..WE HAVE RESOURCES.. WE JUST KEEP SQUANDERING THEM....THE 'SYSTEM' ISN'T WORKING... (check back.. more to be added)

• Money and the 2016 US Presidential Elections: The $10 Billion Contest ... 85% of the population believe major changes or a "complete rebuild" of the U.S. election system is needed.

• "Public education is NOT being supported. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) recently stated: "Most states provide less support per student for elementary and secondary schools—in some cases, much less—than before the Great Recession...Worse, some states are still cutting eight years after the recession took hold."

• $300 million for one painting!! It's so mind-boggling absurd. There's just something completely wrong with a society where individuals can amass such outrageous fortunes, while an increasing number within the general population are finding it harder and harder to cope with everyday life.

• Inequality Against Democracy: 10 Facts About the 1 Percent... we're living within a very skewed system.
• Why Our Government Isn't Listening: How Greed Is at the Root of US Suffering. Long have the powerful few profited from the poor majority's struggle, and the United States in 2016 is no different. Through complex and convoluted public policy, the politicians in Congress and the executives of large corporations are capitalizing, as humans have for millennia, on an inequitable system to make off with millions. Oppression is a highly profitable business.

• Feeding the Military-Industrial Complex - Spending on major military acquisition programs is projected to soar 23%, after adjusting for inflation, 2015 to 2022. Worse yet, Congress and the administration are spending much of that money on weapons that don't even work as advertised.

• This is a system that is NOT working...except for those spending all those millions/ billions to buy government. And their rate of return.. well, what can you say. Lobbyists extract $3.5 trillion in benefits from government coffers every year at an expense of $3.5 billion in lobbying fees.

• Pentagon F-35 fighter jet report reveals massive problems still facing 'most expensive weapon in history'...so far cost over $3.5bn, and is eight years late.

• A post-apocalyptic space station straight out of a science fiction movie... Ordos - A Failed Utopia.

• When you 'buy-government'... this is exactly what you expect for your money.. and the rate of return is beyond-belief obscene and unconscionable.

• With extreme inequality comes disastrous misallocation and waste of resources. World over it is devastating all societies.

• ProPublica has been scrutinizing tens of billions spent on reconstruction in Afghanistan by the military, State Department and US Agency for International Development. Project after project has foundered because the US ignored history, warnings, local culture and common sense. Last month, ProPublica analyzed and, for the first time, added up the cost of these failures and found  least $17 billion in questionable spending since 2009.

• Operation Iraqi Freedom... what an absolute waste of lives & resources.... Counter: Cost of War in Iraq...
•  ..and all for what!!!... Civilians in Iraq Face Violence From All Sides, UN Says

• Condos targeting ultra-wealthy were at risk of being overbuilt... so companies moved focus to the next tier of wealthy buyers: domestic millionaires spending between $1M - $15M... those transactions are still excluded from the federal government's new rules.

• There’s less trees than at any point in human civilization... since the spread of human influence, we’ve reduced the number almost by half, which is an astronomical thing.

• Two major nuclear construction projects—one for melting down old bombs and another for remediation of toxic waste—have turned into epic boondoggles.

• Just Who Exactly Benefits Most from the Global Giving of Billionaires

  The world has extreme resources and wealth.. but we've let happen a system that is at some point going to take down everything.

..there is only one candidate I've ever financially suported...in 50 years voting

Should you want to know why... there are numerous reasons...

...and basically, all boils down to common beliefs.

Most are discussed in the articles listed below.

November 8th will be the most important election of our lifetime.

Imho.. there is only one choice.

(click on links)

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Generation Sanders
by Robert Kuttner
The millennial generation has gotten the worst economic screwing since the generation that came of age in the Great Depression. This is the first American generation ever to begin economic life deeply in debt. And this generation also faces a job market in which regularized employment is disappearing in favor of short- term gigs. Sanders much more than Clinton has been challenging an economy of, by, and for the rich—one that stunts the dreams of the young. At the heart of the skewed economy is the Wall Street domination of the rules of the game, and Sanders is the one willing to name that reality and call for its demolition.

