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       Polar Bears are Smarter Than Scientists Thought 
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: June 20, 2022, 1:27 pm
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       June 17, 2022 by Fermin Koop in Animals, Environment, News,
       Science
       [center]A population of polar bears in Greenland is adapting to
       a life without sea ice
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       They survive by hunting from freshwater ice that pours into the
       ocean from Greenland’s glaciers -- an unusual strategy for polar
       bears.
       SNIPPETS:
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       A polar bear stands on a snow-covered iceberg that is surrounded
       by fast ice, or sea ice connected to the shore, in Southeast
       Greenland. Image credit: The researchers.
       Polar bears have long been seen as the poster child of global
       warming’s impact on the natural world, and for good reason: the
       bears rely on sea ice to hunt seals, so climate change could
       destroy the habitats the bears desperately need, which puts the
       species at risk of extinction.
       However, in a rare piece of good news, scientists have
       discovered a group of bears in southeast Greenland has adapted
       to hunting using freshwater platforms — something which was
       thought to be impossible. ... ...
       The study shows the Southeast Greenland bears have access to sea
       ice just for four months of the year, between February and late
       May. This gives them the platform that most Arctic bears use to
       hunt seals. For the rest of the year, the bears take a different
       approach. They hunt seals from blocks of freshwater ice breaking
       off the Greenland Ice Sheet.
       Full article:
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       AGelbert COMMENT: The key word here is, "ADAPTATION". Please
       remember that when some Evolutionist true believer scientist
       disingenuously tries to spin this as "Evolution". Yes, they are
       already trying hard to do that. In the article, you can detect
       the frustration the study scientists experienced
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       />when they couldn't identify these Greenland polar bears as a
       "new species". Their genetics are exactly the same as that of
       polar bears everywhere. Adaptating to changing environmental
       conditions with an unchanged genetic package is what these polar
       bears are doing. Evolutionists hate to admit that said genetic
       package enables polar bears to ADAPT to environmental conditions
       they have never before experienced because, that ability, not
       only totally excludes "Natural Selection" as the cause of this
       Adaptation, but irrefutably evidences &#128073; Intelligent
       Design.
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       Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean
       Wave Activity
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: June 20, 2022, 9:01 pm
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       Updated June 20, 2022
       Agelbert NOTE: I am reposting this article due to the fact that
       the graphics in the original have been so thoroughly hacked by
       the &#129430; Hydrocarbon Hellspawn, that anyone trying to read
       it would be discouraged from the missing graphics. I laboriously
       recovered the graphics, so the first part is, once again ;D,
       legible and instructive for those who care about the future of
       our biosphere and want to know where, EXACTLY, to assign the
       blame for the continued profit over people and planet multiple
       extinctions causing rampant degradation. Remember, somebody
       (i.e. &#129429;&#128520;&#129430;) out there hacked the crude
       oil tanker picture, the RCP scenario graphics, the scientists 2
       degree C rise danger warning pictures and ALL the ECM graphics
       because they did not want YOU to know the Global Warming facts.
       All the graphics unrelated to climate change and hydrocarbon
       fuels were not hacked. The hacking is VERY targeted. For that
       reason alone, I encourage you to read it and pass it on.
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       [center]Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted
       Ocean Wave Activity[/center]
       [center]PART ONE OF THREE PARTS[/center]
       In this three part article I explain what the scientific
       community defines as the "Business as Usual" scenario in regard
       to atmospheric pollutants fueling Global Warming. A brief review
       of the existential threat to marine life that this scenario
       represents will follow.
       Subsequently, I discuss global shipping. I provide a summary of
       the tremendous importance of blue water (deep ocean) cargo
       shipping to global civilization. You will be surprised at how
       vital to global civilization blue water cargo shipping is. All
       the military vessels, all the pleasure yachts and even all the
       fishing fleets are insignificant in tonnage compared to that of
       ocean going cargo and tanker vessels.
       I then leave the subject of shipping and the types of cargo
       vessels, which I return to at the end, to provide the reader
       with a graphic climate history of the Northern Hemisphere, from
       the last Glacial Maximum to the present, followed by the,
       scientifically based, predicted sea level and land vegetation
       changes in the "Business as Usual" scenario within the next 85
       years.
       The discussion then returns to cargo ships and their behavior in
       rough seas. I provide graphics to explain what has been learned
       about ocean waves in the last 40 years that shocked the
       scientific community and caused them to go back to the drawing
       board on the science and math formulas of hydrodynamics in
       regard to maximum wave heights. Some tragic cargo vessel losses
       from "rogue" waves (that turned out not to be as "rogue" as
       science had thought) are presented as evidence that the oceans
       are becoming increasingly dangerous to shipping.
       Finally, the Hansen et al paper, published in June of 2015, is
       referenced as evidence of a coming abrupt sea state change that
       will make modern blue water surface cargo shipping either too
       costly or impossible. The reason for this will be explained in
       detail with graphics showing ocean wave action and modern
       shipping design limitations.
       Included in the last section that ties all the others together
       is a reference to another scientific paper published in July of
       this year (2015) that provides evidence that the worst case
       scenario ("Business as Usual") modeled by the scientific
       community severely understates the amount of sea level rise in
       the next 85 years.
       I conclude with recommendations on what the governments of the
       industrialized countries of the world need to do within the next
       decade in order to prevent a collapse of civilization (or worse)
       within the next 25 years.
       Let us begin with these nuggets of climate science from NASA:
       [center]Carbon Dioxide Controls Earth's Temperature[/center]
       Water vapor and clouds are the major contributors to Earth's
       greenhouse effect, but a new atmosphere-ocean climate modeling
       study shows that the planet's temperature ultimately depends on
       the atmospheric level of carbon dioxide.
       Without non-condensing greenhouse gases, water vapor and clouds
       would be unable to provide the feedback mechanisms that amplify
       the greenhouse effect.
       The study ties in to the geologic record in which carbon dioxide
       levels have oscillated between approximately 180 parts per
       million during ice ages, and about 280 parts per million during
       warmer interglacial periods. To provide perspective to the
       nearly 1 C (1.8 F) increase in global temperature over the past
       century, it is estimated that the global mean temperature
       difference between the extremes of the ice age and interglacial
       periods is only about 5 C (9 F).
       "When carbon dioxide increases, more water vapor returns to the
       atmosphere. This is what helped to melt the glaciers that once
       covered New York City," said co-author David Rind, of NASA's
       Goddard Institute for Space Studies. "Today we are in uncharted
       territory as carbon dioxide approaches 390 parts per million in
       what has been referred to as the 'superinterglacial'."
       "The bottom line is that atmospheric carbon dioxide acts as a
       thermostat in regulating the temperature of Earth," Lacis said.
       --- Quote ---
       > "The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has
       fully documented the fact that industrial activity is
       responsible for the rapidly increasing levels of atmospheric
       carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
       >
       > It is not surprising then that global warming can be linked
       directly to the observed increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide
       and to human industrial activity in general."
       >
       --- End Quote ---
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       So, if you read some happy talk from the fossil fuel industry
       that it's the "water vapor" that is causing global warming, be
       sure and reference the above study (and the companion study also
       mentioned at the link) just before you call them on their
       ignorance, or worse, their duplicity.
       You just read about the huge difference a mere 5 degrees C
       (Centigrade) can make. Here's a graphic to give you an idea
       about how effective our greenhouse gas (GHG) shell is at keeping
       us from turning into a ball of ice.
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       Greenhouse gases are vital to regulating Earth's temperature.
       But there is a goldilocks band of these gases that must be
       adhered to in order to provide a viable biosphere.
       In addition, GHG changes in concentration within that band must
       proceed, down or up, at or slower than a certain rate in order
       to allow the organisms that live in that biosphere to adapt to
       the changes or they will go extinct.
       Industrial civilization has BOTH exceeded the upper margin of
       the GHG band by a huge margin AND has done it at a rate far
       above the ability of most complex non-microscopic organisms to
       adapt to these violent changes. Mammalian vertebrates, among the
       complex organisms on Earth, are the least able to adapt to rapid
       GHG concentration changes.
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       There is no precedent in the geological record for the increase
       in CO2 caused by the burning of fossil fuels over the last
       century. And the rate those fossil fuels are being burned is
       increasing, not slowing down or ceasing.
       Non-self aware mammalian vertebrates, unlike us, cannot use
       technology to adapt. This is the part the CEO of ExxonMobil (Rex
       Tillerson) forgot accidentally on purpose when he said, "We will
       adapt to that". Mr. Tillerson is an idiot or a liar (possibly
       both). Those "qualities" seem to be a job requirement for those
       that work in the fossil fuel industry.
       Mr. Tillerson's optimistic happy talk is not based on climate
       science or the geological record.
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       > "Mass extinctions due to rapidly escalating levels of CO2 are
       recorded since as long as 580 million years ago."
       --- End Quote ---
       
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       Whether we humans want to admit it or not, we need the 75% of
       all of Earth's species in danger of extinction from climate
       change. I know it is really hard for the fossil fuel industry
       predators 'R' US crowd to wrap their greedy heads around this,
       but it's hard to live on a diet of hydrocarbons. And if we don't
       stop burning them, both our plant and animal food supply, along
       with thousands of other species of other earthlings that make
       this planet viable, will go extinct.
       This is not hyperbole. Mass extinctions are part of the
       geological record. In all but one of those mass extinctions, the
       rapid rise in GHG was the cause of the extinctions. Furthermore,
       in all the former mass extinctions, the RATE of rise in GHG was
       much slower than today.
       --- Quote ---
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       > "As our anthropogenic global emissions of CO2 are rising  at a
       rate for which no precedence is known from the geological record
       with the exception of asteroid impacts, another wave of
       extinctions is unfolding."
       --- End Quote ---
       
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       According to the latest scientific studies on Global Warming,
       "Business as Usual", touted as the basis for the continued
       health of global civilization, is actually the greatest threat
       to global civilization and our species that we have ever faced.
       Before we get to what exactly is meant by, "Business as Usual",
       let us first review the human caused pollution effects on ocean
       physical chemistry and temperature and marine species
       biochemistry.
       The following review references an analysis of oceans that
       totally omits a growing problem for worldwide shipping. Although
       the review is mostly very bad news, it may turn out to be, in
       terms of what deals the collapse triggering blow to human
       civilization as we know it, the "good" news.
       [center]The World Ocean Review[/center]
       The ocean may be buffering the most severe consequences of
       climate change for now. But in the long run we can only hope to
       avoid these if we strictly curb GHG emissions today.
       Experts are concerned that hundreds of thousands of tonnes of
       methane hydrate could break down due to the warming of seawater
       – gas masses that are lying inertly in solid, frozen form in the
       sea floor sediments today. A portion of the methane, which is a
       powerful greenhouse gas, could then rise into the atmosphere and
       further accelerate the process of climate change – a vicious
       circle.
       The oceans absorb many millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide
       annually. They are the largest “sink” for anthropogenic CO2
       emissions. The excess carbon dioxide, however, upsets the
       chemical equilibrium of the ocean. It leads to acidification of
       the oceans, the consequences of which are unpredictable. Acidic
       water disrupts the sense of smell in fish larvae, carbonate
       formation by snails, and the growth rates of starfish. The
       phytoplankton, tiny algae in the ocean and vital nutrient basis
       for higher organisms, are also affected by acidification.
       The coastal environment is still being damaged by effluent and
       toxic discharges, and especially by nutrients conveyed to the
       ocean by rivers. Thousands of tonnes of nitrogen and phosphorus
       compounds flow into the ocean around the world, causing an
       explosion in algal reproduction. In many coastal regions the
       catastrophe begins with the death of the algae. Bacteria feed on
       the algal remains and consume oxygen in the water. In these
       oxygen-depleted zones all higher life forms die off. Efforts to
       reduce nutrient levels have been successful in Western Europe.
       Worldwide, however, the input of nutrients is becoming
       increasingly problematical. People are, without a doubt, abusing
       the oceans in many respects, and this is increasing the stress
       on marine organisms. Through over-fertilization and
       acidification of the water, rapid changes in water temperature
       or salinity, biological diversity in the ocean could drop
       worldwide at increasing rates. With the combination of all these
       factors, the disruption of habitats is so severe that species
       will continue to disappear.
       Clearly the oceans continue to be the “last stop” for the dregs
       of our civilization, not only for the persistent chemicals, but
       also our everyday garbage. Six million tonnes of rubbish end up
       in the ocean worldwide every year. The trash is a fatal trap for
       dolphins, turtles and birds. Plastic is especially long-lived
       and, driven by ocean currents, it collects in the central oceans
       in gyres of garbage covering hundreds of square kilometres. A
       new problem has been identified in the microscopically small
       breakdown products of plastics, which are concentrated in the
       bodies of marine organisms.
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       That World Ocean Review I just quoted from, after laying out the
       hard facts, incredibly goes on to happily discuss ocean mining
       opportunities and methane hydrate harvesting plans for "energy
       products" for "energy independence". The only caveat they supply
       is more of an epitaph for human willful denial of facts than a
       precautionary warning. Please file the following in the WTF!?
       category.
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       > [center]Energy from burning ice [/center]
       >
       > In addition to abundant minerals, there are large amounts of
       methane hydrate beneath the sea floor. Some countries hope to
       become independent of energy imports by exploiting marine gas
       hydrate deposits near their own coasts. The technology for
       production, however, is not yet available. Furthermore,
       [size=14pt]the risks to climate stability and hazards to marine
       habitats associated with extraction of the methane
       hydrates[/size] must first be clarified.
       >
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       Yes, it seems the DANGER of extracting methane hydrates has not
       been "CLARIFIED" enough. Neither the Permian Extinction
       geological record nor the PETM (Paleocene–Eocene Thermal
       Maximum) geological record has "clarified" the methane issue
       enough.
       Hello? Is this, a more recent pre-human epoch, CLARIFICATION
       enough for you fellows providing your business friendly "World
       Ocean Review ", claiming, among other wonders of optimistic
       prose, that the sea level is only going to rise about 180 cm by
       century's end?
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       The following alarming, but still too conservative, MIT study
       EXCLUDES the ABRUPT climate change positive feedback loop
       effects we are now beginning to experience.
       [center]Do they think this MIT study needs
       "clarification"?[/center]
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       And the DANGER of an acidified ocean to most marine species,
       which will clearly be exacerbated by the methane bomb, has not
       been clarified? Didn't Professor Gerardo Ceballos, lead author
       of a study published in June of 2015 on the Sixth Mass
       Extinction we are now entering, with particular emphasis on
       marine mammal extinction threats, get the word?
       I think he and his fellow scientists CLARIFIED the methane issue
       AND the CO2 pollution issue rather well. For those that do not
       get it, the CO2 pollution, now baked in, is already threatening
       marine mammals with extinction. When methane hydrates are added
       to the mix from a warmed ocean, acidification will accelerate
       and trigger anoxic conditions throughout the ocean water column,
       thereby destroying the food chain. That is a death sentence for
       most non-microscopic marine life and a large portion of the
       microscopic oxygen producing microscopic phytoplankton as well.
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       These scientifically challenged, insultingly naive, business
       friendly, bland statements sold as "sober advice" are precisely
       the kind of double talk that has placed humanity in the polluted
       situation it finds itself.
       Some have blamed the scientific community.
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       They forget that scientists are mostly employees. They forget
       that businesses gag their reports or keep their published, peer
       reviewed papers from the public on a regular basis. So the
       criminally negligent here are business leaders, not scientists.
       My experience with reading these big picture reviews of our
       terribly polluted situation is that they seem to feel obligated
       to give some peppy, optimistic, happy talk at the end.
