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Comment by Neal on Tuesday

Damn, that tornado in Oklahoma was fierce. No problem though, god will take dare of your ugly asses.

Comment by Neal on Monday

Great video; Maher on Climate Change:

Comment by Neal on Monday

Can you imagine seeing a pile of poison out your window. Must be a great place to raise kids.

Koch Bros own the pile, they care for nothing.

Comment by Lester Unega Waya on Monday

Neal.
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"Might have to move out of the state before it becomes one giant pile of poison."

A mass exodus is the most peaceful yet loudest form of protest.

Comment by Neal on Monday

Might have to move out of the state before it becomes one giant pile of poison.

Comment by Neal on Monday

Black mound of Canadian oil waste rises over Detroit

A three-story pile of petroleum coke along the Detroit River in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. (NYT)

THE NEW YORK TIMES
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WINDSOR, Ontario — Assumption Park gives residents of this city lovely views of the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit skyline. Lately they've been treated to another sight: a three-story pile of petroleum coke covering an entire city block on the other side of the Detroit River.

Detroit's ever-growing black mountain is the unloved, unwanted and long overlooked byproduct of Canada's oil sands boom.

And no one knows quite what to do about it, except Koch Carbon, which owns it. The company is controlled by Charles and David Koch, wealthy industrialists who back a number of conservative and libertarian causes including activist groups that challenge the science behind climate change. The company sells the high-sulfur, high-carbon waste, usually overseas, where it is burned as fuel.

The coke comes from a refinery alongside the river owned by Marathon Petroleum, which has been there since 1930. But it began refining exports from the Canadian oil sands — and producing the waste that is sold to Koch — only in November.

"What is really, really disturbing to me is how some companies treat the city of Detroit as a dumping ground," said Rashida Tlaib, the Michigan state representative for that part of Detroit. "Nobody knew this was going to happen."

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Comment by Neal on Monday

Minnesota State Rep Calls Climate Change ‘Complete United Nations Fraud And Lie’

By Matt Kasper, Guest Blogger on May 19, 2013 at 10:40 am

Rep. Glenn Gruenhagen

On Wednesday night, Minnesota State Representative Glenn Gruenhagen (R-Glencoe) took to the House floor to talk about climate change and renewable energy.

Using sources such as the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Gruenhagen told his colleagues that climate change is a “complete United Nations fraud and lie…. The latest facts from CPAC show that in the last sixteen years there’s been no global warming.”
While it is common practice among climate skeptics to claim that the Earth is no longer warming, the fact is global temperatures are rising. 2010 was the hottest year on record and every year of the 2000s was warmer than 1990s average. Over 30 million people were displaced by climate-related extreme weather events in 2012, and it is increasingly likely millions more will be displaced in the near future.

Think Progress

Comment by Neal on Saturday

We are fucking doomed:

Comment by doone on Saturday

Like A Fish Out Of Hot Water

MAY 17 2013 @ 7:47PM

Humans aren’t the only ones being displaced by climate change:

Each cold-blooded fish species has a particular temperature range in which it thrives. If water temperatures depart from that range, they may experience reduced growth and reproduction, ultimately reducing their numbers in a particular area and changing the species’ distribution. Climate change-driven shifts in fisheries pose the biggest threat to livelihoods in developing countries, especially in the tropics, where adaptation capacity of both people and fish themselves are more limited, [researcher William] Cheung said.  …

With climate change predicted to accelerate in coming decades due to the rising amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, even faster shifts in fish populations are possible, which could even lead to disputes between countries if commercially valuable fish shift out of one country’s waters and into another’s, according to Boris Worm, a marine biologist at Dalhousie Univeristy in Nova Scotia who was not involved in the Nature study.

Previous Dish on populations displaced by climate change here and here. Photo of a school of sardines by TANAKA Juuyoh via Wiki.

Comment by doone on May 15, 2013 at 10:32am

Fleeing The Sea

MAY 15 2013 @ 10:25AM

Michael Osborne interviews Andrew Guzman, author of Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change, about the strife that rising sea levels will likely cause:

The environmental-refugee problem becomes eye-poppingly scary when you look at the 150 million people living in Bangladesh. A one-meter sea level rise would swamp about 17 percent of the country. “We know where people go when they lose their land: They go to cities, and they go to refugee camps,” Guzman says. “So the Bangladeshi cities that remain are going to be overrun and crumbling. Just think of the sewage system alone.”

Lest you think no one has considered what might happen next, in recent years India has increased security along the border with Bangladesh. “But fences are only so good up to a point,” Guzman says. “So how much violence are you prepared to use to keep that border secure? It’s not at all clear to me that the border can remain intact.”

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