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The Massachusetts Technical College president, L. Rafael Reif reminds us in a an op-ed running in the People's Commonwealth of Warrenstan's largest newspaper that the KlimateKatastrophe is still the universe's biggest issue.

And the Wuhan Super! Happy! Fun! Chinese death flu proves it!

Thank Lenin we can finally get back to what's important -- obtaining government grants for research on junk science. No more messy 'hard' sciences like nuclear physics, or electrical engineering to try your noggin.

https://president.mit.edu/speeches-writ ... en-science

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The Boston Globe

The coronavirus pandemic contains an encouraging surprise. If we can take the right lessons from the crisis, we will find ourselves better prepared to tackle the health of our fevered planet.

The first lesson is that our deepest well of practical hope is in science and the people who practice it. The front-line health care workers, public health experts, engineers, and scientists working on face shields, masks, ventilators, testing, contact tracing, therapeutic drugs, and a vaccine — with courage and ingenuity — are fighting the current wildfire with torrents of scientific knowledge. In a nation that cannot seem to agree on much these days, most people feel confident that a vaccine, an exquisite scientific achievement, will eventually save the day. Similarly, in the fight to slow and adapt to climate change, we must actively build on this implicit respect for the power of science.

Science is also our best warning system — if we can force ourselves to listen. Experts have warned for decades that human encroachment on wild habitats, rapid urbanization, and global interconnectedness were setting the stage for pandemic catastrophe, and the initial outbreak of COVID-19 spurred prominent early warnings. For ignoring these persistent alarms, humanity is paying an excruciating price. As we mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, can we use that bitter lesson to finally galvanize action on climate change?

In 1979, a federally commissioned study led by a meteorology pioneer, MIT professor Jule Charney, told the nation something it was not ready to hear: “We now have incontrovertible evidence that the atmosphere is indeed changing, and we ourselves contribute to that change.” Charney and his colleagues estimated “the most probable global warming for a doubling of CO2” to be near 3° C with a probable error of plus or minus 1.5° C , an assessment still considered accurate today.

We and the Earth are now well on our way to living out that prediction, with carbon dioxide concentrations already about 50 percent higher than in the preindustrial era. Decades of further research and increasingly dire warnings have inspired some societal action — but nowhere near enough. It is as if we are back in December when, in a place like Massachusetts, COVID-19 still felt theoretical and far away.

Today we can mourn the lost time and regret the missed warnings. But I hope instead that we can channel all our energy into teaching ourselves, as a society, to finally begin listening to planetary warnings the way we listen in an emergency.

Every emergency reveals that “impossible” things are actually doable. In this case, our society just demonstrated that it can choose to change more and faster than we ever imagined. Responding to the challenges of climate will require structural transformations, serious technological advances, and significant changes in collective behavior. The fact that we managed, within weeks, to radically rearrange how we live and work, in service of the common good, is a good sign.

Obviously, the current enforced isolation and economic deep freeze are temporary measures that society cannot endure for long, and repairing that damage will itself take our finest collective action. But there is value in having stretched the limits of what we can picture in terms of human adaptation, and in proving that, like generations before us, we do have the capacity to take action together.

We should also seize this disruptive moment to reassess business as usual in every dimension, including those that drive climate change. As we look for system-scale climate solutions, what entrenched habits, patterns, and assumptions could we rethink, reassess, or cast aside? And in the struggle to restore the economy, can we find new opportunities to create the jobs people desperately need in industries that help reduce carbon emissions and make society more resilient?

The final lesson: Leadership makes all the difference. Governors, mayors, and others across the country have demonstrated the profound value of coordinating the actions of individuals, institutions, and industries, and cities, states, and regions. With climate change as with COVID-19, our success depends on the sum of our individual actions. But it depends far more on our collective decisions and commitments, at scale. State and local governments have much to contribute on climate as on the coronavirus. But they cannot do it alone. Curing the climate crisis will demand a COVID-style combination of ambitious new policies and rapid advances in technology — coordinated through farsighted, humane, science-centered national leadership, in concert with other countries around the globe.

Amid so much suffering and disruption, it can be difficult to tell one day from another, never mind focus on another societal threat. But by observing how humanity is confronting the immediate challenges of COVID-19, we can find the courage and insight to create the resilient, forward-looking society we need.

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The propaganda apparatus of said formerly reputable institution released agitprop bemoaning the KlimateKatastrophe resulting in and exacerbated by the Wuhan Super! Happy! Fun! Chinese death flu. That and we need, wait for it, mail in voting, because -- what could possibly go wrong?

Link to pdf follows . . .
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8e0guf690ixch ... 5.pdf?dl=0

Original publication here, but not sure if it is accessible to the public:

https://www.technologyreview.com/digita ... ital_issue

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Ellsworth Toohey wrote:The propaganda apparatus of said formerly reputable institution released agitprop bemoaning the KlimateKatastrophe resulting in and exacerbated by the Wuhan Super! Happy! Fun! Chinese death flu. [highlight=#ffff00]That and we need, wait for it, mail in voting, because -- what could possibly go wrong? [/highlight]

Link to pdf follows . . .
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8e0guf690ixch ... 5.pdf?dl=0

Original publication here, but not sure if it is accessible to the public:

https://www.technologyreview.com/digita ... ital_issue

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Here in PA, the governor signed a law saying that you can get a mail-in ballot for any reason at all. As I said before, he and his lieutenant governor are borderline socialists.

I signed up for one just for this primary election to be a crash test dummy and see all the potential failure points and potential for fraud for myself. When Mister Postman drops it off I'll probably do a writeup on it and post it here. I know it's sketchy as hell, I just want to get my hands on one and see just how sketchy it is.

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The mythical horned rodent is 99.9% certain that the op-ed written by Massachusetts Technical College president, L. Rafael Reif was Bidenized. This op-ed is very close, if not verbatim in certain passages, to a What I Would Do to Save The World™ speech given in 2001 by Miss Amerikkka contestant, Malibu Barbie.

Researcher journalists are searching through the jumbled video tape library for proof.

Stand by...
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I remember Earth Day in 2012:

GAIA Minister Neytiri was helping Comrade Bi-Polar Bear Gore complain about Global Warming during the April, 2012, snowstorm:

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--KOOK

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'pelipsky remembers First Earff Day. The People's Public High School Authorities ran the students out of the classrooms to do nothing but play in the sunshine, but wouldn't let us leave the premises.


 
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