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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>May 19, 2021</b></font></i></p>
[Not a paid advert]<br>
<b>2022 F-150 Lightning</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ford.com/f150-lightning/">https://www.ford.com/f150-lightning/</a><br>
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[nice product design]<br>
<b>This is Ford’s electric F-150 pickup truck</b><br>
Revealed early during a speech from President Biden<br>
May 18, 2021<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/18/22442415/ford-f150-lightning-electric-pickup-truck-first-images">https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/18/22442415/ford-f150-lightning-electric-pickup-truck-first-images</a><br>
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[video nearly 2 years ago]<br>
<b>All-Electric F-150 Prototype: Tows 1M+ Pounds | F-150 | Ford</b><br>
Jul 23, 2019<br>
Ford Motor Company<br>
We’ve confirmed we are bringing an all-electric F-150 to market.
Now, we’re showing you the capability you asked for by having it tow
more than 1 million pounds.* This is Built Ford Tough. <br>
<br>
*The F-150 battery-electric prototype is towing far beyond any
production truck’s published capacity in a one-time short event
demonstration. Never tow beyond a vehicle’s towing capacities.
Always consult the Owner’s Manual. <br>
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Learn more about the All-Electric Ford F-150 Prototype here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ford.to/32L24kS">https://ford.to/32L24kS</a> <br>
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Discover more 2019 Ford F-150 videos here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ford.to/2VfE8Wd">https://ford.to/2VfE8Wd</a> <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXFHgoon7lg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXFHgoon7lg</a><br>
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[Mother Jones]<br>
<b>Cities Are Woefully Unprepared for the Havoc of Climate Change</b><br>
More than 40 percent have no adaptation plan, a global survey
suggests.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/05/cities-woefully-unprepared-climate-change-adaptation-global-warming/">https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/05/cities-woefully-unprepared-climate-change-adaptation-global-warming/</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cdp.net/en">https://www.cdp.net/en</a><br>
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[watch the clouds]<br>
<b>Scientists aren’t sure what will happen to clouds as the planet
warms</b><br>
Why clouds are one of the greatest sources of uncertainty for
climate change.<br>
<br>
By Umair Irfan May 19, 2021<br>
This chaos is why clouds are so difficult to predict. But the
consequences of this inability to see through clouds go beyond
sunshine and shade; it’s also obscuring our understanding of climate
change.<br>
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And the effects aren’t uniform across the world; some places may see
far more reflective clouds while others may experience more warming
clouds, and others still may see more, or less, of both. How these
effects align will change how the planet warms in the coming decades
and the practical consequences thereof.<br>
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“If we overestimate the degree to which clouds cool the planet in
response to greenhouse gas forcing, then we’ll underestimate how
warm it gets in response to certain amounts of greenhouse gases,”
Pendergrass said...<br>
Figuring this out is difficult because scientists have only recently
been able to sharpen their picture of clouds. Ground-based radar and
satellite images have helped researchers gain insight into the broad
patterns of clouds across the planet, while weather balloons and
aircraft have yielded narrow but detailed pictures of their inner
workings.<br>
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But many of these techniques have only been deployed in the past
half-century. Prior to that, observations of clouds were far more
coarse. And unlike historical changes in temperature and rainfall,
which can leave behind clues in sediment, ice cores, tree rings, and
rocks dating back millenia, clouds have a light footprint. There are
no cloud fossils.<br>
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So if scientists want to understand what clouds were like before the
industrial revolution — before humans started pumping greenhouse
gases and pollution into the sky in gargantuan quantities — they
have to examine historical observations: weather logs, nautical
records, and even art and literature. However, with such a blurry
picture of the past, it’s harder to see into the future.<br>
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Clouds can be too complicated for computers<br>
Observations of clouds are then fed into climate models. But
computer models also struggle to understand clouds. “The big
question for climate models is, what are the combinations going to
be going forward?” Collis said.<br>
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There are two general approaches to clouds in climate models:
top-down and bottom-up. Top-down simulations can model the whole
planet and apply forcings, like different concentrations of carbon
dioxide, and seeing what happens over time, zooming into different
regions.<br>
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Other simulations start at the microscopic level of droplets and
aerosols and then scale up. The problem is that clouds lie right in
between these two approaches — too small and ephemeral to be
captured in most global climate simulations and too complicated for
computers to assemble from their constituent parts. So clouds tend
to be represented in an oversimplified way in computer models.<br>
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“We have to understand what’s happening on these tiny, tiny scales
that you need a microscope to see, all the way to the scale of the
entire planet,” said Pendergrass. “All of those things are relevant
to the problem. So trying to make a computer model that does that is
not computationally feasible to do in any kind of direct way.”<br>
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Despite the challenges, scientists are making progress and filling
in uncertainties about the future of the planet.<br>
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For instance, researchers last year published a new estimate for
boundaries of climate sensitivity for the first time in decades.