       Do these people understand what "business as usual" means? It
       appears that either they don't or willfully avoid doing so.
       The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has a
       scientific name for Business as Usual. They have modeled it.
       They have a number for it. It's called the RCP-8.5. RCP stands
       for Representative Concentration Pathway.
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       Business as usual is a death sentence for over 75% (or more) of
       life on Earth.
       The people that defend business as usual are deluded. There is
       evidence, which I will present, that even the RCP-8.5 scenario
       is too conservative. And yet the methane issue needs
       "clarification"?
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       [center]Dr. Scott Goetz (Deputy Director and Senior Scientist of
       the Woods Hole Research Center) has that thousand yard stare for
       a reason.[/center]
       [center]CHANGES IN THE ARCTIC AND THEIR CLIMATE FEEDBACK
       IMPLICATIONS: Interview with Scott Goetz[/center]
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       Friends, there is a crime being committed. But the guiltiest
       parties do not want to pay for their share of the damage. And
       that is why these reviews lack the urgency that they need to
       have in order to successfully convince government policy makers
       to alter our destructive trajectory.
       But I have discussed that in my recent article, Dianoia is sine
       qua non to a viable biosphere
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       [center]Global shipping [/center]
       Human civilization has come to rely on the relatively
       inexpensive movement of millions of tons of cargo over the
       oceans.
       It is difficult or impossible to avoid a collapse without the
       use of the oceans.
       To underline the importance of cargo shipping as the lifeblood
       of civilization, you need to look at the massive amount of
       tonnage these ships move globally on a daily basis.
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       Tankers, bulk carriers and container ships are the most
       important means of transportation of our time. Each year they
       carry billions of tonnes of goods along a few principal trade
       routes. Containerization has revolutionized global cargo
       shipping, bringing vast improvements in efficiency.
       Throughout history the oceans have been important to people
       around the world as a means of transportation. Unlike a few
       decades ago, however, ships are now carrying goods rather than
       people.
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       Deadweight tonnage (abbreviated to dwt) or tons deadweight (TDW)
       is a measure of how much mass a ship is carrying or can safely
       carry; it does not include the weight of the ship.
       Agelbert NOTE: Please take note of the caveat, "safely carry".
       More on what that means later.
       In terms of carrying capacity in dwt,
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       tankers account for 35 per cent,
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       bulk carriers account for 35 per cent,
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       container ships 14 per cent,
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       general cargo ships 9 per cent
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       and passenger liners less than 1 per cent.
       In all, the global merchant fleet has a capacity of just under
       1192 million dwt.
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       The growth of the global merchant fleet according to type of
       vessel (as at 1 January [[i]sic]) 2009.[/i][/center]
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       There is a LOT of shipping out there and a LOT of ships. If the
       above graphics have not brought home to you how much shipping is
       going on 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, take a look at this:
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       In summary, this is what is out there going hither and yon
       across the oceans on a regular basis:
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       Most of those affordable products in our homes are a direct
       result of a the uninterrupted global lifeblood of efficient blue
       ocean shipping. If that shipping was no longer possible, global
       civilization would be impossible because it would be
       unaffordable. It is, therefore, extremely important to ensure
       that human civilization can use those oceans for routine cargo
       transportation.
       The oceans, as was pointed out earlier in this article, are a
       giant heat sink. The more CO2 we pump into the air, the hotter
       the oceans get. When the oceans get hotter, they become more
       active. This means trouble for shipping.
       Insurance companies do not like that. They analyze the risks of
       blue water shipping and track any trends that might increase
       those risks. They have actuaries that pay a lot of attention to
       losses of insured ships.
       All commercial shipping is insured. You and I are billed for
       insuring, not just the merchant fleets, but the military ships
       too! That's what the "defense budgets" lobbied for by all those
       welfare queen corporations, constantly whining about that
       "dangerous world out there", are all about.
       Well, it looks like all shipping is going to find out how
       DANGEROUS the oceans, not some invented threat about bellicose
       humans, can be. The insurance actuaries already know that the
       "terrorist" or piracy threat on the high seas is insignificant
       compared to the threat of sinking from rough seas.
       Of course you haven't read that in the papers. But you will read
       it here. And I will provide evidence for it.
       But I'm getting ahead of myself. To understand what is happening
       in the oceans today, we need to go back in time about 20,000
       years. We need to go back to the Last Glacial Maximum.
       WHY? Because the sea state, as well as the sea level, is a
       function of the average global temperature. In addition, the
       vegetation changes that accompany changes in the average global
       temperature can have deleterious effects on the sea state,
       totally separate from the dire extinction threat these
       temperature changes represent to marine organisms.
       [center]The Environmental Change Model (ECM)[/center]
       The following series of graphics deals with accurately modeled
       representations of the climate in a large part of the Northern
       Hemisphere centered on the Arctic. A link to the science and the
       source is provided. The average global temperature and pertinent
       data on the ice cover and types of vegetation is provided. Of
       particular importance to the reader are the different types of
       Tundra coverage. The legend has color codes for the graphical
       representations.
       NOTE: The Greek letter "DELTA" ="&#916;". It is used in science
       to mean, "Change in". The referenced average global temperature
       is what we have today (about 15 degrees Centigrade = T).
       So, &#916;T = - 6C is a change in average temperature of minus 6
       degrees centigrade from today. THAT was when there was a two
       mile high glacier sheet edge near what is now New York City.
       That was also when the oceans were 120 meters = 394 feet lower
       than they are today.
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       Notice how much dry and moist Tundra there was. Notice the range
       and size of the types of forests and the polar desert coverage
       too. At a glance you can see that this was a very dry world in
       comparison to our world.
       Fast forward to &#916;T = - 0.5C. This was the Little Ice Age of
       1850. That was just before the industrial pollution revolution
       had gotten up to full biosphere trashing speed.
       Sea level is close to the present level. Notice how the forest
       cover has changed. Notice how the Tundra moved north as the ice
       retreated. Notice how the forests and the forest Tundra
       transition changed.
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       Tundra responds in one of two ways when it goes above freezing.
       It has to do with the available oxygen. If there isn't enough in
       the soil, the microbes resort to anaerobic metabolism and make
       lots of methane. This is NOT methane locked in the Tundra. This
       is NEW methane. This is unrelated to the methane hydrates frozen
       on the ocean bottom, but it is still an additional feedback
       mechanism that increases the RATE of atmospheric heating. So
       these mechanisms are, by definition, not linear. They can become
       self reinforcing. That means they can go exponential.
       Below, please find, the world we all grew up in (&#916;T = 0C.).
       I have labeled some areas for clarity. The Tundra continues to
       shrink, as does the ice coverage. The forest transition area
       creeps north and the forests grow along with the prairie grass
       covered areas. There is less ice.
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       Which brings us the IPCC RCP-8.5 scenario labeled "Business as
       Usual".
       This scenario is considered "worst case". It does not expect us
       to hit  &#916;T = plus 2C until 2050. The boundless optimism of
       the IPCC sounds a lot like those fellows doing the "World Ocean
       Review" that mentioned the methane "issue" needed
       "clarification" right after they admitted that the PRESENT
       conditions were causing the extinction of most marine animals.
       Please look at this graph:
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       The line with the number "1" is the  IPCC RCP-8.5 scenario. The
       temperature increases in lines 2 and 3 ARE NOT in the IPCC
       RCP-8.5 scenario.
       &#916;T = plus 2C is considered extremely dangerous.
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       The IPCC projects a mere 0.5 meters sea level increase by 2050.
       But the July 2015 study
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       that
       I reference in the graphic claims a sea level rise greater or
       equal to 6 meters (over 19 feet!) is evidenced in the geologic
       record for this type of temperature rise.
       The IPCC projected sea ice decline to 2010 will give you more
       context to understand why it is unrealistic to believe that we
       will not hit the  &#916;T = plus 2C until 2050.
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       But nevertheless, the IPCC RCP-8.5 scenario for &#916;T = plus
       2C is instructive because the Tundra is disappearing. You know
       what that means for increased methane release, don't you?
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       A note about the word, "Equilibrium" on the graphic: The word
       "Equilibrium" means that the full effects of the temperature
       change are being felt throughout the planet. Glaciologists had
       previously thought that "equilibrium" effects on ice sheets took
       centuries or millennia.
       Now, because of empirical observations on the Greenland ice
       sheet, Antarctica and various glaciers in the world, they have
       come to accept that equilibrium is reached in decades or in
       years, depending on the temperature anomaly increase. As you
       know, or should know, the polar regions have warmed over 3C MORE
       than the rest of the planet in the last 50 years.
       The huge differential was not plugged in to the IPCC models so
       they are too conservative on ice retreat and sea level rise. So,
       if somebody tells you that all this is a long way off, they are
       uninformed or working for the fossil fuel industry.
       I will return to the dangers of the &#916;T = plus 2C (and
       beyond) world in a moment.
       For now, I wish to show you the rest of the IPCC RCP-8.5
       scenario projections. Please remember that they are conservative
       projections and the effects portrayed will most likely arrive 25
       years or more earlier than predicted. Also please remember that
       the actual sea level increase (see graphic below that I added
       CO2 PPM as of March of 2022), according to the
       July 2015 paper
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       />previously, will be several METERS, not feet, above the
       predictions.
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       [center]Science 10 July 2015: Vol. 349 no. 6244 DOI:
       10.1126/science.aaa4019
       Sea-level rise due to polar ice-sheet mass loss during past warm
       periods[/center]
       [center]&#916;T = plus 3C[/center]
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       Sometime after the loss of the ice cap, all the Tundra will have
       thawed. ALL the trapped gases, be they CO2 or CH4, will be
       released. Added grasses absorbing CO2 will not be enough to
       counteract the warming acceleration.
       There are those who expect a negative feedback from the stopping
       of the thermohaline oceanic current circulation (stopped by all
       the cold fresh water melted off the Greenland ice cap into the
       oceans). Perhaps that will help slow the heating (north of about
       45 degrees latitude - below that they will roast even more!) for
       a decade or so. But it will do nothing to calm the ocean
       surface.
       [center]&#916;T = plus 4C[/center]
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       The worst effect is that Arctic ocean bottom frozen clathrates
       will thaw and the methane will be released. The planet will
       continue warming increasingly faster past  &#916;T = plus 4C.
       That will [b]exacerbate ocean conditions &#127754;even more.
       With more and more heat energy present, the ocean surface will
       get increasingly more turbulent.[/b] And we will already be well
       past the &#916;T = plus 2C mark.
       As evidenced by the two referenced scientific studies, both
       published in 2015, and the woefully conservative IPCC
       predictions on the rate of the North Polar Ice Cap retreat,
       Antarctic and Greenland ice cap melt rates, and temperature rise
       rate, sea level will most likely rise a minimum of 6 meters
       within 10 years, not 35 years. We are talking about 2025, not
       2050, for a &#916;T = plus 2C world. We are not preparing
       adequately for that.
       For those who will point to the increase in size of the floating
       ice around Antarctica as evidence that the Earth is not really
       warming, I beg to differ.
       The fact that the Antarctic land mass IS losing ice has been
       measured with satellites. It is losing ice because of global
       warming. It is true that the floating ice around Antarctica has
       increased and will continue to increase as long as the Antarctic
       land mass is shedding melt water.
       This is because of two factors. The first one is that there are
       very high winds around Antarctica, unimpeded by any land mass.
       The second factor is that fresh water freezes more rapidly on
       the ocean surface than salty water.
       That's why salt is spread on roads in winter. On the ocean, the
       water molecules must rid themselves of the sodium and chloride
       ions dissolved in them before they can freeze. All the ice
       floating on the oceans is water ice. It has no salt in it.
       And as long as that floating ice is the product of melt water
       from the Antarctic land mass, it will ADD to sea level.
       And when the sea level goes up just 6 feet, never mind the 19
       feet or more increase expected with CURRENT CO2 levels, all
       shipping port facilities (and most coastal airport facilities
       too!) in the world are no longer usable without gargantuan and
       heroic efforts requiring trillions of dollars in costs for every
       foot the land and port infrastructure must be raised.
       It seems that the countries (see every industrialized country on
       the planet) dragging their feet on CO2 reduction actions do not
       understand this. There are, as of this writing, over 140
       countries investing trillions of dollars in port facilities.
       No, they aren't raising the level of the port facilities to
       prepare for rapidly rising sea levels. They are trying to cash
       in on container shipping by building more container shipping
       infrastructure.
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       Don't these governments listen to their climate scientists?
       End of PART ONE.
       Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean
       Wave Activity: PART TWO
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       #Post#: 374--------------------------------------------------
       Part 2 &#128073; Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and
       Predicted Ocean &#127754; Wave Activity
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: June 20, 2022, 9:21 pm
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       [center]Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted
       Ocean Wave Activity[/center]
       [center]PART TWO OF THREE PARTS[/center]
       Updated June 22, 2022
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       On top of the disaster for civilization that a rise in seal
       level of 6 meters (over 19 FEET!) represents from the loss of
       coastal arable land, coastal cities, shipping ports and
       airports, there is the problem of wave activity.
       Which brings us back to shipping and the ocean surface.  Of
       particular concern to ocean shipping in a &#916;T = plus 2C (and
       greater) atmosphere are the following facts about waves.
       WHY?
       Because that world will have more energy both in the oceans and
       in the atmosphere. That world will have, not just greater
       average wind speeds, particularly over unobstructed surfaces
       like the oceans, but a greater duration of higher wind
       velocities (speed in a relatively constant direction) over
       thousands of miles. High wind velocity and duration over
       hundreds or thousands of miles is a recipe for giant waves.
       Here's a very brief primer on waves so you can grasp the impact
       of giant wave characteristics on shipping.
       First, the high points of the waves are called "crests" and the
       low points of the waves are called "troughs". The crest is the
       part that starts to curl over and turn foamy when waves hit the
       beach. The difference in height between the crest and the trough
       is called the wave height.
       The "amplitude" is one half the wave height. So if you have
       "50-foot seas", you have wave crests 25 feet above calm sea
       level and troughs 25 feet below it. The amplitude of 50-foot
       seas is 25 feet.
       In the ocean, the trough of a wave is just as far below sea
       level as the crest is above sea level.
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       --- Quote ---
       > Energy, not water, moves across the ocean's surface. Water
       particles only travel in a small circle as a wave passes.
       --- End Quote ---
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       How are waves energy?
       The best way to understand waves as energy is to think of a long
       rope laid on the ground. If you pick up one end and give it a
       good snap --there's a ripple effect all the way to the other end
       -- just like the waves on the ocean! That means that energy is
       applied at one end and it moves to the other end.
       What provides the energy?
       In the case of ocean waves, wind provides the energy. Wind
       causes waves that travel in the ocean. The energy is released on
       shorelines. Some of the energy of waves is also released against
       the hulls of ships at sea. The larger the vessel surface being
       impacted by the wave, the more force is exerted against that
       surface. Being hit by a single giant wave from the front of the
       bow or the rear of the stern is normally within the structural
       design limits of a large vessel. But being broadsided can either
       sink a ship or severely damage it.
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       1973: A rogue wave off the coast of Durban, South Africa,
       strikes the 12,000-ton cargo ship Bencrauchan. The ship is towed
       into port, barely floating.
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       What determines the size of the wave?
       The size of a wave depends on:
       1. the distance the wind blows (over open water) which is known
       as the "fetch",
       2. the length of time the wind blows, and
       3. the speed of the wind.
       The greater these three, the larger the wave.
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       The distance waves are apart is called the "wavelength".
       Wavelength is typically measured between the crests of two
       adjacent waves, but it could be measured from trough to trough
       or from any point on one wave to the same point on the next
       wave. You will get the same distance no matter where you
       measure.
