There are massive fires burning in every region of Brazil (and other countries in SA) right now. Massive, unprecedented, and in the middle of the worst drought in recorded history, and a winter heat wave (> 90 F temps in Sao Paulo this week) https://www.reuters.com/world/ameri...th-america-surpasses-record-fires-2024-09-12/
Good: From NPR California filed a groundbreaking lawsuit against ExxonMobil yesterday, alleging the company spent decades deceiving the public about whether plastic could be recycled. Despite knowing that recycling plastics was technically and economically challenging, the company still promoted recycling as a viable option. The lawsuit calls out ExxonMobil's attempt to blame the public for a plastic crisis the state’s top prosecutor says the company created. California Attorney General Rob Bonta said the state has spent over $1 billion each year to manage its plastic waste problems. The attorney general's staff have uncovered numerous internal documents between the oil company and industry executives, in which they seem to admit that plastic recycling is not effective, yet publicly claim the opposite, NPR's Laura Sullivan says. In response, the company released a statement asserting that recycling does work and that California is trying to shift the blame onto them due to its own recycling challenges. The state wants Exxon to pay billions of dollars and to reeducate the public that the vast majority of plastic isn’t recyclable and is just trash.
hope the hurricane results in a single death and it is catturd drowning in the same truck he used when he killed his own dog
Fun fact...Phoenix set its record daily high temperature on September 24th and has continued to do so each day since then. Today is the 14th consecutive day hitting their record high, and there is a realistic chance that they extend that streak into next week.
Let's not completely discount insufflating that magic science powder. Think about how much better you'd feel if you could snort a chemical that absorbs all the performance robbing CO2 from your body.
Now we are talking. Almost as beneficial as when then President Trump suggest we inject bleach since it was so effective at killing Covid early in the pandemic. Love this type of out of box thinking!
besides snorting crystalline polyphenylene covalent organic frameworks powders assembled from linked fluorinated tris(4-acetylphenyl)benzene molecules? No, sorry.
record high temps across the state today with a cool 82 degrees at the end of October, 80 yesterday, 80 again tomorrow