Friday Politics Roundup for Friday April 8, 2022

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned this week that the Earth is “firmly on track toward an unlivable world,” saying that unless dramatic and radical action takes place in the next few years, it is next to impossible to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and makes even 2 degrees warming unlikely.  The IPCC said they have “high confidence” that unless countries make radical cuts in fossil fuel emissions, the planet will on average be 2.4C to 3.5C (4.3 to 6.3F) warmer by the end of the century — “a level experts say is sure to cause severe impacts for much of the world’s population.”

It’s official, Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed as the first Black woman to become a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Horrifying scenes in the Ukrainian town of Bucha emerged this week as the world now has to confront the full scope of Putin’s war crimes. 

New Amazon communications app for workers bans words like union, bathroom, justice, and slave labor. 

The newly merged Pennsylvania Western University - formerly California, Clarion, and Edinboro - launched their new registration app just a few days before students register for Fall 2022 classes. And, as you would expect, the last minute roll-out is not going so well. 

As we record today’s show, SpaceX is launching the first fully private mission to the ISS. The four person, all-male crew is part of Axiom Space’s Ax-1 mission. Axiom Space seeks to make “living and working in space, commonplace.” 

From Gizmodo: “Axiom describes Ax-1 as a “precursor” private astronaut mission. It’s the first of four proposed missions, all of which are stepping stones for the company as it looks ahead to the construction of its private orbital outpost, dubbed Axiom Station. Construction of the station is scheduled to begin in 2024; a succession of modules will be incrementally added to the Harmony node of the ISS.”