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August 26, 2019

Brazil is sending 43,000 troops to fight the massive Amazon wildfire

Trump Has Over 2,000 Conflicts Of Interest Since Becoming President

How Jair Bolsonaro Emboldened Brazilian Agribusiness to Torch the Amazon & Attack Indigenous People

August 24, 2019

Interior House Painting - Sanding The Walls - - repaint

Iceland commemorates first glacier that 'died' by climate change - Less albedo means more heat.

Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change

Does anybody else think these fires in the Amazon might just be the nail in our friggin coffin?

 

I think of the Amazon attack in terms similar to the attack on Pearl Harbor, but as an attack on biodiversity, genocide, cultural genocide too. The nails were in place long ago as the drive for "dominion" and capital expansion settled across the globe. It's because we don't have a consciousness suited to long-term survival on this finite planet with our power to destroy. Readers on this channel know the value of the lost biodiversity as the Amazon burns. The 7th Generation and far beyond would have gained knowledge, wisdom, and cures yet to be discovered. It's all going up in smoke, "penny wise and pound foolish," for lack of better words. What doesn't burn in this first attack will burn sooner or later, if not during the time of this generation, the next and so forth. The nails, then, were in place long ago in our way of thinking about our responsibility to nature and future generations. We're just no damn good. Many of us have said the same many times.

 

August 23, 2019

David Koch Leaves Behind Vile Legacy, Professional And Personal - "Trust in the Lord" David Koch.

The Philosophy of Money, Simmel " To the happy few." THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY

What If We CLEARED the Amazon? “We may not be given a warning until the CO2 loading is such that an appreciable climate change is inevitable,” according to Charney. The Warming Papers (Kindle Locations 6879-6880). Wiley. Kindle Edition.

