You Would Think

You would think?

I thought that everyone else would also think that the senator in the picture was concerned that the US is getting all a twitter about a potential oil war.

But no, the concern in the senators face was all about two people who were trying to survive conditions that murdered the other nine people who were on a "canoe"  compared to the US armada headed their way.

The program's name (Deadline White House) is however appropriately named.

Anyway, the world sees this "shining city on a hill" madness as a microcosm or symbolic depiction of the new spirit of the Department of War in the government whose president lusts for a Nobel peace prize as he plots to take Venezuela's oil wells and wealth laden mines:

"While the U.S. sits in self-imposed isolation, the rest of the world, led by China, raced ahead to invest in renewables and commit to climate action.

 As the year comes to a close, 2025 looks like a turning point in the world’s fight against climate change. Most conspicuously, it was the year the U.S. abandoned the effort. The Trump administration pulled out of the 2015 Paris Agreement, which unites virtually all the world’s countries in a voluntary commitment to halt climate change. And for the first time in the 30-year history of the U.N.’s international climate talks, the U.S. did not send a delegation to the annual conference, COP30, which took place in Belém, Brazil.

The Trump administration’s assault on climate action has been far from symbolic. Over the summer, the president pressed his Republican majority in Congress to gut a Biden-era law that was projected to cut U.S. emissions by roughly a third compared to their peak, putting the country within reach of its Paris Agreement commitments. In the fall, Trump officials used hardball negotiating tactics to stall, if not outright derail, a relatively uncontroversial international plan to decarbonize the heavily polluting global shipping industry. And even though no other country has played a larger role in causing climate change, the U.S. under Trump has cut the vast majority of global climate aid funding, which is intended to help countries that are in the crosshairs of climate change despite doing virtually nothing to cause it.

These stark shifts in the U.S. position on climate change, which President Donald Trump has called a “hoax” and “con job,” are only the latest and most visible signs of a deeper shift underway. Historically, the U.S. and other wealthy, high-emitting nations have been cast as the primary drivers of climate action, both because of their outsize responsibility for the crisis and because of the greater resources at their disposal. "

(2025: The year the US gave up on climate, and the world gave up on us).  Meanwhile the lack-of-news-media whimpers not about the 87 who were killed, but about the 2 who were.

Proper killing is a thing with them, which is their way of slowing down the constantly approaching nuclear holocaust concepts with the denial enhanced comfort in hopey changy books (Climate-Change Summer or Nuclear Winter?)

Anyway:  

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The Question Is: How Much Acceleration Is Involved In SLR? - 13

More hopey  than changey

On The Brad Blog a discussion included the hope of a doctor of philosophy (Phd):

"Mann warns, during our broad discussion, that the time for action to prevent the worst effects of climate change is now quickly running out." 

(The Brad Blog). 

I asked Dr. AI (a.k.a Google AI bot) about this and the good doctor pointed out that: 

Dir. Mann has indicated that The specific time frame he envisions for this action involves meeting two primary targets:

Reduce global carbon emissions by 50% within the current decade (by 2030); Achieve net-zero emissions by mid-century (around 2050). 

Mann notes that the scientific consensus (as outlined by the IPCC) is that if we achieve these goals, we can likely keep the warming of the planet below the critical 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold, thus preventing the most dangerous and irreversible climate impacts. 

He argues that the obstacles to meeting this time frame are entirely political, not physical or technological. By immediately transitioning away from fossil fuels and investing heavily in renewable energy, we can avert the worst-case scenarios and "preserve what I call our fragile moment" (the stable climate of human civilization)." 

(Dr. AI). Evidently the Mann cart is before the Mann horse:

"The saying 'Don't put the cart before the horse' means to do things in the correct, logical order, because reversing the natural sequence (the horse must pull the cart, not the other way around) makes progress impossible or ridiculous, often leading to confusion, wasted effort, or failure by tackling secondary issues before foundational ones." 

(Dr. AI). Copernicus: "2024 is the first year to exceed 1.5°C above per-industrial level" (Link, emphasis added). 

It would seem that acceleration research should have been exhausted The Question Is: How Much Acceleration Is Involved In SLR? - 12).

It is likely that a major factor in acceleration is "saturation" (The Saturation Chronicles - 12).

As it stands now, the horse is wondering where the cart is going.

The previous post in this series is here.

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The Peak Of The Oil Wars - 20

Mystery ... are we there yet? Where is "there" ... where is here? (You Are Here).

Venezuela oil

"During that earlier period, Venezuela had been largely spared the brutal excesses of direct U.S. interventionism in the region (due in part to the repressive rule of successive U.S.-supported strongmen Juan Vicente Gómez and Marcos Pérez Jiménez). That changed in 1998, when Hugo Chávez, Maduro’s far more popular predecessor, became president and pursued policies of popular sovereignty and resource nationalism aimed at ensuring the nation’s vast oil reserves (the largest in the world) served Venezuelans rather than being siphoned off to enrich foreign corporations. From then on, Venezuela became the latest target of Washington’s efforts to undermine, discipline, and ultimately neutralize 'troublesome' progressive governments across Latin America."  (Tom Dispatch).

The South American country increasingly at odds with the Trump administration has the world’s largest oil reserves (NY Times).

(cf, The Peak Of The Oil Wars, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19). The last people to know about "it" will be ... guess ... guess again:

"At some point in time in the military the two were conflated, but the one that allows wars to replace peace is the one the military selected, like their forerunners in the Roman military, and they became a warmongering spiritual group:

The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed by the Deity to regenerate our victims, while incidentally capturing their markets; to civilise savage and senile and paranoid peoples, while blundering accidentally into their oil wells.

(As We Go Marching, by John T. Flynn, 1944, page 222, emphasis added). If you read The Universal Smedley - 2 and Viva Egypt - 2 you will see how a supposed Christian belief about a battle of Armageddon is also a Mithraic tradition (see #7 in the list above).

It is the belief that got us into the addiction to Middle East oil and oil wars (see The Universal Smedley - 2).

The U.S. military is the world's number one single user of oil (Oil is Biggest Military Weakness)."

(Doing The Right Thing - Mithraism - 2).

The previous post in this series is here.

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