From: jeremyhdonovan@gmail.com

The Moody Blues are still kicking. Concert album released 2018.
'Days Of Future Passed Live':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItrxyYwEAuU

(At the end of the 3rd song, they speak of how once they opened
for 'Canned Heat'. Speaking of heat... from their opening number:

"And when you see a frightened person
who is frightened by the people
who are scorching this earth,
scorching this earth."

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The Atlantic
Science

The Global Rightward Shift on Climate Change

President Trump may be leading the rich, English-speaking world
to scale back environmental policies.

by ROBINSON MEYER
AUG 28, 2018

http://tinyurl.com/y82v4y9k

Excerpts:

Last Thursday, Malcolm Turnbull was the prime minister of Australia. By the end
of this week, he’ll be just another guy in Sydney.

Turnbull was felled by climate-change policy. His attempt at a moderate, even milquetoast energy bill—which included some mild cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions—proved too aggressive for his co-partisans. On Friday, members of Australia’s center-
right Liberal Party voted him out of office.

Pity for Turnbull, though at least he can he can trudge home to his mansion on Sydney Harbor. And pity for Australia, which lately has had some trouble keeping its prime ministers in office. (It’s churned through six of them since 2007.) Yet even
setting that context aside, Turnbull’s tumble remains a disquieting sign for anyone hoping for an aggressive global climate policy. In Australia—where global warming has contributed to the die-off of half the coral in the Great Barrier Reef since
2016—even a mild climate bill could not pass under a conservative government.

It points to an emerging pattern: Moderate national leaders — on both the center-left and center-right — in some of the world’s richest and most advanced countries are finding it far easier to talk about climate change than to actually fight it.

At a basic level, this pattern holds up, well, everywhere. Every country except
the United States supports the Paris Agreement on climate change. But no major developed country is on track to meet its Paris climate goals, according to the
Climate Action
Tracker, an independent analysis produced by three European research organizations. Even Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom — where right-wing
governments have made combatting climate change a national priority — seem likely to miss their goals.

Simply put: This kind of failure, writ large, would devastate Earth in the century to come. The world would blow its stated goal of limiting atmospheric temperature rise. Heatwaves might regularly last for six punishing weeks, sea levels could soar by
feet in a few short decades, and certain fragile ecosystems — like the delicate Arctic permafrost or the kaleidoscopic plenty of coral reefs — would
disappear from the planet entirely.

Take Canada. In 2015, Justin Trudeau campaigned for prime minister by citing his support for a national carbon price. (A carbon price is a type of climate policy that charges polluters for every ton of heat-trapping gas they dump into
the atmosphere.)
After winning the election, Trudeau took a compromise strategy on fossil fuels,
proposing an economy-wide carbon price while endorsing the construction of several massive new oil-export pipelines.

Two years later, Trudeau’s carbon-pricing scheme is in trouble. The government has already slashed the ambition of its initial proposal. The Conservative Party, which opposes Trudeau, has dubbed the carbon price a “tax
on everything” and its leader
says a future government would repeal any carbon price. The new premier of Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, says he will fight the carbon price
when it takes effect in January of next year.

It seems likely that the 2019 elections in Canada—in which Trudeau faces reelection — will hinge in part on what voters think of the carbon price. While that vote is still more than a year away, Trudeau’s Liberal Party has lost its early lead in
polling and is now essentially tied with the Conservative Party.

But political opposition is not the only reason Trudeau has watered down his plan. His party seems to have real concerns about the economic consequences of the policy. In order to avoid putting any one country at a competitive disadvantage, global
governments vowed to fight climate change together in 2015. But President Donald Trump abrogated this informal arrangement. Since taking office, he ravaged American climate policy, repealing his predecessor’s pollution-reduction rules on cars, trucks,
and power plants. Coupled with Trump’s new tariffs and trade policy, a carbon
tax could ding Canadian competitiveness.

This month, Trudeau’s government announced that it will tax only 20 percent of carbon emissions, not the planned 30 percent. Some Trump-threatened industries, including cement and steelmaking, will only see 10 percent of their
emissions taxed...

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Iow, the ripple effects from Trump's backwards energy policy are
sinking the energy policies in other countries too, and thus may
very well result in "scorching this earth". :(

"Simply put: This kind of failure, writ large, would devastate Earth
in the century to come."

The century to come. As far ahead as these modern cave men can think?
Is that a long time?? One century?

If you need to effectively stabilize a planet with over 7 billion
humans living on it in any kind of harmonious and sustainable
fashion, your 'God' can't be the GDP.

How long does it take CO2 to naturally dissipate from the atmosphere?
It depends on how 'saturated' the oceans are. And ours are already
pretty saturated. While over half of it may be absorbed by the oceans
the rest can linger for thousands of years. So probably nearly half
of the extra CO2 scumbag helps create will remain to be a major issue
for at least the next 20 generations, unless we can develop innovative
(and hella expensive) technological mitigation procedures.

So he makes yet another shit ton of dirty money by poisoning
20+ future generations of mankind, while blaming everyone on earth
besides himself, revitalizing the modern Nazis, and propping up
every other totalitarian regime under the sun along the way.

I guess this shit isn't very funny after all. :)

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