Heatwave 2026 1st post of year at Heating Planet blog "global dance rhythms" Amapiano & deep log drums, rolling percussion- Afrobeats by DJ Kevy‑Ke

Prepare for the year when abrupt accelerated global warming kicks in with "Temperature rising up. Heatwave- Temperature rising, baby. Can't cool down crazy." High‑energy fusion of Afrobeats, Amapiano, and deep rhythmic percussion written and produced by DJ Kevy‑Kev- Turn it up and feel the heat as in 2026, temperature is risingBuilt on deep log drums, dreamy synth pads, rolling percussion, and hypnotic piano chords, this track captures the slow burn of desire as the temperature keeps rising. Male and female African vocals blend.*****[DJ Kevy-Kev- Amapiano • Afro Rave • Afrobeat • Dancehall • Global Bounce Welcome to the official home of DJ Kevy Kev, the global creative force blending Amapiano, Afro Rave, Afrobeat, and Dancehall into a signature sound built for movement, and culture. From hypnotic log drums to Caribbean infused phrasing, every mix, track is crafted with authentic roots, bold rhythm, and festival level power. Here you’ll find fusion mixes, original tracks, visualizers, daily drops, Afro Soul vibes, and high energy music for dancers, creators, and global audiences. DJ Kevy Kev’s sound is shaped by deep basslines, African percussion, Dancehall cadence, and cinematic atmosphere — pure Afro Caribbean rhythm with global appeal. If you love Amapiano, Dancehall, Afrobeat, African house, or global dance music, you’re in the right place. 👉 Subscribe and join the movement. 👉 Turn on notifications for daily drops. 👉 Follow the rise of DJ Kevy Kev — from DC to the world. More info www.youtube.com/@DJKevy-Kev United States Joined Dec 23, 2025 29 subscribers 16 videos] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw-ICh4GfNE&list=RDrw-ICh4GfNE&start_radio=1

Pics found over holidays

From my 1969 era as a wannabe actress 

New Posts coming Jan 2 happy new year

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 so next post is not at top I'm posting this

Memoir The weird circularity of my life means abrupt memories of being sex trafficked at age 19 in 1967 can just pop into my head.

me few years back

I have had such a strange life, I really should be writing about it. Maybe I will start now at Heating Planet blog in short, memoir-like posts, in between the sad science. For example in the previous post I mentioned I left NASA Houston and got a job at a PR firm in Beverly hills.

When I read back those words, into my mind popped a memory of working in that office on the corner of Bedford and Wilshire where Rogers & Cowan took up one floor in 1984. The weird circularity of my life is that in the office across the hall from me was the son of a famous actor, whose name I'm not going to put here. In the late 1960s when I was a wide eyed blonde in my late teens floating around Hollywood, at one point I met this woman from Australia who kept putting me in situations where I ended up having sex with some man who I barely knew, but because of my classy friend, I was left alone with him in a place I couldn't get out of. I often used to call myself Annie Fannie With Brains when I was writing about that time at City of Angels blog in 2007 2012, because the way being molested by a Catholic priest at age 5-6 screwed me up, my life is a series of strange encounters, I was almost like a Forrest Gump of sexuality from the time I hit puberty to the time I realized, that wasn't really what I wanted to do, I was doing it because of the compulsion placed in me by that pervert Catholic priest. 

I remember the situation w the movie star so well,

The elegant Aussie took me to the actor's home without telling me who he was; I ended up alone with this actor, whose movies keep showing up in black and white on YouTube and other networks, and I often think wow and have a warm memory. He never admitted he was that actor though. I kept saying you look like that actor and he'd get shy and say no I'm not him But He Was. I looked him up on Wikipedia recently and it was during the period that he had just divorced his wife that he was set up with me, and I ended up staying in his Crescent Heights luxurious home for several days, so naive that I thought we were having a relationship. Looking back now I can see the Aussie woman was trafficking me; at age 19 in 1967 I was on my own in LA getting in all kinds of trouble… I survived.

