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1.19.2013

Averting Ecocide - WAR ROOM - Tracking Plan B 01.19.13 <<< Subscribe to free, anonymous daily summary

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Posted: 18 Jan 2013 08:14 PM PST
The Atlantic Heat Waves, Storms, Flooding: Climate Change to Profoundly Affect US Midwest ... Science Daily (press release) - ‎45 minutes ago‎ "Climate change impacts in the Midwest are expected to be as diverse as the landscape itself. Impacts are already being felt in the forests, in agriculture, in the Great Lakes and in our urban centers," said Scavia, director
Posted: 18 Jan 2013 08:07 PM PST
Climate Change Hits the Mississippi River Daily Beast - ‎9 hours ago‎ Here on the east coast, global climate change means earlier springs. Who can object to that? But elsewhere, the costs are harsher. NYT Leaves Readers High and Dry on Causes of Mississippi DroughtFAIR (blog) See realtime coverage »
Posted: 18 Jan 2013 08:01 PM PST
» CBS News Severe droughts in Amazon linked to climate change, says study CBS News - ‎5 hours ago‎ The prolonged drought, which began in 2005, has caused widespread damage to the area and may possibly be a sign that the rainforest is showing the first signs of large-scale degradation due to climate change. A research team, led by NASA's Jet ... signs of
Posted: 18 Jan 2013 04:37 PM PST
Extinction of river dolphin: What does it mean for the Yangtze River?People's Daily OnlineThe extinction of river dolphin indicates the deteriorating environment and ecology of the Yangtze River. The disappearance of creatures in the river denotes the end of the river itself. The research aiming to find out the reasons of the decreasing ...See all stories on this topic »
Posted: 18 Jan 2013 04:33 PM PST
5 reasons natural gas won't save usSalonBy Tara Lohan, Alternet If you're hoping the natural gas boom means we've ... but it still may be a significant contributor to global warming pollution ...
Posted: 18 Jan 2013 04:26 PM PST
Car Exhaust Pollution World’s Fastest Growing Cause Of Death Posted: 14 Jan 2013 07:11 AM PST A new study has found that, on top of all the other manner of ways our cars are trying to kill us, the pollution they emit is now one of the fastest growing causes of death in the world.
Posted: 18 Jan 2013 04:25 PM PST
“Less Carbon, More Jobs” — Clean Energy Economic Development In 3 States
Posted: 18 Jan 2013 04:22 PM PST
U.S. ‘Climate Assessment Reveals The Full Horror Of What’s Happening To Our Planet’
Posted: 18 Jan 2013 04:19 PM PST
Bengali Forests Are Rapidly Disappearing, Research Finds Posted: 13 Jan 2013 02:10 AM PST The rapid deforestation of the Sundarbans Mangroves is expected to intensify as human development in the area continues and climate change worsens, according to a new report from the Zoological Society of London. This will result in the extinction of a great many plants and animals,
Posted: 18 Jan 2013 04:15 PM PST
Deep In Canadian Lakes, Signs Of Tar Sands PollutionNPRCanadian researchers have used the mud at the bottom of lakes like a time machine to show that tar sands oil production in Alberta, Canada, is polluting remote regional lakes as far as 50 miles from the operations. An increasingly large share of U.S ...See all stories on this topic »NPR Canadian oil sands pollute nearby lakes. Report is
Posted: 18 Jan 2013 04:05 PM PST
Climate Assessment Warns Of Devastating 9°-15°F Warming Over Most Of U.S. Posted: 11 Jan 2013 02:34 PM PST The rule in Washington, DC is if you want to bury news, release it late on a Friday afternoon. So one can only assume the climate silence crowd prevailed in the release this afternoon of the draft U.S. Climate Assessment. Perhaps it’s this chart they don’t want folks talking about,
Posted: 18 Jan 2013 03:53 PM PST
Ford EVs Spark A Revolution Linking Homes To Cars Posted: 09 Jan 2013 01:31 AM PST There they go again. Ford, the same car manufacturer that touched off a revolution in car ownership with the Model T more than 100 years ago, has just announced a new collaboration called MyEnergi Lifestyle®, which promises a whole new ownership concept based on electric vehicle technology. In
Posted: 18 Jan 2013 03:50 PM PST
Coal Export Resistance Solidarity Actions by WIRT In early May 2012, police arrested 13 concerned British Colombia residents along with scientists, when they blocked four Wyoming coal export trains (350.org photo). As the environmental impact statement (EIS) scoping period for the
