It seems as though the judiciary isn't working very hard at their jobs.

Oklahoma needs to release Julius Jones. The murderer still needs to be found. Ther family should continue to advocate the truth. Certainly, The Howell family certainly can't rest until the real murderer is found.

November 17, 2021

Julius Jones was scheduled to be executed at 4 p.m. (click here) Thursday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, however, announced at noon Thursday he has commuted Jones' sentence to life without the possibility of parole.

Jones, now 41, has been on death row for more than half of his life for the murder of Paul Howell. 

Jones has maintained his innocence, saying he was not responsible for the fatal shooting in Edmond in 1999....

 

Excuse me, but, because a victim to murder may have used a racial slur means they deserved to die? I don't think so.

Somehow a dead man is the problem? Really?

In a civilized society dialogue is paramount to democracy. There is nothing to say people can't get angry and verbalize their anger, but, to resolve anger with a gun is not allowed. There is NOTHING the victim of this crime did to cause his death.

People with guns often believe that is an extention of their authority no matter what form it takes. That is not the case.

I don't know what one would call that, the Castle Doctrine or the Stand Your Ground Doctrine or the You Got Me Pissed Off Doctrine.

November 18, 2021
By Jonathan Allen and Rich McKay

A Georgia judge (click here) will decide on Thursday whether a jury can hear from Travis McMichael about a racial slur officials say he uttered as Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man, lay dying from shotgun blasts fired by McMichael last year.

Travis McMichael began testifying in his own defense on Wednesday, taking the stand even though it opened him up to questioning by prosecutors who have said they might ask him about evidence he had "racial animus" against Black people.

Travis McMichael, 35, his father, Greg McMichael, 65, and their neighbor William "Roddie" Bryan, 52, all white men, are charged with murder, along with other crimes, in the Feb. 23 slaying of Arbery in their mostly white neighborhood just outside coastal Brunswick.

The McMichaels told police that they chased Arbery in a pickup truck because they thought he looked like a burglar, and Bryan joined the chase after they went by his driveway....

I don't think Wisconsin has a paparazzi law. MSNBC probably should challenge the judges ruling.

This is about freedom of speech and the information necessary to secure it regardless the scandalous or not topic. California took up the issue because of the film making business within it's economy. These are primarily civil suits that are filed to prevent the "assaultive" behavior of independent journalists when seeking pictures.

The photographer was ticketed for running a red light. That is a dangerous citation and he should never have gone that far. He could have caused his injury or worse or others. It was foolhearty and he deserved the citation. But, to bar an entire news network from reporting on the trial of Rittenhouse basically unrelated to the independent journalist is just wrong. That is lumping all journalists that work with MSNBC into one category and it is not correct to do so.

There are people that watch and listen to MSNBC on a regular basis. How are they to get their news? How are they going to know about the jury's outcome in a verdict? People can be very loyal to news reporting media. They get used to listening to their favorite anchor. In slicing and dicing up the pool of journalists by a judge, MSNBC is put at a disadvantage. That effects a lot of things, including the advertisers that will be seen on that nework, hence, effecting the viability of the network itself. What does that do to the Americans that rely on MSNBC for their news?

I don't know what the conduct of the journalist would have been if he had caught up with the bus and was able to photograph or interact with the jurors, but, that is a different issue. That could be seen as interfering with a jury deliberations. Whoever spoke to him if there was an interaction would be taken off the jury and another juror put in that person's place. But, nothing like that occurred. For all we know the independent journalist may have simply photographed the bus with people leaving it. I don't think that is harmful.

...California passed a law in 1998 (click here) designed to protect public persons from intrusive conduct by paparazzi. California Civil Code section 1708.8 prohibits constructive invasions of privacy, defined as follows:

“A person is liable for constructive invasion of privacy when the defendant attempts to capture, in a manner that is offensive to a reasonable person, any type of visual image, sound recording, or other physical impression of the plaintiff engaging in a personal or familial activity under circumstances in which the plaintiff had a reasonable expectation of privacy, through the use of a visual or auditory enhancing device, regardless of whether there is a physical trespass, if this image, sound recording, or other physical impression could not have been achieved without a trespass unless the visual or auditory enhancing device was used.”