       Finally, the "frequency" of the wave specifies how many wave
       wavelengths go by in a set amount of time. So this is dependent
       not only on the speed of the waves, but on their wavelength.
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       The "period" of a wave must also be considered. The period of a
       wave is the amount of time it takes for one wavelength to occur.
       
       Frequency and period are distinctly different, yet related,
       quantities. The frequency of a wave is how many wavelengths
       occur in a given amount of time.
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       Ship hulls are designed to withstand about 15 to 20 tons per
       square meter. They can handle up to 30 tons per square meter
       only if they bend to take the blow.
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       [center] Rogue Wave Is Suspected in Mideast Tanker Blast
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       When a wave with a height of 30 meters (100 ft.) is spoken of,
       only half that much of it is what is above the sea level. That
       doesn't do a ship much good because the ship will ride down the
       15 meter trough before it gets hit by the 30 meter monster.  And
       "riding" down the trough is somewhat of a misnomer.
       Large ships, because of the combined weight of the ship and the
       cargo, have a lot of inertia. If the ship is moving forward at
       about 13 kts (15 mph) and a giant wave is approaching it a 45
       mph (this has been documented and is routine), you have a
       relative speed of the wave to the ship of 60 mph. The wavelength
       of a 30 meter wave is about 230 meters (this has also been
       documented).
       
       Even if the combined speed against such a wave is just 45 mph
       because the captain has slowed his ship to reduce hull stress,
       the ship experiences a drop of ocean beneath it of 50 feet in 6
       seconds, followed by the a rise of 100 feet in another six
       seconds.
       Initially the ship just dives bow first and everybody on it
       feels like they are in free fall. When the ship hits the trough
       bottom, its inertia is still driving the bow down as the seas
       rise 100 feet. The bridge superstructure is impacted and often
       the windows are blown in and the bridge, with all its
       electronics, is flooded.
       
       If that causes the engines to fail, the ship will probably sink.
       That is because the waves and wind will then turn the ship
       broadside to the waves. When a ship is broadside to the waves,
       it will either get rolled and sink or get holed by the force of
       a giant wave. Whether it sinks  or not depends on how long the
       severe sea state continues. This ship was hit broadside by a
       "rogue" wave, but survived.
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       Thirty meter waves have a force of about 100 tons per square
       meter, depending on the frequency and period of the wave. Waves
       of the same height with a higher frequency and shorter period
       are traveling faster, so they have much more force.
       1976: The oil tanker Cretan Star in Indian Ocean off Bombay
       radios for help: “Vessel was struck by a huge wave that went
       over the deck.” The ship is never heard from again. The only
       sign of the vessel's fate was 6 km oil slick.
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       1980: A huge wave was reported to have slammed into the oil
       tanker Esso Languedoc off the east coast of South Africa. First
       mate Philippe Lijour, aboard the supertanker Esso Languedoc,
       took this rare photo.
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       1981: A giant wave seemed to want to teach a crude oil tanker
       named "Energy Endurance" (Gross tonnage, 97,005 tons. DWT,
       205,808 tons) what REAL energy endurance is all about.
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       There is no amount of cargo that a large vessel can safely carry
       under these conditions, regardless of the design claims about
       "safe" DWT tonnage for cargo and tanker ships you read about
       earlier in this article.
       [center]Where are the largest waves found?[/center]
       The largest waves are found in the open ocean. Waves continue to
       get larger as they move and absorb energy from the wind.
       
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       Waves at Sea
       Waves at sea are created by winds blowing across the water
       surface and transferring energy to the water by the impact of
       the air. Small ripples develop first, and frictional drag on
       their windward side causes then to grow larger, or to collapse
       and contribute part of their expended energy to larger waves.
       Consequently, large waves capture increasing amounts of energy
       and continue to develop as long as the wind maintains sufficient
       strength and constant direction.
       As more and more energy is transferred to the water surface.
       waves become higher and longer, and travel with increasing
       velocities; 50-foot waves are not uncommon in the open ocean,
       and waves more than 100 feet high have been reported.
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       2002: December 15, 2002, MS Hanseatic of the Radisson Seven Seas
       was struck by a large rogue wave while on a coastal cruise of
       New Zealand.
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       Above you see a scale simulation of two small vessels in 50 ft.
       seas. The wavelength is fairly large, so these vessels are
       handling a very dangerous sea state okay. The wave is 50 feet
       from crest to trough. The danger increases when the wind gets
       stronger. That is because the wind increases the wave height and
       the wave frequency while the wavelength gets shorter.
       When large waves are present, the shorter the wavelength, the
       steeper and more dangerous the wave. And, as mentioned earlier,
       a higher frequency of large waves makes them even more dangerous
       because they have much more energy to be delivered as a force
       against the hull of a ship. It is simple physics that getting
       hit with a wall of water at 44 mph is potentially far, far more
       than twice as damaging as the same wall of water hitting you at
       22 mph.
       Larger vessels, while generally more sea worthy, have weaknesses
       that small vessels do not have. A small vessel with properly
       battened hatches can bob like a cork in a storm. In the above
       situation, the sail boat would probably have the sails reefed
       (taken in). It will survive as long as it isn't smashed against
       a reef or a rock.
       But a large vessel, because it is much longer than it is wide,
       is weakest in the middle and along the sides from bow to stern.
       The bow and stern act as giant levers moved by the wave crests
       and troughs with the fulcrum located somewhere in the middle.
       The middle either sags or it "hogs" (bends up instead of down).
       There is no ship that can be made strong enough to handle the
       massive metal fatigue inducing stresses of repeated sagging and
       hogging that would occur in seas populated with 30 meter waves.
       Here is an example of a container ship that hit a reef. It did
       not sink right away. But you can see that it buckled and cra
       cked on the side from the up, down and sideways wave movement of
       the ends of the ship.
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       Individual "rogue waves" (also called "freak waves", "monster
       waves", "killer waves", and "king waves") much higher than the
       other waves in the sea state can occur.
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       [center]NOAA ship Delaware II in bad weather on Georges
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       --- Quote ---
       >
       > ... the largest ever recorded wind waves are common — not
       rogue — waves in extreme sea states.
       --- End Quote ---
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       For example: 29.1 m (95 ft) high waves have been recorded on the
       RRS Discovery in a sea with 18.5 m (61 ft) significant wave
       height, so the highest wave is only 1.6 times the significant
       wave height.
       --- Quote ---
       > The biggest recorded by a buoy (as of 2011) was 32.3 m (106
       ft) high during the 2007 typhoon Krosa near Taiwan.
       --- End Quote ---
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       Naval architects have always worked on the assumption that their
       vessels are extremely unlikely to encounter a rogue. Almost
       everything on the sea is sailing under the false assumption that
       rogue waves are, at worst, vanishingly rare events. The new
       research suggest that’s wrong, and has cost lives. Between 1969
       and 1994 twenty-two super carriers were lost or severely damaged
       due to the occurrence of sudden rogue waves; a total of 542
       lives were lost as a result.
       G. Lawton. Monsters of the deep. New Scientist, 170(2297):28–32,
       2001.
       Freak, rogue or giant waves correspond to large-amplitude waves
       surprisingly appearing on the sea surface. Such waves can be
       accompanied by deep troughs (holes), which occur before and/or
       after the largest crest.
       There are several definitions for such surprisingly huge waves,
       but the one that is more popular now is the amplitude criterion
       of freak waves, which define them as waves with heights that
       exceed at least twice the significant wave height. The
       significant height is the height of at least one third of the
       largest waves in a given area being traversed by a ship.
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       According to orthodox oceanography, rogue waves are so rare that
       no ship or oil platform should ever expect to encounter one. But
       as the shipping lanes fill with supercarriers and the oil and
       gas industry explores ever-deeper parts of the ocean, rogue
       waves are being reported far more often than they should.
       The most spectacular sighting of recent years is probably the
       so-called New Year Wave, which hit Statoil’s Draupner gas
       platforms in the North Sea on New Year’s Day 1995. The
       significant wave height at the time was around 12 metres. But in
       the middle of the afternoon the platform was struck by something
       much bigger. According to measurements made with a laser, it was
       26 metres from trough to crest.
       Hundreds of waves been recorded by now that are at least twice
       the significant wave height, and several waves at larger than
       three times the significant wave height. Waves with an
       "Abnormality index" (Ai) larger than three (Ai > 3) are known.
       Alexey Slunyaev Christin Kharif, Efim Pelinovsky. Rogue Waves in
       the Ocean. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
       [center]The New Year Wave is an example of a wave with an Ai =
       3.19.[/center]
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       Christian Kharif and Efim Pelinovsky. Physical mechanisms of the
       rogue wave phenomenon. European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids,
       22(6):603 – 634, 2003.
       I obtained the above information from a paper submitted to the
       mathematics department of the University of Arizona. Here is a
       summary:
       "In this project, the rogue wave phenomenon is introduced along
       with its importance. The main equations governing both linear
       and nonlinear theory are presented. The three main linear
       theories proposed to explain the rogue rave phenomenon are
       presented and a linear model reproducing rogue waves due to
       dispersion is shown. A nonlinear model for rogue waves in
       shallow water is also exhibited."
       I have skipped the math. The information is state of the art and
       the references are impeccable.
       References
       [1] Alexey Slunyaev Christin Kharif, Efim Pelinovsky. Rogue
       Waves in the Ocean. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
       [2] K.B. Dysthe, HE Krogstad, H. Socquet-Juglard, and K.
       Trulsen. Freak waves, rogue waves, extreme waves and ocean wave
       climate. Mathematics Departments in Bergen and Oslo, Norway.
       Available at: www. math. uio. no/-karstent/waves/index_ en.
       html, July, 2007.
       [3] R.S. Johnson. A modern introduction to the mathematical
       theory of water waves. Cambridge Univ Pr, 997.
       [4] Christian Kharif and Efim Pelinovsky. Physical mechanisms of
       the rogue wave phenomenon. European Journal of Mechanics -
       B/Fluids, 22(6):603 – 634, 2003.
       [5] G. Lawton. Monsters of the deep. New Scientist,
       170(2297):28–32, 2001.
       [6] Pengzhi Lin. Numerical Modeling of Water Waves. Taylor and
       Francis, 2008. 13
       And that is why the conclusions are so unsettling.
       Conclusions
       1. Precise physical mechanisms causing the rogue waves
       phenomenon remain unknown.
       2. Rogue waves should be considered when designing ships and
       marine platforms to reduce the number of vessels sunk worldwide.
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       [center]Ocean Ranger severely listing in a storm after being hit
       by a "rogue" wave.[/center]
       Ironically, the first industry that started to feel the effects
       of an angrier ocean was the fossil fuel industry. You've already
       read about some oil tanker damage and losses. They continue to
       this day despite alleged vessel "design improvements".
       But the 120 million dollar "unsinkable" Ocean Ranger, a giant
       ocean going oil platform damaged from a "rogue" wave, really got
       their attention. All hands perished. This was a wake up call to
       the scientists that studied waves and was of much concern to the
       fossil fuel industry.
       The wave hit too high and damaged some electronics. The platform
       began to list. The operator made the right moves but the valves
       that should have closed, opened more. The last that was heard
       from them was that they were listing at about 15 degrees and
       going to the lifeboat stations.
       Ocean Ranger reported experiencing storm seas of 55 feet (17 m),
       with the odd wave up to 65 feet (20 m), thus leaving the
       unprotected portlight at 28 feet (8.5 m) above mean sea level
       vulnerable to wave damage. Some time after 21:00, radio
       conversations originating on Ocean Ranger were heard on the
       Sedco 706 and Zapata Ugland, noting that valves on Ocean
       Ranger's ballast control panel appeared to be opening and
       closing of their own accord. The radio conversations also
       discussed the 100-knot (190 km/h) winds and waves up to 65 feet
       (20 m) high. Through the remainder of the evening, routine radio
       traffic passed between Ocean Ranger, its neighbouring rigs and
       their individual support boats. Nothing out of the ordinary was
       noted.
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       At 00:52 local time, on 15 February, 1982, a Mayday call was
       sent out from Ocean Ranger, noting a severe list to the port
       side of the rig and requesting immediate assistance. This was
       the first communication from Ocean Ranger identifying a major
       problem. The standby vessel, the M/V Seaforth Highlander, was
       requested to come in close as countermeasures against the
       10–15-degree list were proving ineffective.
       The onshore MOCAN supervisor was notified of the situation, and
       the Canadian Forces and Mobil-operated helicopters were alerted
       just after 1:00 local time. The M/V Boltentor and the M/V
       Nordertor, the standby boats of the Sedco 706 and the Zapata
       Ugland respectively, were also dispatched to Ocean Ranger to
       provide assistance.
       At 1:30 local time, Ocean Ranger transmitted its last message:
       "There will be no further radio communications from Ocean
       Ranger. We are going to lifeboat stations." Shortly thereafter,
       in the middle of the night and in the midst of severe winter
       weather, the crew abandoned the rig. The rig remained afloat for
       another ninety minutes, sinking between 3:07 and 3:13 local
       time.
       All of Ocean Ranger sank beneath the Atlantic: by the next
       morning all that remained was a few buoys. Her entire complement
       of 84 workers – 46 Mobil employees and 38 contractors from
       various service companies – were killed.
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       It turns out that the math formulas for wave action were
       incorrect. But it took over a decade to get some proof that they
       were incorrect. The fossil fuel industry apparently filed the
       tragedy away as a freak incident. They certainly did not seem
       that concerned, considering they did everything possible to keep
       from having to build more sturdy (i.e. double hulled) tankers
       with the help of the Reagan and the first Bush Administration.
       Scientists, up until the 1980's, had believed that it was
       impossible for an ocean wave on this planet to be higher than 80
       feet. This, despite eye witness accounts from mariners to the
       contrary. As usual, the non-credentialed folks could not
       convince the scientists that there were waves out there that
       exceeded 100 feet.
       AND that those waves appeared in seas that were only half as
       high (or less) as the giant wave(s) (sometimes they came in a
       group of three - they call them the three sisters - the women
       always get the blame - lol!). Impossible, proclaimed the
       scientist worthies. Fish tales!
       But in 1995, a laser wave height measuring device on an oil
       platform provided the first concrete evidence that the happy
       math was wishful thinking. :P You saw the graph of the 1995 New
       Year Wave earlier in this article. In this video it is modelled
       in 3D.
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       As you all know, when the fossil fuel industry wants action, it
       gets action. And it gets government funded action that you and I
       pay for and they don't pay a penny for. But I digress. ;D Faster
       that you can say fossil fuel profits are threatened, a three
       week satellite survey of the oceans was undertaken. Four giant
       waves were observed and measured in just three weeks!
       Not only was the math wrong, but, as referenced earlier in this
       article, "rogue" waves were not really "rogue" at all!
       Of course, at that time, no connection to wave activity and
       global warming had been established.
       Snark alert. ;D Yes, it's true that scientists are taught, like
       all the rest of us that cook every now and then, that warmer
       waters can be a bit more turbulent, but it's a big ocean out
       there, right?
       Well, the attitude of the scientific community is changing, at
       least in regard to these giant waves.
       The cause of rogue waves is still an area of active research.
       One theory under investigation cites “constructive
       interference,” which is a result of several smaller waves
       overlapping in phase, combining to produce one massive wave.
       Another working hypothesis is based on the “non-linear
       Schrödinger effect,” in which energy is “soaked up” from
       neighboring waves to create a monster wave. Still other
       researchers are looking into the possibility that wave energy is
       being focused by the surrounding environments, or that wind
       action on the surface is amplifying existing effects.
