Yesterday was the first day of COP-26. Having been to a conference or two in my life, I am assuming that means today is the first full day of it. So I am trying to feature climate. You may have noticed we all are. Speaking of which, it was overcast and wet here. Since it was, and it’s expected to stay wet for at least a few days, I pushed myself to go out and put down some iris food. And to being the trash/recyclable carts to where they live. And to deal with the mail from the car and the mailbox (most of which went straight to recycle.) Incidentally it was also cold with a high of 36°F.
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Crooks and Liars – Toni Morrison’s 1998 Interview Speaks To ‘GOP Mom’
Quote – Youngkin tweeted a campaign video on Monday that featured the outrage of Laura Murphy, a white mom who years earlier tried to get Morrison’s classic novel, Beloved, banned from her son’s Advanced Placement English curriculum.
Click through – in case you mised Youngkin’s incendiary Tweet (recalling the infamous “Willie Horton” ad), it’s there. Sigh.
Reuters – G20 offers little new on climate, leaving uphill task for COP26
Quote – Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, who chaired the Rome gathering, hailed the final accord, saying that for the first time all G20 states had agreed on the importance of capping global warming at the 1.5 degrees Celsius level that scientists say is vital to avoid disaster. “We made sure that our dreams are not only alive but they are progressing,” Draghi told a closing news conference, brushing off criticism from environmentalists that the G20 had not gone nearly far enough to resolve the crisis.
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AP News – ‘Last, best hope:’ Leaders launch crucial UN climate summit
Quote – Government leaders face two choices in Glasgow, Patricia Espinosa, head of the U.N. climate office, declared at the summit’s opening: They can sharply cut greenhouse gas emissions and help communities and countries survive what is becoming a hotter, harsher world, Espinosa said. “Or we accept that humanity faces a bleak future on this planet. It is for these reasons and more that we must make progress here in Glasgow. We must make it a success.”
Click through for more. If only today’s lead (right after Glenn) video would come true.)
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Comment from Mitch –
‘Toon: Well, we don’t need to worry about a nuclear death anymore, we have found a more subtle. quiet way to blink ourselves out.C&L: The right is using CRT as the newest replacement for the “N” word. It’s a dog whistle, nothing more, nothing less. Today’s right is just
the newest generation to play the old race game, one more once. (Apologies to Count Basie.) I sincerely hope to see younkin not just beaten, but soundly trounced!
Reuters: I think Boris may be off by a precious few seconds, the wrong way. Some time, long after we are gone, the planet will come to a new balance.
The Newt Gingrichs, and Jim Inhofes, etc., of this species will have left no descendants to plague Gaia, anty longer.
AP: Yup!
FFT: Typical jackass. Yes, I’m trying to be polite.
Mitch
Yes, we all are. Hoping to bring unity towards climate change.
Cartoon: Yikes! So sad.
Reuters: Glad to read that the G20 states are getting committed on the impact of climate change.
FFT: How sad not to even care an iota.
This just in: TJI “Is Tucker Carlson a traitor, a liar, or a total idiot?” ~ Chip Franklin III ~ Me: “Yes, all three, imho.” *pb
2. “72% of unvaccinated people would rather quit their job than get vaccinated. The ‘greatest generation’ would consider these people the weakest.” ~ KevinSixx13~
3. BREAKING: “Afraid of being hurt by his association with Trump, Glenn Youngkin just announced that he’s NOT going to participate in Trump’s tele-town hall on Monday.” ~ Jon Cooper ~
4. “Day one of the G20, working with world leaders on our shared interests — from the global pandemic and our global recovery, to confronting the climate crisis, and a host of other issues that matter to the American people.” ~ President Joe Biden ~
5.”I wish more people on the Left would stop acting like Trump has already won and publicly holding a preemptive funeral for America, instead of finding ways to unify the vast majority into leveraging our numbers and influence to destroy this minority fascist movement for good.” ~ John Pavlovitz ~
TJI #1 – I would add “garbage human being,” but that’s a quibble.
