Thursday, February 13, 2014

Climate change: It's even worse than we thought

More than the great Freudian escape exodus; more than abject reality denial; more than daily maximizing EBITDA for shareholders; more than the Mafia's motto, business is business, family (earth/life) is family (earth/life) - do not mix the two.

What is it?

What is it that makes Humanity obey the "Adapt" command to global warming, monstrous obscene income inequality, poverty, and "stuck in oil" energy science? Especially as the scientific solutions have been available since the 1940s.

What is it?

Climate change: It's even worse than we thought

(Image: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty) Five years ago, the last report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change painted a gloomy picture of our planet’s future. As climate scientists gather evidence for the next report, due in 2014, Michael Le Page gives seven reasons why things are looking even grimmer

ARCTIC WARMING

<i>(Image: Alban Kakulya/Panos Pictures)</i>

The thick sea ice in the Arctic Ocean was not expected to melt until the end of the century. If current trends continue, summer ice could be gone in a decade or two Read more

EXTREME WEATHER

We knew global warming was going to make the weather more extreme. But it's becoming even more extreme than anyone predicted Read more

FOOD PRODUCTION

In 202, droughts led to failed harvests in several regions including the US and Niger in Africa <i>(Image: Abbie Trayler-Smith/Panos Pictures)</i>

Global warming was expected to boost food production. Instead, food prices are soaring as the effects of extreme weather kick in Read more

SEA LEVEL

<i>(Image: Andrew Testa/Panos Pictures)</i>

Greenland's rapid loss of ice mean we're in for a rise of at least 1 metre by 2100, and possibly much more Read more

PLANETARY FEEDBACKS

The planet currently absorbs half our CO₂emissions. All the signs are it won't for much longer Read more

HUMAN EMISSIONS

Building more coal or gas-fired power stations puts us on the road to decades of continued emissions<i>(Image: C.Friedrichs/Flickr/Getty)</i>

If we stopped emitting CO₂ tomorrow, we might be able to avoid climate disaster. In fact we are still increasing emissions Read more

HEAT STRESS

A heatwave in Europe in 2003 caused an enormous number of deaths<i>(Image: Sipa Press/Rex Features)</i>

If the worst climate predictions are realised, vast swathes of the globe could become too hot for humans to survive Read more

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Fundamental Evolutionary Processes

(T. Troward): "So careful of the type it seems, So careless of the single life", a maxim rises from esoteric realms. Intelligence works by the law of averages which provide a wide margin of accident and failure to the individual. The progress toward higher intelligence is always in the direction of narrowing down this margin of accident and taking the individual more and more out of the law of averages, and substituting the law of individual selection, survival of the fittest. It may, therefore be taken as an established fact that in proportion as intelligence advances the individual ceases to be subject to a mere law of averages and has a continually increasing power of controlling the conditions of his own survival."

Statistically, this period of evolution is now almost entirely under the control of conscious human intent and will, and far less influenced by unconscious instinct, genetic mutation and natural selection. Conscious intelligence through human intent usurped unconscious instinct, genetic mutation and natural selection as the evolutionary driver somewhere back in caveman days. Science and Technology, Humanity's extended senses, are at the Steering Wheel today. Blind Science and Technology with Corporate secrecy, power, greed and lies, and Humanity can kiss it's x#s goodbye.

Does the Future have a chance?

As common sense in science is lost with the continued stagnation of our energy base and deep troubling theoretical foundational issues in physics, so too, Civilization's Survival Parameters fly out of sight, out of mind, along with the values and morals inherent within new scientific understanding which new energy systems would reveal. Scientific Stagnation bodes an ill wind to evolution, sustainability, and survival as "cycles of humiliation, dumbing us down, violence & resource wars" join hands with global warming and ecological imbalance to precipitate the historical "rise and fall" - a Tsunami accelerating toward us with a far more spectacular event than the legends and myths of 'Atlantis and Lemuria"........ had more people known that Energy from Corn (or going backwards to a dimwitted concept of radioactive nuclear power application ) sounded a wee bit kindergartenish and senile for the twenty first century......the Future may have had a chance.

Evolution, Intelligent Design & Survival

Thursday, February 13, 2014