tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post639839727309553412..comments2023-12-23T05:14:34.273-05:00Comments on Wit's End: Interregnum ReduxGail Zawackihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-9030229337122583342014-11-14T13:24:52.241-05:002014-11-14T13:24:52.241-05:00Here's a meme that probably applies to ozone a...Here's a meme that probably applies to ozone and all sorts of science deniers as well:<br />Sikora is a retired physics professor who lives in the area. I wanted to get the idea of "cult" out to some folks who can run with it.<br /><br />Climate-change deniers are like cult<br /><br />By - WALTER B. SIKORA published Wednesday, November 12, 2014<br />"A recent letter to the editor, headlined “Climate change is bad science,” reports that Weather Channel cofounder John Coleman stated on Fox News that “global warming is a myth that was incorrectly begun by Al Gore (that) ... continues to be pushed by the mainstream media” and that “global warming is based on bad science.” It’s too bad the author of the letter didn’t stay tuned, because two days later the Weather Channel itself, in a position statement, rebuked Mr. Coleman, saying that the planet is indeed warming and acknowledged that humans are helping make the planet warmer due to the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation, adding that the effects of climate change will be more negative than positive." continued at the link<br /><br />http://onlineathens.com/opinion/2014-11-12/climate-change-deniers-are-cult<br />catman306<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-77675943002247198072014-11-14T12:22:56.623-05:002014-11-14T12:22:56.623-05:00never mind it is Maysoon Zayid. I will have to re...never mind it is Maysoon Zayid. I will have to read up on Megan Amram!Gail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-75786003591280610212014-11-14T12:21:25.128-05:002014-11-14T12:21:25.128-05:00Wait...is this her? http://witsendnj.blogspot.com...Wait...is this her? http://witsendnj.blogspot.com/2013/03/nj-loves-chris-christie.htmlGail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-80914279944020471722014-11-14T11:52:05.656-05:002014-11-14T11:52:05.656-05:00Fart The Messenger Boy:
Stairway To Heaven
Energy...Fart The Messenger Boy:<br /><br />Stairway To Heaven<br />Energy demand is going to go up 50% at the exact same time emissions have to go down 80% and also at the very same time that post peak minerals forces recognition of the obvious, we are fucked and there is nothing we can do about it. We can't recycle our way out because of what Ugo Bardi calls "downcycling", which is the degradation of quality recycled materials deliver. Research into recycling is promising, but dwindles compared to post peak production dynamics.<br /><br />We've mined 50% of all the copper ever mined in human history in just the last 30 years. We are on track for copper to peak between 2030 and 2040. We do not have anywheres near enough copper for our green energy fantasies, and copper is only one example of many. After peak minerals, we cannot accelerate post peak mineral production no matter what the price of that mineral is. We already move some 3 billion tons of earth for 15 million tons of copper, and we will soon have to move lots more for much less. This can't go on.<br /><br />And no, you cannot substitute your way out of this. Aluminum is brittle, fire-prone and costs 5 times the energy of copper. Aluminum wire costs twice as much to produce as copper wire. Our faith in material substitutes has to break before it breaks us. We have to have a low-carbon plan that is realistically achievable, and not trillions of batteries, blades and panels. To power Britain today with 100% green energy, you would have to cover 25% of their country with green energy materials. This is plainly as stupid as it is materially mass foolish, or pound foolish as they say.<br /><br />Our monetary-military culture grew up from minerals and will flame out because of them. We are buying a stairway straight to hell. Going to wikipedia to look up mineral reserves is as reliable as getting your palm read at a county fair. Money is the root of all evil. This is why any future carbon tax dividends should be 100% all yours in a new direct deposit world wide e-currency powered by nuclear thorium because we can't mine green energy minerals without digging up already radioactive thorium. <br /><br />Green energy demands we flood the world with billions of tons of batteries. The thorium power will pay for the green energy minerals and destruct battery mass demand. This will change only the mineral-energy imbalance but not any other environmental overshoots. I do not like this reality, but anything is better than the nonsense we engage intellectually now.<br /><br />Math Made Easy: The Confluence of Crises Formula<br /><br />Minerals overshoot +<br />Climate overshoot +<br />Ecological overshoot +<br />Population overshoot =<br />---------------------------<br />Near Term Mass Extinction<br /><br />next chapter: lunch money; diamonds are for heifers extinctions are for evers<br /><br />hint: search for anything Megan Amram says.Robert Callaghanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11211882347789815165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-73212592792957256712014-11-11T18:35:41.803-05:002014-11-11T18:35:41.803-05:00Ah yes, a had more than one sharp exchanges with t...Ah yes, a had more than one sharp exchanges with the Yale forestry school researchers about that. Obviously, the trees are rotting, and the question should be why?...not how much methane they are contributing to warming. Recorded here: http://witsendnj.blogspot.com/2012/10/spill-scarlet-rain.html and here: