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Sea level rises will be much worse than we feared, say leading scientists ...
Daily Mail - 1 hour ago
The forecasts, published in the journal Nature Climate Change,
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was estimated that sea levels would rise by as little as 18cm and as
much as 59cm.
Climate change poses a public-health threat
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The
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Why I'm On A Hunger Strike. By Diane Wilson (about the author) Permalink (Page 1 of 1 pages) OpEdNews Op Eds 1/4/2013 at 19:59:40 ... The indigenous tribes of the First Nation in Canada, land owners, cities' water supplies, communities surrounding the ...
Feeling ill, lightheaded, nauseous, and weak, 2 days earlier than expected. Usually the first 3 days are pretty easy. Usually, it is days 4-6 when things start to get real bad.
My starting weight is about 162 judging from recent weighings attendant to the recent cancer surgery recovery. This is about 10 lbs, 20 days worth of fat, lighter than my start of earlier Fasts / Hunger Strikes. Hmmm.
Got an early warning 2 nights ago as to the perils of Fasting in the cold - with wind the temp is between 24 and 35 degrees F. Body heat is no more! Metabolism is forced to higher level than when it is warmer to try and compensate - faster fat burn. Hmmmm.
Spirit is the strongest of any Fast yet, for me, because I've learned so much more, as recorded in the last 4 weeks or so (here, and here). Huge growth. It is sooo Joyful, Peaceful, Passion-filled, Loving, and Hopeful for my 204 billion kids.
The notion that Jesus captured so well in the following quote, as did the lives of - blacks of the US '30s embodied in standing to by lynched, Steve Biko, Rachel Corrie... - "Lest a seed die, and fall to earth, it bears no Fruit." Every movement of extreme consequence requires such seeds, or it doesn't happen. I've always been called to be the tip of the spear, my entire life, all my years. This is what I was born for. This is what I've trained for. This is all I've ever wanted to do. Will my action bear Fruit? Probably not. Almost certainly not. But there is a chance created by me trying, and SO I SHALL.
And without some seeds dying, literally, NOW, and falling to Earth, to POSSIBLY bear the Fruit of OTHERS GIVING 100%, NOW!!!!! (uh, did I mention 100%???)... well, our present and future 204 billion kids are Ecocided (more text below vid. WATCH IT. 30 min. THIS IS THE TRUTH, BOTTOM LINE, THE READ DEAL. Make it full screen so you can see the pointer after a few minutes.)
Sure, my body, my Fleshly Spirit, is not so pleased with my current outlook but I AM NOT MY FLESHLY SPIRIT, NOR MY FLESH. I am the Spirit of the Creator, within me, and so are you. I treasure my Flesh, and have Respected and valued it Always. But it is not me. I am not it. (In "Avatar," was Jake HIS BODY? Which of the 2 bodies??? :-) ) I am the Spirit of Loving, the Creator in me, the Divine in which image we ALL are born - DNA given, psychological Truth. That is your TRUE Spirit, too. (Ask yourself. NO??? Am I wrong about you??? Was Jesus, Tolstoy, Gandhi, MLK Jr... wrong about you??? Ask yourself!) I expect my Flesh to perish in coming weeks, a year or so before the cancer would have taken it, I recon, from this Ecocide's Death Fast (best explained here, and here).
I'm consuming what liquids are offered me by the 'church folk' that come by, some of whom are quite Christ-ian. On average, in liquids, like coffee with a little cream, I expect to be at about 200 calories per day, instead of the 2000 calories my body needs in this bitter cold 24/7. Other than that, zero cal vitamin or electrolyte drinks, vitamin, and iron pills - otherwise I'm kept awake for hours by the cancer driven anemia and the resultant restless leg syndrome).
Due to the kindnesses of my sister Cathy, Beverly, Christ-ian church folk, Nicholas the Christ Mass Angel for we Homeless in DC with his huge deliveries of self-purchased warm stuff, my street friend Delbert from Texas (in the best sense, think Gomer Pyle; Forest Gump....)... I have all the warm clothing (the boots and finger-mitts are awesome, Cath), about 8 hours per day SOLAR power even on these short winter days (till 3-5 days of clouds come along :-( ), enabling me to stay productive on the computer, for now.
How long will I remain lucid, productive? Don't know. Probably MOST of the next 4 weeks or so, tho more and more I'll lose hours per day to nausea, weakness, loss of focus. Only one of my earlier Fasts, 4 years ago on Capitol Hill, was in such bitter cold, and then I had regular breaks inside. Uncharted territory for me.
