Repeated damage in the Northeast is a glimpse of the often-predicted climate shift–the consequence of energy systems and affiliated processes emitting excess GHGs like carbon dioxide. Focusing on the Northeast portion of the United States, one event continues to reappear as the progenitor of that damage: Storms feeding other storms.
This document is worth a read because it provides an intelligent overview:
Key Figures on Climate France and Worldwide – 2013 Edition.
I enclose one graphic–for our global warming enthusiasts:
Note how the change in slope of mean global temperature is changing: from a slow increase,in red, to a more rapid temperature change, in yellow.
Give the document some of your time and then get your friends to read it. There are many good data points in the document.
It appears that suggested solutions to the changing climate bring little beyond the retort of media spin. Such as:
So, let’s serve up a dish of old-school climate problems:
Among the desolate beauty, around the flying plastic bags, over the minerals, and resting upon the beer cans is a lot of sunshine. That seems pretty obvious, doesn’t it? After a summer of wandering about the desert feeling like a nomadic mop, I found myself questioning the logic of funding shale, building pipelines, and drilling into the Arctic–all to pump a few more gigatonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere.
Recently, a heretofore-climate-skeptic-business-person-that-would-be-leader oft quoted by the media lamented on the changing climate. The human condition, this newly minted environmentalist said, was the cause of energized storms, droughts, the migration of disease, and sea level rise. Worse, the predicament of people not paying attention to the changing climate–and implementing effective action–was also caused by humanity’s quirks. “We are failing,” said the dilettante, “at survival.” Further, “Something, anything, needs to be done to foster awareness lest we are burped off the planet.” Before dancing forward to declare how his companies’ products would help us.
Responding to the crisis fostered by super storm Sandy, Traders Without Borders (TWB) has set up its first-ever US-based relief effort. TWB, better known for investment efforts in the third world, the development of foreign oil fields, snagging raw materials from the Earth behind the mask of dictatorships, subjugating indigenous populations, and plans to rape the Arctic. TWB has had a long history of stepping in when social clarity requires extraordinary efforts to secure seedy investments.
Our hearts go out to those coping with the damage from the massive storm called Sandy that has assaulted the East Coast of North America and rolls into our midsection. Called the biggest, the most damaging, the Frankenstorm, Sandy, we must remember, is the herald of our pain. A trumpet blaring out the brutal future that could have been avoided by timely and effective government policies.
In the early part of World War II, Senator Harry Truman undertook a ten thousand mile expedition to investigate the nation’s readiness for war. His efforts created the Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program–it became known as the Truman Committee. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, some called for the committee to be disbanded on the grounds that it might impede victory by meddling in strategy and tactics. It did not, and continued into 1948. The committee staged over seven-hundred hearings and produced fifty-one reports, each one approved by Democrats and Republicans on the panel. The committee’s investigative efforts saved the government approximately fifteen billion in 1948 dollars–around half a trillion in current dollars.
So far, the idea of progress has been themed by sequence. As in, get this first and then get that. Development, says the old school, proceeds along the paths of clarity, mistake, luck, or karma. Or to put it another way, as a species, we are safer and safer as we move along the roadway of progress. Each mile, dollar, hypothesis, discovery that ticks by is another step forward for our species. Perhaps that model of progress has reached the end of its useful life and is due modification.
– THE THREE MONKEY PLAQUE –
2012 NERO AWARD WINNER:
* The State of North Carolina – House Bill 819 *
Lake Oswego, Oregon – August 2, 2012 – The Climatebull today announced the winner of the 2012 NERO Award competition honoring the ultimate in willful ignorance, willful blindness, and willful abdication of responsibility–as well as a deep disregard for best practice regarding the changing climate.
For the last few months, I have been following corn (social media joke avoided). Over that period I have garnered both a bushel of interesting facts (corn pun not avoided), and an attitude. See below.
First, regarding corn…
Since bottoming-out in late 2009, consumer climate interest rates, F8, has risen about 4% in three years. The DCI (Dead Cattle Index), and DLI (Dry Lightning Index) have also both risen by 2% in the same period, not too impressive, until you compare that to S&M (Scams and Misinformation Index) which has cratered by 60% during the same period. “A disturbing market pattern,” says our guest today, F.M. Train-Wrecks of Apathy Inc. “Add in the Colorado fires, the deluge in Florida, multistate derechos, sea level rise, the sweat-box summer, and we have a perfect storm leading to higher climate interest rates among consumers. F8 appears to be staging a breakout that is approaching its all time high of November of 2005,” says Train-Wrecks.
