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🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 18, 2022, 12:49 pm
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for two reasons:
1. My purpose, nearly a decade ago, of convincing most reality
based people everywhere that human civilization, in order to
stop and reverse (i.e getting back to 350 PPM of atmospheric
Carbon Dioxide is sine qua non) the multiple extinctions causing
biosphere degradation (i.e. the Sixth Mass Extinction Event now
upon us), must VERY rapidly transition away from Hydrocarbon
Energy Sources to Renewable Energy Sources, has been largely
achieved.
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that have made it clear that clean energy must be made available
to everyone, not just the 🎩 wealthy, if we are to
survive Catastrophic Climate Change.
2. Celebrated social theorist and geographer David Harvey asked,
"Is there a way to capture what (to the detriment of human
civilization) is going on now"?
My answer: YES.
It's the SOCIAL DARWINISM, stupid!
No matter how much progress we make in cleaning up the
biosphere, as long as the egocentric, morally bankrupt, empathy
deficit disordered, Social Darwinist Ideology continues to be
embraced by TPTB, we do not have a snowball's chance in Hell of
surviving our Existential Crisis.
Social Darwinists believe that ethics based principles are
'limitations pretending to be virtues'. To them, ethics are
'feel good illusions' that humans invented to pretend our
species has empathy. To Social Darwinists, empathy is
irrefutable evidence of inexcusable weakness. To them, all who
are guided by ethics are deluded fools that should be eliminated
from the human 'apex predator' gene pool for the "good" of our
species.
The ideology of the Social Darwinist is indistinguishable from
the despicable ideology of NAZI Germany, clearly exemplified in
their brutally enforced morally bankrupt concentration camp law:
“Eat your own bread, and if you can, that of your neighbor.”
Social Darwinism is actually based, not on "survival of the
fittest", but on fear of tomorrow, a morally bankrupt excuse for
rejecting altruism and empathy and embracing a selfish greed
dominated hoarding modus vivendi.
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> "One who fears tomorrow does not offer his bread to others.
But one who is willing to divide his food with a stranger has
already shown himself capable of fellowship and faith, the two
things from which hope is born." -- Primo Levi, author of
Survival in Auschwitz
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Social Darwinism is the world view that spawned the profit over
people and planet neoliberal ideology. Neoliberal intellectuals
like Friedrich von Hayek, Ludwig von Mises and Milton Friedman
were all Social Darwinists long before they renamed
laissez-faire liberalism (that had been thoroughly discredited
by the Great Depression) with the catchy title of
"Neoliberalism".
The celebrated social theorist and geographer David Harvey
explains that neoliberal ideology serves the following
principle:
"There shall be no serious challenge to the absolute power of
money to rule absolutely. And that power is to be exercised with
one objective: Those possessed of money shall not only be
privileged to accumulate wealth endlessly at will, but they
shall have the right to inherit the earth, taking either direct
or indirect dominion, not only of the land and all the resources
and productive capacities that reside therein, but also assume
absolute command, directly or indirectly, over the labor and
creative capacities of all those others it needs. The rest of
humanity shall be deemed disposable."
"In human society, the amount of inequity is directly
proportional to the amount of iniquity." -- A. G. Gelbert
Sober Thinking requires that we all recognize the fact that a
society that is founded on altruism, not the "invisible hand" of
greed, is not optional if we wish to avoid exctinction.
Capitalism's "invisible hand" modus operandi is rooted in the
ideology of Social Darwinism.
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> “Capitalism is the astounding belief, that the most wickedest
of men, will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest
good of everyone.” — John Maynard Keynes
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The main purpose of the Sober Thinking Forum is to convince you,
regardless of your religious beliefs or lack of them, to soberly
think about these two quotes, embrace altruism, reject greed,
and convince as many people as you can that altruism is not
optional for human society:
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> "Look at our world, our country, our interactions with each
other……… this is not the mark of a healthy society, and if these
are the self-appointed leaders of this flaming meteor…..it’s
time to move on to new ideas and new people. Let’s relegate
these fools to history. They perpetuate a narrative that it is
right to behave in a strictly selfish, exploitative manner
towards all. We simply can’t survive it any longer. Things will
change because they have to." -- Kathleen Wallace
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"Technical knowledge of Carrying Capacity will not save us; Only
a Massive Increase in Caring Capacity will." -- A. G. Gelbert
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"Global-average surface temperature will continue to get
warmer until at least the 2050s."