Climate sensitivity refers to how much the planet is expected to
warm in response to a doubling of carbon dioxide concentrations in
the atmosphere compared to pre-industrial levels. It’s a critical
metric used to refine models of climate change. A better
understanding of clouds and their feedback into the climate system
was a big reason why they were able to narrow their predictions.<br>
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But scientists don’t have decades to come up with their next round
of refinements, and the current pace of advances in the field is
excruciatingly slow. “We’re going to see a substantial amount of
global warming before we can model the clouds scaled globally,”
Pendergrass said.<br>
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So in the meantime, scientists are painstakingly piecing together
records from the past, observations from the present, and models of
the future to get a sharper picture of the cloudy skies.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.vox.com/22430792/cloud-science-mystery-unexplainable-podcast-climate-change">https://www.vox.com/22430792/cloud-science-mystery-unexplainable-podcast-climate-change</a><br>
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<p>[Personal history]<br>
<b>Yesterday was May 18th - anniversary of the Mt St Helens
eruption.</b>.. it happened on a Sunday at 8:32 Am. But the
Saturday before at the same time, I was in a helicopter directly
over the mountain - my first time chopper video shooting with the
door off, held in with straps and freezing in the open winds..
able the smell the fumes of the enlarging volcanic pits smoking
and steaming below me. Yet today, in 2021 I heard one woman
telling me the history of her brother and husband - who went
fishing on the Columbia river near Yakima... at 8:32 am Yakima was
hit with roiling dark clouds that fully darkened the morning sky.
The hot ash-fall generated lightning - starting hundreds of
wildfires. The volcanic ash snuffed them out. It came down so
thick and strong and fast that it filled their small fishing boat
and choked off the outboard motor. They rowed toward the river
bank, one manning the oars and the other bailing the ash from the
boat. These parts of Washington State got ash-falls that were a
sizable fraction of that deposited on Pompeii. The men landed on
the shore and hiked in the darkness until they found a river bank
cabin and holed up there for 3 days. No phone, no radio, and no
way to verify the disaster.<br>
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I like to think the men knew that for weeks the volcano had been s
steaming and threatening to erupt. The news had been talking
about it for weeks. So they might have felt, or intuited, or
known this was coming. It was not a total surprise. The
foreknowledge may have tempered their terror. Allowed energy to
flow into action rather than panic.<br>
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Now it is nice to see the physicists debate free will... arguing
that we have no free will. None. Even down to the
micro-decisions. [Not sure about that, but a worthy discussion].
And as we face the inevitable global warming dooms, the only thing
humans can control is the timing of destabilization. For a few
decades now, we have been inviting the tiger to dine inside the
tent. . The latest notion is that things must get much worse
before we can notice how they can get better. Well, population
crash is inevitable. And humans will continue to push that
forward - Israel/Palestine is locked into the drama of
decimations. Who has free will there? Same with elitism of
vaccines and other diseases - the invitation to die in order to
make room for survivors. Emptying out the lifeboats.<br>
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Either we will be informed by trauma, or we will die in our
ignorance. Our free-will may only extend to knowing what is
happening to us. With no free will, the outcome might be the same
as our heroic struggles (which also could be defined as physically
compelled action ). Intelligent life confers the right to know our
condition. That trait may even define life somehow -- such that
any being should be free to be curious. Intelligent only for how
we can seek refuge.<br>
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Everything is a metaphor for global warming. <br>
Richard Pauli - May 18, 2021<br>
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[information battle injury similar to personal injury]<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/peedq/status/1394828311402991616?s=20">https://twitter.com/peedq/status/1394828311402991616?s=20</a><br>
<b>The "On The Media" radio show yesterday fired Bob Garfield</b> -
I suspect it may be about global warming since he was vocal about
news judgement. On the Media (OTM) is renowned for failing to cover
the story. Fairly recently, when Brooke Went on vacation, Bob snuck
in some coverage. The best they could manage was some on-air
discussion why it should not, or should be covered - Brook gave a
rambling, confusing argument about ignoring the story of the biggest
threat to civilization. About once a year, for decades now, I would
write them an email, pleading for more coverage of this enormously
important media story.<br>
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Why does OTM hide from the story? I can only suspect it is NY Wall
Street fossil fuel support for WNYC studios. It would have been a
cheap influence... it is plausible that a few large donations could
have completely suppressed the story. Much like the Sunday TV news
shows used to run so many commercials from fossil fuel industries
and API that it was embarrassingly obvious - and so recently will
allow a few pop-science pieces to air. What news editor would DARE
touch the media third rail of pissing off a major advertiser-- or a
major funder?.<br>
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Bob Garfield sounds like a hero to me. (I also was fired from a
local TV news show because I argued with the weather forecaster
about recognizing global warming... I was gone in 1987. ) <br>
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How many journalists have been driven out of their profession by
this one, persistent, universal story? <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/peedq/status/1394828311402991616?s=20">https://twitter.com/peedq/status/1394828311402991616?s=20</a>
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<br>
[Digging back into the internet news archive]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming May
19, 2008 </b></font><br>
The Guardian reports:<br>
<blockquote>"A shareholder revolt at ExxonMobil led by the
billionaire Rockefeller family has won the support of four
significant British institutional investors who will call on
Monday for a shakeup in the governance of the world's biggest oil
company.<br>
<br>
"Guardian.co.uk has learned that F&C Asset Management, Morley
Fund Management, the Co-Operative Insurance Society and the West
Midlands Pension Fund are throwing their weight behind a
resolution demanding that ExxonMobil appoints an independent
chairman to stimulate debate on the company's board.<br>
<br>
"Exxon is facing a rebellion from its investors over its hardline
approach to global warming. The firm has refused to follow rival
oil companies in committing large-scale capital investment to
environmentally friendly technology such as wind and solar power.<br>
<br>
"The Rockefeller dynasty, whose ancestor John D. Rockefeller
founded the original oil business at the core of ExxonMobil, have
sponsored four shareholder resolutions demanding changes at Exxon.
One of these calls on Exxon's chief executive Rex Tillerson, to
relinquish his role as chairman in favour of an outsider to bring
in an alternative point of view."<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/may/19/exxonmobil.oil">http://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/may/19/exxonmobil.oil</a> <br>
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