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       Suggested mechanisms for the formation of freak waves include
       the following:
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       End of PART TWO.
       If you missed PART ONE, you may read it HERE.
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       I updated Part three on June 20, 2022.
       Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean
       Wave Activity: Part 3 of 3 parts
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       Part 3 &#128073; Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and
       Predicted Ocean &#127754; Wave Activity
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: June 20, 2022, 9:30 pm
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       [center]Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted
       Ocean Wave Activity[/center]
       [center]PART THREE OF THREE PARTS Updated June 24, 2022[/center]
       Whatever is finally determined by scientists as the exact
       combination of factors that forms these monster waves, it is
       well known that wave height and ferocity is a function of the
       ferocity and duration of the winds.
       &#916;T = plus 2C or greater guarantees ferocious winds of long
       during over wide areas in a consistent direction.
       We are already experiencing the beginning of the abrupt climate
       change that is bringing these destructive winds due to the
       increase in frequency and severity of cyclonic movements over
       the oceans.
       Hurricanes and typhoons are the DIRECT result of overheated
       ocean surface water. As heat increases, so will they continue to
       increase in frequency and severity, setting new records. As soon
       as the surface temperature of the ocean is at or above 27.8C
       (82F), they can form.
       And the sea surface temperature (SST) continues to steadily
       rise.
       From a June 20, 2017 NOAA article:
       Don't let that average global temperature lull you into thinking
       the risk of hurricanes is the same as always. The sea surface
       temperature in the hurricane forming areas is much higher. Which
       means that, on top of everything else, we will get more
       hurricanes.
       [center]Recipe for a Hurricane[/center]
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       The higher the ocean surface temperature, the more often they
       will form to wreak havoc with ships and coasts.
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       We now must apologize for interrupting this article to bore you
       readers with some fine print:
       Agelbert NOTE: The following includes snippets of an excerpt
       from the excellent scientifically accurate book, "The Wave.
       Copyright ©2010 Susan Casey. Published by Doubleday Canada, an
       imprint of the Doubleday Canada Publishing Group, which is a
       division of Random House of Canada Limited".
       I am posting said snippets of said book review under Fair Use
       for the purpose of Commentary. I am not posting for commercial
       purposes. Even though Susan Casey and her publisher may benefit
       from my praise of her book, which provides ample evidence for
       increased giant wave activity, I do not benefit monetarily.
       Consequently, I am sure these snippets of the book review
       excerpts posted below are done under Fair Use - for a limited
       and "transformative" purpose (i.e. Commentary) through which the
       public will reap benefits (it may even save thousands of lives).
       That ends the fine print.
       Now to get back to benefiting the biosphere loving public!
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       [center]Susan Casey gives us an eye opening look at giant
       waves.[/center]
       The book titled, "The Wave" is the overall scope; Casey links
       how the Earth's weather is changing to how waves are growing,
       and there's no denying the stats: there is a clear correlation.
       She visits various scientists and marine salvage folks and
       shares their stories; they all agree that we're seeing the
       oceans get nuttier, and it's only just beginning.
       
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       [center]The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants
       of the Ocean by Susan Casey[/center]
       Susan Casey, National Post · Monday, Sept. 20, 2010
       57.5° N, 12.7° W, 175 MILES OFF THE COAST OF SCOTLAND FEBRUARY
       8, 2000
       The clock read midnight when the 100-foot wave hit the ship,
       rising from the North Atlantic out of the darkness. Among the
       ocean's terrors a wave this size was the most feared and the
       least understood, more myth than reality -- or so people had
       thought. This giant was certainly real. As the RRS Discovery
       plunged down into the wave's deep trough, it heeled 28 degrees
       to port,
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       [center]The above graphic is a scale simulation of 295 ft. ship
       heeling 28 degrees to port in the trough of a 100 ft. wave by
       Agelbert.[/center]
       rolled 30 degrees back to starboard, then recovered to face the
       incoming seas. What chance did they have, the 47 scientists and
       crew aboard this research cruise gone horribly wrong? A series
       of storms had trapped them in the black void east of Rockall, a
       volcanic island nicknamed Waveland for the nastiness of its
       surrounding waters. More than 1,000 wrecked ships lay on the
       seafloor below.
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       Captain Keith Avery steered his vessel directly into the
       onslaught, just as he'd been doing for the past five days. While
       weather like this was common in the cranky North Atlantic, these
       giant waves were unlike anything he'd encountered in his 30
       years of experience.
       And worse, they kept rearing up from different directions.
       Flanking all sides of the 295-foot ship, the crew kept a
       constant watch to make sure they weren't about to be sucker
       punched by a wave that was sneaking up from behind, or from the
       sides.
       No one wanted to be out here right now, but Avery knew their
       only hope was to remain where they were, with their bow pointed
       into the waves. Turning around was too risky; if one of these
       waves caught Discovery broadside, there would be long odds on
       survival. It takes 30 tons per square metre of force to dent a
       ship.
       A breaking 100-foot wave packs 100 tons of force per square
       metre and can tear a ship in half. Above all, Avery had to
       position Discovery so that it rode over these crests and wasn't
       crushed beneath them.
       He stood barefoot at the helm, the only way he could maintain
       traction after a refrigerator toppled over, splashing out a
       slick of milk, juice and broken glass (no time to clean it
       up--the waves just kept coming).
       Up on the bridge everything was amplified, all the night noises
       and motions, the slamming and the crashing, the elevator-shaft
       plunges into the troughs, the frantic wind, the swaying and
       groaning of the ship; and now, as the waves suddenly grew even
       bigger and meaner and steeper, Avery heard a loud bang coming
       from Discovery's foredeck. He squinted in the dark to see that
       the 50-man lifeboat had partially ripped from its 2-inch-thick
       steel cleats and was pounding against the hull.
       Below deck, computers and furniture had been smashed into
       pieces. The scientists huddled in their cabins nursing bruises,
       black eyes and broken ribs. Attempts at rest were pointless.
       They heard the noises too; they rode the free falls and the
       sickening barrel rolls; and they worried about the fact that a
       6-foot-long window next to their lab had already shattered from
       the twisting. Discovery was almost 40 years old, and recently
       she'd undergone major surgery. The ship had been cut in half,
       lengthened by 33 feet, and then welded back together. Would the
       joints hold? No one really knew. No one had ever been in
       conditions like these.
       One of the two chief scientists, Penny Holliday, watched as a
       chair skidded out from under her desk, swung into the air and
       crashed onto her bunk. Holliday, fine boned, porcelain-doll
       pretty and as tough as any man on board the ship, had sent an
       e-mail to her boyfriend, Craig Harris, earlier in the day. "This
       isn't funny anymore," she wrote. "The ocean just looks
       completely out of control." So much white spray was whipping off
       the waves that she had the strange impression of being in a
       blizzard. This was Waveland all right, an otherworldly place of
       constant motion that took you nowhere but up and down; where
       there was no sleep, no comfort, no connection to land, and where
       human eyes and stomachs struggled to adapt, and failed.
       Ten days ago Discovery had left port in Southampton, England, on
       what Holliday had hoped would be a typical 3-week trip to
       Iceland and back (punctuated by a little seasickness perhaps,
       but nothing major).
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       Along the way they'd stop and sample the water for salinity,
       temperature, oxygen and other nutrients. From these tests the
       scientists would draw a picture of what was happening out there,
       how the ocean's basic characteristics were shifting, and why.
       These are not small questions on a planet that is 71% covered in
       salt water. As the Earth's climate changes -- as the inner
       atmosphere becomes warmer, as the winds increase, as the oceans
       heat up -- what does all this mean for us? Trouble, most likely,
       and Holliday and her colleagues were in the business of finding
       out how much and what kind. It was deeply frustrating for them
       to be lashed to their bunks rather than out on the deck lowering
       their instruments. No one was thinking about Iceland anymore.
       The trip was far from a loss, however. During the endless trains
       of massive waves, Discovery itself was collecting data that
       would lead to a chilling revelation. The ship was ringed with
       instruments; everything that happened out there was being
       precisely measured, the sea's fury captured in tight graphs and
       unassailable numbers.
       Months later, long after Avery had returned everyone safely to
       the Southampton docks, when Holliday began to analyze these
       figures, she would discover that the waves they had experienced
       were the largest ever scientifically recorded in the open ocean.
       The significant wave height, an average of the largest 33% of
       the waves, was 61 feet, with frequent spikes far beyond that.
       At the same time, none of the state-of-the-art weather forecasts
       and wave models-- the information upon which all ships, oil
       rigs, fisheries and passenger boats rely -- had predicted these
       behemoths. In other words, under this particular set of weather
       conditions, waves this size should not have existed. And yet
       they did.
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       You could call them whatever you wanted -- rogues, freaks,
       giants -- but the bottom line was that no one had accounted for
       them. The engineers who'd built the Draupner rig had calculated
       that once every 10,000 years the North Sea might throw them a
       64-foot curveball in 38-foot seas. That would be the maximum.
       Eighty-five-foot waves were not part of the equation, not in
       this universe anyway.
       But the rules had changed. Now scientists had a set of numbers
       that pointed to an unsettling truth: Some of these waves make
       their own rules. Suddenly the emphasis shifted from explaining
       why giant waves couldn't simply leap out of the ocean to
       figuring out how it was that they did.
       This was a matter of much brow sweat for the oil industry, which
       would prefer that its multimillion-dollar rigs not be swept
       away. It had happened before. In 1982 the Ocean Ranger, a
       400-foot-long, 337-foot-high oil platform located 170 miles off
       the coast of Newfoundland, was struck by an outsize wave in
       heavy weather. We'll never know how big the wave was exactly,
       for there were no survivors. Approved for "unrestricted ocean
       operations," built to withstand 110-foot seas and
       115-mile-per-hour winds, considered "indestructible" by its
       engineers, the Ocean Ranger had capsized and sank close to
       instantly, killing all 84 people on board.
       In the nautical world things were even more troubling. Across
       the global seas ships were meeting these waves, from megaton
       vessels like the Munchen -- oceangoing freighters and tankers
       and bulk carriers -- down to recreational sailboats.
       At best, the encounters resulted in damage; at worst, the boat
       vanished, taking all hands with it. "Two large ships sink every
       week on average [worldwide], but the cause is never studied to
       the same detail as an air crash. It simply gets put down to 'bad
       weather,' " said Dr. Wolfgang Rosenthal, senior scientist for
       the MaxWave Project, a consortium of European scientists that
       convened in 2000 to investigate the disappearing ships.
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       [center]MS München [/center]
       December 12, 1978: Considered unsinkable, the Munchen was a
       cutting-edge craft, the flagship of the German Merchant Navy. At
       3:25 a.m. fragments of a Morse code Mayday, emanating from 450
       miles north of the Azores, signaled that the vessel had suffered
       grave damage from a wave.
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       [center]Artist's conception of MS München facing a giant
       wave.[/center]
       But even after 110 ships and 13 aircraft were deployed -- the
       most comprehensive search in the history of shipping -- the ship
       and its 27 crew were never seen again.
       A haunting clue was left behind: Searchers found one of the
       Munchen's lifeboats, usually stowed 65 feet above the water,
       floating empty. Its twisted metal fittings indicated that it had
       been torn away. "Something extraordinary" had destroyed the
       ship, concluded the official report. *
       The Munchen's disappearance points to the main problem with
       proving the existence of a giant wave: If you run into that kind
       of nightmare, it's likely to be the last one you'll have.
       The force of waves is hard to overstate. An 18-inch wave can
       topple a wall built to withstand 125-mile-per-hour winds, for
       instance, and coastal advisories are issued for even
       five-foot-tall surf, which regularly kills people caught in the
       wrong places.
       The number of people who have witnessed a 100-foot wave at close
       range and made it back home to describe the experience is a very
       small one.
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       * Agelbert NOTE: The container ship El Faro sank during
       Hurricane Juaquin on October 1, 2015. All 33 crewmembers
       perished. The lifeboats on El Faro were also 65 feet above the
       water line. From the condition of the lifeboat that was
       recovered, the evidence indicates a giant wave sank the El Faro.
       The authorities never did admit this (as of September 9, 2019),
       but I am sure that I am not the only one that strongly suspects
       that the condition of the lifeboat is evidence that a giant wave
       sank El Faro (Spanish for "Lighthouse").
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       June 24, 2022 UPDATE: The final investigation did not admit a
       rogue wave caused the El Faro to sink, but the camera of the
       robot submersible that finally found the ship's recording device
       clearly showed that the entire superstructure of the bridge had
       been ripped off the ship :o and lay some distance away on the
       ocean floor (see excellent video by Brick Immortar below). If
       that wasn't caused by a giant wave, I am a blue nosed gopher.
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       Warming oceans are with us now and increasing the violence of
       the oceans. By chance, I recorded the SST (Sea Surface
       Temperature) off the East Coast of the USA the day before
       Hurricane Juaquin sank the El Faro container ship.
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       Here's two days later (one day after the El Faro Container ship
       sank). I superimposed the hurricane location. It is a one day
       average SST so the conditions when the El Faro sank are
       displayed.  I was not aware that the El Faro had been lost at
       the time I made these screenshots. Notice the cooler spot on the
       ocean precisely where Hurricane Juaquin is lashing El Faro. A
       hurricane transfers several degrees of water temperature
       directly to the atmosphere, which, in turn, increases the
       ferocity of the winds. Ferocious winds produce ferocious waves.
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       El Faro departed Jacksonville en route to San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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       [center]Disastrous Indifference: The Loss of SS El Faro[/center]
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       Brick Immortar  103K subscribers
       --- Quote ---
       > On October 1st, 2015 the Ro-Con ship El Faro plunged directly
       into Hurricane Joaquin, a Category 4 storm near the bahamas.
       This tragedy was the result of long-term negligence, poor
       decision making, complacency & indifference.
       > &#9654;REFERENCES, SOURCES & FEATURED MEDIA:
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       > *Views presented are my own and the appearance of U.S.
       Department of Defense (DoD), NTSB & any other entities' visual
       information does not imply or constitute their endorsement.
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       The El Faro was one of TWO cargo ships that went down because of
       Hurricane Juaquin (the 215 ft. MV Minouche that went down didn't
       make national headlines, because people, perhaps, might start to
       get "unnecessarily alarmed" about the increasing shipping losses
       from our increasingly violent oceans). All 12 crew of the MV
       Minouche were rescued.
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       [center]MV Minouche[/center]
       The Coast Guard pilot's voice shakes as he describes conditions
       they have never before experienced in rescue attempts when they
       were searching for the El Faro and rescuing the crew of the MV
       Minouche.
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       [center]US Coast Guard search for El Faro; 12 rescued from MV
       Minouche[/center]
       The El Faro, that went down with a crew of 33, all lost, 294
       cars, trailers and trucks, along with hundreds of containers,
       had a type of lifeboat that is a death boat in stormy seas.
       Here's a comment by a fellow who's handle is deckofficer:
       Hurricane Joaquin vs. M/V El Faro's final voyage, weather and
       decision-making...
       I guess the only point I would like to make is some owners don't
       seem to value the lives of their crews. Schedules are tight and
       safety equipment is in many cases the bare minimum for
       certification. In the case of SS El Faro (it is my understanding
       this is a steam ship, not diesel) the open life boats as high on
       the super structure as they were meets requirements but
       certainly doesn't offer the all sea state conditions of
       deployment as free fall enclosed life boat capsules. If these
       souls are lost at sea, it is maddening that the simple added
       investment of better emergency egress would have saved their
       lives. I have done more lifeboat drills than I can remember, and
       for the older style gravity systems there was a good reason
       these drills only occurred on calm days.
