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Rex Tillerson, CEO of ExxonMobil, says “we can adapt” to global climate disruption. Let’s see him telecommute from the places hardest hit.
Rex runs the most profitable corporation in the world. He can telecommute from anywhere!
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“It’s no big secret that cars are responsible for a good deal of pollution: There are over 250 million of them in the US alone, and they pump out greenhouse gases by the truckload each day. For those looking to reduce their carbon footprint, electric cars have, for quite a few years now, been the most popular alternative to gas-powered cars.
While electric cars are certainly considered to be the more eco-friendly mode of transportation, there is some discussion as to just how much greener electric vehicles really are. If you’re thinking that your next car might be an electric one, consider the following infographic before you settle on which e-vehicle you want.”
http://www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2012/10/12-3.htm
That graphic is misleading, the reality is a little more complex:
1) As electric grids all over the country get cleaner, so do the EVs. They’re the only cars that effectively get cleaner over time. Given coal is on its way out I’ll bet the graphic is already out of date.
2) I assume it’s not corrected for time of day? Most EV charging happens at night, which in many places is simply using excess available power.
3) EV owners have a say in how clean their cars are: they can install solar, or sign up for clean power sources. They don’t have to make this decision the day they buy the car, they can always do it later.
Over its lifetime an EV bought today is going to be far greener than an ICE, no matter where you live.
I advocate all-electric automated personal transit. Vehicles kill 40,000 Americans a year, just as they always have, and many more are wounded. Approaching zero deaths would be a lot easier for us to stomach. Of course, we’d have to build it, and [sarcasm] Americans are notorious for their national lack of ingenuity [/sarcasm].
Feel free to use photos from this site:
http://www.NotFunnyMitt.com
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Rex Tillerson just has a different version of reality. His world is a mansion with servants, filled with decorators and sycophants coming in and out, parties with single malt and bad country music, and golf vacations in La Quinta and Scotland. His younger colleagues are more into rooftop pool parties, accessorized with drugs and hookers.
Those people do not give a shit about starvation in Africa, or in Texas, for that matter. That’s for the little people.
In about 25 years, Tillerson, Koch, and Boyce will be hauled before the World Court in The Hague. They will still be alive, via organ transplants, but will not be very coherent. They won’t care about prison, but will be alert enough to fall apart when they learn that all of their criminally obtained assets have been confiscated.
These people do not see this coming at all, but even if they did, they still would not change.
Then put them to work in ecological repair. It should skinny them down a bit, and keep them going for a few more years.
Up in the Arctic with the starving polar bears that cannot get to the ice to hunt. He can sat link his last scream. He could try and adapt by taking wads of money soaked in bacon fat and throwing it at the bears. It has proven successful on other species. Socially enabled capitalism is a failed paradigm that has shown its colors and existed way past its greed filed life span.
Leif, mate, think about the poor bears. Eating a plutocrat would probably poison the poor blighters. Better to get the buggers do some hard, physical, work, for once in their lives. Planting trees, dredging toxic waste dumps, fighting mega-fires etc.
He should finish cleaning up the highly toxic Newtown Creek in New York City committing this area as a climate war room to provide large-scale funding, science, and technology for poor-people-first zero emissions development and environmental restoration in the developing world.
Southeast of Baton Rouge in Jindalstan, “Giant sink hole appears in swamp” (WAFB Staff; wafb.com, 8/3/12). The neighboring gas storage site could help the sink hole create a new outlet for the Mississippi River. Rex – before, during, and after can be the king of the distributary and a reason for extremist Republicans and Christians to visit instead of Extreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia types just visiting the Holy relics of Baton Rouge and Vain Romney & Mo Ruin just stopping in Red Stick long enough for the campaign tributes.
Oz -
No one has ever studied the subsistence along the Gulf Coast as a result of the extraction of oil and gas. Given the amounts that have been pumped from salt domes along the coast . This one , is a vision of the future. I’m sure some of the sink holes in Texas are a result of this.
Oz -
The google news search (sinkhole in louisiana) is interesting .
Not one big news feed on the story, and it’s getting worst .
http://www.chron.com/news/article/La-sinkhole-bubbling-gas-linked-to-Texas-company-3944628.php
Romney is now clearly ahead in the polls, according to Real Clear Politics (the most reliable source for polls in my opinion, since it takes the cumulative average of many other polls) -
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_romney_vs_obama-1171.html
I dread to think what will happen if he wins. It would likely mean the abolishment of the EPA (established under Nixon, in saner times), massive expansion of drilling in Alaska and protected nature reserves, a race for oil and gas in the Arctic, slashing of subsidies for wind and solar, more fracking, the gutting of regulations in general, the list goes on and on.
Not to mention foreign policy, the Iran nuclear situation, etc. which is scary to say the least.
