Etiquette



DP Etiquette

First rule: Don't be a jackass. Most people are good.

Other rules: Do not attack or insult people you disagree with. Engage with facts, logic and beliefs. Out of respect for others, please provide some sources for the facts and truths you rely on if you are asked for that. If emotion is getting out of hand, get it back in hand. To limit dehumanizing people, don't call people or whole groups of people disrespectful names, e.g., stupid, dumb or liar. Insulting people is counterproductive to rational discussion. Insult makes people angry and defensive. All points of view are welcome, right, center, left and elsewhere. Just disagree, but don't be belligerent or reject inconvenient facts, truths or defensible reasoning.

Saturday, April 4, 2026

Climate change bits

Evidence of increasing global warming continues to contradict false narratives from climate science deniers and pollute-for-profit propagandists. A SciAm article, No U.S. states had a record cold winter. Nine had a record hot one, make's its point with the headline. Record winter cold is now truly rare. However, record winter heat is increasing in frequency.

Red = areas with record high temps
Orange = significantly above average

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In a meeting with farmers and ranchers about converting more food (corn) into fuel (ethanol), Trump slandered environmentalists, calling them terrorists. Trump said this to to pander to his crowd:

“It's a big problem what they've done to you and the country. The environmentalists are terrorists. I call them the environmental terrorists.”
 

Trump pandering to the crowd

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Trump is moving ahead with plans to decimate a major US climate science research lab, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, in Boulder, Colorado. Elite MAGA operative Russell Vought said the move is to reign in “climate alarmism” from the lab.

About Vought: For context, next to Trump himself, Vought is arguably the 2nd most powerful person in the US. He is quiet and keeps a low profile. He uses low key stealth to hide both his (1) intense hate of government and government employees, democracy, the rule of law, civil liberties and the public interest generally, and (2) the enormous power he has to inflict grievous damage on democratic norms, laws and institutions that protect and empower the targets he wants to obliterate. Vought can reasonably be called America's Shadow President.  

Peanut 1: Someone once said “I'm not saying Trump is a Russian asset trying to destroy America from the inside, I'm simply saying if he was it would look exactly like this.”

Peanut 2: A slim majority of the electorate voted to burn it all down.

Peanut 3: This fire season, the Republicans will once again blame California for not raking the leaves in the forest, or whatever it is they pretend to believe.

Peanut 4: After more than 1500 temperature records were broken in the American west in March, this seems like a good move. /s 
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Satellite images are showing an area of Alaskan permafrost approximately the size of Wisconsin is thawing. Climate science experts warn this could significantly alter the global carbon cycle and affect coastal ecosystems worldwide. The data indicates that the Alaskan thawing season has now been extended into late summer and early fall.


DOC (dissolved organic carbon) trapped in permafrost 
flows into the sea from areas of Alaska with permafrost melt

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