Bought and paid for, I want an ethics investigation

Manchin is opposing every measure that President Biden and the Democrats are proposing and even passing in the US House. This is an elitist lobby agent in the US Senate destroying our democracy.

Machin needs to lose his committee chairmanship.

West Virginia has no coastline. If anything the former Senator for Delaware and current President would know far more about drilling offshore than a coal mining obsessionist.

There is no reason to drill the continential shelf. The national oil reserve is plentiful and the offshore assets should be protected for the USA military. By the way, the USA military uses combination fuel for their jets. They don't use pure jet fuel and that is not new. The USA miltiary has been using GREEN fuel for their jets for years if not a decade.

December 16, 2021

By Jeff Stein and Anna Phillips

Democratic plans to restrict new oil and gas development (click here) off both coasts and in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge have emerged as a new flash point in the Build Back Better bill, highlighting the party’s deep political schisms as it tries to advance the massive spending legislation.

Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.), a critical swing vote, has rejected a provision that would prohibit all future drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts as well as the eastern Gulf of Mexico, according to three people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations. He also expressed surprise at top Democrats’ decision to include language ending an oil and gas leasing program in the pristine refuge, a longtime priority for party leaders and their environmentalist allies, but he has not indicated whether he will oppose it.

Manchin, who chairs the Senate Energy and National Resources Committee, exercises a de facto veto over the $2 trillion climate and social spending plan because it needs all 50 Democrats’ votes to win Senate passage.,,,

Manchin is seeking to destroy the Child Tax Credit. He is not here to represent the people of West Virginia. He is a US Senator that is an obstructionist for Wall Street. There are few states ahead of West Virginia that needs the Child Tax Credit.

December 16, 2021
By Yeganeh Torbati

As Democrats in Washington (click here) scrambled on Wednesday to prevent President Biden’s $2 trillion spending package from derailing, a group of West Virginia parents gathered on a video call as part of a last-minute effort to turn up the heat on one of their senators, Democrat Joe Manchin III.

It was just the latest instance of a months-long, grass-roots effort to cajole Manchin as he decides how to vote on the tax-and-spending measure. He’s under pressure not only from Biden and congressional Democrats, but also a range of constituents in his home state.

The intensity of the debate has reached a fever pitch as Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) has said he wants to pass the bill by Christmas and it’s increasingly looking as if that timeline has slipped out of reach because of Manchin’s demands....

It is long overdue to address the lopsided wealth in the USA.

WEST VIRGINIA IS SIXTH IN THE NATION IN CHILD PROVERTY and children are hungry and not receiving three meals a day.

September 17, 2020

Charleston, WV – New data (click here) released today from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey and an analysis of data from its ongoing Household Pulse Survey and other sources paints a bleak picture. People across West Virginia — particularly West Virginians of color and those with low incomes — continue to face dire economic hardship as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, making the need for bold action at the state and federal levels clearer than ever.

An estimated 278,734 West Virginians lived in poverty in 2019, for a total poverty rate of 16.0 percent. While poverty declined by 1.8 percentage points from 2018, West Virginia’s poverty rate is still 3.7 percentage points higher than the national average, making it the 6th highest rate among the 50 states.

West Virginia’s median household income was an estimated $48,850 in 2019, $16,862 below the national average. While West Virginia’s median household income increased in 2019, adjusting for inflation, West Virginia still had the 2nd lowest median household income among the 50 states....

There is no reason for Joe Manchin to vote in the manner in which he does. He is making money in his votes. Every vote he casts invites more and more money to his Senate Campaign. It is that which motivates Machin and no other reason. His is nothing but a corrupt politician that votes with cronies and not the people of West Virginia.

AN ETHICS INVESTIGATION IS LONG OVERDUE TO THIS US SENATOR.

He needs to lose his chairmanship. He is not a benevolent chairperson, he is a chairperson with an agenda that feeds his political donors.

I don't remember such a legislator with votes that are adverse to the outcomes for their people of their state or district. He is horrible and dangerous.

The Central bank are tightening assets

Yesterday, the Fed stated it expects several interest increases this coming year.

