Gun deaths of school-age children in the United States have increased at an alarming rate, with 38,942 fatalities among 5- to 18-year-olds from 1999 to 2017, according to a new study by Florida Atlantic University's Schmidt College of Medicine.
Sunday, May 12, 2019
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer promises detailed climate plan by end of world
Atlantic Canada — Progressive Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says he will present his party’s climate change plan by the end of life as we know it on the blue planet, at the very latest.
Speaking to reporters gathered at the legislature in Fredericton, N.B., Scheer said that talk is cheap but that action is what the PC party is all about.
“I know we said we’d reveal our plan — and we do have a plan, believe me — by the end of spring, but I just got busy and shit kept coming up, so now that’s being pushed slightly. Now the goal is to let everyone in on it sometime between this summer and the demise of humankind, assuming that’s not happening this year.”
Every year, the world’s five largest publicly owned oil and gas companies spend approximately $200 million on lobbying designed to control, delay or block binding climate-motivated policy.
BP has the highest annual expenditure on climate lobbying at $53 million, followed by Shell with $49 million and ExxonMobil with $41 million. Chevron and Total each spend around $29 million every year.
How life on Earth affected its inner workings
It is well known that life on Earth and the geology of the planet are intertwined, but a new study provides fresh evidence for just how deep—literally—that connection goes. Geoscientists at Caltech and UC Berkeley have identified a chemical signature in igneous rocks recording the onset of oxygenation of Earth's deep oceans—a signal that managed to survive the furnace of the mantle. This oxygenation is of great interest, as it ushered in the modern era of high atmospheric and oceanic oxygen levels, and is believed to have allowed the diversification of life in the sea.
Gov't Mule is an American southern rock jam band, formed in 1994 as a side project of The Allman Brothers Band by guitarist Warren Haynes and bassist Allen Woody. Fans often refer to Gov't Mule simply as Mule.Wikipedia
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