Warming Up for a Hot Time

Attribution: Historic Temperatures by Bill Day, FloridaPolitics.com

World stands on frontline of disaster at Cop28, says UN climate chief | Cop28 | The Guardian

Global temperatures have broken new records in recent months, making this year the hottest on record, and perilously close to the threshold of 1.5C above pre-industrial levels that countries have agreed to hold to. Temperatures are now heading for a “hellish” 3C increase, unless urgent and drastic action is taken, but greenhouse gas emissions have continued to rise.

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The fortnight-long Cop28 talks will start this Thursday in Dubai, hosted by the United Arab Emirates, a major oil and gas-producing country. Scores of world leaders, senior ministers and officials from 198 countries will be in attendance, along with an estimated 70,000 delegates, making it the biggest annual conference of the parties (Cop) yet held under the 1992 UN framework convention on climate change.

The UK prime minister, Rishi Sunak, is expected to attend, and King Charles will give the opening speech, along with the UN secretary general, António Guterres, and the UAE president, Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan. The pope will also be there, the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, and an invitation has been extended to Bashar al-Assad, the president of Syria.

The presidents of the world’s two biggest greenhouse gas emitters, Joe Biden of the US and Xi Jinping of China, are not expected to attend, but their envoys John Kerry and Xie Zhenhua have signalled their close cooperation before the talks.

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  2. things warming up in other ways and places

    “Why Is This Happening?” Live With Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow talks about a concerted effort by Former President Donald Trump to neutralize the word “fascist” by repeating it.

  3. As soon as I calm down there’s more reason to panic. I keep thinking Biden has hit bottom and can push up, but apparently not yet.

    POLITICO: The polls keep getting worse for Biden. Trump’s vote share in national polls is higher than at any time in the past year. Among the latest surveys this month from 13 separate pollsters, Biden’s position is worse than their previous polls in all but two of them.

  4. i respectfully encourage you to source and obtain a grip

    Even Ohio is sick of theocracy, let the lunatics dig their own grave and run an unpopular madman

    The country is evenly split 50/50, has been for years, WE DON’T ELECT A PRESIDENT BY POPULAR VOTE

  6. I had hoped the $30 million in ads the Biden campaign recently dumped into battleground states would make a difference, but it hasn’t. Those were all positive ads. I’d like to see the impact of that kind of money on attack ads, remind people why they defeated Trump in the first place.

  7. …but he’s not even the nominee, yet

    Listen, ppl, ya gotta refute the MAGA loons when they start up with their bullshit, they all collapse under the slightest bit of pressure because their logic isn’t

    or we can all cry together here next Nov and wonder how

    ok these decorations don’t put themselves up 🎄 ✌️ 🇺🇸

  10. For forty-one of the Blind Boys’ years, Jimmy Carter’s distinctive voice has stood at the forefront of their recordings and performances. He is their oldest living member. Two weeks from now, a new album called Echoes of the South will hit the stores.
    It will be the last Blind Boys album of Jimmy Carter’s long and storied career as the leader of one of the South’s—and the nation’s—most beloved musical groups.

    https://www.salvationsouth.com/the-last-man-standing-blind-boys-of-alabama-chuck-reece-jimmy-carter/

  12. There is (or was) a golf course in Birmingham several of the fairways of which go along the tops of ridges, so that if you’re not perfectly on the fairway, there are no “weeds”, your ball goes down into a [valley cany0n, ravine]  
    Does this course ring a bell with any of the Rolling Tiders?

  14. I drove past this one about every day for 20 years.

    “Originally laid out by the notable and prolific Scotsman Donald Ross, the West Course led its sister East by a year, opening in 1925. Significant renovations came about both in 1959-60 and the mid-1980s. As the game and the club evolved, so has the West. Today’s course blends the talents of three World Golf Hall of Fame architects: Ross, Robert Trent Jones, Sr., and Pete Dye. Notably, Dye believes it’s the one course in existence to be crafted by this trio of golf course architects elected to the Hall. Long a competitive venue for everything from weekend dogfight matches to USGA qualifiers, with a special record of Alabama and Southern Amateur Championships, the West made a fitting host for the 2013 U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship, the 2016 Men’s State Team Championship, and the 2022 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship.”

     
    https://www.ccbham.org/club/scripts/custom/custom.asp?NS=PUBLIC&PAGECFG=COURSETOURV2&CID=750
     
     

  16. The uncle units were Vestavia and Shades Mountain, but they made a big deal out of our going to play this particular course so it could have been anywhere. This was rather early in my short lived career as a golfinton.    I rememberf mostly being really tired of knocking all my  balls off the side of a mountaqin or whatever it was.   It FELT like a mountain.  It also served to disabuse me of the notion that I might  go on to be the next Arnold Palmer. Once you abandon the idea of being great you can just do the thing for the fun of it.

  18. Imagine throwing your whole life into it only to wind up as a Mussolini Wanna-be. 
    Imagine GW Bush and Dick Nixon being the two guys you make good by comparison.
    Dick Nixon before he dicks you, as we userd to mumble in the seventies out there in the mean streets.

  19. I don’t think Plumpty has the smarts or the know-how to carry out any of this fascist-ness but he’s putty in the hands of them that do. 

  21. I remember Imus getting pissed at Van Morrison after Morrison got mad at the Blind Boys and ran them out of the dressing room…..I think it was cause van was going to sing a song with them but they couldn’t decide on a song because the Blind Boys wouldn’t do secular and a dispute ensued..
    Imus said Van was snoifflng a lot.

  22. Ivy – While Orange Adolf doesn’t have the smarts to implement Project 25, he won’t be acting alone.   There are sitting members of Congress who will willingly destroy democracy, as well as Republicans around the country and embedded in every department.  Blowhole just gets to feel important; that’s his use for the white nationalists. 

    The next, unhinged Republican debate is December 6th, in Alabama. Roll turds!
     

    I do not want to see a mad scramble by Dems closer to the election.  There may be a contingency plan, but I believe POTUS Joe can do it.  
     
    Biden/Harris 2024!

  26. It was a fantastic show, y’all. The Blind Boys of Alabama packed the house and had them jumping on their seats and in the aisles.
     
    Roll Tide.

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