My days now are spent:
1. Remaining Spiritually Powerful - that's my entire hope to us, to be a channel of Loving, the Creator, to us. (That's the only way any of us can be of use.) So, I use the Personal Trainer, daily (see 1st tab, top of page).
2. To serve TWO purposes, as an extension of point 1, I'm creating another 'book,' another Personal Trainer: "Jesus Teaching's on Living: Personal Trainer." The 2nd most important book on earth, for today (this being the 1st) is Tolstoy's "The Gospel in Brief," the writing of which
*. caused him to choose 30 more years of writing, on this subject, instead of immediate suicide, and
*. Created, from a cowardly, selfish young law student, in England, the man we know as Gandhi; and may well have created MLK Jr, as well.
A. The first purpose is to spend quality time with "Gospel in Brief," to work it further into my DNA,
B. By building a Personal Trainer (to be used daily, guided spread sheet along the lines developed for "Resurrecting Your Unviolent Warrior") I get the immersion (this is about my 9th reading of "Gospel, 3rd in a month); I create a way, like the "Resurrecting" Trainer, to work it into my bones; and a way to offer to others the ability to Train themselves.
I expect to also complete an associated Book/Trainer using Jesus' Teaching's on Living from the infinitely more widely known, but criminally adulterated, mutilated gospels - I'll use the Catholic Bible NAB.
3. A dear friend is helping me secure several more crucial books for the LIBRARY, and oddly you may think, that takes hours per day of my time, for the next week possibly.
4. Updating both blogs, especially Start Loving, so it is as good, complete, accesible a repository of what I've come to Understand and Value, as possible, to share with you, or those who come after, as well as I can.
Completing any of this will depend on what my body does.
How will this all end for my body? Don't know. The cancer is killing me from one end, for sure without the 6 months of chemo, I'm told, tho mercifully, since I've healed from the surgery, I remain symptom free so far, as long as I take the daily iron pills for the anemia (tho the major incision is still seeping a little, after 5 weeks?). The Ecocide's Death, Fast, is killing me from the other end. (No. What's Killing me is that we all sit watching Ecocide go unstoppable, and DO NOTHING.) In DC, tho my choice is to be allowed to have the Death Fast take my last breath in 40-60 days time; doubtful with all the security here in DC that that will be allowed. Institutionalization in St. E's Mental Hospital is my guess after I refuse calories when hospitalized weeks from now; a Living Death institutionalized, for the rest of what months I have before the Cancer has it's way. (St. E's probably won't be quite as comfortable, kind, Loving... LOL, as the hospice (Joseph's House, run by the same folks as run the Christ-ian Christ House that was so instrumental to my recovering from my November 30th cancer surgery, removing 2 of the tumors, and 1/3 of my colon); St. E's won't be quite as nice as what I was envisioning after I got the cancer diagnosis and realized that stopping the Vigil here at the Canadian Embassy, 24/7 7 months now, was out of the question; but before I received (thank God!!!) the vision of the Ecocide's Death Fast as a much better way to spend my Life!!! No matter. St. E's it is likely to be, not Joseph's House. Hmmm.
Oh, the specter of the Pr. Obama Inaugural Jan 21 hangs over my plans a bit. I may be forced, or may simply choose, to accept Hospitality and maybe up/back transportation from Philly friends for the days immediately before and after. Have to see what develops.
Well, I had zero idea that this long update Post was coming. But, here it is.
Massive emails from me yesterday to a select few - it was a HUGE news and Revelation day for me.
NOTE: I expect to do little of that outbound emailing going forward, knowing that those that care about this Campaign will Subscribe to the daily update email from this blog - see the little window at the far right of this page toward the top, where you anonymously put in your email address. Blogger / Google securely handles the rest.
With much Joy, and even a tiny bit of Hope for our Kids,
Idle No More movement goes global. Native protests Idle No More. Lot?t Honyust, from the Oneida Frist Nation, raises his fist during a protest in London, Ont.
Diane Wilson, who, along with Bob Lindsey, is in the 24th day of a hunger strike against Valero Oil and the Keystone XL Pipeline, emphasized that TransCanada is putting the fragile Gulf Coast at risk. She reports that one super-tanker spill would be ...