In 2006 the California legislature amended the law to provide that those who face such invasions of privacy can sue the paparazzi for “three times the amount of any general or special damages” caused by their conduct. Given the astronomically high-dollar demand for photos of celebrities, it is likely that the legislation will be tested in the courts in the near future with cases involving a charged paparazzo....

November 18, 2021

By Amika Kim Constantino

The judge overseeing Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial (click here) banned MSNBC from the courthouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Thursday after a freelance producer working for the network was accused of following a bus carrying jurors the previous night.

“I have instructed that nobody from MSNBC news be permitted in this building for the duration of this trial,” Judge Bruce Schroeder said during a hearing.

“This is a very serious matter, and I don’t know what the ultimate truth of it is, but absolutely it would go without much thinking that someone who is following a jury bus, that is a very ... that is an extremely serious matter and will be referred to the proper authorities for further action,” the judge continued.

Schroeder said the man who allegedly followed the bus identified himself as James J. Morrison and claimed he was a producer for NBC News employed by MSNBC.... 

Somehow "Kylo Ren" seems an easy reach for a former Marine.

Communists and dictators vs. the world.

I am not surprised Xi and Joe Biden are not getting very far in agreements when they speak. It is important they keep speaking, but, I am not surprised. China and Russia have itchy trigger fingers since the Trump administration. They must have learned a great deal from Trump. So, they feel more confident today they could go to war with the USA and end democracy.

Communists don't like democracy. They think it is dangerous. I guess to some extent they are correct when free elections result in a bozo in the White House. But, communism is highly oppressive. The communists don't think so, but, the issue with Taiwan is a great example of oppression vs. democracy.

The Taiwan economy is strong and it is famous for it's computer chips. Why would any leader want to oppress that? The same goes for Hong Kong. There are decades upon decades of people who have lived within democratic principles and have learned and accumulated knowledge. Why oppress that? Makes no sense. Communists don't see that, BUT, all China has to do is realize most if not all it's accomplishments since Nixon visited is due to spying on the USA.

China will not reflect on it's gross weaknesses and Russia just runs around the planet pretending to be a real country. It is highly speculative as to whether Russia is still a sovereign nation with so many in decent of it's leadership and very corrupt elections. No different than Belarus. That is what makes Russia so dangerous right now. Putin has his submarines off both coasts of the USA and he is firing rockets into space to destroy old Soviet satellites. There was a major incident because Russia is getting very reckless. It is taking it's cosmonauts out of the ISS. So, before it does it is going to show the world what Putin wants to do to the ISS after Russia is gone.

November 16, 2021
By Kylie Atwood, Jim Sciutto, Kristin Fisher and Nicole Gaouette

The US strongly condemned a Russian anti-satellite test (click here) on Monday that forced crew members on the International Space Station to scramble into their spacecraft for safety, calling it "a reckless and dangerous act" and saying that it "won't tolerate" behavior that puts international interests at risk.

US Space Command said Russia tested a direct-ascent anti-satellite, or DA-ASAT missile, striking a Russian satellite and creating a debris field in low-Earth orbit of more than 1,500 pieces of trackable orbital debris that is also likely to generate hundreds of thousands of pieces of smaller orbital debris.

US officials emphasized the long-term dangers and potential global economic fallout from the Russian test, which has created hazards for satellites that provide people around the world with phone and broadband service, weather forecasting, GPS systems which underpin aspects of the financial system, including bank machines, as well in-flight entertainment and satellite radio and television....

The communists don't have really great conventiional forces. That is why they are a real nuclear threat. The USA, to the dismay of the public in general, has a really great conventional force and look to that aspect of our military and not nuclear components. But, since the Trump admiistration there has been a growing enbolded status by China and Russia. China doesn't see that talking with The West is worthwhile so much as just preparing for war. They really want to end the democracy in Europe, Australia and the USA. They really do.

The USA has a very vibrant military. It has many branches of expertise and people make the miltiary a career move. The Congress is always looking for ways to make the military personnel and their families happier. HOUSING is still a problem in some instances. But, for the most part I think Congress doesn't want military families to be on social welfare programs as they have in the past. The public complains if they preceive the military abusing it's people and even neglecting them to some extent. The Iraq War changed the profile of a USA soldier in many good ways. Our sons and daughters are safer as soldiers today, but, in realizing that also realize they are more of a threat as well.

