The all-purpose heavy duty Climate Chaos thread (sprinkled with hope).

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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 46,765
    The oil and gas industry’s wastewater problem is a trillion-gallon ticking time bomb beneath our feet. For decades, drillers have injected this toxic waste product of oil and gas production back underground. But increasingly, it doesn’t stay where it should. Instead, it’s spreading for miles, irreversibly contaminating drinking water or blasting back to the surface.

    In the past few months, a series of groundbreaking investigations have shed light on the industry’s wastewater crisis. Together, they show that this problem isn’t isolated to a few rural oil fields. It’s threatening land, water and people all over the country.

    🗓️ Join us for a virtual event on Tuesday, April 28, where reporters from several newsrooms, including The Frontier, DeSmog and Inside Climate News, will share what they’ve learned and answer your questions.

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  • mickeyrat
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    Many states have passed laws requiring universal lead screening — but not Nebraska. So in Omaha, where factories deposited 400 million pounds of the toxic metal, most kids haven’t been tested.

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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 44,399
    mickeyrat said:
    Many states have passed laws requiring universal lead screening — but not Nebraska. So in Omaha, where factories deposited 400 million pounds of the toxic metal, most kids haven’t been tested.

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    Terrible!   I feel awful for those kids.  Lead poisoning is serious shit.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 44,399
    Ugh!  Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.  I hate sharing this kind of thing, but it's a reminder to do what we can to adapt as well as (depending on where you live) be prepared for a probable rough summer.

    Why an immense marine heatwave off the US west coast has alarmed scientists






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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 51,684
    Bye bye New Orleans. Too bad people won't so what's necessary. If they would, something of the spirit if the city could maybe be saved, but as it is, the way people are, all of it is likely doomed. 


    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 44,399
    PJ_Soul said:
    Bye bye New Orleans. Too bad people won't so what's necessary. If they would, something of the spirit if the city could maybe be saved, but as it is, the way people are, all of it is likely doomed. 



    From the article: "Coastal Louisiana is one of the lowest lying regions in the world, and New Orleans, a city of 360,000 people, is particularly exposed. It sits in a bowl-shaped basin, mostly below sea level, in the middle of a rapidly shrinking delta."

    In the age of climate change?  Yeah, sorry to say, adios New Orleans. 

    On the other hand, if we were to load up all the excrement this current administration as produced and truck it down to The Big Easy and use it as land fill, we could probably raise the entire city 100 feet.
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  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 11,110
    I mean, larger parts of the Netherlands are below sea level, and they manage to keep the sea out with amazing system of dikes.  Maybe America could play nice, learn a thing or two, come together, pay some taxes to raise funds, and save New Orleans?

    lol, yah, probably not :)

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 44,399
    Zod said:
    I mean, larger parts of the Netherlands are below sea level, and they manage to keep the sea out with amazing system of dikes.  Maybe America could play nice, learn a thing or two, come together, pay some taxes to raise funds, and save New Orleans?

    lol, yah, probably not :)


    Good point about Netherlands.  Miracles do happen.  Perhaps there is hope for New Orleans after all.  To not at least try would be shameful. 
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

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