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Did the U.K. Supreme Court Kill the Country's Fossil Fuel Industry? ( www.splinter.com )

In a landmark 3-2 decision, the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court ruled that the downstream emissions of fossil fuel extraction projects must be considered in the approvals process. This is, in short, a big deal.

silence7 OP Mod ,

A lot is happening though; it looks like Chinese emisions are starting to drop

We've likely already shifted from a 4°C world by 2100 to a 3°C by 2100. That's not enough but it's also a lot more than nothing.

silence7 ,

He wasn't ever going to get elected; the big question was whether he could serve as a spoiler and help elect Trump.

silence7 ,

The idea was basically that having the name Kennedy and touting his environmental work (from before when a worm ate part of his brain) would suddenly induce a bunch of Democrats to vote for him. So he got to dine with billionaires and they tossed him money.

silence7 ,

He's not now but I think that was the pitch to the billionaires.

silence7 OP ,

Don't you know? The current Republican-majority Supreme Court thinks this is all ok so long as they play make-believe

silence7 OP ,

That Saudi. The plan there seems to be to sell off all the oil, and then have the royal family decamp to a more northern latitude with their harems while the rest of the population cooks to death.

silence7 OP Mod ,

There article is about a paper showing that there's a significant increase in aluminum oxide in the atmosphere. The particulates from that are part of how the small amounts of chlorine in the atmosphere are able to destroy ozone.

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