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The Ocean Surface Is Warming Over 400% Faster Than in The 1980s : ScienceAlert…

The unexpected jump in global #temperatures since 2023 has helped fuel a relentless assault of associated disasters around the world, including the still-burning #LAfires and the deadly #Valenciafloods... #climatechange #globalwarming #oceans

https://formuchdeliberation.wordpress.com/2025/01/29/the-ocean-surface-is-warming-over-400-faster-than-in-the-1980s-sciencealert/

The Ocean Surface Is Warming Over 400% Faster Than in The 1980s : ScienceAlert…

The unexpected jump in global #temperatures since 2023 has helped fuel a relentless assault of associated disasters around the world, including the still-burning #LAfires and the deadly #Valenciafl…
for much deliberation
#climatechange #GlobalWarming #oceans #valenciafloods #temperatures #lafires

“…In the midst of this chaos, Octavia’s Bookshelf became an unexpected hub of relief…”

#GoodNews, #solidarity, #LAFires

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/23/california-wildfires-pasadena-bookstore-octavias-bookshelf

#solidarity #goodnews #lafires

Trump continues to spread misinformation about the LA wildfires to distract people from his real goal: to divert water to wealthy corporate cattle ranchers & nut farms.

"Ultimately, environmental laws protect people and communities. Increasing water diversions beyond levels that are already unsustainable will harm communities that rely on San Francisco Bay’s water quality and fisheries. We call on Governor Newsom to help the people of Los Angeles recover, quickly, while defending California’s waters, wildlife, and vulnerable communities from the Trump's radical anti-environmental agenda," as our science director @jarosenfield told Courthouse News https://www.courthousenews.com/california-leaders-condemn-trump-executive-order-tying-water-policy-to-wildfire-relief/

#cawater #californiawater #sfbay #sanfranciscobay #water #lafires #losangeles
#Water #losangeles #lafires #cawater #californiawater #sfbay #sanfranciscobay @jarosenfield

#uspolitics #california #lafires

So, Officials of the Trump government turned off pumps, complained about water, turned them back on, then took credit for solving a crisis?

#DoIHaveThatRight?

https://www.kcra.com/article/california-responds-president-trump-water-claim/63581272
#california #uspolitics #lafires #doihavethatright

Hey RENTERS! 🏘️

We made a guide of tenants’ rights in the City of LA.

Now is a crucial time to know your rights. Housing affordability was a crisis before the fires & is set to get worse - with concerns about rent increases, price gouging & evictions.

#LAFires 🔥

Source :

https://x.com/lacontroller/status/1884040102604894646?s=46

#lafires

There's a "Dungeons & Dragons" livestream happening on Jan. 30 to raise funds for those affected by the Los Angeles fires. Critical Role is hosting "Freaky Thursday," which will be streamed on Beacon, Twitch and YouTube at 7 p.m. PT. It will feature the characters played by Ashley Johnson, Marisha Ray, Taliesin Jaffe, Travis Willingham, Sam Riegel, Laura Bailey, and Liam O’Brien and game master Matthew Mercer. The group has set a fundraising goal of $180,000. Here's more from @RollingStone on what to expect.

https://flip.it/Xgz73s

#Gaming #VideoGames #DungeonsAndDragons #DND #TTRPG #CriticalRole #LAFires #Wildfires #FreakyThursday

'Critical Role' Announces Dungeons & Dragons Livestream for L.A. Fires

'Critical Role' will host a one-off 'Dungeons & Dragons' livestream to raise money for those affected by the Los Angeles fires.
Tomás Mier (Rolling Stone)
#dnd #ttrpg #gaming #videogames #dungeonsanddragons #wildfires #lafires #criticalrole #freakythursday @Rolling Stone

Der Derpenführer is really weird.

“Donny still hasn’t figured out that _wildfires and forest fires are two different things_. it’s just like his confusion about political asylum and insane asylums. all Donny sees is the word “asylum” and _away we go_ on another deranged reverie about Hannibal Lecter.”

https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/dear-leaders-mind-is-a-tumbleweed

#fires #LAfires #potus #asylum #trump #USpol

Dear Leader’s mind is a tumbleweed-strewn hellscape

scenes from Donny’s batshit Los Angeles visit
Jeff Tiedrich (everyone is entitled to my own opinion)
#trump #uspol #potus #fires #asylum #lafires

Ben Affleck looks tense as he reunites with ex-wife Jennifer Garner and child Fin, 16, at Los Angeles play https://www.inbella.com/876340/ben-affleck-looks-tense-as-he-reunites-with-ex-wife-jennifer-garner-and-child-fin-16-at-los-angeles-play/ #BenAffleck #CelebritiesNews #dailymail #JenniferGarner #JenniferLopez #LAFires #SundanceFilmFestival #tvshowbiz
Ben Affleck attended a school play in Santa Monica on Saturday night

