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The climate emergency is all about oil.   And coal.   And natural gas.   But especially politics.  Contrary to the sign above, oil pumps death. Bubble, Bubble, Oil, Gas, and Coal Trouble .   The Guardian has outed the 20 state-owned and investor-owned fossil fuel firms responsible for more than a third of all carbon emissions released into the atmosphere between 1965 and 2017.   The article is based on an analysis by Richard Heede of the Climate Accountability Institute, the world’s leading authority on the role of fossil fuels in the climate emergency.   Here’s the link: Guardian Article Above is the chart showing the 20 firms—just in case you’d like to boycott any of them, divest your portfolio of their stock, or write some nasty letters to their CEOs. Leave it in the Ground!   Ninety percent of the emissions attributed to these 20 fossil fuel companies came from the use of their products—gasoline and diesel fuel, jet fu...

There are a few things you should know about Pasquale ("Pat") A. Cipollone (pictured at the White House below):   He is a conservative Catholic, like Brett Kavanaugh He has ten children, the oldest of whom worked for Laura Ingraham at Fox He was the managing editor of the University of Chicago Law Review He was an assistant to Attorney General Bill Barr (1992-93) He is a co-founder of the Catholic National Prayer Breakfast He is a member of the ultra-conservative Federalist Society He is the lead White House counsel on l’Affaire Ukraine   He announced in an 8-page letter to Congress that the White House would not participate in the current impeachment inquiry conducted by the House. His name means big onion in Italian.   The onion---not to be confused with The Onion— hey!   Wait a minute.   Why not?   Starting over:   The onion is a member of the Allium (garlic) family, which comprises jives, rapscallions, and leaks.   ...