tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72438937986513075082024-02-18T22:22:22.922-08:00Fin des Voies RapidesIf Peak Oil Were No ObjectEd-Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443227448010363586noreply@blogger.comBlogger353125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243893798651307508.post-84392360964608569632017-02-27T08:40:00.001-08:002017-03-04T08:37:24.491-08:00Last post here on this blog.Here's the reason why:<br />
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Due to concerns expressed by my partner Andrew Porter about the commingling of my blogs and YouTube posts with his gmail inbox: he's got two gmail addresses with his name on it: one that he uses himself, and one that he has been letting me use because Google attached my blog and my YouTube account to it without asking me, when we tried to sign him up for gmail initially. Now the comments I've been expressing elsewhere under my old Google ID "Ed-M" and my YouTube ID "PfctvsPontivsPilatvs" has been showing up in the latter email address as is right and proper, but is also polluting the former address--the one that he's using! So I'm stopping my using those and going by my real ID now in order to prevent any further cross-pollution.<br />
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To expedite this, I'm starting new trio of blogs to succeed this blog ( <a href="http://ed-ms-commentarium.blogspot.com/">Ed-M's Commentarium</a> ), <a href="http://cruci-blog.blogspot.com/">Cruci Blog</a> ( <a href="http://ed-ms-cruciblog.blogspot.com/">Ed-M's Cruci Blog</a> ), and <a href="http://intlhwymakeover.blogspot.com/">International Highway Makeover 2</a> ( <a href="http://ed-ms-highway-makeover.blogspot.com/">Ed-M's International Highway Makeover</a> ).<br />
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Comment is free, as always. But I request you comment over <a href="http://ed-ms-commentarium.blogspot.com/">there</a>, <a href="http://ed-ms-cruciblog.blogspot.com/">there</a> and <a href="http://ed-ms-highway-makeover.blogspot.com/">there</a>.</div>
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Ed-Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443227448010363586noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243893798651307508.post-44828790333304970072017-02-19T13:23:00.000-08:002017-02-19T13:29:23.854-08:008.8 Feet of Sea Level Rise by 2100<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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A global sea level rise of 8.8 feet could easily mean 20 feet in New Orleans: one tropical storm, and "blub, blub!"<br />
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How low a possibility? 0.1 percent? 0.5 percent? One percent? Five percent? The one percent doctrine means we must plan for it and act as required to counteract the threat.<br />
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To find out more, click <a href="https://phys.org/news/2017-01-scientists-bar-sea.html#jCp">here</a>.<br />
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Here's an idea on Boston protecting itself from sea level rise:<br />
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Source: <a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/02/18/seas-rise-city-mulls-massive-sea-barrier-across-boston-harbor/dxtlbGrfSmYE2zacwUKakJ/story.html">The Boston Globe</a>.</td></tr>
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For more on what Boston might set out to do to protect itself, click <a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/02/18/seas-rise-city-mulls-massive-sea-barrier-across-boston-harbor/dxtlbGrfSmYE2zacwUKakJ/story.html">here</a>.</div>
Ed-Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443227448010363586noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243893798651307508.post-45519902065105670502017-02-19T12:45:00.000-08:002017-02-19T12:45:04.232-08:002017 IS Strange - Part 7 // FebruaryHere's the next vid from Last Messages that's filled with weird weather, Earth changes, animal die-offs and other tragedies that aren't supposed to be happening, but are thanks to global warming / climate change.<br />
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And the fron image is a drone photo of this huge fishkill somewhere -- it looks like California or Australia.<br />
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2017 is strange. Enjoy, if you don't find it most distressing!Ed-Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443227448010363586noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243893798651307508.post-24284072601599562482017-02-16T11:03:00.000-08:002017-02-17T12:50:00.270-08:00Here's Another Family Guy Joke that Could Have Been Written by Manatees.The cutaway I am invoking is from the Family Guy-Simpsons crossover from a few years back. The problem is, it was created after South Park did their Family Guy episode--out of spite, of course, and completely unprovoked, too.<br />
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(Scene: The interior of the family Guy main studio, facing the glass wall behind of which several manatees are nosing floating balls from a big netted collection of balls toward a chute.)</blockquote>
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(Seth MacFarlane is watching the manatees at work. At the bottom of the chute is a view-box receptacle wherein five balls have just descended. Seth MacFarlane reads off the five balls.) </blockquote>
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Seth MacFarlane: Ipecac Contest, WWI Air Force, Homer Simpson, Bob Belcher, Cleveland Brown." Sounds like a Family Guy joke! </blockquote>
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(Cutaway back to the living room where Peter, Brian, Chris and Stewie are having their Ipecac drinking contest which induces a considerable amount of "purging.")</blockquote>
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Peter: You think <b>that's</b> bad! Remembah the time I flew the in the World War One Air Force with Homer Simpson, Bob Belcher and Cleveland? </blockquote>
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Okay, this is my last South Park Family Guy joke. I've run out of ideas! 😁Ed-Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443227448010363586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243893798651307508.post-26911236484727762432017-02-12T13:40:00.002-08:002017-02-12T13:44:38.645-08:002017 Is Strange -- Parts 3, 4 and 5 // January-February2017 is strange! And a heck of a lot happened in the past four weeks, all a result of Global Warming and her ugly twin, Global Weirding.<br />
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And not just lots of weird weather, either: there are now lots of strange clouds, strange animal movements, invasions and die-offs including those of birds, bizaare sounds in the ambient environment, and new, strange sunsets -- all due to the two goddesses we called to life, Global Warming and Global Weirding by our greenhouse gas emissions from way too much burning of fossil fuels and the spraying of chemtrails by our flying of our commercial, military, government and private jet airplanes!<br />
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Well we screwed ourselves but good, now. 2017 is strange and 2018 promises to be stranger yet. 2019, stranger still. And so on and so on and so on. So ease back, and... relax that rear end of yours, and... enjoy! 😉Ed-Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443227448010363586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243893798651307508.post-16247692599552716822017-02-07T12:29:00.001-08:002017-02-12T13:27:48.086-08:00Okay, I have a lighter post at this time...SOUTH PARK FAMILY GUY IN THE ROAD TO THE MULTIVERSE<br />
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Stewie: Oh, but look how shiny my buttons are here!<br />
Brian: Just push the button!<br />
Stewie: Yeah, yeah. Okay, I'll push the thing. (Stweie hits the button.)<br />