— Standards —
Common sense says we need standards. A lack of standards slows down adaptation and decreases resilience for a society. Conversely, if we take rapidly advancing technology out of the market equation, through standards, we facilitate technological and societal progress. As well, if we do not maintain social standards, our society will decay. While an evisceration of social standards facilitates chaos.
Dear Doug L. Lodgepole:
In the decade following the corporate consolidation transferring our Fort Collins branch, from CF&S (Critters, Forests, and Streams), to BF&D (Beetle, Fire, and Drought), we have seen a severe reduction in extreme cold winter temperatures that forces us to again reshuffle our boreal forest practice at Gaian Corporation and specifically here in Colorado. This year’s tree layoff, we envision, will be far larger than the second biggest downsizing, which as you remember, was only last year. Understand this change in the biome was not taken lightly. BF&D offices from New Mexico to the Yukon Territories and from the Front Range in Colorado to the Pacific Ocean are responding to the same forest devastation issues.
May the market bless you and keep you.
Common sense stifles innovation in America. A set of notions, a set of ideas, a set of morals, an interrelated clarity that many humans share, common sense is not shared by synthetic entities that exist for their own growth. Common sense also says egotism, synthetic or otherwise, must not control a population. So we ask, does it make any sense, common or otherwise, to stifle corporate growth? We think not. Synthetic entities like corporations have fostered corruption in the first world like no other. Novelty is part of their heritage and there is little that we do now that functions properly. Why strangle the success of innovative corruption with common sense?
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Recipe: Arctic Pie Surprise, Sans Albedo By: Cartelgreasio Added: Jun 4, 2012Categories: Extinction, Greed, Sociopathic Behavior, more
Prep time: 4.7 billion years Cook time: 260 years Total time: 4,700,000,260 years
Ingredients:
“The sky is falling. The sky is falling!” Yes, Chicken Little is back. The Global Bombing alarmists have returned, snorting, scratching, and trilling about Global Bombing. This time they have teamed up with the Tree-huggers. Even though the monkeys cannot connect with the planet, their environment, or the flow of energy around them–like we dinosaurs. I guess the politically correct usage these days is the monkeys are “challenged in their connection to the planet.”
Spring 2012 – Dr. Nwo – The Graduate Seminar on Propaganda
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The over-energized climate now shows itself as injurious to human activities. Certain interests have worked deliberately, and consistently, to downplay the climate as well as subvert effective action on the climate. Those same interests are now at risk from litigation and societal backlash if they do not appear to be working towards a solution.
The total amount of forcing, think energy (a joule of a statement–I know) entering our planet from the sun is about 250 Watts per square meter of planetary surface. Of that 250 Watts per square meter (approximately, on average, disclaimer, disclaimer), 150 Watts per square meter (approximately, on average, disclaimer, disclaimer), is the retained energy part of our planet’s radiative balance (disclaimer, disclaimer). So, what about the other 100? It radiates back into space. This means the 250 IN from the sun (per square meter of Earth’s surface) and the 100 back OUT into space (per square meter of Earth’s surface) and the 150 that stays with the planet trapped by the atmosphere (as measured by watts per square meter of Earth’s surface) is our planet’s radiative balance with space (approximately, on average, disclaimer, disclaimer).
A decade ago, it would have been easier to address anthropogenic forcing of the radiative balance, but a manufactured debate and our nation’s No Regrets strategy, the cavalier policy propagandizing human munificence through environmental inaction while ignoring the energizing climate, derailed an effective proactive strategy. Today, the risk of failure for any project continues to intensify day by day, splaying our band-aid class of solutions for all time, while branding the pages of history with a chronicle of ineptitude, fear, corruption, and stupidity. Meanwhile, the suite of climate events continues to evolve through a set of non-deterministic, non-linear inputs setting the stage for unprecedented damage and cost. That suite of climate events, the ones in popular focus, includes items like sea level rise, drought, intensified storms, damaging hail, rogue waves, larger hurricanes, more tornado clusters, flooding, species migration, disease migration, economic disruption, ocean acidification, food crop damage, potable water issues, and defense problems. So much for No Regrets–how long will it be before we hear about the replacement for No Regrets?
