Earth That Was: The Human Race Commits Suicide
POSTED BY: SignyM
UPDATED: Thursday, September 3, 2009 08:17
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I and many colleagues of mine have been warning about this and the methane clathrates within the ocean for over twenty years. I think we need drastic change in our social structure if we are to survive much longer. The human race has reached a level of technological capability that far exceeds our collective intellectual capabilities and wisdom. Wisdom as I define it is not intellectual prowess but rather the ability to make rational choices predicated on an honest evaluation of the universal environment that at least for now accommodates our existence. In particular understanding of the parameters limiting our capability of survival. Everyone walks around thinking that this planet was somehow specifically designed to be hospitable to us when in reality we simply exist in a brief period of time when conditions are suitable to our survival. If we do not value and promote wisdom in our population very soon we will have the distinction of having been one of the shortest lived species on this planet.
One of the most limiting intellectual fallacies of most of our scientists is that they all are enamored of thinking in terms of force and power and not energy densities and distribution. They also believe that their history and social environment has little to do with what and how they think. They think that linguistics is irrelevant to their intellect. That their belief in belief (religion) does not color that intellect. That they can say things like "laws" of science and not immediately predicate the concept of a sentient entity controlling the universe like some toy. It is truly disheartening to hear my colleagues talk. Their lack of respect for the immensity of energies around them is astounding. Their hubris in thinking that they have any real mastery over it leaves me breathless.
Technical capability is the ability of a child to place a round object in a round hole and not the capability of understanding if it should be done. That requires wisdom, which is the ability to contextualize the action in an environment greater then the self. Wisdom is the ability to see that the round object is a detonator. I hope you are well and are taking some time to smell the flowers.
CLATHRATES RELEASING THE SUPER-GREENHOUSE GAS: METHANE Quote:
Mackenzie River Delta, Northwest Territories (AP)—
"On a calm day, you can see 20 or more 'seeps' out across this lake," said Canadian researcher Rob Bowen... A tossed match would have set it ablaze.
Pure methane, gas bubbling up from underwater vents, escaping into northern skies, adds to the global-warming gases accumulating in the atmosphere. And pure methane escaping in the massive amounts known to be locked in the Arctic permafrost and seabed would spell a climate catastrophe.
Researchers say air temperatures here in ... the Arctic have risen ... much faster than the global average. The summer thaw is reaching deeper into frozen soil at a rate of 1.5 inches a year, and a further 7°C (13°F) temperature rise is possible this century, says the authoritative, U.N.-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In 2007, air monitors detected a rise in methane concentrations in the atmosphere, apparently from far northern sources. Russian researchers in Siberia expressed alarm, warning of a potential surge in the powerful greenhouse gas, additional warming of several degrees, and unpredictable consequences for Earth's climate.
... "There is a very large storehouse of greenhouse gases within the permafrost, and if that storehouse of greenhouse gases is fluxing to the surface, that's important to know. And it's important to know if that flux will change with time."
Methane also is present in another form, as hydrates—ice-like formations deep underground and under the seabed in which methane molecules are trapped within crystals of frozen water. (Clathrates) If warmed, the methane will escape.
Reporting to the European Geophysical Union last year, the scientists, affiliated with the University of Alaska and the Russian Academy of S
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Originally posted by SignyM:
RIGHT NOW, ONE BILLION PEOPLE ARE STARVING
Thats only because they don't have enough to eat.
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"Hero. I have come to respect you"- Chrisisall, 2009.
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They could eat you. I'll bet you're soft and well-marbeled.
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I've been following this, I think it's overblown. The human race has screwed up, but nothing fatal. If we take the groups destroying the environment, and kick their asses, starting with the meat industry (sorry, nothing animal righty here, just that this is true, it's the #1 cause of our problem.)
We need a new international environmental retribution system to take out anyone who:
a) logs, esp. clearcutting
b) grazes, esp. cattle
c) open fishes, esp. trawling.
d) reduces water flow, esp. damming
nab em, end of story. And to the survivalists, no, none of the above is essential to your survival, or even helps.
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But, but, but... that's ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT, Dreamtrove!
Yes, I think we CAN reverse our screwup. But yanno what???
WE WON'T
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Methane gas likely spewing into the oceans through vents in sea floor
Ya'll should read Mother of Storms. Filter out the 45% crap.
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The cure is to take all the global warming gurus and toss them in that lake.
Then light a match.
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Cold Water on "Global Warming"
It has almost become something of a joke when some “global warming” conference has to be cancelled because of a snowstorm or bitterly cold weather.
But stampedes and hysteria are no joke - and creating stampedes and hysteria has become a major activity of those hyping a global-warming “crisis.”
They mobilize like-minded people from a variety of occupations, call them all “scientists” and then claim that “all” the experts agree on a global-warming crisis.
Their biggest argument is that there is no argument.
A whole cottage industry has sprung up among people who get grants, government agencies who get appropriations, politicians who get publicity, and the perpetually indignant who get something new to be indignant about. It gives teachers something to talk about in school instead of teaching.
Those who bother to check the facts often find that not all those who are called scientists are really scientists and not all of those who are scientists are specialists in climate. But who bothers to check facts these days?
A new and very different conference on global warming will be held in New York City, under the sponsorship of the Heartland Institute, on March 2nd to March 4th - weather permitting.
It is called an “International Conference on Climate Change” that will examine the question “Global Warming: Crisis or Scam?” Among those present will be professors of climatology, along with scientists in other fields and people from other professions.
They come from universities in England, Hungary, and Australia, as well as from the United States and Canada, and include among other dignitaries the former president of the Czech Republic, Václav Havel.
All told, there will be 98 speakers and 400 participants.
The theme of the conference is that “there is no scientific consensus on the causes or likely consequences of global warming.”
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/29/opinion/main3893146.shtml
Washington Gets Snow in June
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5651377098886385960
Global Warming Means More Snow for Great Lakes
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/11/031106052121.htm
Antarctic Ice: A Global Warming Snow Job?
www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2005/05/27/antarctic-ice-a-global
-warming-snow-job/
Breaking news: Despite global warming, snow still exists
www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/01/26/drudge_warming/
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Sig
No, it wouldn't. I was suggesting a new form of international terrorism, or some sort of retribution based anarchy.
Global eco-govt. wouldn't work because it would be instantly taken over by industry and corrupted.
Not our screw up. Largely the IMF, and of course, many generations before us.
Evolution is about to change a tide here: Those capable of managing their environment will live. Everyone else will die. Simple.
There won't be a global change of significance, the human race is far closer to extinction than it thinks. We collapse at 90F, not 140 like we had thought. It's just a matter of time now. The result is there will still be humans, just not in the mississippi river delta and places like that, which will be completely uninhabitable.
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