Kamala Harris Barely Mentioned Climate at the DNC
Kamala Harris Barely Mentioned Climate at the DNC. Does It Matter? By Jackie Flynn Mogensen In a personal, wide-ranging speech to close out the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Thursday night, Vice President Kamala Harris briefly touched on climate change, but largely avoided the topic. Many “fundamental freedoms are at stake” in this election, […]
Harris, Walz frame climate change in context of ‘freedom’ as only ‘glancing references to climate’ made by Harris & Walz – ‘Climate was muted’
https://www.axios.com/2024/08/23/harris-walz-climate-change-freedom On climate, a short riff grows in Chicago By Ben Geman There’s a striking consistency in the way Kamala Harris and Tim Walz offered just glancing references to climate change in their DNC speeches. Why it matters: The framing in the context of “freedom” could preview their strategy for the balance of the short campaign. […]
Iowa Farmers Threatened by Climate ‘Solutions’ – EV tractors ‘4x the cost’
Iowa Farmers Threatened by Climate “Solutions” By Vijay Jayaraj Iowa’s rolling fields, stretching as far as the eye can see, have long embodied America’s agricultural prowess. For generations, the farmers of this Midwestern state have fed not just a nation but a significant portion of the world, their toil and ingenuity creating an agricultural superpower. […]
Democratic platform calls for net-zero agricultural emissions by 2050
https://www.agriculture.com/democratic-platform-calls-for-net-zero-agricultural-emissions-by-2050-8698035 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says the climate-smart initiative will spur the development of sustainable farm products and markets for them. By Chuck Abbott The U.S. farm sector would be the first in the world to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 with the assistance of projects such as the USDA’s climate-smart agriculture initiatives, […]
Ford Cuts Back EV Production Due To Lousy Sales
Ford Cuts Back EV Production Due To Lousy Sales https://lidblog.com/ford-ev-production/ by Jeff Dunetz Ford announced today (Aug 21) that it was trashing plans for a sizeable all-electric SUV, delaying production of its all-electric pickup truck to the second half of 2027, and will sell their existing EV products at a steep discount. Why are they […]
Harris-Walz push ‘climate silence’! WaPo: ‘Why Democrats are so quiet about climate change right now’ – Dem ‘Party leaders appear to have calculated that climate silence is the safest strategy’ as ‘most voters rank other issues as more important’
Washington Post: Vice President Kamala Harris and other Democrats have not made significant mentions of climate change or the environment in recent stump speeches. …
With most voters ranking other issues as more important, and with Democrats wanting to paint a rosy picture of the future, party leaders appear to have calculated that climate silence is the safest strategy.
Pope discusses ‘climate change’ with Jeff Bezos – Discussed the ‘urgent need for climate action’
https://www.ncronline.org/earthbeat/pope-discusses-climate-change-jeff-bezos Pope Francis met with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, vice chair of the Bezos Earth Fund, at the Vatican to discuss climate change. Sánchez posted photos of the meeting at the Domus Sanctae Marthae, the residence where Fancis lives, in an Instagram post Aug. 15, saying that the pope’s “wisdom, warmth, and humor were […]
Reuters: ‘Global warming may be factor in deadly Italian shipwreck, climatologist says’
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/global-warming-may-be-factor-deadly-italian-shipwreck-climatologist-says-2024-08-19/ ROME, Aug 19 (Reuters) – Global warming may have contributed to the freak storm that sank a luxury British-flagged yacht off the coast of Sicily on Monday, Italian climatologist Luca Mercalli told Reuters. One man died and six people were missing, including British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, after the “Bayesian”, a 56-metre-long (184-ft) sailboat, […]
The Atlantic Ocean is cooling down at a record speed & scientists don’t know why – ‘Surface temperatures suddenly dropping at a record speed’ since May
https://www.unilad.com/news/world-news/atlantic-ocean-cooling-down-927744-20240821 By Yasmeen Hamadeh The ocean’s surface temperatures have reached a strange low for this time of year A strange anomaly is going on in the Atlantic Ocean, and experts can’t seem to understand the reason behind it. Over the past year, surface temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean hit some new highs as temperatures across the globe reached record-breaking […]
Analysis: Lawyers Get Excited Suing Over ‘Climate Change’ – ‘If the left gains complete power, they could move to nationalize all energy companies’
https://wmbriggs.substack.com/p/lawyers-get-excited-suing-over-climate By William M Briggs “It bears repeating over and over,” opened a recent Nature editorial on suing over “climate change”. “The science is not in question.” Now why would a “the science” that is not in question bear repeated assertions, over and over? That question is not rhetorical. Do you hear editorials, over and over, proclaiming that […]