       When sea state is overwhelming and you have lost propulsion and
       need to abandon ship, do you want this....
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       Or this....
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       [color=navy]Bob
       USCG Unlimited Tonnage Open Ocean (CMA)
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       Free fall enclosed life boat capsules are a great idea. They
       should be mandatory. The fact that they aren't is mute evidence
       of the neoliberal Empathy Deficit disordered "cost/benefit
       analysis" that values goods more than lives. As long as people
       continue to line up to crew the ships, management will cut
       corners on life support.
       And the Libertarians will cheer them on demanding all those
       "government regulations" be eliminated so the shippers can make
       more money without "government interference". >:(
       
       But the greedball shippers are increasingly going to have a bit
       more to worry about than whether they have a labor force or not.
       Thanks to the fossil fuel industry socialized cost of CO2
       pollution (even though Big Oil is getting a bit of payback from
       the oceans with oil rig difficulties and tanker losses), this is
       no longer going to be about whether the "demand" for products
       "justifies" cargo shipping.
       I am grateful to Paul Beckwith of the University of Ottawa for
       alerting me to the threat from violent oceans that mankind
       faces.
       Paul Beckwith is a part time professor at the University of
       Ottawa and a post graduate studying and researching abrupt
       climate change, with a focus on the arctic.
       [center]An Ocean Full of 30 meter Tall Waves[/center]
       [center]by Paul Beckwith[/center]
       Published on Jul 23, 2015
       "Near the end of the previous warm period (Late-Eemian) when the
       sea level was +5 to +9 meters higher than today, persistent long
       period long wavelength waves 30 meters high battered the Bahamas
       coastline. Will we see these massive storm generated waves soon?
       No ship could survive this..."
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       If the ships cannot handle the seas (NO ship is designed, or can
       cost effectively be designed, to handle anywhere near 100 tons
       per square meter of force on her hull), shipping itself will no
       longer be cost effective unless cargo ships morph into cargo
       submarines. The cost of doing that is staggering. Even if they
       designed them to ride just beneath the wave turbulence, they
       still would have to submerge to one half the wavelength of ocean
       waves.
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       The wave that hit the Draupner platform in 1995 was over 90 ft.
       high and had a wavelength of 231 meters (which it covered in
       only 12 seconds! - 45 mph). To avoid these waves, a submerged
       cargo vessel or tanker would have to withstand pressures at a
       minimum of 116 meters below sea level.
       That may be a piece of cake for a normal submarine but it would
       cost multiples of what cargo and tanker vessels cost now to make
       cargo submarines and tankers capable of routinely submerging to
       400 or 500 feet.
       And in water that is too shallow to get under the wave action,
       they will not avoid being damaged or sunk. Those waves Paul
       Beckwith mentions will be visiting the coastlines regularly in a
       &#916;T = plus 2C (and beyond) world.
       During WW2 the Germans actually made submarine tankers. They
       nicknamed them "Milk Cows". The German type XIV U-Boat could
       resupply other boats with 432 t (425 long tons) of fuel. I'm
       sure ExxonMobil will look into it when the going gets REALLY
       rough on the oceans, instead of doing the right thing and giving
       up fossil fuels. They aren't known for their ability to consider
       the wider consequences of their greed based, short term profit
       motive stupidity. But I digress. ;D
       Besides the large increase in sea level, the wave action
       predicted makes every hull design of modern shipping inadequate.
       It will be very hard to sustain our level of civilization
       without the benefits of modern shipping.
       Redesigning hulls will not work for the simple reason that the
       waves, now called "rogue" waves, of those oceans will be
       routine. 30 to 35 meter tall waves exert forces on a hull of
       about 100 tons per square meter. No modern hull design exceeds
       30 tons per square meter.
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       [center][I]Hellespont Alhambra (now TI Asia), a ULCC TI class
       supertanker, which are the largest ocean-going oil tankers in
       the world[/i][/center]
       To give you a better idea of the huge threat a giant wave or
       three is to a large tanker or cargo vessel,  I took some
       screenshots from a video of a wave laboratory testing the
       effects of 72 ft. waves on a modern supertanker. I'm sure Big
       Oil is paying attention, regardless of what they say in public.
       ;)
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       [center]3D simulation of tanker model by Agelbert shown below
       the wave tank screenshot[/center]
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       [center]5: The above is catastrophic for a tanker. 6:
       Supertanker scale model in scale 72 ft. waves is rolled and
       sinks.[/center]
       The model tanker completely capsized. In a real world situation,
       this is a death blow to the crew because it happens too fast to
       get survival gear on or reach the lifeboats, even if they are
       the emergency egress sealed type you saw earlier. That is why
       both tanker and cargo ships do everything they can to avoid
       being broadsided. In the real world, when the engines are lost
       in these types of seas, the only way to survive is to
       immediately abandon ship on a free fall enclosed life boat
       capsule.
       If the above series of screen shots are not convincing enough to
       the reader of the threat shipping faces from giant waves, the
       following video will leave no doubt in your mind that world
       shipping is incapable of handling the routine 30 to 35 meter
       waves that the Hansen et al  June 2015 paper predicts for a
       &#916;T = plus 2C (and beyond) world.
       This brief video shows 10 monster waves caught on camera. Though
       it includes waves caused by a nuclear explosion and others by
       the Japan 2011 large earthquaqe, it  makes clear the
       difficulties that shipping faces with giant waves. With
       Catastrophic Climate Change caused large wave activity, waves
       like those of the Japan earthquake will become all too common.
       Absolutely nothing I have told you is exaggeration or hyperbole.
       [center]10 Monster &#127754; Waves CAUGHT ON CAMERA[/center]
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       Within a decade or two at most, these giant destructive waves
       will be too common to be labelled "freak" waves.
       When Nature Strikes Back - Episode 105: Freak Waves
       [center]
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       The threat is real and it is getting worse. This concerns our
       future as a civilization. We are not prepared for a &#916;T =
       plus 2C  world (and beyond).
       [center]CONCLUSIONS[/center]
       Global Civilization is threatened within 25 years or less by the
       scientifically predicted ocean surface wave activity in the
       Hansen [I]et al[/i] June 2015 study * and the Dutton et al[/I]
       July 2015 study ** evidencing a 6 to 25 meter (19 to 82 feet!)
       sea level increase in the geological record when the CO2 parts
       per million (PPM) atmospheric concentration was between 300 and
       400 PPM.
       As of June 23 of 2022, the CO2 concentration is &#128680;
       [i]420.86 ppm. It is increasing at about 3PPM per year.
       * Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 15, 20059–20179, 2015
       doi:10.5194/acpd-15-20059-2015 © Author(s) 2015. CC Attribution
       3.0 License.
       [center]Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from
       paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations
       that 2 C global warming is highly dangerous[/center]
       J. Hansen1, M. Sato1, P. Hearty2, R. Ruedy3,4, M. Kelley3,4, V.
       Masson-Delmotte5, G. Russell4, G. Tselioudis4, J. Cao6, E.
       Rignot7,8, I. Velicogna8,7, E. Kandiano9, K. von Schuckmann10,
       P. Kharecha1,4, A. N. Legrande4, M. Bauer11, and K.-W. Lo3,4
       www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/15/20059/2015/
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       ** Science 10 July 2015: Vol. 349  no. 6244  DOI:
       .1126/science.aaa4019
       [center]Sea-level rise due to polar ice-sheet mass loss during
       past warm periods[/center]
       A. Dutton1,*,  A. E. Carlson2,  A. J. Long3,  G. A. Milne4,  P.
       U. Clark2,  R. DeConto5,  B. P. Horton6,7,  S. Rahmstorf8,  M.
       E. Raymo9
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       Furthermore, the rate of increase is also rising, evidencing,
       not only the lack of concerted action by the governments of the
       industrialized nations of the world to stop using fossil fuels,
       but an increase in their use, along with the incredibly
       destructive policies of subsidizing the exploration for fossil
       fuels.
       If drastic action is not taken to avert this violent oceans
       catastrophe for human civilization, our global civilization will
       collapse into "sea-locked" regions unable to conduct trade
       across the oceans except via air transportation, a method that
       is not economically feasible to use for bulk cargo.
       Port facilities and coastal airport facilities will become
       unusable. In addition, the salt water fishing industry would
       also collapse, both from the violent oceans and the increasing
       rate of marine extinctions, creating joblessness, food shortages
       and widespread hunger.
       At least 25 percent of the world's arable land, all of which is
       low lying and near sea coasts, will be lost due to salt water
       invasion of the water table, even several miles from the coasts.
       [center]RECOMMENDATIONS[/center]
       To prevent a collapse of global civilization into a group of
       "sea locked" areas, we must act now to prevent the oceans from
       being too stormy for shipping.
       This requires the following:
       1. The manufacture of internal combustion engines, and spare
       parts, used to power utility scale power plants, land, sea and
       air vehicles and emergency generators for public or private use,
       be they large or small, is to be outlawed, unless they are
       designed to run exclusively (low temperature alloys ONLY - 2/3
       lighter engine blocks - they break down due to high waste heat
       if run on fossil fuels) on ethanol or some other biofuel. All
       aircraft must be powered by biofuels until electrically powered
       or hydrogen powered aircraft replace current jet engines. All
       ocean going oil tankers are to be recycled for low cost EV
       metals. All remaining ships of all sizes must be electrically
       powered as well, unless they can be modified to run on biofuels.
       Biofuels must be used to bridge the gap while phasing out the
       internal combustion engine in industry, the military and
       transportation by air, land or sea.
       2. All ships must have enclosed egress lifeboats capable of
       surviving 35 meter waves.
       3. Small engines, like those used for lawn mowers, leaf blowers
       or weed whackers are to be outlawed. All ordinances requiring
       lawns are to be outlawed. All lawn, gardening or snow removal
       power equipment not running on E100 is to be electrically
       powered without any exceptions or grace period.
       4. A program to phase out of all uses of fossil fuels within one
       year must begin immediately. All gasoline stations are to have
       at least two E100 pumps. A gasoline tax of one dollar per gallon
       is to be levied to existing gasoline or other distillate fuels
       tax. The tax is to be increased by one additional dollar per
       gallon every month.
       5. All governments must provide an EV for gas guzzlers consumer
       trade program at no cost to the owner until all on road and off
       road vehicles that are not fueled exclusively with E100 (100%
       ethanol) have been recycled.
       6. All public and private buildings (including the military) are
       to be modified to have 100% renewable energy for heating and
       cooling. Zero percent financing and a 30 year amortization
       period is to be provided to all private households and landlords
       for the purchase and installation of Renewable Energy
       infrastructure. No household is entitled to heat and cool more
       than 500 square feet per occupant (No exceptions). Monitoring
       devices are to placed on all large houses in general and
       mansions in particular with heavy fines for violations.
       7. After all buildings are heated and cooled with renewable
       energy, the remaining energy needs, plus a surplus, are to be
       generated by renewable energy in order to begin the process of
       returning to less than 350PPM (Parts Per Million) of CO2 (Carbon
       Dioxide). Carbon will be sequestered with renewable energy
       machines.
       8.The manufacture, sale or use of fossil fuel based pesticides
       or chemical fertilizers for agriculture is to be outlawed with a
       six month phase out grace period.
       9. The manufacture and sale of any product, including, but not
       limited to, pharmaceuticals and plastics, using fossil fuels as
       a feed stock is to be prohibited by law. A one year grace period
       will be allowed for transition to the use of plant based
       carbohydrates as feed stock.
       10. Water use is to be heavily regulated.
       11. Military budgets are to be limited to no more than 5% of tax
       receipts.
       12. All subsidies for fossil fuels are be declared null and void
       in every country in the world. All rigs, refineries, tanker
       trucks, pipelines and other fossil fuel industry plant and
       equipment are to be recycled within a five year period. The
       fossil fuel industry stock holders are to shoulder the cost of
       this. Corporate bankruptcies of fossil fuel corporations will
       not limit the liability of the corporation stock holders
       according to a worldwide proclamation of Force Majeure.
       Executives, board members and all other stock holders will be
       liable for all recycling costs according to ownership records
       over the last 50 years.
       [center]And, as "radical" as the above seems to status quo
       lovers, that is just the start of what MUST be done. [/center]
       Massive conservation efforts must be undertaken to preserve and
       protect all animals now threatened with extinction. All
       governments must put these efforts on the level of war time
       demands simply because our survival as a civilization and
       possibly as a species is threatened.
       A wartime mobilization scenario has been proposed that is
       somewhat less radical than what I propose. I would certainly
       support that action (Any Port in the Catastrophic Climate Change
       Storm &#128519;).
       We cannot function without the use of the oceans. We will not be
       able to use those oceans if we don't lower the CO2 atmospheric
       content to at least 350 PPM.
       And even then, with the 6 meter or more (over 19 feet!) rise in
       sea level locked into the  &#916;T = plus 2C  world, we will
       lose the use of all port facilities, coastal cities and arable
       land near sea level within a decade or, optimistically speaking
       in regard to the IPCC RCP-8.5 "Business as Usual" scenario, by
       2050. Our civilization does not have the money to rebuild and
       replant and relocate millions of people as the seas go up and
       fly all cargo when the seas can't be used, PERIOD.
       It is only possible to avoid a collapse of global civilization
       by drastic measures, and only if those measures are undertaken
       within a decade.
       If not, then mankind will be split into several "sea locked"
       groups watching the oceans acidify and the temperature increase
       to the point when the methane bursts from the thawed clathrates
       in the Arctic ocean bottom. Then the &#916;T = plus 2C world
       will be a distant mild memory in comparison to the  &#916;T =
       plus 4C and beyond runaway GHG hell.
       Sadly, I do not see any evidence that any government is
       championing drastic action.
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       &#129417; Yes, ALL governments will eventually realize that we
       are in an Existential Catastrophic Climate Crisis. But every day
       of delay multiplies the costs of ameliorating the damage from
       climate change exponentially. &#128565; &#128561;
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       [center]
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       />Oil Tanker named "Prestige" sinks. Is this the Writing on the
       Oil Tanker Hull Wall for Big Oil?
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       It is small consolation to me that these oil tankers will not
       survive the coming oceans. But there is a certain logic to it.
       If you find this article of importance to our survival as a
       species or the survival of civilization, please pass it on with
       or without attribution. People need to properly understand the
       nature of our climate problem in general, and the fossil fuel
       industry's blame for profiting from it in particular, in order
       to embrace the outlawing of the burning of fossil fuels.
       They must be held accountable and they must NOT be allowed to
       influence energy policy ever again. They successfully sabotaged
       and/or watered down all the reforms proposed, from the December
       2015 COP21 Climate Conference to the 2021 COP26 Debacle, as they
       have done at all the other global climate conferences through
       corruption or threats. Our survival and the welfare of the
       children of the world depends on stopping these criminals NOW.
       [center]
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       [center]Please Help the Children have an Opportunity to Live in
       a Viable Biosphere.[/center]
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       Many will read this and scoff. They do not accept the FACT that
       Business as usual is a death sentence for global civilization.
       They do not accept the FACT that nature does not negotiate. They
       do not accept the FACT that Incremental/half measures are like
       being half pregnant with Rosemary's baby.
       They will say that there is absolutely no way that the
       governments of the world will undertake even a tiny portion of
       the recommendations I list as sine qua non[/I] for our survival
       as a global civilization.
       Perhaps they are right about the governments. If they are, then
       perhaps we will, because of the successful degrading of
       democracy and the biosphere by the fossil fuel industry over the
       course of about a century, experience the roaring oceans and the
       [i]collapse of all human civilization, not just global
       civilization.
