" Company says Disney+, Hulu and ESPN price rises were planned before uproar over Kimmel’s suspension prompted calls to cancel "
Imagine if you had a company that was so unpopular that you had to issue this statement? They want you to know they are doing two negative things, not just one.
Is there even a chance this cash grab wasn’t caused because they started hemorrhaging customers and investors?
Presumably the entire city wouldn’t be affected but perhaps 10% would?
They are. All the major cities are on the ocean.
The half of the report that has been released to the public is in the news:
TL/DR is that it’s officially “too late” on stopping climate change, we are past the point of no return according to the findings.
On some of these northern boreal fires, the experience is that the fire apparently “goes out” when winter snows come along, but then the following spring the fire returns as a zombie fire. It has been smouldering underground in the peat soils.
For two generations, Canadians have been telling themselves that climate change would be totally beneficial for Canada. The basic idea was that the climate would be nice and stable and predictable but it would make the country warmer, make winters less harsh, increase the agricultural potential in the north etc
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita
Canadians are among the worst CO2 polluting people on the planet on a per capita basis.
You can see this recent comment where a hapless Canadian wonders why Canadians aren’t totally winning yet. The propaganda goes extremely deep. The commenter is frustrated that Canadians aren’t profiting from the climate refugee problem – talking about selling foreigners a safe haven in Canada. The comment is posted under an article talking about how Canadians are now becoming refugees inside their own country! It’s a whole country sleep walking into major peril.
The boreal forest is a bigger source of carbon than the Amazon, and Canadians have been hard at work draining the muskeg swamps in order to improve the logging industry. With the water drained, it takes merely 3 days of off-the-charts heat to turn it into a wildfire risk. When the boreal carbon gets going, it will be a natural carbon emitter that equals humanity’s industrial pollution. An unstoppable train that will be uncontrollable by humans. It’s not if, but when.
There are both astronomical and meteorological seasons.
Astronomical summer is June 21 to September 22. Meteorological summer is June July and August.
In the IPCC reports, Carbon Capture +Storage is a fairly significant variable.
https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/03/srccs_summaryforpolicymakers-1.pdf
Under heading #19
- In most scenarios for stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations between 450 and 750 ppmv CO2 and in a least-cost portfolio of mitigation options, the economic potential23 of CCS would amount to 220– 2,200 GtCO2 (60–600 GtC) cumulatively, which would mean that CCS contributes 15–55% to the cumulative mitigation effort worldwide until 2100, averaged over a range of baseline scenarios.
15% at the low end and 55% at the high end. And we haven’t developed this technology or begun to scale it yet.
I think it’s almost like Ponzi scheme accounting where your books balance as long as you get new investment in the future. We are planning on overshooting the carbon in the atmosphere and then doing negative emissions at some point later in the century.
In section 5, this part is pretty grim:
The Secretary General of the United Nations asserts that the goal of keeping global warming under 1.5°C is still reachable if nations increase their ambitions for future emission reductions.
In reality, the 1.5°C goal has long been deader than a doornail.** This raises the question: are we, the scientific community, doing an adequate job of informing governments and the public?
He’s saying that 1.5 hasn’t been reachable for a very long time and yet that delusional narrative is still out there at the highest levels.
This raises the question of why? What’s really going on where the society isn’t facing up to this?
David Brooks:
“Trump is the wrong answer to the right question.”
According to the research team, the consequences of this reversal are already becoming visible. The upwelling of deep, warm, CO₂-rich waters is believed to be driving the accelerated melting of sea ice in the Southern Ocean. In the long term, this process could double current atmospheric CO₂ concentrations by releasing carbon that has been stored in the deep ocean for centuries—potentially with catastrophic consequences for the global climate.
Try telling that to all the older generations. They are all paying $100/month for cable packages…