Anyway there I was in 1984 plumper and wiser hired by Rogers & Cowan PR probably because of my experience in the PAO at NASA, with an office right across the hall from the guy whose father I spent a few nights with in one of the most beautiful homes I've ever been in, and I could not say anything to him about it. 

These days I live in a very private place, I have neighbors who I visit with but I don't tell them much about my life. I have a head full of secrets and at age 77 it's sometimes out of my control: Words just come babbling out of my mouth and all of a sudden I've said something that shocked my new friend, who i don’t hear from again. So it's best for me to do most of my communication over the Internet through my blog and gosh I wish someone would start calling me as I am very isolated. Enough for now PS I love Google docs voice typing.

Kay Abilene

Origin of Heating Planet blog: "Earth heating at alarming rate, a NASA scientist told me: in 1979- How this blog got its name"-Sep 20 post rerun, HAPPY NEW YEAR

I may not make it back to my laptop 'til Saturday so for year-end nostalgia:

Saturday, September 20, 2025

Earth heating at alarming rate, a 1979 NASA scientist told me: How this blog got its name

I was packing up after interviewing him about his work, where he went to Antarctica several times a year. I had a new job as News Writer/ Editor in the LBJ Space Center newsroom. 

"The story you should write that is really going to  be big is,” he said, “the planet is heating at an alarming rate."

I said, huh?

"The planet, Earth. I see it firsthand, the ice shelf is disappearing," he continued, excited. "I fly into Antarctica every few months I have for 30 years. It’s shocking, you can see a difference- every time I fly in more ice is gone.” [Note: I do not remember his exact words.] 

“Do you realize the significance of that?”  he asked.

He was kinda scaring me but I listened.

“When all that ice melts in the Southern Hemisphere, it will release an enormous amount of water into the atmosphere and ocean," louder higher pitched voice, "It will affect the dynamics of the entire planet.” 

I stared at him with my mouth open. I was 30 years old, had just gotten my bachelor's degree and finagled my way into a job at NASA where I was in way over my head.

I don't think it registered with me how important it was, what he was saying, as it was so hard to grasp, the Antarctic is melting? Massive amount of moisture released will disrupt life on the planet forever?

About five years later I wasn't in Houston anymore, but I never forgot that conversation, especially in the past 20 years as the impact of what he said has become real clear. When news reports started to come out about global warming more than a decade later and were shot down by a sinister invisible force putting out false information, I would read everything I could get my hands on the subject, astonished that humans were not responding. 

About a month ago, age 77, I was in my kitchen thinking, I really miss the rush I used to get when I’d post at City of Angels blog about the pedophile priests and I’d see on my dashboard that hundreds of people read it. 

That period of my life over now I wondered, What can I write about, as I poured hot water over a teabag-

And I remembered that NASA geologist, who I'm not going to name, because I later learned when he said that to me he was leaking. Next time I saw that scientist in the employee cafeteria, he made it real clear that he couldn't talk about how the Earth is heating too fast there where so many other people were nearby.

Then around 1981 the Air Force showed up at NASA Houston, moved into offices down the hall from us in full uniform, and it didn’t feel like a cool civilian space agency anymore. I got a job in a PR firm in Beverly Hills.

A few weeks back, Donald Trump's calling global warming and climate change a hoax was in the news at the same time as floods fires mayhem and stories about the melting Antarctic. Here in my kitchen in Tahoe I said to myself, after 2025 no one will call global warming a hoax again; and I thought about my colleague at NASA wherever he is today and those very critical words he said to me in 1979.

“Planet Earth is heating at an alarming rate.” 

I started Heating Planet blog.

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-Kay Ebeling, South Lake Tahoe, California, Earth

"AI slop" Misinformation 20% of online videos- All the false facts you’re hearing not your imagination- The Guardian Dec 27 story, Heating Planet blog

'More than 20% of the videos that YouTube’s algorithm shows to new users are “AI slop” – low-quality AI-generated content designed to farm views, research has found. The video-editing company Kapwing surveyed 15,000 of the world’s most popular YouTube channels – the top 100 in every country – and found that 278 of them contain only AI slop. 

