#cop 2022

[srrpnj]

NJ DEP and their industry allies restart logging at Sparta Mountain WMA

Despite local and global initiatives to curtail logging to protect natural resources, and mitigate climate change, NJ DEP continues to promote logging on public lands.

What is the issue?

On November 14, 2022, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJ DEP) released a new plan for logging on stand 18a at Sparta Mountain Wildlife Management Area (WMA) that is expected to commence on November 16. This announcement – given less than two days in advance – is not an appropriate window of time to alert the public of planned logging.

Reasonable public notice is warranted considering that this activity is scheduled to occur in the midst of the permit bowhunting deer season, and immediately before the firearm deer season in NJ deer management Zone 6.

By December 10th, 2022, the logging contractors restarted tree harvesting under the guise of "forest management."

Why is this an egregious action?

Logging in this area (aka stand) – which includes steep slopes, an unmarked vernal pool and a C1 stream – will create severe long-term impacts on the local ecology that will take decades to recover.

The area is not accessible by any road, so an access road will need to be created by heavy equipment. This heavy logging equipment will disturb and irreparably harm soils and cause pollution by introducing oils, fuels, and sediments to the nearby C1 stream and the Edison Bog area.

This stream and bog form the headwaters of the Passaic River. As a result, pollution runoff will contaminate the drinking water on which millions of northern New Jersey residents depend.

This area is located in a Natural Heritage Priority site. These designated sites contain an extraordinary diversity of natural resources, plants and wildlife. The area is listed as critical habitat for at least 30 threatened species, including the red shouldered hawk and barred owl (pictured below). Logging in such a biologically sensitive area is not only foolish but irresponsible.

Adding further insult, the NJ DEP announced the logging activity around when COP27, the UN-sponsored global forum to mitigate the detrimental effects of climate change, was being convened. It is well known that trees remove carbon from the atmosphere, and the removal of trees releases the carbon they have already stored. NJ DEP activities run counter to initiatives that target climate change impact reduction and ...

The NJ DEP chose to announce new logging while the NJ Forest Task Force continues to meet to help shape future legislation on how New Jersey should manage its public lands, which include millions of acres of forests.

Sparta Mountain WMA Residents

Red shouldered hawk (NJ State designated endangered species)

Barred Owl (NJ State designated threatened species)

What can I do to help?

Public agencies and officials must hear from concerned residents in order to be held accountable for the actions they take on public lands - lands that are supported by YOUR TAX DOLLARS.

There are two specific actions you can take:

Go to the New Jersey Highlands Coalition's Call to Action webpage (click HERE) to learn how to craft a letter towards NJ DEP officials, protesting the logging action.

Write to NJ Senator Bob Smith (link HERE), expressing concern that NJ DEP intends to resume logging activities on public lands, while the NJ Forest Task Force, which he leads, continues to meet.

Thank you for your action!

[radiation-radical]

Now back to the hotel room after the first day of COP27, all, and I mean all the drinking water in the fountains at cop27 are nestle owned...

[greenfue]

6 موائد مستديرة للرؤساء وقادة الدول المشاركين في قمة المناخ cop27

6 موائد مستديرة للرؤساء وقادة الدول المشاركين في قمة المناخ cop27

يعقد بعد قليل، يبدأ اللقاء الثاني من القمة الرئاسية لمؤتمر المناخ cop27،الذي يعقد بمدينة شرم الشيخ ويمتد حتى 18 نوفمبر الجاري، حيث تعقد عدة لقاءات وموائد مستديرة يعقدها الرؤساء ورؤساء الحكومات. وستعقد فعاليات الشق الرئاسي على مدى يومين، حيث ستشهد بيانات لعدد من القادة والزعماء المشاركين في الاجتماعات، كما ستعقد على مدار اليومين 6 موائد مستديرة، سيشارك الرئيس السيسي في عدد منها بحضور رؤساء الدول…

[covington-shenanigans]

in honor of this amazing post by @robotmango. thank u for ur service, I think of you and your suffering every August since 2016

(i have no idea what you and/or your husband look like, please accept any needed apologies for inaccuracies in gender/race/height/tendency to sarcasm/etc. hope you don't mind that i immortalized your already immortal and correct opinions in what I suppose is technically RPF fan art)

[prbni]

"Had she initiated a peck, he would have turned it into an intense lip lock" pairings in KDramas

Ku San Young(Kim Tae Ri) and Lee Hong Sae(Hong Kyung) in Revenant

Cha Se Eum(Kim Young Ae) and Yoo Jeong Jae(Lee Moon Sang) in Maestra: Strings of Truth

Lee Gang Hyeon( Park Ji Hyun) and Jin Yi Soo(Ahn Bo Hyun) in Flex x Cop

Lim Jukyung(Moon Gayoung) and Han Seojun(Hwang Inyeop) in True Beauty

Oh In Joo (Kim Go Eun) and Choi Do il(Wi Ha Joon) in Little Women(2022)