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Brian: What the-?<br />
Stewie: According to my readout, everything here is drawn by the team of Trey Parker and Matt Stone. This is the South Park universe, Brian.<br />
Brian: Which explains why everything is drawn on the cheap, like on a Commodore 64.<br />
Stewie: And the strange sound of our voices.<br />
Brian: Except for yours. (Stewie gives Brian the dirtiest look, then looks back down at the machine.)<br />
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Lois (with a rhotic accent): Peter! You forgot to take the laundry out this afternoon.<br />
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And so it goes, with only about 70 seconds to be cut out of the Dominant Dogs universe at the end of the episode to make room.<br />
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But it was not meant to be because the creators of South Park <a href="http://www.methodsunsound.com/south-park-vs-family-guy-when-two-cartoon-tribes-went-to-war/">despise</a> Family Guy! 😠Ed-Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443227448010363586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243893798651307508.post-2043984174952420212017-02-03T10:14:00.001-08:002017-02-03T10:17:07.206-08:00Broken Bromance.President Donald J. Trump has <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2017/02/02/trump-embraces-pillars-obama-foreign-policy/FbpPbwJgmJRsvhyXmRD5JO/story.html">gone on record that Russia MUST quit the Crimea</a> peninsula... the very place where the locals want the Russians to stay! So what does the Vladimir think about the Donald now? What's happened to the romance between the two?<br />
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I say it's become tainted -- and utterly destroyed -- by the very same Neocons that Trump vowed to purge from the Deep State a.k.a. the USA National Security Apparatus and President Vladimir V. Putin is now thinking something on the lines of <b>this:</b><br />
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"Trump supporters will only turn on him if they believe that he betrayed them and did them wrong."<br />
Let me add this about Trump supporters: they will turn on him only if they believe that he betrayed them and did them wrong.<br />
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Suppose President Donald J. Trump turns out to be the most pro-gay president from the Republican Party, EVAH. <br />
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Will the Christian Right, who have their own brand of identity politics, turn on him? You betcha!<br />
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And from that, here's a plausible South Park illustration of a Christian Right demonstration at the White House:<br />
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A YUGE mob of Christian rightists picket the White House, surrounding it on all four sides, blocking the ttraffic on four streets. They bear signs that bear the messages, "SHAME!", "TRUMP, RESIGN!", "F*****, GO PLAY WITH YOUR BOYFRIEND, PUTIN!" [I'm asterisking the last five letters of this F-word], and "QUEERLOVER!"<br />
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They are also chanting naughty little ditties such as the one after this image below, patterned after a taunting children's rhyme:<br />
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"PUTIN AND TRUMP, SITTIN' IN A TREE!</div>
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"K-I-S-S-I-N-G!</div>
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"FIRST COMES LOVE, THEN COMES MARRIAGE.</div>
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"THEN COMES THE BABY-- IN THE <b>BAY-BEE CARRIAGE!</b>"</div>
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Even in the summer of 2016 he was beginning to look pregnant!</td></tr>
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Then shots ring out from inside the White House, and the mob hears it, turning towards the Executive Mansion expectantly.<br />
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Cut to inside the oval office. President Trump is lying on the floor and only his feet are showing; meanwhile Mike Pence, who is holding the smoking gun, hands it over to Big Gay Al, who throws up his hands to avoid incrimination.<br />
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Cut to station identification, which means a train of nine inane commercials.*<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">*Tip o' th' hat to Frank Jacobs(?) and Al Jaffee of MAD Magazine. </span>Ed-Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443227448010363586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243893798651307508.post-66658795770565812092017-01-26T16:12:00.001-08:002017-01-26T16:14:09.771-08:002017 Is Strange -- Part 2 January, and a callout to President Donald J. Trump.Come on, Mr. President, look and learn! <i><b>What, is, happening, to the sky???</b></i><br />
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2017 is strange. Enjoy, watch the skies, and learn, including you, Mr. President, that climate change is for <b>real,</b> and it's being caused by a more energetic atmosphere, itself being made more energetic by increasing amounts of Carbon Dioxide being coughed up by fossil-fuel burning by people, offices, governments and industry. Decarbonisation -- 100% Independence From Fossil Fuels -- will provide lots of jobs and counterintuitively will also consume a lot of fossil fuels to get up and running so we also will need a radical conservation program with 100% compliance to free up those fuels to achieve the decarbonisation.<br />
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How to achieve this? Slap a 35% tarriff on <b>ALL</b> fossil fuel imports coming into this country. Including the imported oil destined for the refineries to be reexported as refined products.<br />
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My namd is Edward Miessner, and I approve of this message, and the vid from LAST MESSAGES.Ed-Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443227448010363586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243893798651307508.post-90988024975209023202017-01-21T10:09:00.000-08:002017-01-21T10:09:45.227-08:002017 Is Strange - Part 1 JanuaryI had posted these types of videos on separate blogs for <a href="http://2015isstrange.blogspot.com/">2015</a> and <a href="http://twentysixteenisstrange.blogspot.com/">2016</a> but I've decided to incorporate the similar vids for 2017 here in this blog.<br />
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Here is the first video of the "2017 Is Strange" series by the YouTuber LAST MESSAGES.<br />
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2017 is strange. Enjoy!Ed-Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443227448010363586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243893798651307508.post-63750156349117949742017-01-18T09:25:00.001-08:002017-01-18T09:25:58.948-08:002016 Is the Third Hottest Year in a Row.The Boston Globe posted a <a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2017/01/18/for-third-straight-time-earth-sets-hottest-year-record/A3TCBHxy4pXgAgBcrSt2uI/story.html">picture</a> touting a 60-degree January day as evidence of Global Warming. But it isn't. There were January thaws with daytime temps in the 60s in the 1970s when I was growing up in greater Boston. But it's the ocean warming and polar warming that's pushing up the annual mean temperatures, year over year over year over year.<br />
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For third straight time, Earth sets hottest year record</h2>
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Marking another milestone for a changing planet, scientists reported on Wednesday that the Earth reached its highest temperature on record in 2016 — trouncing a record set only a year earlier, which beat one set in 2014. It is the first time in the modern era of global warming data that temperatures have blown past the previous record three years in a row. </blockquote>