Today, the European Central Bank is halving it’s assets.

On a per capita basis Europe and the UK have higher inflation rates on food and energy than the USA. Those are the two sectors most effected by the pandemic. However, in the USA, a big contributor is the escalating prices on real estate, housing and rent.

Voter Registration has gone to far. The people challenging Pennsylvania vote wants tax returns

 LIVE: Pennsylvania Court Hears Arguments Over Releasing Voter Information as Part of Election Investigation

Link (click here)

The people challenging Pennsylvania vote wants tax returns, drivers' license numbers, and social security numbers.

Voter registration has gone too far. All that is needed is a signature at the time of voting. 

The attorney brought up that issue of Trump's tax returns going to the US House. The income tax returns, driver's license and social security numbers are supplied when a crime has occurred. The US House has good reason to request tax records in an investigation. This attorney is stating that all records of an American can be provided by law. That is an outrageous demand in order to conduct a recount. 

Trump lost the election and what the minions are doing is attempting to build a greater conspiracy that kept him from taking the Oval Office again. He is grasping at straws to investigate every voter as to their residence and otherwise when they voted.

This is a ridiculous hearing and the judges need to begin to refuse to hear this mess that Trump is propagating. Trump is attempting to create a hostile election environment hear forward. If he can cause riots in this country, he will.

Putin has wanted this for a long time.

December 17, 2021

A top Russian diplomat (click here) has warned that Moscow will respond “militarily” and deploy tactical nuclear weapons, if NATO does not guarantee an end to its eastward expansion.

His remarks raise the stakes even higher in the confrontation between Russia and Western powers just days after U.S. President Joe Biden and Russia’s Vladimir Putin held a two-hour video conference aimed at defusing a burgeoning crisis over Russian military movements near Ukraine's borders, where the Kremlin is estimated to have amassed around 100,000 troops.

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov’s threat comes amid rising fears that Putin is considering a further military incursion into Ukraine in a rehash of Russia’s 2014 annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and its seizure of a large part of the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, bordering Russia....

There is nothing new here. Putin has been inching up on a nuclear exchange for awhile. Arguably, Russian nuclear braintrust is grossly diminished or completely incompetent.

June 29. 2020
By Mary llyushina and Niamh Kennedy

Russia has denied that any leaks (click here) have occurred at two of its nuclear power plants after higher than usual radiation was detected over Norway, Sweden and Finland in the first half of June.

The Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) said Sunday that "very low" levels of man-made radioactivity were found over the three countries. There was no impact on the environment or human health, it said.

"The combination of radionuclides may be explained by an anomaly in the fuel elements of a nuclear power plant," RIVM suggested after performing a calculation to find the source of the radionuclides, which are atoms with an unstable core.

"The calculations indicate that the nuclides come from the direction of western Russia. Determining a more specific source location is not possible with the limited data available," RIVM said on its website. It made clear that "no specific country of origin can be pointed out at this moment".....

Europe has been rained on my Russian nuclear explosions within the Russian borders for years now. Their nuclear scientists are disposable. The scientists wives come forward to accept awards from Putin for bravery. That makes good propaganda, but, it is not proliferic nuclear competency.

August 12, 2019
By David E. Sanger and Andrew E. Kramer

American intelligence officials (click here) are racing to understand a mysterious explosion that released radiation off the coast of northern Russia last week, apparently during the test of a new type of nuclear-propelled cruise missile hailed by President Vladimir V. Putin as the centerpiece of Moscow’s arms race with the United States.

American officials have said nothing publicly about the blast on Thursday, possibly one of the worst nuclear accidents in the region since Chernobyl, although apparently on a far smaller scale, with at least seven people, including scientists, confirmed dead. But the Russian government’s slow and secretive response has set off anxiety in nearby cities and towns — and attracted the attention of analysts in Washington and Europe who believe the explosion may offer a glimpse of technological weaknesses in Russia’s new arms program.

Thursday’s accident happened offshore of the Nenoksa Missile Test Site and was followed by what nearby local officials initially reported was a spike in radiation in the atmosphere.

