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21 minutes ago, Fernando said:

I agree but it was that or Harris.

Like I have said I don't agree with everything with trump. 

Harris, despite some large flaws, faces up as far more 'Christlike' in her stances and the way she lives her life than Trump ever does.

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Trump supporter doesn’t want to have gay sex with his wife.

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Trump on Saturday declared that the U.S. "should have nothing to do with" fighting in Syria, prompting outrage among some experts.

The President-elect added, "THIS IS NOT OUR FIGHT. LET IT PLAY OUT. DO NOT GET INVOLVED!"

Columnist Michael A. Cohen, said, "I’m pretty sure that the president-elect is unaware that the US is providing direct support to a Syrian rebel group that controls more than a third of the country’s territory."

 

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Mounting fears that Russia could sabotage Britain’s gas supply and trigger blackouts have prompted security officials to step up monitoring around vital pipelines to Norway - The Telegraph

 

 

Edited Sunday at 10:47 by KEVINAA

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28 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/syria-rebels-celebrate-captured-homs-set-sights-damascus-2024-12-07/

 

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3 hours ago, Vesper said:

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/syria-rebels-celebrate-captured-homs-set-sights-damascus-2024-12-07/

 

Reuters has removed that part now

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2024 is on track to be hottest year on record as warming temporarily hits 1.5°C

Press Release

11 November 2024

Baku, Azerbaijan (WMO) - The year 2024 is on track to be the warmest year on record after an extended streak of exceptionally high monthly global mean temperatures, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

Key messages

• Jan-Sept 2024 global average temperature 1.54 (±0.13) °C above pre-industrial level
• Long-term warming measured over decades remains below 1.5°C
• Past 10 years are warmest on record and ocean heat rises
• Antarctic sea ice second lowest on record and glacier loss accelerates
• Extreme weather and climate events lead to massive economic and human losses

https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/2024-track-be-hottest-year-record-warming-temporarily-hits-15degc

The WMO State of the Climate 2024 Update once again issues a Red Alert at the sheer pace of climate change in a single generation, turbo-charged by ever-increasing greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere. 2015-2024 will be the warmest ten years on record; the loss of ice from glaciers, sea-level rise and ocean heating are accelerating; and extreme weather is wreaking havoc on communities and economies across the world.

The January – September 2024 global mean surface air temperature was 1.54 °C (with a margin of uncertainty of ±0.13°C) above the pre-industrial average, boosted by a warming El Niño event, according to an analysis of six international datasets used by WMO.

“Climate catastrophe is hammering health, widening inequalities, harming sustainable development, and rocking the foundations of peace. The vulnerable are hardest hit,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres.

The report was issued on the first day of the UN Climate Change Conference, COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan. It highlights that the ambitions of the Paris Agreement are in great peril.

“As monthly and annual warming temporarily surpass 1.5°C, it is important to emphasize that this does NOT mean that we have failed to meet Paris Agreement goal to keep the long- term global average surface temperature increase to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursue efforts to limit the warming to 1.5°C,” said WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo.

“Recorded global temperature anomalies at daily, monthly and annual timescales are prone to large variations, partly because of natural phenomenon such as El Niño and La Niña. They should not be equated to the long-term temperature goal set in the Paris Agreement, which refers to global temperature levels sustained as an average over decades,” she said.

“However, it is essential to recognize that every fraction of a degree of warming matters. Whether it is at a level below or above 1.5°C of warming, every additional increment of global warming increases climate extremes, impacts and risks,” said Celeste Saulo.

“The record-breaking rainfall and flooding, rapidly intensifying tropical cyclones, deadly heat, relentless drought and raging wildfires that we have seen in different parts of the world this year are unfortunately our new reality and a foretaste of our future,” said Celeste Saulo. “We urgently need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen our monitoring and understanding of our changing climate. We need to step up support for climate change adaptation through climate information services and Early Warnings for All,” she said.

Annual global mean temperature anomalies from January – September 2024 (relative to the 1850-1900 average) from six international datasets.

