#project wildfire

[spec-s]

hi *transgenders your lester*

[ireton]

Hawaii - "Government Officials Contradict Own Citizens" Accounts on Maui Fire Disaster.

7 Nov 2023 In the aftermath of the devastating August fire that claimed over 100 lives in Lahaina, Maui, an independent journalist partnered with Project Veritas to investigate the claims of Lahaina residents who shared their water and electricity was not functioning on the morning of the deadly fire. This journalist held meetings with multiple representatives from the Maui mayor’s office and the governor's office, all of whom clung to the official narrative that the water supply had not been interrupted. As the historic town of Lahaina continues to grapple with the devastating aftermath of these fires, community members continue to raise questions about the government’s emergency response.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

S.V. Dáte at HuffPost:

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump, who as president withheld hurricane aid to Puerto Rico and threatened to withhold wildfire assistance to California, on Monday falsely accused President Joe Biden of failing to help Hurricane Helene’s flood victims in western North Carolina and Georgia, having “left Americans to drown” in the South. “He’s been calling the president, he hasn’t been able to get him,” Trump said of Georgia’s governor, fellow Republican Brian Kemp, in his remarks to reporters in Valdosta, a city in the southern part of the state. It was a lie — refuted by Kemp himself earlier that day. “The president just called me yesterday afternoon. I missed him and I called him right back,” Kemp told reporters. “And he just said, ‘Hey, what do you need?’”

That falsehood was the latest in a string of lies Trump has issued about the response by Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for president, to the Category 4 storm that came ashore late Thursday. Just before flying to Valdosta, the coup-attempting former president posted on social media about western North Carolina: “I’ll be there shortly, but don’t like the reports that I’m getting about the Federal Government, and the Democrat Governor of the State, going out of their way to not help people in Republican areas. MAGA!” He then posted an even more inflammatory claim, again with zero evidence of malfeasance: “They have left Americans to drown in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and elsewhere in the South.”

And at the Valdosta Regional Airport, asked by a reporter if he had contacted Biden about the response, Trump, wearing his red campaign MAGA hat, answered, “No, I haven’t reached out to him. I think he’s sleeping right now, actually.” In fact, Biden had just minutes earlier detailed to reporters at the White House his administration’s actions to date and planned next steps. He also explained that he intends to visit the worst-hit areas in North Carolina, but not until later in the week so as not to get in the way of operations on the ground with his large traveling entourage and security detail. “This can be disruptive,” he said. He later announced that he would, in fact, visit North Carolina on Wednesday.

[...] Trump’s accusations that Biden is intentionally withholding assistance from areas where residents are largely critical of him, however, do mirror his precise behavior as president when he withheld $20 billion in congressionally approved aid to Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria in 2017 and threatened to withhold federal assistance to California to deal with wildfires. The question of federal assistance in the event of natural disasters may become moot should Trump win back the White House. Under the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 — which Trump initially praised for detailing “exactly what our movement will do” if he returned to office but in recent months has disavowed as Democrats publicized its contents — federal programs helping individuals and businesses would be slashed. The massive proposal also would scrap the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as well as turn over forecasting, and presumably control, over a fleet of weather satellites paid for with many billions of tax dollars to private companies.

Colossal liar Donald Trump baselessly accused Joe Biden and Kamala Harris of “withholding" aid victims to Hurricane Helene victims… except that Biden and Harris are helping out victims of Helene with ample aid.

Trump, during his “Presidency”, has repeatedly withheld aid for political purposes.

If he gets back in again, this time with Project 2025’s assistance, Trump will likely withhold disaster relief funding to areas that don’t vote for him.

Want fair disaster relief, regardless of politics? Vote Harris/Walz!

[thenotsolittlemisspeculiar]

What Is Oprah and the Elite Up To?

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[ittybittystarryshow]

BABY KANADE WASNT A FLUKE PJSEKAI AGEREFES IS CANON AND WE WON

[shoezuki]

natasha has been like. the first character other than sampo or gepard to ever be mentioned in this fic from the first ch and im happy shes finally here. cuz the relationship she n sampo got going on is So Interesting to me. i mean in game sampo is very intriguing to me like theres obviously some level of trust there and a mutual respect considering nat trusts sampo to do jobs for her and sampo goes to her when the trailblazers are in trouble. and him bringing natasha medicine is kinda huge considering his 'selfish' character. like. i dig them having a major mutual understanding and trust towards one another that goes into being protective of each other. i love their situationship

but also i just now realized that. all the other characters in this fic besides sampard will be women and every woman introduced so far has yelled at or at least argued w gepard at some point. lets go girls

[evilhorse]

Legion of Super-Heroes #34

[tellurian-in-aristasia]

Aristasian books & Literature on Archive.org

There is a wealth of information about Aristasia and proto-Aristasia available as books on archive.org! They easily pop up when you just search "Aristasia" but it may be a little bit confusing if you don't know what you're looking for, so hopefully this helps other pettes in their searches.