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The data show that politicians cannot wish the problem away. The Earth is heating up, a point long beyond serious scientific dispute, but one becoming more evident as the records keep falling. Temperatures are heading toward levels that many experts believe will pose a profound threat to both the natural world and to human civilization. </blockquote>
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In 2015 and 2016, the planetary warming was intensified by the weather pattern known as El Niño, in which the Pacific Ocean released a huge burst of energy and water vapor into the atmosphere. But the bigger factor in setting the records was the long-term trend of rising temperature, which scientists say is being driven by increasing levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. </blockquote>
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“A single warm year is something of a curiosity,” said Deke Arndt, chief of global climate monitoring for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “It’s really the trend, and the fact that we’re punching at the ceiling every year now, that is the real indicator that we’re undergoing big changes.”</blockquote>
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For more, click <a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2017/01/18/for-third-straight-time-earth-sets-hottest-year-record/A3TCBHxy4pXgAgBcrSt2uI/story.html">here</a>.</div>
Ed-Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443227448010363586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243893798651307508.post-85502838943504831582016-12-02T14:33:00.000-08:002016-12-02T14:33:11.069-08:00Five feet of Sea Level Rise by 2050? Ten feet at New Orleans in that Case. <div class="tr_bq">
I have recently found out that because of the destabilisation of the Greenland and West Antarctic Ice Sheets in general, and the Pine Island Glacier in particular, we could see five feet of global mean sea-level rise by 2050. Due to the gravity effects of the loss of ice at the poles, New Orleans will see twice as much seal level rise as the global mean.</div>
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From The Huffington Post, 18 November 2016, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daphne-wysham/us-climate-envoy-jonathan_b_13070296.html">U.S. Climate Envoy Jonathan Pershing: Five Feet Of Sea Level Rise By 2050 Possible</a>.<br />
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The mood in Marrakech was somber when top climate envoy for President Barack Obama Jonathan Pershing dropped a bombshell on observers gathered there: The rapid warming in polar regions the world is now witnessing may result in five feet—or 1.5 meters— of sea level rise by 2050. </blockquote>
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Pershing had met earlier with State Department Secretary John Kerry in Morocco at the 22nd UN Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP22. Kerry had just returned from a trip to Antarctica. According to Pershing, Kerry told him that the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica “is moving very fast and when it goes, we will see 1.5 meters of sea level rise by 2050.” </blockquote>
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“Five feet of sea level rise in less than 35 years — that is really soon,” said Pershing. “There are 65 million people now living in a state of conflict and 140 million who live less than 3 feet above sea level.</blockquote>
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I had reported on the effects of gravity influences on the effect on sea level rise at New Orleans here, based on information <a href="http://the%20populated%20parts%20of%20the%20city%2C%20of%20course%2C%20are%20protected%20by%20levees%20rising%20to%20about%2022%20feet.%20the%20increase%20would%20be%20most%20evident%20outside%20the%20levees%2C/">reported in</a> the New Orleans Advocate, which has come out with a new article November 23rd on local sea level rise this century: <a href="http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/environment/article_4a456210-b1c8-11e6-b97c-fba5865ec546.html">Study hands New Orleans bleak sea rise outlook, with some of highest projections in the world</a>.<br />
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Just when you think the news about sea level rise couldn’t get much worse for New Orleans, it has. </blockquote>
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According to a study released this month, the city will experience one of the highest increases in sea level among 138 coastal cities around the planet because of its location on the northern Gulf of Mexico. </blockquote>
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New Orleans could see as much as 14.5 inches of sea level rise by 2040, and 6.5 feet by 2100 if the world doesn’t act quickly to lower greenhouse gas emissions, the main driver of global warming. </blockquote>
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The populated parts of the city, of course, are protected by levees rising to about 22 feet. The increase would be most evident outside the levees</blockquote>
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Of course the study that predicts a 14.5 inches' rise by 2040 and 6.5 feet by 2100 does not take into account the above information about the increasingly rapid disintegration of the Greenland and Antarctica ice caps that Pershing dropped on the climate change conference in Marrakesh.<br />
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And the ice melt has started on East Antarctica as well, at its east end, reported by Robertscribbler on November xx: <a href="https://robertscribbler.com/2016/11/28/did-fohn-winds-just-melt-two-miles-of-east-antarctic-surface-ice-in-one-day/">Did Föhn Winds Just Melt Two Miles of East Antarctic Surface Ice in One Day?</a><br />
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Supraglacial lake is just another word for a surface glacial melt lake. And these new lakes pose a big issue for ice sheet stability. Surface melt lakes are darker than white glacier surfaces. They act as lenses that focus sunlight. And the comparatively warm waters of these lakes can flood into the glacier itself — increasing the overall heat energy of the ice mass.<br /><br />But water at the glacier surface doesn’t just sit there. It often bores down into the ice sheet — producing impacts for months and years after the surface lake’s formation. Sub surface lakes can form in the shadow of surface ponds. Transferring heat into the glacier year after year. In other cases, water from these lakes punches all the way to the glacier’s base. There the added lubrication of water speeds the glacier’s flow. All of these processes generate stresses and make glaciers less stable. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/08/17/these-stunning-blue-lakes-just-gave-us-a-new-reason-to-worry-about-antarctica/?utm_term=.f1e2ee4862ea">And it is the presence of surface melt ponds that has been responsible for so much of Greenland’s speeding melt during recent years</a>.</blockquote>
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Now, a similar process is impacting the largest concentration of land ice on the planet. And while Greenland holds enough ice to raise sea levels by around 21 feet, East Antarctica contains enough to lift the world’s oceans by about 195 feet. Surface melt there, as a result, produces considerably more risk to the coastal cities of the world.</blockquote>
In other words, it looks like even Pershing's dire warning at Marrakesh recently is now outdated. Oh, crap.<br />
