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If it was the Guardian that was responsible for the 1.48 figure you might have a point. It is only reporting on it. Any evidence that there has been an increase in volcanic activity or earthquake activity to account for this rise in average temperature. Actually, insofar as the climate can be changed due to the rise in greenhouse gasses, the frequency of different weather conditions will change too. And it's been costed our frequently. Apart from costs of climate change, the IMF reckons that fossil fuels are directly and indirectly subsidized at a cost of about 5 percent of global GDP. Most of that cost comes from the effects of pollution on health.

He's got lots of company. CNN Poll: Percentage of Republicans who think Biden’s 2020 win was illegitimate ticks back up near 70% https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/03/politics/cnn-poll-republicans-think-2020-election-illegitimate/index.html

How Experts Believe Starvation Is Being Utilized in Gaza "Murdoch also says circumstantial evidence is sufficient to prove starvation as a war crime—if information exists that if a course of conduct is continued, it will lead to civilians starving, then those in charge can be held responsible. Starvation as a war crime has never been prosecuted, she says, but her organization has produced a report arguing it is happening in South Sudan and she wants her group to be allowed to conduct an independent investigation in Gaza." https://time.com/6552740/gaza-israel-starvation-hunger/

He's taking his cue from Trump. As I read somewhere this approach can be summarized as "I'm rubber, you're glue. Whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you." It can be cute when little kids say it. Not so much in the case of an adult.

Rising hunger in Gaza ‘turning children into skeletons’ With malnutrition rocketing across the enclave, experts fear an entire generation could be at risk of stunting https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/children-skeletons-rising-hunger-gaza-famine/

Clearly, Trump believes he has the right to be a dictator. His legal team is arguing that a President should be immune from prosecution for any acts he commits while in the White House unless he is impeached for them first. Fortunately, so far the courts aren't buying his legal lunacy. US president could have a rival assassinated and not be criminally prosecuted, Trump’s lawyer argues Former president Donald Trump’s lawyer argued that presidential immunity would cover the U.S. president ordering political rivals to be assassinated by SEAL Team Six... One of the judges asked Sauer: “Could a president who ordered SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival, and is not impeached, would he be subject to criminal prosecution?” Sauer responded: “If he were impeached and convicted first... there is a political process that would have to occur.” https://www.semafor.com/article/01/09/2024/trump-immunity-hearing-president-assassinate-rival-not-prosecuted Trump hearing: Judges sound sceptical of Trump's immunity defence Judges expressed scepticism on Tuesday, as lawyers for Donald Trump presented a landmark case that ex-presidents should get immunity from criminal prosecution. Mr Trump's lawyers claimed his time in office protects him from charges connected to his alleged effort to overturn the 2020 election. The justice department argued the presidency was not "above the law". https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67920129

More right wing cliches. The people threatening to shut down renewables are mostly right wingers who spread all sorts of misinformation. How Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Used “Astroturf” Front Groups to Confuse the Public https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/how-fossil-fuel-lobbyists-used-astroturf-front-groups-confuse-public OIL-BACKED GROUP OPPOSES OFFSHORE WIND — FOR ENVIRONMENTAL REASONS Local think tanks that previously supported offshore drilling have engaged in a wide-ranging campaign to stop the expansion of offshore wind farms. https://theintercept.com/2021/12/08/oil-industry-wind-farm-prevent/ The right-wing groups behind renewable energy misinformation https://www.volts.wtf/p/the-right-wing-groups-behind-renewable

Please. You offered no evidence.

Basically, you made all sorts of generalizations without providing any evidence to back them up. What's more, there were plenty of eyewitness reports to back up what they were claiming. I haven't seen any eyewitness reports that say starvation isn't a huge problem in Gaza. And, now, in the face of overwhelming evidence, you offer nothing. It's obvious that mass starvation is a real thing in Gaza. And that it's obviously relevant to the issue of genocide.

care to elaborate?

From Alex DeWaal at the World Peace Foundation at Tufts Univeristy Gaza’s Famine Warning in Perspective This blog post puts the famine warning in Gaza in perspective. It refers to two standard metrics for identifying famine and other degrees of food crisis. It outlines how starvation can be a war crime and a famine crime. https://www.savethechildren.net/news/deaths-starvation-and-disease-may-top-deaths-bombs-families-squeezed-deadly-safe-zones-two The article notes that it's not necessary for famine to be a war crime only if the infliction of it is intentional. If a nations shows reckless disregard for the consequences of its actions that result in famine, that can also constitute a war crime.

Once you posted those unsupported claims about the WPF you pretty much opened up your stance to criticism. That reality has overwhelmingly established how baseless they were I guess leaves you with no other recourse than not to address this issue.

Another eye-witness report. This one from Save the Children dated Dec 9th. "The repeated failure of the international community to act signifies a death knell to children. Israel is squeezing Palestinian children and families into ‘death zones’ dubbed as ‘safe zones.’ I’ve seen children and families roaming the streets of what hasn’t been flattened in Gaza, with no food, nowhere to go, and nothing to survive on. Even the internationally-funded humanitarian aid response – Gaza’s last lifeline - has been choked by Israeli-imposed restrictions." https://www.savethechildren.net/news/deaths-starvation-and-disease-may-top-deaths-bombs-families-squeezed-deadly-safe-zones-two

Maybe it hasn't gained much traction with you and your fellow travelers. But it has clearly gained traction with people like Anthony Blinken. Anthony Blimken said the food situation in Gaza was deteriorating. And he gave that speech from the WorldWfood Program warehouse. That's the same organization whose report you attempted to undermine with unsupported speculation about how they reach their decisions. Are you so naive to believe that delivering the message from the WFP warehouse out of all possible venues wasn't Bliken'sway of making a point? You think the US doesn't have its own independent intelligence sources to ascertain what's going on in Gaza? You think the issue of mass starvation has no bearing on the issue of genocide?

