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Gatherings on Sunday in Somerville, Dedham
By adamg on Sat, 11/12/2016 - 5:43pm
Somerville residents are organizing a Love Trumps Hate vigil between 2 and 5 p.m. at Powderhouse Park:
A peaceful event to bring together families, friends, and community and support each other. Bring music, art, friends, and positivity.
In Dedham, local clergy are organizing a Candlelight Vigil for Unity in Love at 8 p.m. on the Church Green, 670 High St.
An interfaith candlelight vigil to pray for healing in our divided nation.
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People need to
get a grip, including you! The guys not even President yet and people are acting like their mother just died.
You do you
It's nice you're so accepting and all. Not everybody feels that way. But if you don't want to go to any of these events, don't. It's your right as an American.
I Wanted To Learn More About Myron Ebell, Chosen To Run The EPA
He's just one of the anti-science / anti-reality, people the president-elect is about to place in positions of great power. A story in today's New York Times presents a brief profile on Mr. Ebell.
A more revealing Frontline documentary was made by John Hockenberry in the lead-up to the 2012 election. If you're willing to invest an hour watching the program, you'll gain quite a bit of insight into Mr. Ebell's thoughts about protecting the environment, and the tactics the people surrounding him will do to spread disinformation. At that time, the climate-change deniers were hoping to elect Mitt Romney.
( don't miss: 51:30 — John Hockenberry asks Mr.. Ebell, "What if you're wrong?" )
As I was listening to the program while cooking dinner, about halfway through it started talking about emails. Hacked, leaked emails. Quotes from emails taken out of context. Emails subpoenaed from respectable scientists to raise clouds of suspicion, but which later turned out to show no wrongdoing at all.
History repeating itself is ironic in and of itself, but the deeper implications of such conspiracies against our democracy are very chilling. The Frontline story was four years ago — the notion that Myron Ebell could now be in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency is beyond belief!
Saying "not my president" is pointless — there's nothing we can do to change that right now. What we can do, is keep our eyes on the other people he's about to place in power — unelected people who will be affecting our lives now and into the future. It's not too late to stop some of them taking control.
Congress is the check-and-balance — they might not listen, but we still have the right to speak out and say that we don't want a government run by officials who disregard science and factual information.
Nightmare for environment
Thanks for sharing, Elmer. I've been boning up on this kook too.
Hard to describe how dangerous this guy could be.
Remember congressional elections are only 2 years away!
We need to fight existential threats like this with all our energy.
For an agency that
declared the CO2 you exhale an environmental hazard (when there are other more potent GH gasses)...a little bull in the china shop time may be warranted.
That said, I'll cautiously agree that it'd be nice to have an actual credentialed scientist in there. There are Republican scientists, you know.
science is hard for some
O3 is a pollutant at ground level, but its existence 15 miles in the sky is essential to life as we know it.
It's almost as if different chemicals, in different quantities in different locations, have different effects on the environment around them -- and that introducing an new source of a chemical could change the quantity in the environment, thereby throwing something out of balance.
The head of the EPA need not be a scientist -- but he or she ought at least understand scientific consensus and behave accordingly.
Scientific note
Is CO2 the most potent climate forcer? No
Is CO2 the climate forcer most responsible for climate change? Yes
Why? VOLUME! Humans generate a lot of it by fossil fuel combustion. Exhalation is irrelevant. Combustion is prevalent.
Here's an easy to understand analogy: I can hit you with a ping pong ball or a rock. A rock is more potent, but hitting you with a billion ping pong balls would be more effective for knocking you over.
For more information from the National Academy of Science ...
There is also the time frame over which a climate forcing agent remains potent, but I won't go into that.
Whatevs
Alls I know is that as potent and plentiful as CO2 is supposed to be, the sky is still pretty damn transparent at around 10um.
Simplistic denial
... of complex reality
More videos and explanations here, for those who care to learn the science behind all this:
https://www.e-education.psu.edu/meteo469/sites/www...
https://www.e-education.psu.edu/meteo469/sites/www...
https://www.e-education.psu.edu/meteo469/?q=book/e...
" The World Appears Flat To Me, So I Don't Believe In Science "
Longevity
Half life of getting CO2 out of the atmosphere and locked in carbon sinks is centuries long.
Other more potent greenhouse gasses like methane are decades.
Still, it's true were going to have a double problem when CO2 warning if the Arctic releases massive frozen methane sinks.
Personally, I just want to keep the Barking Crab above water and be able to visit relative in Phoenix without it hitting 165f mid century.
The Midwest keep hearing about oceans because of the trillions in assets in coastal cities. We should probably talk more about what their summers are going to be like: IE death valley USA.
Warm weather in the arctic
Warm weather in the arctic releases equal or less methane
http://newscenter.sdsu.edu/sdsu_newscenter/news_story.aspx?sid=75962
-- A new study finds that, contrary to previous assumptions, the Arctic tundra releases at least as much methane during its cold season as it does during summer. --
Global warming deniers for the win again!
And...?
What does that have to do with the permafrost completely thawing and releasing it all?
It's a dammed up storage of methane. It doesn't mean it doesn't have a spillway, and blasting a hole in the damn is still going to suck.
Anyways, not to get away from the point, but methane is a much smaller issue than CO2 due to its lack of abundance and half life. CO2 is an issue, because we simply can not get rid of it on any appreciable timescale, and the carbon sinks we've been relying to moderate it are almost at capacity.
-- What does that have to do
-- What does that have to do with the permafrost completely thawing and releasing it all? --
If the permafrost melts then vegetation will grow and ingest an arseload of Co2.
The circle of life.
Of course this will spawn a new movement of hysterical "global vegetating" snowflakes ...... I will be a gv-denier, I can tell you right now. I have watched nervous types go from being paranoid about global cooling to global warming to global climate change just in my lifetime. Their fears were all epic fails but yet they still look for something else and seriously wonder why people mock them.
This is getting so meta
Honestly, the people complaining about people complaining about the election.
Don't worry, you can have a rally too if you're having trouble coping with it.
Wait
So if I complain about your post...which side am I on?
love trumps hat
love trumps hat
The guy did make hats great
The guy did make hats great again.
All this backlash against
All this backlash against Trump. Do you realize that many people might have voted for him as he was the alternative to Hillary? How could he have won if Hillary was so great a choice? And how many people voted for Hillary because she was a woman regardless of her other attributes, good or bad ?
How many people voted for him, again?
How many fewer people than voted for HRC, you mean?
Popular vote count
When the count is finalized, more people will have voted for HRC than for any candidate in US history besides Obama. Obviously Trump is entitled to assume the office under our constitution and electoral college. It is our job as citizens to ensure that he represents the interests of the many, many voters who did not support him.
all about safety
These gatherings are great venues to distribute safety pins - now the symbol for people who become fearful or afraid as a result of harassment or worse to recognize people of tolerance and safety. The Southern Poverty Law Center has info on dealing with vomited hatred - get to safety, notify the authorities and inform the SPLC on its reporting website page.
I have a feeling I'll be buying safety pins in gross.