| Someone's gotta pay the Bill |
[Feb. 24th, 2006|08:44 pm] |
OK, so I'm not crazy.... Bill Clinton is now saying it! Here's the quote from a report on his $2500 a head dinner in Auckland yesterday:
"And I'm worried about that because I think the concept of global warming is totally unsustainable and the question is not whether we're going to have a disastrous reaction but when," Mr Clinton said. If the world continued warming over the next 50 years as it had in the past decade, there would be a new ice age, he said.
Wow. Good thing it is stoppable (of course only if we start talking about it). |
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| "We're not scaremongering, this is really happening...." |
[Feb. 13th, 2006|05:15 pm] |
...everything all of the time
Ukraine, and Poland, and Romania, and it's too cold to snow in Turin.... |
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| new new york blizz breaks 1947 record |
[Feb. 13th, 2006|09:35 am] |
68cm snowfall, a NYC record!
 
[read all about it] |
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| Al! What a guy.... |
[Jan. 29th, 2006|12:31 pm] |
ExVeep Al Gore pushing new movie.. and the envelope!
There's quite a bit of news coming out these days from Park City about Al Gore and his new movie! Jeez! this guy is quite a mogul these days ainte? with a network, movies and the rest i am digging this guy more by the second-- not to mention that he's looking mighty presidential if you ask me). But here's the deal, Gore is at the Sundance Indy Festival pushing "An InconvenientTruth" (what a great title), his new documentary about Climate Change. I can't wait to see this one!! Not only does he collaborate with 24 Director Davis Geuggenheim (sure it's an evil propaganda show but is shot/cut soooo well!!!), but he's also talking the serious talk! He has even mentioned (what now i guess in no longer heretic) the coming Ice Age in Europe (it's funny that people still think that the cooling will only affect Europe. Wishful huh?) |
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| kure-ji yuki |
[Jan. 7th, 2006|02:52 pm] |
....or atamagaokashii kousetsu. Nihongo for Crazy Snow!!
4 meters snowfall in Ishikawa Prefecture!!
um, BTW please notice where the guy is standing
...that house isn't that far in the distance...
more stories...
...obviously it's a snowy place
but still ...4 meters???? thats what. 12 feet of snow in one snowfall??? |
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| I sage you sage, we all scream for Ice Ages.... |
[Dec. 5th, 2005|08:50 am] |
yet one more post on the coming Ice Age
The Australian has an interesting interview with Dr Richard Sanders, one of the researchers that got the 30% story down and spread around the world. There's more to it than just a 30% drop, as you will read, some places registered a 50% drop (well that isn't all that surprising since other downwelling sites are now down to 25%). This is a story that won't die. It's only going to, er, snowball.
I suggest we star warming up to this concept and even start looking at architectures and structures that will work well with an Ice age, like the Ice Hotel up there... Lots of people seem to like the experience... maybe we can grow into it! |
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| ice age stopping solutions |
[Dec. 2nd, 2005|05:51 pm] |
how-to stop the coming ice age part 1.
ok getting a little bleary eyed, so will be brief and hope to prose it up later, but a main way to stop it (aside from the probable need to do stuff like desalinate (and remove the freshwater from) the north atlantic, is to remineralize the earth. That, for the past 2 million years, has been the Ice Age's main job (and while we can do it in but a few years, it takes an Ice Age 90,000 years to do it)
not only does this bring the biosphere back to optimal health, but everything grows bigger healthier and more happy, i swear! So here are some links to sites about this amazing technology
Lastly ...about 10 years ago i saw this movie Stopping The Coming Ice Age about just this topic. and it moved me profoundly. And while there are some scientific facts that are wrong, the basic science is right (and when you actually fix their mistakes it further proves their point) and now with the magic of the internet, here watch it with realplayer |
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| more ice age news..... |
[Dec. 2nd, 2005|07:56 am] |
ok many have heard that the gulf stream is now said to be operating at a 30% reduction (a lot nicer than 2 months ago they were saying that you couldn't say that it was down by 75%)
here's the ReralClimate debate and a nice article saying its the beginning of the Day After Tomorrow. It even made it into Slashdot.
I wish i was wrong on this one.... next post i promise, is going to be on how to stop-the-ice-age. i promise |
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| idiotheque .....damn that thom york! |
[Nov. 26th, 2005|04:44 pm] |
are we entering a new ice age?
I get that silly song stuck in my head every now and then... "ice age coming, ice age coming ...let me hear both sides!" ....sure not going to help that today i was reading an article in EnergyPulse("Insight analysis and commentary on the global power industry") where a journalist was quoting Robert Frost:
Some say the world will end in fire,
some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire,
but if it had to perish twice,
I think that for destruction ice
is also great
and would suffice
To which the journalist added; "the likelihood, the science, points to ice." And then even while reading London's conservative Herald(it's brought to my attention that it's actually Glaswegian, and actually leftish, I spot this doozie of a statement; "If and when climate change plunges northern Europe into a new ice age, or floods the planet, who looks after he nuclear waste then?" He's not asking, not even debating, but talking about the next ice age as if its pure fact, and now a given. Where was the debate? I was waiting for the debate for a while now, and now it's just moved to certainty, just like that? I feel cheated.
