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🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
By: AGelbert Date: October 10, 2013, 12:42 am
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"ARGO floats have allowed accurate measurement of ocean heat
gain since 2005. Earth is gaining energy at a rate 0.6 W/m2,
which is 20 times greater than the rate of human energy use.
That energy is equivalent to [I]exploding 400,000 Hiroshima
atomic bombs per day, 365 days per year."[/I]
September 2012: A New Age of Risk: Presentation given at
Columbia University on Sep. 22.
Dr. James E. Hansen
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
By: AGelbert Date: October 16, 2013, 6:33 pm
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By Douglas Elbinger, Energy Policy Analyst, GreenLancer.com
Many of us who have been on the ground floor of the renewable
energy business are secretly experiencing the warm fuzzy
feelings that precede explosive global growth. Economic
opportunity of this scale happens very rarely. Recent history
tells us that nothing changes on this scale ‘peacefully’ until
the economics are in alignment with necessity and invention.
This is a true test of a new energy reality, where climate
change hits head on with abundant and cheap renewable energy.
This collision translates into a $10 trillion industry that will
transform the current geo-political narrative (energy, water,
climate, etc…) as we know it, and offer unprecedented
opportunity for those who are on board when this train leaves
the station. So, how, you ask, is this going happen… and how can
I get on the train?
First, allow me introduce you to Mr. Jigar Shah, who will guide
you on the path in his just released book, Creating Climate
Wealth. He offers his reader a clear, engaging,
easy-to-understand conversation about seizing this moment to
make climate change a huge business opportunity — whether you
work at the top or in the trenches — anywhere on the planet.
Read more at
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If you don’t know Jigar, I recommend you get to know a little
about him. He revolutionized the solar industry by deploying the
Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) solar-as-service business model.
This business model used 30-year old solar technology to be the
catalyst for a multi-billion dollar solar industry.
Read more at
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[move]So, does this mean this climate change crises represents
an opportunity as well as a danger? Well, grasshopper, That
DEPENDS on how we handle it...
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[quote]Chinese philologist Victor H. Mair of the University of
Pennsylvania states the popular interpretation of
wēijī—to mean "danger" and "opportunity"—is a
"widespread public misperception" in the English-speaking world.
:o [sup][8][/sup]
While wēi (危) roughly translates to mean: "danger,
dangerous; endanger, jeopardize; perilous; precipitous,
precarious; high; fear, afraid"(as in wēixiăn
危险, "dangerous"), the polysemous jī
(机) does not necessarily mean "opportunity". The compound
noun jīhuì (机会) means "opportunity".
But jī only acquires this connotation when used in
conjunction with another morpheme (in this case hui to form
jīhuì). As a Chinese character, jī has numerous
meanings when conjoined with other morphemes; these can form
words such as "machine, mechanical; airplane; suitable occasion;
crucial point; pivot; incipient moment; opportune, opportunity;
chance; key link; secret; cunning".
As jī in wēijī, this translates roughly as
"crucial/critical point" not
"opportunity".
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[move][I]We are at the Crucial/Critical Point at which the
Danger
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
By: AGelbert Date: October 18, 2013, 2:47 pm
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[center]How Change Manifests, How Action To Stop Global
Warming[I] Must [/I]Come About [/center]
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It’s obvious. Global efforts to combat climate change have
failed. International summits are full of hot air and greenhouse
gas.
Pollution continues to rise.
HTML http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2013/05/09/400-ppm-carbon-dioxide-in-the-atmosphere-reaches-prehistoric-levels/
If a
Country bails on a climate commitment
HTML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_and_the_Kyoto_Protocol,
they pay a price of, well, zero.
Turns out that’s okay, at least according to game theory
analyses by researchers at the University of Lisbon. Their
models suggest that punishment by global institutions has no
effect. They also say that global summits actually
impede cooperation ( Risk of collective failure provides an
escape from the tragedy of the commons
HTML http://www.pnas.org/content/108/26/10421).
