.

CETA was extended and revised by the 1978 reauthorization act. This legislation was driven by two concerns: the need to make employment and training more effective through greater involvement of the private sector; and, the concern that CETA resources were not targeted on those most in need. The major new feature was the Private Sector Initiatives Program. PSIP complemented the public employment program already in full swing. The main goal of PSIP was to redirect CETA toward placing the unemployed in jobs in the private sector. To do this, PSIP sought to increase the participation of private employers in CETA programs. Enacted as a two-year demonstration program, PSIP helped private firms provide job training for disadvantaged persons and the long-term unemployed. Business executives, labor leaders and others set up Private Industry Councils in the local areas to work with CETA prime sponsors....

The Carter Administration when it came to jobs was about reformation. Jimmy Carter was the Governor of Georgia before being elected to the Presidency of the USA. He knew something about the South and hurdles for those with rural understandings of life and oppression of minorities.

Those that only understand dollars spent that increase the national debt laugh at this administration because they believe he spent money into the national debt to have an economy. That was not the case. Former President Carter was a reformer and wanted those LEFT OUT of the American economy and the American Middle Class to have the opportunity to increase their quality of life.

I find it more than interesting that President Joe Biden is facing the same paradigm more than a half century later. There is a definite focus to increase opportunity for minority Americans in the USA within this administration and what is ever more interesting is that the trajectory is taking on the same curve. There is definitely problems within this country that persists through generations.

Russia’s official news agency (click here) photographed President Trump’s meeting with Sergey V. Lavrov in the Oval Office on Wednesday. The American press was denied access.

We are still fighting White Supremacy/Nationalism. Now, today, the USA is looking at a former president that was literally leader of the Christian Nationalists in the USA and the oppression of American minorities. We have come full circle. The Republicans at the time of Carter CHOSE to have a baseline electorate that include people that were misdirected in their morality to judge others by skin color or eye slant. The Republicans over decades of time elected a man to the White House that redirected the entire focus of the federal government and exposed the USA to danger. Donald John Trump is known to have benefitted and won the 2020 election with the assistance of Russia according to an examination of evidence by Former FBI Director Robert Mueller. That is a fact. 

Maria Butina, (click here) who was charged last month with being a covert Russian agent, passionately promoted gun rights and better relations with Russia, charming a string of older men along the way. Clockwise from top right: Ms. Butina in 2014 with James W. Porter II, then president of the N.R.A.; Wayne LaPierre, the group’s executive vice president; and Rick Santorum, the former senator.

So, most appropriately, the Biden Administration is fighting back against the oppression enforced in the Trump Administration and the job numbers and spending reflect it. The question in this economy is when will The Fed finally reach a level of interest to the banks that actually impact high housing prices? That is the main hurdle today in the American economy. Owning a home is everything, including a secure retirement. The Fed must increase interest rates to bring demand down because of the cost of a mortgage. The increase in job rates is inevitable with the focus of this White House. The USA in the Biden Election of 2020 completely rejected White Supremacy/Nationalism, decided women know how to make their own decisions, including a career path, and having a good paying job and a family to love was vital to being an American. Don't leave out a strong military. NATO has been tested as never before.

I think Joe's Jobs Numbers are great. Every person regardless of race or religion should be finding jobs and opportunity to be upwardly mobile to increase their quality of life, no matter how they define it, so long as it is legal.

September 2, 2022

Employers (click here) added 315,000 jobs last month on a seasonally adjusted basis, the Labor Department said Friday. That was down from 526,000 in July, though it still represented a strong pace of growth.

The unemployment rate rose to 3.7 percent, from a half-century low of 3.5 percent in July. That rate only counts people who are actively looking for jobs, and the uptick came alongside a big increase in the size of the labor force — a sign that rising wages, abundant job opportunities and the receding pandemic are leading more people to look for jobs.

Economists have been saying for months that job growth was likely to slow as the economy comes down from last year’s vaccine-fueled boom and as higher borrowing costs make it harder for businesses to expand. Instead, the labor market remained red hot even as other parts of the economy, such as the housing market, turned sharply lower. The data released Friday indicated the long-delayed slowdown may finally have begun.