Trump Says It’ll Be Fun To Gut Safety Net Programs In His Second Term

  • BLACK BEAR NEWS 8.23.19 Losing the Amazon
  • David Koch, one of the greatest threats to Earth's life forms, died this date.
    Isn't it ironic that one of the Koch's dies today as the Amazon's fires burn and will continue to burn incalculable intrinsic and extrinsic value. I always stood aside of the capitalism argument because of my Marxist studies and other radical influences. I wanted to be "objective," at least as objective as possible.
    Now, there's no way to reasonably stand aside on the issue of capitalism. Yes, hierarchy plays a part in humanity's war on life forms, but capitalism plays the biggest role in the part of fossil fuels and the Kochs.
    I son't know about Stalin, considering his war on agriculure science and Lysenko, given the need. Speaking of "false consciousness," we don't see any reverence for nature's species-populations from China. As it liquidates Vietnam's rainforests and rivers, like on and parts of the African continent, many speices-populations perish, Yet, overall, not even Hitler stands up to the damage of today's capitalist system, Koch and Exxon included. Before the Amazon burn, it was probably too late for many species. Now, civilization's future is up in the air, possibly, literally. Read the The Long Thaw, Ice Ages, Warming Papers, and others and you will understand what I mean. This is not hyperbole. And David Koch made a clean exit; not a penny could he hold on his way out.
  • Observations: automated telemarkiting, American free enterprise at work.
  • Prophecy, logical, not biblical: expect hoards of Brazilians to seek refuge from fire, famine, and political turmoil to beg for US residency.
  • “When they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another.” Matthew 10:23.
  • Amazon in flames: Record 73,000 forest fires in 2019
  • Amazon rainforest: 'Our lungs are on fire'- BBC Newsnight
  • Why is Brazil’s Amazon rainforest engulfed in flames? | Just The FAQs
  • Amazon rainforest burning at record rate
  • In the 4th grade, I learned the meaning of ecology through lessons on the water cycle and plant respiration, photosynthesis. The value of nature as part of life's lift-systems approach to survival became clear. I never lost that message. Ecology meant more for some of us than others. Now, I must wonder, what happened to to these "others"? Did they get lost or never got the message?
  • Many did not need the message. They got it intuitively. Around 4 years of age, they played with hordes of butterflies as they ran gleefully from flowering plant to flowering plant. Grasping, they occasionally caught and then released one of these wondrous representatives of species-populations' diversity. Others, like Trump and Bossonaro were lost to ideologies. Perhaps not so much Trump. He became lost to his own internal image, his ego. Ideologies become stepping stones rather than commitments for Trump.
  • Adding Ecology and Random Thoughts. There's too much to handle, otherwise. The evidence piles in at an increasing rate. The loss of the Amazon's "beyond price" habitat for so many species-in the wild spells doom. These life relationships could have survived and adapted for eons. Now the Amazon faces desertification. Calling humanity a "termite-like" species no longer sounds like hyperbole. But then, the Amazon, too, simply continues the European mode of existence, slash and burn. Didn't the Europeans migrate to the Americas because their forests were repeatedly destroyed? With their ways they brought their ideologies, their African apocalypse. American Transcendentalist failed to build and prevail against this simplistic, migrating Manichaeism. Plato's spell then fell on the ears of the indigenous populations. Zombie-like, they too became termites. But then, it goes on in Vietnam today as China sinks its teeth into this frail, war-beaten, rainforest nation. Communuists can match capitalism's war on nature, too.
  • Auschwitz and the many Zippo torched villages testify to the fact; humanity's 7th Generation will not make its appearance again - - termites will. We might have made it with some sort of epistemological break long ago; that time is long gong. Trump and Bossonaro, symptoms, prove the necessity of for an epistemological break if not revolutionary change in consciousness, or something in between. For species-populations in the wild, nothing less will do. Even at this late date, the cement heads don't get it and never will. Example: The United States has accused China of preventing Southeast Asian countries from accessing trillions of dollars worth of untapped oil and gas reserves. Like the South China Sea needs more oil spills and Pentagon war games..
  • An epistemological break means more than the ideological changes like those of Charles Darwin, George Herbert Mead, and many other intellectuals. On a social-historical scale, it must reach beyond the Renaissance's slow, immutable ushering in of science, art, and literature. Time is up and past.
  • The ancient, desert Hebrew prophets got the social control part of it right, at least. They got the meaning of "apocalypse" wrong, understandably, considering what knowledge they had to work; what can we expect from life in the desert? "Dominion" over the desert fox and sand makes a lot of sense. What else is there, the world of the oasis? Yet, even today, humanity in general remains beyond reach of ecology's real meaning, life relationships. Humanity seeks "dream" commodities, a bigger porch. We don't get it - - Enough is enough. There are limits to growth, and the growth of the human population proves it, especially in Brazil. (pop. 1955: 63,000,000 - 2019: 212,000,0000) This is where the growing population of young mothers dumps their toddlers on the street. Until recently, merchants hired thugs to "off" the streets' unloved urchins. This is western "progress," "democracy"?
  • Right, what the hell. Burn it all and start World War III while you are at it. Turn the Killer Oceans into acid pits and prove life cannot exist anywhere else in our solar system, assholes. Wilhelm Reich got it right, evolution of the ego was a big mistake on nature's part. History proved him right, not nuts.

August 22, 2019

August 20, 2019

Resource Depletion and Front Loaded Goods (Perfect Moral Storm)

This working draft attempts to give a clear description of environmental predicaments inherited by future generations. From Stephen M. Gardners, A Perfect Moral Storm, The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change, I play with "Front Loaded" and "Back Loaded" ideas to explain the predicament of the 7th Generation.

 

August 18, 2019

  • Alaskan fish die but everyone's having a good time on Instagram
  • Necessary Viewing: IPCC Climate Change and Land: Is the IPCC being straight with us? - - Climate Change and Land #1 FINAL.pdf
  • Extinction Rebellion - "Emissions are going up, not down. . . . There are no words to describe how serious this is."Extinction Rebellion on BBC

  • "There's no way to keep it below 2 degrees centigrade." Everyone failed, even Greenpeace, and now we're looking at social collapse because of starvation. Earth heats at an increasing rate. Humanity ignores consequences -

    Web Master: Capitalism -- Does this mean the end of capitalism? Of course not; it does mean the end of capitalism as we know it. Free enterprise for the remainder of humankind will continue by necessity. There's no way to replace free enterprise as long as people produce and trade their labor and products. Barter will grow. Socialization of goods, services, and capital will decrease and increase on a regional scale (bioregionalism), intergenerationally. Socializing the costs of fossil fuel damages must follow, and intergenerationally. So whether or not capitalism survives becomes moot in the face of losing civilization as we know it.

