October 15, 2018: To: Sidd RE: Energy and Climate Change I’ve been thinking about a famous Sidd quote… and wonder if it still holds true? Back in the day (2001), you recommended one of the best things to do was to turn off the lights! “Turn out the lights… the fossil fuel party’s over.” http://membrane.com/oil/ […]
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Turn out the lights… the fossil fuel party’s over.
Also posted in Energy, Environment, Global Warming, health and wellness, Science
Tagged climate change, insulation, LED, lights, oil, trees
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Robo Call Scams and Spoofs
Sidd said: Briefly, the idea is this: someone calls you up spoofs the callerid on your phone so that your phone displays bank phone number then they reel of a bunch of information about you …. but they then ask for security code on card, PIN, mothers maiden name and it’s game over when you […]
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Tagged phone scams, robo calls, spoofing
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Avoiding Racial Bias
Sidd said: This has relevance to the unified real estate database we are talking about and to a lot of other things. Quite high level, but it illustrates why, for example, chicago was sending black people to jail alla time, but not white folk. https://boingboing.net/2016/05/24/algorithmic-risk-assessment-h.html here is a some detail with programming on how to […]
Flood Risk and Real Estate Values
The risk of floods increasing do to human induced climate change is affecting real estate values. Though the risk is increasing in all flood zones, coastal areas are already feeling the pain. Most homeowner’s don’t know about flood insurance until they need it. Then, it is too late. Bloomberg News reports: Recent research confirms that […]
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Tagged climate change, flood insurance, real estate, rising sea levels, sea level rise
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Extreme Weather Events Getting More Extreme
The U.N. has released a report entitled, “Extreme Weather Continues in 2018 – a Continuing Call to Climate Action”. Addressing the dangers associated with extreme weather conditions, the Executive Secretary of the UN Climate Change Patricia Espinosa said: “We must keep an eye on the future. As the superstorms and monsoon flooding of last year […]
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Tagged climate change, extreme weather events, fires, flooding, floods, wildfires
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A Capitalist Growth Economy
International Economics 101 “On a finite planet, endless economic growth is impossible.” 1) The US is built on a “capitalist growth economy” 2) A capitalistic growth economy is dependent on population growth 3) Inbreeding of ignorant racists is not a growth economy strategy (such as Germany did through World War II) 4) Immigration (such as […]
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Tagged capitalism, capitalist growth economy, economy, Germany, population growth, USA
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Can You Weather The Whether?
Sidd says: i can’t believe anybody is moving to the coast. But apparently some people like throwing their money into the ocean. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-23/the-latest-climate-threat-for-coastal-cities-more-rich-people paper on Miami Dade climate effect on real estate appreciation the higher the better… paper is at http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aabb32#supplementarydata may affect us at some point. lets b careful not to post more than […]
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Tagged climate change, extreme weather events, flood insurance
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Internet Privacy
The information on how the Trump campaign obtained and exploited citizens’ privacy should serve as an example to your personal responsibility in maintaining internet security. Do not use any Facebook game, IQ test, quiz or other third-party APP’s (applications). Never give permission allowing a third party access to your personal information. Shame on you if […]
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Tagged Cambridge Analytica, FaceBook, privacy
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Underwater: Sea Level Rise
In a recent study by Matthias Mengel, Alexander Nauels, Joeri Rogelj & Carl-Friedrich Schleussner entitled “Committed sea-level rise under the Paris Agreement and the legacy of delayed mitigation action” published in the Journal Nature, the authors contend — sea levels will rise between 0.7 and 1.2 meters (27-47 inches) in the next two centuries even […]
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Tagged climate change, NOAA, rising sea level, sea level rise, Sea Level Rise Viewer
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The Economic Monsters: Inflation and Interest Rates
Economist Economic Forecast = Inflation (2018) Inflation Bites (2022) U.S. Mass Consumption Results in Global Economic Disparity, Inequity, and Poverty (2023) Investment Recommendation: Savings Bonds / I Bonds (2023) Your National Debt (2023) Economic Facts on Immigration, Budget Deficits and Inflation (2024) The Federal Reserve and the Chevron Decision (2024) Drill, Baby, Drill: The Existential […]
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Tagged currency exchange rate, debt, Federal Reserve Balanace Sheet, hyper-inflation, inflation, interest rates, investments, money, real estate, tariffs, trade protectionism, Trump, wages
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