Past time to act against pollution that causes global warming

June 7, 2023

I am reminded of a Senate hearing during the Dust Bowl — is it an apocryphal story? An enormous windstorm picked up thousands of tons of dust from Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, and sent it cross country.

A Department of Agriculture official trying to get the government to act heard of the storm, and tracked it. He asked a Senatte committee meeting on the Dust Bowl to take an early lunch break in a hearing.

When the committee hearing resumed after lunch, a senator asked the official if the Dust Bowl was really that big a deal — what would the effects be?

The Ag official got up from the table, went to the windows and opened them, so the dust could swirl into the hearing room. He said the dust had been topsoil used for farming a couple of days earlier. The dust had blown into Washington just after noon.

Congress acted. U.S. defeated the Dust Bowl and restored millions of acres of farmland.

In New York and other eastern cities this week, smoke from wildfires in Canada settled in after a nearly 3,000-mile journey.

Who will act this time?

Statue of Liberty stands obscured and choked by smoke from wildfires in Western Canada. Reuters photo by Amr Alfiky | عمرو الفقي@alfiky_amr.

Global heating dries out western forests, and some effects cause trees to die, making them great tinder for fires. It’s clear to anyone who looks, to anyone who loves science, to anyone who loves Liberty.

Tip of the old scrub brush to @corinne_perkins on Twitter.

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Annals of Global Heating: Karma, sort of. Pollute around, deny problems, and find out

April 14, 2023

Man on roof after Ft. Lauderdale, FL, record rains, 4-14-2023
Man on roof, separated from his political rants against doing anything to stop global warming by global-warming-aggravated floods, in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, circa April 14, 2023.

You can’t make this stuff up. Here’s a guy flooded out from his home, where he holds forth claiming climate change isn’t real, and if it is, isn’t a problem.

Will he accept federal aid to fix his home?

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America, before EPA cleaned it up

July 2, 2022

Why is the Environmental Protection Agency and its powers to order and end to and cleanup of pollution important to America?

Consider America before EPA.

Twitterer Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) took some EPA file photos to show what things used to look like, before EPA really got going. This is a small sample of the good work EPA has done, and does.

“SCOTUS just limited the authority of the EPA. Here’s a brief thread that gives everyone an idea of what America looked like before pollution was regulated.”

That building looks familiar? It should. It’s the Watergate, luxury hotel and condominiums. Just yards away from the sewage outflow.

If you visit those sites in 2022, you will not be met by the awful smell of sewage or industrial waste. You will not need to wear a mask to protect your lungs from the air pollution including carcinogens that give you equivalent to a pack of cigarettes smoked in a day.

The cleanups may not be perfect, but they make America great.

Cleaning up carbon pollution from our air is necessary to keep America great, and to save the planet — again.

Please ask your Congressional representatives to strengthen the law so EPA can get on with its work.

Tip of the old scrub brush to 50 Shades of Whey (@davenewworld) on Twitter.

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