F*ckrs!x# Hansen, Romm, Brown, McKibben, Publious... write to write, not to EMPOWER CITIZEN ACTION! Verbal masturbators, a big circle-jerk with thier bureaucratic budies, and the members of their club. Nero had nothing on this lot.
I want to ACT. I want to DO. I want to KNOW WHAT TO DO. And I can, with .1% of the information needed by others, DO SO! Have been, my whole life. BUT YOU HAVE TO GIVE ME SOMETHING TO WORK WITH!!!!
I've read Plan B 3.0 at least 7 times and am about to start my 8th.
I've read Storms of my Grandchildren twice and am about to start my 3rd time.
I scan maybe hundreds of articles per day, headlines at least.
I've read all McKibben's books, Gore's books.
YES, THEY TELL ME THERE IS A PROBLEM.
AFTER ALL THIS STUDY, I STILL DON'T KNOW THE ESSENCE, THE ESSENTIALS, OF WHAT WE NEED TO DO?!?!?!??!!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!
Tons and tons and megatons, gigatons of generalities, words, facts, detials... MEANINGLESS!!!!!!!! Infotainment! EXPLOITATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NO CONTEXT.
NO BOTTOM LINES.
NOTHING ACTIONABLE. NOTHING. NOTHING. NOTHING. THIS IS CRIMINAL.
F*ckrs!x# Hansen, Romm, Brown, McKibben, Publious... write to
write, not to EMPOWER CITIZEN ACTION! Verbal masturbators, a big circle-jerk
with thier bureaucratic budies, and the members of their club. Nero had
nothing on this lot.
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9.01.2012
8.26.2012
GWDF D10B Stomach pain may force a temporary hold
It's borderline. The pain is pretty much always there, but not always debilitating. Yesterday was one of the days I've lost hours of work, just trying to manage the pain. Today, so far, I can pretty well work. I can't tell if the meds I'm taking are helping or causing. Next day of incapacitation I expect to go back in for a consultation. If tests could reveal some low cost treatment (that it is free to me is immaterial), or if there are low cost pain meds I could take, I'd like to know.
Over half way through Jim Hansen's "Storms of my Grandchildren," culling for the key "in their own words" quotes for the next book. He's the only one of Romm, McKibben, Brown... in whom I find moral integrity - putting their bodies where their mouths are, to I think I'll still find useful words from the others, particularly before their mass surrender at Copenhagen. Except for Hansen, they don't STAND for anything. Auth-whores, nothing more? Just reporting a blow by blow of the rape from a comfortable distance? If there's more, I can't find it. Not anymore. Just pandering to the gawkers and bureaucrats.
Over half way through Jim Hansen's "Storms of my Grandchildren," culling for the key "in their own words" quotes for the next book. He's the only one of Romm, McKibben, Brown... in whom I find moral integrity - putting their bodies where their mouths are, to I think I'll still find useful words from the others, particularly before their mass surrender at Copenhagen. Except for Hansen, they don't STAND for anything. Auth-whores, nothing more? Just reporting a blow by blow of the rape from a comfortable distance? If there's more, I can't find it. Not anymore. Just pandering to the gawkers and bureaucrats.
8.25.2012
GWDF2 D10A Debilitated with Pain again today. Bk 3 -
Sleep, thank goodness, so far is relatively painless.
When I awake I have 2-300 of my daily 800 calories, partly, so I can take the Prilosec and Iron without too much pain. Uh, not today. For the last 3 hours it is all I can do to try and doze and deal with the stomach pain. :-( So much work time being lost.
If this continues, Monday I'll seek an appointment with the doctor for pain management.
Those hours that I can work I'm compiling, "Your next 200 billion kids are on planet Hell unless now.... The Words of James Hansen, Lester Brown, Joe Romm, Michael Mann, IEA, IPCC...."
When I awake I have 2-300 of my daily 800 calories, partly, so I can take the Prilosec and Iron without too much pain. Uh, not today. For the last 3 hours it is all I can do to try and doze and deal with the stomach pain. :-( So much work time being lost.
If this continues, Monday I'll seek an appointment with the doctor for pain management.
Those hours that I can work I'm compiling, "Your next 200 billion kids are on planet Hell unless now.... The Words of James Hansen, Lester Brown, Joe Romm, Michael Mann, IEA, IPCC...."
8.24.2012
nd GWDF2 D9B Pr. #1: Compiling the Essential Hansen, Brown, Romm, McKibben. Daily Headline Posting on HOLD.
nd GWDF D9B Pr. #1: Compiling the Essential Hansen, Brown, Romm, McKibben. Daily Headline Posting on HOLD.
8.18.2012
GWDF D7A - FACT: Joe Romm surrendered to defeat years ago in his "Hell..." book: I didn't realize. Unlike Brown,
Unless he did a total about face in the final chapter? Oh, and yes, per the subject line, Brown hasn't yet conceded, in words, but in deeds he's always conceded. Fact.