Russia and China are isolating. Russia began that about four years ago. It began to require Russians to declare dual citizenship, called home it's diasphora and closed off the internet from The West. I don't know if Chinese citizens and Russians communicate, but, doubt that. The languages are too diverse. If it is done it isn't on a large scale. But, all that is moving into isolation. Since Russians had to register if they have dual citizenship, there have been more constraints in expressing loyalty to Russia.

Russian submarines have always played with USA borders and so have their jets. The USA primarily monitors what is going on and is ready to pounce if it has to, but, those scenarios never manifest. Yet.

I find it oddly interesting that Putin, the illegitimate president of Russia, is flexing muscles along the USA borders and in space.

Both China and Russia are barking up the wrong communist tree.

Ya know, when Nixon went to China it was to open it's doors to the possibility of joining the rest of the world. Now. With Xi. It seems as though China came out to play and has decided it doesn't like it much. Leaders before Xi weren't so foolish. I remember the pride in China at the first Olympic Games. This mess that has resulted after Trump is a fools game. 

November 17, 2021

By Yen Nee Lee

The U.S. and China (click here) have just emerged from a high-profile meeting between their two leaders, with both sides striking a positive tone about their relationship going forward — but one big question remains unanswered, said an analyst.

“The open question for the broader relationship is whether the US and China can constructively manage the slow-motion collision that is now unfolding between their very different worldviews,” said Stephen Olson, senior research fellow at Hinrich Foundation, in Tuesday note after the virtual summit.

The U.S. and China still face “hard-edged, irreconcilable differences” that are deeply entrenched — and it remains to be seen whether the fallout between them will ease after the meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping, said Olson....

There is a weather phenomena that is becoming a real trouble maker, called "Atmospheric River."

Atmospheric River (click here)

This phenomena is becoming part of the weather in the northern tier of states. It is becoming more frequent.

Four tornadoes in Long Island in the middle of November. What a mess this is.

The Northwest USA, include California in that, and Canada are getting these enormous dumps of water. California is probably getting some of it's required needs, but, not enough to end the drought. Yet. Above is the current drought map for the USA.

If this PATTERN doesn't end soon, there are going to be very difficult circumstances for these people. They are isolated at this point and have damage to their property and homes, but, if this pattern continues there are going to be real problems with flooding and sustained high levels of water.

The governors have to be ready to establish communities on empty military bases where shops might exist where businesses can be opened with current displaced business owners. It could get that bad. People won't have land to live on and it is quesitonable to the extent, even after flood waters recede, what the land and civilization looks like and how viable it is.

By relocating the displaced people they can rebuild a community and economy. Higher elevations are important. Water runs downhill.

November 16, 2021

Long Islanders witnessed a historic weather event on Saturday (click here) when four tornadoes struck from Woodmere to Levittown, East Islip to Oakdale, Shirley to Manorville, and Remsenburg to Westhampton.

The National Weather Service confirmed the fourth tornado Monday morning. The twisters rarely occur in November, and Long Island last had one touch down in summer 2019 in Manorville. The last time Long Island saw three in a day was in June 1998, yet it had never seen four in a day until now.

Luckily no injuries have been reported. However, the tornado blew down trees, ripped material off of buildings, and ultimately left lots of severe property damage in its wake. Residents have been sharing their photos and videos taken during and after the storm.

The weather seemingly changed from a bright day to a dark, stormy one “in just a few minutes,” said Tim Needles, who posted this photo:

Okay, okay, I am more than a biologist. I have three degrees biology, environmental science and women's studies.

My biology degree is very diverse. The university was generous to my interests because they didn't offer a Climate Crisis program. So, my biology degree contains geology, geography, anthropology (almost had a degree in anthropology), and it is a BS and not a BA. So, it is very dense in the sciences. Even took some graduate classes for credit within my BS. The university was really nice about everything. If anyone wants to know more without pursuing a degree (the tuition still has to be paid) audit a course. Do the work. It amounts to knowledge.

The geography is where weather is studied. It was a liberal arts university in that the degree programs were well rounded in the first place.