Posted: 18 Jan 2013 03:39 PM PST
Off-The-Charts Heat Wave Brings Australia Its Hottest Average Temperature And New Map Colors For Temps Above 122°F! Posted: 08 Jan 2013 08:44 AM PST Global warming has given new meaning to “off-the-charts” heat wave in Australia. The Sydney Morning Herald reports: The Bureau of Meteorology’s interactive weather forecasting chart has added new colours – deep purple and pink – to extend its
Posted: 18 Jan 2013 03:29 PM PST
Why Bark Beetles are Chewing Through U.S. ForestsClimate CentralThe conifer forests of the North American west have been under a massive assault over the past decade by bark beetles: one species alone, the mountain pine beetle, has killed more than 70,000 square miles' worth of trees, equivalent to the area of ...See all stories on this topic »
Posted: 18 Jan 2013 03:27 PM PST
West African lions on verge of extinction, report saysThe GuardianIt is known for its vibrant culture, oil wealth and huge human population, but few people associate Nigeria with lions. Now a report says the almost forgotten species of west African lions found in countries such as Nigeria are on the verge of ...See all stories on this topic »
Posted: 18 Jan 2013 03:13 PM PST
High costs and poor policy delaying Carbon capture technology – IEAResponding to Climate Change“For the IEA, carbon capture and storage is not a substitute, but a necessary addition to other low-carbon energy technologies and energy efficiency improvements,” Juho Lipponen, head of the IEA Carbon Capture and Storage Technology Unit said.See all stories on this topic »
Posted: 18 Jan 2013 03:22 PM PST
How U.S. Biofuel Policy Is Destroying Guatemala's Food Supply ThinkProgressA new report in The New York Times highlights how biofuel policy in the United States and Europe has produced a rolling food catastrophe in Guatemala. The country once enjoyed a nearly self-sufficient level of corn production, but domestic producers ...See all stories on this topic » As Biofuel Demand Grows, So Do
Posted: 18 Jan 2013 03:08 PM PST
Seems hugely low... $240/ton at the LEAST unless conclusive evidence to the contrary, however, interesting - Carbon price of $30 needed to avoid 2°C climate targetResponding to Climate ChangeRiahi told RTCC their research indicates a $30 price signal would give a 60% chance of limiting warming below the agreed UN limit of 2°C warming above ... Delaying Climate Action To Later Is More Costly:
Posted: 18 Jan 2013 03:08 PM PST
China, Inc. Locked In on World Solar, Wind Manufacturing Domination China’s Largest Solar Power Farm Approved China Continues to Dominate Global Renewable Energy Market Chinese President Looks To Cut Energy Consumption
Posted: 18 Jan 2013 02:51 PM PST
Cryogenic Wind Farms May Be On The Way
Posted: 18 Jan 2013 02:49 PM PST
Solar Electricity Now Under Half The Cost Of Grid Power For Australian Households Posted: 07 Jan 2013 01:34 PM PST Over the holiday season, I asked one of our dedicated readers, a solar energy expert from Australia, a few questions about the solar situation in Australia. What I got in return was a full post! Check it out:
Posted: 18 Jan 2013 03:22 PM PST
Sea Levels Could Rise Substantially More Than Previous IPCC Reports Have Predicted Posted: 07 Jan 2013 12:54 AM PST The seas of the world could rise substantially more in the future than has been previously predicted in IPCC reports. This is primarily because the the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are likely going to melt considerably more than was previously estimated by
Posted: 18 Jan 2013 03:22 PM PST
New research questions climate benefits of natural gasTheTyee.caPowering western society with natural gas instead of coal has immediate ... At that rate, gas may actually accelerate dangerous global warming faster than ...Study: Natural Gas No Bridge to Zero Fossil Fuel FutureStateImpact PennsylvaniaProponents of natural gas tout new shale deposits, ... when lowering emissions to halt climate
Posted: 18 Jan 2013 02:43 PM PST
Major Cuts to Surging Carbon Dioxide Emissions Are Needed Now, Not Down ...Science Daily (press release)Jan. 7, 2013 — Halting climate change will require "a fundamental and disruptive overhaul of the global energy system" to eradicate harmful carbon dioxide emissions, not just stabilize them, according to new findings by UC Irvine and other scientists.See all stories on this topic »