Artemis Magazine

Artemis #5

Artemis #6

Artemis was a wlw lesbian zine released in the mid 1980s by a group of women who were directly involved in the St. Bride's School onward. A number of them were released, but only volumes 5 & 6 are available on the internet currently. These are interesting because they frequently have articles written by known Aristasians, and you can really see the tiny little baby blossoms of Aristasia here, including articles about St. Bride's School.

Various Romantia Magazines

Realm of Romantia

Imperial Angel #1

Imperial Angel #2

The Romantic #1

The Romantic #2

The Romantic #3

The Romantic #4

The Romantic #5

There are a number of different Romantia zines released, I have skipped over The English Magazine in this list, simply because there isn't a ton of proto-Aristasian information in those, it's mostly just pit-crit and secession-from-the-modern-world type stuff. Warning on one of these for some just outright racist copy of antique advertisements, unfortunately I can never remember which one it is until I find it. However, these do have very strong early world building, including the formation of the districts and the idea of racinated thinking.

The Wildfire Club

Children of the Void

The Female Disciplinary Manual

The Rule of the Strap

When the Wind is Free

The Feminine Regime

Disciplined Ladies

The District Governess

The Corporal Punishment of Schoolgirls

House of Correction

Happy Tears

The Wildfire Club was their 1990's publishing imprint. These are largely erotica books, some of them are written by Miss Martindale (by several different names), others are story compilations, at least one is a reprint of a much older book. Children of the Void is the most iconic Aristasian book and has the most Aristasia worldbuilding in it, the rest are, let's be very honest here, mostly just kind of smut by volume.

[autistic-shaiapouf]

Working on several things including something with lyrics and lemon 👀

[pmdwildfire]

With less than 5 hours until Art Fight starts, I should probably share my profile!

(also: pausing the Nexomon fusions until the end of the July, I’ll do the last 3 planned ones in August)

[thoughtportal]

Canada’s explosive wildfires have damaged a forest carbon offset project

Scientists argue that it is a 'risky bet' to count on trees – temporary stores of carbon – to compensate for the carbon dioxide released by burning fossil fuels that stays in the atmosphere for centuries.

Canada’s explosive wildfire season has already pumped millions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Some of that carbon is coming from vegetation burned at a carbon offset project, highlighting the fragility of a tool the world is relying on to fight catastrophic climate change.

With Canada facing what’s on track to be its worst wildfire season on record – and climate change fueling ever more destructive blazes – climate experts and offset developers are concerned it could be a harbinger of what’s to come.

On June 3, British Columbia fire officials spotted a blaze that has impacted the BigCoast Forest Climate Initiative project, according to Domenico Iannidinardo, senior vice president for forests and climate at Mosaic Forest Management Corporation, which runs the project.

“About 100 hectares of our 40,000 hectare project was involved in this fire,” or about 0.25% of the project, Iannidinardo told Bloomberg Green. That’s an area equivalent to roughly 140 football pitches worth of forest.

So far, little is known about how the fire will impact BigCoast’s carbon removal capacity or how much carbon has been released. Werner Kurz, senior research scientist in the Canadian Forest Service, said its emissions could be up to 32,250 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, depending on the fire’s severity. The impact is “clearly not trivial” for BigCoast or the local area, he said, but it’s a “rounding error” in terms of the climate impact of the wildfires that have ravaged the province.

As of June 23, crews had suppressed the fire so it was no longer spreading. Mosaic said that assessing the emissions from the area that was burned “will take some time.” They will be incorporated into future carbon accounting and be independently verified. Still, Iannidinardo described the “disturbance” as “negligible.”

Companies and countries are increasingly relying on carbon offsets to reach their emissions targets, a tool used in an attempt to compensate for their climate pollution by investing in projects that reduce or remove emissions elsewhere. But climate scientists and activists say the instruments, including those based on forests, aren’t generally effective at mitigating climate change, despite decades of experimentation and improvement. They point to forest fires – which are increasing in severity partly due to climate change – as a big reason. Grayson Badgley, research scientist at CarbonPlan, a U.S.-based nonprofit​, said it’s a “risky bet” to count on trees – temporary stores of carbon – to compensate for the carbon dioxide released by burning fossil fuels that stays in the atmosphere for centuries.

