#us presidential electons

[toshootforthestars]

From the report by Elizabeth Kolbert, posted 11 Jan 2023:

...from the Rhodium Group, an independent research firm. According to the group’s estimate, greenhouse-gas emissions from the United States grew by 1.3 per cent in 2022, in large part owing to an increase in emissions from—you guessed it—the transportation sector. This increase, according to the report, “was driven mainly by the demand for jet fuel,” as air travel rebounded from COVID levels, and it might have been even larger but for the war in Ukraine, which drove up fuel prices. On the positive side, the Rhodium Group report notes, renewables now produce more electricity than coal in the U.S., and the country’s total emissions are still slightly lower than they were before the pandemic, in 2019. On the negative side, the nation is falling ever further behind on its commitments.

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...from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. According to the service, 2022 was the fifth-warmest year on record globally, and last summer in Europe “was the warmest on record by a clear margin.” Perhaps more significantly, all of the past eight years have been among the eight hottest. Average global temperatures are now 1.2 degrees Celsius—almost 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit—higher than they were in the late nineteenth century. So inexorable is this trend that, as Carlo Buontempo, the director of the service, pointed out to the Times, “the rare event now would be to see a really cold year.”

Beyond the raw numbers, what’s noteworthy about 2022, the Copernicus report notes, is that the world was in the third year of the weather pattern known as La Niña. La Niña years, which feature unusually cold ocean temperatures in the equatorial Pacific, tend—or, at least, tended—to be cool. According to the latest update from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center, La Niña conditions should persist through March.

What will happen after that is unclear, but a few months ago James Hansen, who is sometimes referred to as the “father of global warming,” made an alarming forecast. Hansen, the former head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, predicted that sometime within the next year La Niña conditions will give way to their opposite: El Niño conditions, which tend to bring warmth. When that occurs, it will be like opening a globe-size oven door.

“2024 is likely to be off the chart as the warmest year on record,” he warned.

What the Copernicus report, Hansen’s prediction, last summer’s devastating heat waves in Europe, and this winter’s devastating flooding in California all make clear is that the world is running out of time. What the Rhodium report makes clear is that, despite progress on some fronts, 2022 was yet another year of rising emissions.

Avoiding the worst effects of climate change will require the U.S., and indeed the entire world, “to significantly increase its efforts.” If decarbonizing the transportation sector by 2050 is, per the Biden Administration, challenging, then decarbonizing it before 2050 is even more challenging. But that’s what needs to be done. The urgency couldn’t be any higher.

#climate change #greenhouse gas emissions #pollution #greenhouse gases in the atmosphere fucking everything up #news #science #america 2023 #america 2024 #2024 us presidential electon #global warming

[thegroundzreport]

I guess it’s a done deal today Donnie. ✌🏽

#donald trump #news today trump #president trump #presidentialelection2020 #2020 election #maga #fuck maga #us presidential electons #black excellence #hip hop #rap #rapculture #the groundz report #black culture #fuck donald trump #fuck trump #dump trump #trump2020 #trump news #voter fraud #voter suppression #voteforchange

[bakustark]

congrats americans, the orange is gone!

#gremlin rambles #us presidential electons #us presidency #joe biden #elections2020 #y’all can breathe easy now #if only we could say the same for us lmao

[glamazord]

celebrating the electoral college vote

by rewatching the west wing

i'm not crying

we're crying

#west wing #tww #us presidential electons #vote him out

[jonostroveart]

OANism

#political satire #donald trump #trump #editorial cartoons #politics #cartoon #political cartoon #webcomic #trump tweets #webcomics #trump humor #trump twitter #trump lost #election fraud #us presidential electons #election2020 #oann

[carlyrb6]

YAAAAAAASSSSSSS!!!!!

#politics #Biden #trump #Georgia #blue Georgia #election #us presidential electons #election 2020 #blm #black lives matter

[recklesssonder]

I can't believe this is happening.

