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Wednesday, August 21st, 2024

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    12:37p
    POWs pile up in Kursk, RUS

    Ukraine's army in the Kursk region is taking many prisoners; they say Putin's conscripts often don't want to fight.

    It makes sense that they don't; so when Zelenskiy says that prisoners of war become part of the "exchange fund" to swap for Putin's Ukrainian prisoners, that creates a moral quandary. If a Putin forces soldier surrenders in order to get out of the Putin forces, swapping him back to Putin would spoil the point of his surrender.

    Does Ukraine give each prisoner the option not to be traded?

    12:37p
    Protesters glued to airport runways, DEU

    *German climate activists stop air traffic after breaking into four airport sites.*

    These protests may be dangerous, but not as dangerous as the failure to curb global heating. Is it stupid to try this method when gentler ones don't serve?

    12:37p
    Myriad victims petition DOJ on Big Oil

    *Survivors of [fossil fuel] disasters demand US inquiry into big oil's "climate crimes."* They include spreading misinformation about global heating and its causes.

    12:37p
    Shell deep in Project 2025 ilk

    *Shell oil non-profit donated to anti-climate groups behind Project 2025.

    Foundation says it ‘does not endorse any organizations’ while funneling hundreds of thousands to rightwing causes.*

    It also donated to the Heatland Institute, which campaigns to protect global heating and keep it going.

    12:37p
    Overheated cities' coping techniques

    *With modern solutions such as air-con aggravating the problem, ancient heat-management techniques can offer answers.*

    12:37p
    2023-heat alarms, baffles experts

    Global heating has been advancing faster than models predicted. Some scientists are concerned that Earth has moved beyond the region of climate space that the models work in.

    So it looks like global heating will be worse than predicted.

    Earth's weather is a chaotic system. Some of that mathematical chaos may get into the climate too. There are plenty of positive feedbacks that could be taking over.

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