http://witsendnj.blogspot.com/2012/10/hysteresis-and-vile-conspiracy-to-blame.htmlGail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-40878654644355183422014-11-11T18:03:51.764-05:002014-11-11T18:03:51.764-05:00This is from a few years back, but I didn't kn...This is from a few years back, but I didn't know this and just stumbled across it:<br /><br />http://scitechdaily.com/diseased-trees-may-be-a-significant-source-of-methane-that-causes-climate-change/<br /><br />Diseased Trees May Be a Significant Source of Methane that Causes Climate Change<br /><br />August 14, 2012<br /><br />Scientists believe diseased trees may be a significant source of methane that causes climate change, finding concentrations of methane that were as high as 80,000 times ambient levels in those trees. [article follows]<br /><br />Tom<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-36688483522811923582014-11-11T07:23:35.081-05:002014-11-11T07:23:35.081-05:00Been a while! I will have to add to the Apocalyps...Been a while! I will have to add to the Apocalypsi Library...Gail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-64008913790698584052014-11-10T22:27:09.678-05:002014-11-10T22:27:09.678-05:00amusing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLAr-Wlx...amusing:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLAr-WlxMZYAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02602889184552863878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-56024716850469209612014-11-09T13:02:19.930-05:002014-11-09T13:02:19.930-05:00I just learned that Vonnegut too blamed Prometheus...I just learned that Vonnegut too blamed Prometheus! From his 2004 article:<br /><br />What was the beginning of this end? Some might say Adam and Eve and the apple of knowledge. I say it was Prometheus, a Titan, a son of gods, who in Greek myth stole fire from his parents and gave it to human beings. The gods were so mad they chained him naked to a rock with his back exposed, and had eagles eat his liver.<br /><br />And it is now plain that the gods were right to do that. Our close cousins the gorillas and orangutans and chimps and gibbons have gotten along just fine all this time while eating raw vegetable matter, whereas we not only prepare hot meals, but have now all but destroyed this once salubrious planet as a life-support system in fewer than 200 years, mainly by making thermodynamic whoopee with fossil fuels...<br /><br />All lights are about to go out. No more electricity. All forms of transportation are about to stop, and the planet Earth will soon have a crust of skulls and bones and dead machinery.<br /><br />And nobody can do a thing about it. It’s too late in the game. Don’t spoil the party, but here’s the truth: We have squandered our planet’s resources, including air and water, as though there were no tomorrow, so now there isn’t going to be one.<br /><br />http://inthesetimes.com/article/the_end_is_nearGail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-87441660012198268572014-11-08T14:26:09.428-05:002014-11-08T14:26:09.428-05:00Heh. Dark Corner. I like that.Heh. Dark Corner. I like that.Gail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-52179187104628052812014-11-08T14:17:12.405-05:002014-11-08T14:17:12.405-05:00an elegiac post
"a single generation of the p...an elegiac post<br />"a single generation of the population – the most numerous generation – experiences abundance in its youth, starvation in maturity, and premature death for most of its members"<br />dark corner, for sureAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02602889184552863878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-76175837372124300472014-11-08T07:37:40.193-05:002014-11-08T07:37:40.193-05:00Agreed! A beautiful blog, always informing and ins...Agreed! A beautiful blog, always informing and inspiring usAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-59752180012423859832014-11-08T07:07:56.439-05:002014-11-08T07:07:56.439-05:00Over on seemorerocks, where they've linked to ...Over on seemorerocks, where they've linked to this essay, today's focus seems to be on crop loss from air pollution (notably ozone, as you've pointed out for years now). It's only going to get worse when you combine the damaging atmospheric chemical changes with the loss of groundwater in the breadbaskets of many of the crop producing areas world-wide (as noted by NASA recently). Watching our descent into oblivion isn't easy, and before long (possibly in next few years if the trend continues) we'll cross a threshold of tolerance (probably triggered by the economics and supply chain problems with dwindling resources, in this case FOOD) beyond which people and nations will freak out and the chaos and violence will rise (exponentially). <br /><br />Keep up the great work documenting the situation, Gail, we, your readers appreciate it immensely.<br /><br />TomAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-89291615209765459702014-11-07T21:34:46.745-05:002014-11-07T21:34:46.745-05:00Fascinating.Fascinating.BenjaminTheDonkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18304901070197940843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-6598266154948574292014-11-07T15:49:38.665-05:002014-11-07T15:49:38.665-05:00Brilliant post Gail. You weave a good story and p...Brilliant post Gail. You weave a good story and paint a colorful illustration of the history of mankind. Thanks for your effort! Wonderful pictures, interesting videos, astute citations and research make your posts so readable. <br /><br />i just stumbled across this latest post while taking a short break from something i gotta get done, so i'll be back to comment more.<br /><br />TomAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com