 

12.19.2012

Cancer - Chemo? NOW? For me!?!? Out of the question - 12.19.12


Cancer - Chemo?  NOW? For me!?!? Out of the question - 12.19.12

The choice:

1.  This cell in my 204 billion cell body of humanity known as Loving, steps out of the battle to avert perpetual Ecocide in the final weeks in which it can be won ($250 / ton CO2e = $2 wreckage fee per $ of gas, 2X wreckage fee per $ of coal or natural gas electricity).

2.  Accept a certain, roughly 10 year  (3 to 20) shortening of my life by the cancer, and a less than pleasant end.  (6 adults in Newtown, with unbounded Love, and Joy, just raced toward a much less generous deal, for not 204 billion kids, but just 600 kids. Bless their Hearts, eternally.) 

Duh!  WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING!?!?!? ROFL! We have hours, days, weeks, maybe months, to avert perpetual, unstoppable Ecocide by Green House Gasses, and I'm thinking about aborting the Canadian Embassy Vigil?!!?!?!  Stepping off the battlefield for 6 months!?!?!?!? INSANITY!  Not gunna happen.  I expect to resume the vigil in DC, 24/7, this Friday, until the $250 / ton CO2e legislation is passed. Then I'll be open to accepting chemo.  :-)   Yes, it will be too late then.  Couldn't matter less.

Here's the authoritative, definitive scientific, technological and economic Bottom Line, for those that care, in a 20 min nutshell; and I know of nowhere else you can find it nearly so succinctly (find the button, lower right, for full screen):



More, from a note to two fellow Unviolent Warriors (Diane Wilson, and another), yesterday morning:

I've within the last hour, prior to reading your email, had a fully unexpected, days earlier than I'd expected, Clarity.  I share it with you, and only you at this point, because it pertains to what you've written below, but I expect to take some number of hours to ponder it deeply, and take one or several avenues I can see to 'Test' it, and see if it is correct, if indeed it is the Creator's, if it is Creation's, our Family's will for me.  But I'm Deeply Pleased, Deeply Pleased at what I now see so far, this Clarity of how I am to proceed, this understanding; while respecting that you, others, most, all... may disagree with me.

I've spent the morning beginning to process what I learned yesterday of my cancer, and the debilitating 6 month treatment that would be required.  Just the 5 or so waking hours since my return at midnight last night from DC to a kind household in Phila, has given me the time, space and place to make great strides toward clarity - including imagining the "ideal" arrangements for 6 months of Chemo that conceivably could be arranged:

1.  Christ House - This could be the 6 months sabbatical I've needed to take myself to the next level of Understanding, that I could then share.

2.  The Unity Health Care "infirmary" I've vaguely heard of down near the Embassy.  If I imagine that it is available, it would give me the off-the-street lodging required by the Hospital, and it would give me a responsible way to accept the chemo - no sense accepting the care and expense, and dying from exposure or germs living on the street.  And, those days I was functional, I could do the vigil, and access to online.

3.  Three households in suburban Philly area that would Love to have me thru the chemo, and I'd have at least full access to fight via the internet.  The Medicaid maybe/probably from DC wouldn't be transferable, but I can imagine for now that it could;  update - I have just gotten off the phone with one of the Philly prospective hospitals and they suspect it could be arranged.

So I can now today "see" the ideal circumstances for chemo treatment.

The Blessed Clarity that has come to me, after seeing these options to which I was blind yesterday, the clarity is - it is impossible to abandon the vigil at this time.  If our next 204 billion are to be saved it will be in Loving, all out, nothing held back, Unviolent Battle by every one of us possible, NOW, not 7 months from now. 

Due to the unimaginable kindness and goodness of my medical care up until now (Doc Cardile at Unity, Christ House, Howard U) I've been given months more ability to contribute, NOW.  THANK YOU!  I'm currently still healing, yet I'm in practically no pain, for the first time in a year. I have little reason to believe that in the next 3-9 months I'll have symptoms cropping up that will impair my ability to contribute just as I have from the vigil, online, etc; and maybe my ability to contribute will be 2 or three times that long.  I've healed rapidly from the Nov 30th surgery.  I was physically prepared, if barely, to resume the vigil last night, but the treatment facts given me yesterday - 2 tumors, not one, pretty aggressive cancer, of needing 6 MONTHS debilitating chemo, for starters, life expectancy by 5 years of 50-60%... just was so massively new for me I needed space to ponder, and hence the retreat to Philly.

With immense Joy, my guess is that as soon as Friday, now that my feet are back on the ground, I'll give notice that I will forgo the chemo, and resume the DC vigil immediately.  LOL - For a day, or several weeks, the arrangements for my Beloved Pr. Obama's inauguration may force me away from Penn Ave, his route, back to Phila, for a few days or weeks, but that is no matter.

This is no time for chemo.  This is the time when we win, or lose, for our 204 billion kids.  There is no July 2012.  There's only... NOW.

I'm quite sure of all this for me now, but I'll continue for some hours to deeply ponder and Test this.