Together, these AI slop channels have amassed more than 63bn views and 221 million subscribers, generating about $117m (£90m) in revenue each year, according to estimates. The researchers also made a new YouTube account and found that 104 of the first 500 videos recommended to its feed were AI slop. One-third of the 500 videos were “brainrot”, a category that includes AI slop and other low-quality content made to monetise attention.'

READ THE WHOLE STORY 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/27/more-than-20-of-videos-shown-to-new-youtube-users-are-ai-slop-study-finds 

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Climate misinformation worse than you think, US govt controls flow, removes experts, calls global warming natural variation-.Simon Clark Dec 23 15-min vlog w transcript, Heating Planet blog There's citations and evidence for everything; except that was the EPA website last month. This month the US government has made a few changes. The-

-keblogger

From Hong Kong Trump threat to cut NCAR inspires action; Call Congress Fight Back! 5-min Dec 24 Cloud BP vlog w transcript at Heating Planet blog

Shocking news: The Trump administration wants to break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), a global hub for weather forecasting and climate modeling in Colorado, labeling it 'climate alarmism.' But Colorado's bipartisan lawmakers, major scientific organizations, and protesters are uniting to save it- READ & WATCH "Trump Plans to Dismantle NCAR: Scientists & Lawmakers Fight Back!" transcript below- [Cloud BP From Hong Kong Joined YT Jun 2007 5 videos]************
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Today, we're jumping into a huge fight where science, politics, and honestly, the future of our weather forecasts are all colliding. A world famous scientific institution is actually facing a shutdown. And the fallout from this could affect every single one of us. So, the entire conflict, it really boils down to this one central question. Can you surgically separate climate from weather? Now, that might sound like a purely scientific question, right? But the answer has ignited a massive political firestorm. Keep that question in your head as we unpack what's going on.

And this is the institution right at the heart of it all. The National Center for Atmospheric Research or NCAR. For decades, it's been the glue holding everything together from supercomputers and research planes to global data and community models. It truly is the mother ship of atmospheric science.

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KE: the mother ship of atmospheric science, cool

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And now it's facing a plan to be completely dismantled. So, how do we even get here? Let's break down the plan that put this scientific mother ship directly in the crosshairs. First off, what exactly is NCAR? Well, for 65 years, it's been an absolute pillar for researchers all over the globe. It gives them the essential tools for their work. We're talking free access to massive data sets, unbelievable supercomputing power and critical models like the WRF for weather forecasting and the CESM for climate modeling. Scientists everywhere rely on this stuff to predict everything from hurricanes to long-term drought. So, why on Earth would anyone target it?

Well, according to the White House budget director Russell Vought,, the stated goal is to get rid of what he calls climate alarmism, which he claims ENCAR is a major source of. 

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KE: ALARMISM? As opposed to purposely ignorant

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So, you can see the plan's aims are right from the start very political and very ideological. And the plan itself, it's brutally simple. Step one, shut down the iconic Mesa Lab in Boulder. Step two, take what the administration considers core weather functions and just move them to other agencies. And as for the crown jewels, you know, things like the Datio supercomputer and the entire fleet of research aircraft, their fate is completely up in the air. 

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KE: The image of Isis tearing down statues and other cultural icons in Iraq a few years back just sprang into my mind

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And this brings us right back to that core scientific idea behind the entire plan, a really controversial attempt to fundamentally split the study of weather from the study of climate. Okay, so the administration's logic is to draw this hard line in the sand. They want to keep the short-term study of weather, you know, your daily and weekly forecasts, but they want to completely get rid of the long-term study of climate patterns and global trends. The question is, can science actually be chopped up like this? The scientific community's answer to that has been a huge resounding no. And this quote just captures their view perfectly. One scientist said the plan was like trying to surgically remove the respiratory system from the circulatory system. 