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For more info click <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daphne-wysham/us-climate-envoy-jonathan_b_13070296.html">here</a>, <a href="http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/environment/article_4a456210-b1c8-11e6-b97c-fba5865ec546.html">here</a>, <a href="http://twentysixteenisstrange.blogspot.com/2016/05/southern-louisiana-faces-existential.html">here</a>, <a href="https://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-extinction-of-robust-sea-ports.html">here</a>, <a href="https://blogdredd.blogspot.com/p/series-posts.html">here [scroll down to EXTINCTION (Yes, it is real)]</a>, and <a href="https://robertscribbler.com/2016/11/28/did-fohn-winds-just-melt-two-miles-of-east-antarctic-surface-ice-in-one-day/">here</a>. </div>
Ed-Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443227448010363586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243893798651307508.post-75747050750749237582016-11-27T14:22:00.004-08:002016-12-01T11:07:48.998-08:00Game. Over. Near Term Extinction by 2100.Scientists state climate is more sensitive to increased carbon than previously thought and predict 7-1/2 degrees Celsius temperature rise by 2100.<br />
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From <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/climate-change-game-over-global-warming-climate-sensitivity-seven-degrees-a7407881.html">The Independent</a>: <i>Climate change may be escalating so fast it could be 'game over', scientists warn</i>.<br />
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Mark Lynas laid out what would happen as the temperature rises in his award-winning book, <i>Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet</i>.</blockquote>
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He was shocked by the researchers’ results.</blockquote>
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“It sounds on the apocalyptic side of bad and, in some ways, it is realistic because ‘business as usual’ just got more likely as Trump wants to rebuild the pipelines … the complete ‘fossilisation’ of the US,” he said.</blockquote>
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“It was game over at six [degrees] to be honest. I don’t think there was much more to add, other than turning the planet into Venus.”</blockquote>
That's what it looks like for the climate and the ability for the planet to sustain life, thanks to Obama's "Drill, Baby Drill" policies (after stating on election night 2008 that global warming and oceanic warming will have stopped that night according to his prediction of what History will write about his administration). Now we have Donald Trump's team promising to bring back oil, gas, clean coal and promising to defund climate science at all agegencies in the US government. I guess that includes the National Weather Service -- weather is just the day-to-day variability of climate and therefore meterology is a climate science. So I guess AccuWeather or the Weather Channel will get the concession to do the government weather forecasts, huh? At the very least, we're going in for business as usual and probably going for it blindly into the future, to boot.<br />
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And do you know who I blame the most? Not Trump. Not the GOP. But Obama, Slick Willie, Hillary, and the DNC for ruining the Dems' political capital on Obamacare and for running a supremely lousy campaign that never positively hooked up to the White Working Class and their values like it needed to.<br />
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THANKS, DNC Liberals!Ed-Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443227448010363586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243893798651307508.post-39105366066940745072016-09-26T10:58:00.001-07:002016-09-26T10:58:23.009-07:00Peak Oil is Coming Back...<div class="tr_bq">
Right now there is more oil being extracted than ever. Of course, it cannot last. The Bakken and Eagle Ford Shale Oil Fields are declining in production now. Obviously, Peak Oil is over for them and the oil companies that exploit them.</div>
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I found this on <a href="https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2016/09/debt-rattle-september-19-2016/">The Automatic Earth</a> last week --<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Death of the Bakken Field Has Begun: [That] Means Big Trouble For The U.S.</span><br />
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SRSrocco Report 12 September 2016 <a href="https://srsroccoreport.com/the-death-of-the-bakken-field-has-begun-big-trouble-for-the-u-s/">Link</a>.</div>
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The Death of the Great Bakken Oil Field has begun and very few Americans understand the significance. Just a few years ago, the U.S. Energy Industry and Mainstream media were gloating that the United States was on its way to “Energy Independence.” Unfortunately for most Americans, they believed the hype and are now back to driving BIG SUV’s and trucks that get lousy fuel mileage. And why not? Americans now think the price of gasoline will continue to decline because the U.S. oil industry is able to produce its “supposed” massive shale oil reserves for a fraction of the cost, due to the new wonders of technological improvement. [..] they have no clue that the Great Bakken Oil Field is now down a stunning 25% from its peak just a little more than a year and half ago:</blockquote>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Source: <a href="https://srsroccoreport.com/the-death-of-the-bakken-field-has-begun-big-trouble-for-the-u-s/">SRSrocco Report</a>.</td></tr>
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This [is[ true for the Eagle Ford Field in Texas. According to the most recent EIA Drilling Productivity Report, the Eagle Ford Shale Oil Field in Texas will be producing an estimated 1,026,000 barrels of oil per day in September, down from a peak of 1,708,000 barrels per day in May 2015. Thus, Eagle Ford oil production is slated to be down a stunning 40% since its peak last year.</blockquote>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Source: <a href="https://srsroccoreport.com/the-death-of-the-bakken-field-has-begun-big-trouble-for-the-u-s/">SRSrocco Report</a>.</td></tr>
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As I have been documenting in previous articles (going back until 2013) the U.S. Shale Oil Industry was a house-of-cards. Readers who have been following my work, based on intelligent work of others, understood that Shale Oil is just another Ponzi Scheme in a long list of Ponzi Schemes. </blockquote>
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While Donald Trump is receiving more support from Americans in his Presidential race, his campaign motto that he will “Make American Strong Again”, will never happen. The America we once knew is over. There just isn’t the available High EROI – Energy Returned On Investment energy supplies to allow us to continue the same lifestyle we enjoyed in the past. So, now we have to transition to a different more local or regional way of living.</blockquote>
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For more information click <a href="https://srsroccoreport.com/the-death-of-the-bakken-field-has-begun-big-trouble-for-the-u-s/">here</a>.<br />
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The END of the American Way of Life is non-negotiable. Sorry, Dick Cheney.<br />
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<i>Pace deorum.</i><br />
<br />Ed-Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443227448010363586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243893798651307508.post-91681162778679945902016-09-16T10:03:00.001-07:002016-09-16T10:03:49.384-07:00The Bourgeoisiophene.<div class="tr_bq">
Karl Marx was right. Driven by the Bourgeoisie, Capitalism will continue until all the natural resources are exhausted, the workers are pauperised, and the natural realm, badly polluted. (Of course, based on his views concerning natural resources, Communism and Socialism weren't much better, or were even worse, depending on your perspective.)</div>