Now, in a new report, the researchers suggest that if punishment
starts getting handed out at the local level, say
city governments
(
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what emerges is a much more cooperative global regime for
combating climate change.
Interestingly, though, the local actors must be stimulated by an
understanding that global warming means catastrophe… big time.
Thus, the remarkable bottom line to change is essentially an old
bumper sticker tagline (link added):
Nevertheless, the math of how people play games suggests that
successfully curbing carbon pollution will rely on the old
adage: think globally…
act locally (Seattle to Create Nation’s First Public Food Forest
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/>
The journal Nature Climate Change
(
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/>describes how that proverbial pond inspires change with many
ripples from within — it is the rippling of change:
We show that a bottom-up approach, in which parties create local
institutions that punish free-riders, promotes the emergence of
widespread cooperation, mostly when risk perception is low, as
it is at present3, 7. On the contrary, global institutions
provide, at best, marginal improvements regarding overall
cooperation. Our results clearly suggest that a polycentric
approach involving multiple institutions is more effective than
that associated with a single, global one, indicating that such
a bottom-up, self-organization approach, set up at a local
scale, provides a better ground on which to attempt a solution
for such a
complex and global dilemma (U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions Down
11 Percent Since 2007
HTML http://sustainablog.org/2013/10/co2-emissions-us/).
Another international climate conference is coming up, this one
being held in Poland. There isn’t much optimism regarding what
is to come out of this, and it seems there’s no reason for
optimism.
What is needed is a stronger focus on creating action on the
local level. What is needed is an emphasis on communicating the
great risks and costs that come with global warming, while
showing people local solutions that they can implement in their
cities.
[move]People are starting to realize this, but the message needs
to get out to more and more of us, especially the ones who are
motivated
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and
assertive enough
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to push for
[color=green]meaningful change.
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[I]DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS REPRESENTS? ---> [img
width=100]
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<--- THAT is BIG OIL
laughing at WE-THE-PEOPLE! [/I]
Are you going to sit there and TAKE THAT??? >:(
[I]I'm not!
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
By: AGelbert Date: October 18, 2013, 8:04 pm
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
By: AGelbert Date: October 20, 2013, 1:17 am
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Our situation explained succinctly by Al Gore. He makes a few
choice put downs of Global Warming Denial BS along the way with
some IRREFUTABLE HARD DATA
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For example, WE put out a LOT more Carbon dioxide than ALL THE
VOLCANOES IN THE WORLD PUT TOGETHER! :o
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
By: AGelbert Date: October 21, 2013, 6:43 pm
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[font=times new roman]Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic
global warming in the scientific literature
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Abstract
We analyze the evolution of the scientific consensus on
anthropogenic global warming (AGW) in the peer-reviewed
scientific literature, examining 11 944 climate abstracts
from 1991–2011 matching the topics 'global climate change' or
'global warming'.
We find that 66.4% of abstracts expressed no position on AGW,
32.6% endorsed AGW, 0.7% rejected AGW and 0.3% were uncertain
about the cause of global warming. Among abstracts expressing a
position on AGW, 97.1% endorsed the consensus position that
humans are causing global warming.
In a second phase of this study, we invited authors to rate
their own papers. Compared to abstract ratings, a smaller
percentage of self-rated papers expressed no position on AGW
(35.5%). Among self-rated papers expressing a position on AGW,
97.2% endorsed the consensus. For both abstract ratings and
authors' self-ratings, the percentage of endorsements among
papers expressing a position on AGW marginally increased over
time. Our analysis indicates that the number of papers rejecting
the consensus on AGW is a vanishingly small proportion of the
published research.
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
By: AGelbert Date: October 26, 2013, 10:06 pm
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[move][I]Enjoy the spectacular footage of flying over the
Amazon.