    Global warming is not a "left" or "right" issue. It is beyond ideologies. It is a matter for science, Earth Sciences generally because of its systemic nature. Global warming will stir both left and right to act in a revolutionary manner, some seeking violent methods as they fail to reach goals set by the power-elite, oligarchs, and government cronies.

    Intergenerational Moral Corruption

    Intergenerational science denial will morph, shifting needed changes into damaging setbacks for following generations.
    So a social reflex will follow the inevitable environmental snapback as ecological systems succumb to unsustainable lifestyles and population demands. Each generation will pile on their "needed demands" at costs to future generations, like today. This means that our shrinking planet will provide less as ecological systems collapse in response to growing threats and failures kicked down the road.

    The loss of the Amazon forest promises consequences beyond calculation. Loss of albedo resources promises more for eons. Albedo resource depletion pretty much puts the cork in the life-systems architecture as we know it. At heart, we find atmospheric CO2 density increasing along with a growing risk of atmospheric methane density increasing. So, "Will capitalism survive?" seems like a trite issue, taken all about.

    Nonviolence

    The violent invoke their methods anyway whatever arises from this point forward; there's no point adding to it. They've proven what they will do because they're doing it daily, locally and internationally. A nonviolent attitude hurts no one. And droning airports is infantile.

    "Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hope and fear alone. T.H. Huxley

August 17, 2019

August 15, 2019

There is no good news in the environmental field. I live in the country where the insects and birds grow rarer every day. The exponential function is kicking in and is unstoppable. It took the majority too long to figure it out and they refused to listen to those who had figured it out early. Tis a pity but everything was always of a temporal quality so really, all mankind has done is to accelerate the process

 

August 14, 2019T

Sprawl Above All: Drive By of Suburbs—History & problems of American suburbia & cars—Ashes Ashes #86

he West Is Trading Water for Cash. The Water Is Running Out

August 13, 2019

ALERT: Limiting Speech - The Slippery Slop - Trump Internet Censorship Order is Authoritarian CRISIS

Internet EXPLODES Over Trump Censorship Order

August 11, 2019

 

 

  • This was a comment on Roger Hallams new video (Time to Act Now) . I took it and made it into a post for commentary, which I got and share! "Arctic is on fire, Siberia is on fire, Alaska is on fire, Greenland is on fire, Methane Hydrate is bubbling up from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, The Arctic Sea Ice is almost gone......"
  • The Longest Traffic Jam in History – 12 Days, 62-Mile-Long
  • 1968 - The Robinson Report - Sources, abundance, and fate of atmospheric pollutants.
  • 1965 Presidental Report, A Bombshell Report Hidden in Government and Fossil Fuel Corporations Shenanigans - Posted to home page. Time is Running Out (PDF) Time Is Running Out - The Video
  • Project 53: "In 1954, a California Institute of Technology geochemist sent the API a research proposal in which they reported that fossil fuels had already caused carbon dioxide (CO2) levels to rise roughly five percent since 1854 — a finding that Nature notes has since proved to be accurate." DeSmog
  • Global Ocean now beyond tipping point.
  • Smoke & Fumes: the Deep History of Oil and Climate Change
  • Added The Basics of Climate Change (The Royal Society) to home page.

August 10, 2019

August 9, 2019

 

August 8, 2019

Note this killer phrase: "unaccpetable costs to the public" - -New IPCC Report Warns of Vicious Cycle Between Soil Degradation and Climate Change

Was Trump’s El Paso Visit a Turning Point? What if Obama had made only one remark like those Trump makes so often? It appears that a form of racism remained as a social sublimation and then became desublimated in 2016. There's no turning this new social consciousness back any more than there's returning Earth's melted albedo.

Climate Change Threatens the World’s Food Supply, United Nations Warns Barring action on a sweeping scale, the report said, climate change will accelerate the danger of severe food shortages. As a warming atmosphere intensifies the world’s droughts, flooding, heat waves, wildfires and other weather patterns, it is speeding up the rate of soil loss and land degradation, the report concludes. , . . Planting as many trees as possible would reduce the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere by about nine gigatons each year, according to Pamela McElwee, a professor of human ecology at Rutgers University and one of the report’s lead authors. But it would also increase food prices as much as 80 percent by 2050.

