Dimensionally Barrett

Source: The Nation As a dumb kid, I didn’t vote for Carter. I thought the idea of continuity was somehow important to maintaining stability in the U.S., despite how much I disliked Ford and his pardoning of one of the greatest crooks to hold office. I didn’t have much to on regarding Carter; he was  presented as the nice guy peanut farmer governor of Georgia and of whom I’d read nothing that mattered.  However, if I had, I might have been blown away. He was an anti-segregationist, he provided equal state aid to schools regardless of rich or poor or rural or urban; he set up community centers for mentally disabled children, and increased educational opportunities for convicts. He had little time for the “professional politicians” and made appointments based on merit. He was, I think, the first Georgia governor to add Black state employees and apparently, really pissed off the KKK by installing portraits of Martin Luther King, Jr., Lucy Craft Laney, and Henry McNeal Turner....

(Getty Images) “Just because we’ve temporarily gone over 1.5 degrees doesn’t mean we’ve breached the Paris Agreement limit,” cautioned Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the Copernicus program. For that to happen the globe needs to exceed that threshold for a much longer time period , such as a couple of decades instead of a couple of weeks. From The Associated Press: “June temperatures briefly passed key climate threshold. Scientists expect more such spikes” With all due respect to Burgess, I sense hedging here. From another climatologist, there’s this: Rob Jackson, a Stanford University climate scientist who like Rahmstorf wasn’t involved in collecting the Copernicus data, said its significance is still unclear. “But sometime in the next few years we will shatter global temperature records,” he said. “It’s the coming El Nino, yes. But it isn’t just El Nino. We’ve loaded the climate system. No one should be surprised when we set extended global records. 1.5 C is coming fast; it ...