Highlights

Temperature

The global mean temperature in 2024 is on track to outstrip the temperature even of 2023, the current warmest year. For 16 consecutive months (June 2023 to September 2024), the global mean temperature likely exceeded anything recorded before, and often by a wide margin, according to WMO’s consolidated analysis of the datasets.

One or more individual years exceeding 1.5°C does not necessarily mean that “pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels” as stated in the Paris Agreement is out of reach. The exceedance of warming levels referred to in the Paris Agreement should be understood as an exceedance over an extended period, typically decades or longer, although the Agreement itself does not provide a specific definition.

As global warming continues, there is an urgent and unavoidable need for careful tracking, monitoring and communication with regard to where the warming is relative to the long-term temperature goal of the Paris Agreement, to help policymakers in their deliberations. To support this, WMO has established an international team of experts, and the initial indication is that long-term global warming is currently likely to be about 1.3°C compared to the 1850-1900 baseline.

Greenhouse Gases

Greenhouse Gases reached record observed levels in 2023. Real time data indicate that they continued to rise in 2024. The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) has increased from around 278 ppm in 1750 to 420 ppm in 2023, an increase of 51%. This traps heat and causes temperatures to rise.

Ocean 

Ocean heat content in 2023 was the highest on record and preliminary data show 2024 has continued at comparable levels. Ocean warming rates show a particularly strong increase in the past two decades. From 2005 to 2023, the ocean absorbed on average approximately 3.1 million terawatt-hours (TWh) of heat each year. This is more than 18 times the world’s energy consumption in 2023.

About 90% of the energy that has accumulated in the Earth system is stored in the ocean and it is therefore expected that ocean warming will continue – a change that is irreversible on centennial to millennial timescales.

Sea level rise

Sea level rise is accelerating because of thermal expansion of warmer waters and melting glaciers and ice sheets. From 2014-2023, global mean sea level rose at a rate of 4.77 mm per year, more than double the rate between 1993 and 2002. The El Niño effect meant it grew even more rapidly in 2023.  Preliminary 2024 data shows that, with the decline of El Niño, it has fallen back to levels consistent with the rising trend from 2014 to 2022. 

Glacier loss

Glacier loss is worsening. In 2023, glaciers lost a record 1.2-meter water equivalent of ice – about five times the amount of water in the Dead Sea. It was the largest loss since measurements began in 1953 and was due to extreme melting in North America and Europe. In Switzerland, glaciers lost about 10% of their remaining volume in 2021/2022 and 2022/2023.

World Glacier Monitoring Service

Sea ice extent

Antarctic sea-ice extent – both the annual minimum in February and the maximum in September - was the second lowest in the satellite record (1979-2024) after 2023. Arctic sea-ice minimum extent after the summer melt was the seventh lowest in the satellite record and the maximum was just below the long-term average of 1991-2020.

Weather and climate extremes

Weather and climate extremes undermined sustainable development across the board, worsening food insecurity and exacerbating displacement and migration. Dangerous heat afflicted many millions of people throughout the world.  Heavy precipitation, floods and tropical cyclones led to massive loss of life and damage. Persistent drought in some regions was worsened by El Niño.

The section on climate impacts, provided by United Nations partners, will be expanded in the final report on the State of the Global Climate 2024, due to be published in March 2025.

GPCC

Climate services and early warnings

Climate services and early warnings have made progress in the past five years. There have been advances in Early Warnings for All (EW4All) to ensure that everyone is protected from hazardous weather, water, or climate events through life-saving early warning systems by the end of 2027. 108 countries report having a Multi-Hazard Early Warning System.

Understanding climate variability and change is crucial for optimizing renewable energy generation, ensuring energy system resilience, and analyzing energy demand patterns, especially for heating and cooling.

