Parts of New Mexico under evacuation orders as McBride Fire grows to more than 6,000 acres

The deadly McBride Fire in southern New Mexico grew to more than 6,100 acres Saturday and evacuation orders remained in place in several areas, officials said.

           

https://www.facebook.com/cnn/posts/10162721980196509

So, read the comments [btw do any of the rest of you dislike that you don't just receive All comments now?] - and here's what floors me. Humans act as if they are not a part of Nature at all. Like they take air for granted - "oh we won't run out cuz uh, um, oh..." They don't get the dangers of poisoned ground water from human mining etc. (think Flint MI as to the pipes that cause pollution). And now, droughts are being seen as "silly", "usual", "no prob". There is a huge disconnect between what is "human" and what is "Nature".


Earl R Yow,what did you just say? Everything you have you got a receipt of it including the one you're given as present or inherited? So if I bought such a jacket I can claim yours if you don't have receipt?Only receipt proves ownership?Well,if I take it by force ,tear your receipt and tell my friend to write another receipt ,it would be rightfully mine?That's what Israel does or did.It took land of Palestinians by force after they ran away fro m the the war ,made it hard for the refugees to come back to their land,made laws that disinherited them and gave the land to Jewish settlers from all over the world.


Alekz Londos Sure. There are a lot of us. Some people live completely isolated from society. If they are two hundred feet above sea level, they probably won't even notice. Everyone remotely near the shore is in trouble, but it will take hundreds of years at least more of warming to melt the glaciers that much. Orbital forcing is at a high now and will be for another three thousand years until the perihelion moves into spring due to Precession. Expect at least 4° C in warming and at least 65 feet in sea level rise from Antarctica and Greenland land ice.


There is one story CNN have shied away from reporting without bias. The Palestinian/Israeli conflict.
Israel &Palestinian conflict in a nutshell.One group is the victim while the other is the transgressor. Imagine it's possible for you to convert and become a Jew.After that,you can claim a piece of Palestinian land that has been held by the community for centuries!Legally so according to Israeli law.However, this right only favours Jews and not the Palestinians. There is another law that bars only Palestinian refugees from claiming back land that they lost after 1967 war. That's how absurd this conflict is.
f Return 5710 (1950) *
Right of aliyah**
1. Every Jew has the right to come to this country as an oleh**.
Oleh's visa 2. (a) Aliyah shall be by oleh's visa.
(b) An oleh's visa shall be granted to every Jew who has expressed his desire to settle in Israel, unless the Minister of Immigration is satisfied that the applicant
(1) is engaged in an activity directed against the Jewish people; or
(2) is likely to endanger public health or the security of the State.
Oleh's certificate
3. (a) A Jew who has come to Israel and subsequent to his arrival has expressed his desire to settle in Israel may, while still in Israel, receive an oleh's certificate.
(b) The restrictions specified in section 2(b) shall apply also to the grant of an oleh's certificate, but a person shall not be regarded as endangering public health on account of an illness contracted after his arrival in Israel.
Residents and persons born in this country
4. Every Jew who has immigrated into this country before the coming into force of this Law, and every Jew who was born in this country, whether before or after the coming into force of this Law, shall be deemed to be a person who has come to this country as an oleh under this Law.
Implementation and regulations
5. The Minister of Immigration is charged with the implementation of this Law and may make regulations as to any matter relating to such implementation and also as to the grant of oleh's visas and oleh's certificates to minors up to the age
https://www.google.com/ur...yqh0APa4kwUf_jh


"Today’s climate change is driven by human activities.

Scientists know that the warming climate is caused by human activities because:

They understand how heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide work in the atmosphere
They know why those gases are increasing in the atmosphere
They have ruled out other possible explanations

Human activities have increased the abundance of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere. This increase is mostly due to burning fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, and natural gas. Carbon dioxide has increased from a pre-industrial level of 280 parts per million to more than 410 parts per million today. Most of the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has occurred since the late 1950s. In Earth’s distant past, it would take between 5,000 to 20,000 years to see the amount of change in carbon dioxide levels that humans have caused in just the last 60 years.
Natural changes cannot explain today’s global warming.

It is true that Earth has cycled through many ice ages and warm periods in the past. Those past events have been driven by natural changes such as:

Variations in Earth’s orbit around the Sun
Solar activity cycles that produce regular shifts in the amount of energy the Sun releases
Volcanic eruptions that eject dust and gas into the atmosphere, which shade the planet from the Sun’s rays
Variations in the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere

Scientists can measure these natural changes. The warm periods that regularly occurred between the ice ages of the past million years or so can be explained by natural changes, but measurements of those changes today cannot explain the current levels of warming that we are experiencing.

The rapid warming we are experiencing today can only be explained by increasing amounts of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere. The link between carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and rising global temperatures has been clear to scientists since the 1850s. Measurements show that there is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today than at any other time in the past 1 million years—that is, since the dawn of humankind."
https://www.nationalacade...-global-warming


"Volcanoes can impact climate change. During major explosive eruptions huge amounts of volcanic gas, aerosol droplets, and ash are injected into the stratosphere. Injected ash falls rapidly from the stratosphere -- most of it is removed within several days to weeks -- and has little impact on climate change. But volcanic gases like sulfur dioxide can cause global cooling, while volcanic carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, has the potential to promote global warming.
Sulfate aerosols can cool the climate and deplete Earth's ozone layer

The most significant climate impacts from volcanic injections into the stratosphere come from the conversion of sulfur dioxide to sulfuric acid, which condenses rapidly in the stratosphere to form fine sulfate aerosols. The aerosols increase the reflection of radiation from the Sun back into space, cooling the Earth's lower atmosphere or troposphere.