Economics is a tool of nations, not the wealth of nations.
Many have lost track of civilized behavior by concluding the business of the nation equals the nation itself. This daft misconception has grown like a cancer, leading to much of the dishonesty and graft that we now see in America. The grime of corruption, mismanagement, and societal divisions run so deep, that patching up of the corrosion seems to overwhelm us. Pundits hint at a misplaced understanding of national maturity, which declares that we have no choice but to endure the decay we see around us and to move forward through a banana-republic framework. This false sense of maturity falls far short of the worst issue. Acknowledging corruption and not combating it is defeat for a nation, an endgame lost.
Large centralized concerns considered by humans as “too big to fail” are in fact, bloated unbalanced systems that would die under their own weight–without support from the nation. Infrastructure disruptions, supply chain disruptions, subsystem disruptions, market disruptions, processing level disruptions, economic disruptions, human mistakes, energy constraints, and climate wakes all declare gargantuan systems defenseless against any intense alteration. Weather events can cause simultaneous damage to control and production facilities, as well as key suppliers, exposing climate-induced choke points for important products. There would be no Gaian bailout for the damage. Our planet has no notion of too big to fail. Immense centralized concerns are dinosaurs.
BIZOPS Synopsis:
Due to widespread use, the term tipping point has acquired a less than succinct quality, and any clarity once tied to The Climate Tipping Point has gone catawampus. Consequently, many ignore the coming discontinuity in the climate while using the term tipping point for any transition. A recent articles says, “…Events have almost pushed our planet to the tipping point and that global warming may be unstoppable.” Holy cow (flatulence), really? What the heck does “almost pushed our planet to the tipping point” mean?
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“…I have traveled the country club circuit numerous times. Outside their gates, uncounted Americans seek work. Tough crap on them–their dreams are based on believing the tissue paper-lies my kind and I have strewn across the airwaves and the internet, turning politics into a comedy of hope and our election process into a tragedy of greed.
Ring. Ring (a telecom auditory alert mechanism).
“Hello?”
“Ms. Tipsce?”
“Yes?”
“This is Prudence Tree-Hugger. How are you this evening?”
“Fine, how can I help you, Ms. Tree-Hugger?”
“Ms. Tipsce, call me Prudence. I wanted to let you know the sand bagging class has been cancelled. Oh, and while I have you on the phone, I was wondering if you have thought about environmental insurance for you and your family?”
“Mom, where’s the apple pie? Hey, are those rats in the slow-cooker?”
In 2004, I published “The Galileo Syndrome.” It stated that in the year 2020, our species would finally face the realities of anthropogenic forcing of the radiative balance. The result would be legislation to ameliorate the physical problems from an energized climate while attempting to cope with the social tribulations. The book also declared our leadership would construct a response still fantasizing a society dealing with an economic predicament fixable by technological means, rather than a species-changing environmental setback. In the end, I employed deus ex machina to accentuate the tragedy of discounting our planet’s systems.
Press Release
February 22, 2012
The Flatland Institute has issued the following statement concerning the insurgent called The Third Dimension.
“Earlier this evening, the Third Dimension, a prominent figure in the topological movement, confessed to adding a new dimension to fractal research done by The Flatland Institute. An effort to suggest our planet contains not only the dimensions of Length and Width but the dimension of Depth as well–it was all in an attempt to discredit and embarrass a group that disagrees with his view that there are three dimensions (or more) to any discussion, rather than two dimensions (right and wrong), as our Flatland researchers have proven.”
For a while now the term Feudalism has had dire repute. Associated to a period of disease, upheaval, a misuse of power, a lack of knowledge, economic disasters, the Black Plague, constant wars, and the Crusades, the word Feudal is often confused with terms like: useless, pointless, fruitless, or ineffectual. In fact, the governmental form known as Feudalism–our party root–has worldwide recognition, brand awareness, and longevity. Even with the left wing media associating Feudalism to the Dark Ages.