Yep.

I was never interested in advance degrees because NOAA and NASA have that tied up in the way of providing information. I was interested in understanding the planet in a general way and it's effects on people. I am also a retired health care professional.

It will be necessary to dissolve corporate health care.

What is becoming more and more realistic is that the vast incorporation of health systems across the USA will not be able to take care of people when infrastructure fails. Small community hospitals where there is every service of medical and surgical practices; needs to return to local hospitals that provide well being to people as storms continually impact infrastructure of transportation.

While Governors and Mayors are on the subject of creating local authority to maintain people's health when cut off from the corporate structures, they will want to address keeping local economies at all cost. The local economies will survive where others won't.

A good project for the US Army Corp. will be to disasemble the USA and/or allies into areas where infrastructure will fail and isolate towns from essential services. In that, the future needs of the people can be realized in a world that is highly disruptive to a once civilized society.

Every human need will have to be available in local economies so that when isolation occurs there will be services that support life.

This is going to be the toll of the climate crisis and it is serious. Long haul trucking may become obsolete and ports only effective for the local region. The USA is going to have to be self-sufficient in all it's needs. It is the way of the future and it may as well start now before planning is too late and lives are in danger in isolation from transportation of people and goods.

It is difficult to turn a big boat around, but, that is exactly what governance has to do and quickly. No different than Earth's physics, the economy of the USA is in peril due to the climate crisis. The people are important and supporting them into new realities whereby local areas are self-sufficent is vital to the stability of the people in their abilities to survive into the future.

In the picture from NASA below, Bellingham (lower right corner) is the USA. It is downstream from Vancouver, Canada.

An image from Nasa's worldview on Tuesday shows the extent of the flooding across the British Columbia region

November 17, 2021
By Artur Gajda and Rod Nickel

Merritt, British Columbia - Floods and landslides (click here) that have killed at least one person have cut al-l rail access to Canada's largest port in the city of Vancouver, a spokesperson for the port said on Tuesday.

Two days of torrential rain across the Pacific province of British Columbia touched off major flooding and shut rail routes operated by Canadian Pacific Rail (CP.TO) and Canadian National Railway (CNR.TO), Canada's two biggest rail companies.

"All rail service coming to and from the Port of Vancouver is halted because of flooding in the British Columbia interior," port spokesperson Matti Polychronis said.

At least one person was killed when a mudslide swept cars off Highway 99 near Pemberton, some 100 miles (160 km) to the northeast of Vancouver....

November 17, 2021

Leyland Cecco

At least one person (click here) has been killed and several more are feared dead after a huge storm hit the Pacific north-west, destroying highways and leaving tens of thousands of people in Canada and the US without power.

Canada’s largest port was cut off by flood waters, as emergency crews in British Columbia announced on Tuesday that at least 10 vehicles had been swept off a highway during a landslide....

Michael Flynn has turned his back on the US Constitution.

An American can't be advocating one true religion and still be loyal to the USA Constitution. It is not possible. Considering he was/is one of Trump's minions there is every reason to believe this is a belief of that political group in the USA and requires investigation and quite possibly prosecution.

In order for the USA to become a theocracy with only a few powerful leaders, no different than Iran, the First Amendment needs to be eliminated. That is ridiculous. Losing the First Amendment IS surrending the democracy.

 

I believe the judge's solicitation of the jury has a second purpose.

I think the judge, along with the defense lawyer, believes those that want to come back tomorrow have decided this is going to demand a deliberation to come to a conclusion and do not believe the defendant is innocent. The jurors that want to meet tonight regardless of the lateness of the proceedings have already made up their mind and believe he acted in self-defense. What are the chances this is a hung jury and unable to come to a conclusion?

I think this kind of CLUE about the jury will make the defense attorney rethink his strategy to the jury. I think the judge is faulty in his actions with the jury and is playing them as well.

The defense attorney's have no appreciation of the FACT Rittenhouse aggrivated every one of the situations whereby he used his gun to terrorize, kill and maim. The dead men were intent on getting the gun away a killer. That is all they saw. They died attempting to save lives. Rittenhouse was pointing the gun at people without reason. He is dangerous and the people that night knew they had a problem. The prosecutor proved that fact beyond a reasonable doubt.

