#Paris Accords

[dailyhistoryposts]

On This Day In History

December 12th, 2015: The Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is adopted.

[summerhighlandfalls]

People say Klavier and Apollo’s first meeting is like if Harry Styles started calling you ‘Mr Forehead’ the second he met you but what they forget is that Apollo grew up in a country halfway across the world, English is probably not his first language (at least not the one he spoke as a child), and Klavier is speaking in a combination of English and German. For me that would be like if I moved to Paris, met Jungkook from BTS, and he started calling me front 님. And then tried to ask me out

[hotvampireadjacent]

“That was high noon to Count Dracula” Alex jones, 6.6.2017

[oracleofdiscord]

Paris + The Gods

please pretend that it looks like ares is taking the crown from paris instead of giving a crown to paris because having paris actively hand it over didn't work with the rest of the concept for this drawing

also please pretend that it actually looks like aphrodite is leaning over instead of looking like she's the same height as paris - a lot of the shading i used to indicate that she wasn't standing up straight got killed by the glowy hair effects

bonus flats + simpler shading under the cut, bonus ramblings in the tags

[stirdrawsandreblaws]

screaming crying coughing up blood every time i have to fucking defend genocide joe bc ppl wanna lie and say he isn't responsible for most of the best domestic policy we've seen in decades

his foreign policy is dogshit, yes, and he should rightly be called on it and primaried out, but we can criticize the shit he's actually done wrong instead of making shit up about him ~not doing anything good~

[thresholdbb]

Nephew: Janeway never did warp 10! She’s not became a lizard!

[buffyfan145]

Netflix did reveal their 2024 slate today and like yesterday we found out the final seasons of "Cobra Kai" and "The Umbrella Academy" are on it as well as new seasons of "Outer Banks", "Emily in Pairs", "The Diplomat", "The Night Agent", "Bridgerton", and more are all coming out as well as a lot of movies and miniseries. However some shows were confirmed to be delayed till 2025 due to the strikes and rescheduling filming. These including the final season of "Stranger Things" and new seasons of "Wednesday", "My Life with the Walter Boys", "Sweet Magnolias", and others. Did notice some international shows didn't make the list either but are supposed to be out this year like Italy's "The Law According to Lidia Poet". So a lot is coming but am sad some are being delayed till next year.

[thephantomofanastasia]

Rare Interview with Prince Felix Yusupov

This is a translation into English of this 1967 interview in French: Interviewer: Prince Felix Yusupov, you killed Rasputin? Prince: Yes Interviewer: How old are you prince? Prince: Nearly eighty Interviewer: How old were you when you killed Rasputin? Prince: Twenty-nine Interviewer: Prince, are you part of the Imperial Russian family? Prince: No, but my wife is the niece of the Emperor Nicholas the Second Interviewer: Princess, were you aware of the plan of your husband? Princess: Yes, I was aware of it. Interviewer: And did you approve? Princess: Yes. Interviewer: Princess, we have said - we have repeated, that you had been in (unclear) Rasputin to his home the night of the murder? Is that true? Princess: It is not at all true. Interviewer: Why? Princess: Because I was not there, I was in Crimea. Interviewer: Prince, in the evening of your life, when you think about Rasputin again, what sentiment comes to you at the thought of him? Prince: Disgust. Interviewer: Did you have a personal interest in the murder of Rasputin? Prince: None. Interviewer: Prince, in identical circumstances, if you had to make the same decision, would you do again what you did then? Prince: Yes. Interviewer: All of your life you have refused to let anyone tell your story. The films that have been made about Rasputin have been made without your (approval). And now, for the first time you have authorized our film. And for the first time, you appear before the camera. Prince Yusupov, why? Prince: Because the other films did not tell the true story. Interviewer: The man who has just spoken to you, the man who killed Rasputin, that man will now revisit his memories.

[garadinervi]

Iannis Xenakis: Anaktoria (Octuor de Paris), Oophaa (Elisabeth Chojnacka, clavecin – Sylvio Gualda, percussions), Charisma (Alain Damien, clarinet – Pierre Strauch, cello), Mists (Claude Helffer, piano), Mikka et Mikka "S" (Maryvonne Le Dizès, violin), Morsima-Amorsima (Octuor de Paris – Jacqueline Méfano, piano), Graphic Design by Laurent Pinabel, 205652, Accord, 1996 [Les Amis de Xenakis]

[mostlydaydreaming]

Gene Kelly & Leslie Caron twist and turn in the “Toulouse-Lautrec” section of the final ballet in “An American in Paris” (1951)

[caradsfromthepast]

8-panel fold brochure of the 1992 Honda range in France. Collected that year at the Paris Motor Show (Mondial de l’Automobile 1992).

At that time the range consisted of the Honda Civic, Concerto, Accord, Prelude, Lengend and the super-sports NSX.

[vonlipvig]

this has really been a rough couple of days for me, an argentine who has to admit that the french really won with everything paris n1 related, but taylor said 'don't worry this one's for you' and gave us the fact that we will always be able to say that she played 'is it over now? x ootw' in argentina first and in france second.