I am a returns specialist in Hades. In my job, ya’ get to meet all kinds of people. Oh, you’re wondering what I am doing here and how come I have this job. I admit this job is a lot worse than I thought I could get. Just so you know, with the economic downturn, it was tough to find a position. I took the first job available to me. I should have known it was not as advertised; the first interview with HR was with some demon that smelled like sulfur. Then there was the management interview, if you can call it that. All I can say is my friends in the Nazi Party had nothing on this guy. So we clicked. Then of course, the last interview was with the big guy himself. It was a hell of an interview. I took the job. What the heck; marry the night. For a while, it was interesting with the coming of the Second World War and all. Then afterwards, those trials and things, damn it was like old home week seeing my old cronies. I didn’t get to talk to them. My friends never got near the returns desk. Every one of them buzzed on by, with me coughing up their smoke.
…To Our New Renewable Fuel Source: Coal!
How can this be? You ask. Any idiot knows that coal is formed from organic matter compressed and heated by mass and time. And by any measure, a fuel source that takes three-hundred-million years to renew hardly fits the term Renewable.
Well think again. Apparently, we are not dealing with just any idiot here. Or even one idiot. Which reminds me of that old IT saying: “Strive to idiot-proof your software knowing the real problem is they are building bigger and better idiots every day.”
Another talent-challenged starlet was arrested yesterday in Los Angeles on drug charges and murder. In 1947, the famous Black Dahlia Murder took place in the same city. Murder charges are quite typical this time of year…
Today in New York City, thirteen people were killed when an unemployed engineer destroyed a subway car. Of course, this is not the only time a subway car has been destroyed. In fact, this tragedy doesn’t even rate in the top ten. In 1930s, on the eve of World War Two, a pair of subway cars collided killing…
SANCHO:
“Nickel plus hydrogen equals copper.”
QUIXOTE:
“And this means what?”
SANCHO:
“Yup.”
QUIXOTE:
“I said what.”
SANCHO:
“Exactly.”
QUIXOTE:
“What?”
SANCHO:
“We’ve already agreed on that.”
QUIXOTE:
“What?”
SANCHO:
“Watt–that’s what you said. WATT.”
QUIXOTE.
“I know what I said. And so what?”
SANCHO:
“Good point; I guess you do sew the nickel and hydrogen protons together.”
QUIXOTE:
“Why?”
(With apologies to Thailand and her people)
Ana-politician:
We’ve just been introduced,
I do not know your wells,
But reelection calls me,
So funding draws me to your hell.
So many politicians,
Are in the lobbyist’s arms.
It made me think…
That you and I might be
Similarly occupied.
Shall we shale?
(Dumb, dumb, dumb)
On a greased cloud of donors shall we lie?
(Dumb, dumb, dumb)
Shall we pump?
(Dumb, dumb, dumb)
Shall we say it’s just “Good-biz” and mean “Good-lies”?
(Dumb, dumb, dumb)
Final Exam – Fall Semester 2011
Dr. Nwo
Question 1 — Choose A or B
Which assertions are the hallmarks of an enlightened oligarchy?
A)
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From: The Boy Who Cried Wolf To: Chicken Little Re: Staffing Reductions Date: October 16, 2011 CC: M. Goose, Marketing Department HeadsYour outburst of uncontrollable clucking, followed by pecking at the corn-fiber carpet in our meeting today was unprofessional. Corporate policy requires all barnyard proceedings to take place outside departmental meetings. As well, corporate plans will change from time to time. Our corporate strategy now declares that the sky is not falling.
When I began work on this article, I had plans to chaff the participants of ICOA, the International Civil Aviation Organization; International air carriers and their backers, who, in a parade of paradox, have juked through the major cities of the planet for last ten years under the flags of ecological concern and integrated commerce for the purpose of hustling atmospheric physics. Displaying no shame in stalling climate remediation, even though ICOA had been instituted to design and invoke that remediation, their hypocrisy called to me like drums to the march. I had to respond.
1. Administering protection of the atmosphere hurts our economy
2. The environment is the air we breathe
3. Wealth and power control the media and we are powerless to change that
4. The environment is the water we drink
5. Legal proceedings bury the truth, ignore the risks, and shield gluttony
6. The environment is the food we eat
7. Morality is a technique for herding fools since attack-for-gain is empire
8. The environment, our ecosystem, is this planet
9. Using technology our children might adapt, because we are a clever species
10. In this entire universe, just this planet sustains the existence of our kind