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Date: March 18, 2022, 12:57 pm
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Climate Lab Book
February 25, 2022 Ed Hawkins ✨
[center]Climate Change 2021 – the physical science
basis[/center]
SNIPPET:
This blog post is a short summary of key points that are of
current relevance to society from the physical science of
climate change. It is based on the headline statements of a
report published in 2021
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by the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC is a United Nations
body responsible for providing impartial assessments of climate
science. Its reports inform international negotiations on
tackling climate change.
Written by Jonathan Gregory, Matt Palmer and Ed Hawkins
How and why has the climate changed?
Widespread and rapid changes have taken place in the atmosphere,
in the ocean and on land. There is no doubt that the climate has
warmed because human activities have increased the amounts of
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, especially carbon dioxide
(CO2) and methane (CH4).
Greenhouse gases warm the climate by making it harder for the
atmosphere to radiate heat into the surrounding universe
(space). They insulate the atmosphere against losing heat,
rather like making it warmer inside a house by insulating the
roof. The physics of this greenhouse effect has been understood
for more than a century.
The largest human-caused effect on climate is due to the
[i]build-up of CO2[/i], mostly from burning fossil fuels (coal,
oil and gas). The size and speed of recent changes in many
aspects of the climate system exceed any seen for hundreds or
thousands of years (Figure 1).
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Figure 1: Changes since the year 1 (of the Common Era, or AD) in
the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and in the global-average
surface temperature. The industrial revolution and the burning
of fossil fuels to produce energy began with the invention of
the steam engine.
The warming causes changes in many other aspects of climate. For
example, many extreme weather and climate events in every region
across the globe have already become more severe or more
frequent due to human-caused climate change (Figure 2).
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Figure 2: This diagram depicts how much more often extremely
high temperatures occur as the climate gets warmer. As an
example, it considers the temperature which was reached only
once in 50 years on average at any given place in the climate
before the industrial revolution. This extreme happens more
frequently in today’s climate, and will become still more common
in warmer climates.
What climate change will happen in future?
Improved scientific knowledge has narrowed the range of warming
expected as a result of increasing the amount of CO2 in the
atmosphere.
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"I am an Environmental Geographer by training, holding
degrees in biology and chemistry, so I am conversant with
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[center]Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted
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dmorista Mod > agelbert • a day ago
I wanted to thank you for posting this well written and
comprehensive article; that is aimed at explaining these issues
to the most important audience of all the non-specialists who
need to wake up in their millions and billions and demand change
and also to do what they can in their lives.
I was very busy with my personal life, and was writing a long
article for The Class Struggle about China and Covid, so I am
very late to the discussion here. I have not yet read your part
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I am an Environmental Geographer by training and also hold
undergraduate degrees in biology and chemistry, so I am
conversant with these issues. But people like me are not the
ones who need to be seriously informed about this ever deepening
crisis, and your article seems to be right on th emoney for
average reasonably well-educated people who want to grapple with
these issues. There is no escape from this; and that is
infinitely more true for the younger people of this planet.
agelbert > dmorista • a day ago
Thank you, my friend. It is an honor to have your interest and
approval. Please feel free to pass on any information and/or
graphics in my articles and posts with or without attribution.
The main thing is to get as many people as possible on board
with the unvarnished reality of our climate crisis. 🚩
Related to the above, this short post from an IPCC Climate
Scientist will interest you:
​Climate Change 2021 – the physical science basis
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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Date: March 18, 2022, 2:28 pm
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[center] Biodiversity hot spots of 80% of biosphere's species
[i]endangered by Global Warming Pollution[/i]
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conscience free
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Given the state of global affairs today, this is probably a
question many people are asking themselves right now
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[center]Can we survive the coming decades
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Can we survive the coming decades? Given the state of global
affairs today, that's probably a question many people are asking
themselves right now. The IPCC has just published their answer,
at least from a climate point of view. And they pull no punches.
We're almost out of time, they say, and we need immediate global
geopolitical cooperation to succeed. Oh dear!