In 2018, Mosaic, a logging company, and its partners committed to stop cutting down trees in the project area and instead protect them for 30 years. The company is measuring the tons of additional CO2 stored and the forestry-related emissions avoided, and packaging each of those as a carbon credit for sale to companies or individuals looking to offset their carbon footprint. Each credit represents one ton of CO2 removed or not added to the atmosphere.

The project has already issued 1.4 million credits, an amount equivalent to the total emissions of Sierra Leone in 2021. They’ve been bought by U.K.-based AI company Dataiku, global insurance firm Aspen and the American Institute for Foreign Study, a travel and insurance company, among others, according to Bloomberg Green analysis of public data. There’s currently no information to indicate any of those companies’ credits have been impacted by this year’s fire.

Under the rules of the offset registry Verra, whose standard Mosaic uses, the company has 30 days to report any damage to its forests and up to two years to submit a “loss report” detailing its impact. As a type of insurance mechanism against wildfires and other risks, project developers must contribute a portion of their credits to what’s known as a buffer pool. If disaster strikes and impacts a project’s carbon inventory, the standard states that an equivalent number of credits are taken out of the pool.

BigCoast’s buffer pool is 15.5% of its issued credits, Mosaic said. But none of these are earmarked for natural risks like extreme weather, pest outbreaks and fire, according to project documentation. That’s because the company evaluates that risk – calculated according to a matrix of significance and likelihood – to be zero.

That assessment is “mind-boggling,” said William Anderegg, director of the Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy at the University of Utah. Fires are a “really dramatic risk” that forest offset projects face, he said, along with other risks such as drought stress and insect outbreaks.

Mosaic said its risk assessment is based on the fact that “the project is geographically and ecologically diverse and distributed,” meaning the likelihood of widespread damage due to fires or something else measures as “insignificant.”

Under Verra’s rules, credits allocated against other risks can backstop a fire incident, but in the long run this could have a serious impact on the insurance efficacy, Anderegg said. If wildfires eat up more than was budgeted, that has “very real impacts on whether these projects are likely to succeed over a century,” he said.

A team of researchers led by Barbara Haya at the University of California at Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy recently identified a set of shortcomings in carbon offset registry methods, like those used by BigCoast, that could “critically undermine” their buffer pool policies. None take into account how climate change may increase fire risk, for example. In the U.S., CarbonPlan’s Badgley and a team of researchers found California’s buffer pool to be “severely undercapitalized.”

Verra relies on “the historical likelihood of an event occurring” to guide its buffer pool policies, said company spokesperson Joel Finkelstein. The company is set to update its insurance tool later in the summer to better account for changing risks due to climate change.

Canadian offset developers across the country are nervous about the rest of the fire season. “This is a wake-up call,” said André Gravel, chief executive of Société de gestion d’actifs forestiers (Solifor), which runs the Monet Forest Conservation Project. “The frequency of fires is increasing,” he said.

“Everyone is very concerned and on high alert,” said Adrian Leslie, manager of a Nature Conservancy of Canada forestry offsets project called Darkwoods in British Columbia. The group said approximately 4,485 hectares of the project burned in 2021, or less than 10% of the total area. That equates to about 36,700 tonnes of CO2 being released, according to a preliminary estimate shared by Leslie.

“The IPCC has made it very clear that every ton matters, every year matters, every degree matters,” Kurz said. Wildfire risk is increasing and project developers must recognize and address this: “We have to bend the curve.”

Bloomberg’s Demetrios Pogkas contributed to this report.

[oroori-fr]

i literally Need to stop scrying sandsurgys i have a problem i can’t afford this please someone stop mw before my whole lair is sharkdogs

antique / ice / sanguine

[fried-trash]

So far working on project tempest has really just been

"I love my skrunglies they are my heart and soul" I say as I stuff them into a blender once again.

Putting the already tormented skrunglies through hell once again "man they deserve to be happy why can't they be happy"

[melodiesofmidnight]

I'm not proud at all to live in Florida (or in the US at all) and will be spitting in the general direction of any and all 4th of July celebrations tomorrow, but I am grateful to have the day off work at least

[thenotsolittlemisspeculiar]

Teens Film Escape Into Sea

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[twilighttheater]

He stares up at the sky late into the night, or maybe it’s even early morning. He can’t tell really, but the streets are quiet while he sits at the park with Spark and Gleam at his side. Spark was content to sit on his shoulder as per usual, but Gleam was pawing at his face, giving noises in various tones to vaguely sound like a song. It’s enough to make Red smile and pat his back, and he finally settles down onto the grass while Red finally entertains his request.

“♫ Silent now the sounds of yesterday, I'm treading on sacred ground again. Like a single errant ray. Showing us the wounds we both sustained, And our sacred pain. Till silent fall the sounds of yesterday. ♫“ - x