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Same Planet, Different Worlds
World 1: Koala scorched in Australia due to massive fires according to a 2019 YouTube by The Sun with over 47 million views. The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) noted, “Nearly 6,382 koalas are estimated to have perished during the 2019/2020 bushfires, nearly 15% of the population.” My June 5, 2023 post linked a July 28, 2020 bbc.com…
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It’s all so simple . . .
It’s all so simple alone on a stream or listening in desert silence. In 2014 I suggested “the term ‘climate destruction’ from now on — instead of the much less troubling global warming or climate change.” The term never caught on but it’s certainly what we are seeing with rapid ice loss in Greenland, Arctic,…
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“Atlantic Ocean is headed for a tipping point − once melting glaciers shut down the Gulf Stream, we would see extreme climate change within decades, study shows” — The Conversation
by René van Westen, Utrecht University; Henk A. Dijkstra, Utrecht University, and Michael Kliphuis, Utrecht University Used with permission. Superstorms, abrupt climate shifts and New York City frozen in ice. That’s how the blockbuster Hollywood movie “The Day After Tomorrow” depicted an abrupt shutdown of the Atlantic Ocean’s circulation and the catastrophic consequences. While Hollywood’s vision…
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El Niño and Warm Ocean Temperatures Increase California Rainstorms/Hurricane/Flooding/Evacuations
This is the second time I recycled a post video due to first-recorded hurricane winds off Big Sur, California, and widely-reported heavy rains, flooding, and warnings or evacuation orders affecting “over 11 million people” in the state. February 2, 2024 Los Angeles Times reporters Haley Smith and Grace Toohey quoted UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain explaining the rainstorm, “It’s…
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Climate Sensitivity, and Human Insensitivity to Precautionary Principle
German theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder’s Youtube “I wasn’t worried about climate change. Now I am,” with over a million views in the past six days, shows results if James Hansen’s warnings of climate sensitivity are correct. She said at 13:14 on the timeline, “It just blows my mind how mind-fucking stupid it is that the…
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Jargon of Possible Human Extinction at 3°C Above Year 1850 Baseline
A friend said something like, “Most people don’t understand the jargon of 2 C, 3 C, 4 C, 5 C, IPCC, and COP.” Let me put it this way: Reliable sources like James Hansen noted November 2, 2023 in a Time article by Alejandro de la Garza, “The 2°C warming limit is dead, unless we take purposeful actions…
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2023 Widely Noted as Hottest in About 125,000 Years
A friend led boatbuilding crews overseas. He told me when someone said, “Don’t worry” it only meant one thing: “Worry.” This post’s headline, in a rational world, would be enough to topple Big Oil. Think about it. The “125,000” year claim, or close versions, appeared in cbsnews.com citing “U.N.’s International Panel on Climate Change, the world’s…
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“Every day you get older. Now that’s a law!” Butch Cassidy in film Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (1969)
Reflecting on ever-escalating climate emergency, I recall a 3-minute film scene in Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (1969) when Butch says, “Every day you get older. Now that’s a law!” It’s one of those cause and effect things. Many cultures note this cause and effect relation: > karma — Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Sikhism > “So I…
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“130 nations at Cop28 [called] for a fossil fuel phase-out” but Big Oil and Major Oil-Producing Nations Said No
Yesterday, I wrote an angry response to COP28, then deleted before posting because it didn’t help, or add anything. A day later now, past the self-imposed “watch an ice cube fully melt before responding,” I will try more creativity, reflection, and at least one solution. As I wrote in my March 17, 2018 post, the goal…
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A Good Time to Pray (post recycled from 1/9/18)
This is the first time I recycled a post. I thought it odd this post was visted recently until I read it again. Today I saw James Temple’s December 6, 2017 article “Global Warming’s Worst-Case Projections Look Increasingly Likely” in MIT Technology Review citing a paper in Nature that claimed “under the the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…