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26 minutes ago, Vesper said:

2024 is on track to be hottest year on record as warming temporarily hits 1.5°C

Press Release

11 November 2024

Baku, Azerbaijan (WMO) - The year 2024 is on track to be the warmest year on record after an extended streak of exceptionally high monthly global mean temperatures, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

Key messages

• Jan-Sept 2024 global average temperature 1.54 (±0.13) °C above pre-industrial level
• Long-term warming measured over decades remains below 1.5°C
• Past 10 years are warmest on record and ocean heat rises
• Antarctic sea ice second lowest on record and glacier loss accelerates
• Extreme weather and climate events lead to massive economic and human losses

https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/2024-track-be-hottest-year-record-warming-temporarily-hits-15degc

The WMO State of the Climate 2024 Update once again issues a Red Alert at the sheer pace of climate change in a single generation, turbo-charged by ever-increasing greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere. 2015-2024 will be the warmest ten years on record; the loss of ice from glaciers, sea-level rise and ocean heating are accelerating; and extreme weather is wreaking havoc on communities and economies across the world.

The January – September 2024 global mean surface air temperature was 1.54 °C (with a margin of uncertainty of ±0.13°C) above the pre-industrial average, boosted by a warming El Niño event, according to an analysis of six international datasets used by WMO.

“Climate catastrophe is hammering health, widening inequalities, harming sustainable development, and rocking the foundations of peace. The vulnerable are hardest hit,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres.

The report was issued on the first day of the UN Climate Change Conference, COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan. It highlights that the ambitions of the Paris Agreement are in great peril.

“As monthly and annual warming temporarily surpass 1.5°C, it is important to emphasize that this does NOT mean that we have failed to meet Paris Agreement goal to keep the long- term global average surface temperature increase to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursue efforts to limit the warming to 1.5°C,” said WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo.

“Recorded global temperature anomalies at daily, monthly and annual timescales are prone to large variations, partly because of natural phenomenon such as El Niño and La Niña. They should not be equated to the long-term temperature goal set in the Paris Agreement, which refers to global temperature levels sustained as an average over decades,” she said.

“However, it is essential to recognize that every fraction of a degree of warming matters. Whether it is at a level below or above 1.5°C of warming, every additional increment of global warming increases climate extremes, impacts and risks,” said Celeste Saulo.

“The record-breaking rainfall and flooding, rapidly intensifying tropical cyclones, deadly heat, relentless drought and raging wildfires that we have seen in different parts of the world this year are unfortunately our new reality and a foretaste of our future,” said Celeste Saulo. “We urgently need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen our monitoring and understanding of our changing climate. We need to step up support for climate change adaptation through climate information services and Early Warnings for All,” she said.

Annual global mean temperature anomalies from January – September 2024 (relative to the 1850-1900 average) from six international datasets.

Highlights

Temperature

The global mean temperature in 2024 is on track to outstrip the temperature even of 2023, the current warmest year. For 16 consecutive months (June 2023 to September 2024), the global mean temperature likely exceeded anything recorded before, and often by a wide margin, according to WMO’s consolidated analysis of the datasets.

One or more individual years exceeding 1.5°C does not necessarily mean that “pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels” as stated in the Paris Agreement is out of reach. The exceedance of warming levels referred to in the Paris Agreement should be understood as an exceedance over an extended period, typically decades or longer, although the Agreement itself does not provide a specific definition.

As global warming continues, there is an urgent and unavoidable need for careful tracking, monitoring and communication with regard to where the warming is relative to the long-term temperature goal of the Paris Agreement, to help policymakers in their deliberations. To support this, WMO has established an international team of experts, and the initial indication is that long-term global warming is currently likely to be about 1.3°C compared to the 1850-1900 baseline.

Greenhouse Gases

Greenhouse Gases reached record observed levels in 2023. Real time data indicate that they continued to rise in 2024. The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) has increased from around 278 ppm in 1750 to 420 ppm in 2023, an increase of 51%. This traps heat and causes temperatures to rise.

Ocean 

Ocean heat content in 2023 was the highest on record and preliminary data show 2024 has continued at comparable levels. Ocean warming rates show a particularly strong increase in the past two decades. From 2005 to 2023, the ocean absorbed on average approximately 3.1 million terawatt-hours (TWh) of heat each year. This is more than 18 times the world’s energy consumption in 2023.

About 90% of the energy that has accumulated in the Earth system is stored in the ocean and it is therefore expected that ocean warming will continue – a change that is irreversible on centennial to millennial timescales.

