As the relentless cascades of data come in, about major ocean and atmospheric patterns being altered, by our crack like addiction to industrial civilization, I'm forced to cast my mind back to the last existential threat that I can remember this culture genuinely facing.
When James Anderson et al discovered that CFCs were drilling a hole in the Ozone Layer in 1987, he was able to galvanize world leaders to 'take action', it helped that the British P.M. and mass murderer, Margaret Thatcher ( remember the General Belgrano sinking in the war for Las Malvinas and all my Irish Republican comrades), was a chemist who had studied at Oxford University and had a reasonably good grasp of science, if not morality.
Some of the reasons that no action is taking place today is that: 1) The Seneca Cliff is above and behind us and all the world leaders know it. 2) I can't think of one country on the planet led by a scientist. 3) The nation whose military is the largest user of fossil fuels on the planet pretends it's all a hoax. DJT doesn't 'believe' it's a hoax, it's his policy position, he'll have all the data in files he hasn't read, probably in a bin in the Oval Office, alongside the Epstein Files.
The papers Guy quotes today keep referencing 2100, the standard response from most people when they hear 2100 is for their eyes to roll and then glaze over!
On a previous analysis Guy did on AMOC collapse he quoted a paper that reads “A new study published Tuesday in the journal Nature found that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current – of which the Gulf Stream in a part – could collapse around the middle of the century, or even as early as 2025.” I'll leave a link below, with that paper embedded, for anyone interested in following the trail.
Clearly, we're on 'borrowed time".
One final point re Professor James Anderson, Guy and I quoted work by Jim and Professor Jennifer McKibben from the Scripps Institute, that said the Arctic would be essentially ice free in summer by now, they were mistaken, hence our error in quoting them, but their position was based on following the "Precautionary Principle", remember that quaint old scientific maxim?
You'll find it buried somewhere underneath those files in the bin in the Oval office.
Michael C Ruppert's "Pass the Popcorn" comes to mind.
Apparently, the precautionary principle is for OTHER people, not the ones currently on Earth. Quoting other scholars has us headed in the wrong direction. Still, the combination of peer-reviewed data and the scholars who collect these data seems to me the only reasonable route forward.
Thank you for your comment, informed as always. I appreciate your willingness to collate and organize information, as well as your informative commentary.
Attributed to Buddha: "The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly." I feel the "wisely" part is very much missing in our world today. Thanks for keeping us informed, Guy.
As the relentless cascades of data come in, about major ocean and atmospheric patterns being altered, by our crack like addiction to industrial civilization, I'm forced to cast my mind back to the last existential threat that I can remember this culture genuinely facing.
When James Anderson et al discovered that CFCs were drilling a hole in the Ozone Layer in 1987, he was able to galvanize world leaders to 'take action', it helped that the British P.M. and mass murderer, Margaret Thatcher ( remember the General Belgrano sinking in the war for Las Malvinas and all my Irish Republican comrades), was a chemist who had studied at Oxford University and had a reasonably good grasp of science, if not morality.
Some of the reasons that no action is taking place today is that: 1) The Seneca Cliff is above and behind us and all the world leaders know it. 2) I can't think of one country on the planet led by a scientist. 3) The nation whose military is the largest user of fossil fuels on the planet pretends it's all a hoax. DJT doesn't 'believe' it's a hoax, it's his policy position, he'll have all the data in files he hasn't read, probably in a bin in the Oval Office, alongside the Epstein Files.
The papers Guy quotes today keep referencing 2100, the standard response from most people when they hear 2100 is for their eyes to roll and then glaze over!
On a previous analysis Guy did on AMOC collapse he quoted a paper that reads “A new study published Tuesday in the journal Nature found that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current – of which the Gulf Stream in a part – could collapse around the middle of the century, or even as early as 2025.” I'll leave a link below, with that paper embedded, for anyone interested in following the trail.
Clearly, we're on 'borrowed time".
One final point re Professor James Anderson, Guy and I quoted work by Jim and Professor Jennifer McKibben from the Scripps Institute, that said the Arctic would be essentially ice free in summer by now, they were mistaken, hence our error in quoting them, but their position was based on following the "Precautionary Principle", remember that quaint old scientific maxim?
You'll find it buried somewhere underneath those files in the bin in the Oval office.
Michael C Ruppert's "Pass the Popcorn" comes to mind.
https://kevinhester.live/2024/03/19/amoc-or-not/
Re the Arctic sea ice issue, one leader prepared to speak up:
"President Niinistö in Arkhangelsk: If we lose the Arctic, we lose the whole world".
https://www.presidentti.fi/niinisto/en/news/president-niinisto-in-arkhangelsk-if-we-lose-the-arctic-we-lose-the-whole-world/index.html
Apparently, the precautionary principle is for OTHER people, not the ones currently on Earth. Quoting other scholars has us headed in the wrong direction. Still, the combination of peer-reviewed data and the scholars who collect these data seems to me the only reasonable route forward.
Thank you for your comment, informed as always. I appreciate your willingness to collate and organize information, as well as your informative commentary.
Attributed to Buddha: "The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly." I feel the "wisely" part is very much missing in our world today. Thanks for keeping us informed, Guy.
Thank YOU, Mez. I appreciate your informed commentary.