The defense attorney is ineffective. He is to me. He is raising doubt with every authority involved in the prosecution. It is a POPULAR MIND-SET and he is hoping the jury buys it. If he wants to raise doubt, do it where it is plausible that mistakes were made. Every person for the prosecution is not lying or biased against Rittenhouse. That is not realistic.

...The Marsy’s Law (click here) initiative began in California and was led and sponsored by Marsy’s brother, Dr. Henry T. Nicholas III. When it passed in November 2008, Proposition 9, The California Victims’ Bill of Rights Act of 2008: Marsy’s Law, became the strongest and most comprehensive Constitutional victims’ rights laws in the U.S. and put California at the forefront of the national victims’ rights movement....

The prosecutor doesn't believe in the Rule of Law either. There are ethical issues here.

...Imperfect Self-defense (click here)

Sometimes a person may have a genuine fear of imminent physical harm that is objectively unreasonable. If the person uses force to defend themselves from the perceived threat, the situation is known as “imperfect self-defense.” Imperfect self-defense does not excuse a person from the crime of using violence, but it can lessen the charges and penalties involved. Not every state recognizes imperfect self-defense, however.

For example, a person is waiting for a friend at a coffee shop. When the friend arrives, he walks toward the other person with his hand held out for a handshake. The person who had been waiting genuinely fears that his friend means to attack him, even though this fear is totally unreasonable. In order to avoid the perceived threat, the person punches his friend in the face. While the person’s claim of self-defense will not get him out of any criminal charges because of the unreasonable nature of his perception, it could reduce the severity of the charges or the eventual punishment.

Some states also consider instances where the person claiming self-defense provoked the attack as imperfect self-defense. For example, if a person creates a conflict that becomes violent then unintentionally kills the other party while defending himself, a claim of self-defense might reduce the charges or punishment, but would not excuse the killing entirely....

A killer cannot cause the event of a murder and then say it was self-defense regardless of any assessment that attacks were not going to happen. Rittenhouse, then a teen of 17 years can be said to be innocent in his assessment in going into the crowd in the first place and that is why there are people dead and maimed. 

Rittenhouse knew the AR-15 was dangerous. He decided there were "bad people" in Kenosha that should not be there while he does not live there. That is vigilantism and just because he didn't think of himself as a vigilante doesn't mean he is innocent of causing the circumstances leading to the murders. The defense is trying to blur the line between wrongful actions of a 17 year old by saying all the gun charges are dropped, therefore, Rittenhouse was allowed to do what he did. 

Rittenhouse is guilty. He carelessly went into a KNOWN dangerous situation where police were already involved in protecting the city as best they could. He complicated the scene and caused more problems and not less. He aggrivated aggression by others simply because he was there with an AR-15.

No one is saying the rioting was legal or correct, but, it isn't suppose to kill.

Kyle Rittenhouse knew he was a vigilante and he knew he was part of a militia. The majority of the gun owners in the USA are not part of a militia nor would answer the call to charge into a crowd for the purpose of killing people under the guise of protecting property.

August 27, 2021
By Barbara Ortutay and Anita Snow

...The Atlantic Council researchers (click here) said that before the attack some of the online discussions encouraged acts of violence while the conspiracy website InfoWars amplified the call to arms, potentially encouraging more armed people to head to Kenosha. In Wisconsin, people 18 and over can legally openly carry a gun without a permit....

Debating the law?

 I am not impressed with the Rittenhouse judge's quantry to the Rule of Law.

The prosecutor has had a huge opposition to his pledgings by the judge and now the judge further has opposition to the prosecutor's clarify on the charges made against Rittenhouse. 

I think the prosecutor already has reasons for an appeal. 

The judge needs to be reviewed by peers to determine his competency in OBEYING the Rule of Law. I am sure he can walk, talk and chew gum at the same time, but, I believe there is a sense of self-righteousness when coming to his particular of the court. He could easily be determined as an activist judge.

Perfect Self-Defense

Perfect self-defense (click here) is the use of force by one who accurately appraises the necessity and the amount of force to repel an attack. 

The two dead men were unarmed.