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       If so, then the ocean violence, including its dramatic effects
       on human civilization, now predicted by science, was accurately
       described in New Testament Scripture Prophesy a long time ago.
       “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the
       stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity,
       the sea and the waves roaring; men’s hearts failing them from
       fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the
       earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken." -- Luke
       21:25-26
       But whether you believe the above prophesy is valid or not, I
       think it safe to assume that our future ocean surface will be
       very unsafe. And below the surface, it will be even worse for
       the marine species we all depend on.
       Suggested viewing:
       Agelbert NOTE:  Learn about biological stability of systems,
       negative feedbacks, positive feedbacks, population trends, ocean
       acidification and the very important issue of increasing anoxic
       (oxygen starved) conditions in the oceans directly caused by the
       continued burning of fossil fuels in the video below. Dr.
       Lubchenco is one of several credentialed leading climate
       scientists at this conference:
       [center]Biological Extinction | Discussion #11[/center]
       [center]
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       Casina Pio IV
       Published on Mar 2, 2017
       [move]How to Save the Natural World on Which We Depend
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       PAS-PASS Workshop
       Casina Pio IV, 27 February-1 March 2017
       On our 4.54 billion year old planet, life is perhaps as much as
       3.7 billion years old, photosynthesis and multi-cellularity
       dozens of times independently around 3.0 billion years old, and
       the emergence of plants, animals, and fungi onto land, by at
       least the Ordovician period, perhaps 480 million years ago,
       forests appearing around 370 million years ago, and the origin
       of modern groups such as mammals, birds, reptiles, and land
       plants subsequently. The geological record shows that there have
       been five major extinction-events in the past, the first of them
       about 542 million years ago, and suggests that 99% of the
       species that ever lived (5 billion of them?) have become
       extinct. The last major extinction event occurred about 66
       million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, and, in
       general, the number of species on earth and the complexity of
       their communities has increased steadily until near the present.
       
       Suggested Reading:
       Greenland now a major driver of rising seas: study    June 26,
       2017 by Marlowe Hood
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       More summer sunshine leading to increased Greenland ice melt
       June 28, 2017
       A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has
       discovered that a marked decrease in summer cloud cover during
       the last 20 years has significantly accelerated melt from the
       Greenland ice sheet.
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       Greenland ice sheet may melt completely with 1.6 degrees of
       global warming March 12, 2012
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       Storms caused massive Antarctic sea ice loss in 2016   June 26,
       2017
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       The Real Sea Monsters: On the Hunt for Rogue Waves
       By Lynne Peeples | September 2, 2009
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       Rogue waves are no fish tale
       Once regarded as extremely rare, satellite photos and radar
       imagery have documented the existence of numerous rogue waves,
       and it turns out that they are far more common than previously
       thought.
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       Hydrosphere Based Renewable Energy for Large Cities
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       If you missed the first two parts, you can read them at the
       links below.
       Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean
       Wave Activity: PART 1 of 3
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       Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean
       Wave Activity: PART TWO
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       You may print or post any part or the whole of the three parts
       of this article, with or without attribution, as many times as
       you wish. Spread these timely warnings far and wide. Remember,
       the biosphere we need to preserve is the only one we have.
       Without a [b]Viable Biosphere, we cannot survive. [/b]We cannot
       have a viable biosphere unless we stop burning fossil fuels.
       "We do not need a 'new' business model for energy because we
       never had one. What we need, if we wish to avoid extinction, is
       to plug the environmental and equity costs of energy production
       and use into our planning and thinking. " -- A.G. Gelbert
       [center]
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       [move]The &#129429;&#129430; Hydrocarbon &#128121; Hellspawn
       Fossil Fuelers DID THE Clean Energy Inventions suppressing,
       Climate Trashing, Government corrupting, human health depleting
       CRIME. Since [Color=Brown]they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and
       conscience free
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       />they are trying to AVOID [/color]DOING THE TIME or PAYING THE
       FINE!  Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!
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       Author John Feffer discusses his novels set in a not-so-distant
       future disrupted by climate chaos.
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: July 11, 2022, 1:08 pm
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       JULY 8, 2022
       [center]THE CHRIS HEDGES REPORT: SPLINTERLANDS’ CLIMATE
       DYSTOPIA[/center]
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       Chris Hedges speaks with author John Feffer about his novels set
       in a not-so-distant future disrupted by climate chaos.
       Full Transcript:
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       Antarctica: What happens if the 'Doomsday' Glacier collapses?
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: July 25, 2022, 11:11 am
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       [center]Antarctica: What happens if the 'Doomsday' Glacier
       collapses?[/center]
       Mar 15, 2020
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       51.6K subscribers
       Antarctica is home to some of the world's largest ice sheets and
       glaciers. They existed in a stable equilibrium of ebb and flow
       for millions of years until global warming started to melt them
       faster than the snow falls could replenish their ice. Now a new
       US / UK research collaboration has discovered that the rate of
       melt is even worse than scientists feared. What's driving this
       latest acceleration, and can we slow it down?
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       No, this is not &quot;alarmist&quot; graphics hyperbole.
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: August 14, 2022, 3:09 pm
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       AGelbert NOTE: Some lyrics from an old song come to mind...
       [move]When Tomorrow is Today, the Bells Will Toll for Some, But
       Nothing Can Stop the Shape of Things to Come.[/move]
       And no, this is not "alarmist" graphics hyperbole. Learn about
       about the GIANT &#127754; Wave activity that Climate Scientists
       predict is inevitable in our 2 degree Celcius, or more,
       Catastrophic Climate Changed world.
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       &#128073; Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and
       Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: PART 1 of 3
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       &#128073; Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and
       Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: PART TWO
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       Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: Part 3 of 3 parts
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       Or, you can ignore all this "Chinese Hoax alarmist" stuff and
       continue your excellent imitation of an Ostrich...
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       &quot;If BigAg is allowed to steer Aim4C, what they may be
       aiming for is 4C of warming.&quot;
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: October 11, 2022, 2:59 pm
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       October 11, 2022
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       [center]Why Is The UN Letting
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       />[b]Big Ag's &#128519; Front &#128013; Groups Influence Effort
       To
       Reduce Ag Emissions?[/b]
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       At the COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow last year, the US and
       United Arab Emirates launched a new initiative to fund research
       into solutions to agricultural emissions, called the Agriculture
       Innovation Mission for Climate (Aim4C). Among its some 200
       partners are plenty of nations and even more
       agricultural-oriented non profits, and for-profit companies.
       Unfortunately, as Rachel Sherrington revealed at DeSmog last
       week as part of their new series on the issue, one of those
       groups is the North American Meat Institute. And they have some
       questionable views on climate change, with a "fact" sheet
       claiming the "degree" to which people are causing climate change
       (by burning fossil fuels and eating meat) is "unknown," despite
       their supposed Paris agreement pledge.
       And it's not just NAMI. Sherrington also points to the Animal
       Agriculture Alliance and US Farmers and Ranchers in Action, both
       Aim4C "knowledge partners" and both featuring members of the
       American Farm Bureau Federation on their board, and both running
       off of funding from the industrial agriculture sector.
       For those blissfully unaware of what goes on in the weeds of
       farm politics, AFBF is a long-time &#128127; opponent of climate
       action, essentially the agriculture industry's version of the
       &#128520; American Petroleum Institute. Inside Climate News
       called it "Big Oil's unnoticed ally" back in 2018, and more
       recently, reported on how the AFBF has led "a Charge Against SEC
       Rules Aimed at Corporate Climate Transparency."
       The Farm lobby didn't let the fact that a rule applied to
       publicly traded companies and not farms (because "not a single
       farm in America is listed with the SEC") distract it from
       lobbying against climate action.
       What sort of "knowledge" are these groups bringing to the
       "partnership" with Aim4C?
       Likely not the kind that will be useful for farmers struggling
       to cope with climate change, pointed out Anne Maina of the
       Biodiversity and Biosafety Association of Kenya. She told
       Sherrington for another DeSmog story that “A focus on ag-tech is
       often hinged on profits for multinational corporations and not
       sustainable. Africa has workable alternatives right here at
       home, for resilient agriculture that works with nature.”
       But “When the voice of African farmers and communities is not
       brought to the negotiating table, we end up with flawed
       initiatives like Aim4C."
       Specifically, Sherrington writes, "Aim4C argues that technology
       can increase productivity, help farmers adapt to the climate
       crisis, and cut emissions" with "climate-smart" solutions which
       sounds well and good- that's the point. The problem is that
       "climate-smart" ;) can be used "to promote contested
       &#9760;&#65039; practices including the use of &#9760;&#65039;
       pesticides and big data in farming have led to concerns that the
       concept could be used to &#128520; “greenwash” polluting forms
       of agriculture."
       And even if things like the "Greener Cattle Initiative" were
       successful, "it would only reduce methane emissions from the
       cattle. It doesn’t address the climate impacts of land use
       change, biodiversity loss, or deforestation associated with
       cattle production. And it doesn’t take into account the nutrient
       pollution from the pesticides you use to grow the rest of their
       feed, corn and soy.”
       
       That's why Jennifer Jacquet, author of a book on industrial
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       />disinformation , likened "Green cattle" to "clean coal",
       saying
       that there's "no getting around" the fact that "beef is the coal
       of animal ag."
       What works? Again, back to Maina: “We need to focus on
       agroecological solutions: Support resilient agriculture that
       works with nature, builds crop and diet diversity, and empowers
       marginalised farmers."
       Instead, as Molly Anderson of IPES-Food said, "the kind of
       technology pursued by Aim4C is proprietary. It’s going into
       digitalization, it’s going into artificial intelligence. This
       technology is not available to low-income people. The technology
       being promoted are things that basically bolster the existing
       industrialised food system.”
       In other words, if
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       />&#128520; BigAg is allowed to steer Aim4C, what they may be
       aiming for is
       4C of warming.
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       />Agelbert NOTE: The following is the scientifically predicted
       ice
       free North Pole of a, thoroughly coastlines flooded, +3C world.
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       ALL the Tundra thaws and ALL that methane now trapped there
       comes out to overheat our biosphere up EVEN FASTER.
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       Reaching [b]+3C means it is basically over for most mammaliam
       vertebrate species. [/b]
       A +4C world would be even MORE hellish, eventually devoid of
       high order multi-cellular organisms.
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       If you are a farmer, think about the total insanity of trying to
       hang on to the profit over people and planet BigAg
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       />"business model"
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       />Industrial farmers, STOP BEING STUIPD AND CRAZY!
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       Re: Future Earth
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: October 16, 2022, 1:34 pm
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       November 19, 2021
       Agelbert NOTE: After the Glasgow COP26 COP-OUT, the news
       immediately thereafter of BIG BUCKS spent by Big Oil for NEW Oil
       Leases in the Gulf of Mexico AND MORE BIG BUCKS in CONTINUED
       Federal Government SUBSIDIES for the Hydrocarbon "Industry",
       there can be no doubt whatsoever as to WHO is In Charge
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       />of Policies by the governments of industrialized nations to
       address Catastrophic Climate Change.
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       So, this is an appropriate, to put it mildly, time to repost
       this article
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       [center]How to Survive When, NOT IF, Catastrophic Climate Change
       Makes Earth's Climate Unsuitable For Humans[/center]
       By Anthony G. Gelbert
       During many periods in human history, some were doing just fine
       and others lived on the edge of starvation in a constant state
       of collapse. Abrupt changes in climate, such as that caused in
       France by a massive Laki volcanic eruption in Iceland in 1783,
       have resulted in famine induced starvation. In that case,
       starvation was followed by social upheaval and revolution,
       instead of collapse. Civilization in Iceland was nearly wiped
       out with that eruption (over one third of the population was
       killed), but did not collapse.
       For a collapse to occur, the society destroying pressure must
       last longer than a decade or so. For example, natural climate
       alterations that produced lengthy droughts caused some ancient
       starving civilizations to eventually collapse.
       SNIPPET From the March 21, 2016 article, "Ten Civilizations or
       Nations That Collapsed From Drought", by Jeff Masters:
       Drought is the great enemy of human civilization. Drought
       deprives us of the two things necessary to sustain life--food
       and water. When the rains stop and the soil dries up, cities die
       and civilizations collapse, as people abandon lands no longer
       able to supply them with the food and water they need to live.
       While the fall of a great empire is usually due to a complex set
       of causes, drought has often been identified as the primary
       culprit or a significant contributing factor in a surprising
       number of such collapses. Drought experts Justin Sheffield and
       Eric Wood of Princeton, in their 2011 book, Drought, identify
       more than ten civilizations, cultures and nations that probably
       collapsed, in part, because of drought. As we mark World Water
       Day on March 22, we should not grow overconfident that our
       current global civilization is immune from our old
       nemesis--particularly in light of the fact that a hotter climate
       due to global warming will make droughts more intense and
       impacts more severe. So, presented here is a "top ten" list of
       drought's great power over some of the mightiest civilizations
       in world history--presented chronologically.
       &#1421; Collapse #1. The Akkadian Empire in Syria, 2334 BC -
       2193 BC.
       
       &#1421; Collapse #2. The Old Kingdom of ancient Egypt, 4200
       years ago.
       &#1421; Collapse #3. The Late Bronze Age (LBA) civilization in
       the Eastern Mediterranean. About 3200 years ago, the Eastern
       Mediterranean hosted some of the world’s most advanced
       civilizations.
       &#1421; Collapse #4. The Maya civilization of 250 - 900 AD in
       Mexico. Severe drought killed millions of Maya people due to
       famine and lack of water, and initiated a cascade of internal
       collapses that destroyed their civilization at the peak of their
       cultural development, between 750 - 900 AD.
       &#1421; Collapse #5. The Tang Dynasty in China, 700 - 907 AD. At
       the same time as the Mayan collapse, China was also experiencing
       the collapse of its ruling empire, the Tang Dynasty. Dynastic
       changes in China often occurred because of popular uprisings
       during crop failure and famine associated with drought.
       &#1421; Collapse #6. The Tiwanaku Empire of Bolivia's Lake
       Titicaca region, 300 - 1000 AD. The Tiwanaku Empire was one of
       the most important South American civilizations prior to the
       Inca Empire. After dominating the region for 500 years, the
       Tiwanaku Empire ended abruptly between 1000 - 1100 AD, following
       a drying of the region, as measured by ice accumulation in the
       Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru.
       &#1421; Collapse #7. The Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) culture in
       the Southwest U.S. in the 11th - 12th centuries AD. Beginning in
       1150 AD, North America experienced a 300-year drought called the
       Great Drought.
       &#1421; Collapse #8. The Khmer Empire based in Angkor, Cambodia,
       802 - 1431 AD. The Khmer Empire ruled Southeast Asia for
       intense decades-long droughts interspersed with intense monsoons
       in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries that, in combination
       with other factors, contributed to the empire's demise.
       &#1421; Collapse #9. The Ming Dynasty in China, 1368 - 1644 AD.
       China's Ming Dynasty--one of the greatest eras of orderly
       government and social stability in human history--collapsed at a
       time when the most severe drought in the region in over 4000
       years was occurring, according to sediments from Lake Huguang
       Maar analyzed in a 2007 article in Nature by Yancheva et al.