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From Truthdig: Paul Street, <i>How to Stop Capitalism’s Deadly War With Nature</i> (<a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/how_to_stop_capitalisms_deadly_war_with_nature_20160913">Link</a>).<br />
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Earth scientists now know that the history of our planet has been set for some time in our current geological age, the Anthropocene. According to leading experts Will Steffen, Paul Crutzen and John McNeill, in <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/25547826?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents">this era</a>, “human activities have become so pervasive and profound that they rival the great forces of Nature and are pushing the earth into planetary terra incognita. The Earth is rapidly moving into a less biologically diverse, less forested, much warmer, and probably wetter and stormier era.” We are living in a “no-analogue state” in which “the Earth system has recently moved well outside the range of natural variability.” ... ...</blockquote>
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The terrible trends and data have led the venerable progressive political scientist and social-justice advocate Susan George to introduce what she calls “a new phenomenon in the history of humankind.” In a <a href="https://diem25.org/committing-geocide-climate-change-and-corporate-capture/">recent lecture</a> to the International Centre for the Promotion of Human Rights in Buenos Aires, she names it “geocide,” meaning “the collective action of a single species among millions of other species which is changing planet Earth to the point that it can become unrecognisable and unfit for life.” Humanity, George says, “is committing geocide against all components of nature, whether microscopic organisms, plants, animals or against itself, homo sapiens, humankind.” George is unstinting in her denunciation of the human species: “Homo sapiens has only existed for roughly 200,000 years. The time we’ve spent on this planet compared to its total age is infinitesimally short, just the tiniest sliver of geological time. It amounts to a mere 0.00004 percent of Earth’s existence. And although any given species of plant or animal—vertebrate or invertebrate—tends to last on average about 10 million years, our species seems determined to cause its own extinction, along with the rest of creation, long before its allotted time.” ... ...</blockquote>
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But is the culprit really Homo sapiens as a whole? The concept of the Anthropocene has rich scientific validity. It holds welcome political relevance in countering the carbon-industrial complex’s denial of humanity’s responsibility for contemporary climate change. Still, we must guard against lapsing into the historically unspecific and class-blind uses of the term “anthros,” and project the recent age of capital onto the broad 100,000-year swath of human activity on and in nature. As the brilliant and prolific environmental historian and political economist <a href="http://atg.kpfa.org/tag-directory/jason-w-moore-0">Jason Moore reminded Sasha Lilley</a> during a KPFA radio interview in 2015: <b>“It was not humanity as a whole that created … large-scale industry and the massive textile factories of Manchester in the 19th century or Detroit in the last century or Shenzhen today. It was capital.”</b> It is only during a relatively small slice of human history—roughly the last 500 years, give or take a century or so—that humanity has been socially and institutionally wired from the top down to wreck livable ecology.</blockquote>
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A compelling case has been made by Moore and other left environmentalists that it is more historically appropriate to understand humanity’s earth-altering assault on livable ecology as <b>“the Capitalocene.”</b> Capitalism has ruled the world since 1600 or thereabouts (by academic calculations), and only during this relatively brief period of history has human social organization developed the capacity and compulsion to transform earth systems. “Geocide” is a capitalist crime, not a transgression of humanity over its long and mostly noncapitalist history.</blockquote>
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(Emphases in the above quote are mine)</div>
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For more, click <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/how_to_stop_capitalisms_deadly_war_with_nature_20160913">here</a>.<br /><div>
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Ed-Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443227448010363586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243893798651307508.post-39697430969222458302016-09-15T13:47:00.000-07:002016-09-15T13:47:15.363-07:00It's Inequality Stupid. AND the Political Climate!Harvard Professor Michael Porter reveals the real reason why the US economy is in the dumps in this video <a href="blob:https%3A//www.yahoo.com/27c18738-e368-45ab-8130-13238a6ee17f">here</a>.<br />
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<br />“The confused national discourse about our economy and future prosperity in this election year is our worst nightmare,” Harvard Professor Michael Porter writes. “There is almost a complete disconnect between the national discourse and the reality of what is causing our problems and what to do about them. This misunderstanding of facts and reality is dangerous, and the resulting divisions make an already challenging agenda for America even more daunting.” </blockquote>
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In its just-released report on competitiveness, <a href="http://www.hbs.edu/competitiveness/Documents/problems-unsolved-and-a-nation-divided.pdf">“Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided: State of US Competitiveness,”</a> Harvard Business School (HBS) found the US economy currently faces grave concerns. And the path to a solution—namely tax reform, immigration reform, and infrastructure investment—is being hindered by the current political climate. </blockquote>
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Led by Porter, along with Professors Jan Rivkin and Mihir Desai, the report finds that since the launch of the US Competitiveness Project in 2011, concerns about weak job creation and stagnating incomes—particularly for the middle class—have not waned.</blockquote>
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The report adds that the wrong diagnosis, along with political paralysis in Washington, has meant that we have made no meaningful progress on any of the critical policy measures needed to address the nation’s underlying competitive weaknesses—which would restore economic growth and also the standard of living for the average citizen.<br /><br />Porter says the key issue for America today is a lack of “shared prosperity,” as working and middle-class citizens are struggling.<br /><br />“The lack of shared prosperity has rightly been a central issue in the 2016 campaign, but the diagnoses and proposed solutions are way off the mark,” the report points out.</blockquote>
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For more on the Professor's conclusions, click <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/us-competitiveness-project-harvard-business-school-hbs-michael-porter-030021739.html">here</a>.</div>
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And lurking behind that reasons is this reason: the lack of inexpensive-to-extract oil, which, according to Gail Tverberg is the cause of the professor's reason. For more, click <a href="https://ourfiniteworld.com/2016/07/06/energy-limits-why-we-see-rising-wealth-disparity-and-low-prices/">here</a>.</div>