Late Sunday night, officials at a research institute that had employed five of the scientists who died confirmed for the first time that a small nuclear reactor had exploded during an experiment in the White Sea, and that the authorities were investigating the cause....

Putin, as a military leader, always appears reckless because none of his military isn't. Putin goes with what he has to work with as his idea is to bring back the Soviet Union. The reason he is scared of NATO expansion is because it claims countries that Putin believes belongs to him, personally and to Mother Russia.

The Russian military forces are not experts in the way The West understands experts, they are what Russia has to work with and it doesn't measure up to The West. NATO is a real threat as far as Putin is concerned as one former Soviet state after another joins NATO. NATO is enhanced by their memberships bring a lot of know-how and expertise that actually do become better experts under NATO's tutelage. The West is grateful for the faith these former Soviet countries have shown in becoming members. They aren't aligned with Mother Russia, they are aligned with The West. There are reasons.

The statement has to be made that decades after Chernoby in 1986 there have been repeated nuclear accidents by the Russian government. It doesn't matter if they are accidents, the process being used in handling materials and power plants and/or missiles is very, very flawed. That is a clear indication that the Russian brain trust is mostly dried up and Russia for his propaganda doesn't have a strong military or strong nuclear program.

HOWEVER

That won't stop Putin. He will do it anyway, even if it means destroying more land to nuclear isotopes raining from the sky.

One of the other reasons Putin wants to recapture the Soviet Union is simply land. There are Russian lands that are radioactive and with each new incident there is more land that is contaminated. One has to wonder how much land in Russia doesn't have a trace of nuclear pollution. People with longevity aren't exposed to nuclear anything for any length of time.

There are two Russian ports that are a direct threat to Europe, Kaliningrad and Murmansk. It is these Russian ports that can be accessed for limited range nuclear missiles. Putin would do it from his safe bunker with all his children around him. 

In reality Russia and the former Soviet Union are realitively young nations. They were estblished after the Russian Revolution in the early 1900s at the time when the Avian Flu was killing many Americans. When the Soviet Union was established the USA was already 135 years old and Europe centuries older. That equates to a lot of assets, both financial and military. The Soviet Unions was taking place when the USA Woodrow Wilson was president and seeking to begin the earliest form the United Nations. The USA was a leader then and is still today. It has a lot of allies and strategy that Russia and Putin do not. 

Vladimir Putin has been at the top of the communists for a long time and leader of Russia longer than Lenin. Today, no different than when the Russian Revolution took place, more than 50 percent of the citizens of Russia want a free and open society with elections that matter. Now, what do they have? They are looking at a president that was illegally put back into office and stating their will be a nuclear exchange. 

This nuclear position by Putin is not welcome in The West or within 50 percent of the Russian people. Putin should not take that lightly. He is figuring it is now or never considering he was received strategic information from Trump. China is also an ally to Russia since 2000 and their Friendship Agreement. These two communist countries with far less experience with democracy than The West are poised or so they think to conduct war with the USA and they both know it is a nuclear exchange because the USA's military is strong and even stronger within NATO.

I am not surprised a Russian diplomat is stating Putin is considering a limited nuclear exchange with The West. He has no signficant military and he is out of running room to reclaim the Soviet Union. No matter his strong man tactics, he will lose the support of the people everytime. Putin wants this, but, he isn't going to win any measurable return to the Soviet Union because the former states already made their choice. He never considers the power of the people because he sees them dead in their opposition. This time, those Soviet states won't be alone.

Sierra Nevada Mountains

It is estimated the Sierra Nevada Mountains have received as much as 7 feet of snow with the latest storms on the west coast.

A few of things:

There MAY be great skiing as soon as the roads are clear, but, be cautious of very loose powder. 

The rangers will have to scope out any potential avalanches before skiing begins.

Call ahead to hotels and/or listen to any radio broadcast known to carry ACCURATE road conditions as well as slope conditions. It takes awhile to remove 7 feet of snow from mountain roads.

Last, but, hardly least; there maybe people stranded and possibly deaths if people braved the snow to leave the area. All in all there are real life reasons to be cautious.

That all said; enjoy the holidays. 

The Democracy Summit, not necessarily a peace summit with those that would destroy democracy on a global basis.

