Derecho! July 6, 2022

This storm caught the attention of NPR and Fox!

I thought I had mentioned "derecho" more than once on the blog, but maybe not. 

This is all I could find, from July 3, almost exactly ten years ago:

If you want a glimpse of some of the worse of global warming, scientist suggest taking a look at US weather in recent weeks.

Horrendous wildfires, Oppressive heat waves. Devastating droughts. Flooding from giant deluges. And a powerful freak storm called a derecho.

And, that of course, reminded me of something Mark Perry had followed back then:

But if you are still inclined to take the mainstream media's word for it, check this out: total US CO2 emissions will probably fall to levels not seen since 1991, and they would fall further if faux environmentalists would get trucks and trains hauling oil off the road by supporting the safest way to transport oil: pipelines. The link is to CarpeDiem.com.  Go to the link to read commentary from others. I always enjoy the comments. 

And that led me down the proverbial rabbit hole:

• US energy-related CO2 emissions rose 6% in 2021 -- EIA;
• but CO2 emissions in 2020 dropped to what we saw in 1975 after peaking in 2007
• the Mark Perry post, July 2, 2012 (linked above)
• of the emitteers, per capita:
• the US, among the developed western countries, is worse, at 16 tons per capita (Tennessee Ernie Ford used to sing about this -- 16 Tons)
• Germany comes in at 9 tons per capita
• China is even less, and, per capita, doing very, very well, I might add, at only 7 tons per capita
• the UK is down to less than 6 tons per capita, and, perhaps, most surprising,
• India is near the bottom of the list (good) at less than 2 tons per capita

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Schadenfreude

Not that regular readers need to be reminded but it's always entertaining.

Only because they listened to a teenager from Sweden.

Link here. 

First question: where does VW manufacture most of its automobiles? I don't know.

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France Nationalizes Their Country's
Largest Electricity Company

Links everywhere but here are two;

• Forbes; and,
• here.

EDF: wiki entry.

• already largely owned by the French state, so not sure if this is a big story or not
• in 2009, EDF was the world's largest producer of electricity
• at one time, 56 active nuclear reactors spread over 18 sites
• provides electricity worldwide

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In Cold Blood

Witnessed by not less then twenty bystanders, with a barrage of shots from two handguns, in broad twilight, it still took three years to get a conviction. 

It took the jury six hours over two days to reach a verdict. 

The trial began Wednesday, June 15, 2022, and the verdict was announced today, July 6. I guess the holidays delayed the trial. 

Also charged: felon in possession of a gun. Actually he had at least two. 

Shot multiple times, apparently shot "ten or eleven times" (that needs to be fact-checked) from (literally) head to foot. [Apparently, the exact number of shots entering the body was never determined. If assume the maximum would have been twelve unless the shooter stopped to re-load.]

The coroner, on the stand, said that "most likely" cause of death was due to gunshot wound.

The question facing the jurors was whether the individual who pulled the trigger did it on purpose or whether it was accidental. 

"Gun control legislation" in this country seems to be the least of our problems. The enforcement of those laws in court seems to be low-hanging fruit.