Traveling to Phila for 2-4 days to
say goodbye to dearest friends. While waiting in the cattle chute for
Megabus I began re-listening to an audio version of Hell and High Water
in the Library.
The following isn't personal. My
next 200 billion children are currently doomed by Plan Armageddon. Only
THAT is personal to me. The rest is figuring out how to save them and
who might help, and who is hindering.
I'm going to have to listen again.
But it is 92% clear. He is 99.9% clear. 'Politically, things just
aren't going to change. The best we can hope for is for 40' sea level
rise next century.' WTF!?!!?!? Maybe he saves his courage for the last chapter?
Four major features to his background:
1. Fact - MIT science;
2. Fact - Gov and non-profits - never had responsibility or experience leading people to high stakes change, nor doing it himself.
3. Fact - He has been at this for decades
with total failure, objectively, in bringing change. It is the rare
person that can take the blame for that on themselves;
4. Fact - His audience goes to zero, like
mine, if he steps up to the impossible, because more than maybe
anything we've made the bargain in this society to avoid facing the
needs of society so we can devote all to ourselves;
5. Fact - His funding goes away, from is
books, his job blogging, the American Progress Think Tank - an arm of
the Democratic Machine - they'd not have Joe playing with the platforms
of the party.
Hmmmm.
No wonder he and I are on different planets. My bad. So much to learn, so little time.
Conceding defeat is almost impossible for me, and for Joe, it is all he's ever known. Fact.
ps: McKibben has so embraced defeat he isn't even worth mentioning, my brother tho he is.
pps: Hansen is the one that hasn't caved yet, and probably won't, but he hasn't the background or character to be able to stand and even begin to fill the leadership background.
ps: McKibben has so embraced defeat he isn't even worth mentioning, my brother tho he is.
pps: Hansen is the one that hasn't caved yet, and probably won't, but he hasn't the background or character to be able to stand and even begin to fill the leadership background.
8.14.2012
GWDF2 Day 4 - $240 not $311 ton The frickin Docs won't talk straight to us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDIK_LR2MOQ
Rush transcript -
Rush transcript -
Day 4 - The frickin
Docs won't talk straight to us. $240 not $311 ton
I'm pretty outraged. Partly at myself. About a week ago I saw a global warming
article, one of the hundreds of titles I cull through everyday. I came onto an article and had a euphoric
sense of reaching a point of clarity; a
kind of clarity you need if your kid is deathly ill and you can't get straight
answers.
I recalled finding it
in a major IEA article; if that wasn't it it was climate progress. Actually, it
was a report on Nicholas Stern’s study at climate progress. Stern talked about $84 a ton in damage being
done by a ton of carbon so I quickly calculated 3.67, which I believe is how
much CO2 is generated by burning a ton of carbon, and came up with $311 per ton,
which I now see, is wrong. It would be
incorrect, it would be inverse, it would be more like $20 per ton of carbon. I haven't delved back into the article; I
haven't yet done the digging to figure out what the actual, a reasonable
estimate of the actual damage done by burning at ton of carbon. If I recall correctly, if we put more than
half a trillion tons of CO2 in the atmosphere between, well, ever, any in this
next century, we go over 1.5° C. May be
less than half a trillion tons, which is roughly what we have up there already
of CO2 from us this last 30 years, primarily.
So half a trillion
tons of CO2 divided by 3.67 would give us the number of tons of carbon that we
can still burn. Methane, natural gas,
that has to be added to the story. And
that divided into 20%, conservatively that we will destroy, into 20% the value
of the world for the next 2000 generations we are ruining, how many quadrillion
dollars is that, would tell us the cost of burning at ton of coal or oil. What's that, $1000, $10,000 a ton? Now
that I ball-park figured it out, try and work that out yourself. If I live long enough; if I remain
cognitively functioning long enough which am wondering about, my typing skills have
just totally bombed, and to make a mistake like this above, a miscalculation a
week ago… the fatigue of years without a break, the stress, the anemia, the
calorie deficit….
But you know what?
I'm not the Dr.'s. But I am what our
doctors are not. I'm a parent, a Bangladeshi
father; and the father of a daughter in 2050 looking at what our visionless, imaginationless,
gutless, cowardly, intelligentsia have done to my daughter, and I've beamed
back to 2012 simply with the ability to put my body in the way. And because the doctors won’t give a straight
answer, won’t give us actionable information - what has to be done by when - as
they would if they saw this as their own children; without question as they
would demand if they saw this as their own children….
I'm not complaining,
but I'm furious. I'm furious at myself. I'm furious at the insanity of the left,
of the intelligentsia, that they think they own this problem, they think they
have the right to being respected, to be listened to; to people being patient
with them…. I, John Q Bangladeshi father; I John Q multibillion father of
upcoming generations; I'm John Q Athabascan father; I’m John Q native Alaskan
father; I'm John Q father of 2050 girl….