Enacting Sanders Agenda Would Catapult Economy, Shatter Inequality
by Lauren McCauley
First comprehensive, independent analysis shows that incomes would rise, job markets would grow, and prosperity would be more widely shared if Sanders' proposals were put into practice

While Mega-Donors Average $1,950,000... Average Sanders Donation Still Just $27
by Jon Queally
Billionaires are dominating 2016 spending, but Bernie supporters are proving that small donors can fuel national campaign.

Sanders Campaign Is a Genuine Progressive Social Movement for Democracy
by Danny Glover
"Sanders has demonstrated that he understands that real democracy is essentially a pro-active citizenry demanding that public servants represent just causes.
This campaign is a rare, perhaps unprecedented event in this country's modern electoral history. It deserves the support of everyone who favors social and economic justice."

Sanders Argues for "Yes We Can" While Clinton Counters "No We Can't"
by Jon Queally
"... there is a reason why these people are putting huge amounts of money into our political system. And it is undermining American democracy, and it is allowing Congress to represent wealthy campaign contributors and not the working families of this country.”

The Iowa Winnow.. And Why Bernie Sanders is for Real
by Robert Borosage
Sanders is providing the first clear, forceful, populist message and agenda that voters have heard, focused on how our corrupted politics and rigged economy keep us from building a decent, vibrant country of opportunity – where health care is a right, college is free, workers are empowered, big money is curbed, and the rich and powerful pay their fair share. He’s begun to educate a generation — and to transform the activist base of the party.

Bernie's Legacy
from DailyKos
Whatever happens going forward, Sanders has breathed new life into the progressive agenda, called forth a can-do spirit for struggle against domination of the 1%, and presented a vision of a future America not ruled by naysayers and numskulls.

On Climate Questions, Only One Candidate Has All the Right Answers
by Deirdre Fulton
From Arctic drilling to fossil fuel divestment to fracking to #ExxonKnew, the senator from Vermont has taken strong stances.

The Most Expensive Election Ever Is a Billionaire's Playground: Except for Bernie Sanders
by Nomi Prins, TomDispatch
For your amusement and mine, let's examine the relationships between our 21st century plutocrats and the contenders who have raised $5 million or more in individual contributions or through super PACs and are at 5 percent or more in composite national polls.

Why Bernie Sanders Is Winning the Hearts and Minds of America
by Tom Weis
My reason for supporting Bernie Sanders for president can be summed up in one word: authenticity. 

Black Lives Like My Father’s Should Matter. That’s Why I’m Endorsing Bernie Sanders.
by Erica Garner
I want a leader who truly cares about justice for my family, for black people and for all Americans. 

Porter Ranch 'Climate Disaster' Shows Need for National Fracking Ban: Sanders
by Deirdre Fulton
The leaking well serves as "yet another example of the urgent national need to transition away from fossil fuels." 

It's a Movement, Stupid: Why Bernie Can Deliver on Promises of Change, While the Sensible Centrists Can’t
by John Atcheson
Here’s the irony – the only way the Democratic Party can get and keep power is by embracing revolutionary change.  

Seizing on Establishment Panic, Sanders Sharpens Contrast with Clinton
by Nadia Prupis
"It is great to be against the war after you vote for the war."

No Endorsement Yet, But Plenty of Clues from Sen. Elizabeth Warren
by Deirdre Fulton
"Anyone who shrugs and claims that change is just too hard has crawled into bed with the billionaires who want to run the country like some private club."

Spin Shift on Bernie: The Escalating Media Assault
by Norman Solomon
Many journalists can’t resist lumping Trump and Sanders together as rabble-rousing outliers. But in the real world, the differences are vast.

The difference between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton in one paragraph.
-DailyKos 
One candidate believes citizens and strong leaders representing those citizens can shape public policy. The other believes corporations, like private health insurers with outrageously-wealthy CEOs have all the agency.  ~~~~  Choose wisely.

Take the Movement to the White House
by Jim Hightower
Sanders is as offended as the great majority of people are that Washington is so totally in the pockets of moneyed elites.

As Clinton Attends Investor Gala, Sanders Tells Iowans, "I'd Rather Be Here With You"
by Deirdre Fulton
"We do not represent Wall Street, we don’t represent corporate America, we don't want their money."

The Most Pragmatic Way to Fix American Democracy: Elect Bernie Sanders
by Robert Reich
The real choice isn’t “pragmatism” or “idealism.” It’s either allowing these trends to worsen, or reversing them. 