We trap and breed animals, to kill for fur. Now we must kill them all because a virus we created through mutilation of our biosphere, is mutating through them, to kill us.

17 million mink are going to die.. Because we fucked with Mother Earth.

#coronavirus #covid19 #2020 #denmark #stay home #news #wear a mask #mother earth #ecosystem #mink #forrest #travel #us presidential electons #election 2020 #europe

[salty-and-savage]

Normally I don’t do rants like this but...

Trump supporters are so fucking dumb, and even thought it is an insult is also part of the problem, they are uneducated, they don’t understand the harm they are doing.

That is the reason they always say “we are not racist, homophobic, etc.” Even though they enforce the prolongment of the oppression of these minorities by agreeing with Trumps policies and views.

I, as an outsider (not from the US) find this hilariously sad. Democrats and Republicans alike are just part of the bigger problem, there is too much polirazition because it is practically impossible to elect any party that it’s not the democrat or republican, because the electoral colleges system is BULLSHIT and I would explain that more but the internet has more educated people other than me to do so.

I’m my country we had a similar problem (being that there were only two posible political parties) and that led to guerrilas sprouting out like fucking flowers. All because there were only two shitty options, and we had 50 years of war for that.

People in the USA are so diluted to think the rest of the world is paying attention to the election because they are the “most important country in the world” no girl, we are watching because is the most hilarious and dumb election to be seen.

#against trump #black lives matter #election #us presidential electons #trump

[killjoylastlaughter]

Who is the count and why does Trump want to stop him?

#shitpost #us presidential electons #elections #usa headlines #usa politics #usa #dpnald trump #biden 2020 #fuck trump

[need-a-new-reality]

I can watch political satire shows again!!! I used to love watching shows like the daily show, John Oliver, even SNL but I stopped around 3 to 4 years ago because I just couldn’t take listening to them try to make Trump’s horrendous crimes funny. I’m so excited I’m getting so many things I loved back!

#I should make a list #of all the things that Trump being president took from me #not the big stuff #all the little things #joe biden #us presidential electons #saturday night live #the daily show #john oliver #last week tonight

[griffle-musings]

BIDEN WON.

THANK FUCK

#2020 #us presidential electons #election2020 #bidenwins

[animnerd]

I know today is election day. Please be safe today!

@sweater-daddiesdumbdork

@anime-fyi

@buckycuddlebuddy

@mybuckymybuddy

@optimistic-dinosaur-nacho

@terry-perry

@this-kitten-is-smitten

@amythedvdhoarder

@ballyhoobarnes

#us presidential electons #hi #besafe

[amuluduntv]

Idile Comedy - Latest Yoruba Movie 2020 Drama Starring Londoner, Okele, ...

#nigeria #usa #movies #yoruba #entertainment news #trending #endsars #comedy #romance #nollywood #tiktok #snapchat #donald trump #joe biden #us presidential electons #comedy movies

[gwiazdaerydanu]

AOC is WRONG About Biden's Chief Of Staff!

#biden #us presidential electons

[jonostroveart]

Leftovers

#political satire #donald trump #trump #editorial cartoons #politics #cartoon #political cartoon #webcomic #webcomics #trump humor #us presidential electons #election2020 #election #thanksgiving #leftovers

[mossadegh]

What if Adlai Stevenson had won the Presidency in 1952, instead of Gen. Eisenhower? The fate of Iran might be radically different. Now in 2020, Iranians remain heavily invested in the U.S. election outcome, as years of harsh sanctions have taken a heavy toll on the country.

The Mossadegh Project

#adlai stevenson #democrats #democratic party #us politics #eisenhower #iran #iranian #tehran #POTUS #presidency #us presidential electon #iranians #sanctions #us sanctions #us foreign policy #cold war #us history #us presidential election #1953 coup #democrat #united states #president of the united states #1950's #dwight d. eisenhower #republicans #republican party #GOP