You, the ‘Doctors’ on the left might want me to be patient but God
dammit I'll not be. I'll do what I can to do your job of getting actionable
information and yes I'll screw up that more and more as my body breaks down. But you'll not stop me from trying. God damn
you. Romm, McKibben, not so much Brown
and Mann, Hansen, they seem to be doing their best. God damn Climate Progress.org, American Progress.org. It’s not American progress, it’s a frickin
club. Just try leaving a comment that they don't find pleasant, that they don't
find agreeable, that actually wants some answers. They won’t get published on
their blog.
My sense of it is
that it was the intelligentsia on the left that was guillotined in the French
Revolution – ‘Left them eat cake.’
So the best I know
now is - I don't know what the price per ton is, what the cost to the future of
each ton burned is, and I'll probably try and figure it out dammit. I didn't
need another thing to do.
But for now, I'm back
at the $240 ton of carbon which is what the economists calculate is needed to
bend the emissions curve down 6% per year starting now; 6% from the current
projection as I understand it, to keep this under 1.5° C. And that I consider bedrock - 1.5° C. I consider it bedrock of my stand, of the
stand you should make. Look at the
Copenhagen Diagnosis, Google it. That
was put together for the Copenhagen climate conference in large part, as I
understand it, was put together by in part the island nations, the developing
nations. But unless I'm wildly incorrect it's the best statement so far, which
I may be wildly incorrect on this, if what Romm said in “Hell and High Water,”
before he kowtowed to the powers that be, when a blind man could have seen we wouldn’t
get a climate agreement in Copenhagen, same with McKibben, not so much Mann and
Hansen. Brown essentially has caved with his, ‘wartime speed, oh, call your
congressman…’ for six years now. ‘Oh,’ says Brown,’ ‘well I feel encouraged how
things are going,’ he says. I don't think… I don't think he's a Bangladeshi
father, or an Athabascan father, or an indigenous Alaskan father, or the father
of 2050 daughter. I know he’s not. I
know he is more of a human than that. He
wouldn't keep putting out these mealymouthed prescriptions if it were his
family. But it is mine; John Q.
8.13.2012
GWDF2 Day 4 Death Fast - Slowing my Descent 800 cal per day, for now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nDvey2a-6M
Rough Transcript:
Rough Transcript:
Day 4 - Slowing my
Descent 800 cal per day, for now
I'm tempted to say I
screwed up but rather I manifest our screwup.
This is not a one-man job, no disrespect to anyone else's effort. Coming up with a diagnosis and treatment plan
that will avert environmental Armageddon is not a one-man job. I can do it. I
have the aptitude. I have done this kind
of work my entire life, and I can do it alone.
But it at such a hideous, hideously, slow pace. Faster than anyone, because I realize it
needs to be done. But so much slower
than it needs to be done.
I don't know how many
days it's going to take me to answer the question that I thought I had answered
last week, which is fundamental to being able to articulate, and stand, and
win; a maximum of 1.5° rise.
I’m John Q, and if
you don't understand what that means you need to watch that movie, John Q I'm
not a heart surgeon but I am a dad, who's going to be buried by his son, I am
not going to bury my son.
I'm smart and I'm
determined and I have a background that enables me to do this, but there are
still too many gaps in my fundamental understanding.
See John Q. See that movie. See it see it tonight. In that movie his coldhearted, bureaucratic,
Dr. an administrator at least told him what was required to save his save his
son – ‘your son needs a new heart, he needs it now, or he’s going to die.
Our bureaucrats, some
of them told us the equivalence of this clarity up until Copenhagen, and now
they've they've waffled for years since Copenhagen, with tons of un-actionable
mealymouthed stuff coming out of them.
‘Your son's gonna die! Your sons
gonna die! Your sons gonna die! I do
something! Do something! Do something!’ Do
what!? By when?!
I don't intend to
leave this life until I can leave a clear answer to that. I don't know if it's
going to take me a couple more days, or another week or so; not to become a
brain surgeon, not to become a heart surgeon. John Q didn’t become a heart
surgeon. But I need to know, based on
the data that's out there, the Copenhagen Synthesis I now think is the document
I think I should point people to, not the Copenhagen Diagnosis which is part of
caving to the 2° C. No.
I'm certain that 1.5°
C maximum rise by 2100 is the avoidance of hell and high water but I need to
check that against Romm’s book by the name “Hell and High Water;” by Hansen's
work, by Mann’s work and by the Copenhagen Synthesis (not sure now), a PDF that
I just found. You should look at them as
well.
I need some
fundamental elements. I need to know how much additional carbon that enables us
to emit how much additional CO2 that we can put the atmosphere without risking
1.5 degrees C. I need to figure out
where methane seepage fits, a few figures in there, pieces of this puzzle; but
no one bothered pulling, pulling together.