I'll continue to keep you both posted.

Loving

9.22.2012

9/21 Tracking Plan B - WAR ROOM

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Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:28 PM PDT
Asian energy boom threatens Montana ranches Seattle Post Intelligencer
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World food prices may hit record high in 2013: Rabobank study Economic Times - ‎4 hours ago‎ "Skyrocketing agri-commodity prices are causing the world to re-enter a period of "agflation", with food prices forecast to reach record highs in 2013 and to continue to rise well into Q3 of the 2013," Netherlands-based Rabobank said. Also, the Food ... Rabobank Sees Record Food Prices as
Posted: 21 Sep 2012 08:33 AM PDT
Scientific American Deforestation rebounds in the Amazon Nature.com (blog) - ‎1 hour ago‎ Deforestation is on the rise again in the Brazilian Amazon. The amount of clear-cut land hit 522 km in August 2012, up from 163.3 km2 in the same month last year, a spike of 220%. In Brazil, Attacking the Forest to Save ItScientific American

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Posted: 18 Sep 2012 03:02 PM PDT
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Electric Vehicle Geographic Forecasts Sacramento Bee - ‎6 hours ago‎ Plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) are forecast to reach 400,073 annual sales in the United States and 107,146 in Canada by 2020, but the real story of these sales is in the cities and utility service territories where the vehicles will be located. California to Dominate US Electric Vehicle Sales Through
Posted: 18 Sep 2012 02:32 PM PDT
Southwest needs power lines to become solar hub Businessweek - ‎48 minutes ago‎ Aside from Phoenix, the nation's sixth largest city, and Las Vegas, which glows around the clock, the region's rural stretches - the ideal places for acres of solar panels - have few energy demands. And sending solar power from there to population
Posted: 18 Sep 2012 02:27 PM PDT
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Sea surface temperatures reach record highs on Northeast continental shelf Phys.Org - ‎4 hours ago‎ In deeper offshore waters to the north, bottom waters were 1 degree C (2°F) warmer in the eastern Gulf of Maine and greater than 2 degrees C (3.6°F) warmer in the western Gulf of Maine. Ocean bottom temperature data cited in the advisory posted today ...
Posted: 18 Sep 2012 01:27 PM PDT
Posted: 18 Sep 2012 01:17 PM PDT
PBS Newshour Propagates Confusion On Climate ChangeMedia Matters for America (blog) PBS NewsHour Falls Into “Balance” Trap, Provides Megaphone For Anthony WattsDe Smog Blog (blog)
Posted: 18 Sep 2012 12:49 PM PDT
Anti-nuc Cultists throw millions / yr coal deaths under the bus Millions die from coal pollution, every year.  Think how many more are sickened, brain damaged? How many have died from nuclear plants?  Maybe zero, except for 1 accident Chernobyl.   Do the non-nuclear coal deaths, millions per year, billions in the future, matter to the Anti-nuc cultists?  How about the hundreds of billions of
Posted: 18 Sep 2012 12:07 PM PDT
New study (part II of II): Feds understimate costs of carbon pollution, low ...Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
Posted: 18 Sep 2012 12:05 PM PDT
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Posted: 18 Sep 2012 10:14 AM PDT
June Through August Was Warmest Period For Global Land Temperature Ever ... Energy Collective
Posted: 18 Sep 2012 07:00 AM PDT
Global swelter: World has 3rd-warmest summer on recordUSA TODAY
Posted: 18 Sep 2012 06:59 AM PDT
Arctic Expert Predicts Final Collapse Of Sea Ice Within Four Years Business Insider - ‎18 hours ago‎ The main cause is simply global warming: as the climate has warmed there has been less ice growth during the winter and more ice melt during the summer. Arctic ice may completely collapse within 4 years: scientistBusiness Standard Arctic summer ice to disappear within four years,
Posted: 18 Sep 2012 06:55 AM PDT
TNS Gallup finds 85% of consumers want more green energyPower Engineering International
Posted: 18 Sep 2012 06:47 AM PDT
Faulty model behind US underestimating carbon cost Zee News - ‎4 hours ago‎ "This is a wake-up call for America to start aggressively investing in low carbon sources of energy. The very real economic benefits will accrue quickly and increase over time," Johnson was quoted as saying in the Journal of Environmental Studies and ... New CO2 Cost Estimate Gives Renewables An
Posted: 18 Sep 2012 06:29 AM PDT
Caron Disclosure Project Releases 2012 Report: Companies Worried About ... TPM - ‎15 hours ago‎ Hundreds of the world's largest companies across all industries - from Nestlé to Lockheed Martin - remain concerned about the impacts of climate change on their future business, and are well aware that implementing emissions reductions programs and ...

