As soon as Euorpe knew it had a partner in President Biden, they came to storm the CLIMATE CRISIS gates.

14 July 2021

The European Union (click here) has announced a raft of climate change proposals aimed at pushing it towards its goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2050.

A dozen draft proposals, which still need to be approved by the bloc's 27 member states and the EU parliament, were announced on Wednesday.

They include plans to tax jet fuel and effectively ban the sale of petrol and diesel powered cars within 20 years.

The proposals, however, could face years of negotiations.

The plans triggered serious infighting at the European Commission, the bloc's administrative arm, as the final tweaks were being made, sources told the AFP news agency.

"By acting now we can do things another way... and choose a better, healthier and more prosperous way for the future," European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday....

Lithium is the new gold. Or. Is it?

August 5, 2021

By Tom Daly

Ganfeng Lithium, (click here) the world's biggest lithium company by market capitalisation, said on Thursday its subsidiary would invest a total 8.4 billion yuan ($1.3 billion) in two projects that will make "new-type" lithium batteries.

China's Ganfeng is best known as a supplier of battery-grade lithium to clients including electric vehicle (EV) maker Tesla (TSLA.O), but also makes batteries and last week secured 973.1 million yuan of investment in battery unit Ganfeng LiEnergy, including from electronics giant Xiaomi (1810.HK).

Ganfeng LiEnergy will spend 5.4 billion yuan to set up an industrial park in Chongqing, southwest China, with annual battery production capacity of 10 gigawatt hours (GWh) and an advanced battery research institute, Ganfeng said in a filing....

August 4, 2021

Chinese giant CATL’s first generation of sodium ion batteries (click here) are entering the market in 2023. If the company makes up for the lag in energy density, the new technology may become more competitive than lithium-based solutions.

Lithium ion batteries are dominating the global energy storage market including electric vehicles. However, the sector’s rapid expansion is fueling price growth and drastic shortages are possible as soon as next year. Also, quality lithium ore is scarce and producers across the world are under fire for extensive water consumption in the process and other environmental impacts. Sodium ion batteries are the main pretender to the throne.

Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. (CATL), which rapidly ascended to the third position in the market capitalization list of Chinese companies, excluding Hong Kong, presented a solution that it claims is already more competitive in the field of integration efficiency, performance in low air temperatures and charging speed.

We need a new "Cash for Clunkers" deal.

2030 is LESS THAN nine years away. It is time to act and act aggressively to avoid ANY more tipping points to stem and reverse the climate crisis. There is no magic bullet, this is the hard stuff that has been avoided for decades and it is a MUST DO time frame.

August 5, 2021
By Riley Beggin

Washington — The CEOs of Detroit's three automakers (click here) joined President Joe Biden on the south lawn of the White House Thursday as he set a goal to make half of all new vehicles sold by 2030 emissions-free — just hours before the administration issued new rules requiring 5% annual emissions reductions for Model Years 2024 through 2026.

Earlier, the automakers shared their own aims to sell 40-50% electric vehicles (including battery electric, fuel cell and plug-in hybrids) in the same period. The collective move, powered by new propulsion technology and global reactions to climate change, marks a major change in the industry's attitude toward stiffer emissions rules since the Obama era, when increased fuel efficiency and emissions standards enraged automakers....

The infamous "Cash for Clunkers" program was very popular. (click here) The country will need a similar program to promote electric vehicles and end the gas engine. 

It will be a new day in the USA when there is nothing but electric cars. They don't make noise. The sound barriers between highways and neighborhoods won't be necessary anymore. NO CAR SOUND POLLUTION.

That is only one of the by-products that will improve quality of life when the electric vehicle completely replaces the gas engine.

August 5, 2021
By Christopher Flavelle

The Biden administration (click here) announced on Thursday a record injection of money to help communities gird against the effects of climate change, as disasters continue to pummel the United States.

The new funds — $3.5 billion in grants to states to protect against floods, wildfires and other threats — mark a shift in United States disaster policy as climate change gets worse: Rather than smaller, more targeted investments, the government is throwing huge sums of money at disaster preparation as fast as it can.

“The risks that we are seeing from climate change are the crisis of our generation,” Deanne Criswell, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which is administering the money, said in an interview....

August 4, 2021
By Noah Berger

Greenville - California’s largest wildfire (click here) has leveled much of the downtown and some surrounding homes in a small Northern California mountain community.

The Dixie Fire tore through the Greenville on Wednesday evening, destroying businesses and homes as the sky was cast in an orange glow. A photographer on assignment for The Associated Press described seeing a gas station, hotel and bar burned to the ground.

“If you are still in the Greenville area, you are in imminent danger and you MUST leave now!!” the Plumas County Sheriff’s Office posted on Facebook earlier Wednesday.

The sheriff’s department and Cal Fire did not immediately respond to messages.