It meets all of the generally accepted legal conditions for such a claim to be valid. Perfect self defense requires that when deadly force is used the defendant reasonably believed it to be necessary to kill the decedent, to avert imminent death or great bodily harm, and the defendant was not the initial aggressor nor was responsible for provoking the fatal confrontation.

It is necessary to realize there were no military style guns in the crowd, no matter how one defines the crowd. Rittenhouse walked into the crowd knowing he would kill people that HE determined to be breaking the law. There is no other reason to carry that military weapon. He is a vigilante and cannot be viewed as an individual within the crowd as an innocent person that was attacked for no reason. The men that attempted to disarm him were afraid for their lives, too, as well as the lives of others. That weapon can CUT DOWN human beings in large numbers at any point in time in seconds. There was no time to think about what Rittenhouse's reasons were, the presence of the gun was threatening. Words are not necessary to be considered a terrorist either. Rittenhouse turned the crowds actions into combat with the presence of the AR-15. The gun changed the thoughts of the people in the crowd and Rittenhouse was a huge threat.

Testimony could not be given by dead men.

September 3, 2020
By Chuck Goudie and Barb Markoff, Christine Tressel and Ross Weidner

After a worldwide social media audience (click here) watched 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse open fire in the middle of a Kenosha, Wisconsin street with an AR-15 style rifle, he returned to his family's home in Chicago's northwest suburbs.

The I-Team has learned from federal investigators that the gun was legally purchased, however, authorities are still working to figure out how it ended up in the teen's hands.

A few hours later, when Rittenhouse voluntarily surrendered to Antioch police, "our department did take possession of two Smith and Wesson M&P 15 Rifles" the ABC7 I-Team was told Thursday by police chief Geoff Guttschow. "These rifles were subsequently turned over to the Kenosha Police Department in furtherance of their investigation into the shootings that took place there," chief Guttschow said.

Even as the teenager is being held in a Lake County lockup while extradition proceedings play out, investigators on both sides of the state line work to "determine when, where, how and by whom the firearms were purchased; and to determine if any crimes were committed in our jurisdiction in doing so," Guttschow said....

The judge is solicitous of the jury.

It is Wrong!

Completely and absolutely wrong for countries and companies that use capitalism as their economic engine to come to the CLIMATE CRISIS accords expecting to water down and/or protect their fossil fuel industries from dire changes of the use of their products. This is absolutely no different than the Montreal Protocols. Everyone gets on board for a complete and absolute change in energy and transportation.

THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR BACKSLIDING. 

NONE, EXCEPT, GREED AND GREED IS GROSSLY IMMORAL.

"Good Night, Moon"

The waxing gibbous

10.9 day old moon

84.3 percent lit

Earth has more satellites than the moon.

November 11, 2021
By Benjamin N. L. Sharkey,Vishnu Reddy,Renu Malhotra, Audrey Thirouin, Olga Kuhn, Albert Conrad, Barry Rothberg, Juan A. Sanchez, David Thompson &
Christian Veillet

Little is known about Earth quasi-satellites, (click here) a class of near-Earth small solar system bodies that orbit the sun but remain close to the Earth, because they are faint and difficult to observe. Here we use the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) and the Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT) to conduct a comprehensive physical characterization of quasi-satellite (469219) Kamoʻoalewa and assess its affinity with other groups of near-Earth objects. We find that (469219) Kamoʻoalewa rotates with a period of 28.3 (+1.8/−1.3) minutes and displays a reddened reflectance spectrum from 0.4–2.2 microns. This spectrum is indicative of a silicate-based composition, but with reddening beyond what is typically seen amongst asteroids in the inner solar system. We compare the spectrum to those of several material analogs and conclude that the best match is with lunar-like silicates. This interpretation implies extensive space weathering and raises the prospect that Kamo’oalewa could comprise lunar material....

This agreement occurred at COP26. The leaders of China and Russia were not in attendance.

China uses coal without any regrets. (click here for gas shortage)

Russia's greatest economic income is oil and gas. Both incredibly dangerous greenhouse gases.

The deadline for every person on Earth is 2030, not 2050. 2050 is too late.