Ed-Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443227448010363586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243893798651307508.post-81465751783054894822016-08-09T14:33:00.000-07:002016-08-09T14:33:02.425-07:00Scientists Warn World Will Miss Key Climate Target (UK Guardian).<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container tr_bq" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coral Reef in Fiji. Source: Alamy via <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/06/global-warming-target-miss-scientists-warn">UK Guardian</a>.</td></tr>
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Leading climate scientists have warned that the Earth is perilously close to breaking through a 1.5C upper limit for global warming, only eight months after the target was set. </blockquote>
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The decision to try to limit warming to 1.5C, measured in relation to pre-industrial temperatures, was the headline outcome of the Paris climate negotiations last December. The talks were hailed as a major success by scientists and campaigners, who claimed that, by setting the target, desertification, heatwaves, widespread flooding and other global warming impacts could be avoided. </blockquote>
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However, <a href="http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/2016/spiralling-global-temperatures/">figures – based on Met Office data – prepared by meteorologist Ed Hawkins of Reading University</a> show that average global temperatures were already more than 1C above pre-industrial levels for every month except one over the past year and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/20/february-was-the-warmest-month-in-recorded-history-climate-experts-say">peaked at +1.38C in February and March. </a>Keeping within the 1.5C limit will be extremely difficult, say scientists, given these rises.</blockquote>
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Atmospheric heating has been partly triggered by a major El Niño event in the Pacific, with 2016 expected to be the hottest year on record. Temperatures above 50C have afflicted Iraq; India is experiencing one of the most intense monsoons on record; and drought-stricken California has been ravaged by wildfires. </blockquote>
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Stanford University’s Professor Chris Field, co-chair of the IPCC working group on adaptation to climate change, told the Observer: “From the perspective of my research I would say the 1.5C goal now looks impossible or at the very least, a very, very difficult task. We should be under no illusions about the task we face.”</blockquote>
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For more information, click <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/06/global-warming-target-miss-scientists-warn">here</a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/02/environment-climate-change-records-broken-international-report">here</a>.</div>
Ed-Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443227448010363586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243893798651307508.post-91409238116094257122016-08-05T11:57:00.000-07:002016-08-05T12:00:43.308-07:00New Article out on Global Warming.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">An atoll in the island nation of Kiribati, which is only a few feet above sea level<br />Photo credit: Kadir van Lohiuzen, Noor Images via National Geographic.</td></tr>
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Reported by the National Geographic, <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/08/climate-report-global-warming-sea-level-rise-carbon-emissions/">here</a>. (I know, it's owned by Murdoch now, but what can you do?)<br />
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An <a href="http://www.ametsoc.net/sotc/StateoftheClimate2015_lowres.pdf">annual report</a> that is sometimes called the planet's "physical" finds that 2015 was the warmest year since records began in the mid to late 19th century. The year also marked several other milestones, from a record carbon concentration to an unusual number of tropical storms. </blockquote>
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The 26th report, State of the Climate in 2015, released online today by the<a href="https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/">American Meteorological Society</a> (AMS), was compiled by hundreds of scientists from 62 countries and was peer reviewed.</blockquote>
Speaking of tropical storms, yesterday here in New Orleans an afternoon pop-up thunderstorm cloud ended up behaving like a tropical storm, with lots of leaves and small debris blown this way and that.<br />
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Here are the five key points made by the report, according to <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/08/climate-report-global-warming-sea-level-rise-carbon-emissions/">NatGeo</a>:<br />
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1. In 2015 Earth was about 1 deg C (1.8 F) warmer than it was in the 1880s. Warmer still in 2016, with January through June being <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/21/2016-worlds-hottest-year-on-record-un-wmo">1.3 deg C warmer than the pre-industrial era in the late 19th Century</a>. This is when <a href="http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/101-videos/el-nino">El Niño</a> has lost his strength.<br />
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2. Sea-surface temps are the hottest ever since records were kept, aided by <a href="https://weather.com/science/environment/news/pacific-blob-affected-ocean-conditions-more-than-el-nino-study-says">The Blob in the Northeast Pacific</a>, despite <a href="http://oceanbites.org/cooling-in-north-atlantic-defies-global-warming/">the freshening and cooling by the Greenland ice melt in the North Atlantic</a>.<br />
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3. Carbon Dioxide atmospheric content has passed the 400 ppm milestone. This was last witnessed in the <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ice-free-arctic-in-pliocene-last-time-co2-levels-above-400ppm/">middle Pliocene Era</a>, 2-3 million years ago, or perhaps even the <a href="https://www.nrdc.org/onearth/one-million-two-million-three-million-years-ago">middle Miocene</a>, 10-15 million years ago.<br />
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4. Global Sea-Level Rise is the highest since records were kept. The global mean sea level rise is now about 70 mm (2-3/4") higher than the levels taken in 1993, which in turn was a little bit higher than the 1988 value <a href="https://geozoneblog.wordpress.com/2012/09/24/why-am-i-mean-about-sea-level/">which was higher</a> than the 1929 value; the post-1929 rise actually varied from <a href="http://www.savannahga.gov/DocumentCenter/View/4954">town</a> to <a href="http://www.hillsboroughcounty.org/DocumentCenter/Home/View/1035">town</a>, due to gravity, land subsidence, seismic pressures, crustal springback because of melting ice caps, etc., etc.<br />
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5. Many parts of the world experienced extreme weather. This weird weather is well documented on YouTube by LAST MESSAGES in his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLM-POTEBSk">2015 IS STRANGE</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRgtxlSrd1I">2016 IS STRANGE</a> series (and more dating back to 2011) and by others.<br />
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For more information, click <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/08/climate-report-global-warming-sea-level-rise-carbon-emissions/">here</a>.<br />
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Ed-Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443227448010363586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243893798651307508.post-51716243823534677582016-08-02T12:25:00.001-07:002016-08-02T12:28:08.159-07:00Peak Oil (Demand) Front Update 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Hat tip to Raul Ilargi Meijer of The Automatic Earth.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Source: Bloomberg via <a href="https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2016/08/debt-rattle-august-1-2016/">The Automatic Earth</a>.</td></tr>