So, I've got to
refigure the price per ton. I'm guessing that's the $240 but that's not good
enough, guessing, that is. When enough of us died to get the proper argument on
the table I need to give you a number. I need to get in the ballpark on what
the wreckage costs per ton of carbon is.
Now I just did some wild figuring and came up with $11,000 per ton. I
don't mean silly figuring out. Real
broad order of magnitude. I think it was
something like this is a currently a $70 trillion world economy, the next
thousand generations makes it a 70,000 trillion dollar world economy; I figured
something like 150 more billion tons of carbon that we could burn without
breaking 1.5 degrees C; took 20% of a 70,000 trillion dollar economy for the
next thousand years and figured we’re wrecking 20% of that, which is a
conservative figure given the economist Nicholas Stern's work, where he figures
initially we’re destroying 20% of world GDP, going up to 35% in the medium term,
and worse from there; and came out with if we are destroying only 20% of the
world economy, it is something like $11,000 per ton. This is huge.
It's a hell of a lot more than $240 per ton, and I want to know what
that is. You need to know what that is,
and I need to leave you with that.
So going about 800
cal per day for another couple of days, for another couple of weeks, I don't
know, but can't leave you without a clearer roadmap. All this will go into an
update of Tracking Plan B, of “Global Warming's Death. Fast.
It continues to
appear that what we have to accomplish is 6% decrease per year versus the
current trendline to stay below 1.5° C.
It appears that Hansen continues to have the humanity, continues to have
the balls to point us in the right direction.
But God bless him, and it isn't his job to know how to make the argument,
to win the argument.
It's been my entire
life doing such things. I see no one else doing it so I've got to leave you the
other information on which you can stand and know whether policy is giving you
that 6% decrease per year, how many tons of emissions, what's the maximum tonnage
of coal that can be burned and still stay below 1.5 degrees C. Oh, there are numbers out there for the
maximums to stay below 2° C. No. 2° C is Hell and High Water. Two degrees C is the oceans that the reefs
gone; a third to half the world's species gone; 6 foot sea level rise this
century. No. That's crazy and I don't know whether I’ll
have a breakthrough the next couple of days, or how long this is gonna take.
Watch for reports
that I'll try and post soon that are the what I consider to be the pieces that
we need to pull together, and help me, God dammit. This isn't rocket science. Its interpolation; it's good basic work; for
God sake help me.
Or tell me who's
already done it. But I need to know what
the treatment plan is to save our children; our next 200 billion children; and
I can't find it anywhere. I can't find anyone with enough humanity or
clumsiness to stand up with a clarity that the doctor and administrator did in
John Q, which means I got a try and fill that role for us.
Joe Romm's public display of insanity: Romm's Book 'Language Intelligence' Insightful, Important Climate Central
Climate Central (blog) - 5 hours ago |
MY COMMENT, THAT LIKELY WON'T EVER BE SEEN:
Joe Romm is a nice man. I truly suspect that the same can be said of Nevile Chamberlain, Nero (tho I've studied him not at all)....
"Example is not the major thing in influencing people. It is the only thing," Albert Schweitzer. It is indisputable that 80% of communication is unverbal. Unviolent action, one of the only two ways to bring radical change, is quintessentially unverbal ACTION; life service, not lip service.
The problem is, Romm, in one of the most pivotal, responsible positions in world history, yes, is determined to have the answer to every political problem to be 'rhetoric.' Do women have the right to vote because of rhetoric? Is that how slavery was ended? Was the removal of Mubarak a rhetorical achievement? And civil rights, ending the Vietnam War, apartheid....?
I have nothing but affection for Joe Romm, but there could hardly be a better example of the old maxim - 'If your only tool is a hammer, then the solution to every problem is a nail,' or something like that. Joe likes to write. He is good at it. It is safe. You can do it from a comfortable office. You can make good money at it. But those who serve humanity don't start, or end with, 'what do I like to do,' they relentlessly hold themselves to the standard, what do these times demand of me? Of us? Period.
Joe is in a position of leadership on the most crucial issue ever to confront humanity, environmental Armageddon with just seconds left on the clock, and to be using his valuable time and ours, directed toward rhetoric, when the competition is not rhetoric, but, A. the most heavily financed army ever to be on earth, the fossil fuel industry after $20 to 80 trillion in revenues, and B. the catatonic penchant of US citizens, especially the 'let them eat cake' left, liberals, progressive-ino's... to be bystanders in what needs to be a participatory government, Democracy, unending unviolent war, is a miraculous feat of madness by the otherwise brilliant, nice, immensely informed bureacrat, writer, blogger, and so far totally unsuccessful for decades in achieving his aims, Mr. Romm.
I wish Joe well. But frankly, my concern is the next 200 billion of my children, and, well, 'Nero worked on his rhetoric, while Rome burned.'
'My problem is not the violent racists. My problem is the good people that will not stand and do what is necessary to win,' MLK Jr paraphrase. Funny, the world has scarcely ever seen a greater rhetorician than Dr. King, and yet, like Gandhi and the other great Unviolent Leaders, Dr. King exhorted people to put their bodies in the way, not their lips.