Ben Affleck looks tense as he reunites with ex-wife Jennifer Garner and child Fin, 16, at Los Angeles play

Ben Affleck looks tense as he reunites with ex-wife Jennifer Garner and child Fin, 16, at Los Angeles play - INBELLA
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#dailymail #celebritiesnews #jenniferlopez #benaffleck #jennifergarner #lafires #tvshowbiz #sundancefilmfestival

OMG. Scratch literally any problem in the US, and you'll find a monopoly underneath. Why were the LA fires so hard to fight? In part because a monopoly has bought the entire fire truck manufacturing industry, doubled the prices of trucks and quadrupled the waiting time for them. 100 of the 180-ish trucks LAFD owns are currently offline. #LAFires

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/did-a-private-equity-fire-truck-roll?r=2hk0s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
In conjunction with this consolidation, we've also seen a reduction in industry capacity from actions like REV Group's shutdown of its KME plants. What is curious about that shutdown in particular is that it came in the face of rapidly increasing demand: As federal COVID-19 assistance filled state and local government coffers, fire truck orders grew approximately 50% from 2020 to 2022, reaching roughly 6,000 for the first time since 2008. Since then, order activity has remained strong, hovering between 5,500 and 6,500. As a result, both REV Group and Oshkosh have seen their backlogs skyrocket over the last two years. The latest available data shows that REV Group had a $4.2 billion backlog_on fire and emergency. vehicle orders in the United States as of October 2024, while Oshkosh had a $5.3 billion backlog_on fire apparatus orders globally as of June 2024. And yet, neither company appears to be making significant investments in additional manufacturing capacity to rapidly cut down its backlog — or even concerned that multi-year delays in delivery might lead customers to bail on their orders.
Altogether, these facts paint an alarming picture. A handful of financiers have been allowed to transform a critical, once-vibrant industry into a rent- extracting racket. By consolidating the fire-apparatus industry through serial acquisitions, REV Group and Oshkosh appear to have consolidated the power to raise prices and throttle output of lifesaving equipment with impunity. Using that power, they have imposed years-long delays in delivery on their customers and exorbitant payment terms that will enable them to pass on production costs almost at will — leaving them little incentive to invest in new capacity or greater efficiency to relieve the bottleneck in the fire truck supply chain. They can reap rising stock prices and “attractive levels of return on invested capital” for their shareholders just by sitting pretty — all while fire departments across the country struggle to replace aging fire trucks, have to spend more on maintenance for older vehicles, and are forced to shirk on other budget items, like firefighter salaries, to get what equipment they can. But the ultimate harm of AIP's monopolization of the fire apparatus industry, of course, is not something that can be measured on a spreadsheet. It's a hundred fire trucks sitting out of commission while a disastrous wildfire burns whole neighborhoods of Los Angeles to the ground. It's lives lost, homes destroyed, communities gutted.
#lafires

Corridor Crew call out AI slop in the LA fire video clips circulated on social media
https://youtu.be/zhdHTax1wyQ
#AIslop #LAfires #Fake #generativeAI

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#generativeAI #fake #aislop #lafires

Eyebrow raising article on #LaFires :

Why were so many firetrucks in California old and out of order?

Private equity consolidated the firetruck market, increased scarcity, and jacked up prices.

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/did-a-private-equity-fire-truck-roll

#Wildfires #California #Capitalism #Neoliberalism #Climate #ClimateCrisis #AntiTrust #Economics #USA
#climatecrisis #climate #capitalism #usa #california #economics #wildfires #antitrust #neoliberalism #lafires

via Matt Stoller 🐦

During the #LAfires, dozens of fire trucks sat in the boneyard, waiting for repairs the city couldn't afford. Why? A private equity roll-up made replacing and repairing those trucks much pricier

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/did-a-private-equity-fire-truck-roll?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
#lafires

#PrivateEquity is responsible for the exorbitant prices of fire trucks & disrepair issues, that’ve likely caused injuries & deaths nationwide. PE’s focus on profits, rather than the quality of their wares, led to shortage of fire trucks during the #LAFires.