President Biden gave a beautiful speech yesterday at the beginning of the summit with 110 countries that embrace and love democracy. He is correct, democracy is under attack. This summit is vital to the outcomes of free people. It is intended to be unifying and strong. Within that resolve is an understanding there are great dangers from those that hate democracy and would rather live in anarchy or under communists and dictators, sometimes both.

This comes at a time when the Indo-Pacific region is under a direct threat from China with it's expansionist borders and Russia which cannot accept the end of the Soviet Union. President Biden has offered greater intelligence sharing to bring the democracies in the Pacific the ability to understand their threat better.

Currently, USA companies involved in a major manufacturing hub in China that produces batteries, clothing, plastics and textile dyes are suspending any interest there due to an oppressive Chinese government. These products are often destined for the USA. There are several emergent problems, a loss of income to USA companies and a loss of product to the USA market place, either wholesale or retail. This is not inflation either. This is the Chinese government forcing USA companies to abandon THEIR supply chain.

The USA needs to ask these companies what they need in repatriating their much needed supply chain and the Secretary of Commerce should provide incentives to develop the manufacturing here in the USA.

All this talk about democarcy is not frivilous. It is vital to our lives.

The United States of America has a youth mental health problem.

As a rule young people don't die in numbers such as this from COVID.

December 13, 2021
By Madeline Mitchell

Anderson High School students and staff (click here) had only just begun to grieve the loss of senior Brock Vogel when, three days later, another senior student died unexpectedly in her sleep.

Skylar Due was 18, according to the Hamilton County Coroner's Office. An investigation into her death is ongoing, officials with the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office told The Enquirer Monday afternoon.

On Monday, Forest Hills Superintendent Scot Prebles canceled end of the semester exams at both Anderson and Turpin high schools.

"The loss of student life is tragic. Moments like these are hard to understand and process for students as well as staff, parents and community members," the district wrote in a Monday statement. The full statement can be found at the end of this story....

...This was the second Anderson High School death in one week, and the fourth Anderson student to die in less than a year....

Reuters is reporting about Omicron and it's ability to skirt immunity.

The double vaccinated people of South Africa were 93 percent safe before Omicron, that has dropped to 70 percent. Omicron is able to still cause illness of a double vaccinated person 23 percent of the time.

The unvaccinated are no more safe from Omicron, than Covid-19 or Delta. In the South African study, the immunity from Delta was compromised in 13 percent of the cases. Delta is successful in circumventing the double vaccianted 13 percent of the time.

The largest number of people hospitalized at risk for death are the unvaccinated. 

Children are hospitalized at a 20 percent higher rate with Omicron.

One other fact that came out in the South African study is that double vaccinated became ill at a rate of 62 percent with Omicron. Obviously not all were hospitalized.

December 14, 2021
By Alexander Winning and Wendell Roelf

(Poster click here)

Johannesburg - Two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine (click here) appear to have given 70% protection against hospitalisation in South Africa in recent weeks, according to a major real-world study which suggests weaker efficacy against the new Omicron variant.

The study released on Tuesday by South Africa's largest private health insurance administrator, Discovery Health, was based on more than 211,000 positive COVID-19 test results. Around 78,000 of those results from Nov. 15 to Dec. 7 were attributed to Omicron.

The 78,000 results are not confirmed Omicron cases, meaning the study cannot offer conclusive findings about the variant labelled "of concern" by the World Health Organization and reported in more than 60 countries....

Humiliating teachers in front of their students. The job isn't difficult the way it is, now, teachers are beggers.

The predominantly Democratic programs during the pandemic worked.

It is always the way. Democrats fix the country and then Republicans come in and wreck it.

December 13, 2021
By Marisa Kendall

Despite the massive hit the economy took during the COVID-19 crisis, (click here) a new study suggests the pandemic didn’t push huge numbers of Bay Area residents into financial trouble — a surprising finding that experts say highlights the success of emergency cash assistance programs.