I’m from England btw. If Romney was a candidate here in the UK, he’d be viewed as a total nutjob who wouldn’t get even 10% of the vote. It’s sad to see America going insane :-(
Will, the RCP site is regarded by many as slanted towards the GOP. At the moment, Nate Silver’s “FiveThirtyEight” blog — which also consolidates multiple polls — is still projecting a narrow Obama victory.
And I wouldn’t get hung up on national polls. They mean nothing. In the USA it’s the electoral college that matters. If you want to look at RCP, look at their page for the electoral college map — it’s what happens in the dozen or so “toss up” states that matters now.
Having said that, as far as your main point, you are absolutely right. As belated and inadequate as the Obama administration’s efforts to deal with global warming have been, a Romney/Ryan administration would be an unmitigated catastrophe, not only for the USA, but for human civilization, and for the future of life on Earth.
‘Those who the Gods wish to destroy, the first make to vote Republican’.
I think Rex should become an installer of rooftop PV systems or a specialize in sales of EVs or plug-in hybrids, e.g., Chevy Volt, preferably in Houston, Texas, where the most sceptical to these currently push fossil fuels.
Yahoo! News is starting up a new feature where it asks readers how they feel after having read an article from a choice of 8 options (see here for example).
This made me wonder: How might various people feel upon reading a Climate Progress, or climate articles generally? How do we WANT them to feel? What, if anything, might be done to increase the odds that they feel like we might want them to feel?
Perhaps he should go to Nigeria where the effects of big oil are so deleterious for many of its people, and consider why it is currently suffering its worst flooding in decades after torrential rains
http://www.aljazeera.com/weather/2012/10/201210129319935818.html
Still Reuters reports oil production unaffected – so that’s alright then.
I’ve no problem imagining that Nigeria will be one of the first democratic countries with a quite significant size, that will descend into chaos as a result of climate change.
Food security is allready a major problem.
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/managing-the-impending-hunger-and-malnutrition/127446/
Tillerson sounds like the less-wealthy survivalists. Many of them unconsciously talk like the kids who plan to run away from home with a pocketknife, a sandwich and a bandana.
Ever read the pages of survivalists who imagine that after three days on foot with a ‘go bag’ they are going to plant a garden that will sustain them? Or look at the ads for expedition vehicles that need more than 200 gallons of petrol to refuel and yet carry only 200 gallons of water for all purposes?
Ignorance abounds about the vagaries of nature.
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/typhoon-tip-earths-strongest-storm/87362?partner=sciam
Earth’s Strongest, Most Massive Storm Ever
By Meghan Evans, Meteorologist
October 13, 2012; 7:46 PM
Caution: Wikipedia says that Super Typhoon Tip took place in 1979, not today. I’m sorry to say that the AccuWeather.com story on October 12, 2012 failed to mention this fact.
I’ve finally got around to reading Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan. Although I was aware of the different types of plants (C-3,C-4, etc.), I was not aware (maybe forgotten!) that C-4 plants use carbon-13 at a higher ratio than C-3 plants.
Corn being a C-4 plant coupled with how the majority of food (both human grain consumption and meat production going from grass-fed to corn) being so heavily influenced by the simultaneous tremendous explosion of corn production/use, and the use of synthetic (fossil fuel based) fertilizer got me to asking myself if it’s possible that the figures linking carbon isotopes to fossil fuel burning might be somewhat incorrect. Corn acreage has increased greatly since the widespread use of chemical fertilizer in modern agriculture and would have taken more C-13 out of the air than might be recognized.
Anyone know if studies linking fossil fuel isotopes have been done on this that also take the corn acreage explosion into account? Climate scientists and agronomists might not be talking to each other as much as they should be, even though it’s all interconnected in the biosphere. Specialization has produced some amazing bursts of knowledge, but can also have the drawback of lack of communication of the different branches of science. It’s hard enough to keep abreast of one’s specialization, much less someone else’s branch.
Robots make uncountable numbers of things that make our lives better. (And then after that, they make uncountable amounts of utter trash for our supposed enjoyment.) People worldwide are starving, and Americans are huddled under bridges in January, not because there aren’t enough material things in America (shelter, warmth, medical care) to go around 100 times over, but because we, as Americans, show no interest in helping Lazarus at the rich man’s gate.
‘Release the hounds!’. It’s the robopaths, not the robots, who we must fear.
Meanwhile Rosegate opens wider:
Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals Met Office report quietly released… and here is the chart to prove it.
Now who is the Ben Waller who sourced that bit of graphic chicanery full of cherries? I have found one who worked for Hoosier Energy as a Communication Assistant awhile back having found a pdf of ENERGYLINES for July 2010 with such a name on.
Some of the cherries are being picked over in comments at SkepticalScience (Weekly Roundup #5) and the Met’ Office have produced a rebuttal. The WUWT crowd have been presented with this bit of scurrilous Rose propaganda too and trust Curry to chip in, that is if Rose has quoted her accurately and in context. Rose has a long record for being devious with quotes.
Oops sorry, Ben Weller not Waller.