9.18.2012

9/18 Tracking Plan B - WAR ROOM

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"In the Midwest, coal-fired power plants capable of producing about 12,000 megawatts of power will be replaced in the next few years with gas-fired turbines, at a cost of $33 billion, according to a study released this spring." http://www.statejournal.com/story/18363508/coal-to-gas-conversion-not-an-easy-decision-for-midwest-utilities
Posted: 17 Sep 2012 11:08 AM PDT
New EPA Rules Could Prevent 'Fracking' Backlash - Businessweek www.businessweek.com/.../new-epa-rules-could-prevent-fracking-ba... Apr 18, 2012 – ... emissions from natural gas production, a rare set of regulations that may ... Most of the leakage occurs where it's taken from the ground, and ...
Posted: 17 Sep 2012 11:01 AM PDT
Massachusetts on the Verge of Passing Natural Gas Leak Legislation In the final session of the legislative calendar, natural gas pipeline safety advocates are looking to the Massachusetts Legislature to pass a bill today that would require natural gas companies to more closely monitor and repair the thousands of existing natural gas leaks across the state and develop a
Posted: 17 Sep 2012 10:55 AM PDT
Natural Gas and the Invisible Spill: How Much Methane Is Reaching the Atmosphere? Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2111562,00.html#ixzz26kcBXD5z
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Natural Gas Vehicles Ever More Feasible for Fleets WFPL - ‎Sep 7, 2012‎ On one side, so large it's hard to miss, is a sign that says “Think Green, Think Clean”—a reference to the fact that this truck burns cleaner natural gas. ... And if car companies aren't making vehicles, there's no incentive to build filling stations ...
Posted: 17 Sep 2012 09:38 AM PDT
Government sets strict fuel-economy goal of 54.5 by 2025 USA TODAY - ‎Aug 28, 2012‎ The vehicles will undergo more urgent evolution of current trends so that, in a decade or so, the American streetscape could resemble science fiction, including: •More gas-electric hybrids and plug-in hybrids.
Posted: 17 Sep 2012 09:37 AM PDT
Natural gas usage by US trucks to skyrocket - report Reuters - ‎Sep 4, 2012‎ Natgas demand in trucks may reach 14 bcfd by 2030. * Cheap natgas could displace diesel. * Hurdles remain, could reduce demand growth.
Posted: 17 Sep 2012 09:21 AM PDT
Nuclear Power: Is It Time for a Disruptive Technology? White House Chronicle - ‎14 hours ago‎ The company that has revolutionized war in the air with Predator drones wants to do the same thing for nuclear power. It wants to soar away from today's reactor designs, rooted in the 1950s and the beliefs of Adm.
Posted: 17 Sep 2012 09:05 AM PDT
World Record Academy Fastest pace of deforestation in the world: Indonezia World Record Academy - ‎2 hours ago‎ [May 05] JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia had the fastest pace of deforestation in the world between 2000-2005, with an area of forest equivalent to 300 soccer pitches destroyed every hour, Greenpeace said on Thursday.
Posted: 17 Sep 2012 06:42 AM PDT
Subsea ravine leaks a new headache for carbon capture Reuters - ‎1 hour ago‎ LONDON (Reuters) - Companies looking to store polluting carbon under the sea will have to pay more for tougher seabed screening, after geologists discovered a three-kilometre long fracture near Norway's pioneering subsea carbon storage project in the ...
Posted: 17 Sep 2012 06:30 AM PDT
Global warming: Businesses see 'tangible and present risk' Summit County Citizens Voice - ‎7 hours ago‎ According to a survey of 405 of the biggest global companies conducted by the Carbon Disclosure Project, 37 percent say they are already seeing the impact of climate change on their business - up from 10 percent in 2010. The Carbon Disclosure Project ...
Posted: 17 Sep 2012 06:19 AM PDT
Southwest Likely to be Loser Thanks to Climate Change KNAU Arizona Public Radio - ‎2 hours ago‎ Despite this year's abundant monsoon season, researchers say climate change could be pushing the Southwest into a period of sustained drought. 7 degrees of desperation: Author to speak in Flagstaff on coping with climate ...Arizona Daily Sun
Posted: 17 Sep 2012 06:17 AM PDT
Climate change could see a third of Victoria's animal species extinct in 60 years Herald Sun - ‎19 minutes ago‎ VICTORIA could bear the brunt of a climate change front that would see almost a third of animal species wiped out in less than 60 years.