November 10, 2021

'US State Department

1. The United States and China (click here) recall their Joint Statement Addressing the Climate Crisis of April 17th, 2021. They are committed to its effective implementation and appreciate the intensive work that has taken place to date and the value of continued discussion. 

2. The United States and China, alarmed by reports including the Working Group I Contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report released on August 9th, 2021, further recognize the seriousness and urgency of the climate crisis. They are committed to tackling it through their respective accelerated actions in the critical decade of the 2020s, as well as through cooperation in multilateral processes, including the UNFCCC process, to avoid catastrophic impacts. 

3. The United States and China recall their firm commitment to work together and with other Parties to strengthen implementation of the Paris Agreement. The two sides also recall the Agreement’s aim in accordance with Article 2 to hold the global average temperature increase to well below 2 degrees C and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5 degrees C. In that regard, they are committed to pursuing such efforts, including by taking enhanced climate actions that raise ambition in the 2020s in the context of the Paris Agreement, with the aim of keeping the above temperature limit within reach and cooperating to identify and address related challenges and opportunities. 

4. Moving forward, the United States and China welcome the significant efforts being made around the world to address the climate crisis. They nevertheless recognize that there remains a significant gap between such efforts, including their aggregate effect, and those that need to be taken to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. The two sides stress the vital importance of closing that gap as soon as possible, particularly through stepped-up efforts.  They declare their intention to work individually, jointly, and with other countries during this decisive decade, in accordance with different national circumstances, to strengthen and accelerate climate action and cooperation aimed at closing the gap, including accelerating the green and low-carbon transition and climate technology innovation. 

5. The two sides are intent on seizing this critical moment to engage in expanded individual and combined efforts to accelerate the transition to a global net zero economy....

Mauna Loa Laboratories on this date had four observation stations. I regularly monitored human activity in relation to emissions.

My personal notes.

April 25, 2003 at 2250 EST (10:50 pm)

Russia launched a space vehicle. The type doesn't matter, except, it used fuel to reach orbit. This was after Bush invaded Iraq by about a month ago so the burning that went on was releasing greenhouse gases in the way of at least CO2 and methane.

Mauna Loa Laboratories

Barrow, Alaska (the furthest northern station) - the Russian launch passed directly over this station). The elevations CO2 at this station after the Russian launch inceased in PPM (parts per million) of CO2 by 0.385. This is the increase only that occurred at 2359 (11:59 pm)

Mauna Lao, Hawaii

CO2 before this event was 3.2 ppm.

At 1800 (6:00 pm) abrupt increase to 3.4 ppm at 1900 (7:00 pm), the level sustained at 3.4 ppm until 2355 (11:55 pm) when it decreased to 3.2 ppm.

Samoa Station

Same dynamic as Mauna Loa, Hawaii station. 

3.2 ppm at 1900 (7:00 pm) abruptly changes to 3.4 ppm

That level of 3.4 ppm sustained with fluctuations upto 3.8 ppm until 0045 on April 26, 2003.when it began to decrease but didn't reach 3.0 ppm until 1900 on April 26, 2003.

South Pole Station

Station is offline from 1500 (3:00 pm) until 2339 (11:39 pm) on April 25, 2021

At 0130 on April 26, 2003 there was a reading of 0.5 ppm and that was continuous the rest of the day.

HUMAN INDUCED CLIMATE CRISIS. THERE IS SIMPLY NO DOUBT.

Every time a human burns carbon based fuels there is a global increase in CO2.

The reaction of the President of the Proceedings speaks for itself.

November 14, 2021
By Paul Rincon

A deal aimed at staving off dangerous climate change (click here) has been struck at the COP26 summit in Glasgow.

The Glasgow Climate Pact is the first ever climate deal to explicitly plan to reduce coal, the worst fossil fuel for greenhouse gases.

The deal also presses for more urgent emission cuts and promises more money for developing countries - to help them adapt to climate impacts.

But the pledges don't go far enough to limit temperature rise to 1.5C.

A commitment to phase out coal that was included in earlier negotiation drafts led to a dramatic finish after India and China led opposition to it.

India's climate minister Bhupender Yadav asked how developing countries could promise to phase out coal and fossil fuel subsidies when they "have still to deal with their development agendas and poverty eradication".

