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A new kind of urban firestorm…


“The conditions that contributed to the Eaton Fire’s devastation are expected to become more common as the world warms, research shows.

A new analysis in the journal Nature Reviews, published just days after the Eaton and Palisades fires ignited, found that oscillations between extreme rain and drought have increased 31 to 66 percent across the globe since the mid-1990s.

Climate change is also expected to lengthen California’s dry season, increasing the overlap between peak fire conditions and the Santa Ana winds. A study published in October in the journal Science found the state has already experienced a 400 percent increase in the growth rate of “fast fires” since 2001. These blazes are fueled by extremely dry vegetation and driven by powerful winds that toss embers far ahead of the main flames.

“It’s like a blowtorch,” Acuña said. “There’s just simply no way to stop that.”
 
Red said:
A new kind of urban firestorm…


“The conditions that contributed to the Eaton Fire’s devastation are expected to become more common as the world warms, research shows.

A new analysis in the journal Nature Reviews, published just days after the Eaton and Palisades fires ignited, found that oscillations between extreme rain and drought have increased 31 to 66 percent across the globe since the mid-1990s.

Climate change is also expected to lengthen California’s dry season, increasing the overlap between peak fire conditions and the Santa Ana winds. A study published in October in the journal Science found the state has already experienced a 400 percent increase in the growth rate of “fast fires” since 2001. These blazes are fueled by extremely dry vegetation and driven by powerful winds that toss embers far ahead of the main flames.

“It’s like a blowtorch,” Acuña said. “There’s just simply no way to stop that.”
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Wrong. The only conditions that caused this fire was DEI hiring policies and liberal agendas. Vague, nonspecific liberal agendas, like too many illegal immigrants or something. Everyone knows the world would cool by multiple degrees if we just hired qualified white men for all of these things. Why can't everyone see that? Idiots!
 
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Wrong. The only conditions that caused this fire was DEI hiring policies and liberal agendas. Vague, nonspecific liberal agendas, like too many illegal immigrants or something. Everyone knows the world would cool by multiple degrees if we just hired qualified white men for all of these things. Why can't everyone see that? Idiots!
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The saddest part of this anti-DEI **** is that people who are black, gay, or a woman in positions with no help from DEI policies are going to be looked at as though they didn't earn their position.

It is important to understand that there is no DEI policy that suggests unqualified people should be hired. Most of the time it means to at least consider the entire field of qualified candidates and don't just hire the dude who you spent half the interview talking about golf and sports with and that you don't just want to have as an employee but a new hang-out buddy because you have so much in common.

Most of the time when the less qualified person gets hired it is because they are white and the interviewer is white.
 
Sardines said:
The saddest part of this anti-DEI **** is that people who are black, gay, or a woman in positions with no help from DEI policies are going to be looked at as though they didn't earn their position.

It is important to understand that there is no DEI policy that suggests unqualified people should be hired. Most of the time it means to at least consider the entire field of qualified candidates and don't just hire the dude who you spent half the interview talking about golf and sports with and that you don't just want to have as an employee but a new hang-out buddy because you have so much in common.

Most of the time when the less qualified person gets hired it is because they are white and the interviewer is white.
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The easiest way around this is the method I take when interviewing. I have my recruiter print out resumes and either delete or physical cut off the names and addresses, etc of the candidate. Then i can do the first round minimizing any of my own hidden biases. I've found some really good people this way, even though I'd like to think i would have picked the best candidate anyway. It's just a good method that works for me
 
The dastardly Heartland Institute determined to erase “climate change” as a subject of discussion in the real world that we all live in. What a noble goal! Not!

www.theguardian.com

Revealed: US climate denial group working with European far-right parties

Representatives of Heartland Institute linking up with MEPs to campaign against environmental policies
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Climate science deniers from a US-based thinktank have been working with rightwing politicians in Europe to campaign against environmental policies, the Guardian can reveal.

MEPs have been accused of “rolling out the red carpet for climate deniers” to give them a platform in the European parliament, amid warnings of a “revival of grotesque climate denialism”.

The Heartland Institute, which has links to the Trump administration and has drawn on funding from companies including ExxonMobil and wealthy US Republican donors, has seized on a time when rightwing anti-climate action sentiment has been surging, and has set up a new European base in London.

For the past two years, representatives of the thinktank have been working with MEPs and have spoken in the European parliament to campaign against bills, including the nature restoration law. They have sought to cast doubt on established climate science, and connected climate-sceptic MEPs from Poland, Hungary and Austria to help coordinate campaigns against proposed environmental laws.

Heartland has made some extreme and incorrect comments on climate. In the past, it has compared people who believe in global heating to the Unabomber, the US terrorist jailed for killing three people and injuring many others, as well as branding the concept of human-caused climate change “fake news”……

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After setting up its base in London this December, the institute boasted in a newsletter to its members about its unprecedented footprint in Europe. It wrote: “In our role as gadfly, we have helped foment dissent and encouraged and publicised protests against higher energy taxes, climate restrictions, and wind and solar subsidies.

“Based on the fact that a number of energy taxes in different EU countries have been delayed, reduced, or scuttled altogether and climate policies have been modified to reduce their economic impact, there is at least some evidence our efforts have borne positive policy fruit.”

Green MEPs have warned about the rise of the Institute in Europe. The Austrian MEP Lena Schilling said: “The FPÖ is rolling out the red carpet for climate change deniers who try to undermine EU legislation and accelerate the destruction of our planet. It’s a disgrace and a betrayal of citizens who expect their political representatives to protect them from disasters and security threats.”

The German MEP Daniel Freund added: “Recently, Alice Weidel advocated for tearing down all wind turbines in Germany – even though they produce cheap electricity. The alliance between climate deniers and the far right is taking on cult-like characteristics.” Weidel is the co-leader of Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland party.
 
www.sciencealert.com

The Ocean Surface Is Warming Over 400% Faster Than in The 1980s

The unexpected jump in global temperatures since 2023 has helped fuel a relentless assault of associated disasters around the world, including the still-burning LA fires and the deadly Valencia floods, leaving researchers scrambling for explanations.
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“The unexpected jump in global temperatures since 2023 has helped fuel a relentless assault of associated disasters around the world, including the still-burning LA fires and the deadly Valencia floods, leaving researchers scrambling for explanations.

Data from the world's oceans now reveal that an alarming acceleration in sea surface warming likely contributed. A new study from the University of Reading in the UK finds the tops of our oceans are warming more than four times faster than in the late 1980s.

www.newscientist.com

Surge in ocean heat is a sign climate change is accelerating

The rate of warming in the oceans has more than quadrupled since 1985, suggesting global warming in general has undergone a marked acceleration
www.newscientist.com www.newscientist.com
 
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