That's exactly the point. You weren't commenting on the content. The question is why and the answer is obvious. Your efforts to undermine the factuality of reports about actual ongoing starvation in Gaza haven't gone unnoticed. You are the party who claimed it was nitpicking to cite the difference between reports predicting starvation and reports of actual ongoing starvation. Using words like "nitpicking" is your usual recourse when you are cornered and have no salient response. As regards to starvation situation in Gaza, ithat tiredtactic establishes that you don't have much use for reality.

And you still have no answer for why Blinken described the food situation as "deteriorating" or why that contradicts what you wrote. You've got nothing. Except some lovely photos of a food market.

More evasion from you. The fact is that the reports from Haaretz about the food situation in Gaza jibes with other eyewitness reports. And your attempt to cast doubt on the report from the World Food Programme by offering speculative comments about possible machinations behind the report have been belied. Ya think Blinken chose to make his comments at WFP warehouse about the deteriorating food situation in Gaza despite their report?

When you write something, do you actually read it? Here's what you wrote: How do you reconcile this with "deteriorating"? "Bottom line, the first section of the report is already out of date since the new border crossing opened and more aid started to enter. So pointless debating further." How do you reconcile this with "deteriorating"?

You should definitely share this information with Anthony Blinken about the current conditions with Anthony Bliniken. Clearly, he needs an update. “We are intensely focused on the very difficult and indeed deteriorating food situation for men, women, and children in Gaza, and it’s something we’re working on 24/7,” Blinken said. https://www.timesofisrael.com/blinken-warns-against-gazans-displacement-says-war-may-metastasize-to-wider-region/' The only small and niggling problem with this is that his comment is dated January, 7, 2024. Can you share with us what your take on the meaning of "deteriorating" is?

Whatever smart alec intro you may be alleging, the fact is that you clearly didn't read that article in its entirety.. But what's more important, you didn't have a clue about the World /Food Programme's functions in Israel. You might want to educate yourself about how much effort and care goes into the creation of its reports: https://archive.ph/iRA27 https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/gaza-is-starving And on the grfowing list of facts you ignore is the subsequent survey by Unicef of the level of hunger in Gaza among nursing mothers and children. And, to top it off, you complete just ignore Blinken's characterization of the situation in Gaza. Apart from these quibbles, your post was spot on.

If his article was alone in depicting what life is like for starving Palestinians in Gaza, you'd have a better point.

Is Anthony Blinken also an employee of Haaretz? I think I've come up with a suitable adjective for the comments of those who deny the fact of ongoing starvation in Gaza: Trumpworthy.

Wow! So much ignorance packed into so little space. While the article does open with a bit of reporting about the UN food program, the heart of it is what it's like for Palestinians to cope with what life is like when you're faced with starvation: "Four Gazans spoke with Haaretz and explained how hunger was affecting their lives – from secondary consequences to the daily struggle to get some food, as little as it may be. One comment came up repeatedly in conversations with them and reflects the feeling of many in Gaza: If death doesn't come in an airstrike, they say, hunger will bring it." https://archive.ph/8e1X8#selection-801.0-803.71 There have been similar articles elsewhere including those coming from the Wall Street Journal. You got any articles written by eyewitnesses debunking the claims of starvation? There's a fella there's an off chance you may have heard of. HIs name is Anthony Blinken. He's the U.S. Secretary of State. “We are intensely focused on the very difficult and indeed deteriorating food situation for men, women, and children in Gaza, and it’s something we’re working on 24/7,” Blinken said. https://www.timesofisrael.com/blinken-warns-against-gazans-displacement-says-war-may-metastasize-to-wider-region/ Ya think the US hasn't got access to information about what's going on in Gaza? That it's being suckered by the media? By the way, he made that comment while visiting a food warehouse in Jordan. Ya know who that food warehouse belongs to? The World Food Programme. The organization you claim "went to Gaza last month."

Intensifying conflict, malnutrition and disease in the Gaza Strip creates a deadly cycle that threatens over 1.1 million children Cases of diarrhea in children up 50 per cent in just one week, with 90 per cent of children under two now subject to ‘severe food poverty’ Since the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification warned of the risk of famine in the Gaza Strip in late December, UNICEF has found that an increasing number of children are not getting their basic nutrition needs met. About 90 per cent of children under two years of age are consuming two or fewer food groups, according to a UNICEF survey conducted on December 26. This is up from 80 per cent of children compared to the same survey conducted two weeks earlier. Most families said their children are only getting grains – including bread – or milk, meeting the definition of “severe food poverty”. Dietary diversity for pregnant and breastfeeding women is also severely compromised: 25 per cent only consumed one food type the day before, and almost 65 per cent only two. https://www.unicef.org/lac/en/press-releases/intensifying-conflict-malnutrition-and-disease-gaza-strip-creates-deadly-cycle I'm embarrassed to admit it but occasionally, I find myself doubting that, as some aver, this is really about competition and competing agendas among various factions in the international aid sector. and that there's not much in the way of actual evidence that Palestinians actually are suffering from a severe lack of food. When I feel these doubts, I reassure myself by contemplating those lovely photos from COGAT that show a market brimming with fresh fruits and vegetables.