Before COVID hit, 29% of people who responded to a Tipping Point Community survey reported having a hard time making ends meet. Ten months into the pandemic, that number had barely budged — 31% of people reported struggling. Similarly, the study found the Bay Area’s poverty rate didn’t jump — it rose from 17% in 2018 to 18% in early 2021.

Experts say that’s because federal stimulus payments, increases in unemployment benefits and nonprofit aid programs prevented huge swaths of the population from falling into poverty — a win they hope will push policymakers to enact more long-term cash assistance programs. But not everyone made it out unscathed. Low-income residents and residents of color were far more likely to suffer financial hardships as a result of the pandemic.

“The good news is the poverty rate didn’t increase, didn’t go skyrocketing the way we all thought it was going to,” said Sam Cobbs, CEO of Tipping Point Community. “The bad news is those people who were struggling before the pandemic are struggling even more now.”...

Waxing gibbous

9.4 day old moon 

70.4 percent lit

9 December 2021
By Jude Coleman

It’s been nearly 50 years (click here) since humans last stepped foot on the Moon. Now NASA’s multifaceted space exploration program known as Artemis aims to reestablish humanity’s lunar presence. The ambitious program plans not only to send the first woman and first person of color to the Moon but also to explore the mostly untouched lunar landscape. Pivotal to the Artemis program is the Artemis Gateway, a Moon-orbiting space station that is on track for an initial launch as early as November 2024. Members of the Artemis Gateway team will provide a mission overview on 13 December at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2021....

The Kentucky tornado is worse than the Moore tornado in that it effected eight states.

I never get used to these enormous storms. The voices of the people stay with me. Besides the school children that were killed in Moore, was a recording of a 13 year old boy called his mother. He stated to her he didn't think he was going to make it but he wanted his mother to know he loved her. A 13 year old boy reached out to his mother in his final days of life to tell her he loved her. Thirteen years old. I was chilling to me to realize that child knew he was going to die. In the next instance the phone went dead. He died. The mother had to bury a 13 year old boy that loved her very deeply. No storm shelters, nothing he could do to hide from the storm. He took him without a potential for him to save his own life. That is unthinkable to me.'

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Why? Why does money, power and influence take precedent over human life in this country?

We should all be ashamed this is happening and continues to happen. This is the United States of America where human life is supposed to be the pinnacle of our concerns and I am here to tell you, it is not. 

 

Any nursing home people missing?

December 12, 2021
By Laura Testino

Monette, Arkansas - The nursing home residents (click here) huddled together on the south end of the building and tried to hold on to their pillows while they sang hymns.

It was what the nurses, who hovered over the residents as human shields from the storm debris, suggested they do to stay calm. 

They sang "When We All Get to Heaven" and "Jesus Loves Me" and "One Day at a Time" as the wind was ripping their building apart, grabbing metal and bending it around tree branches, pulverizing concrete into rocks. 

One 94-year-old resident died in the severe storms that destroyed the Monette Manor nursing home, a single-story brick building in the small northeastern Arkansas town....

This occured four months ago at a time of year one might expect it, but, not in Canada. The eight state tornado is a major disaster which could be called a repeat of what occurred in Canada. Tornado outbreaks are not normal for Earth.

August 20, 2021
By Randi Mann

On Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009, 19 tornadoes (click here) touched down in southern Ontario, making it the largest single-day twister outbreak in Canadian history.

That afternoon, several supercell thunderstorms developed over Michigan, multiplying as they moved into Ontario. At around 3 p.m., the storms quickly strengthened. One storm moved through Ontario over Huron County and into Grey County.

The first tornado touched down near Durham, causing F2 damages. The next powerful tornado touched down near Thornbury, travelling through Clarksburg and Blue Mountain. The tornado also created F2 damages before it moved over Georgian Bay.

A supercell near Barrie produced four tornadoes, impacting areas near New Lowell, Edenvale, Moonstone, and Ril Lake. Two other tornadoes touched down north of Barrie near Britt and Arnstein.....

There is no telling where bodies will be found.

December 12, 2021

This photo combo shows Katie Posten holding the front and back of a photograph she found stuck to her car’s windshield on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 in New Albany, Ind.

When Katie Posten (click here) walked outside Saturday morning to her car parked in her driveway, she saw something that looked like a note or receipt stuck to the windshield.

