Archive for global warming
a particularly unhelpful graph [about UN Water Conferences]
Posted in Books, pictures with tags bad graph, climate change, environment, global warming, Nature, UN 2023 Water Conference, United Nations, Water Conference, water governance, water resources, word cloud on May 1, 2023 by xi'an
Burnin…
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures with tags climate change, COP 26, cover, Glasgow, global warming, Scotland, The New Yorker on November 15, 2021 by xi'an
exxon prediction [xkcd]
Posted in Statistics with tags Exxon, global warming, prediction, webcomic, xkcd on September 7, 2021 by xi'an
new trajectories?
Posted in Books, Statistics with tags cirrus clouds, climate change, clouds, CO2, contrails, flight mode, global warming, Greenland, Nature, plane, plane exhaust, vapour on July 11, 2021 by xi'an
and it only gets worse [verbatim]
Posted in Kids, Travel with tags @ScientistTrump, Agent Orange, America, baby Trump, Barack Obama, capitalisation, cliffs, coronavirus epidemics, COVID-19, decency, Donald Trump, Dover cliffs, global warming, herd mentality, Human Rights, hydroxychloroquine, incompetence, mail-in ballots, pandemic, Red State Blue State, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court, twitter, United Nations, US politics, US presidents on October 4, 2020 by xi'an
“A basic principle of the law — and of everyday fairness — is that we apply rules with consistency, and not based on what’s convenient or advantageous in the moment. The rule of law, the legitimacy of our courts, the fundamental workings of our democracy all depend on that basic principle.” Barack Obama [on Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s replacement], 18 September
“I don’t know that [Ruth Bader Ginsberg] said that, or if that was written out by Adam Schiff, and Schumer and Pelosi,” DT, 21 September
“I don’t wear a mask like [Joe Biden]. Every time you see him, he’s got a mask. He could be speaking 200 feet away from them and he shows up with the biggest mask I’ve ever seen.” DT, 29 September
“With time it goes away. And you’ll develop like a herd mentality [sic]. It’s going to be herd developed, and that’s going to happen. That will all happen.” DT, 16 September
“If you take the blue states out, we’re at a level that I don’t think anyone in the world would be at,” DT, 17 September
“It will start getting cooler, just you watch.” DT, 14 September
“I don’t think science knows, actually.” DT, 14 September
“Because of the new and unprecedented massive amount of unsolicited ballots which will be sent to ‘voters,’ or wherever, this year, the Nov 3rd Election result may NEVER BE ACCURATELY DETERMINED, which is what some want.” DT, 17 September
“There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent.” “DT, 26 May
“I can tell you there’s [no race problem] with me. Because I have great respect for all races, everybody.” DT, 15 September
“America is fundamentally good, and has much to offer the world, because our founders recognized the existence of God-given unalienable rights and designed a durable system to protect them” M. Pompeo, July 2020
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