[kp777]

By Andy Rowell

Common Dreams Opinion

July 21, 2023

“We need to hold governments to start to act sensibly now and reduce emissions,” one expert said.

As leading climate scientists watch the devastating, breakneck speed of unfolding climate disasters unfolding across the globe—from record soaring temperatures to catastrophic flooding—many are aghast at how rapidly their worst predictions are being now being played out in real-time.

Some are also now admitting that they might well have underestimated the speed and scale of our impending climate crisis and how bad things could get.

This is deeply ironic because, for years, those scientists who sounded the alarm over climate change were attacked by the oil industry or their funded front groups for exaggerating or playing “chicken little.”

“The research community must be brutally honest. We are on a pathway to 2-3°C, and probably closer to the upper end of that range.”

But now some of the most senior climate scientists on the planet are speaking out about their concerns.

Speaking to the BBC Thursday morning, Sir Bob Watson, who is currently emeritus professor of the UK’s Tyndall Centre for Climate and former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said, “I am very concerned. None of the observed changes so far (at +1.2°C) are surprising. But they are more severe than we predicted. We probably underestimated the consequences.”

He added “The research community must be brutally honest. We are on a pathway to 2-3°C, and probably closer to the upper end of that range. We are likely to pass 1.5°C in the mid-2030’s and 2°C around 2060. Current pledges and the policies needed them are totally inadequate.”

As the BBC notes, although Watson’s “comments are candid on the state of action on climate change, many of his colleagues will agree with his conclusion that we are on course for a temperature rise of 2.5°C or more.”

And Watson’s colleagues do concur. Ellen Thomas, a Yale University scientist who studies climate change told TheGuardian “It’s not just the magnitude of change, it’s the rate of change that’s an issue.”

Thomas added: “We have highways and railroads that are set in place, our infrastructure can’t move. Almost all my colleagues have said that, in hindsight, we have underestimated the consequences. Things are moving faster than we thought, which is not good.”

Other leading scientists agree too:

Meanwhile, others are being candid that nothing will change until we reduce our use of fossil fuels. “I’ve been expecting this for 20 years,” Professor Camille Parmesan, from the National Center for Scientific Research and an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report author, told Bloomberg. “This is just going to keep happening given that we’re not reducing emissions.”

Speaking to TheGuardian, James Hansen, often seen as the Godfather of climate science, warned we are hurtling towards a superheated climate because “we are damned fools” for not acting sooner. “We have to taste it to believe it.”

He told TheGuardian: “There’s a lot more in the pipeline, unless we reduce the greenhouse gas amounts. These superstorms are a taste of the storms of my grandchildren. We are headed wittingly into the new reality—we knew it was coming.”'

“The climate crisis is in the main a fossil fuel crisis.”

“This does not mean that the extreme heat at a particular place this year will recur and grow each year,” he continued. “Weather fluctuations move things around. But the global average temperature will go up and the climate dice will be more and more loaded, including more extreme events.”

In a so far unpeer-reviewed scientific paper, Hansen and colleagues said: “It seems that we are headed into a new frontier of global climate,” one not seen for millions of years.

They warn: “As long as more energy is coming in than going out, we must expect global warming to continue.”

Al Gore is another who is alarmed by what they are witnessing: “Everywhere you look in the world, the extremes have now seemingly reached a new level,” he told TheNew York Times in an interview. “The temperatures in the North Atlantic and the unprecedented decline of the Antarctic sea ice, both simultaneously. We see it in upstate New York, we see it in Vermont, we see it in southern Japan, we see it in India. We see it in the unprecedented drought in Uruguay and in Argentina.”

“The climate crisis is in the main a fossil fuel crisis,” Gore added. “If the world is not permitted to discuss the phasing down of fossil fuels because the fossil fuel companies don’t want the world to discuss it, that’s the sign of a very flawed process.”

But it’s not too late to act. As Watson said: “We need to hold governments to start to act sensibly now and reduce emissions.” And its not just governments. It’s the oil industry, too; as Gore points out, this is a fossil fuel crisis. Created by the fossil fuel industry. Because their decades-old public relations strategy of denying the evidence, spreading doubt, and delaying action is the reason our world is on fire right now.

Andy Rowell Andy Rowell is a staff blogger for Oil Change International in addition to working as a freelance writer and investigative journalist who specializes in environmental, health and lobbying issues. He is a senior Research Fellow at the University of Bath and Director of the Tobacco Tactics team at the Tobacco Control Research Group, which is a partner in the global tobacco industry watchdog,

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[the-busy-ghost]

Alright I'm knee-deep in essays but just heard this again and honestly I have never heard a piece of music so appropriately titled. It's called 'Musette for a Magpie'- I can see some magpies out of the window strutting their stuff in the garden right now and generally acting like the bird equivalents of a cockney spiv, and well, those lads are definitely Characters.

[im-a-dragon-cawcaw]

Attention span so short the Louvre fears me

[thresholdbb]

Me: What’s Janeway doing today?

Nephew: Ganeway felled into the sewer then there was another Ganeway

Me: Wait, why are there two Janeways?

Nephew: That’s just the way it is