Evolution or Revolution? Town Hall Clarifies the Choice for Democrats
by Isaiah Poole
There can be no jelly without the people who can shake the fruit off the tree.  

As Sanders Slams Wall Street Elite, Clinton Ditches Iowa To Fetch Their Checks
by Jon Queally
Despite critiques, Clinton will soon leave the hotly-contested state to attend a pair of Wall Street-sponsored fundraising events.

Sanders Puts Block on Obama's Big Pharma Nominee for FDA
by Nadia Prupis
"Dr. Califf’s extensive ties to the pharmaceutical industry give me no reason to believe that he would make the FDA work for ordinary Americans, rather than just the CEOs of pharmaceutical companies."

Bernie Sanders is the Realist We Should Elect
by Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sanders is inspiring people with his poetry, but even his prose proves he's the better choice to lead a nation in difficult times.

Bernie Sanders Refuses to Melt
by Bill McKibben
It's a year, perhaps, for people who insist on telling the truth, even if it's in a Brooklyn accent. 

Off With Their Heads! Why Change Demands Progressive Hearts, Not Centrist Brains
by Peter Bloom
The idea that electability and good policy lies in the center ground lacks both intellectual substance and historical grounding. 

Sanders' Medicare-for-All Plan Takes Aim at For-Profit Healthcare System
by Deirdre Fulton
It is 'time for our country to join every other major industrialized nation on Earth and guarantee health care to all citizens as a right, not a privilege.'

Maybe Bernie Can Win
by Bob Burnett
'I’m beginning to believe Bernie Sanders can win the Democratic nomination and then the presidency...'

Something Is Happening
by Jim Hightower
The 'Sanders Sensation' is a spontaneous, unusually vibrant grassroots uprising that has already shattered the Democratic Establishment's holy myth that corporate centrism and super PAC money are the only means to victory. 


 

Murders of Earth's Defenders: The Deadly Trend Continues

Murders of Earth's Defenders: The Deadly Trend Continues | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

...  'The world is standing idle whilst people on the frontline of the struggle to protect the environment are getting killed'

... "hidden crisis" of murders of those who defend the earth from environmental destruction

... environmental defenders are fighting to protect our climate against ever-increasing odds

... report documents killings in 17 countries, though roughly three-quarters of them took place in Central and South America

... secrecy around how natural resource deals are made fuels violence and must end. It’s time for the international community to stand up and take notice

...  world is standing idle whilst people on the frontline of the struggle to protect the environment are getting killed. The time for action on these killings is now.



  

And so it begins...Legal Action Accuses Dutch Government of Failing on Climate

'Lawsuit Out of Love' as Unprecedented Legal Action Accuses Dutch Government of Failing on Climate | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

And so it begins...

  ...knowingly putting current and future generations of people at risk from the well-established threat of global warming and climate change...

...not taking sufficient measures to lower the country's dependence and overall consumption of coal, oil, and natural gas...

...human rights are being used as a legal basis to protect citizens against future harms related to a hotter and less stable planet...

... by far not doing enough... really not going quickly enough if you want to avoid a catastrophe in this and the next generations...

...more clear to a broad group we are heading to a catastrophe...

...an increasing number of legal experts around the world have come to believe, the lack of action represents a gross violation of the rights of those who will suffer the consequences...

...obvious international politics has not brought much good to the world... the power of politics, fossil fuel companies and the banks are so large.. 

...but there is one other powerful system with a lot of wisdom.. and that is the law...

...we simply cannot wait in the pious hope short-term-minded governments and enterprises will save us.. and when we act it must be on the basis of equity and justice.. and that is the law..

...governments are violating their legal duties if they each act in a way that, collectively, is known to lead to grave harms...

...every year we miss increases the challenge and risk... we’ve squandered decades already...

...our window for action is [rapidly] closing... we must act now.


  

Greatest Threats Facing The World...

10 greatest threats facing the world in 2014

...there's quite a few lists...

..usually at the top... and while terrorism is without question a most grave threat.. throughout history it has continually existed in numerous forms.. and it shall always continue to do so..
..we could weather its' storm, and that of all others, as history has proven time and again..

...but by a margin so enormous it cannot begin to be measured.. is the threat of.. 
...'the continued use of fossil fuels' ... and ultimately the resulting catastrophic climate disruption...

