Notices by Kevin Leecaster (greenfire@mstdn.social), page 7

This is such a nice headline to see.

EV sales increasing in USA!

Tesla sales are tanking!

Trump does not seem to actually care about becoming POTUS other than protection from being prosecuted.

He just seems to be in it for the grift.

@MAKS23
Thank you Germany, that's one of the first time I've seen it mentioned that solar panels can help Ukraine to survive the Kremlin's inhumane attacks on their energy infrastructure.

@w7voa
The Republican Speaker has once again put at risk funding for Ukraine by not including an extension on aid into the stopgap government funding bill.

Unlike other drones, which can fly for 10 to 30 minutes using lithium batteries, the Hogreen Air drones can fly for more than 14 hours.

The drone can carry a maximum payload of 10 kg.
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/hydrogen-drone-long-range-korea

This is a good example of how the Kremlin has been able to make so many Americans anti-USA in order to help undermine our democracy so much.

The president of Mexico has seized the land of an Alabama-based company in Mexico in his last days in office that is certain to make the MAGA crowd crow.

AMLO is kind of Trumpian in a leftist sort of way I think.

US Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar has warned that companies may lose confidence in Mexico as an investment destination as a result of the judicial reform pushed through Congress this month.

Russians and our modern crop of Republicans have the exact same view of the USA thanks to the Australian Rupert Murdoch.

This is quote from exhibit in recent DOJ indictment of RT executives:
https://www.justice.gov/d9/2024-09/exhibits_9a_and_9b.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery?ftag=MSF0951a18

Carbon sequestration on agricultural land refers to the process of capturing and storing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere in soil and plants on farms.

Carbon sequestration on agricultural land can help achieve net zero emissions globally by 2050 at costs between US$80 and $120 per ton of CO2 equivalent.

This study confirms my hypothesis that #BioChar provides the most carbon sequestration potential too btw.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-024-01039-1

Americans and supporters of democracy across the globe owe a debt of gratitude to Joe.

President Biden on Tuesday bid farewell to the United Nations, highlighting the ongoing global turmoil and need for peace in an address to wrap his decades of foreign policy work. The president, during his remarks at the session of the UN General Assembly in New York.
https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/DATcjV-A2yc

I hope that Ukraine is invited to join NATO on the day after they kick all of the invaders off of their territory.
https://mastodon.social/@MAKS23/113191800739359382

@aho @MAKS23
Yeah, I noticed how he did that too.

That's the way most Republicans treat President Biden as well. They'll call Trump president, but not the POTUS. It seems to be a part of their gaslighting of their base to help prop themselves and their allies up while demeaning their opponents with rudeness.

I so hope that the GOP goes the way of the dinosaurs this fall.

Of course it is based on Aldo Leopold's phrase in his classic environmental book, the Green Fire in my handle was also the name of the decarbonization HVAC company I had prior to the divorce as you can see in this photo from one of the times I paid to spread the message about cleaner air being possible if we would just stop burning fossil fuels.

the Tennessee Aquarium partnered with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the University of Georgia's River Basin Center — with an assist from the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency — to rescue 105 adult Laurel Dace from Chattanooga-area Walden Ridge and temporarily relocate them to the Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute because of fears that the severe drought could damage the species' chances for survival.
https://newschannel9.com/sports/outdoors/drought-prompts-emergency-rescue-of-one-of-americas-most-endangered-aquatic-species

Jordi Zonneveld says his first decade in the oil and gas industry was great. But in 2015 he realized he could pull his company toward a greener future by working on hydrogen to replace fossil fuels.
https://apnews.com/video/netherlands-plug-power-inc-philanthropy-international-93c09e1f85514cee9a500da18cb87f29

@eled_nil
Look, you are fine with human carbon pollution causing untold devastation rather than trying to do something about it. That's certainly a common attitude that I've run into after trying for decades to get people to care otherwise.

I don't expect you to trust me since you don't trust the scientific consensus on climate change. Here's a reference from climate scientists on the dire need to immediately create a carbon dioxide removal industry from the 2022 IPCC report on mitigation.

Frontier, a public benefit corporation owned by Stripe, has facilitated its fourth round of carbon removal pre-purchases from nine companies as part of their effort to help jumpstart this new emerging circular economy market.

They work in the field of Direct Air Capture rather than the more controversial field of Carbon Capture btw.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exterra-carbon-solutions-secures-frontier-130000289.html

@eled_nil
Sorry that you've fallen for the propaganda. Carbon credits are becoming reliable with better monitoring, reporting, and verification.

Everyone should be offsetting the carbon dioxide they are still emitting after the concentration of carbon dioxide in our thin, precious atmosphere exceeded 350 ppm.

I understand though since cynicism as an ideology has seemed to grow so popular over the last few years.

@eled_nil
Also, just calling carbon credits greenwashing w/o addressing what you find objectionable about the particular science behind the direct air capture and sequestration technology is how I know that your opposition to this crucial component of a circular sustainable economy is how I can identify it as being caused by brainwashing.

@eled_nil
You have shown me that you have "researched" some anecdotes and extrapolated from them.

While I've been on the internet long enough to know that I won't change a mind as made up as yours appears to be there are areas that are benefiting from the growing sustainable circular economy of carbon credits.

For example, Ghana has earned $4.8 million for reducing nearly 1 million tons of carbon emissions caused by deforestation with up to $45 million expected by the end of 2024.