The inscription on Gandhi's statue, here in DC, 'My Life is my Message.' But hey, he didn't go to MIT. He isn't fawned over by the do nothing left. So, let's just go with Mr. Romm's absurdity, shall we? I mean, if the next 200 billion children that we will thereby condemn to planetary "Hell and High Water," don't have a sense of humor, well, what worth are they?
What a tragedy.
http://TrackingPlanB.blogspot.com http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com
HUGE. HUGE. HUGE. GWDF2 Day 4B - CRUCIAL RECAP
Through sobs of wonder, at the Goodness:
My
sister SC has literally kept me alive physically, kept me from totally
drowning financially for my work, and physically kept me alive from earlier hunger strikes. I may well not have made it this far without
her, and her clan.
Now,
a new sister, that I've known a long, long, long time. But in recent
months she has come underneath my work like, well, like my Saint dad
was. [Why he didn't let me die, or have me killed, I'll never know.
Seriously. I was the most hideous zero of a spoiled, selfish, cowardly
child that has ever walked the earth. He MUST have seen something. I can't think of any other explanation. A Miracle.]
But, per the note below from my sister, below, the granite support, the granite
foundation, the 'Total Trust,' which I would rather die than be not
worthy of - this is a first, in 10 years of joyfully giving every single
breath for our global neediest Family, I've got full oxygen; financial
support - wifi, solar electricity, computer taken care of; no worries. YOU
HAVE NO FRICKIN IDEA. YOU CAN'T IMAGINE.
Yes
sister. For the first time in the ten or so years I've racing, warring
unviolently, for our global neediest, every breath, I don't feel like I'm on 10% of
the oxygen that one needs. I can breathe. For a moment at least, I'm off the psychological water-boarding of my work.
As
I reported yesterday, I'm on a 50% glide path toward death's door - 800
calories measured, per day - half rations (1 can soup @ 400 calories
(ckn corn chowder today), and 2 cans Ensure at 200 cal each). The
clinic, Unity Health Care for the homeless, no questions asked, from God, is 7 blocks away. I go in
Wednesday for the results of the recent blood work, and I'm hopeful of
them weighing me periodically; results I'd report out. I was 9 lbs over
weight, 164 lbs, several days ago.
While on the 50% downward slope I expect to count and report days as 4B, yesterday, and 4B, today.
Ever
since I saw Denzel Washington's "John Q" years ago I've found it deeply
troubling, deeply courageous as a movie, and profoundly enlightening
and wise. But only in recent weeks has it come really central to my
understanding of where we are.
The F*CKING DOCTORS AND BUREACRATS
(Brown, Romm, McKibben, Chu, Obama...) WON'T EVEN TELL US WHAT THE
TREATMENT PLAN AND TIME FRAMES ARE TO SAVE OUR NEXT 200 BILLION CHILDREN. TOTAL DIS-EMPOWERMENT!!!! WITHOUT THIS KNOWLEDGE OUR BALLS ARE CUT OFF!!!!
NO.
THIS WILL NOT STAND. With "Global Warming's Death. Fast." I took
major steps toward this, but I cannot leave you, I cannot pass on until
I've plugged the remaining holes.
John
Q became the force of, AN EMPOWERED VOLCANO OF HOPE FOR, the agent of salvation for
his beloved child when he knew the Treatment Required, and the Time
Frame required. HE DIDN'T NEED TO TAKE ONE STEP TOWARD BECOMING A HEART
DOCTOR. But he knew what he had to do to get the system to save his
son. And he did it.
Year
after year, decade after decade this is precisely what I've done in
life and death situations, and I'll do it again now, and leave it with
you all before I go - A TREATMENT PLAN, TIMEFRAMES. I'll give you all what you need, tho you have 80% of it from me already, but I'll finish the job, before I go, Creator willing.
Already, it is up to you now, but I'll finish my part for you.
Loving (what I go by; what I have ALL hope in. Nothing less from any of us, can save humanity now.)
-----------------------
Good Morning Loving, (received today)
Just finished your last
video about Brian. So sorry about the turn of events for him and hear
your profound concern and committment toward assisting him. There are
absolutely no strings attached to any funds I put in your account.....I
totally trust you to act as your heart believes it should. Please do not
sell your solar panels as they are crucial to you....and I need to know
if they flake out on you permanently, as I would assist in replacement
for you.....
I plan to make another deposit
in your account.....so....I am hoping this will give assistance and some
sense of assurance, not sure that's the right word...but anyway....
XO Your sister
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Start Loving <start_loving@yahoo.com> wrote:
- Major video logs today. Transcriptions in process.