..for once the planet is despoiled to such a hostile environment.. it threatens most all existing species.. and it leaves us no way out...

..at some point in the future, we might have been able to relocate a portion of our population to another more hospitable world... but we've pretty much run out of time for such a complex escape..

... and so ... we continue on our present path to 'whatever'.. 
... and try and make the best of what is surely to be a formidable and most difficult future for all of civilization...

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4.22.15  -  Most migrants crossing Mediterranean will be sent back
...these are just very early warning signs..
...as the world dramatically keeps changing, ever growing numbers of populations will be forced to migrate..
..eventually numbers will reach tens of millions, then hundreds of millions..
... the longer issues are ignored, the more difficult solutions will become
 
4.16.15  -  Halting Intentional Climate Inaction
...a political exercise that commits large amounts of money to access climate science and yet pays scant attention to it..

4.15.15  -  Here’s What a Hillary Clinton Presidency Would Mean for Global Warming
... both major political parties want to act as if the status-quo can go on indefinitely....
... well it most certainly cannot... it's only going to be getting more intense as each year passes with little or no action taken..
... said before.. well worth repeating.. we're still just acting like 'frogs in a pot'..

4.13.15  -  Welcome to the Tipping Point
.. really not gonna be much different to say.. less time ya got... easier it's gonna be...

4.11.15  -  The Media's Failure With the Biggest Story in the World
... only 28% think that it should be a "top priority" for the politicians in Washington. Of the 21 issues tested, moreover, global warming was at the bottom of the priority list

4.07.15  -  The Great Burning: Rising to the Greatest Challenge Humanity Has Ever Faced ..will there be a life for us beyond fossil fuels.. and just what shall it look like.. in all probability nothing like ours appears today..

3.31.15  -  US Climate Plan 'Treats the Wound But Does Not Stop the Bleeding'
... without moving beyond fossil fuels the US will not avert climate catastrophe

 

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World's Oceans In Serious Trouble...

 ...and we are not being adequately informed and warned...

 4.12.15  -  Triassic Mass Extinction May Give Clues on How Oceans Will Be Affected by Climate Change
... history repeats... ancient mass extinctions such as the end-Triassic inform us of the possible consequences of our own CO2 crisis

4.10.15  -  Oceans Facing Carbon Rates Which Spurred Mass Die-Off 250 Million Years Ago
 ... "released at a rate similar to modern emissions" .... "This fast rate of release was a critical factor driving ocean acidification."

 5.01.14  -  Oceans in Trouble - Tiny Pteropods' Shells are Dissolving in increasingly acidic ocean water 
... the oceans food chains will be disrupted in catastrophic ways. Hundreds of millions of people depend on the roughly 160 million tons of fish caught worldwide.


                  National Geographic  -  Ocean Acidification.. putting all shelled animals at risk
... all signs indicate unless humans are able to control and eliminate fossil fuel emissions, ocean organisms will find themselves under increasing pressure to adapt to their habitat's changing chemistry... or perish.

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Exploding methane holes in Siberia linked to climate change. Is Alaska next?

...exploding methane hole

All over the semi frozen parts of the globe, as temperatures keep rising, massive, unquantified amounts of methane are being released. We're still increasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere.. but in all probability, it will be methane that 'flips the switch.'

 

 Methane concentrations up till 2011

 Methane, a greenhouse gas more than 30-100 times more potent than CO2, is released from previously frozen soils when organic matter thaws and decomposes under anaerobic conditions (that is, without oxygen present).

The concentration of methane in Earth's atmosphere has increased by 150% since 1750, and now accounts for 20% of the total radiative forcing from all of the long-lived and globally mixed greenhouse gases. According to NOAA the atmospheric methane concentration is now above 1820ppb..  largely due to the arctic (and antarctic) methane releases from melting methane clathrates. Atmospheric methane concentration has not been this high for over 420,000 years.. and correlates to 9 °C average Earth temperature increase.

Arctic permafrost where the accumulation of organic matter in frozen soils covers about 24% of northern hemisphere continents is estimated to contain more than 900 billion tons of carbon. The Siberian permafrost is in particular danger. A large region of the frozen underground (called the Yedoma), will undergo runaway decomposition once it starts to melt.. evidence showing that this process has in fact already begun.