Is it happening? I can't say that the global power industry rag is going to sway anyone.. i mean he quotes from the Fire by Ice guy, who a lot of people say is a nutter. But at the same time I see this stuff popping up more and more, and pretty soon, hopefully, there will be some good questions for all of us to be thinking about.... you been reading this for a while, i'm sure you know which side i am on... but i dont even want to entertain "are we? are we not?" questions... Because I feel its time to start going beyond that and getting up to speed with the technologies that art going to help us adapt to climate change.
See the guy who quoted Frost, as poetic as he was, ends his argument with the dire; "Just as there is nothing mankind can do to prevent a bogus global warming, there is likely nothing we can do to avoid the very real prospect of the next ice age. When it comes it will be extinction time for people, plants and animals north of the Equator. That’s the way it was the last time" and i think that's just horse poop. To begin with if we went extinct last time, then we wouln't have to be reading such drivel on the internet; WE WOUDLN'T BE HERE! Beyond that major misstep in logic, there's also a lot of credence lent to the argument that there are many things we can do if we want to stop the next ice age. Many. I am going to be getting into my vaery favorite one in on of the next few posts....
stay tuned |
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| ...the good news! |
[Nov. 23rd, 2005|11:52 am] |
ok, so it does look like we will see a climate flip flop in our own lifetime. That is pretty heavy an idea... but i just wanted to state for the record that this may be the best thing to ever happen to us and-- should we choose to accept the mission-- it may be something that one day in the future will be considered as the beginning ...HUGE!
Why the optimism? Well, in my own personal theosophy, there just wouldn't be so many amazing technical advances and greening of culture, if we weren't going to make it (ok i'll go back into the corner with my violin in a few seconds), that would just be too much of a cosmic waste... but for those that chose a more 'scientific' approach, lets say it's because climate change (esp. climate flips) is directly linked to human evolution. So, the way I see it, the closer we get to the flip flop the closer we are to evolving.
about 10 years ago, i got a copy of this book  about this link (between Cch & Evo), and was sooo fired up about it that i trekked across the country to meet the guy who wrote it. Professor WIlliam Calvin. We chatted for hours at length about this evolution... he wasn't so sure we'll make it saying that it usually takes a species 50 years minimum to adapt, but me ever the teary-eyed optimist kept pushing.... eventually we got to the bottom line, that this time around it's not our posture that will change, or a new tail, but our societal structures that will evolve if we are not to do the other thing that happens when a climate flips (those who don't evolve eventually end up in museums collecting dust). It's our food manufacturing & delivery systems, our shelter systems and of course our energy production (among others... I pray that we will lose roads as well).... My homespun interpretation also adds that we will have a huge shift in perception finally seeing the whole before assuming we know or are all that special...
But when i look at how fast things are changing, I get giddy thinking that yes! this is going to happen! to us! what an amazing time to be alive!! Lateley there has been more talk about this evolution link and no longer from the hallowed halls of academia but even from the mainstreamers... I mean how much proof do we need?
we can have it! the organic food-growing agribots, the regrowing of rainforests (no, they don't have to disappear), and all the other goodies that a highly evolved species has to play with. That is our future and no one can tell me otherwise.
thanks!
~L |
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| moot |
[Sep. 28th, 2005|01:06 pm] |
exuberant pantaphobia refuses to get on the bandwagon
Well... all week long there has been talk about Katarina and Rita. Most ecoist are saying that it is proof positive that the greenhouse gasses create worse natural disasters. Most climatologist say that you cant look at any one event, no matter how freaky, and determine that it is or isn't greenhouse induced. Sure there is the odd climatologist who has decided to speak out-- just like there are some still on the oil-dole (global climate coalition members ought to be thrown into The Tombs and have the key tossed into a 3D climate model-- they have done nothing to help the situation) And i guess, while people are out there suffering, i just didn't want to get involved.. capitalizing on human misery is not my forte.
So I've been keeping my mouth shut, and watching the battle rage on the frontlines: over at RealClimate.com ( Read more... ) |
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| how did we miss this story?? |
[Sep. 21st, 2005|06:59 am] |
43 cm of Snow in southwest Alberta over the weekend
Sure, it seems to be happening more and more... Summer snow storms in alberta have become as common as say, the common cold. And to be honest, everyone was a little busy with Katarina to notice this little storm (not to mention the CBC, who did run the story online, has been on 'lockout' so it didn't get airplay (CBC's news has been temporarily replaced by the BBC nightly news). But come on!! 43cm?? that's quite a bit of snow for one storm. No doubt, it will melt away soon enough, and people will get back to their support of tar sands and griping to the government that the "gas tax is unfair" |
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