The IPCC's latest report, climate change, Dear Leader, Status Quo Joe, David Sirota

Trust me, once again, I'll tie all the threads together, and quickly this time.

I just returned from a vacation to the Pacific Northwest, where it was an out-of-whack 85F in the Hoh Rain Forest at Olympic National Park, to see the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change release its latest report; the actual full report, not filtered, is here.

Earlier in the trip, I was at Lassen Volcanic National Park five days before the Dixie Fire shut down the whole park; on July 31, I could see the fire making its big blowup to the southeast of the park while I was climbing Lassen Peak. That's it, below; I did only moderate contrast enhancement. I wanted people to be able to distinguish the smoke itself from the background haze, but still see the amount of haze from previous burning.

 

 

Because of all of this, I don't need the Daily Poster telling me about Dear Leader Obama's cave-ins (along with Xi Jingping of China, beloved by allegedly outside the box stenos) on climate change control in Paris. I've blogged in depth about the toothless Jell-O of the Paris Accords.

Ditto, I don't need the Poster to link to Status Quo Joe being exactly that on climate change.

Nor do I need to know that "pergressuve" Dem Congresscritters, even AOC and the rest of the Squad in the House, or climate change pseudo-stalwarts like Ed Markey in the Senate, will cave on the infrastructure bill, or other items that could be used to address climate change, when they don't.

But, if you do, click those links, as well as mine.

Click my link if you need to understand, in light of those links, why I'm not a Democrat, even as the Green Party further implodes, from more paper parties (former Georgia Green Party, et al) and paper caucuses (Lavender) battling each other, to Jesse Ventura-stanners actively opposing anything that approaches ecosocialism, to 2020 presidential nominee Howie Hawkins and his brains trust fellating that same Xi Jinping who teamed with Obama in Paris.

I moved past the Democrats looking for a party of the left, not Jesse-stanning libertarian greens or whatever. An ecosocialist approach to climate change notes that it's just part of a bigger late-stage hypercapitalism. Counterpunch talks about why the IPCC doesn't talk more about this.

Above all, click the actual report link. It notes that in the past few years, climate change is accelerating more than expected. Note that IPCC reports are always a bit behind the curve, and conservative to please government bodies of nation-states. So, behind its talk? It's bad.

Western Tanager, Lassen National Park.
At habitat danger of climate change.
(Photo by blogger.)

We'll almost surely break 2C by 2050. I wouldn't be totally surprised at 2C by 2040 and a full 3C by 2070, even earlier.

Also, remember that climate change is more than just global warming, and not a renaming of it to hide something not being real. Contra wingnuts, both global warming and larger climate change issues are real.

I edited the original header to throw Sirota's name in there. And, we'll wrap with that.

Sirota, a senior advisor to Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign, is widely believed to have ... er, KYPED, a copy of Bernie's email contact list of donors and used that as part of launching Daily Poster. He's not Glenn Greenwald rich at Substack, but may be hauling in 500 large a year. Beyond that, Sirota is a wired-in Dem operative with a wife who is a Dem state rep in Colorado. In short, he's part of the left hand of the duopoly that his own piece affects to criticize.

It's just like the likes of Bill McKibben and other enviros, and Noam Chomsky and other alleged leftists until they head to the polls every other November.

Beyond that, Sirota knows that Dems like AOC ripped off their watered-down version of the Green New Deal (since further watered down) from the Green Party. 

Sirota also knows Bernie said basically nothing about climate change in his 2016 campaign and little enough in 2020.

In short? David Sirota is a fucking hypocrite. And a grifter at the same time, given his paid role with various Democratic candidates. And, given how he allegedly started the Daily Poster, that likely isn't going to end anytime soon.

 

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The Verge interviews one of the report's authors, who talks about increased weather extremity and intensity.