Already measurements along the Siberian shelf uncover enhanced methane release. In 2010 a Russian marine survey conducted more than 5,000 observations of dissolved methane showing that more than 80% of East Siberian shelf bottom waters and more than 50% of surface waters are supersaturated with methane. Atmospheric methane levels (during glacial periods were 300–400 parts per billion, and during interglacial periods were 600–700ppb). And they have recently reached 1850ppb.. the highest level in 400,000 years!! 

Evidence of melting of permafrost has also been reported from the dry valleys of Antarctica.

Most of the current permafrost formed during or since the last ice age and can extend down to depths of more than 700 meters in parts of northern Siberia and Canada. 
None of this thawing of part of the permafrost [and methane release] has yet to be accounted for in any climate projections.

Earth’s history shows that releasing these stores could set off a series of events with calamitous consequences... global climates only slightly warmer than today are sufficient to continue the thawing of extensive regions of permafrost.

Arctic air temperatures are expected to increase at roughly twice the global rate. A global temperature increase of 3C means a 6C rise in the Arctic, resulting in an irreversible loss of anywhere between 30 to 85% of near-surface permafrost.

Looking to the future.. foreseeing a worse case scenario... the onset of a hyperthermal (a huge release of carbon) such as happened 55 million years ago, during the Paleocene-Eocene period.. with an attendant mass extinction of most all planet species is not an outlandish impossibility.
 

Antarctica Is Melting... FAST !! ...(as are glaciers around the entire world)

More articles will be added in upcoming days...

4.07.15  -  Melting Accelerates in Antarctica: So Far, 2015 Is Hottest Year Yet
Increasingly fast melting in Antarctica.. is now expected to increase sea levels by 10 feet worldwide in less than 100 years, according to recent NASA satellite calculations. Parts of Antarctica are thawing out so quickly that the icy continent has become "ground zero of global climate change, without a doubt"... 
...melting is accelerating at a pace that is making scientists' heads spin...

Only thing now up to debate.. just HOW MUCH LESS than 100 years will the drama really start to get unreal!! 
And if it is going to be up to 10 feet by then... just when will 2-3-4-5 be happening?

4.07.15  -  Canada Faces 70 Percent Glacier Loss...
...the report's analysis could "potentially be applied to a wide range of glacierized regions" around the world.

3.17.15  -  A glacier area the size of the entire South is melting away — and it could swallow your house
... Ready to see what this kind of dramatic sea level rise could look like? 

 

Effects of Chemtrails on Human Health

 ..chemtrails above Henderson-Vegas.. 4.09.15

(Listed in order of reported occurrence)

• Brain fog
• Fatigue
• Low energy
• Disorientation
• Difficulty paying attention and concentrating
• Sinusitis
• Dizziness
• Insomnia
• Memory loss
• Eye problems (blurred or fuzzy vision)
• Tinnitus (distant ringing in ears or high pitched sound)
• Allergy symptoms
• General weakness
• Anxiety
• Lightheaded or faint
• Depression
• Sneezing
• Vertigo
• Anger/Rage/Frustration issues

... these are just a portion of the listed effects ... 

.. in the following articles more are indicated.. take a look, see how many you might relate to, or know of someone who is afflicted..

..as time moves forward if these spraying programs are not brought under control and stopped altogether,  most all of the world population will be affected in increasing measure

4.26.15  -  Exposure to Polluted Air Might Affect Your Brain
...seriously... MIGHT ???!!!  ... and not one mention made of what anyone looking up at the skies can see is so blatantly obvious !

3.30.15  -  Chemtrail Related Illnesses....  Symptoms Associated with Chemtrails
... People are reporting illnesses associated with chemtrail spraying in countries around the globe.