The 3-week-old fire has grown to over 428 square miles (1,108 square kilometers) across Plumas and Butte counties....

This is a 23 second video that every American needs to clearly understand resulted from the climate crisis. What else does anyone need to know beyond the sound of burning embers of a historic American town?

At least someone 'Get's it."

From his first day in office, Donald John Trump began treasoning the country. I suppose this was more or less looked at by the Republicans and Trump voters as a thank you for assistance in overthrowing the Clinton presidency. As soon as he was in office handing out top-secret information to a known enemy Trump should have been removed and sent packing back to New York City.

August 5, 2021
By Zachary B. Wolf

President Donald Trump (click here) -- back in the final days of his presidency -- didn't exactly make a secret of his effort to overturn the election he'd just lost and so it's very easy to get tired of thinking about it, now that he's out of office and his official powers have been clipped.

But in addition to the lies he was spreading all along, we continue to learn new and distrubing details about his obstinate and pernicious efforts to poison the system from within, which included an "Apprentice"-style showdown between two top Justice Department officials at the White House and threats of resignation.

Woven together, they show that Trump's assault on democracy, which looks more and more like an attempted coup, was even more reckless and insistent than previously thought.

The recent news includes these items:

Trump pressured acting DOJ officials like acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen on December 27 to "Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R (Republican). Congressmen," according to the notes of acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue's notes, shared with House investigators.

A day later, on December 28, at least one acting DOJ official, Jeffrey Clark, who was in charge of the civil division, apparently bought into Trump's lies, or wanted to assuage him, and drafted a letter suggesting there were election irregularities in the election (there weren't), but it was rebuffed by other top acting officials.

Officials like Rosen's chief of staff Patrick Hovakimian drafted letters of resignation in case his boss was pushed out in favor of Clark....

I remember Betsy DeVos saying upon her nomination as Education Secretary, sometimes you just have to get rid of everything and start over. There was incident after incident and all the Republicans would do is cover it up and explain it away. Trump closed down scientific labs and disposed of records, a hundred years or more of records. Who does that?

SARS-CoV-2 Lies

On the Nature of the Outbreak (click here) 

When: Friday, February 7, and Wednesday, February 19

The claim: The coronavirus would weaken “when we get into April, in the warmer weather—that has a very negative effect on that, and that type of a virus.”

The truth: When Trump made this claim, it was too early to tell whether the virus’s spread would be dampened by warmer conditions, though public health experts and epidemiologists were immediately skeptical of Trump’s comment. But the spring and summer have passed, and the pandemic is still raging....

All there were only were lies and more lies and death and more death. The European version of SARS-CoV-2 had already arrived and was quickly spreading in New York. An entire community had to be shut down to stop it. Entire families were threatened and siblings were being buried together. This was the USA? Not in my book.

Miami was a disaster. And, why? Because Trump never closed the airports from Brazil for over a month of the people suffering in Florida. 

The northwest was being plowed under by SARS-CoV-2 before the people from China flying into the USA were stopped.

All Trump did during his entire presidency was lie and play fear-mongering politics to turn American against American. That occurred for four long years that were nothing but an attempt to end the democracy known as the United States of America. Trump was a treasonist and he used all kinds of antics to further his politics of deceit and undermining a well-established and absolutely incredible government.

President's Day, Memorial Day, and Veteran's Day were all opportunities to pretend to admire the people that died to defend and uphold the USA Constitution. Secretly, he would insult a former USA General on the reason his son died in service to his country.

Donald John Trump is a horrible human being. He has issues no one can solve. That is often the case of criminals. 

January 6th was an act of treason to end the USA Constitution. Even the most radical of activists in this country has never tried to commit treason or overthrow the government. Even the people that burned the flag in protest were not interested in overthrowing the USA. The people that died at Kent State were protestors. They weren't the enemy and they did not see this country as the enemy. They wanted a war to end because the people in power abused their power. That is not a demand to overthrow this government, it is a demand to MAKE IT WORK WITHOUT CORRUPTION!

I WANT IT TO WORK WITHOUT CORRUPTION and if I had a nickle for every time I have written that here I would be a trillionaire.

The point is that while people wind their way through the myriad of documents and testimony and the US Justice Department states in order for justice to be done there needs to be tax returns released and people to testify.

How many people look for the victories for humanity expressed and ordered by a president? I do. Many other people do. Time and time again, there was nothing but assaults on humanitarian actions by the USA, including the suffering at the USA southern border BEFORE there was a deadly pandemic.

Donald John Trump wanted to destroy this country and allow some sort of sick kingship to take over. That was the dream of an American about his country. He wanted to destroy the USA and rule it as his own kingdom. That is a sad statement about the mental health of the man in the White House and his minions.

Sure, the PROOF is finally making it's way to the public so the country knows exactly who they were dealing with, but, the signs and EVIDENCE were there the entire time.