Problematic Stuff

[laklak]

There's still a few out there making a bit off it. Wish I could get into that outrage blogging thing, I could piss off a whole shitton of people every day. I'll wait till we're on the boat with no fixed address, that way I can just start the engines and pull out when I see the torches and pitchforks at the marina gates.

[JimC]

Take the pith...

...helmet off...

[Cunt]

This is what I would expect from people who loudly declare their hate and derision for our wonderful western culture. Nonsense.

[Seabass]

This is nothing a little deregulatin' and tax cuttin' won't solve.

Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/07/clim ... -2040.html


INCHEON, South Korea — A landmark report from the United Nations’ scientific panel on climate change paints a far more dire picture of the immediate consequences of climate change than previously thought and says that avoiding the damage requires transforming the world economy at a speed and scale that has “no documented historic precedent.”

The report, issued on Monday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of scientists convened by the United Nations to guide world leaders, describes a world of worsening food shortages and wildfires, and a mass die-off of coral reefs as soon as 2040 — a period well within the lifetime of much of the global population.

The report “is quite a shock, and quite concerning,” said Bill Hare, an author of previous I.P.C.C. reports and a physicist with Climate Analytics, a nonprofit organization. “We were not aware of this just a few years ago.” The report was the first to be commissioned by world leaders under the Paris agreement, the 2015 pact by nations to fight global warming.

The authors found that if greenhouse gas emissions continue at the current rate, the atmosphere will warm up by as much as 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) above preindustrial levels by 2040, inundating coastlines and intensifying droughts and poverty. Previous work had focused on estimating the damage if average temperatures were to rise by a larger number, 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius), because that was the threshold scientists previously considered for the most severe effects of climate change.

The new report, however, shows that many of those effects will come much sooner, at the 2.7-degree mark.

Avoiding the most serious damage requires transforming the world economy within just a few years, said the authors, who estimate that the damage would come at a cost of $54 trillion. But while they conclude that it is technically possible to achieve the rapid changes required to avoid 2.7 degrees of warming, they concede that it may be politically unlikely.

For instance, the report says that heavy taxes or prices on carbon dioxide emissions — perhaps as high as $27,000 per ton by 2100 — would be required. But such a move would be almost politically impossible in the United States, the world’s largest economy and second-largest greenhouse gas emitter behind China. Lawmakers around the world, including in China, the European Union and California, have enacted carbon pricing programs.

President Trump, who has mocked the science of human-caused climate change, has vowed to increase the burning of coal and said he intends to withdraw from the Paris agreement. And on Sunday in Brazil, the world’s seventh-largest emitter of greenhouse gas, voters appeared on track to elect a new president, Jair Bolsonaro, who has said he also plans to withdraw from the accord.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/07/clim ... -2040.html

[pErvinalia]

#CHINESEHOAX

[Seabass]

Them chinamen are taking this hoax of theirs a bit too far. It's starting to get a little scary. It's a good thing we've got Trump to tell it like it is and speak truth to power and remind us that coal is the way forward.

[laklak]

Coal and brass. Steamtrump.

[Forty Two]

Outrage du jour is Melania's white pith safari helmet. It's....it's...it's.....colonialist! Predictably, the outrage is from Americans, not Africans, and in true colonial fashion, those progressive and liberal Americans will do the protesting for the Africans, because Africans don't know any better.

Seriously, this stuff makes national news. It's important, damnit!

Oh, no, Laklak - the outrage against Melania was well deserved and had nothing to do with it being Melania Trump wearing the helmet. The outrage brigade has been ever present at the "changing of the guard" and the folks in bearskin headgear can't even get out of Buckingham Palace anymore.



Melania does what everyone does when they go to Africa -- and of course she's wrong - https://www.independent.co.uk/life-styl ... 71641.html

..... "safari helmet" is now problematic....

[Sean Hayden]

Who gives a fuck. If I didn't visit this site I'd forget who he's married to. --no joke

[Brian Peacock]

OMG, somebody tweeted something!

[laklak]

Since we'll be moving to Africa soon it's important to know the proper headgear. I'm thinking this for daily wear:

[laklak]

For formal occasions

[Forty Two]

The New York Times is on the case: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/05/worl ... elmet.html

No important issue escapes the old Grey Lady these days....lol

I wonder.... if an African wears a pith helmet, is he guilty of cultural appropriation?

[Forty Two]

[Cunt]

Is our Ms. J. Trudeau guilty of cultural appropriation?

I just googled his costumes, and it seems he is mocking every one of the cultures he visits?