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There IS a LOT more work to do to preserve the Amazon. BUT, you
will enjoy this video of the GREATEST REDUCTION IN GREENHOUSE
GAS EMISSIONS IN MODERN HISTORY!
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Ever hear of REDD+? Thanks to that program, the indigenous
Brazilian tribes OWN a Columbia sized amount of land and monitor
it through satellite imagery to report offenders.
Living with Dignity and Preserving Nature IS possible. One of
the WORSE former deforestation offending areas in Brazil is now
the model for all the others because it completely stopped ALL
deforestation in less than 5 years and is REFORESTING now.
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[quote]Combined Efforts To Control Deforestation
This video spotlights some of the extraordinary efforts being
undertaken by social entrepreneurs, government agencies, private
enterprise, and other organizations working on behalf of the
Amazon rainforest.
These combined efforts have made a considerable difference to
reducing deforestation.
Over the last 5 years, Brazil has managed to reduce the rate of
deforestation by 80%, however, new regulations threaten to
reverse this trend.[/quote]
--Bibi Farber
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- See more at:
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
By: AGelbert Date: October 28, 2013, 5:58 pm
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First Frost in Colchester, Vermont was 23 days late last year
(average first frost is September 15) and 20 days late in 2011.
We are having our first frost tonight (expected low is 26 F) so
this year it's [I]A FULL 43 days late! :o[/I]
Global Warming is HERE. It's time to make the fossil fuel
polluting one percenters PAY THEIR SHARE (80%) of the transition
to a 100% Renewable Energy Powered World.
Details HERE:
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
By: AGelbert Date: November 1, 2013, 12:55 am
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[move]Last Hours
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
By: AGelbert Date: November 1, 2013, 1:50 pm
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How to communicate the Urgency of Required Global Joint Action
to Mitigate the Deadly Deleterious effects of Global Climate
Change
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NOTE: NONE of the above will work when attempting to reason with
a propagandist defending (overtly or covertly) the fossil fuel
dirty energy status quo.
WHY? Because. not only are these sell outs being paid to
prevaricate, twist facts, push duplicity and seed people with
fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD), they are part of a group that
watches EACH OTHER. These people KNOW that the INSTANT they
question the crap they are paid to push, their careers are
TOAST. So-o-o they REFUSE to think, period. Only catastrophic
climate disaster in these people's back yard will bring them
around to reason.
WHY? Because their security is based on money. When the fossil
fuel industry no longer can provide that security blanket
because, e.g. the insurance won't cover the destruction of their
house or they lose a loved one to pollution related cancer, THEN
they wake up and smell the coffee.
So these people can be reached ONLY after the fossil fuel
industry throws them under the economic bus. IOW, EXPERIENCE
(BAD experiences), not words of logic or scientific facts will
get these people to understand the threat to human civilization
of global climate change. I am certain there are quite a few
people in New Jersey that have started smelling the coffee.
However, people without an agenda CAN be convinced by logic and
scientific facts. Most people are in that camp. That is why
millions of fossil fuel, dirty energy, profit dollars are
funneled to propagandists to instill FUD in us; Any REAL, HONEST
exposure to what is going on out there will make us oppose the
burning of fossil fuels.
Now you can see why the Koch Brothers, a big part of the Big Oil
Propaganda machine, has spent over 65 million dollars in the
last decade to invent fake grass roots organizations (astro-turf
;) ) to give people the idea that the common person BENEFITS
from the burning of fossil fuels and it is just silly to get
"hysterical" about "uinproven science" or pollution causing
cancer "scare tactics" along with crocodile tears about how
"your loved ones will suffer and millions will die of hunger"
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The best way to deal with propagandists is to undermine their
lies by exposing their methods.
A failed propagandist (Big Oil stops funding them because they
aren't getting "results") is a potential convert to fact based
scientific reasoning and data. Any propagandist that switches to
defending the biosphere instead of Big Oil provides more hope
for humanity.[color=green] Pass it on.[/color]
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