7.24.14  -  What Chemtrails Do To Your Brain
... a fairly exhaustive list of symptoms associated with chemtrail spraying

2.28.14  -  Chemtrail Syndrome:  Global Pandemic Of Epic Proportions
...  time to understand the profound correlations between your day-to-day health status and the incidence/intensity of regular chemtrailing of the skies overhead

10.24.13  -  Do Chemtrails and Geoengineering Effect Human Health?
... [these] nanosized particles are infinitely more reactive and induce intense inflammation in a number of tissues. Of special concern is the effect of these nanoparticles on the brain and spinal cord, as a growing list of neurodegenerative diseases... strongly related to exposure to environmental aluminum

7.14.13  -  Neurologist Warns Aluminum in Chemtrails Could Cause “Explosive Increase in Neurodegenerative Diseases”
... evidence they are spraying tons of nanosized aluminum compounds. It has been demonstrated in the scientific and medical literature that nanosized particles are infinitely more reactive and induce intense inflammation in a number of tissues

9.19.12  -  Find out how chemtrails adversely affect your health
... Two metals are consistently discovered worldwide in chemtrail analyses: barium and aluminum. They're formed as nanoparticles easily breathed in by mammals and absorbed by plant life.

3.17.12  -  Denying chemtrails is dangerous for your health
... Several sky watchers throughout the world have had residue samples analyzed after collecting them in water containers, air traps, and on shrubbery twigs. They have all come up with two common elements: barium and aluminum.

6.29.11  -  CHEMTRAIL HEALTH EFFECTS ON HUMANS AND ENVIRONMENT  
... (60min youtube video)

  

... additional information and articles will be added over time..  

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Keep Looking Up ~~~ Chemtrail Source Material

What is the chem-trail source material?

Does such an explanation really seem all that outlandish?

In the world today, gone so totally 'commercially-mad'.. keeping the status-quo at any and all costs would appear to be the ultimate driving force behind all government and big business decision making.

In this 13 minute video, the basic scientific analysis of coal ash identifies fly ash, which is high in aluminum oxide (about 30%). From the 9 minute mark on the timeline, important information should be noted.

Apparently, coal ash (both types) is difficult and extremely expensive to dispose of, something like a billion dollar problem per plant, according to the video. However, fly ash easily is transported away from power plants by rail-cars.. the very mode of transportation that brings the coal to the power plant to be burned. Trucks and barges also are used in transporting it to bases for spraying.

What seems to be going on is this: Just like fluoride, which is a protoplasmic poison and toxic waste, coal fly ash has been forced into humans too. (We drink fluoride in our municipal water supplies under the guise that it will protect our teeth.)

For at least two decades, have we been breathing coal fly ash.. deliberately being sprayed as part of massive world wide weather geoengineering programs.

Watch the video.. if anything, at least to store the information away in the back of your mind. Then next time you look up at the sky and wonder at all those lines crossing the atmosphere.. see if you come up with a more meaningful and rational explanation.

... observed and taken pix of chem-trails all over the world...
... here's just a few still on my phone.. (Delray, Vegas & Canaan)
www.facebook.com/bj.arias.usa/posts/10202615081017230

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Chemtrails » Chemtrails | Geoengineering Watch

"Why is the general public so confused and in the dark about the highly toxic ongoing climate engineering insanity in our skies? Because mainstream media is doing everything it can to either spin the subject or completely omit it from any coverage at all.

Every individual in media that is in any way involved with the cover-up of the toxic aerosol spraying (which is occurring in skies in most regions around the globe every single day) should be held legally liable for their part in facilitating these crimes (once the illegal climate engineering is fully exposed to the public).

Everyone that is awake and aware of this issue is needed to help sound the alarm on the toxic all out geoengineering assault being waged against life on Earth.

We need to make the following point clear to those in mainstream media, we are NOT OK with their attempts to cover-up this extremely critical issue and we will one day hold them legally liable for their part in this cover-up. All of our voices are needed in this fight, every day counts."

Dane Wigington

geoengineeringwatch.org

 

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Antarctica hits 63.5 degrees Fahrenheit

Antarctica hits 63.5 degrees Fahrenheit as Mitch McConnell promises to sabotage global climate pact

Once you start to do a good deal of reading.. and begin to truly understand what is happening... there's a tendency to become numb to events going on all around you.
But then every once in awhile you come across facts that are just so eye-popping.. you just have to stop and catch your breath...

... 63.5 degrees in Antarctica !!!

.seriously... putting that number into greater perspective..

..average Antarctic high & low temperatures have historically been within a very close range (usually no more than 10 degrees apart)... that changed dramatically when global warming started rearing it's nefarious head 30-40 years ago...

