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Tipping Points

This' how I describe it when I want to merge the natural forces & the "un-natural" forces (whatever that means):

...There exist many different natural storehouses of greenhouse gases all over the planet; from the fossil fuels we dig up, to the plants & trees that absorb CO2, to the oceans and permafrosts that retain methane & other elements.

Humans, in particular, have hijacked some of those natural greenhouse gases (fossil fuels) and continuously vapourised them into the atmosphere. As we have been doing this, global average temperatures have been rising faster, lock-step in-line with our global CO2 emissions.

As temperatures rise, we risk setting off "tipping points" of other natural greenhouse gases &/or catastrophy-fueled events. These tipping points include, but are not limited to:

• ice sheets melting resulting in less white ice bouncing sunlight back into space, fueling more warming as more blue waters soak up more sunlight & heat.

• Warmer waters fuel hurricanes to grow bigger.

• melted ice means higher sea level(s), flooding, killing & displacing people in areas home to thousands/millions of people.

• oceans also absorb CO2, and that's starting to cause the oceans to acidify. Too much acidification destroys phytoplankton. When you destroy phytoplankton, pretty much the entire foodchain of the oceans risk a terrifying collapse since phytoplankton is the bedrock of the ocean food chain.

• hotter & hotter temperatures will eventually lead to the amazon catching fire in the not too distant future, releasing vast amounts of more greenhouse gases.

• amazon rainforest is a big part of air conditioning of the world. That much less plants & trees soaking up CO2 will mean much more CO2 stays in the atmosphere for even longer, driving temperatures further still.

• Drive the temperatures far enough, and ~10,000,000,000,000 tons of methane hydrates, a greenhouse gas 21 times stronger than CO2, start to melt more rapidly from the bottom of the oceans & within permafrosts, causing the oceans to boil in a firy-display, savvy enough to use the word "armageddon..."

experimental

...so, how do they plan on holding a gas that is 100 million degrees Celsius, a temperature that is several times hotter than the center of the Sun?

With a doughnut-shaped magnetic field? Is this for real? Can magnetic fiels actually hold temperatures that hot?

This troubles me greatly; and to throw on top of it all, it is the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER).

...Experimental? Sounds safe, doesn't it? lol... we spent tax dollars on this???On The future is (still) coming! posted 3 years, 6 months ago 19 Responses

politricks

Perhapse a visual would helpOn That man's got a pair, you gotta give him that posted 3 years, 9 months ago 16 Responses

RE: Wonder Why?

Failure in leadership makes him look bad; can we say kyoto?

GW: "Kyoto would have wrecked our economy. I couldn't in good faith have signed Kyoto."

But he can in good faith allow the destruction of the ecosystem that will eventually impoverish, not just humans, but most complex biological life forms on this planet... Not to mention illegally breaking United Nations rules so the military can use Depleted Uranium tipped bombs contaminating countries and giving rise to birth defects and baby deaths... All the while praising the idea that he stands against abortion -- "baby death."

As for the economy, the US Treasury Secretary John Snow recently issued a warning that the US Government is on the verge of collapse and that "current debt stands at $8.162 trillion," but when our debt "reaches $8.184 trillion dollars around mid-February 2006, our borrowing powers can be voided."

"In Fiscal Year 2005, the U. S. Government spent $352 Billion of your money on interest payments* to the holders of the National Debt. Compare that to NASA at $15 Billion, Education at $61 Billion, and Department of Transportation at $56 Billion. For the current FY06, at $133 billion, it's already the third largest expense of our budget!" - federalbudget.com

I just checked our debt from the official BPD... "The Debt To The Penny;" they claim the debt, on January 31, was at $8,196,070,437,599.52

..I mean, it's one thing for someone to laugh at the pessemists for their contrived doomsday scenarios, but i mean... hello? George Bush says he got out of the kyoto protocol because he said it'd wreck our economy, ...but then continues to allow the US debt to increase beyond the limit cap that can prevent the US government from borrowing any more money... lolOn SOTU: Omissions posted 3 years, 10 months ago 2 Responses

Superorganism_abcdefg

I think that if people could stop rationalizing the negative impacts that society pushes onto the environment as just an unovoidable side-effect of the economy, and start declaring that we live in an ecology, like Douglas Rushkoff says, then we might actually stand a chance...