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The Permian shale oil basin contains as much as the Ghawar oil field did originally? That'll put supply-side Peak Oil off until the storms of our grandchildren REALLY ramp up.</div>
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<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/07/31/aep-us-shale-producers-weather-oil-price-storm/" style="font-size: x-large;">US Shale Producers Weather Oil Price Storm (Ambrose Evans Pritchard - The Telegraph)</a></div>
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[OPEC’s] worst fears are coming true. Twenty months after Saudi Arabia took the fateful decision to flood world markets with oil, it has failed to break the back of the US shale industry. The Saudi-led Gulf states have certainly succeeded in killing off a string of global mega-projects in deep waters. Investment in upstream exploration from 2014 to 2020 will be $1.8 trillion less than previously assumed, according to consultants IHS. But this is an illusive victory. North America’s hydraulic frackers are cutting costs so fast that most can now produce at prices far below levels needed to fund the Saudi welfare state and its military machine, or to cover Opec budget deficits. </blockquote>
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Scott Sheffield, the outgoing chief of Pioneer Natural Resources, threw down the gauntlet last week – with some poetic licence – claiming that his pre-tax production costs in the Permian Basin of West Texas have fallen to $2.25 a barrel. “Definitely we can compete with anything that Saudi Arabia has. We have the best rock,” he said. Revolutionary improvements in drilling technology and data analytics that have changed the cost calculus faster than most thought possible. The “decline rate” of production over the first four months of each well was 90pc a decade ago for US frackers. This dropped to 31pc in 2012. It is now 18pc. Drillers have learned how to extract more. Mr Sheffield said the Permian is as bountiful as the giant Ghawar field in Saudi Arabia and can expand from 2m to 5m barrels a day even if the price of oil never rises above $55.</blockquote>
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But oil demand is still either running behind oil supply, or is actually on the decline. Remember, consumption of fossil fuels have remained stagnant for the past three years, 2013 through 2015.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-31/growing-oil-glut-shows-investors-there-s-nowhere-to-go-but-down">Growing Oil Glut Shows Investors There’s Nowhere to Go But Down (Bloomberg)</a></span> <br />
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Money managers have never been more certain that oil prices will drop. They increased bets on falling crude by the most ever as stockpiles climbed to the highest seasonal levels in at least two decades, nudging prices toward a bear market. The excess supply hammered the second-quarter earnings of Exxon Mobil and Chevron. Inventories are near the 97-year high reached in April as oil drillers boosted rigs for a fifth consecutive week. “The rise in supplies will add more downward pressure,” said Michael Corcelli, chief investment officer at Alexander Alternative Capital, a Miami-based hedge fund. “It will be a long time before we can drain the excess.” </blockquote>
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Hedge funds pushed up their short position in West Texas Intermediate crude by 38,897 futures and options combined during the week ended July 26, according to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. It was the biggest increase in data going back to 2006. WTI dropped 3.9% to $42.92 a barrel in the report week, and traded at $41.75 at 12:20 p.m. Singapore time. WTI fell by 14% in July, the biggest monthly decline in a year. It’s down by 19% since early June, bringing it close to the 20% drop that would characterize a bear market. </blockquote>
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U.S. crude supplies rose by 1.67 million barrels to 521.1 million in the week ended July 22, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration data. Stockpiles reached 543.4 million barrels in the week ended April 29, the highest since 1929. Gasoline inventories expanded for a third week to 241.5 million barrels, the most since April. “The flow is solidly bearish,” said Tim Evans, an energy analyst at Citi Futures Perspective in New York. “It reflects a recognition that the market is, at least for the time being, oversupplied.”</blockquote>
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"According to David Fransen, Geneva-based head of Vitol SA, the biggest independent oil trader. 'Demand growth has faltered a bit.'” That is, demand is <b>still</b> growing slower than expected in response to the lowered oil prices compared to their June 2014 heights or even dropping. Now where are the latest statistics on fossil fuel demand in 2016?</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-28/oil-glut-proves-harder-to-kill-than-saudis-to-goldman-predicted">Oil Glut Proves Harder To Kill Than Saudis To Goldman Predicted (Bloomberg)</a></span></div>
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The bullish spirit that gripped oil traders as industry giants from Saudi Arabia to Goldman Sachs declared the supply glut over is rapidly ebbing away. Oil is poised for a drop of 20% since early June, meeting the definition of a bear market. While excess crude production is abating, inventories around the world are brimming, especially for gasoline, and a revival in U.S. drilling threatens to swell supplies further. As the output disruptions that cleared some of the surplus earlier this year begin to be resolved, crude could again slump toward $30 a barrel, Morgan Stanley predicts. “The tables are turning on the bulls, who were prematurely constructive on oil prices on the basis the re-balancing of the oil market was a done deal,” said Harry Tchilinguirian at BNP Paribas in London. </blockquote>
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“It’s probably going to take a little longer than they expected.” Oil almost doubled in New York between February and June as big names from Goldman and the International Energy Agency to new Saudi Energy Minister Khalid Al-Falih said declining U.S. oil production and disruptions from Nigeria to Canada were finally ending years of oversupply. Prices retreated to a three-month low near $41 a barrel this week amid a growing recognition the surplus will take time to clear. “There’s lots of crude and refined products around,” said David Fransen, Geneva-based head of Vitol SA, the biggest independent oil trader. “Demand growth has faltered a bit.”</blockquote>
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In closing allow me to show you the glut in oil inventories since </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Source: Bloomberg via <a href="https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2016/07/debt-rattle-july-29-2016/">The Automatic Earth</a>.</td></tr>
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And demand is certainly going to drop again once the USA summer recreational driving season is over when school starts again.</div>
Ed-Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443227448010363586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243893798651307508.post-44812935895338953032016-08-01T16:55:00.000-07:002016-08-01T16:55:47.774-07:00Massive Die-off in Flower Garden Reef off the LA Coast.<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470091898153_102541" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; color: #444444; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">
Federal scientists say a massive die-off is taking place on a coral reef of a national marine sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico.</div>