Sea level rise

Sea level rise is accelerating because of thermal expansion of warmer waters and melting glaciers and ice sheets. From 2014-2023, global mean sea level rose at a rate of 4.77 mm per year, more than double the rate between 1993 and 2002. The El Niño effect meant it grew even more rapidly in 2023.  Preliminary 2024 data shows that, with the decline of El Niño, it has fallen back to levels consistent with the rising trend from 2014 to 2022. 

Glacier loss

Glacier loss is worsening. In 2023, glaciers lost a record 1.2-meter water equivalent of ice – about five times the amount of water in the Dead Sea. It was the largest loss since measurements began in 1953 and was due to extreme melting in North America and Europe. In Switzerland, glaciers lost about 10% of their remaining volume in 2021/2022 and 2022/2023.

World Glacier Monitoring Service

Sea ice extent

Antarctic sea-ice extent – both the annual minimum in February and the maximum in September - was the second lowest in the satellite record (1979-2024) after 2023. Arctic sea-ice minimum extent after the summer melt was the seventh lowest in the satellite record and the maximum was just below the long-term average of 1991-2020.

Weather and climate extremes

Weather and climate extremes undermined sustainable development across the board, worsening food insecurity and exacerbating displacement and migration. Dangerous heat afflicted many millions of people throughout the world.  Heavy precipitation, floods and tropical cyclones led to massive loss of life and damage. Persistent drought in some regions was worsened by El Niño.

The section on climate impacts, provided by United Nations partners, will be expanded in the final report on the State of the Global Climate 2024, due to be published in March 2025.

GPCC

Climate services and early warnings

Climate services and early warnings have made progress in the past five years. There have been advances in Early Warnings for All (EW4All) to ensure that everyone is protected from hazardous weather, water, or climate events through life-saving early warning systems by the end of 2027. 108 countries report having a Multi-Hazard Early Warning System.

Understanding climate variability and change is crucial for optimizing renewable energy generation, ensuring energy system resilience, and analyzing energy demand patterns, especially for heating and cooling.

"There is no climate change.
It is a myth created by the commies to stall industrial progress". 

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30 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

"There is no climate change.
It is a myth created by the commies to stall industrial progress". 

Therse is climate change - over geological periods.

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2 hours ago, cosmicway said:

Therse is climate change - over geological periods.

It takes over 100 million years to convert carbon into fossil fuels.

We drill the fossil fuels and burn them releasing all that was collected over millions of years in a moment.

it’s really interesting to me why people would ever think that this practice wouldn’t have any consequence.

Edited Sunday at 18:51 by robsblubot

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8 hours ago, NikkiCFC said:

 

Syria's ousted President Bashar al Assad has arrived in Moscow, Russian state media has confirmed.

 

Mr Assad and members of his family arrived in the city on Sunday, a Kremlin source told the TASS news agency.

The source said: "Assad and his family members have arrived in Moscow. Russia, for humanitarian reasons, has granted them asylum."

AP News

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1 minute ago, Fulham Broadway said:

Syria's ousted President Bashar al Assad has arrived in Moscow, Russian state media has confirmed.

 

Mr Assad and members of his family arrived in the city on Sunday, a Kremlin source told the TASS news agency.

The source said: "Assad and his family members have arrived in Moscow. Russia, for humanitarian reasons, has granted them asylum."

AP News

Nothing new for Russia to take care of authoritarian leaders. 

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1 minute ago, NikkiCFC said:

Nothing new for Russia to take care of authoritarian leaders. 

BLOODY TYPICAL DIRTY COMMIE TRICKS

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I Took the Test RFK Jr. Is Using to Determine Who Should Work at His Health Department

We are extremely doomed.

https://slate.com/life/2024/12/rfk-robert-kennedy-trump-health-human-services-job.html

Donald Trump has promised to allow Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to “go wild” in his new role as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The environmental lawyer, antivax conspiracist, and brainworm survivor chartered an oddly shaped coalition of COVID denialists and almond moms in his path to the White House, all of which was successfully marbled into the Trump platform during the waning months in the campaign. It’s hard to know exactly what Kennedy is cooking up for public health, or if some of his more radical ideas (like, say, removing fluoride from the water supply) will ever make it past the purgatory of “advisory boards.” But we do have at least one hint about how the man intends to structure his wing of the executive branch: a test ostensibly designed to locate potential employees for RFK’s reign at HHS. Among other things, Kennedy would like to know if you’ve ever experienced clairvoyance.