       &#1421; Collapse #10. Modern Syria. Syria's devastating civil
       war that began in March 2011 has killed over 300,000 people,
       displaced at least 7.6 million, and created an additional 4.2
       million refugees. While the causes of the war are complex, a key
       contributing factor was the nation's devastating drought that
       began in 1998. The drought brought Syria's most severe set of
       crop failures in recorded history, which forced millions of
       people to migrate from rural areas into cities, where conflict
       erupted. This drought was almost certainly Syria's worst in the
       past 500 years (98% chance), and likely the worst for at least
       the past 900 years (89% chance), according to a 2016 tree ring
       study by Cook et al., "Spatiotemporal drought variability in the
       Mediterranean over the last 900 years." Human-caused emissions
       of greenhouse gases were "a key attributable factor" in the
       drying up of wintertime precipitation in the Mediterranean
       region, including Syria, in recent decades, as discussed in a
       NOAA press release that accompanied a 2011 paper by Hoerling et
       al., On the Increased Frequency of Mediterranean Drought.
       A 2016 paper by drought expert Colin Kelley showed that the
       influence of human greenhouse gas emissions had made recent
       drought in the region 2 - 3 times more likely.
       Ten Civilizations or Nations That Collapsed From Drought - lots
       of great pictures
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       As Dr. Jeff Masters evidenced above, extended drought, sometimes
       alternating with other harsh climate conditions like intense
       rains, can lead to starvation. Long wars exacerbate the
       situation, leading directly to collapse.
       In addition to the above, there is another climate change based
       collapse level attack on human civilization, one that is 100%
       unavoidable now, that has wreaked havoc in the past.
       SNIPPET from the March 23, 2018 article, "Humanity has contended
       with rising seas before — and it didn’t go well for us", by
       Alxandru Micu:
       The Neolithic revolution was the first major transformation
       humanity had passed — the transition foraging to farming.
       Spreading out from the Middle East, this wave of change took
       peoples used to hunt and forage wherever they pleased and tied
       them down, hoe in hand, to sedentary — but oh so lucrative —
       farms and fields.
       Around 7,600 years ago, however, the revolution paused — no new
       agricultural settlements seemed to pop up in Southeastern Europe
       around the time, existing communities declined, and the progress
       of civilization as a whole came to a standstill. Up until now,
       we didn’t have any inkling as to why this happened, but new
       research from the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research
       Centre, the Goethe University in Frankfurt, and the University
       of Toronto sheds some light on this mysterious period.
       According to their findings, this lull in progress was due to an
       abrupt rise in sea levels in the northern Aegean Sea. Evidence
       of this event was calcified in the fossils of tiny marine algae
       preserved in seafloor sediments.
       The impact this event had on societal dynamics and overall
       development during the time highlights the potential economic
       and social threats posed by sea level rise in the future, the
       team says. Given that climate-change-associated changes in sea
       level are virtually unavoidable, the team hopes their findings
       will help us better prepare for the flooding ahead.
       “Approximately 7,600 years ago, the sea level must have risen
       abruptly in the Mediterranean regions bordering Southeastern
       Europe. The northern Aegean, the Marmara Sea and the Black Sea
       recorded an increase of more than one meter. This led to the
       flooding of low-lying coastal areas that would have been ideal
       areas for settlement,” says lead author Professor Dr. Jens
       Herrle.
       The evidence supports a link between the two timeouts in the
       Neolithic revolution and the flooding events. The event 8,400
       years ago coincides with archaeological findings suggesting that
       settlements in low-lying areas were under significant hardship
       from encroaching seas and other associated climatic changes. The
       renewed rise just 800 years later likely amplified these
       communities’ woes, keeping them from making the transition to
       agriculture.
       “The source of this may have been Lake Agassiz in North America.
       This glacial meltwater lake was enclosed in ice and experienced
       a massive breach during this period, which emptied an enormous
       volume of water into the ocean.”
       Past fluctuations in sea levels have already had a significant
       effect on human history during the early days of agriculture,
       the authors note, warning that it would be unwise to dismiss the
       challenges it will place in our path in the future.
       "Humanity has contended with rising seas before — and it didn’t
       go well for us"
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       The article goes on to repeat the overly conservative estimate
       from the IPCC of a rise by up to "one meter over the next 100
       years". That is the same IPCC that predicted the amount of ice
       depletion we have at present at the poles would not occur until
       2070. That is the same IPCC that has NOT figured in the
       contribution of ice loss from Greenland to global sea level rise
       in any of the models.
       So, if you are a logical person, I recommend you count on 3 to 6
       meters, at least, of sea level rise several decades before the
       end of the century. As Peter Ward says (The Flooded Earth: Our
       Future In a World Without Ice Caps by Peter D. Ward), over 25%
       of the world's arable land is near sea level and will be
       flooded. Most major airports along coastlines will be flooded.
       Every harbor facility in the world will require a staggering
       amount of land fill to raise them as the sea level goes up. Most
       coastal real estate, currently highly assessed in value, will be
       flooded and become worthless.
       By the way, the latest science indicates that rapid sea level
       rise will be accompanied by a large increase in volcanic
       eruptions (which might slow down the heating due to a temporary
       increase in aerosols), and increase in earthquake activity. The
       volcanic aerosols, at most, will be a minor speed bump on the
       way to intolerable climate caos. So, please don't count on
       volcanic eruptions to 'save us' from global warming hell. That
       is wishful thinking.
       I am not a voice "crying in the wilderness" on this issue. I
       will provide you some screenshots from the video of a scientist
       who recently wrote the book, "Waking the Climate Giant". He
       predicts a continued increase in volcanic activity, now observed
       in the data, due to terrain bounce from melting land ice and
       increased pressure on the surrounding seabed, as the the global
       average temperature increases. It's not the volcanoes that are
       increasing the heat, it's the greenhouse gases that are causing
       massive ice melt that, in turn, triggers earthquakes and
       volcanic eruptions. Read his book if you disagree. I just
       watched the video but I think he is spot on.
       On Earth, destructive climate change was not catastrophic
       before. The difference now it that the entire globe will be
       impacted. Humans have never lived on a planet with an average
       temperature of 3° C above pre-industrial. We will pass that mark
       up a half century before 2100 and continue towards PLUS 4° C and
       beyond, with no available technological or natural negative
       feedback mechanism to stop the continued acceleration, not
       slowing, of the rate of increase in temperature.
       Already our atmosphere is being distorted by global warming to
       the point of pushing the dry subtropical bands on either side of
       the tropics towards their respective pole, thereby increasing
       drought conditions in highly populated areas and a large
       percentage of hitherto arable terrain.
       SNIPPET from the February 2, 2016 article, "The mystery of the
       expanding tropics", by Olive Heffernan
       As Earth's dry zones shift rapidly polewards, researchers are
       scrambling to figure out the cause — and consequences.
       One spring day in 2004, Qiang Fu was poring over atmospheric
       data collected from satellites when he noticed an unusual and
       seemingly inexplicable pattern. In two belts on either side of
       the equator, the lower atmosphere was warming more than anywhere
       else on Earth. Fu, an atmospheric scientist at the University of
       Washington in Seattle, was puzzled.
       It wasn't until a year later that he realized what he had
       discovered: evidence of a rapid expansion of the tropics, the
       region that encircles Earth's waist like a green belt. The heart
       of the tropics is lush, but the northern and southern edges are
       dry. And these parched borders are growing — expanding into the
       subtropics and pushing them towards the poles.
       Tropical forest losses outpace UN estimates
       Cities that currently sit just outside the tropics could soon be
       smack in the middle of the dry tropical edge. That's bad news
       for places like San Diego, California. “A shift of just one
       degree of latitude in southern California — that's enough to
       have a huge impact on those communities in terms of how much
       rain they will get,” explains climate modeller Thomas Reichler
       of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
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       Elsewhere, there is evidence that tropical expansion is
       affecting the ocean. Where the Hadley cell descends, bringing
       cool air downward, it energizes the ocean and whips up currents
       to high speeds. This energy powers the upwelling of cold,
       nutrient-rich waters towards the surface, which feeds some of
       the world's most productive fisheries. But there are hints that
       some of these regions are suffering because of shifts in the
       Hadley cell.
       These upwelling zones could move south over time, or get weaker
       or stronger, depending on what happens to the Hadley cell, says
       Cook. In any case, it means that fishing communities that rely
       on these resources will not be able to count on traditional
       patterns.
       On land, biodiversity is also potentially at risk. This is
       especially true for the climate zones just below the subtropics
       in South Africa and Australia, on the southern rim of both
       continents. In southwestern Australia, renowned as one of the
       world's biodiversity hotspots, flowers bloom during September,
       when tourists come to marvel at some of the region's 4,000
       endemic plant species. But since the late 1970s, rainfall there
       has dropped by one-quarter. The same is true at South Africa's
       Cape Floristic Province, another frontier known for its floral
       beauty. “This is the most concrete evidence we have of tropical
       expansion,” says Steve Turton, an environmental geographer at
       James Cook University in Cairns, Australia.
       Turton worries that the rate of change will be too rapid for
       these ecosystems to adapt. “We're talking about rapid expansion
       that's within half or a third of a human lifetime,” he says. In
       the worst-case scenario, the subtropics will overtake these
       ecologically rich outposts and the hotter, drier conditions will
       take a major toll.
       The Mystery of the Expanding Tropics
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       Vermont is already experiencing the economy harming effects of
       climate change. A Vermonter, concerned about this, wrote about
       it. He has a right to be.
       Watching Nature Collapse March 24th, 2018 by George Harvey
       Sometimes it seems the best of everything is passing away.
       SNIPPET:
       A few years ago, someone threw a peach pit into shrubbery on the
       front yard of the house where I live. The tree that sprouted
       from the peach pit is now bearing fruit. Neighbors have paw-paw
       trees growing in their yards. But Vermont’s maple sugar
       industry, and the apple orchards, and the blueberry fields are
       all suffering. Vermont is fast becoming a place unlike what it
       has ever been, and it is not an improvement.
       Watching Nature Collapse
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       Don't look at what he wrote as the "new normal" and just think
       we can 'adapt' to climate change by growing different crops and
       so on. This is the leading edge of climate that will soon, much
       sooner than many think, become intolerable for crop growing. We
       are not just on a treadmill moving in the wrong direction; our
       velocity on that deadly treadmill is increasing. Please keep
       that in mind so you are not lulled into thinking it would be
       'nice' to grow palm trees in Burlington. Yes, the fossil fuel
       industry &#129430; does continue to try to pitch the 'warmer
       weather good' out of context propaganda happy talk. They'll do
       anything to keep their profit over people and planet suicide
       machine going. Stupid is as stupid does.
       All these deleterious effects of Catastrophic Climate Change
       will continually get worse, not for a decade or so, but for over
       a century.
       Temperatures unsuitable for human life are baked in for at least
       a couple of centuries, even if we stopped the insanity of
       constantly making things even worse by going on a crash program
       to stop burning fossil fuels. Yeah, we have to do that. Yeah, if
       we don't, we are all dead. But, regardless of what we do, it
       will take a while to catch up to all of us. I write this for
       those who, though sadly unable to stop the insane suicidal
       "business model" of the biosphere killing fossil fuel fascists,
       wish to survive as long as possible.
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       I wish to stress that, though many confused voices out there do
       not wish to face this, the one unifying aspect of the present
       threat &#127777;&#65039; to human civilization is Catastrophic
       Climate Change &#128681;, NOT lack of fossil fuel based energy.
       Have I got your attention? Good.
       Then, look at this graphic from the Video, "Waking the Climate
       Giant", and ask yourself if it reflects our current situation:
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       The above graphic is already correct in its prediciton. In 2017
       (the emissions data was for the years 2014, 2015 and 2016) the
       greenhouse gas emissions INCREASED. Consequently, there is a
       very, very high probability that the collapse of our
       civilization will occur much sooner than we think.
       Some humans in different parts of the globe are already well
       acquainted with living on the edge of collapse. I am absolutely
       certain that many jungle tribes in Brazil, Ecuador and Peru,
       RIGHT NOW, live on the edge of starvation in a constant state of
       collapse, while most of the city dwellers nearby live not much
       better, but still avoid starvation.
       My point in this quixotic exercise in hard truth logic is that
       the lack of food in the past has eventually triggered
       revolutions, not collapse of the civilization. It is after the
       social upheaval, when no solution to the lack of food problem is
       found, such as is in LONG WARS of aggression or extended harsh
       climate conditions, that collapse ensues.
       People tend to fear other people more than deleterious climate.
       People can certainly be a threat to your life and stuff, but
       Catastrophic Climate Change is a much greater threat to
       everything you hold dear, past, present and future.
       Catastrophic Climate Change is worse than a long war of
       aggression because it will last much longer than a human
       lifetime.
       The climate change problem is intractable, but I believe some
       WILL beat it for maybe a century or so. For example, there are
       places near the equator with very high mountains. A world heated
       plus 4° C by around 2060, despite happy talk by certain wishful
       thinkers, will kill off most humans. BUT, in high mountains, the
       tree line will move way up while the temperature becomes
       temperate, even at the Equator. I stress the equator, though RE
       (Reverse Engineer internet handle - Joe Smith) will did
       vigorously disagree, because human civilization in a low food
       environment with over acidified seas (no easy fish or whales or
       seals to catch = NO ESKIMOS) with poor available sunlight is not
       a recipe for long term survival, even if the temperature is mild
       enough to grow crops.
       There is a mountain in Ecuador (Chimborazo) about 20,000 feet
       high that will, because of the horrendously altered atmosphere,
       get plenty of rain even at high altitudes. There are several
       other candidates in the HIGH tropics around the world. This will
       enable the folks living there to grow enough food, thanks to an
       ABUNDANCE of sunlight all year round, with low tech methods.
       They just might be able to ride out the fossil fuel burning
       stupidity that dooms most of human civilization.
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       The tree line, the highest point on a mountain that trees will
       grow, varies between 5,000 feet and up to 13,000 feet above sea
       level. It varies so much mainly because of wind chill, though
       the length of the summer growing season is important as well. A
       tree in relatively mild wind conditions can grow all the way up
       to the maximum recorded tree line altitude at temperatures well
       below freezing (down to minus 40° F =- 40° C  ;D), provided its
       roots can get enough water.
       Trees can have liquid water in their tracheal elements at such
       low temperatures because of a wonderful combination of two
       factors. The first is that the 'pumping' mechanism of a tree is
       more a sucking mechanism than a pumping mechanism. The
       transpiration of water vapor into the atmosphere at the branch
       leaf pores creates negative pressure on the water molecules
       inside the tree (as long as the tracheal elements vacuum is not
       breached by air intrusion).
       Water molecules, as they travel up the inside of tree, aided by
       capillary action as well as transpiration, can be stretched by
       as much as negative 25 atmospheres! That is how those Giant
       Sequoias can move up to a 130 gallons of water a day over a 100
       feet vertically.
       The second factor is that the water in the tracheal elements, in
       addition to being thoroughly stretched, is extremely pure. This
       prevents the crystalization of water around non-water substances
       that would normally trigger freezing at 0° C. But, when the wind
       is howling during below freezing temperatures, the wind chill
       can cause the water in the tree to freeze and eventually kill
       the tree.
       The closer to the equator a high mountain tree is located, the
       longer it's growing season will be. If the growing season is too
       short, like in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, the tree
       line is only about 4,500 feet.
       SNIPPET from an article about the Tree line:
       The elevational limit of such suitable summer conditions varies
       by latitude. In Mexico, for example, treeline occurs somewhere
       around 13,000 feet, whereas farther north, in the Tetons, for
       instance, it occurs lower, at approximately 10,000 feet. Again,
       it’s a ragged line that may vary by hundreds of feet on any
       mountain, depending largely on shelter and exposure.
       Because the elevational treeline is so closely tied to
       temperature, many suggest that it could be a particularly
       sensitive indicator of global climate change. Presumably, rising
       temperatures would increase the elevation of treeline in any
       locale, altering forest distribution and potentially ousting
       rare plant communities – and their inhabitants – that now exist
       above treeline. Although the specific physiological mechanism of
       treeline formation is not fully understood, there is growing
       photographic and other evidence of upward shifts in treelines
       worldwide.