- If I understand correctly Brian has lost his funding. If this means his planned trip cross country by bus can't happen, Loving can't allow that. Until I know otherwise, all the assets at my disposal are at his disposal for the trip to take place fully, and uninterrupted. I have a solar battery that can immediately go on ebay and should get $200. Maybe a solar panel for $200, if it is working and stable; and IF SHE DOES NOT OBJECT, funds given me yesterday by one of my 4 friends will be available IF NEEDED, for Brian's trip, UNLESS I HEAR FROM MY FRIEND IMMEDIATELY. IMMEDIATELY.
- Hopefully the problem with the solar equipment here has been figured out. I should know tomorrow.
- Among the video logs with transcripts are several dealing with my assertion that the Aim of the Death Fast is $311/ton of co2. I'm horrified by the lack of clarity from the intelligentsia on this. It was a failure of calculation on my part. No, $311 is incorrect. So, I revert for now to $240 per ton as the properly calculated cost to achieve the 6% reduction per year of emissions from current projections, Hansen, sufficient to keep us below 1.5 degrees C - Hell and High Water. HOWEVER, a central project for me now is to ballpark what a Human, Humane, Honest projection of the $$$ destruction of the world economy for the next 1000 generations is. My first try came up with $11,000 per ton. Current world economy is $70 trillion. Times 1000 years - what we are destroying, is $70,000 trillion. What remains to ball-park cost to humanity of each ton burned now, that I as a father of 200 billion kids needs to know, how many tons do we have left to burn before going past 1.5 degrees C is 15% likely or more (tell me if you have an estimate). With that I think I can ball-park the wreckage cost to humanity, for myself, as a father of the 200 billion who will be living in that world.
- I'm more outraged than ever, as a Father, of how gutless the experts are at telling us what we as Parents, Grandparents need to know. If this were the movie John Q, they wouldn't even have the guts to tell John what treatment was required and when it was required by. Criminal.
- Health update, recap - one of the videos covers that.
Loving
8.12.2012
Links Corrected - Aug 11: Tracking Plan B - Lester Brown's. SUBSCRIBE. NOW.
Tracking Plan B - Lester Brown's
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 04:32 PM PDT
Rep. Joe Walsh Applauds Ending Oil ...
ThinkProgress - 4 hours ago
“Get rid of subsidies for the big oil companies if you want. Do it,”
Walsh declared to loud applause, calling the move “important”: WALSH:
You can do anything you want to.
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 04:28 PM PDT
New battery technology means more power for electric cars
Herald Sun - 8 hours ago
A SMALL battery company backed by General Motors is working on
breakthrough technology that could power an electric car more than 300km
on a single charge in the next two-to-four years, GM's CEO says.
GM may have breakthrough in electric battery technologyBend Bulletin
GM's Akerson promises 200
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 04:18 PM PDT
US should change biofuel policy to avoid food crisis: UN
Reuters - 6 hours ago
ROME (Reuters) - The U.N.'s food agency stepped up the pressure on the
United States on Friday to change its biofuel policies because of the
danger of a world food crisis, arguing the importance of growing crops
for food over their use for fuel.
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 04:13 PM PDT
Greentech Media (blog)
Report: German Utilities Don't Want to Spend on Smart Grid
Greentech Media (blog) - 9 hours ago
Consulting firm Steria Mummert polled 100 German utility executives and
found that only half of them wanted to spend money on smart grid between
now and 2014. That's compared to three-quarters who planned to spend on
renewable energy, and 30 ...
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 04:10 PM PDT
USDA Backs Smart Grid Efforts In Rural America
Renew Grid - 6 hours ago
To further improvements to electric lines and transmission and reduce
peak electric loads by deploying smart gridtechnologies, the U.S.
USDA provides funds for electric projects in Iowa, 17 other
statesDesMoinesRegister.com (blog)
US Agriculture Department to fund rural smart grid projectsEcoSeed
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 04:06 PM PDT
Environment News Service
Largest UK Firms Must Disclose CO2 Emissions
Environment News Service - 2 hours ago
LONDON, UK, August 10, 2012 (ENS) - More than 1100 public companies
listed on the London Stock Exchange will have to report their greenhouse
gas emissions from next April under plans announced at the Rio+20
Summit that are now moving forward.
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 04:04 PM PDT
Toronto Star
Way more pros than cons to energy efficiency
Toronto Star - 6 hours ago
But there are some who question whether energy efficiency is everything
it's touted to be. Specifically, they point to the idea that there is a
large rebound effect to increased energy efficiency. The concept here is
that when we use products that ...
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 03:46 PM PDT
Extinction of U.S. fish species examined
UPI.com - 39 minutes ago
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- North American freshwater fishes are going
extinct at an alarming rate compared with other species, a U.S.
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 03:46 PM PDT
Pipeline protests spur companies to consider shipping oilsands crude by
rail
Montreal Gazette - 3 hours ago
OTTAWA - As battles rage over the Northern Gateway and Keystone XL
pipelines, governments and energy companies are eyeing other options for
transporting oilsands crude to foreign markets, including by rail, a
pipeline through the Northwest Territories ...
