In the Off Chance You Believe in God… | NANMYKEL.COM

…As of Friday morning, there were 125 active fires burning in Oregon, totaling 1,018,218 acres.

This past Sunday was the warmest single day ever recorded, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, the European Union-funded research organization. That is, until Monday, when global temperatures inched up a bit more. Then Monday became the hottest day in modern history.

On Thursday, António Guterres, secretary general of the U.N., addressed the global heat wave and called for new efforts to protect the vulnerable and workers, as well as to make population centers more resilient.

“Let’s face facts,” he said. “Extreme temperatures are no longer a one-day, one-week or one-month phenomenon. If there is one thing that unites our divided world, it’s that we’re all increasingly feeling the heat. Earth is becoming hotter and more dangerous for everyone, everywhere.”

Smoke from the fires has reached the east coast…

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‘Kamala-mania’ also catching on in Europe – DW – 07/27/2024

An “amazing phenomenon” — that is what Amy Porter, a spokesperson for Democrats Abroad, or DA, calls what’s happened in France over the last week. Since President Joe Biden’s decision to pass the baton to Vice President Kamala Harris, Porter said the organization, which represents the US’ Democrat party globally, has seen a surge in registration of new voters and in volunteers offering to help on the campaign.

Perhaps more remarkably, she told DW, they’ve had “local people, French people, non-US citizens reaching out to us and saying, ‘I would like to help'” get Harris elected. In her decades volunteering with the organization, Porter said she’s only seen this “once in a blue moon.”

Screenshot from a TV debate showing Amy Porter speaking during the 2020 election
Democrats’ Abroad’s Amy Porter frequently debates on behalf of the party in French media

Source: ‘Kamala-mania’ also catching on in Europe – DW – 07/27/2024