Politics

[spike.t]

Just need the rest to follow..

Poland to temporarily suspend right to asylum, PM Tusk says

Donald Tusk said Russia and Belarus were encouraging migration into Poland in a bid to destabilise the EU.

www.bbc.com

 

[Pondoro]

Bob Woodward´s new book "War" is being published the coming tuesday.. In that book Mark Milley call Trump a "Total facist".. Thats strong words coming from a General who worked close over a longer period with him..

 

[TTundra]

Bob Woodward´s new book "War" is being published the coming tuesday.. In that book Mark Milley call Trump a "Total facist".. Thats strong words coming from a General who worked close over a longer period with him..

General Milley lost a lot of respect with the Afghanistan withdrawal and the decision to abandon equipment. Trump has a sound bite going around on that subject that is hard to disagree with.
Now, years later, the equipment left is being seen conpletely operational in China, and in the hands of various other designated terror groups. 90 billion founded to terror groups.

There are a lot in the veteran community that still feel slighted at the administrations handling of the withdrawal and aftermath and how no officer truly took ownership and resigned.

There is also little faith left in high ranking intelligence officials and Washington personel after 50 signed a letter in 2020 stating Hunters laptop was Russian collusion and then 3 years later the government enters that same laptop into official evidence against Hunter Biden. No accountability on their outright lying to the American people to literally influence and election.

Shawn Ryan's Episode with Sgt Tyler Vargas who survived the explosion at Abbeyate during the withdrawal paints another picture entirely. It's gut wrenching to hear how much those servicemen and women were failed.

 

[sgt_zim]

@Red Leg - have you heard anything about this?

MSN

Well crap, for some reason this board's software doesn't want to expand the link.

a headline for those suspicious of clicking random "MSN" links (and good on you if you are suspicious).

 

[Red Leg]

@Red Leg - have you heard anything about this?

MSN

New to me.

 

[Altitude sickness]

I didn't make any claims on CO2 causing or not causing changing climate. I didn't make any claims as to if CO2 is a pollutant. I made not commentary what so ever on climate change, let alone whatever the drivers of it may be. It's not the topic of the post and I'm not sure why you jumped to that conclusion.

What I am talking about, is if humans, or any other organism, can measurably change the long term conditions on Earth. On that topic, I am claiming that it is undeniable that plant or animal activity on Earth CAN measurably change the level of atmospheric gases, both CO2 and oxygen. That is simple fact. It has happened many times, most notably with the advent of photosynthesis.

The carboniferous was not an oxidation event. It was a CO2 sequestration event. Which is what I said.

The 'Great Oxidation Event' (so named in literature - link: https://asm.org/articles/2022/february/the-great-oxidation-event-how-cyanobacteria-change) relates to the oxidation of the atmosphere due to the advent of photosynthetic bacteria, roughly 3bn years BEFORE the Carboniferous.

It is the exact OPPOSITE of what happens on Mars, or anywhere else in the solar system, which involves the REMOVAL of O2 from the atmosphere into oxides, in Mars' case primarily ferrous oxides, which is why Mars is red, and has basically no atmospheric oxygen to speak of (approx 1/10,000 of the level on Earth). I agree it's a confusing term because we typically think of 'oxidation' in terms of oxidizing metals or minerals, which is not what the event describes.

Overall, I think we're speaking across each other here, or you've misinterpreted what I've written. Hopefully this clarifies my position!

Of course the planet is changing, it has been long before we walked here. The impact of humans will be so minuscule over the course of billions of years, we may not even register as a major event.

Humans do not create energy. Productive or destructive. All of the energy seen as destructive was already here. We have only redirected it or transferred it to work. It will go back to its original form eventually.

As a tiny minute example of the damage we cause. Look at the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. It pumped high pressure crude into the gulf for months. At the time. Environmentalists proclaimed doomsday and the gulf sea life and shore would be permanently damaged.
The ocean chewed the minor nuisance up and spit it out. 14 years later you may find a blob somewhere on the bottom. Which by the way happens without man’s help. The gulf burps oil blobs. So in one billion years do you think the BP oil spill will be noticeable. Now add all of man’s impact over another 1000 years. We may have left. It may be traceable 10 billion years from now. Like other forms of life that have come and gone.

But my point is. The planet does not care. It will be just fine until the one of the known several major events occur . iE The Sun, the earths core, the poles reverse again. asteroids ETC. Real destructive power.

The earth will not be drastically changed or destroyed by mere humans.

Maybe I am wrong and the experts in Davos like John Kerry and Fink can change the climate of the earth if we give them our money and dominion over us.