It is a waste of time to try to refute Trump’s arguments like in a #normal#debate. It’s nearly impossible to identify what his arguments even are. He starts w/ #nonsense & then digresses into blather.
#Trump may rant & rave in part because he wants to #avoid giving straight #answers about his unpopular positions, like restrictions on #abortion, giving #tax breaks to #billionaires & selling out our #planet to big #oil companies in return for campaign donations. He interrupts & bullies — he even stalked me around the stage at one point — because he wants to appear dominant & throw his opponent off balance.
Astronomers have made the rare and tantalising discovery of an Earth-like #exoplanet 40 light-years away that may be just a little warmer than our own world.
The potentially #habitable#planet, named Gliese 12 b, orbits its host #star every 12.8 days, is comparable in size to #Venus - so slightly smaller than Earth - and has an estimated surface temperature of 42°C.
The planet is in spin-orbit resonance, so its habitability is far from guaranteed.
With surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead, #Venus today is a veritable hellhole, despite being similar in size to Earth and orbiting in the #habitable zone of the Sun.
Yet studies suggest the #planet may have once hosted oceans and even conditions suitable for #life.
Explaining how all that #water disappeared has been a problem.
Major bad #ClimateCrisis news just published in today's #Guardian - "Exclusive: Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for #humanity poll of hundreds of scientists finds - World’s top #climate scientists expect #GlobalHeating to blast past 1.5C target.
Hundreds of the world’s leading climate scientists expect global temperatures to rise to at least 2.5C (4.5F) this century, blasting past internationally agreed targets and causing catastrophic consequences for humanity and the #planet, an exclusive Guardian survey has revealed.
Almost 80% of the respondents, all from the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( #IPCC), foresee at least 2.5C of global heating above preindustrial levels, while almost half anticipate at least 3C (5.4F). Only 6% thought the internationally agreed 1.5C (2.7F) limit will be met."
Numerous experts said they had been left feeling hopeless, infuriated and scared by the failure of governments to act despite the clear scientific evidence provided.
“I think we are headed for major societal disruption within the next five years,” said Gretta Pecl, at the University of Tasmania. “[Authorities] will be overwhelmed by extreme event after extreme event, food production will be disrupted. I could not feel greater despair over the future.”
"UN expert attacks ‘exploitative’ world economy in fight to save planet"
...
"It has driven me crazy in the past six years that governments are just oblivious to history" - Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’"
...
"The race to save the #planet is being impeded by a global #economy that is contingent on the #exploitation of #people and #nature, according to the UN’s outgoing leading environment and #HumanRights expert.
David Boyd, who served as #UN special rapporteur on human rights and the #environment from 2018 to April 2024, told the #Guardian that states failing to take meaningful #ClimateAction and regulating polluting industries could soon face a slew of lawsuits.
Boyd said: “I started out six years ago talking about the right to a healthy environment having the capacity to bring about systemic and transformative changes. But this powerful human right is up against an even more powerful force in the global economy, a system that is absolutely based on the exploitation of people and nature. And unless we change that fundamental system, then we’re just re-shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic.”
...
Boyd said: “The failure to take a human rights based approach to the #ClimateCrisis – and the #biodiversity crisis and the air #pollution crisis – has absolutely been the achilles heel of those efforts for decades.
... https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy
ℹ #AndriiMelnyk, #Kyiv’s former ambassador to #Germany currently posted to #Brazil, explained in an interview with #NV_Radio on April 1 why the country avoids the topic of #russia’s war against #Ukraine with the West in no hurry to remedy the situation
"Here we really see a completely different world. This isn’t even some other #civilization...
I sometimes get the impression that people live here as if on another #planet