Electric Garbage Trucks In The Big Apple

 

 

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Somebody in authority at the City of New York decided that the 2100 diesel garbage trucks of the Department of Sanitation should be replaced with an electric version. The garbage trucks are also pressed into the secondary duty of plowing the snow from 19,000 miles of city streets. This hasn't worked out very well. When used for snow removal the electric trucks peter out after 4 hours.

The failure of the electric versions currently in use will hopefully be remedied by a newer, custom-built electric Mack truck. Seven of these have been ordered at a price tag of $523,000 each.

The collection of garbage and plowing of snow in NYC is of little concern to the rest of the nation. On the other hand, arrival of mail at 163 million addresses is of importance to every Yankee. That function, too, is being transferred to electric vehicles, according to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. The USPS, operating a fleet of 220,000 vehicles, plans to replace 106,000 of them between now and 2028. The $9.5 billion investment will include 66,000 electric trucks and the infrastructure to charge them. Fifty thousand units have been ordered from  OshKosh, a manufacturer of heavy-duty military vehicles, for trucks that can be powered by either electricity or diesel fuel.

 

 

 

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The Verge, the new mail delivery truck.

 

Hopefully, the USPS gamble won't be as risky as the NYC one.    

 

 

 

 

Climate Pornography

 

 

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 Bangladesh is a country with a long history of floods, situated as it is on the Brahmaputra Delta and crossed by a number of rivers flowing into the Bay of Bengal. The Bengalis seem to accept the recurrent high water because they haven't moved to the Himalayas. There must be some reason they continue to live there. Even so, the media is quick to couple their current flooding with supposed global warming.

According to MSN: 

G M Tarekul Islam, a professor at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology's Institute of Water and Flood Management, says climate change is a factor behind the erratic and early rains that triggered the floods.

"The erratic rainfall in India's Cherapunji and other areas is the main reason for this flood. Because of global warming, the climate has changed and so has the pattern of rainfall. Now we are observing more and more heavy rainfall," he told DW.

 

 

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The wildfires in northern California are also a by-product of global warming, despite bad forest management practices, suspect electrical distribution and evidence of arson. Before Europeans arrived wild fires were a normal event at one time or another all over the continent, caused by either lightning strikes or human agency, just as they are today. Maybe incidents of lightning are also a by-product of internal combustion engines and coal-fired power plants.

 The Los Angeles Times: California is being pushed to extremes. And the record heat, fires and pollution all have one thing in common: They were made worse by climate change. Their convergence is perhaps the strongest signal yet that the calamity climate scientists have warned of for years isn’t far off in the future; it is here today and can no longer be ignored.

 

 

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Even a blizzard, such as the one in Buffalo, NY, is said to be caused by AGW. 

USA Today:

 

Average air temperatures have been warming across the planet for decades, and as they do, the atmosphere holds more water vapor in some locations, increasing the potential for extreme rain and snow events, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Warmer temperatures mean it takes longer for the Great Lakes to freeze over in the fall and winter, said David Easterling, chief of the climate assessments section for NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information. That open water means more fuel for nature's snow machine known as lake-effectsnow to wallop the region.

 

The photos and commentary indicate that snow storms, floods and wild fires are isolated unusual events that were extremely rare just a short time ago, at least in geological terms, and that their occurrence now is more frequent and intense because of a change in global climate. This is climate pornography. These photos and commentary are meant to generate profits, just as sexual pornography is.

It's possible that climate change and the terrible consequences that go along with it are bothering you. Anxiety and fear may well be pervading your life. Thinking about floods, fires and blizzards might be causing insomnia, depression, hypertension or a host of other serious problems. Not to worry, help is available. Contact the Climate Psychiatry Alliance. They can help. 

  

Partners With The World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum, a Klaus Schwab production that means to make dramatic changes in the life of every resident of planet earth, is grooming what it calls "young global leaders" for places of influence in its apparatus. It also has connections with various elected and appointed government figures that may be of use in implementing its plans. Just as significantly, it has established partnerships with international corporations, hoping that they will embrace the ideas of the organization. You might wish to know the names of the corporations that WEF lists as its partners. Below are some of them:

Lockheed Martin

Medtronic

Kikkoman

New York Times

J. P. Morgan Chase & Company

Intel

Procter & Gamble

Honeywell

Rabobank

Google

Sony Group

Fluor

Tyson Foods

Ecolab

UPS

Dell Technologies

Volkswagen Group

Coca-Cola HBC

Toyota

LinkedIn

Siemens

IBM

Ralph Lauren

Cargill

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Boeing

Walmart

AARP

Verizon Communications

If you're a stockholder or customer of one of these corporations and familiar with the ideas and plans of the World Economic Forum you may wish to send along email to them congratulating their relationship with the Forum or, on the other hand, expressing your disapproval this partnership.

 

 

 

 

Pre-Flood Miami Real Estate

 

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A 5100 sq. ft. penthouse condo in the Arte building on the Miami beachfront has been sold for $18 million in cash, according to the Wall Street Journal. The property was originally listed for $28 million in 2021. 

This would appear to be proof positive that concerns over the warming climate and consequent devastating sea level rise are giving prospective real estate buyers second thoughts on lower elevation oceanside property. Occupants of the building include Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner.  