She grabbed it and saw it was a black and white photo of a woman in a striped sundress and headscarf holding a little boy in her lap. On the back, written in cursive, it said, “Gertie Swatzell & J.D. Swatzell 1942." A few hours later, Posten would discover that the photo had made quite a journey - almost 130 miles (209 kilometers) on the back of monstrous winds.

Posten had been tracking the tornadoes that hit the middle of the U.S. Friday night, killing dozens of people. They came close to where she lives in New Albany, Indiana, across the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky. So she figured it must be debris from someone's damaged home.

“Seeing the date, I realized that was likely from a home hit by a tornado. How else is it going to be there?" Posten said in a phone interview Sunday morning. “It’s not a receipt. It’s well-kept photo."...

Eight states were effected by the tornado outbreak.

December 12, 2021
By Alaa Elassar

An aerial photo shows (click here) the destruction of the Mayfield Consumer Products candle factory after tornadoes moved through the area in Mayfield, Kentucky, on Friday night. 

It took everything Kyanna Parsons-Perez (click here) had to keep from panicking after heavy winds collapsed the building she was in and pinned her to the ground under piles of heavy debris.

Parsons-Perez was one of many workers trapped under the rubble of a candle factory in Mayfield, Kentucky, after it was struck by a tornado late Friday.

"It happened so fast," Parsons-Perez told CNN, describing the onslaught of destruction the tornado waged at the factory. "We all just rocked back and forth, and then boom, everything fell on us."

That tornado was one of at least 50 that struck eight states, including Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio and Tennessee. The winds knocked out power lines, ripped roofs off buildings and in some cases decimated communities.

More than 100 people are feared dead, including at least 80 in Kentucky, according to state and local officials....

Sound proof that as greenhouse gases increased, so did the opportunity for more than 30 tornado days.

 Number of tornadoes (click here)

In 1969 the number of tornadoes were mostly a single tornado event and the CO2 level was slightly greater than 350 ppm. In 1980, the number of tornadoes was primarily single tornado events and the CO2 level was less than 340 ppm. In 1990, the number of days per year with more than 30 tornadoes is increasing with a CO2 level in the troposphere was 350 ppm. In 2000. the number of more than 30 tornadoes was stable since 1990 with a CO2 level of 360 ppm, but, it was also an inflection point. In 2010 the number of at least 1 tornado per day was rapidly decreasing, but, the number of more than 30 tornadoes was increasing with a CO2 level of approximately 380 ppm. The increase in carbon dioxide concenteration increased past that graph, but, in 2015 the ppm was at 400 for the first time in the history of Earth. 

"Mitch McConnell the technology focus is NOT working. Hello, anyone there?"

Cars lose value with severe weathering.

Acid rain results when sulfur dioxide (SO2) (click here) and nitrogen oxides (NOX) are emitted into the atmosphere and transported by wind and air currents. The SO2 and NOX react with water, oxygen and other chemicals to form sulfuric and nitric acids.  These then mix with water and other materials before falling to the ground.

While a small portion of the SO2 and NOX that cause acid rain is from natural sources such as volcanoes, most of it comes from the burning of fossil fuels.  The major sources of SO2 and NOX in the atmosphere are:

• Burning of fossil fuels to generate electricity.  Two thirds of SO2 and one fourth of NOX in the atmosphere come from electric power generators.
• Vehicles and heavy equipment.
• Manufacturing, oil refineries and other industries.

Winds can blow SO2 and NOX over long distances and across borders making acid rain a problem for everyone and not just those who live close to these sources....

Anyone want to eat fish with high levels of aluminum?

...The ecological effects of acid rain (click here) are most clearly seen in aquatic environments, such as streams, lakes, and marshes where it can be harmful to fish and other wildlife. As it flows through the soil, acidic rain water can leach aluminum from soil clay particles and then flow into streams and lakes. The more acid that is introduced to the ecosystem, the more aluminum is released.