“It’s definitely a downshift from what we saw earlier in the year,” said Sarah House, an economist at Wells Fargo. “But step back and look at the bigger picture here. The fact that we’re still putting up gains of over 300,000 even as we’ve recovered all the jobs lost, that’s still a really impressive feat.”...

September 2, 2022
By Jim Tankersley

...The jobs report on Friday (click here) was the first of the summer to support the case Mr. Biden and his economic aides have been making for months: that the economy is beginning to step down from a high-growth, high-inflation expansion coming out of the pandemic recession but avoiding another recession.

The report showed the country added 315,000 jobs in August, down from 526,000 in July. The unemployment rate ticked up slightly, to 3.7 percent. That cooling is enough to support Mr. Biden’s contention, which he first laid out in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece in May, that the country is set to “see fewer record job-creation numbers, but this won’t be cause for concern.”

There were also signs in the report that inflation could be coming down, as the Federal Reserve aggressively raises interest rates in order to tame price growth that has reached a 40-year high. Average wages continued to rise, the Labor Department said, but not as quickly as in previous months. Administration officials have been hoping for the Fed’s rate increases to bring down inflation while not slamming the brakes on growth, triggering a recession and plunging millions of Americans out of work....

DeSantis has an Office of Election Crimes and Security and it is ALL a waste of money!

To begin, interestingly if there were 20 invalid votes in Florida, the Bush v. Gore outcome may never have gone to the Supreme Court. The initial reaction is that 20 votes would never effect the elections, but, there are occasions when it would, especially in hyper-funded media campaigns where the vote anymore comes down to a small margin to win.

Unfortunately, the 20 people charged fell through the cracks of their return to society after serving time in prison. Their crimes were serious and they needed to be in prison (1) to be removed from society for the real chance the crimes were habitual and could effect others and (2) hopefully, for rehab and a new direction in life that would permit them to continue to carry on lawful lives. These particular crimes receive a forever punishment of never being allowed to vote again. I think that is probably unconstitutional. Sex crimes of minors aren't a voting issue to begin and there are only people 18 years of age and older in voting places.

This policing of voting is a political arm of the DeSantis administration. Bush v. Gore was carried into conflict because of a ballot system that allowed close elections to have a skeptical outcome. So, to say these 20 people would have impacted Bush v. Gore is grossly incorrect. I made the point because I am sure everyone looking at this will make that exact example.

Bush v. Gore was scrutinized over and over, even after the Supreme Court decided the election. So, to say this would have mattered in that election is grossly incorrect. This political policing within an administration of any party is blatantly wrong. These issues belong AT THE LOCAL AND COUNTY level where the precincts have authority and understand the voting mechanisms involved. If these 20 Floridians would appeal the decisions leveled at them they may win in the State Courts. This entire political policing is probably unconstitutional as voting irregularities are local crimes and should be treated as such. 

Incorrect ballots for any reason should be understood and where there are crimes, even white collar crimes by those being elected, criminal investigations and charges should follow. But, it is my estimate the Secretary of State reports the votes within the precincts as a state total, it is not the authority that understands the balloting of a district or the balloting mechanism. 

Here again, as with Disney and so many other DeSantis antics, the governor is overreaching and causing harm to the people. The governor's office is not a dictatorial governance where an entire state can be effected erroneously by a members of government.

August 27, 2022
By Ashley Lopez

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during an Aug. 18 press conference in Fort Lauderdale, where he announced that the state's new Office of Election Crimes and Security was in the process of arresting 20 individuals for voter fraud.

Many of the individuals (click here) recently charged by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' new election crimes unit told investigators they had no idea that with their felony convictions, they were unable to vote when they cast ballots in the 2020 election.

Their experiences shed new light on Florida's controversial program for felons to restore their voting rights.

In a press conference last week, DeSantis announced to a crowd of supporters that the election crimes unit was charging 20 people across the state with voting illegally.

DeSantis described the arrests as the "opening salvo" from the new election and security unit. State lawmakers passed legislation earlier this year, known as Senate Bill 524, that created the policing force. The legislation followed pressure from DeSantis for the state to spend more resources on combating alleged voter fraud, which experts say remains very rare in American elections.

"People weren't getting prosecuted," he said last week. "Before we proposed this [unit] there were examples of this stuff seeming to fall through the cracks."

State law permits felons to try to gain back their voting rights, but not after convictions for certain crimes....