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591 ViewsBig temperature swings in Nevada. Perhaps engineering climate change is possible, but with some catastrophic side effects. Alaska is experiencing some of the biggest effects too, with shore line disappearing near the oil wells. This ties directly into the small melting glaciers that are causing additional sea level rise. When ice turns to water, the changes to climate causes England to flood, China floods, Texas floods.
But its not flooding everywhere, the pendulum swings and causes massive fires and drought too in other parts of the world.
Here is an example of the future we all face - Serbia and the Flames
If there is any justice in this injustice, is that global warming has no borders or nationality, and yet it has guilty and victims. Guilty: all of us who ignored inconvenient truths and sacrificed the ecological conscience for other more or less legitimate priorities. Victims: everyone yet to be born on our damaged planet; when crops wilt and forests burn down to black stumps, does it matter if that wasteland is called Kosovo or Serbia?
Year by year, mankind is becoming justly afraid of our vengeful climate. I have an epiphany: our world in 1999 is becoming all the world. No electrical, no water, no business-as-usual: fear.
I remember those bombing days of Serbia and Kosovo when everyone in this land, without exception, was a refugee under a scowling enemy sky.
North Slope oil production drops sharply. Dubai’s is even worse (1/3). China gulps more oil then ever, which still isn’t enough to solve their ongoing energy shortages.
Not hard to see where this is all going. It’s not alarmist to state the facts, but it’s irresponsible to ignore them.
But maybe there isn’t enough literacy in the country anymore. A shocking 50% of American adults cannot read at the eight-grade level.
Oh, here’s another one for you. Recall that “high level al-Qaeda figure who was first captured and then killed” recently?
Guess what? It was all fiction.
The apparently invented character called Abu Omar al-Baghdadi was known as the head of the Islamic State of Iraq — believed to be a front group for al-Qaeda.
He wasn’t captured, as was reported previously. He wasn’t killed May 1 by hostile fire from U.S. forces, as reported in a May 3 New York Times story. He wasn’t even real, according to the U.S. military.
They’re willing to do anything to keep up this illusion of “terror”. Expect the same with Iran. And oil. And climate change and on and on and on.









August 8th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
Things were just confirmed as worse, really badly worse. Follow the discussion initiated by “BostonGeologist” at The Oil Drum:
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2859#comment-223981
Summer sea ice melt in the arctic may exceed last year’s low by as much as 25%! This means more water (dark color) is exposed to solar inputs. This probably also means Greenland’s melt rate just accelerated again, though it will be hard to determine how much for several months probably. We may have crossed a threshold here.
http://intothegreyzone.blogspot.com/2007/08/weve-crossed-threshold.html
If we have, we’re in brand new territory now and the world doesn’t even realize it yet.