I mean, they're completely interconnected. You just can't have one without the other. It doesn't work. Now, this move didn't just get scientists riled up. It set off a massive, and I mean immediate political backlash. And that led to something we really don't see very often these days, a very unlikely bipartisan alliance. And the reaction was incredibly fast. Okay, so the plan gets announced on December 17th. By the 19th, a major scientific organization issues a formal condemnation. And by the 21st, that's just 4 days later, a powerful bipartisan group of lawmakers had already come together to fight back. Because Encar is located in Boulder, the Colorado congressional delegation immediately formed what they started calling a firewall to protect it. And they did not mince words. In a joint statement, a group including both Democrats and Republicans called the plan illegal and indefensible. That's a really powerful statement of unity, warning that this move would gut their state's research economy and weaken national security. 

So what's their game plan? Well, it comes down to Congress's power of the purse. They have vowed to block any federal money that could be used to dismantle NCAR when the budget comes up for approval. But this wasn't just a political fight happening in Washington. The scientific community and the public also mobilized, creating this amazing unified front. You had three of the biggest scientific organizations in the country, the AMS, UKAR, and the AGU. And they formed what you could call three shields of defense. Each one came out with these strong statements warning about dire consequences. Everything from economic damage to a weaker response to disasters like hurricanes and wildfires. And they even launched a public campaign called Save Encar.

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And this image, wow, it really just captures the moment perfectly. You've got the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant shaking hands, and they're being protected by the shields of the scientific institutions, all while citizens are rallying to defend Encar. It just shows this powerful coalition of politics, science, and public will. 

But maybe the most stark warning of all came from the renowned climate scientist Michael Mann. He put it so bluntly. This isn't just about research papers. It's a life safety issue. He argued that crippling Encar's ability to model extreme events like wildfires and hurricanes means the ultimate cost will be a loss of life.

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Trump Admin attacking knowledge like the Barbarians- Michael Mann on dismantling of NCAR "crown jewel of climate science" Democracy Now report w transcript- Heating Planet- Break-up of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, is causing climate scientists and meteorologists to sound the alarm. "He is executing the playbook of Project 2025," says Michael Mann. https://cityofangels25.blogspot.com/2025/12/trump-destroying-ncar-barbarian-mann-on.html ***************

And that message really resonated beyond the halls of Congress and scientific meetings. The fight spilled out into the public square. You had hundreds of people, scientists, students, regular citizens protesting on the streets of Boulder, arguing that Encar's work is a cornerstone of public safety, not some political pawn. So where does all this leave us? Well, right in the middle of an ongoing conflict that we're calling the battle for America's forecast. The immediate future of ENCAR is going to be decided in the chambers of Congress. 

The entire fight now hinges on that federal budget process and whether that bipartisan firewall can successfully block the funding needed to actually carry out the dismantling plan. Ultimately, what this has all boiled down to is a direct collision. On one side, you have a top-down political directive coming from the executive branch, and on the other, you've got this powerful grassroots alliance of local interests, bipartisan cooperation, and just overwhelming scientific fact. 

And that leaves us with one final and really critical question because this story is about so much more than just one lab in Colorado. When our key scientific institutions become political battlegrounds, what does that mean for our ability to understand and predict the world around us, to predict our own future? ******https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UmoxwDxPn0 

-Keblogger

Climate misinformation worse than you think, US govt controls flow, removes experts, calls global warming natural variation-.Simon Clark Dec 23 15-min vlog w transcript, Heating Planet blog

There's citations and evidence for everything; except that was the EPA website last month. This month the US government has made a few changes. The section around human causes has entirely disappeared and the section about natural processes is the entire article. The Trump government does not want you to know that human activities change our climate. "Except they've done a really botched job." READ & WATCH: The misinformation situation is worse than you think. transcript follows[Simon Clark Simon Clark is a scientist, video producer, and online educator. "I make videos to improve your climate literacy." From United Kingdom Joined YT Jan 2010 698K subscribers 610 videos]

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TRANSCRIPT:

If you go on the website for the Environmental Protection Agency and look at the causes of climate change, it looks like this. You're told there are both human and natural causes of climate change, but that natural variations in the climate don't explain the rapid warming we've seen since the 1950s. And you can tell this was written by scientists because it uses phrases like it's extremely likely, over 95% certain that human activities have been the dominant cause of climate change. And there's citations and evidence for everything except that is what the website looked like last month. This month the American government has made a few changes. This is what the website looks like now. The section around human causes of climate change has entirely disappeared. And the section about natural processes is the entire article. The US government does not want you to know that human activities like burning fossil fuels are changing our climate. Except they've done a really botched job. Even on this page, they couldn't be bothered to delete the sentence highlighting that recent climate changes cannot be explained by natural causes alone. What could those other causes be, US government? And on the sidebar here, all of the other pages are at the time of recording unchanged. They still contain references to anthropogenic climate change. Someone high up clearly just went, "We have a page about the causes of climate change. Delete the section about humans."

And while this is the most brazen example of this behavior, if you've been paying any attention to what the US government has been doing in the climate space over the past year, this should not be surprising. We have a video coming out at the end of this year reviewing all the climate news from this year with a section on Trump. But a potted summary of what his administration has done so far includes withdrawing the US from the Paris agreement again, laying off climate scientists and meteorologists, opening up large territories for oil and gas drilling, terminating 20 billion in grants for climate projects, torpedoing international negotiations on a carbon tax, and releasing a widely derided report on climate science to justify all of the above. and just this week announcing they were closing the internationally respected National Center for Atmospheric Research because it was quote one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country.

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And it would be very easy to just make a video comparing the before and after of the EPA website and how this fits in with the Trump administration's broader war on climate science. But I thought I'd use this as an opportunity to talk about what the US government is doing with misinformation more broadly and if you live in America, what you can do to prevent them from succeeding…..

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So, first of all, let's be really explicit here. The US government is trying to control what information the public has access to for political ends. Specifically, in this case, they don't want the public to be worried about the environmental impacts of burning fossil fuels because the people selling those fuels spent hundreds of millions of dollars getting this government elected. This web page may as well be hosted by Exxon. But it isn't the only example of this. 

The government is doing something similar in the healthcare space with RFK Junior's assault on vaccines and specifically their connection with autism. This is a government website from the CDC opening with the claim vaccines do not cause autism is not an evidence-based claim. And we've talked about the deliberate creation of ignorance or doubt on this channel before, but in an industrial context. We know the tobacco industry did this. Obviously, the fossil fuel industry is continuing to do this, but also other industries like the food industry. 

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Say the line, Bart, you should read Merchants of Doubt. Yeah. 

Or more recently, Industrial Strength Denial by Barbara Freeze. In fact, there's a whole field called agnotology that studies the deliberate creation of misinformation and specifically culturally induced ignorance or doubt. 

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AI Overview: Agnotology is the study of culturally induced ignorance or doubt, particularly how it's created, spread, and maintained, often through the deliberate publication of misleading or inaccurate information, like the tobacco industry obscuring smoking risks or climate change denial. Coined by Robert Proctor, it explores why we don't know things and how ignorance can be a product of political and cultural struggles, a deliberate tactic, or even an accidental result of complex learning. Key aspects of agnotology:

• Intentional ignorance: It examines how powerful groups create doubt to sell products or influence policy (e.g., "Doubt is our product" slogan from tobacco companies).

• Cultural & Political Roots: It shows ignorance isn't just a lack of knowledge but a historical and political construct.

• Examples: Climate change denial, military secrecy, and the manufactured controversy around scientific topics are classic examples.

• Contrast with Epistemology: While epistemology studies knowledge, agnotology studies the opposite—the production and persistence of ignorance, notes. 

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Recently, a lot of researchers' attention has been paid to how governments themselves engage in creating ignorance and doubt. Notably, Russia and to a lesser extent, China have run defensive and offensive disinformation campaigns to influence the citizens of other countries, increasingly using tools like generative AI to create false information and false identities of users of social media platforms to widen social divides and stoke civil unrest. Basically, everyone agrees that this is happening and has varying degrees of effectiveness. 