NOTE: Little added to Tracking Plan B blog TPB
. There's no news, just History, re-written by the millions of words per day - pure intellectual masturbation - McKibben, Romm, et al. We've known what was needed for 30 years or more now. We obviously want NOT to act, but to run out the clock on our Affloholic binges.
Who gives a f*ck about our kids, and grand kids. NOT US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OBVIOUSLY.
WASHINGTON - Climate change
is accelerating, and it will place unparalleled strains on American
military and intelligence agencies in coming years by causing ever more
disruptive events around the globe, the nation's top scientific research
group said ...
The industry added 13,872 workers, boosting the solar
workforce by 13.2 percent to 119,016 at the end of the period, the
Washington-based non-profit organization said in an e-mailed statement.
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
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
U.S. Smart Grid Spending to Focus on Grid Modernization in
Long-Neglected ...
Sacramento Bee - 5 hours ago
FARMINGTON, Conn., Sept. 19, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-iReach/ --
Overconfidence in our fragile power grid is a bias the United States
will have to overcome in order to move towards widespread smart
grid adoption. Murphy's Law proves true time and again; ...
Climate change threatens children's health
Washington Post - 1 hour ago
In 2007, the American Academy of Pediatrics published a policy statement
titled “Global Climate Change and Children's Health” that described
expected increases in West Nile virus, Lyme disease and hantavirus
pulmonary syndrome.
Europe To See More Than 237M Smart Meters By 2020
Renew Grid - 4 hours ago
The firm says smart meters and associated developments in smart
grids are seen as enablers of a low-carbon Europe that, by 2050, will
have reduced its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 80% of its 1990 level
and almost completely ended its dependence ...
More Than 237 Million Smart Meters Will Be Deployed
Warming Oceans Will Start Massive Changes In Antarctic Ice Sheet
PlanetSave.com
- 2 hours ago
Massive and rapid changes in the Antarctic ice sheet are possible
because of the action of fast-flowing and narrow glaciers, leading to
rapid ice-sheet decay and sea-level rise, according to a just released
study. 20120920-114159.jpg. It's now been ...
Alps' Glaciers Are Retreating Rapidly
CounterCurrents.org
- 5 hours ago
The Alps ' glaciers are in retreat at an alarming rate due to rising
temperatures. Scientists opine: this is the result of global warming.
A crushing victory in bid to harness nuclear fusion power
NBCNews.com - 1 hour ago
A crushed tube the size of a thread spool has brought the United States
one step closer to harnessing nuclear fusion as a clean, almost
limitless, power source. The experiment at Sandia National Laboratories
in New Mexico tested how well a tiny ...
EU U-turn spells doom for food-based biofuels boom
Reuters - 3 hours ago
"They (the changes) will reduce the price pressure on food
and at the same time increase the pressure on car manufacturers to
offer more fuel-efficient vehicles," said Hubert Weiger, chairman of
German environmental protection lobby group BUND.
Tax Credit in Doubt, Wind Power Industry Is Withering
New York Times - 1 hour ago
FAIRLESS HILLS, Pa. - Last month, Gamesa, a major maker of components for wind turbines,
completed the first significant order of its latest invention: a
camper-size box that can capture the energy of slow winds, potentially
opening up new parts of ...
Protecting mangroves is cheaper than building coastal protection, expert
says
Christian Science Monitor - 19 hours ago
Keeping
coastal mangrove forests intact or replanting them is cheaper than
building man-made structures to protect coastlines threatened by climate
change, according to the head of the International Union for
Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Skip to next ...
Climate change to fuel northern spread of avian malaria
Phys.Org - 16 hours ago
Avian
malaria was found in Alaska in the Common redpoll, pictured here.
Credit: Jenny Carlson, SF State. Malaria has been found in birds in
parts of Alaska, and global climate change will drive it even farther north, according to a new study published
Climate change could remake Australia
UPI.com - 16 hours ago
Australia's species and ecosystems to sensitive climate change
and the country must find news ways of considering conservation, the
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization reported
Wednesday.
Australia's Unique Species Face 'Unstoppable' Climate DangerEnvironment News Service
Major changes
Arctic ice shrinks 18% against record, sounding climate change alarm bells
The Guardian - 2 hours ago
Scientists and environment groups last night said the fall was unprecedented and the clearest signal yet of climate change.
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
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
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 ...
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)
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
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,
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
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 ...
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
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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
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.