Climate Scientists

 

 

  Climate scientists present opinions at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh on November 11, 2022. Photo: AP

 

This photo is from an opinion piece in the South China Morning Post by Andrew Sheng. While his opinion is that arresting the climatic crisis that will eventually end life on earth requires the ideas and input of those most affected, he doesn't indicate how these innovative thoughts are converted to effective action. Since it's a global problem, his premise that solutions must come from local societies is a logical error. 

He mentions the work in this area of the World Economic Forum, a consortium of the business and government elite that have ostensibly created the situation and must now be authorized to fix it. No one really thinks that a village in central Africa with no electricity has any capability of halting fictional AGW. It's only possible, as its advocates say, by abolishing the nation-state and incorporating a world-wide authority with the physical power to enforce the decisions of an un-elected technocratic elite. We'll see if this comes to pass during the normal life span of its proponents.

What's Up With Turkiye?

It appears, at least in the general media, that the country that was once known to much of the world as "Turkey" is now orthographically rendered as "Turkiye". If necessary, the proper pronunciation can be found via an internet search.

What has caused this change? It seems that an earlier example was moving the reference to the Ukrainian capital from "Kiev" to "Kyiv". Perhaps this was due to some form of empathy for Ukrainian society or culture. Maybe it's so that letters addressed to parties in the city actually arrive at the proper location.

This issue is really only pertinent to nouns like the names of cities in countries with an alphabet unlike the Roman alphabet used in the West. In 1928 Turkish leader Ataturk mandated a new alphabet based on the Roman that was composed of 29 letters rather than 26, replacing an Arabic-based version that had been in use for over 1000 years. 

English orthography has a similar issue with transcriptions of any word from a language with a different alphabet from the Roman. It's curious how the Roman version is superseded by one similar but evidently easier for  English speakers to pronounce. For instance the most evil place in the world, written in its own orthography, is Россуя. But that's Cyrillic orthography and its pronunciation would be a mystery to most English, French or Spanish speakers. So its written form in the West is "Russia". This seems to be accepted by the latter-day Boyars.

Orthography is also an even bigger issue with Asian languages that are much different in structure than European-based examples. Orthographies that straddle the ideograms of Asian languages and their vocalizations now predominate among foreigners.

It's interesting that Roman orthography and foreign words have major effects on languages that didn't or don't have a written language. Native American languages are an example of this.  Words used as nouns for native tribes, Sioux, denoting a group on the eastern Great Plains, is a French word. In some contexts the members of that group, even those that regularly speak their native language, object to the use of the word in what they consider a negative or exploitative manner. This may show how far these people have come in adapting to their changed circumstances.  

New Nuclear Plants In The Works For Europe

The Dutch government has decided to construct two new nuclear power plants in Zeeland near the village of Borssele, already the site of a nuclear plant. Plans to close that plant have been shelved until the new plants are operational, scheduled to be in 2033. The new facilities will be able to produce 9% to 13% of Dutch electrical needs.

 

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Reproduction and Food

Two things are basic to the world of multi-celled animals; food and reproduction. This includes all animals, from earth worms to humans. Everything else is a complication. In the case of humans, religion, government, industry, sports, movies and music are all luxuries that exist only because humans are able to eat and have sex.

Without those two necessities the existence of an organism ceases. The current crop of homo sapiens, or at least some of them, doesn't seem to recognize this fact. Or maybe they do. The Malthusian element feels that there are, at present, too many humans for the available resources and the addition of more through reproduction is bad and wrong. An expansion of the world's population will not only use up resources but also produce externalities like pollution that will poison the environment for the ideal population of the earth. This is being exacerbated by climate change, AGW, that is heating up the planet, melting the ice caps, causing the rise of the seas and burning up a big portion of rural California.

Reproductive sex is now frowned upon both for its threat to the earth itself and the inconvenience it presents to a little over one half of the human race. The fact that the membership of that species is divided between two very different populations is a continuous insult to post- modern thought.

The food situation is in a similar dilemma. Humans can't live without food but post-moderns point out that there are different kinds of food, some requiring more precious resources than others. Beef, for instance, means water, feed, shelter, veterinarian service and, worst of all, disposal of manure. In fact, all domestic animals produce waste matter which must be removed from the immediate surroundings. This is leading to some strange situations.  The pragmatic and practical Dutch have claimed much of their agricultural kingdom from the sea, earning the admiration of the less challenged. Apparently they have been too successful, their small nation being one of the biggest exporters of food for humans. Ergo the government of the Netherlands intends to make compulsory purchases of farmland and take it out of production. The Dutch grangers are not in favor of this.

It's probably cheaper for the government (made up of omnivorous humans) to buy up farms rather than create a methodology for the safe disposal or transformation of manure. Should, in the near future, it might be necessary to plant a few more pumpkin patches and feed some more pigs, vacant farms could be returned to production. Building giant sewage treatment plants now for millions of hogs and cows would be an expensive project.

There's also the idea promoted by groups like the World Economic Forum that humans change their diets and eliminate meat and some vegetable products from their menus entirely. No doubt that would apply only to the plebs, the elite could still access filet mignon and artichokes. Sea food would also be scrutinized, both for its effect on fish and crustacean populations and the damage it causes to the entire marine environment. If the Dutch plan is deemed effective by the powers that be we may well see similar policies enacted in the near future.