To think and act like we can actually save humanity from our ecologically destructive footprint rather than just submit to ecological death by default as the end result of ecological rapture of global warming fire & brimstone apocolypse drenched second coming of some dead guy claiming to be god. Because, theoretically, if we are dealing with a superorganism, and this "Gaia" has certain ecologically-inbuilt mechanisms that are activated (sound like intelligent design?) when things start to spin out of control and we begin to look like cancer, and the host sends out antibodies in the form of global warming to warm the waters which builds stronger hurricanes that rams into some oil producing shores to try and slow the enourmous rate of our fossil fuel greenhouse gas burning frenzy, and even might I add terrorism blowing up the "World Trade Center" hub of global trade releasing x amount of greenhouse gas for every single quantifiable product wether it be harvested/produced by slaves, or a continuous flow of environmental toxification being released/applied.

However, most everytime these things are brought up, at least from my experiences, people throw up walls of resistance against learning about their negative impacts, so they don't have to feel extremely bad about it. I'll say look, I have over 600 documentaries, pick a topic and ill burn it onto a DVD-RW and send it over so you don't have to read that nasty text, you can just flick on the tube and absorb it mindlessly. God forebid they actually read something in their life, lol... at least this makes it easier. Try talking to people about what's in much of the factory farmed meat, or the slaves that probably harvested the tobacco and coffee, or the acidification and warming of the entire ocean that's going to cause a near complete collapse of the entire ocean food chain because what's coming out of their tailpipe, and you might find resistance to exposing the hidden mechanism lurking behind every umbilical cord to the supermarket big box store. Most of the people I lend documentaries to end up holding on to it for over a month because they "don't have time to watch it." and sometimes even give it back without watching it at all because they felt guilty they were holding onto it for so long... Others sometimes simply say they just are not interested in anything like that and would rather play videogames and watch expensive blockbuster movies... Why do I even bother?

The downside is that they cant make informed decisions. If they only knew that A leads to B leads to C leads to Death of Ecosystem, possibly leading to Fury of Gaia against Humans, then they might think... hey maybe we should do things differently, and not act against our own interests and our family's future since christians pride themselves in their family values and anti-abortion stances so much. Indeed, global warming is going to be an abortion! An abortion of the entire future race of inhabitants living on earth in yonderyears... Every single excess ounce of greenhouse gas coming out of their tailpipes on into the atmosphere is really another babie thrown on the heap... Hear the grinding of flesh, hacking away each person's future destiny, imaginary blood and guts flying everywhere as their life's promise comes to a screenching grinding halt, clutching onto the very fabric of their existential future...

Instead, the uninformed consumer hops in their vehicle to drive to some big box store, releasing x amount of greenhouse gas, to then purchase some kind of processed / factory-farmed / slave-laboured / toxic-chemical-drenched product, which probably was transported to the big box store by using x amount of greenhouse gas, all the while living out the rest of their life in ignorance drenched by the blood of unsustainability. Unsustainabilty can only have one outcome.

Just think, if people knew that negotiation and change could take place... Instead, we have an administration that just shouts from capital hill that the American way-of-life is non-negotiable, and that we do not negotiate with terrorists. Accross the board even, global warming is non-negotiable; hence, the american way of life is non-negotiable... I predict peak-oil, terrorist-attacks, superflues, or natural disasters, among others, will be tested (according to this superorganism theory) before it ever moves into final stages... because the final stage of climate change will effect more than just humans. Of course, this is all theory and none of it may be intentional, just living at the whim collective random mechanical happenings of some asteroid fuzing dust evolving into complex biological homosapians mimicing bacterial ancester cultures forming wierd growths with brown smelly stuff spewing out; need I say more?On Gaia theorist says we're all doomed posted 3 years, 10 months ago 34 Responses