Fumigate the White House!

Too many cracks and crevasse that only gas can reach. It is an old building.

Neck protection

I believe it was 2 days ago when the Proud Boys engaged in violence with knives and injured people. On the subject of bullet proof vests, Kevlar is effective in knife attacks. The vest will be ruined but Kevlar will capture a knife in the weave and protect the wearer.

In any instance wearing a vest for protection the wearer must also wear a neck collar for obvious potential of injury or death.

 Put the People First !

Saving Earth is an entire economy all it's own.

...Through the first part of 2020, (click here) the impact of the Atlantic hurricane season was minor, with less than $1 billion in total reported damage through July 27. However, later storms, beginning with Hurricane Isaias, were more damaging, with current assessments coming in close to $6 billion and Hurricane Laura at $10-12 billion. Damage from Sally was estimated to total $8-10 billion. CoreLogic, an analytics business, reports that damage from Zeta could reach $3.5 billion, the majority ($1.7 billion to $2.8 billion) in Louisiana alone. CoreLogic estimates that insured losses from Hurricane Delta damage will range from $700 million to $1.2 billion for wind and storm surge and an additional $800 million to $1.5 billion for offshore structures. A full economic analysis from Hurricane Eta is not yet available but the total will be upwards of $5.5 billion, with the majority (over $5 billion) occurring in Honduras. At the end of the season, Iota’s damage estimates had reached $564 million and the total aggregated damages for the whole season are expected to exceed $41 billion.

Sadly, over 400 people have lost their lives so far in the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season. FEMA has issued several Emergency Declarations and Major Disaster Declarations. An emergency declaration allows a local or state government to use resources to respond but does not implicate any federal spending. A major disaster declaration provides for individual and/or public assistance spending from the federal government with a cost-share obligation from the states/territories....

That doesn't even account for tornadoes.

November 30, 2020
By Dana Nuccitelle

...But others, (click here) like Nobel laureate and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, make strong arguments that bold investments in infrastructure right now make perfect sense even in free-market economic terms. With interest rates low and private sector unemployment high, the market is signaling there are more than enough investor funds and skilled labor to supply the needed capital and workforce. These investments would boost employment while also making the U.S. energy supply less expensive, more efficient, and cleaner, which could help reduce other non-climate related social problems such as air and water pollution, poverty, and crime.

A growing body of economics research documents the tremendous cost savings associated with implementing climate solutions. But it’s critical to recognize that many climate impacts simply cannot be quantified in economic terms: It’s impossible, for instance, to place a dollar value on human suffering as a result of homes lost to floods or fires, or climate-caused famine, or the value lost in species extinctions and declining biodiversity. Yet these must also be taken into account when evaluating the relative costs of climate action and inaction. As renowned Ohio State University glaciologist Lonnie Thompson put it, “the longer we delay [climate solutions], the more unpleasant the adaptations and the greater the suffering will be.”...

"Good Night, Moon"

The new moon

29.0 days old

0.3 percent lit

Earth has acquired another moon. Sort of like a "new" moon.

February 27, 2020
By Marina Koran

...Researchers (click here) at other observatories and amateur astronomers around the world raced to monitor the newcomer in the sky, collecting as much data as they could. When they calculated its orbit, they were baffled. The object wasn’t a newcomer at all. So far, their work suggests that the object has been moving around us, gravitationally bound to the Earth for the past many months—at least a year, but potentially closer to three. We’ve had a tiny new moon all this time, and we didn’t know about it....

Arecibo needs to be rebuilt. It was a very upsetting loss. The old telescope might be salvaged to facilitate a new one.