Some types of plants and animals are able to tolerate acidic waters and moderate amounts of aluminum. Others, however, are acid-sensitive and will be lost as the pH declines. Generally, the young of most species are more sensitive to environmental conditions than adults. At pH 5, most fish eggs cannot hatch. At lower pH levels, some adult fish die. Some acidic lakes have no fish. Even if a species of fish or animal can tolerate moderately acidic water, the animals or plants it eats might not. For example, frogs have a critical pH around 4, but the mayflies they eat are more sensitive and may not survive pH below 5.5....

As a car owner, (click here) it was imperative to get rid of the acidic rain collecting on the care.

The Republicans since the Late President George H. W. Bush have turned their backs on his policy.

December 3, 2018
By Scott Waldman

The late President George H.W. Bush (click here) is the reason why President Trump has been asked about climate change in the last week more than at any other time in his presidency.

Through legislation he signed in 1990, Bush started the National Climate Assessment, a sweeping study documenting climate change’s impacts on the United States. The Trump administration released the latest iteration on Black Friday and has since downplayed its definitive body of research, making false claims about its accuracy and inadvertently drawing more attention to the clear science that shows Americans will be increasingly at risk as a result of climate change.

Bush’s presidency came during a different time, when bipartisan actions to reduce greenhouse gases and other pollutants seemed possible, observers said. The very existence of the NCA is a reminder that Republicans in Washington once crafted aggressive climate policy....

The Republicans have turned their backs on all kinds of policy to become radical extremists, such as health care and as stated by H.W. the climate crisis as well.

Donors and cronies were not put first in the H.W. administration. He put the people at the top of the list of priorities when it came to the oil and gas lobby.

Ever hear a politican talk out of both sides of his mouth. This is what it sounds like.

The Republican rhetoric always is about technology and the worrying about jobs. I don't think that is a worry anymore. But, as to the technology issue, it is over 2 decades old. That was two decades. Twenty years and they are saying the same thing. Well. Musk gave them the technology needed. What are the Republicans waiting for?

Clean Energy and Climate Change (click here)

“My Administration’s climate change policy will be science-based, encourage research breakthroughs that lead to technological innovation, and take advantage of the power of markets. It will encourage global participation and will pursue actions that will help ensure continued economic growth and prosperity for our citizens and for citizens throughout the world.”

President George W. Bush
July 13, 2001

 

Will all this rain why is California still experiencing drought? The drought is profound and not easily ended.

December 12, 2021
By Jakob Rodgers

Drought Monitor (click here)

An atmospheric river storm and a rush of cold air (click here) bore down on the Bay Area on Sunday, possibly setting the stage for drenching rain, strong winds and hail over the next couple days, and a dumping of powder several feet deep in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

San Jose and the Santa Cruz mountains were expected to encounter the brunt of the storm in the Bay Area, which was forecast to intensify late Sunday into Monday while providing the area’s first real drenching in about a month. A dusting of snow also was possible over some Bay Area peaks by Monday morning, including Mt. Tamalpais, Mt. Hamilton and parts of the Santa Cruz mountains.

To the east, the Sierra Nevada mountains were predicted to receive up to 100 inches of snow over the next couple days — a wallop that prompted travel warnings for motorists visiting in the high country.

While no drought buster, the storm promised to act as a salve for parched and quickly drying communities across the Bay Area after a month of dry, arid conditions....

December 10, 2021

By Ryan Sabalow

A satellite photo (click here) taken just before 2 p.m. Pacific time on Thursday (January 28, 2021) shows a huge vapor plume stretching from the central Pacific to the California coast.

The winter storm (click here) that could dump several feet of snow in the Sierra and soak the Sacramento Valley with rain is listed as a “strong” category “AR 3” system by the scientists who study the powerful storms that supply California with most of its water.

In 2019, the scientists who study the storms known as “atmospheric rivers” agreed to a ranking scale similar to the “Cat” system used to describe a hurricane.

An “AR 1” is the weakest system. An “AR 5” is the most destructive. The five categories the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes at Scripps Oceanography list are “weak,” “moderate,” “strong,” “extreme,” and “exceptional."

One notorious example of an AR 5 was the New Year’s Day floods of 1997, which killed at least nine people and flooded 300 square miles of California....