       Why Is the Treeline at a Higher Elevation in the Tetons than in
       the White Mountains?
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       A PLUS 4° C (and still going up) atmosphere by around 2060 will
       enable trees to grow at much higher altitudes. For every degree
       increase in average global temperature, a corresponding increase
       in humidity of at least 7% to 13% will take place. We will have
       an atmosphere expanding vertically, but also with increased
       humidity. This will accelerate warming because water vapor is a
       powerful greenhouse gas, but the good news is that high mountain
       areas will, in some areas, experience more rain higher up.
       As noted at the beginning of this article, humans need water and
       other adequate growing conditions in order to have a viable
       civilization.
       The Catastrophic Climate Changed world of 2060 will be a stormy
       place. The over acidified, mostly dead oceans, will be full of
       giant waves.
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       />The winds during storms will be off the charts in comparison
       to
       what we experience now. High up in the mountains, some type of
       barrier will need to be erected to keep the fierce winds from
       destroying the crops.
       Finally, those hardy folks who carve out a life in year-round
       sunny high mountains will have to deal with UV radiation. It is
       a fact that, at present, the UV levels at around 10,000 ft. and
       above are particularly hazardous to humans.
       However, with the expanded atmosphere in an overheated planet,
       this is the one area I see as hopeful for humans and animals
       living on very high mountains. You see, in said expanded
       atmosphere of plus 4° C and above, the massive increase in
       humidity will inhibit UV radiaiton.
       Nevertheless. Since the equator alpine areas are infamous for
       high UV radiation, it would be prudent to plan to plant crops
       that have high UV tolerant foliage, like tubers. Hopefully, the
       greatly increased humidity will help protect the High Mountain
       Human Heroes.
       SNIPPET:
       Everyone is exposed to UV radiation from the sun and an
       increasing number of people are exposed to artificial sources
       used in industry, commerce and recreation. Emissions from the
       sun include visible light, heat and UV radiation.
       The UV region covers the wavelength range 100-400 nm and is
       divided into three bands:
       UVA (315-400 nm)
       UVB (280-315 nm)
       UVC (100-280 nm).
       As sunlight passes through the atmosphere, all UVC and
       approximately 90% of UVB radiation is absorbed by ozone, water
       vapour, oxygen and carbon dioxide. UVA radiation is less
       affected by the atmosphere. Therefore, the UV radiation reaching
       the Earth’s surface is largely composed of UVA with a small UVB
       component.
       Environmental factors that influence the UV level
       Sun height—the higher the sun in the sky, the higher the UV
       radiation level. Thus UV radiation varies with time of day and
       time of year, with maximum levels occurring when the sun is at
       its maximum elevation, at around midday (solar noon) during the
       summer months.
       Latitude—the closer the equator, the higher the UV radiation
       levels.  :(
       Cloud cover— UV radiation levels are highest under cloudless
       skies. Even with cloud cover, UV radiation levels can be high
       due to the scattering of UV radiation by water molecules and
       fine particles in the atmosphere. :(
       Altitude—at higher altitudes, a thinner atmosphere filters less
       UV radiation. With every 1000 metres increase in altitude, UV
       levels increase by 10% to 12%.
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       What do you think are the chances of human civilization
       achieving what the following graph says we HAVE TO DO?
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       There is NO WAY in God's (formerly good) Earth that we can avoid
       a climate that is almost entirely unsuitable for human life. The
       above graphic illustrates that. Anyone who thinks that we can do
       what needs to be done to avoid a PLUS 4° C (and above!) climate
       that will kill most humans and cause the extinction of thousands
       of other vertebrate species is engaging in magical thinking.
       >:(
       ALL the people near the surface in the tropics will die as
       crispy critters, period. Those in temperate zones will perish
       too. Those near the poles who live near the surface will last as
       long as the food they have lasts. Unless they can maintain some
       geothermally heated and powered high tech greenhouse CITY that
       includes PLENTY of crop growing quality light and plenty of
       water, they will die too.
       I might add that those greenhouse giant domes, both near the
       poles ond on high equatorial mountains, had better be MASSIVELY
       strong. The storms that will visit them and the wind speeds they
       will face in a PLUS 4 ° C planet
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       />will make any recent hurricane look like a gentle breeze.
       In Antarctica, some vegetables have now been (sort of)
       successfully grown.
       SNIPPET:
       These Antarctic vegetables were grown without pesticides,
       daylight, or even soil — but they look absolutely delicious.
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       [center]Various vegetables which were harvested from the
       EDEN-ISS greenhouse at the Neumayer-Station III on Antarctica.
       Image credits: DLR[/center]
       Germany’s southernmost workplace, the Neumayer-Station III, has
       harvested the first crop of Antarctic vegetables. Biologists
       report that they’ve successfully grown 3.6 kilograms (8 pounds)
       of salad greens, 18 cucumbers and 70 radishes grown inside a
       high-tech greenhouse, as temperatures around the research
       station were plummeting to -20 degrees Celsius (-4 Fahrenheit).
       The plants were grown without soil, in a closed-water circle. No
       outside lighting was used — instead, researchers optimized and
       used an LED system. The carbon dioxide cycle was also closely
       monitored.
       While this is a solid crop already, researchers are expecting
       much more in the future. The German Aerospace Center DLR, which
       coordinates the project, said that in the coming months, they
       expect to harvest 4-5 kilograms of fruit and vegetables a week.
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       [center]Image shows engineer Paul Zabel with fresh salad he
       harvested in the EDEN-ISS greenhouse at the Neumayer-Station III
       on Antarctica. The project with — instead of soil — a closed
       water cycle, optimized lightning and carbon dioxide levels is a
       test of what may become part of the nutrition program for
       astronauts in future moon or Mars missions. Image credits:
       DLR.[/center]
       Full article: Scientists harvest first batch of Antarctic
       vegetables
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       I am skeptical of the nutritive value of crops grown this way.
       Though it is good to know they used no pesticdes, the article
       says nothing about any nutritive mineral analysis of these
       vegetables, so there is no evidence yet that this is a
       sustainable crop growing method in a harsh climate changed plus
       4 degrees C world.
       The article ends with optimistic talk about using the above
       technique (and similar techniques like they use in the
       International Space Station) to eventually grow food in
       spaceships and on other planets.
       Within a decade or less, successfully growing food near the
       poles will be far more important for the survival of humanity
       here on earth than in space or on some other planet.
       Speaking of activity near the poles to deal with Climate Change,
       Iceland is one of the few places on Earth that are seeing
       benefits from Climate Change. They may be destined to be one of
       the outposts of humanity in an increasingly overheated world.
       Now they are planting evergreens. But, if we do not reverse the
       overheating trend, they will eventually have to plant
       these:&#127796; :P
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       Vikings cleared the forests, now Iceland is bringing them back
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       Even with laudable efforts like the forest planting project in
       Iceland, humanity needs to do far, far more to survive.
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       We will need gigantic, and I mean "miles in diameter" GIGANTIC,
       greenhouses to get a reasonable amount of food grown near the
       poles and/or on the equatorial mountains.
       The giant greenhouse domes situated in the high equatorial
       mountains would have to be something like the U.K. Eden Project
       Domes, but way up high on a mountain. In England they have an
       enclosed rainforest in these domes. They need to be ten or
       twenty times bigger for an equatorial alpine community. If the
       post collapse alpine community could control the atmospheric
       pressure in the giant domes, more UV protection is guaranteed
       and more comfortable living for humans too.
       [center]
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       [center]Eden Project North UK
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       For those still worried about fellow humans trying to kill you
       for your stuff, remember that high mountains are a natural
       defense against warlike humans during the initial phases of the
       Climate Change Caused Collapse. The heat lower down will
       eliminate any human threat after a couple of decades.
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       STOP thinking you are going to live on a planet that has the
       remotest resemblance to the one you have lived in all your life.
       THAT is WISHFUL THINKING! The LEAST of your problems is going to
       be worrying about the "zombie" humans getting your stuff.
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       #Post#: 661--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Future Earth
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: November 16, 2022, 10:51 am
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       NOVEMBER 15, 2022 by BILL MCKIBBEN &#127774;&#10024;
       [center][glow=green,2,300]
       Someday the [shadow=red,left]climate fight[/shadow] will be
       dull--and that's how we'll know we're winning[/glow][/center]
       [center]Egypt Dispatch 5: Looking back at America's elections
       from Sharm el Sheikh[/center]
       
       Let us stipulate that climate change shouldn’t be a politically
       polarizing issue—physics has assigned us a straightforward task,
       which is to stop burning fossil fuel, and given us a tight
       timeline. As a world, we should be hard at work; it would be a
       hard task, but—especially if we’d started when we got our first
       warnings—well within our powers as a species.
       Let us further stipulate that it clearly is a politically
       polarizing issue, probably the biggest of all time, because
       power and money are at stake, and the people who possess them
       under the current system (Exxon, Putin, the Koch Brothers) will
       do anything they can think of to avoid losing those possessions.
       That’s what this COP and all the others are really about: an
       effort to somehow overcome, or work around, that power. There
       are 636 registered fossil fuel lobbyists on hand here, and the
       biggest single delegation is from the United Arab Emirates; it’s
       quite possible that more of the people here want to keep the
       current order than undermine it.
       This is a fighting newsletter. The fight is in its decisive
       stages, and the next years will tell, so this comes to you for
       free. But if you can afford the modest monthly subscription
       without financial hardship, you’ll help keep it coming .
       Upgrade to paid
       Because the climate movement was decisively losing this fight,
       we needed to make it dramatic—we needed, say, to go to jail.
       That was absurd, at some level—why should someone have go to
       jail on behalf of physics? But changing the narrative requires
       getting people’s attention. That’s why my dear friend Svitlana
       Romanko got carried out of a room at the Egypt talks today—she’s
       the Ukrainian climate activist fighting fossil-fueled Russian
       fascism, and she refused to sit silently while Russian
       ‘diplomats’ told their lies. “I am glad that I named evil by
       name and I was able to tell them what all Ukrainians would like
       to tell them if they were here,” she said. “You are a terrorist
       state, you are genociding, torturing and killing us daily for
       nine months, your oil and gas are killing us. You are war
       criminals, you must not be here but in international court.”
       But our job is not forever and just to make trouble; eventually,
       when we start to win, it’s the other side that will need to get
       desperate. And slowly, too slowly, it’s happening. This fall’s
       elections are mnore important than anything that’s happening
       here at Sharm el Sheikh, I think—the one in Brazil last month,
       and the ones across America last week, and the one that could
       come in Georgia early next month.
       These elections were not, for the most part, fought on climate
       change, which in itself is something of an accomplishment. In
       the U.S., Biden’s main legislative accomplishment was the
       passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, which is mostly a
       climate bill, and arguably the most expensive new attempt by the
       federal government to proactively tackle a problem since the LBJ
       years. So the fact that the GOP didn’t go after it indicates
       they understood its basic popularity.
       But the news is better than that. Exit polling indicates that
       for voters considered [glow=red,2,300]climate change[/glow] the
       second most important issue facing the country—actually, it tied
       with abortion, and came in ahead of crime, despite the fact that
       those issues were the centerpieces of Democratic and Republican
       strategy. (The first place issue, of course, was “economy/jobs”,
       which is pretty much always the first place issue, because
       everyone needs a job and has to live in the economy.) A tenth of
       the populace now understands that climate counts more than
       anything else—which means that a much larger percentage
       understands that it counts an awful lot. In any event, a tenth
       is a big share. And that tenth is obviously concentrated among
       younger voters—who turned out in larger than expected numbers,
       and helped turn the election from a toxic red tide into
       something we can build on.
       Still, the political fight continues, and will always continue
       as long as serious money and power continue to be at stake.
       Herschel Walker and Raphael Warnock come next, in a Georgia
       runoff in early December. It’s a crazy battle—between the man
       who may be the single most articulate U.S. Senator, and the one
       who would definitely be the least. Walker seems slightly fixated
       on climate change—early on he explained that we send “good air”
       to China so…nevermind. This week he added to his legend with a
       stirring defense of “gas guzzlers,” which is not what their
       defenders usually call them, but he was saying the noisy part
       out loud. Even Walker, however, understands there must be some
       problem associated with the internal combustion engine, so he
       added—mysteriously—”we got the good emissions under those cars.”
       And he said (and again, note the concession to some kind of
       reality) “If we was ready for the green agenda, I'd raise my
       hand right now. But we're not ready right now.”
       This has become the remaining defense of the
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       />fossil fuel industry—’it would be good to get rid of us, but
       we
       can’t yet, so &#128520; wait a while.’ It’s dangerous nonsense,
       but it does illustrate how far we’ve moved the reality needle.
       Raphael Warnock, meanwhile, is not particularly noted as a
       climate warrior (he’s got other issues where he’s leading) but
       he too illustrates how far we’ve come: one of his big boasts
       headed into the runoff is that he helped land a big new battery
       plant near Augusta. And here’s how he spoke about it: “Georgia
       is open for business, and today’s announcement is good news for
       both Georgia’s growing clean energy economy and Augusta workers.
       I was proud to fight for and help secure the $178 million
       needed for this new facility, and I’ll continue to work closely
       with businesses looking to start or expand in Georgia to secure
       critical investments that will help create local, good-paying
       jobs.” Which is not the way I’d describe it—I’d go on and on
       about the low-carbon future or some such, which is why I’d lose
       the Georgia elections by a mile. (Also I live in Vermont). But
       it’s the right way for him to speak about it, because it’s
       almost dull.
       In other words, Democrats have begun to normalize the transition
       we need to make, to assimilate it into the standard language of
       politics, and Republicans increasingly look like…morons. Walker
       actually seems quite dumb, but in this case it’s not his fault;
       he’s stuck by virtue of his party defending something stupid
       (“gas guzzlers”). It’s a harder and harder case to make with
       each passing quarter, because more and more people can read the
       future. Earlier this year the University of Georgia (whose
       football glory represents Walker’s main claim on voters)
       announced a big new center focused on “electric mobility.”
       “Developments in battery technology, the growth in electric
       vehicle sales, and the transition to renewable energy are a
       trifecta for significant societal and economic change delivered
       by higher levels of energy efficiency and cheaper electricity,”
       said Regents Professor Richard Watson. “UGA is poised to help
       Georgia switch on a new future.” The trustees of the University
       of Georgia are probably not particularly liberal, but they
       understand about $178 million battery factories.
       This normalization is crucial, and ongoing. Another important
       development along these same lines yesterday, as Ben Jealous was
       named the new head of America’s biggest environmental group, the
       Sierra Club. The fossil fuel industry has worked long and hard
       to try and carve away Black voters and politicians, with
       donations and with common-man rhetoric. (If you’ve never read
       the NAACP’s reports on this “fossil fuel foolery", they’re
       enlightening). But Black Americans remain among the staunchest
       supporters of action on climate change (because they are among
       its prominent victims). And now this tie will grow even
       stronger: Jealous, the former head of the biggest civil rights
       group in America (the NAACP), is going to lead its biggest green
       group. This represents a formidable kind of influence. (Jealous
       is also just good at what he does).
       I don’t know if we can address the climate crisis in time; I do
       know it depends on this political evolution continuing, and
       speeding up. We have to break the effective power of the fossil
       fuel industry; it’s going to be close. We’ll need to continue
       being dramatic, because for now they’re still ahead. But we also
       need to be dull. Hail Mary passes, but also
       four-yards-in-a-cloud of dust grind-it-out running game. We’re
       starting to put points on the board.
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