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The trend is not our friend. 🥺
The follow article deals with material survival only. Even if
that works for some materially wealthy millions, it does nothing
to correct the morally bankrupt Social Darwinist ideology
responsible for much of our civilization's spiritual depravity.
How to Survive When, NOT IF, Catastrophic Climate Change Makes
Earth's Climate Unsuitable For Humans by A. G. Gelbert
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we made the bulk of our syrup in April. That’s definitely not
the case now,” Richardson said.
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“My father’s saying was that we made the bulk of our syrup in
April. That’s definitely not the case now,” Richardson said.
March brings the harvest now.
The wooden sugar house, first built in the 1960s, is perched at
the crest of a snow-covered hill. The Richardsons harvest wood
from their forest, bind it into bundles just the right size for
the tractor, and pile the bundles above the sugar house.
Inside, the Richardsons mark the dates and yields each year on a
sheet of freezer paper. A three-ring binder in the sugar house
holds sheets that go back to 1981. Forty years is short in terms
of the 115-year history of the Richardsons on the farm, and even
shorter in terms of climatological history. Still, it is enough
time to see a change. The first February boil was in 2012. Since
then, six years — including this one — have begun with February
boils. ... ...
Warm weather spells trouble. Bacteria swimming in a food source
of sugar multiply when below-freezing temperatures don’t keep
them down. “Ropey syrup” has a bacteria count so high that it
cannot boil; it turns into a phlegmy, sticky pudding.
In 2021, warm weather cut off the season in early April.
Sugarers across the Upper Valley saw yields far below their
anticipated harvest, and sap production was down between 25% and
50%. In 2012, a stretch of March days when temperatures soared
into the seventies scorched away the season.
“It only takes two or three days 65 to 75 degrees and sunny to
basically kill the season for you,” said Richard Menge, who
sugars at Maple Leaf Farm in Lyme, New Hampshire.
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European birds threatened by Climate Change
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A new study has found that the climate crisis is causing major
disruptions to European birds, from shifting their nesting dates
to decreasing their chick numbers to even changing their general
body sizes.
The study
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rising temperatures and non-temperature effects of climate
change are transforming European birds, such as garden warblers,
chiffchaffs, and crested t i t.
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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Date: March 22, 2022, 5:07 pm
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[center]A close look at Roy Spencer's claims on global
warming[/center]
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potholer54 226K subscribers
CORRECTIONS:
1:47 GRL paper is 2019, not 2020
2.52 RSS is 5 degrees short of worldwide, N & S latitiudes
10:15 date should be 85mya not 50mya
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> Chii Suigintou 1 hour ago
> Not that my comment matters much,
> but just observing winters in Belgium over the past 20 years,
> one could also work out a warming trend.
> No actual calculations needed,
> when it suddenly doesn't snow during winter
> and people start planting tropical plants in Belgium within
their gardens,
> this bc the trend is going towards even warmer winters.
> One might already think that the end of the Ice age will also
be seen.
> (and yes, anyone with at least some knowledge in the matter
understands that we're currently in a interglacial period,
> known as the holocene
> and that the end of the Plestocene marks the end of a glacial
period, not the the ice age.)
> Tbh, not looking forward towards geological evidence of Europe
being just a collection of shattered islands.
> Even though a hotter climate may sound nice,
> damage towards personal property will be catastrophic.
>
> Luckily I myself will never see this happening within my life
time,
> I hope?
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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Warming stripes: an emblem for climate action
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With 2021 looking set to be a big year for action on climate
change, communicating the science and sparking conversations is
more important than ever. The ‘warming stripes’ created by
Professor Ed Hawkins do just this in a striking yet simple way.
In this video, created by the University of Reading for the
launch of the Green Horizon Perspectives 2021 series event
hosted by City of London Corporation and Green Finance Institute
(and supported by the World Economic Forum), Ed explains how the
stripes have gained worldwide recognition, being shared by
millions, from US senators to rock bands, appearing at
international climate change events, and even popping up on a
Tesla. The stripes speak to everyone, regardless of language and
background, making them an ideal emblem for climate action as
world leaders meet to discuss commitments to attempt to meet the
Paris Agreement targets.
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