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erronis's JournalEarth Observing Dashboard - see the effects of COVID 19 lockdowns on the environment
https://eodashboard.org/International collaboration among space agencies is central to the success of satellite Earth observations and data analysis. These partnerships foster more comprehensive measurements, robust datasets, and cost-effective missions.
The tri-agency COVID-19 Dashboard is a concerted effort between the European Space Agency (ESA), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The dashboard combines the resources, technical knowledge and expertise of the three partner agencies to strengthen our global understanding of the environmental and economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Use the dashboard to explore environmental and economic indicators based on remote sensing data from ESA, JAXA and NASA, and investigate how social distancing measures and regional shelter-in-place guidelines have affected Earths air, land, and water. Explore individual countries and regions across the world to see how the indicators in each specific location have changed over time.
Together, ESA, JAXA, and NASA will continue to update this dashboard with the most current information.
Looks like it may be a good resource as its data is built up.
Please post enough content in your title to make it worthwhile to open the body!
I know this is mentioned frequently but for people that have lots of other things going on in their lives it is really nice to know what merits consideration.
It's been a long time since I was in grade school but I was taught that the subject line should contain as much of the content as useful.
But many posters like to use "teaser" lines which are just "Look at this!"
Maybe this works ok when the browser is looking at the home page which may include a bit more context.
It doesn't work if someone is trying to scan other one-line lists.
I won't click on teasers any more.
The Atlantic: History Will Judge the Complicit - Why have Republican leaders abandoned
Subtitle: Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/trumps-collaborators/612250/
I won't normally post articles behind paywalls but TheAtlantic.com does have some limited number of free views per month. This one is worth one of your views. Of course, I think The Atlantic is worth every penny for a subscription, too. (Going to be saving some money cancelling my NYT, again.)
Much background and history precede the following excerpt.
The built-in vision of themselves as American patriots, or as competent administrators, or as loyal party members, also created a cognitive distortion that blinded many Republicans and Trump-administration officials to the precise nature of the presidents alternative value system. After all, the early incidents were so trivial. They overlooked the lie about the inauguration because it was silly. They ignored Trumps appointment of the wealthiest Cabinet in history, and his decision to stuff his administration with former lobbyists, because thats business as usual. They made excuses for Ivanka Trumps use of a private email account, and for Jared Kushners conflicts of interest, because thats just family stuff.
One step at a time, Trumpism fooled many of its most enthusiastic adherents. Recall that some of the original intellectual supporters of Trumppeople like Steve Bannon, Michael Anton, and the advocates of national conservatism, an ideology invented, post hoc, to rationalize the presidents behavioradvertised their movement as a recognizable form of populism: an antiWall Street, anti-foreign-wars, anti-immigration alternative to the small-government libertarianism of the establishment Republican Party. Their Drain the swamp slogan implied that Trump would clean up the rotten world of lobbyists and campaign finance that distorts American politics, that he would make public debate more honest and legislation more fair. Had this actually been Trumps ruling philosophy, it might well have posed difficulties for the Republican Party leadership in 2016, given that most of them had quite different values. But it would not necessarily have damaged the Constitution, and it would not necessarily have posed fundamental moral challenges to people in public life.
In practice, Trump has governed according to a set of principles very different from those articulated by his original intellectual supporters. Although some of his speeches have continued to use that populist language, he has built a Cabinet and an administration that serve neither the public nor his voters but rather his own psychological needs and the interests of his own friends on Wall Street and in business and, of course, his own family. His tax cuts disproportionately benefited the wealthy, not the working class. His shallow economic boom, engineered to ensure his reelection, was made possible by a vast budget deficit, on a scale Republicans once claimed to abhor, an enormous burden for future generations. He worked to dismantle the existing health-care system without offering anything better, as hed promised to do, so that the number of uninsured people rose. All the while he fanned and encouraged xenophobia and racism, both because he found them politically useful and because they are part of his personal worldview.
More important, he has governed in defianceand in ignoranceof the American Constitution, notably declaring, well into his third year in office, that he had total authority over the states. His administration is not merely corrupt, it is also hostile to checks, balances, and the rule of law. He has built a proto-authoritarian personality cult, firing or sidelining officials who have contradicted him with facts and evidencewith tragic consequences for public health and the economy. He threatened to fire a top Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official, Nancy Messonnier, in late February, after her too-blunt warnings about the coronavirus; Rick Bright, a top Health and Human Services official, says he was demoted after refusing to direct money to promote the unproven drug hydroxychloroquine. Trump has attacked Americas military, calling his generals a bunch of dopes and babies, and Americas intelligence services and law-enforcement officers, whom he has denigrated as the deep state and whose advice he has ignored. He has appointed weak and inexperienced acting officials to run Americas most important security institutions. He has systematically wrecked Americas alliances.
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Not that I expect the repuglicon party to return to decency. And trump never had it in the first place.
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