Alberta premier
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 03:38 PM PDT
http://www.fifetoday.co.uk/news/scottish-headlines/100-renewable-energy-attainable-1-2461485
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 03:31 PM PDT
if you have a natural-gas engine, methane is going to be a major part of that tailpipe
http://eponline.com/articles/2012/08/10/cheaper-and-cleaner-catalyst-for-burning-methane.aspx
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 03:17 PM PDT
http://blogs.edf.org/energyexchange/2012/08/10/natural-gas-a-briefing-paper-for-candidates/
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 03:08 PM PDT
Ice sheets took 'thousands of years to grow'
Independent Online - 14 hours ago
The report, examining the Earth's orbit around the sun in a 100000-year
cycle of cold and warmth, showed that ice sheets took thousands of years
to grow at the start of Ice Ages and surprisingly lagged a quicker
cooling of the oceans. That delay, and ...
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 12:26 PM PDT
Drought Cited as US Predicts Corn Yield at 17-Year Low
New York Times - 2 minutes ago
WASHINGTON
- With the worst drought in a half century decimating crops in the
United States, the government on Friday slashed its estimate of the
annual corn yield by about 17 percent in the last month to the lowest
level since 1995.
US drought threatens food price surgeFinancial Times
Corn
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 12:19 PM PDT
World's Largest Butterfly Threatened by Shrinking Habitat and
Deforestation
Scientific American (blog) - 6 hours ago
But the Queen Alexandra's butterfly, named after the wife of King Edward
VII of England, faces an ever-shrinking habitat due to deforestation in
its only home, the rainforests of PNG, and conservationists fear that
the species may soon run out of room ...
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 12:16 PM PDT
Telegraph.co.uk
Child hunger: the biggest obstacle to global development
Telegraph.co.uk - 2 hours ago
As a global
leader on the issue, Unicef has long since recognised the huge barrier
child undernutrition represents to international development.
Hunger: Irish and experts focus on children, research and small farmersWorld and Media
See realtime coverage »
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 12:14 PM PDT
Where the world's running out of water, in one map
Washington Post (blog) - 3 hours ago
And with the global population
soaring past 7 billion, this is one of the biggest questions the world
is now facing. Can better conservation practices and new technology
enable farmers to keep feeding the planet without depleting its most
important ...
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 12:12 PM PDT
Proposal For Floating Offshore Wind ...
North American Windpower - 4 hours ago
The U.S. Department of the Interior's (DOI) Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management (BOEM) has taken the next step in the assessment of a
proposed project to demonstrate floating offshore wind technology on the
Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) off the coast of ...
Feds seek competitors to Statoil for Maine
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 12:10 PM PDT
Rotating Solar Thermal Collector Targets Cheap Renewable Energy
Revmodo - 1 hour ago
Rather
than a futuristic gun designed to destroy the moon, the structure is
actually a solar thermal collector–a 10 foot by 10 foot device designed
to follow the sun across the sky–and could put us on the fast track to
cheaper solar energy. Unbeknownst ...
New Solar Power Design Inspired by
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 11:49 AM PDT
A Handy Guide to Global Warming Diseases
The Atlantic Cities (blog) - 3 hours ago
Increased rainfall, warmer
temperatures, dying reefs and hotter oceans are handing diseases that
afflict humans - algal, fungal, mosquito-borne, tick-borne - a chance to
spread, meaning diseases previously unheard in the U.S.
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 11:47 AM PDT
Experts link climate change to animal products consumption
Inquirer.net - 5 hours ago
Better
believe it, environment experts claim the weather we have today is
partly the result of our appetites. Although the causes of climate
change is no doubt multifaceted, livestock propagation to meet the
world's incessant appetite for animal ...
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 11:45 AM PDT
On Floods, China Blames Climate Change
Forbes - 4 hours ago
A recent bout with rain induced flooding from two typhoons has the
Chinese government warning that climate change will undoubtedly bring
more natural disasters.
Climate change will bring more heavy rains in ChinaJakarta Post
As Severe Storms Overwhelm China's Infrastructure, Experts Warn That
Climate ...ThinkProgress
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 10:04 AM PDT
Day
2 and I feel like day 60. Wow. Day 2 has never felt like this.
Is it the blood tests that say anemia, the diagnosis, or is it the
diagnosis, the anemia hitting me. My backpack that was 35-45 libs now
feels 80. My 2lb each Secret Service boots now feel 8lb each.
There is likely hospital time ahead for the Death Fast and this month
was the month I had to renew my Medicade so today has
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Posted: 08 Aug 2012 05:52 PM PDT
Nearly one in four people food insecure
CattleNetwork.com - 13 hours ago
The
authors project a percentage decline from 24 to 21 percent food
insecure, but the actual number of food-insecure people will increase by
37 million, reflecting growth in the global population. For this report, the agency defines food insecurity as ...