TJI #2 – Interesting thought experiment: is suicide an act of courage or an act of cowardice? Or some of both? Or substitute “strength” and “weakness.” Then there’s the old conjugation joke – “I am firm. You are stubborn. He is a pig-headed fool.”
TJI #3 – No surprise there. It’s been pretty clear he wants Trumpism without Trump**.
TJI #4 – G20 did try – sort of – but they didn’t get much homework done. That much more work for COP26
TJI #5 – There is a lot of discouragement around, I can’t deny it. Fortunately, it isn’t all discouragement – there are tose of us who are fighting. But we do need more.
TJI #2 – That simply makes NO SENSE!
Toni Morrison’s 1998 Interview Speaks To ‘GOP Mom’
I was mildly sad to learn that Blake Murphy suffered nightmares from reading Toni Morrison’s “Beloved”.
According to Blake’s mom, she can rank nightmares. And the nightmares “little” Blake suffered far outweigh the nightmares Ms. Morrison wrote about, and even more so than the nightmares that so many people of color live in.
G20 offers little new on climate, leaving uphill task for COP26
‘Last, best hope:’ Leaders launch crucial UN climate summit
Clearly our work is cut out for us! I hope that we’re up to the task.
Cartoon: Not good at all.
Reuter:G20- I have been watching CNN updates about it on CNN. I’m happy to see that President Biden is there making the U.S. apart of it again. tRump should of never dropped out country out of it. Hopefully they will come up with some plans that all countries involved will come to terms with. It’s long overdue.
Food for Thought: Stinking fool. The Environment/Climate Change should be a high priority.
Nice that you’re getting some rain. I know they were mentioning not that long ago about Colorado River facing a drought. I wish it would rain here. It’s been overcast all day and suppose to stay that way, but not one drop of rain expected here. We’ve been asked to cut back our water usage by 10%.
Take care. Thanks Joanne
We’ve had years of drought in Colorado too, and a little rain here is not going to help all that much. Going to and from visiting Virgil , I used to pass over 4 bodies of water (not counting Chico Creek, whic was already dry.) Now, I’m pretty sure all but one of them are dry. There is still water in the Arkansas River, although one can see islands of silt through it as it crosses the highway. And there may be water in the Apishapa River – it’s too deep to see well from the road – but since there are trees growing iout of its basin, I don’t see how there can be much. The Huerfano River was literally burned up in a forest fire, it must be 5 or 6 years ago. A couple of years it continued to show a little water, maybe two feet wide and maybe an inch deep (and not moving), but no longer. Just dirt. And Timpas Creek, which I believe was largely man-made and supported a feedlot, is completely gone, not even signs to remind folk it was once there, and the feedlot is also gone. What led to that was the decline of snowpack in the related watershed. No amount of rain at the bottom of the mountains and in the valley floor can compensate for that.
I said I would do a bit more for the planet by publishing the Euronews green newsletter as an As Seen From Afar, Joanne, but I didn’t get the letter in my mailbox as promised for every day of the COP-26. Copying it from their website front page would take too much time, so unless one comes in tomorrow I have to forfeit my mission.
Cartoon: And still people think this is the answer to climate change.
C&L: From his mother’s reaction, her “little” Blake is a pampered and not very intelligent white boy who needs to be weaned from his mother’s breast a.s.a.p. Blakie didn’t have nightmares because “Beloved” was too explicit for him, he had nightmares because he narrow little mind couldn’t understand what he read and he failed his assignment.
Reuters: 1.5 degrees is the station we just passed, you fools.
AP: World leaders are just like schoolkids, starting to read the literature for their assignment the night before their essay needs handing in.
FFT: We can only wish that rope is so long…
Copyinf from their website would also be more dangerous. If you put something in an email, you are literally asking peole to share it around. So, good mive. But too bad.