Several eruptions during the past century have caused a decline in the average temperature at the Earth's surface of up to half a degree (Fahrenheit scale) for periods of one to three years. The climactic eruption of Mount Pinatubo on June 15, 1991, was one of the largest eruptions of the twentieth century and injected a 20-million ton (metric scale) sulfur dioxide cloud into the stratosphere at an altitude of more than 20 miles. The Pinatubo cloud was the largest sulfur dioxide cloud ever observed in the stratosphere since the beginning of such observations by satellites in 1978. It caused what is believed to be the largest aerosol disturbance of the stratosphere in the twentieth century, though probably smaller than the disturbances from eruptions of Krakatau in 1883 and Tambora in 1815. Consequently, it was a standout in its climate impact and cooled the Earth's surface for three years following the eruption, by as much as 1.3 degrees F at the height of the impact.
The June 12, 1991 eruption column from Mount Pinatubo taken from the east side of Clark Air Base.
Sources/Usage: Public Domain.
The June 12, 1991 eruption column from Mount Pinatubo taken from the east side of Clark Air Base.

The large 1783-1784 Laki fissure eruption in Iceland released a staggering amount more sulfur dioxide than Pinatubo (approximately 120-million ton vs. 20). Although the two eruptions were significantly different in length and style, the added atmospheric SO2 caused regional cooling of Europe and North America by similar amounts for similar periods of time.
Do the Earth's volcanoes emit more CO2 than human activities? No.

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a greenhouse gas and is the primary gas blamed for climate change. While sulfur dioxide released in contemporary volcanic eruptions has occasionally caused detectable global cooling of the lower atmosphere, the carbon dioxide released in contemporary volcanic eruptions has never caused detectable global warming of the atmosphere. In 2010, human activities were responsible for a projected 35 billion metric tons (gigatons) of CO2 emissions. All studies to date of global volcanic carbon dioxide emissions indicate that present-day subaerial and submarine volcanoes release less than a percent of the carbon dioxide released currently by human activities. While it has been proposed that intense volcanic release of carbon dioxide in the deep geologic past did cause global warming, and possibly some mass extinctions, this is a topic of scientific debate at present.

Published scientific estimates of the global CO2 emission rate for all degassing subaerial (on land) and submarine volcanoes lie in a range from 0.13 gigaton to 0.44 gigaton per year. The 35-gigaton projected anthropogenic CO2 emission for 2010 is about 80 to 270 times larger than the respective maximum and minimum annual global volcanic CO2 emission estimates."
https://www.usgs.gov/prog...-affect-climate


Emissions gap report 2019:
"1. GHG emissions continue to rise,
despite scientific warnings and political
commitments.
GHG emissions have risen at a rate of 1.5 per cent
per year in the last decade, stabilizing only briefly
between 2014 and 2016. Total GHG emissions,
including from land-use change, reached a record
high of 55.3 GtCO 2e in 2018.
Fossil CO 2 emissions from energy use and
industry, which dominate total GHG emissions,
grew 2.0 per cent in 2018, reaching a record 37.5
GtCO2 per year."
https://wedocs.unep.org/b...pdf?sequence=13
Emissions gap report 2020:
"1. GHG emissions continued to increase
in 2019.
Global GHG emissions continued to grow for the
third consecutive year in 2019, reaching a record
high of 52.4 GtCO2e (range: ±5.2) without land-use
change (LUC) emissions and 59.1 GtCO2e (range:
±5.9) when including LUC.
Fossil carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions (from
fossil fuels and carbonates) dominate total
GHG emissions including LUC (65 per cent) and
consequently the growth in GHG emissions.
Preliminary data suggest that fossil CO2 emissions
reached a record 38.0 GtCO2 (range: ±1.9) in 2019."
https://wedocs.unep.org/b...pdf?sequence=25
"Emissions Gap Report 2021
1. Following an unprecedented drop of 5.4 per
cent in 2020, global carbon dioxide emissions
are bouncing back to pre-COVID levels, and
concentrations of GHGs in the atmosphere
continue to rise.
The COVID-19 pandemic led to an unprecedented
5.4 per cent drop in global fossil carbon dioxide
(CO2) emissions in 2020 (figure ES.1). Data are not
yet available for all GHG emissions in 2020, but the
drop in total global GHG emissions is anticipated
to be smaller than the drop in fossil CO2 emissions.
A strong rebound in emissions is expected in
2021. Preliminary estimates suggest fossil energy
Figure ES.1. Global greenhouse gas emissions from all sources, 1970–2020
CO2 emissions could grow by 4.8 per cent in 2021
(excluding cement), and global emissions in 2021
are expected to be only slightly lower than the
record level of 2019.
Despite the large decline in CO2 emissions in 2020,
the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere grew
by around 2.3 parts per million, in line with recent
trends. It is unlikely that the reductions in emissions
in 2020 will be detectible in the atmospheric growth
rate, as the natural variability of around one part
per million is far greater than the effect of a 5.4 per
cent reduction in CO2 emissions in a single year.
Solving the climate problem requires rapid and
sustained reductions in emissions"
https://wedocs.unep.org/b.../EGR21_ESEN.pdf




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