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Posted: 08 Aug 2012 05:46 PM PDT
Global warming linked to shellfish eating risks
Straight.com -
3 hours ago
By Matthew Burrows, August 8, 2012. A local expert in pathogens has
conceded that warming of regional ocean waters because of climate change
“potentially” means more waterborne illnesses due to the Vibrio
parahaemolyticus bacterium. “I will admit to ...
PolicyMic
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Posted: 08 Aug 2012 05:44 PM PDT
Oregon teens take global warming to Oregon Supreme Court
KPIC - 6 hours ago
Oregon teens take global warming
to Oregon Supreme Court. By Crystal Price KVAL News Published: Aug 8,
2012 at 10:44 AM PDT Last Updated: Aug 8, 2012 at 10:44 AM PDT.
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Posted: 08 Aug 2012 05:42 PM PDT
Global warming: Diseased trees may be major methane source
Summit County Citizens Voice - 18 hours ago
It also has a global warming
potential equivalent to 18 percent of the carbon being sequestered by
these forests, reducing their climate benefit of carbon sequestration by
nearly one-fifth.
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Posted: 08 Aug 2012 05:32 PM PDT
Hydroelectricity Production Is Vulnerable to Climate Change
CleanTechnica - 8 hours ago
“Climate change
is expected to affect the quantity and timing of water flow in the
state,” Madani said. “Under dry climate warming, the state will receive
less precipitation, with most of it as rain instead of snow, impacting
hydropower supply and ...
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Posted: 08 Aug 2012 05:29 PM PDT
July is hottest month on record – human-caused climate change cited
Reno Gazette Journal (blog) - 6 hours ago
The record came on the heels of a study by NASA's James Hansen, linking
increased extreme weather events with climate change. He found that the
odds of hitting record temperatures from the 1950s to 1980s was about 1
in 300 but has now dropped to 1 in ...
July in US was
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Posted: 08 Aug 2012 04:21 PM PDT
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Posted: 08 Aug 2012 02:05 PM PDT
Nature | Seven Days
Nature.com - 3 hours ago
Deforestation down Deforestation
in the Brazilian Amazon fell by more than 20% between August 2011 and
July 2012, according to an early - and uncertain - analysis released on 2
August by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research.
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Posted: 08 Aug 2012 02:02 PM PDT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sxc2-Do7BU&feature=youtu.be
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Posted: 08 Aug 2012 08:46 AM PDT
Three UN Millennium Development Targets Reached and a Review of the ...
New Security Beat - 5 hours ago
They
conclude that huge changes must be made in technology and consumption
in order to combat the effects of climate change that are being caused
by a growing population and an increasingly affluent world. The United Nations' 2012 Millennium ...
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Posted: 08 Aug 2012 08:27 AM PDT
Solar panels could conflict with urban trees, says expert at Portland ecology ...
OregonLive.com - Aug 6, 2012
View
full sizeBenjamin Brink/The OregonianSolar panel installations on homes
require careful placement of neighboring trees to avoid shading the
panels.
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Posted: 08 Aug 2012 08:24 AM PDT
China hikes 2015 solar power target by 40 pct
Reuters - 6 hours ago
BEIJING, Aug 8 (Reuters) - China has hiked its 2015 target for solar power
capacity by 40 percent to 21 gigawatts (GW), a government agency said
on Wednesday, with falling costs and new regulations boosting growth in
the sector.
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Posted: 08 Aug 2012 08:20 AM PDT
Romney's Ever-Changing Coal and Climate Policies
energybiz - 14 hours ago
Setting
aside the whole Romney-Care health package that he once ushered in with
great fanfare, there's also his apparent flip-flop on climate change
and on coal. Once an advocate of tighter controls, now he is not. “The
same policies that protect the ...
See realtime coverage »
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Posted: 08 Aug 2012 08:19 AM PDT
Oyster industry struggles to adapt to climate change
Mother Nature Network - 39 minutes ago
Oysters
on the half shell may be a delicacy, but oysters need their shells to
grow and thrive in the first place. Unfortunately, increasing levels of
ocean acidification caused by carbon-dioxide emissions and climate change threaten the integrity of
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Posted: 08 Aug 2012 08:15 AM PDT
Climate change: What will it take to wake up the world?
The Hill (blog) - 20 minutes ago
The
oceans are still rising, bizarre weather patterns continue to plague
us, the polar ice caps are disappearing and most of us just ignore the
dangers of climate change. As the world's leaders return from Rio de Janeiro and the United Nations ...
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Posted: 08 Aug 2012 06:42 AM PDT
Politico
Reid: Time to Stop Acting Like Climate Change Deniers Have a Valid Point
of ...
Equities.com - 5 hours ago
Yet a quarter century later, too many elected officials in Washington
are still calling climate change a liberal hoax. They falsely claim
scientists are still debating whether carbon pollution is warming the
planet.
Bill Clinton On Clean Energy Policy
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