“A private equity roll-up of fire trucks is why >1/2 the fire trucks in LA were out of service during the catastrophic wildfires in the Palisades & Eaton.”
-M Stoller

#USPol #CorporateGreed #Plutocracy

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/did-a-private-equity-fire-truck-roll
#uspol #plutocracy #privateequity #CorporateGreed #lafires

Wow! Narcissism, sociopathy, or total lack of empathy?

https://apnews.com/article/trump-first-trip-california-north-carolina-nevada-b906880254ce7bf249c3dcefa45bf846

#Trump #GovernorNewsom #LAFires #Fema #MAGA

Trump proposes 'getting rid of FEMA' while touring disaster areas

President Donald Trump says he is considering “getting rid of” the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
WILL WEISSERT (AP News)
#trump #maga #FEMA #lafires #governornewsom

Los Angeles is on fire and the fossil fuel industry/big oil lit it. And the president if the US is fanning the flames.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/11/los-angeles-fire-fossil-fuel-big-oil #climateChange #LAfires #bigOil #fossilFuels
#climatechange #fossilfuels #bigoil #lafires

LeVar Burton, Alison Brie Sign Petition for More Production Incentives https://www.inbella.com/872619/levar-burton-alison-brie-sign-petition-for-more-production-incentives/ #AlisonBrie #CelebritiesTopics #LAFires #LevarBurton
LeVar Burton, Alison Brie Sign Petition for More Production Incentives

LeVar Burton, Alison Brie Sign Petition for More Production Incentives

LeVar Burton, Alison Brie Sign Petition for More Production Incentives - INBELLA
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#celebritiestopics #lafires #alisonbrie #levarburton

It's going to be very interesting to see how the US plans to rebuild houses in LA following the fires, if they slap a 25% tariff on Canadian softwood.

Still, if they plant some trees now they should be ready in, oh, 30 years.

Trump's tariffs will end up screwing Americans who voted for him. Perhaps he should try reading a book to see how they actually work.

#Trump #USpoli #tariffs #LAfires
#trump #uspoli #tariffs #lafires

Spencer Pratt, Heidi Montag Sue L.A. Over Palisades Fire https://www.inbella.com/871624/spencer-pratt-heidi-montag-sue-l-a-over-palisades-fire/ #EntertainmentNews #HeidiMontag #LAFires #SpencerPratt
Spencer Pratt, Heidi Montag Sue L.A. Over Palisades Fire

Spencer Pratt, Heidi Montag Sue L.A. Over Palisades Fire

Spencer Pratt, Heidi Montag Sue L.A. Over Palisades Fire - INBELLA
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#entertainmentnews #lafires #heidimontag #spencerpratt

#la #lafires #ClimateChange #disasters #firefighting
Photo by David Crane LA Times
Low brown hills in LA, no structures, blue sky with white smoke, thin in places. Low over the hills a DC10 dropping magenta colored retarded. Photo David Crane LA Times
#climatechange #la #disasters #lafires #firefighting

#trump does nothing, #california may burn down to the ground because he believes that it was the governor to blame (false) Maybe California should uphold there tax payments to the federal state! #lafires

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BvfPUWlpWM

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#trump #california #lafires

Maybe, all this tragedy in #LAfires has one silver lining:
rich people were hit.
Rich means influential in the USA.
Maybe, now they raise their voices loud enough so that the USA gets her act together and sufficiently acts on #ClimateChange .
Maybe now they realize that global heating not a slow-burning thing they can outrun by their financial means.
Maybe now they realize that they depend on functioning societies across all income groups and globally.

Fortune's article above links to the original article by AccuWeather with the damage estimate of US$ 150bn .
They describe the criteria for their estimate. And those sound pretty holistic.
Although still based on the official estimate for very low numbers of destroyed structures, 10k.
So the 150bn are likely to increase. Gruesome.
But re-building is good for GDP, as economists would see it. The #Pyrocene is the #EconObscene

https://www.accuweather.com/en/press/media-advisory-accuweather-increases-estimate-of-total-damage-and-economic-loss-ascatastrophic-wildfires-in-southern-california-continue-to-ravage-the-los-angeles-area-updated-preliminary-estimate-i/1732268
#climatechange #lafires #pyrocene #econobscene

#LAFires 🔥

Two fantastic water drops from the Super Scooper planes battling the Hughes Fire in Castaic Lake, California.

Keep 'em coming!

https://bsky.app/profile/artcandee.bsky.social/post/3lge7eww73k2r
#lafires

#LAFires 🔥 #Hughes

Just fifteen minutes later the Hughes Fire has now jumped to more than 5,000 acres

https://x.com/thinktankfranks/status/1882176270634819795?s=46
#lafires #hughes

"If you want to assist the many artists and old school communities affected by the L.A. fires then throw some money at this incredible compilation from "on the ground" locals & TSMM label favourite Leaving Records, who are rolling up their sleeves and doing their bit."
https://staying.bandcamp.com/album/staying-leaving-records-aid-to-artists-impacted-by-the-los-angeles-wildfires

#lafires #fundraising #leftfield #futuristic #independent #artists #alternative.

Staying: Leaving Records Aid to Artists Impacted by the Los Angeles Wildfires, by Various Aritsts

98 track album
Staying
#artists #independent #fundraising #alternative #lafires #leftfield #futuristic

Not done yet.