August 7, 2019

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August 2, 2019

I will come back to this.

The riddle to the glaciers finds an answer here.

How come Earth has glaciers?

Earth's slow, orbital changes control the growth and decay of ice sheets, glaciers ("albedo").

Earth moves around the Sun in a circle. Then it swings into an orbital ellipsis as gravity pulls at it. The moon, Jupiter, and other planetary bodies took part in this tug-of-war since the beginning of the solar system. By necessity, then, Earth's orbit changes from circular to elliptical and back. (See Earth's orbital ellipsis HERE.)

Meanwhile, ice ages come and go as more and less solar energy warms Earth. Less solar energy means more glaciers grow; more solar energy means glaciers shrink. So the far side of an elliptical swing around the Sun normally induces ice ages, glacier growth.

"Normal" no longer applies to the Earth's ice ages because humanity increased its greenhouse insulation by increasing atmospheric CO2 density. Earth must now grow warmer instead of cooler. We altered the Earth's climate for thousands of years by chance and necessity.

By chance, we happened upon a powerful fossil resource containing immense power. Machine power then replaced both human and animal labor. By necessity, the power of physics and chemistry, freeing fossil resources unleashed a threat to civilization as we know it, and more. We condemned our progeny to an unknown, uncontrollable future - - A Faustian-like bargain?

Consequently, we may not see a renewal of Earth's glaciers for thousands of years. Without reducing atmospheric CO2, glaciation is not likely to recur and we need albedo desperately

Even if we had glacier seeds to grow glaciers, they would melt.

Even 1,000 years without glaciation would create great hardship for as many as 33 human generations. The absence of glacier albedo means more warming, not cooling. Easily, by ignoring humanity's role in ramping up global warming, we behave inhumanely. The odds are that we've destroyed the conditions for civilization as we know it, it would seem. We must at least consider that 15 to 20 percent of the total amount of CO2 added into the atmosphere remains for thouisands of years.

At present and most certainly, "The next glaciation is not 'imminent'; it is overdue." Ruddiman, William F.. Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum (p. 105). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.

Now, proof of the gradual growth and decay of ice sheets came in the 1970s. Climate science took a big step forward as a result.

With a dreaded Arctic Blue-Ocean Event (BOE) likely by 2022 or sooner, there will be complete September sea-ice loss and very large warming spikes, further exposing Greenland to accelerated, crippling ice loss. Paul Beckwith
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August 1, 2019

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Arrhenius and Chamberlin turned to other challenges. This was because scientists at that time felt there were so many other influences on global climate, from sunspots to ocean circulation, that minor human influences were thought insignificant in comparison to the mighty forces of astronomy and geology. This idea was reinforced by research during the 1940s, which developed the theory that changes in the orbit of the Earth around the Sun controlled the waxing and waning of the great ice ages. A second line of argument was that because there is 50 times more carbon dioxide in the oceans than in the atmosphere, ‘The sea acts as a vast equalizer’: in other words, the ocean would mop up our pollution.

Maslin, Mark. Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) (p. 24). Oxford University Press. Kindle Edition.

 

Hays, Imbrie and Shackleton later explained "Variation in the Earth's orbit, pacemaker of the ice ages." They showed how over 450,000 years different cycles occurred: 23,000, 42,000, and 100,000 years. Half of these occurred at about 100,000 years, nearly the same as the Earth's orbits as it circles from circular orbits to elliptical orbits, eccentricity. (See Milankovich graphic above for eccentricity.)

 

In the 1840s French astronomer Urbain Leverrier found that the gravitational attraction of large planets (mainly Jupiter) causes Earth’s tilt to vary within a range of 22.2° and 24.5° over a cycle that is 41,000 years long. Every 41,000 years, the tilt goes from a maximum to a minimum and back to a maximum.

Ruddiman, William F.. Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum (p. 29). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition. These slow variations of about 2.3° in the angle of Earth’s tilt alter the height of the Sun in the daytime sky.

Ruddiman, William F.. Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum (p. 29). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.

No species should go extinct to economically benefit humanity. What give one human generation the right to determine what future generations will have on their