In the end, countries agreed to "phase down" rather than "phase out" coal, amid expressions of disappointment by some. COP26 President Alok Sharma said he was "deeply sorry" for how events had unfolded....

 

This questionable agreement is not STRONG ENOUGH.

November 13, 2021

After two weeks of talks in Glasgow, (click here) diplomats from almost 200 countries have agreed to ramp up their carbon-cutting commitments, phase out some fossil fuels and increase aid to poor countries on the front lines of climate change.

The agreement will not put the world on track to avoid catastrophic warming beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit). But officials said it represents a significant step on a path to a safer future....

OPEN SCIENTIFIC REBELLION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

12 November 2021

By Tosin Thompson

Members of Scientist Rebellion, including Kyle Topfer (second from the left) and Charlie Gardner (far right), chained together on Glasgow's King George V Bridge.

It is about 1 p.m. on 11 November (click here) when I arrive at the rendezvous point: South Portland Street Suspension Bridge — a footbridge above the River Clyde in Glasgow, UK. On a dinghy floating across the river, a distant figure in a lab coat holds up a banner that reads “Tell the truth or we will lose everything”. It is Tim Hewlett, an astrophysicist and co-founder of activist group Scientist Rebellion. I am told that he will continue to float across the river until he docks by the Scottish Event Campus where the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) is taking place, or until he’s arrested — whichever comes first.

For the past week, I have been speaking to scientists at COP26, where nations are trying to agree on how to fulfil their pledges to tackle climate change. Some researchers are advisers at the meeting or part of the delegations trying to negotiate a final deal. But others are among the hundreds of activists staging protests on the streets of Glasgow throughout the summit to demand stronger action....

The stratosphere is shrinking because the tropospher is hot and expanding trapping the stratosphere by pressure.

The Stratosphere is shrinking (click here) and now the trophosphere is expanding. This is NOT good news. How can anyone ignore this? This is serious and the warming needs to stop by reducing greenhouse gases n the troposhere in large amounts. NOW. This is not going to wait until 2050.

GET OVER IT!

Stop denying the truth telling by scientists.

November 14, 2021

By Ben Turner

Earth's atmosphere is rising because of climate change, a new study shows. (click here)

Weather balloon measurements, taken in the Northern Hemisphere over the past 40 years, reveal that the lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere — called the troposphere — has been expanding upward at a rate of roughly 164 feet (50 meters) per decade, and climate change is the cause, according to findings published Nov.r 5 in the journal Science Advances.

"This is an unambiguous sign of changing atmospheric structure," study co-author Bill Randel, a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, said in a statement. "These results provide independent confirmation, in addition to all the other evidence of climate change, that greenhouse gases are altering our atmosphere."

The troposphere is the layer of the atmosphere we live and breathe in. It extends from sea level to a height ranging from 4.3 miles (7 kilometers) above the poles to 12.4 miles (20 km) over the tropics. As the layer of atmosphere that contains the most heat and moisture, it's also where a lot of atmospheric weather occurs.

Air in the atmosphere expands when it's hot and contracts when it's cold, so the troposphere's upper boundary, called the tropopause, naturally shrinks and expands with the changing of the seasons.

But by analyzing atmospheric data such as pressure, temperature and humidity — taken between 20 and 80 degrees north latitude — and pairing it with GPS data, researchers showed that as increasing quantities of greenhouse gases trap more heat in the atmosphere, the tropopause is rising higher than ever before....

This is not good and affectionately named "hockey stick" is completely accurate.

 

The news articles about the Former Governor of New Jersey never say the name of the book.

In a new book, (click here) Chris Christie says that former President Donald Trump called him when he was sick with Covid-19 and asked if Christie was going to say Trump infected him, according to the New York Times.

What’s in Chris Christie’s New Book? (click here)

I think Chris Christie is great. He has his priorities straight. I don't agree with all his policies, but, he has a rather incredible personal record of loving this country and serving it well. I would be surprised if he would not run for President again. Buy the way, people are saying that talking about Trump won't get them elected either. Governor of Virginia now knows that was a weak strategy. I think protecting the country is important, but, giving voice to the name of Trump is the wrong method of reaching the people and providing a real reason a candidate is not worthy of the office they are seeking.