Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 3 June 2024

For all those who let the media damage their psyche – 20 end of humanity scenarios

·???????? https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/20-scenarios-that-could-spell-the-end-for-humanity/ss-AA1nlqBF?

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17 major fails by humans in manipulating nature (slide show) – includes Grey squirrels in UK, Mississippi Levees, rabbits in AUS, Operation Cat Drop, Aral Sea, kudzu, Colorado River Catastrophe, Love Canal

·???????? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/17-major-fails-when-humans-overreached-against-nature/ss-BB1jOO1C

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Rating reports on “green” hydrogen pipelines

·???????? https://cleantechnica.com/2024/05/26/another-day-another-bad-bought-paid-for-hydrogen-pipeline-report-this-one-from-arup/

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Confronting Transportation Secretary on the reality of EVs – massive subsidies & very low market share

·???????? https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/cbs-anchor-tells-buttigieg-trump-230055165.html

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Questions regarding incineration of medical waste & public health implications in Maryland

·???????? https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27052024/maryland-medical-waste-incineration-environmental-violations/

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Book Review:? “Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question” – should not be a “climate” question but should be a question addressing the over-populated world and desecration of limited resources

·???????? https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27052024/jade-sasser-eco-anxiety-and-reproduction-decisions/

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Falling debris is hazardous beneath $1.4B Loop 1604 construction zone in San Antonio

·???????? https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/loop-1604-safety-19472851.php

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Final Environmental Review released for 38-mil Palmdale-Burbank segment of California High-Speed Rail Project - $144M spent on developing plans which are not yet completed – more approvals & $$$ needed

·???????? https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-24/final-environmental-review-of-high-speed-rails-burbank-palmdale-portion-released

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Claim that nuclear power is more mining-intensive is false – renewables require 70% to 80% more mining of rock and metal verified by new report

·???????? https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/its-settled-more-nuclear-energy-means-less-mining

·???????? Report:? https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/updated-mining-footprints-and-raw-material-needs-for-clean-energy

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80-year border dispute with Mexico over 1944 water treaty for the Rio Grande – Mexico not meeting treaty requirements

·???????? https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28052024/south-texas-mexico-water-treaty-dispute/

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Update:?? FOIA scandal – “conspiracy at highest levels of NIA and NIAID to avoid public transparency"

·???????? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/at-the-nih-a-scandal-grows-around-an-official-s-evasion-of-public-records-law/ar-BB1nbOwn

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WHO Pandemic Treaty “crashed and burned” – that is a very good thing despite WHO DG saying “this is not a failure” – “threat to Constitutional rights and freedoms” – would negate national sovereignty

·???????? https://amgreatness.com/2024/05/28/who-pandemic-treaty-fizzles-amid-disagreements-between-member-states/

·???????? https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/whos-pandemic-treaty-dead-in-the-water-for-now/

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Romancing the River:? Win-winning the West & our Unimaginable Future – First People water rights

·???????? https://sibleysrivers.com/romancing-the-river-win-winning-the-west-and-our-unimaginable-future/

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Lightning strike kills Colorado cattle rancher & 34 of his cattle in Jackson County

·???????? https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/lightning-strike-kills-colorado-cattle-203716545.html

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EVs need 5X as much copper as gas-powered vehicles – an impending environmental crisis

·???????? https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/technologyinvesting/new-study-suggests-evs-are-supercharging-an-impending-environmental-crisis/ar-BB1ndL5Q

·???????? Report Summary & Link to download:? https://www.ief.org/focus/ief-reports/copper-mining-and-vehicle-electrification#:%7e:text=To%20electrify%20the%20global%20vehicle,require%20negligible%20extra%20copper%20mining.

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Another $900M in federal subsidies for EVs – this time for 3.200 school bus rebates

·???????? https://cleantechnica.com/2024/05/29/usa-nearly-900-million-for-3400-clean-electric-school-buses/

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Perspective on plastic packaging – plastic recycling is a sham

·???????? https://cleantechnica.com/2024/05/29/interview-with-jenny-wassenaar-chief-sustainability-officer-about-plastic-packaging-waste/

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The “Anthropocene” is not a recognized geologic age but it reflects the damage humans have wrought upon Earth in just a few hundred years

·???????? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/photos-show-what-humans-have-done-to-the-planet-in-the-anthropocene-age/ar-BB1kPITD

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Urbanization in Africa is accelerating quickly & threats food systems & biodiversity

·???????? https://phys.org/news/2024-05-rapid-urbanization-africa-local-food.html

·???????? Paper:? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-024-01362-2

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Illinois State Fire Marshal has begun investigating massive fire at poultry farm in Farina

·???????? https://www.firstalert4.com/2024/05/30/large-fire-breaks-out-poultry-farm-illinois/

·???????? https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/05/30/fire-illinois-poultry-farm/73908555007/

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USDA implementing Phase VII of Lacey At provisions for plant & wood products

·???????? https://www.aphis.usda.gov/news/agency-announcements/aphis-extends-protections-worlds-plants-through-implementation-revised

Do not emulate these dumb tourons!!!

·???????? https://currently.att.yahoo.com/lifestyle/heres-demonstration-not-photograph-bison-135742258.html

Trails in Scotts Bluff National Monument in Western Nebraska temporarily closed for herbicide applications in battle against invasive plant species

·???????? https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2024/05/scotts-bluff-national-monument-summit-closure-herbicide-application

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White-nose syndrome found at Carlsbad Cavern National Park in Myotis bats

·???????? https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2024/05/white-nose-syndrome-turns-carlsbad-cavern-national-park

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UN warns of risk of disease outbreak in Papua New Guinea following landslide

·???????? https://www.terradaily.com/reports/UN_warns_of_disease_risk_after_Papua_New_Guinea_landslide_999.html

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Technological hazard – large language models like ChatCPT guzzle enormous amounts of energy with proclivity for tax avoidance, invasion of private & exploitation of attention spans as they gobble up mineral resources

·???????? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-ugly-truth-behind-chatgpt-ai-is-guzzling-resources-at-planet-eating-rates/ar-BB1niVbN