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Steve Gittings, chief scientist with the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, reported this week that federal scientists are studying a large-scale mortality event of unknown cause taking place at the East Flower Garden Bank in Gulf of Mexico.</div>
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The reef is part of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, about 100 miles off the coasts of Louisiana and Texas.</div>
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Hat tip to Colorado Bob at Robertscribbler (Tampa 2090 Hurricane post).</div>
Ed-Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443227448010363586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243893798651307508.post-59774915348473483562016-08-01T15:47:00.004-07:002016-08-01T15:50:09.311-07:00CNN Correspondent Calls Trump a BS Artist.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
And Donald Trump has declared a Twitter war on CNN.</div>
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Hey, what else can I say?<br />
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Click <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-vs-cnn-zakaria-bullshit-000000211.html">here</a>.Ed-Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443227448010363586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243893798651307508.post-35572548776033023222016-07-29T13:08:00.003-07:002016-07-29T13:08:58.692-07:00Suppose Consumption of Fossil Fuels Were to Peak in 2030Even though, so far, they appear to be peaking due to the levelling off of demand, due to the ramp-up of renewables and because of affordability and financial reasons, like too high a debt load.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Source: Sam Caranas, <a href="http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/">Arctic News</a>.</td></tr>
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But if the did, a certain <a href="http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2014/07/dark-age-america-climate.html?showComment=1406771831581#c1615742649609863143">Grebulocities</a> figured out a possible end point for atmospheric carbon content and posted it a a response to the post "Dark Ages America: Climate" at <i>The Archdruid Report</i> blog, in which the archdruid, John Michael Greer, suggested that fossil fuel emissions might peak in 2030 -- this was on July 30, 2014 mind you:<br />
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Now if only I could somehow find a time machine or a longevity potion and see if you're right... </blockquote>
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I just made a crude spreadsheet in Excel to see what type of CO2 concentration we might peak at under the assumption that the rate of change of the CO2 concentration peaks around 2030, falling to 0 by 2100. Under my model, the CO2 concentration rises by 0.55% this year (roughly equal to its average growth rate over the last decade) and the growth rate increases by 0.01% per year from now until 2029 (at 0.7%/year), then falls by 0.01%/year until it bottoms out at 0 by 2099. </blockquote>
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The peak concentration under these assumptions is "only" 562 ppm, obviously reached in 2099, conveniently about double the preindustrial level where temperatures were 0.8 C cooler than present. If the mean of most model estimates of equilibrium climate sensitivity is correct, we see about 3 C/doubling. So under these really crude assumptions, we've got a world 2.2 C warmer than present. Of course the error bars are huge, and they're larger on the warmer side. But if this is roughly where we end up, we're in the mid-Pliocene warm period at about 3.3 Ma, or perhaps a little worse. This is inconvenient because sea levels were 25 m higher than present, with no West Antarctic ice sheet and little or no Greenland ice sheet, but the East Antarctic ice sheet still existed and contained most of its current mass.</blockquote>
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Well the CO<sub>2</sub> did rise by about 2.25 ppm on average from 2014 through 2015.by about 0.57% which is roughly on target with his prediction of 0.55%. But from 2015 through 2016? Well we don't have the minimum yet, but the CO<sub>2</sub> rise according to the graph maxima was about 3.5 ppm or about 0.88% according to the 2015 average content. And that's not even accounting for the fact that CO<sub>2</sub> content for 2016 finally peaked out at around 408 ppm in April - May, shown below.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Annual <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-align: start;">CO</span><sub style="text-align: start;">2</sub></span><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> pulse on Keeler Curve</span></span> through July 2016. <br />Source: Mauna Loa Observatory, <a href="http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/weekly.html">NOAA</a>.</td></tr>
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It appears that the 3.5 ppm rise is now being maintained. Although we're just coming off an El Niño, it's possible, especially when compared to the graph at the top, that we are having increased positive feedbacks or less negative feedbacks or both from natural sources, because <a href="http://www.tellusb.net/index.php/tellusb/article/viewFile/19576/25888/81284">it appears we did not have a nearly as big a Carbon Dioxide increase the last time we had an El Niño as strong</a> as the one we've just had, i.e., the one in 1997-1998.<br />
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So will the atmosphere's Carbon Dioxide content be as little as 560 ppm? Don't know. But given the present rate of fossil fuels burning through 2030 and a new normal of 3.5 ppm for annual Carbon Dioxide content increase, we could be looking at 450 ppm or so around 2030, which makes the terminal content that much larger. Robertscribbler <a href="https://robertscribbler.com/2016/07/27/from-russia-with-hatetrumpslove-is-putins-petrostate-attempting-to-tilt-us-election-toward-republicans/">reports that under Business as Usual (IPCC's RCP 8.5) it could be as high as 936 ppm with a average planetary temperature increase at that time of around 4 to 5 degrees Celsius (7 to 9 Fahrenheit)</a>. Will it actually get that bad? Don't know.<br />
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But I DO know that global warming is NOT a myth!<br />
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Ed-Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443227448010363586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243893798651307508.post-63182223280566189962016-07-28T12:46:00.000-07:002016-07-28T12:46:10.681-07:00A Pence Presidency?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />A Pence Administration also means that the neocons' Poking the Russian Bear will continue, even if it results in WW3 and the lobbing of nukes.<div>
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<a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/23646-trump-vp-pence-globalist-neocon-or-solid-conservative">Mike Pence in Bed with the Neocons</a>.<br /><br />Now the rumor mill has it that Trump is also in bed with the Russian banks, to the tune of $100 million or more. This must give Putin headaches, because the saying goes, if you owe someone $1,000 you can't pay, have a problem. But if you owe someone a $1,000,000,000 you can't pay THEY have a problem.<br /><br />Now what will Putin do, when Trump tells the Russian banks to go screw? He can't send any of "his" (according to Newsweek) Russian mafia assassins to take Trump out. And he can't exactly escalate the Ukranian proxy war to full-blown war in Eastern (Central) Europe without breaking the NATO tripwire.<div>
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And the lobbing of all those nukes both sides own would create a twenty years' ice age (i.e., the nuclear winter).</div>
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