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The fires in Canada are actually the MOST IMPORTANT NEWS in the world right now. They are signals of an accelerating Rate of Warming and harbingers of the “Climate Apocalypse” that's unfolding RIGHT NOW.

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou called the fire a "catastrophe of unprecedented scale," during a visit to the region earlier on Wednesday.

Federal agencies have recently issued a barrage of restrictions that could halt construction of solar and wind farms on public and private lands.

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Fuck cars.. And planes ? ;)

In the popular Japanese anime One Piece, black flags bearing a skull with a straw hat are carried by a rowdy crew of pirates who have made it their mission to challenge a draconian regime and fight for freedom.

The legal claim, one of a raft of lawsuits across the country, had accused companies of a yearslong disinformation campaign about climate change.

When Kathy Hochul is talking about going to “war” in a nationwide, brass-knuckle political fight and Chuck Schumer is going quasi-edge-lord on social media taunting Donald Trump, you know it’s a sea change moment. It’s not because even now you expect the most from these two. It’s because even these two — the most conventional and old school of politicians — clearly see what’s being demanded of them and are trying to get ahead of that wave that is transforming the assumptions about power and political action within the Democratic party.

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By drying, they're talking about freshwater, not losing water in the aggregate

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Much more in Norwegian

The famously rainy state is facing longer, hotter and drier fire seasons, raising the risk of a mammoth fire that will be nearly impossible to fight. All the state can do is prepare.

I'll note that given that in almost all cases, it's cheaper to not produce CO2 in the first place, but the NYT doesn't want to talk about that kind of approach.

Many of us know of the brutality of life under empire, although we perhaps underestimate just how bad it could be. Armed men rounding up women to sell them into slavery or public crucifixions are today seen with dismay when done by the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq but, as the historian Walter Scheidel observed, these were a normal sight in Rome during its peak.