Notices by Brad Johnson (climatebrad@mastodon.social)

I was rattled out of my liberal bubble at the doctor's office this morning: the TV was playing hard-fascist propaganda about how teacher's unions are the enemy within for opposing America's champion, President Donald Trump

The TV was set to a local news station owned by Sinclair, showing the unbranded National News Desk
#fascism #trump #sinclair #media #uspol #unions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XisTLqbryMU

The US SENATE will have two new Black female senators:
Democrats Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland and
Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware!
#uspol #election2024

This is just my opinion but the continued contempt for Dr. Jennifer Francis's work on how greenhouse pollution perturbs the jet stream is explicable only by the ongoing rampant sexism in the fields of climatology, meteorology, and science communication. https://apnews.com/article/spain-valencia-flooding-rain-climate-change-c77c6b49272420eea1d6324dd3016823
#climate #extremeweather #sexism

Marc Antony:

I’m here to tell you that even though some have forgotten … I remember.

I remember what it was like when Trump was president.

I remember what he did and said, about Puerto Rico…
About our people ...

I remember after Hurricane Maria devastated our island…
Trump blocked billions in relief … while thousands died.

I remember that when our families lacked clean water and electricity,
Trump threw paper towels and called Puerto Rico “dirty” and “poor.”
#uspol #trump #puertorico

North Carolina calculates at least $53 billion price tag for the state's fossil-fueled Hurricane Helene damages, a little less than the $56 billion in half-year profits reported in August by SaudiAramco.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/north-carolina-calculates-at-least-53-billion-price-tag-for-hurricane-helene-damages
#climate #helene #bigoil #fossilfuels #ncwx #uspol

After shocking forecasters by going from a tropical disturbance with a mere 30% chance of development to a hurricane in just 12 hours on Saturday, Hurricane Oscar has now made two landfalls in the Caribbean at hurricane strength, powered by greenhouse seas. https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/10/nadine-and-oscar-overperform-three-landfalls-in-one-weekend/

Kamala connects climate change to $612 million smart-grid investment in the wake of Helene and Milton.

It's like the New Deal, but greener!
#greennewdeal #kamalaharris #uspol #climate #milton #helene #flwx #flpol #smartgrid

Morning Joe on Project 2025's climate denial and calls to break up NOAA, privatize the National Weather Service, eliminate climate research.

"The Trump plan is as dangerous as these storms themselves... If we dismantle [the National Weather Service] we lose this one vital link to keeping ourselves safe." - Monica Medina, former Asst Sec for Ocean, Environment and Science at US State Dept.
#Milton #climatechange #Helene #Project2025 #trump #climatedeniers #uspol #morningjoe #msnbc

Wow. The fossil-fueled Monster Hurricane Milton is a Cat 5 Hurricane again, bigger and badder than before. Central pressure in the eye of Milton has fallen to an estimated 905 mb with maximum sustained winds of 165 mph.
#Milton #flwx #climate #fossilfuels

boy does the New York Times work hard to not say "fossil fuels" these days.

Watch out for those "human-caused forces that have been bringing abnormal heat"!

lol.
#milton #climatesilence #climatechange #fossilfuels
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/07/climate/gulf-mexico-ocean-temperature.html

If only a top climate scientist had warned Congress in 1956 that continuing to burn fossil fuels could worsen hurricanes on the East Coast, we could have done something.

Nobody could have predicted.*
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*Other than climate scientists nearly 70 years ago.

#Helene #Milton #climatechange

"The seas are just so incredibly, incredibly hot. Record hot, as you might imagine. You know what's driving that. I don't need to tell you. Global warming, climate change leading to this."

#milton #climatechange #flwx #fossilfuels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImrqhcMDL9A

Don't you hate it when climate activists block highways
#Helene #climate

When running greenwashing ads on Politico Power Switch and Punchbowl News AM and New York Times, Chevron touts “renewable fuels.” But of course, Chevron is a sociopathic fossil-fuel corporation which uses the national press to lie to the public.
https://hillheat.news/p/fracking-breakdown
#climate #uspol #fossilfuels #chevron

Alaska is flooding.
#climatechange #extremeweather #axwx #globalwarming #fossifuels https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/rural-alaska/2024/08/19/bering-sea-storm-brings-erosion-and-flooding-to-western-alaska-communities/

Long Island is flooding, part 2.

#climatechange #extremeweather #nywx #globalwarming #fossifuels
https://weather.com/news/weather/news/2024-08-19-connecticut-flooding-oxford-fairfield-newtown

Long Island is flooding.
#climatechange #extremeweather #nywx #globalwarming #fossifuels
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/long-island-storm-damage/

Scotland is flooding.
#climatechange #extremeweather #ukwx #globalwarming #fossifuels
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-57970845

Connecticut is flooding.
#climatechange #extremeweather #ctwx #globalwarming #fossifuels
https://www.ctinsider.com/projects/2024/weather/ct-flooding-storm-damage/