..from the mid 50's to the late 80's (prior to increasing effects of climate change).. the average high 'summer' temperature in Antarctica was minus 18 degrees.. (folks..saying again, that's an 'average' of -18 !!!)
..so this new staggering 63.5 high is a mind/ world-altering 75 degrees above that !!!

..and with these numbers in play.. we are faced with a serious leadership crisis on every continent.. for this dire threat is pretty much being completely disregarded or underplayed by most all of these characters holding power (political or economic)..
 
... it keeps on not much longer, the world will go back to a place last experienced millions of years ago.. totally hostile to pretty much all forms of life we know today..

... it's now unavoidable.. there are now, and will dramatically increasing to be 'major' consequences (it's now when and how much.. no longer if)... 

...are we that (I'm searching for the word.. maybe)... so asinine.. that we 'take it all the way'..



  

West Antarctica Glaciers Collapsing, Adding to Sea-Level Rise

West Antarctica Glaciers Collapsing, Adding to Sea-Level Rise

We spend massive amounts funding wars & the MIC... yet here in one of the most crucial locations on the planet ... one that will impact all future generations, and impact all life..
...we know absolutely so little of what is really happening.

NYT: West Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse has Begun

NYT: West Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse has Begun

"This is the beginning... God only knows how long it will take to be a major catastrophe." ... we are creating a future world inhospitable to our society, and a majority of all species of life presently on earth,

A massive collapse of an ice sheet in Western Antarctica has begun and, according to scientists, is most likely an unstoppable event that will cause an inevitable rise in global sea levels of at least 10 feet.

The rise will be relatively slow at first, but (by 2100) will ramp up sharply. This could happen sooner, warn the scientists, as the impacts of anthropogenic climate disruption (ACD/climate change) continue to intensify.

"This is really happening," Thomas P. Wagner, who runs NASA's programs on polar ice and helped oversee some of the research, said. "There's nothing to stop it now."
On April 13, the world's leading scientific body for the assessment of ACD warned of a "devastating rise of 4-5C if we carry on as we are."

The rapidity with which ACD is progressing now is truly astounding. Greenhouse gas emissions grew in the first decade of the 21st century at a rate nearly double that of the previous 30 years combined - this, despite the massive economic downturn in 2008.

With full steam ahead for the industrial growth society that dominates the planet, this dispatch reveals another month of dramatic impacts and stunning reports that show, starkly, how humans are disfiguring all facets of the earth.

Yet mitigating ACD is more challenging than ever, and becoming increasingly so with each passing day. CO2 emissions continue to set annual records, and nothing short of a wartime response is warranted. Nevertheless, governments around the world have made, at best, extremely weak efforts towards transitioning away from fossil fuels.

 "Devastating" Impacts of Climate Change Increasing 
 Tuesday, 13 May 2014 09:45  - By Dahr Jamail, Truthout | News Analysis

West Antarctica ice sheet collapse: 'it will change the coastline of the world'
Adapting to sea level rises as ice sheets melt will be a really big deal – it'll be expensive and hard

 

The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning - by James Lovelock

Did we truly listen and react adequately to Rachel Carson's - 'Silent Spring' ?

Vanishing Face of Gaia is a book that's easy to understand.. but not easy to accept... and today it truly is a 'must-read' !!

(I've read it a couple times already, and will probably very shortly read it again.)

The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning

James Lovelock

 Penguin Books Limited, Feb 26, 2009 - Political Science - 192 pages

About the author:

James Lovelock is the author of more than 200 scientific papers and the originator of the Gaia Hypothesis (now Gaia Theory). He has written three books on the subject: Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth, The Ages of Gaia and Gaia: The Practical Science of Planetary Medicine, as well as an autobiography, Homage to Gaia. In 2003 he was made a Companion of Honour by Her Majesty the Queen, and in September 2005 Prospect magazine named him as one of the world's top 100 global public intellectuals. In April 2006 he was awarded the Edinburgh Medal at the Edinburgh International Science Festival.

Book Description:
Publication Date: February 26, 2009
James Lovelock described his previous book, The Revenge of Gaia, as 'a wake-up call for humanity'. Stark though it was in many respects, in The Vanishing Face of Gaia Lovelock says that even though the weather seems cooler and pollution lessens as the recession bites, the environmental problems we will face in the twenty-first century are even more terrifying than he previously realized. The Arctic and Antarctic ice-caps are melting very quickly, and water shortages and natural disasters are more common occurrences than at any time in recent history. The civilizations of many countries will be jeopardized and life as we know it severely disrupted.


