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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_26
1616 – Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.
He was the world's first science denier (-:
1971 – U.N. Secretary-General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day
"Earth Day is an annual event celebrated on April 22. Worldwide, various events are held to demonstrate support for environmental protection."
As an environmentalist, I relish opportunities to protect life and the environment. Conserve natural resources. Develop alternative energy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day
The first Earth Day celebrations took place in two thousand colleges and universities, roughly ten thousand primary and secondary schools, and hundreds of communities across the United States. More importantly, it "brought 20 million Americans out into the spring sunshine for peaceful demonstrations in favor of environmental reform."[14] It now is observed in 192 countries, and coordinated by the nonprofit Earth Day Network, chaired by the first Earth Day 1970 organizer Denis Hayes, according to whom Earth Day is now "the largest secular holiday in the world, celebrated by more than a billion people every year.
Mobilizing 200 million people in 141 countries and lifting the status of environmental issues onto the world stage, Earth Day activities in 1990 gave a huge boost to recycling efforts worldwide and helped pave the way for the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Unlike the first Earth Day in 1970, this 20th Anniversary was waged with stronger marketing tools, greater access to television and radio, and multimillion-dollar budgets.[19]
Earth Day 2000 combined the ambitious spirit of the first Earth Day with the international grassroots activism of Earth Day 1990. This was the first year that Earth Day used the Internet as its principal organizing tool, and it proved invaluable nationally and internationally. Kelly Evans, a professional political organizer, served as executive director of the 2000 campaign. The event ultimately enlisted more than 5,000 environmental groups outside the United States, reaching hundreds of millions of people in a record 183 countries.
Then.........they used peoples sincere desire to make the planet cleaner, protect life and conserve natural resources with a hoax based on junk science. The beneficial gas, CO2 was redefined as pollution and climate science hijacked for political agenda:
On Earth Day 2016, the landmark Paris Agreement was signed by the United States, China, and some 120 other countries.[3][4][5] This signing satisfied a key requirement for the entry into force of the historic draft climate protection treaty adopted by consensus of the 195 nations present at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris.
Ironically, the most ingenious pollution fighting device in history, the catalytic convertor which caused pollution from over 50 cars today to be equal to just one car in the 1960's............now, is one of the biggest sources of redefined pollution on the planet..CO2.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalytic_converter
A three-way catalytic converter has three simultaneous tasks:[18]
Reduction of nitrogen oxides to nitrogen (N2)
Oxidation of carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide
Oxidation of unburnt hydrocarbons (HC) to carbon dioxide and water, in addition to the above NO reaction
That's the twisted nature of this scientific hoax.
The equation for Photosynthesis has been redefined:
Sunshine + H2O + CO2 + Minerals = O2 +Sugars(food)
Is now:
Sunshine +H2O +POLLUTION + Minerals = O2 +Sugars(food) + Climate Crisis
Public health and the environment.
So what would be the health benefits of CO2 reduction?
In the history of humans, not only has there never been a death from breathing too much ambient atmospheric CO2, there has never been 1 incident of any creature having a health related problem because of breathing ambient atmospheric levels and that would still be true at levels twice what they are currently.
So every $1 spent to reduce CO2 emissions................is flushed down the toilet. It would also do almost nothing to effect the climate...........which is the best climate for life in 1,000 years anyway.
If we continue on the current climate path(and exceed the warmth of the Medieval Warm Period, 1,000 years ago, that was around this warm) conditions could approach levels similar to the time in history always referred to as the "Holocene Climate Optimum" because conditions were considered to be optimal for life on this planet during that period that was warmer than we are currently..........and warmer than the projected global temperature (+1.5 C above 100 years ago) in 12 years that we are being told will spell disaster for our planet if we don't believe everything we are told and do everything that we are told must be done to avoid the coming climate crisis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_climatic_optimum
"Out of 140 sites across the western Arctic, there is clear evidence for conditions warmer than now at 120 sites. At 16 sites, where quantitative estimates have been obtained, local HTM temperatures were on average 1.6±0.8 °C higher than now. Northwestern North America had peak warmth first, from 11,000 to 9,000 years ago, and the Laurentide ice sheet still chilled the continent. Northeastern North America experienced peak warming 4,000 years later."
1995 – The UK's oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after a rogue securities broker Nick Leeson loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.
"Leeson pleaded guilty to two counts of "deceiving the bank's auditors and of cheating the Singapore exchange", including forging documents. Sentenced to six and a half years in Changi Prison in Singapore, he was released from prison in 1999, having been diagnosed with colon cancer, which he survived despite grim forecasts at the time."
I remember thinking at the time about what an enormous sum that was. Come to think about it, it still is.
Thanks Carl!
Sorry that we have to scroll so far down to get your pick (-:
...dude...trust me... I remember this like it was yesterday....
On February 26, 1993, at 12:18 p.m., a small cell of terrorists, with links to a local radical mosque and broader Islamist terror networks, detonated about 1,200 pounds of explosives in a rental van in the underground parking garage at the World Trade Center. The terrorists fled the area after setting the bomb to explode. The explosion created a five-story crater in the sub-grade levels of the towers and undermined the floor of an adjoining hotel.
The terrorist attack killed six people. The victims were John DiGiovanni, Robert Kirkpatrick, Stephen Knapp, William Macko, Wilfredo Mercado and Monica Rodriguez Smith, who was pregnant.
More than 1,000 people were injured, including 88 firefighters, 35 police officers, and an emergency medical services worker. About 50,000 people evacuated from the WTC complex.
The towers were relatively full when the bombing occurred, as wintery conditions may have kept many inside during the normal lunch hour. The explosion knocked out electrical power to the hotel, and significant areas within the North and South towers, affecting the operation of elevators, emergency communication, ventilation systems, and lighting. Emergency power generators were also damaged by the blast. They shut down after 20 minutes.
Most non-cable television stations in the greater New York area were blacked out, as the transmitters atop the North Tower lost power. Hundreds of WTC tenants and visitors were trapped in elevators, and thousands of others in the towers began to evacuate before first responders reached them.
Within minutes, the North Tower lobby filled with thick black smoke. Some WTC tenants began an evacuation down dark and smoky stairwells with improvised light sources such as cigarette lighters or mini-flashlights. Others were impeded by increasing smoke in the stairwells and forced to wait in conditions severe enough in some areas for tenants to break out windows.
The complex’s telephone lines were working, and reports of those trapped in the buildings soon overloaded the city’s 911 system. More than 100 visitors to the observation deck, many of whom were young children, were instructed to evacuate from the 107th floor using stairs. Another 72 school children and teachers were rescued from an elevator, after being trapped for hours.
Local, state and federal agencies responded to the incident and contributed to what was then the largest coordinated rescue effort in New York City history. Within an hour, power for the entire WTC complex was shut down because of safety risks to firefighters working near water sources, leaving the buildings and its occupants in the dark.
Some Port Authority of New York & New Jersey staff with specialized knowledge of the building remained in the towers to assist with the evacuation and rescue. New York City Police Department helicopters transported rescue personnel to the roof to assist in stairway evacuations of tenants on the upper floors.
The general evacuation of WTC tenants took more than four hours. Rescuers checked all 210 elevator cars – freeing trapped people from 45 of them – and searched each floor in the three buildings, more than eight million square feet of space. Later that evening, 28 people with medical conditions, including one woman in labor, were escorted to the roof by NYPD and airlifted to an EMS staging area.
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