The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday – 11th August 2020

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  1. Judith Collins husband, David Wong-Tung, is threatening to sue Newsroom!
    Newsroom 11th August 2020 Wong Tung Threatens
    Closing down free speech already?
    This is not Hong Kong where they are silencing news outlets.
    Nor is it some post-election date in the fantastical mind of Mrs Wong-Tung, wherein she is now our PM/ Premier/ Representive of Xi with power to close us all down (as, I believe, she tried to do to TDB when she was in govt previously)

  2. Just Heard Trump at a press session say that the 1917 pandemic killed millions of people, many many soldiers died and that’s probably what ended world war 2. He is so thick. (for any Trump supporters-that was world war 1)

  3. Since National Party are planning more roads, – do they know what more trucks on those roads will cause with the added climate emissions?

    National Party policy is a disaster; – and the National Party is toast simply, as they can’t even admit that climate change emissions are the most serious issue to face today and all they respond with to that issue is to build more roads and more roads and yet more roads so they are increasing climate emissions doing that.!!!!!!
    FACT; GOODBYE NORTH POLE WE WILL MISS YOU.

    https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/08/rip-canadas-last-ice-shelf-has-collapsed/
    The News Of Tomorrow, Today
    RIP: Canada’s Last Ice Shelf Has Collapsed
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    Dharna Noor
    Published 2 days ago:August 8, 2020 at 1:34 am

    An iceberg floating near Newfoundland. (Photo: Drew Angerer, Getty Images)
    Canada’s Arctic has been getting slammed by the climate crisis. The region hasn’t been this hot in at least 115,000 years, and its ice is suffering. But it had one intact ice sheet that was hanging on for dear life. Until now.

    Canada’s last fully intact ice shelf has collapsed, the Canadian Ice Service reported this week. The shelf lost more than 40% of its area in just two days at the end of July, the agency said. May it rest in peace.
    The late Milne Ice Shelf was in northern Canadian territory of Nunavut, on the border of Ellesmere Island. The floating slab of ice it shed into the Arctic Ocean measured about 78 , which is larger than the entire island of Manhattan. Researchers knew the Milne Ice Shelf and the ice caps were goners long before they dropped off, but it’s still a shock to see it happen.
    The Arctic has been heating up more than twice as fast as the rest of the world, but this year has been particularly hot. Heat waves have rippled across the region. Though Siberia has been the bullseye and seen widespread fires, Canada has gotten in on the action, too. Reuters reported that this summer in the Canadian Arctic has been 9 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Celsius) above the 30-year average. On July 25, temperatures reached 71.4 degrees Fahrenheit (21.9 degrees Celsius) on the research base of Eureka on Ellesmere Island, which they believe may be the highest temperature on record so far north in history.
    It’s not just the Milne Ice Shelf feeling the burn. Earlier this summer, Ellesmere’s two St. Patrick ice caps completely melted. The Arctic-wide warmth has also caused sea ice to hit its lowest July level in 40 years of record keeping.
    The collapse of the Milne Ice Shelf mirrors what’s been happening on the other side of the Earth in Antarctica, where a handful of high profile ice shelves have collapsed since the 1990s and glaciers are thinning at an alarming rate. So yeah, ice everywhere is having a rough go of it on our rapidly overheating planet.
    This is bad news for us all. While ice shelves are floating, they often hold back land ice. Without shelves to act as doorstops, more land ice can spill into the sea and push up sea levels, which can overwhelm coastal communities. The Milne Ice Shelf holds back a comparatively small amount of glacial ice, but the Antarctic is a different story. New research published just last week shows sea level rise could cause $US14.2 ($20) trillion in infrastructure damage this century if we don’t curb carbon emissions. This is all just more reason that we need to get it together to curb carbon emissions, to slow global warming. We need to save the ice — and ourselves.

  4. The cause of the blast in Beirut has been deemed ‘endemic corruption’. Here is the article link. That blast destroyed a capital city, the lives of the people within it, and possibly the entire country.

    The statement that it was caused by endemic corruption rings true. Corruption, neglect, not caring about the people into whose care any government is entrusted. We cannot let that happen here (again). And yet, as the rusty wheels of “democracy” rattle along, one of two main candidates to be our leader has a record of …corruption. And we, daft as we are NZers, are saying, “That’s ok. She says she’s sorry and she says she has changed”.

    Why are we allowing this, even for a moment? In some ways it is incomprehensible to me.

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