Almost all predictions of the likely rate of climate change have been based on estimates which professional observers in the real world now show are consistently underestimating the true rate of change. 

As a global community we continue to be fixated by conventional 'green' ideas which we believe will help save our world. Lovelock argues that only Gaia theory, which he originated over forty years ago, can really help us understand the crisis fully. The root problem is that there are too many people and animals for the Earth to carry. And there is in fact only one possible procedure which might bring a permanent cure for climate change, but we are unlikely to adopt it.


'Our wish to continue business as usual will probably prevent us from saving ourselves' says Lovelock, so we must adapt as best we can and try to ensure that enough of us survive to allow a more capable species to evolve from us. There could hardly be a more important message for humankind. James Lovelock has been an active and accurate observer of the Earth environment since the 1960s and was the first to find CFCs and other gases accumulating in the air. His Gaia theory provides insight into climate change in [this and] the coming century.

 

'Milk Hill' crop circle formation (Near Alton Barnes, Wiltshire. England - Reported 13th August, 2001)

Infrequently I have cause to revisit thoughts in regard to one of the most incredible, unexplained phenomena of our time.
Recently talk of crop circles surfaced in a conversation I was having with someone, and it compelled me to go back and look again at one in particular of these other-wordily, mind-baffling creations.

In this most recent discussion, having a senior moment, I could not remember the name of the one that absolutely blows me away each and every time I see it... and I just had to go and look it up. It is the 'Milk Hill' formation (Near Alton Barnes, Wiltshire. Reported 13th August, 2001, that I was trying to remember. Once I looked it up, I marveled again at the absolute perfection and extreme detail of this wondrous 10+ tram-line, 400+ circle creation. 

 

 Any rationale other than 'unexplained'.. 'non-human' is just absolute fantasy.

It is only our thought-limiting, human arrogance-ignorance that would have anyone claim it to be 'man-made'.. for there is no way this could have been produced in the manner in which some skeptics are insisting.
I don't believe it could today be replicated even under more relaxed circumstances.. much less in a few short hours, on a soft, fully rain-soaked, muddy field, in complete darkness, without a trace of anything at all disturbed or out of place on the ground, other than the formation itself. 

And if you were looking at it from ground level, it's so large (1500 ft diameter.. average formations are +/- 200 ft), and the terrain has undulations, yet the formation when viewed from the air is seen as being perfectly symmetrical (without the slightest distortion), as if engineered and deliberately created to be seen from above. 

Yea, no question about it.. we're totally capable of accomplishing all that with a bunch of local guys using boards and ropes !!

Published reports from the time right after the sighting read:
"Awe inspiring, jaw dropping, mind warping, incomprehensible, bloody huge, are a few phrases that come to mind when viewing this years "finale" formation which was discovered on top of Milk Hill in Wiltshire on 13th August. 

It's difficult to take on board the sheer scale and complexity of this formation as it spans ten tram lines, and if you walked from one side of the formation to the other you would have covered approaching 1500ft! Compare that to the average diameter of formations this year which are approx 200ft. There are over 400 circles incorporated into the design, a record amount dwarfing all previous formations." 

The formation has already been variously described as "Utterly AWESOME" ... the "greatest formation to form in the entire world"... "the mother and father of all crop circles" ...  "the pinnacle, the very epitome of perfection, the paragon of all circles" ... "there are not enough words in the English vocabulary to describe how amazing this crop circle is." 

Everyone is saying this feat is beyond human ability. This is an unprecedented formation and definitely one for the history books, and don't think it's an overstatement to describe it as truly paradigm shifting. 
You can view some great aerial footage of the formation at The Milk Hill Spiral.

There have been continually numerous other unexplained formations that are somewhat close to being as stunning .. but for my money, we need none other than this one magnificent manifestation from Milk Hill in 2001, to prove the point that as the infinite, incomprehensible universe and logic, would dictate... most assuredly, we are not alone in the infinite cosmos.  
What/ who are creating them, and what is the motivation are what needs to be determined.

We need now to have the time remaining, and the will to do so.