The whole assessment, which was first reported by Puck and was confirmed to be real by the Trump transition team, is available for anyone to take. Unlike more concrete examinations of one’s fitness to serve in a public health regime—like, for instance, any tangible background in medicine or health policy—the test reveals itself to be a free-associative chimera of IQ-ish logic puzzles and the sort of discredited Meyers-Briggs queries you used to take in Computer Lab. It would be a hilarious prank if its intentions weren’t seemingly dead serious.

As an American, I decided to determine my own fitness for a role in RFK Jr.’s cabinet of horrors. It was a disquieting experience. The first 17 (17!) questions in the test are all pattern recognition, where you’re asked to slot a geometrical graphic into a row of three without breaking order. After that, you’re ushered to some good old-fashioned word association, and asked to determine, through multiple choice, the closest definitional relative of a particular article of speech. (Like, say, matching “envy” up with “jealousy.”)

Remember those standardized tests you took in middle school? Where everyone was trapped in the basketball gym for six hours on a Monday afternoon? It’s kinda like that, except with, you know, the fate of the entire American medical apparatus on the line.

Things get even weirder once you get to the latter half of the test, which, in form and function, is a MySpace–style personality quiz. I was asked to rank a series of attributes, from 1 to 5, on how they gel with my psychic makeup. And given how disparate and unattached those attributes were, this proved to be an impossible task. Do I “make people feel at ease” more than I “spend time reflecting on things”? Do I feel like I “neglect my duties” more than either of those strengths? What? What kind of question is that! The whole thing reeked of neo-psychological quackery, in the Gladwell tradition, where the vast gradient of human experience can be neatly organized into, like, three smooth categories.

And yet, after that first round of personality disentangling, RFK’s assessment gets much more specific, and, somehow, even more bizarre. The quiz presented me with a lengthy list of strange personal insecurities, and asked me to highlight the five that I identified with most. That sounds straightforward enough, but the available choices coalesced into a majorly unwell person. One reads, “I tend to have unstable and intense personal relationships, where I alternate between extremes of idealizing and devaluing another.” Another adds, “I don’t have that much interest in having sexual experiences with another person,” which I choose to interpret as a smart bit of incel coalition management. Speaking for myself, I was self-aware enough to check off “I require excessive admiration,” but I made sure to leave out “I don’t feel much empathy for others” to ensure that the next regime doesn’t peg me as a sociopath. (This is also where the question about “having clairvoyance” surfaces, but honestly, compared to the other options, it might be among the least distressing of the bunch.)

And just like that, the test was over. I was presented no score or evaluation, just a terse “thank you” and the end of the line. I suppose I must live with the fact that the government now possesses a record of my darkest inclinations—an RFK-ified survey of my morality—but I don’t get the sense that he’s gotten any better sense of whether I’m a fit or not for Health and Human Services. Maybe that shouldn’t be too surprising, because when journalist Timothy Burke dug into who, exactly, is responsible for this deeply strange audit, he learned that the publishing company is called ExamCorp. ExamCorp’s president? None other than Jordan Peterson, the psychologist turned right-wing gadfly.

I know we’ve all grown numb to the outrageous stupidity of this political climate, but I don’t think we can hammer this point home hard enough. Robert F. Kennedy—a guy who dumped a bear carcass in Central Park—is set to take on a paramount role in the health policy of this country. Helping him round out his staff? Peterson, who is closer to the levers of power than ever before. What a horrific timeline. This carnival of MAGA grift will continue to blob out until it blocks out the sun. It can, and will, get worse from here. Hey, maybe I am clairvoyant after all.

Edited Sunday at 22:43 by Vesper

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Read this book to learn about commies:

https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Axe-Communist-Greece-1944-1949/dp/0892410787