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One of the uneducated masses favored conspiracy beliefs.

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'Chemtrail' conspiracy theorists: The people who think governments control the weather

The first part of the BBC's series on online conspiracy theories: why some people think chemicals are dropping from the sky.
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www.theguardian.com

My month with chemtrails conspiracy theorists

Tammi Riedl and her partner believe ‘chemtrails’ are damaging our health. They prove conspiracies have gone mainstream – and aren’t just for the right wing
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It’s always tough to fix “stupid”. But it’s next to impossible when the stupidity has become politicized. Lacking any critical thinking whatsoever, and believing in a Deep State, you can’t win against such a degree of stupid.

www.chemistryworld.com

Why do people believe conspiracy theories?

Rachel Brazil looks into the dangerous world of chemical conspiracy theories and asks the experts what we can do about it
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www.mcgill.ca

On the Trail of Chemtrail Nonsense

This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette. I remember the day I first became acquainted with the notion of “chemtrails.” It was December 13, 2002, the day before I was to be a guest on Art Bell’s Coast to Coast, a very popular overnight radio show. I had just come out with my book...
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We can never be surprised when some conspiracy-saturated minds turn violent and threatening. Stupidly of the epic variety associated with “chemtrails” does affect unhinged people. The belief is unhinged, and attracts unthinking dolts….

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Chemtrails conspiracy theorists are sending death threats to climate scientists

Scientists are about to test technology that could reduce global warming. But conspiracy theorists are sending them death threats.
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Trump’s had things against the wind for awhile. And wind power. And the New England states are blue states, so punishing them comes natural. Southern New England/Long Island we’re counting on these.

This really is lunacy. Taking hundreds of jobs away, and many more in the future. Derailing the creation of a sustainable energy source for millions of Americans in southern New England:

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Trump halts work on nearly complete New England offshore wind project

The Trump administration has halted construction on an offshore wind project near Rhode Island that is 80% complete
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Revolution Wind is located more than 15 miles (24 kilometers) south of the Rhode Island coast, 32 miles (51 kilometers) southeast of the Connecticut coast and 12 miles (19 kilometers) southwest of Martha’s Vineyard. Rhode Island is already home to one offshore wind farm, the five-turbine Block Island Wind Farm.

Revolution Wind was expected to be Rhode Island and Connecticut’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm, capable of powering more than 350,000 homes. The densely populated states have minimal space available for land-based energy projects, which is why the offshore wind project is considered crucial for the states to meet their climate goals.

“This arbitrary decision defies all logic and reason — Revolution Wind’s project was already well underway and employed hundreds of skilled tradesmen and women. This is a major setback for a critical project in Connecticut, and I will fight it,” Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal said in a statement.
www.offshorewind.biz

BREAKING: Trump Administration Stops Construction on 80-Pct-Complete Offshore Wind Farm

Only days after Ørsted reported in its half-year results that Revolution Wind was at 80 per cent of completion, the US Department of the Interior's (DOI) Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) issued a stop-work order halting all offshore construction activities on the 704 MW project that is...
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Attorney General Peter Neronha said the Revolution Wind project is absolutely essential to meeting Rhode Island’s clean energy goals.

Nearly half of the State’s clean energy portfolio, 400MW to be precise, is slated to come from Revolution Wind upon the project’s completion next year. Without Revolution Wind, our Act on Climate is dead in the water. With the significant investments made in this project already and its obvious benefit to our economy and climate, the Trump Administration’s attempt to halt it can only be characterized as bizarre. Along with our neighboring states, we are evaluating our avenues to reverse it.
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Paying for Climate Chaos: U.S. Federal Subsidies for Fossil Fuel Production - Oil Change International

“Paying for Climate Chaos” reveals the staggering scope of federal government subsidies for fossil fuel production, est. at a whopping $34.8 billion per year.
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“Paying for Climate Chaos” reveals the staggering scope of federal government subsidies for fossil fuel production. While working families struggle with the rising cost of housing, groceries, and utilities, the report finds that the federal government currently hands the fossil fuel industry an estimated $34.8 billion annually, further enriching Big Oil and Gas CEOs, shareholders, and investors.

This figure is a conservative estimate and likely much higher, due to a lack of accessible, reliable data. It excludes tens of billions of annual state, county, and municipal subsidies for fossil fuel production as well as federal support in the form of international public finance, military expenditures to protect fossil fuel supply or markets, or environmental and health costs of fossil fuel pollution.

Key findings of the report include:

  • The fossil fuel industry is set to receive $34.8 billion in handouts every year – over $4 billion of which were added by Trump and Republicans this year.These handouts have more than doubled since 2017, the last time Oil Change International studied the issue.
  • Fossil fuel companies, which spend millions every year to rig our political system in their favor, receive a 30,000% return on investment in the forms of tax breaks, direct appropriations, cheap access to public lands, and other handouts from the federal government.
  • If leaders fail to act, federal subsidies for fossil fuel production could soar to hundreds of billions of dollars per year in the coming decade.
  • Redirecting public money away from the fossil fuel industry could provide 3 million families with SNAP benefits annually, or help 54 million households install solar panels within a decade.
 
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So how do you recover the fresh water? I mean we can turn sea water into drinking water, it just uses a lot of energy and makes the water expensive.
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www.earth.com

Hidden reservoir of fresh water found miles beneath the ocean floor

An international team of scientists is exploring a vast reservoir of fresh water beneath the Atlantic Ocean.
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Even if the aquifer proves vast and relatively fresh, turning a hidden offshore reservoir into a dependable municipal supply is a long road.

Engineers would need to design wells that operate safely beneath the seabed, transport water ashore, and control pumping to avoid drawing in saltwater or collapsing sediments.

There would also be a need for ecologists to assess how extraction might alter pressure gradients, seafloor habitats, and onshore springs.

Lawyers and policymakers would need to answer thorny questions about ownership and rights: Who controls water beneath federal waters? What about state waters? How do indigenous, fishing, and coastal communities fit into the decision-making? And who bears the cost, and the risk?

The scientists on Liftboat Robert aren’t weighing in on those choices yet. Their job is to deliver a definitive map and a clean set of measurements: salinity profiles, chemical fingerprints, isotopic ages, permeability data, and the architecture of the sediments themselves.
 
Not that this was in doubt, but in his U.N. address, Trump made it clear that he is an enemy of life on Earth. That’s as unenlightened as it gets. Trump stands against life on Earth, and against future generations of the human race. It seems like the use of fossil fuels is increasing, and I personally have little to no expectation of avoiding the consequences of a warming planet. But, in Trump, we have perhaps the most unenlightened and ignorant leader in the entire world. And, in using much of his speech to lecture Europe on its immigration policies, he does so having no idea how global warming is going to affect human migration. We have seen nothing yet, where the movement of people over the course of this century is concerned, from climate change alone. If humanity has a future, Trump will be remembered as one of the truly most evil men alive in our own lifetimes.




Really, this is astonishing. The most powerful man in the world stands firmly against all life on Earth.
 
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