Kang Nam Soon (Lee Yoomi) and Ryu Shi Oh (Byun Woo Seok) in Strong Woman Kang Nam Soon

Kang Sol A(Ryu Hye Young) and Han Joon Hwi(Kim Bum) in Law School

Bonus: Japanese Drama Couple

Didn't get a better GIF for them

Kokuryu Kirika(Mio Imada) and Tennoji Haru (Meguro Ren) in Trillion Game

[harveywritings92]

{Radom magic au, there was murder in town, Soap and Ghost are acting as temporary investigators until the actual authorities show up. Soap has R/n pick out the suspect in a line of people who were nearby when the murder occurred.]

Soap: Okay we’ve set up a line up of five suspects tell me if you recognize any of-

R/n: Four.

Soap: Say again?.

R/n: you said five suspects, *points at the line up* ...There’s only four.

[Soap looks to see what she’s talking about? And sees number three is missing.]

Soap: Just a moment, Ghost?

[Ghost calmly walks up between suspect 2 and 4, grabs an invisible form and punches them in the stomach causing them to uncloak.]

Ghost, to number 3: Stay visible till the line up is over!

Suspect 3, coughing and holding their stomach: Okay, okay jeez!

Soap: Thanks Chief ,(to R/n) Now do you recognize any- *notices R/n wince* ....What’s wrong?

R/n, pointing at the line up: They disappeared again...

[Soap looks to see the other suspects are staring at Number 3’s empty spot.]

Soap, face palms: *sigh* Sometimes I hate mages...

Suspect 5, rising his hand: Does this mean we can go home?

Ghost: No.

Suspect 5: Awww..

[floweroflaurelin]

Huevember day 3: Angel of Vengeance ✨🗡

I know it’s been months since Afterlife but listen,,, Angel!Scott was such an iconic look!!! I’m pretty sure I’ve painted this skin more times that it appeared in episodes but still. I’m a sucker for anything gold and shiny 🤩🤩🤩

[sothasil]

gay little wizard

[murcielagatito]

the batman 2022 knew that if they gave riddler the same fashion hes always had that people would realize oh yeah we CAN just actually kill corrupt cops and politicians and they were scared of that. the batman 2022 fundamentally relies on the stark difference between good and bad cops when good cops dont ever make it to the force. theyre weeded out on purpose in the academy. and especially with blm and how worse and worse its becoming for minorities in america and how cops have a SOLID grip of power its no surprise that they wouldnt want to make riddler sexy because then more people would realize “oh this guy has a point. we CAN take the power back”

[klaudia96art]

 Wellcome my  Megatron❤️

this is a little Christmas thought for my friend and her amazing story C&M  fell in love i hope she likes it https://tumblr.com/pastelpaperplanes… ❤️❤️😉 @pastelpaperplanes

[scaryscarecrows]

Explanations for Edward's Very On Brand Coffee:

He requested it (seems unlikely...)

He drew it himself with a stirry-stick

He goes there enough that the staff knows him, possibly as, like, 'the weird little riddle-dude' and they made this for him for fun

[yearsandyears]

i am getting this tattooed on my forehead. watch me.

[youknowihavenochingu]

Underrated kdramas of 2022

Gaus Electronics

Seasons of Blossom

The Queen's Umbrella

If You Wish Upon Me

Through The Darkness

May It Please The Court

The Law Cafe

Blind

Bad Prosecutor

Rookie Cops

[greenfue]

الرئيس السيسي: الوقت يداهمنا ونهاية العقد الحاسم على بعد سنوات قليلة، علينا أن نستغلها لنحسم هذه المعركة

الرئيس السيسي: الوقت يداهمنا ونهاية العقد الحاسم على بعد سنوات قليلة، علينا أن نستغلها لنحسم هذه المعركة

قال الرئيس عبدالفتاح السيسي، خلال كلمته الافتتاحية لقمة المناخ بشرم الشيخ، cop27، إنه بدون قيام الدول المتقدمة، بخطوات جادة إضافية، للوفاء بالتعهدات التي أخذتها على نفسها، في تمويل المناخ ودعم جهود التكيف والتعامل مع قضية الخسائر والأضرار الناجمة، عن تغير المناخ في الدول النامية والأقل نموًا على نحو يضمن صياغة مسارات عملية، لتحقيق الانتقال المتوازن نحو الاقتصاد الأخضر ويراعي الظروف والأوضاع…

[kitkinnie]

[tanyakennedy1899]

i kinda like that we never see tanya after shes dead. we learn more and are alluted to what happened to her body, but we never get any long lingering shots on her dead "beauty" and im kinda glad about that.