#HighWindWarning - Diagonals
#RedFlagWarning - Red

For official details from NOAA including timing, open the map, zoom in, click in red area. Scroll down in the popup that appears since there might be multiple weather watches/warnings for the spot you clicked and each one has its own link to the details.
#LAfires #SantaAnna #CAfire #CAwx #Wildfire

Open GISsurfer map:
https://mappingsupport.com/p2/gissurfer.php?center=33.845506,-118.025818&zoom=8&basemap=USA_basemap&overlay=State_boundary,High_wind_warning,Red_flag_warning&data=https://mappingsupport.com/p2/special_maps/disaster/USA_wildland_fire.txt


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GISsurfer lets you surf a nearly endless amount of GIS data. Click a layer in the GIS server's table of contents and that data appears on the map.
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#wildfire #cawx #redflagwarning #lafires #cafire #highwindwarning #santaanna

#scifi Author Octavia Butler’s Gravesite Survived #LAFires . 😭 #books
https://gizmodo.com/beloved-sci-fi-author-octavia-butlers-gravesite-survived-los-angeles-fire-2000552204
The queen of Afrofuturism was nurtured in one of the bright spots in Black middle class property ownership.

Beloved Sci-Fi Author Octavia Butler's Gravesite Survived Los Angeles Fire

Altadena, California was the home of the esteemed Afrofuturism pioneer who wrote Parable of the Sower.
Sabina Graves (Gizmodo)
#books #scifi #lafires

🔴 Los Angeles Fire Survivors March Against ‘Criminally Negligent’ Gov’t

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiSNukZYbGE

#LosAngeles #LAFires #California #WildFires

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#california #losangeles #wildfires #lafires

Status of #LAFires

(Monday, January 20th, 2025)
(7:26 AM, Pacific Time)

(per #WatchDuty app)

ZOOM IN FOR DETAILS

#EatonFire
#PalisadesFire

(subject to updates, corrections, and revisions)
Screenshots of maps of the active Los Angeles fires (Monday, January 20th, 2025) (7:26 AM, Pacific Time) (from the Watch Duty mobile app).
#palisadesfire #eatonfire #lafires #watchduty

The meme is happening in real life.

#capitalism #lafires #climatechange #globalwarming
A dog is sitting in a room that is on fire saying, "This is fine." There are words above that read, "People who continue to support capitalism during the LA fires:."
#climatechange #capitalism #GlobalWarming #lafires

Monday morning. At the time of my post the #GIS layer with the damage assessment data for #EatonFire shows that 17,003 structures have been evaluated. Of those, 9,366 have been designated as destroyed (damage > 50%). Note that some of the evaluated structures are outside of the fire perimeter. #LAfires

To search on an address click Menu > Search.

Red - Destroyed > 50%
Orange - Major 26-50%
Yellow - Minor 10-25%
Green - Affected 1-9%
Black - No damage
White - Inaccessible

Open GISsurfer map:
https://mappingsupport.com/p2/gissurfer.php?center=34.192992,-118.092556&zoom=13&basemap=LA_County_basemap&overlay=Perimeter_FIRIS_intel,LA_County_map,LA_County_parcels,Eaton_damage_assessment&data=https://mappingsupport.com/p2/special_maps/disaster/USA_wildland_fire.txt

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#gis #eatonfire #lafires

Monday morning. At the time of my post the #GIS layer with the damage assessment data for #PalisadesFire shows that 8,495 structures have been evaluated. Of those, 4,993 have been designated as destroyed (damage > 50%). Note that some of the evaluated structures are outside of the fire perimeter. #LAfires

To search on an address click Menu > Search.

Red - Destroyed > 50%
Orange - Major 26-50%
Yellow - Minor 10-25%
Green - Affected 1-9%
Black - No damage
White - Inaccessible

Open GISsurfer map:
https://mappingsupport.com/p2/gissurfer.php?center=34.074127,-118.591234&zoom=12&basemap=LA_County_basemap&overlay=Perimeter_FIRIS_intel,LA_County_map,LA_County_parcels,Palisades_damage_assessment&data=https://mappingsupport.com/p2/special_maps/disaster/USA_wildland_fire.txt

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GISsurfer lets you surf a nearly endless amount of GIS data. Click a layer in the GIS server's table of contents and that data appears on the map.
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#gis #palisadesfire #lafires

#LAfires #PalisadesFire #wildfires #disinformation

"My mom used to say, if you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything.…I feel like that goes double in a crisis."

https://www.instagram.com/p/DEvVWglqf1e/

#LosAngelesFire #LosAngeles
#losangeles #disinformation #wildfires #palisadesfire #lafires #losangelesfire

I see several #NFL teams have donated to the #LAFires That’s a great cause, thanks.

Some donated a million dollars, some $500K. I’m sure a billionaire owner can at least donate a million bucks. There should be at least $32 million dollars to match the 32 teams. C’Mon🔥🔥🔥💰💵💸
#nfl #lafires

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