It likely contributed to the UK's decision to leave the EU in 2016, for example. And for a time, people started listening to misinformation researchers about these problems. In 2024, the World Economic Forum named disinformation the top global risk to the progress of human development. In the aftermath of the Covid19 pandemic, political pressure convinced social media companies to dedicate spending resources to limit the spread of false information on their platforms, develop new features, and even provide some limited support to fact-checking organizations. Except for the second time of this video, that used to be the case in America. Because under the second Trump administration, war has been declared on truth itself. 

They've defunded scientific research across everything from engineering to medical research to climate research on claims that it was woke. They have bullied both private and public universities to abandon their status as independent bastions of free thought and sign contracts to push the administration's ideology. and they have repeatedly worked to remove actual experts from the government, installing their own political appointees to dismantle every department and institution from the inside out. All of these things are a systematic attack on scientists, scientific practitioners, and their work. 

They're not just attempting to spread misinformation, but censor, silence, and dismantle the very institutions that produce real information in the first place. And you're probably already aware of this, but what many people don't know is that the Trump administration is also going after agnitologists, people studying how to stop the spread of false information, misinformation researchers, content moderators, and fact checkers.

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Ian Campbell: Earlier this year,  they cancelled over a billion dollars in misinformation research grants and also permanently closed many  research funding sources that misinformation researchers relied on. For example, they closed the US Department of Defense's Manurva program, which used social scientists to, you know, combat foreign misinformation and other threats to national security. The biggest one was that cut to existing misinformation grants. 

In fact, so many people like me who are at more of a junior level just we- we can't have careers in this anymore. It's not funded anymore.

S: Can you tell me about the industrial censorship complex? Cuz that's the term they've been using. They've been holding congressional hearings about this, right?

I: They've come up with a novel legal strategy which in normal times would just be laughed out of question. any sort of content moderation on social media, any kind of investigative journalism that is engaging in fact-checking or checking whether something's true or not. Misinformation research or interventions to stop misinformation, fact-checking in general, that's censorship. 

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KE Blogger: That’s Orwellian

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In fact, it's infringing on the First Amendment rights of- I'm checking my notes here- the government itself, people in government, our elected representatives. That's the exact opposite of what the First Amendment is about, which is about the government not telling anyone else what they can and cannot say. It's specifically a protection against the government censoring other people, not the other way around, which is kind of ridiculous if you think about it.

I was literally talking to another misinformation researcher who was visiting and the very first question they had to me when I mentioned, "Oh yeah, I work on misinformation interventions was, "Oh, have you been subpoenaed yet?" Because they had been.

S:  Speaking as someone on the outside, while the actions of this second Trump administration have undoubtedly been damaging, far more concerning are their efforts to remove the checks and balances on their behavior in general. In this instance, removing funding for misinformation research and checks on social media platforms makes future disinformation campaigns run by the government or I'd like to point out other governments far more likely to succeed. Incidentally, attacking misinformation researchers, especially those around the topic of elections, was a key part of Project 2025, which was effectively the agenda for the second Trump administration. They told us their plan and of course lied about it being their plan. Everything they're doing has been done before by previous governments and even by them before. It's autocracy. 

And it's worth being explicit that this administration is doing this because it consolidates their power and in particular it makes contesting future elections much easier. We're a long way from the 2028 election, but that's obviously where a lot of this focus on misinformation is heading. 

In a way, their attack on climate science was the canary in the coal mine. It's the highest profile example of how this administration is operating. Control the flow of information, remove experts, and ultimately cause extensive harm to the country. So, what if anything, can you do about this?

Well, on the climate side of things, it's worth pointing out that not all action takes place at the federal level. Both city and state legislation have huge roles to play in combating climate change and officials at both levels are continuing this work, including making educational resources available. I would recommend instead of looking at the federal level, look to more local initiatives that you can take part in and local resources. A good starting point is the United States Climate Alliance, which covers more than half of America. There are still a lot of very sane people. And to that end, make sure that you're participating in the local climate conversation. Join local organizations. [10.00 TRANSCRIPT ENDS HERE due to technical glitch by blogger in editing. Sorry. There will be lots more]

[KE: Everything scientists predicted about global warming/ climate change since the 1970s is coming true, only faster] [However, I don't think anybody predicted this scary stifling of information by the US govt]