From atop Mount Olympus, Zeus peers in perplexity through fumes of fire, dust and vehicle exhaust, toxic chemicals, roiling tempests and raging floods, idly wondering what those darned mortals are up to now…

First his eye is drawn to ancient Media, part of old Persia (now known under its modern name of Azerbaijan). Here a conspiracy is unfolding as 1770 oil magnates work out how best to enrich themselves while killing off everybody else – man, woman and child – and turn the planet into a charred, uninhabitable cinder as swiftly as possible.

He  glances over the rubble of Palestine, where a 3000 year-old land-grab led by a certain Joshua rages on, despite countless attempts to pacify the participants. Not much new, here. Except the whole region has been stripped bare of the cedar forests and bountiful grasslands that cloaked it in antiquity, and is now pretty much desert. With shell-pocked skyscrapers.

The devastation is universal, it seems. If far-off Asia the last sad, orangs have been evicted by  human lust for potatoes fried in palm oil and for toxic cosmetics to adorn empty faces. Here, and in the Congo and Amazonia, the last of the great tropical forests are going up in smoke to the accompanying roar of bulldozers and the stampede of hamburger on six billion hoofs. Three quarters of the Earth’s large animals have been wiped out in barely two generations.

In India, Europe and China the last insects are vanishing as millions of tonnes of poisons are spread to preserve the  delicate cotton plants needed to assuage the global lust for blue jeans and T-shirts, whose owners will shortly cast them aside. Each year 2000 more poisons are added to the man-made arsenal of 350,000 chemicals, now claiming 14 million lives a year.

Half the countries on the planet, Zeus notes, are facing a water crisis. There simply isn’t enough of the stuff left to drink, irrigate their cities and grow their food. Drought is withering the crops from Central Africa to the USA, from the Middle East to Argentina and Chile, South Asia to China. Everywhere, rivers run turbidly brown, dying from a surfeit of sewage, toxic chemicals and over extraction. Underground, artesian water quietly dwindles – and wells run dry.

His eye strays to the war-rooms and missile labs, where white-clad boffins slave day and night to stuff the world’s 12,000 nuclear warheads into killer drones and AI robots, that think for themselves, the better to vaporise millions of innocent people without risking cyber warrior’s lives. ‘Whatever happened to thunderbolts?’ Zeus wonders.

An especially sinister sect is engineering ultra-lethal new plagues – as if the nature hadn’t supplied enough to start with. Meanwhile humans pack megacities, throng airliners, cruise ships, sports arenas, night clubs and child-minding centres, shun vaccines and cast aside their masks so as to spread death more efficiently among their  fellow citizens.

From the dwindling snows of Mount Olympus his gaze strays to the gleaming expanse of ice that caps the Planet’s poles. Before his very eyes it is dissolving away, fragmenting, running to the seas whose waters rise, inch by inch, whose currents waver and fail and whose rising heat whips up tempests of a wrath far outmatching those of the thunder gods. He shakes his Jovian head. His scowl deepens.

Zeus shudders as humans, inflamed by the ineptitude of their rulers, choose rulers more vain, incompetent and malignant still, who will only hasten the ruin and increase the suffering. These inundate their citizens with floods of lies, deceits and corruptions in their attempts to win and cling to power – while turning a blind eye to the very problems they were appointed to cure.

He watches on aghast as, each passing year, 80 million more people are crammed into the sinking lifeboat Earth. Here, rather than row to safety, they waste precious time arguing who should pull which oar.  Many pretend there is nothing wrong – and refuse to row at all. He shakes his immortal head.

There has been no shortage of Cassandras, sent forth by the gods to bear the unwelcome (and unheeded) yet truthful messages of warning, Zeus reflects.

“There is a very big risk that we will just end our civilisation” warns Professor Hans Schellnhuber of Germany’s Potsdam Institute adding that, at +4 degrees probably fewer than one human in ten will survive.

https://johnmenadue.com/the-gods-look-on-aghast-as-human-calamity-unfolds/

At this stage we need to mention that many meteorologists DO NOT subscribe to the global warming theory. There is too much imprecision and imponderables in their own work as to accept that the theory of global warming could be so precise. The figure is that only 29 per cent of AMS (American Meteorologist Society) members agree to the tight wording of the “scientific consensus” on global warming. Many dismiss global warming entirely. Meteorologists do not specifically exclude the “weatherman” or “weathergirl” who are often only experts in delivering the weather on TV every night, while looking knowledgeable. The weather they report is usually supplied by the BoM (Bureau of Meteorology) in Australia and similar outfits around the world. Some of these “weatherpreson” will do their own research on the “oscillation index” or such, like La Nina/el Nino effect, but it is a rare state of affairs.

 Here we have established that weather prediction is a very imprecise science. 

So what is global warming?

We have already accepted that climatologists say:

Average temperatures on the surface of the Earth are maintained via the gaseous mix

Water vapour represents about 75 per cent of this influence

CO2 induces about 20 per cent 

Other gases induce the rest of the average temperature, including methane and nitric oxides.

Oxygen is viewed as a “cooling gas”

Despite the very small quantities of CO2, should there be none in the atmosphere, the temperature would plummet around 35 degrees Celsius in 50 year. 

With the Vostok record we have established that the natural maximum variations are between 180 ppm of CO2 for ice ages and 300 ppm of CO2 for warmer period. These natural variations are mostly induced by the Milankovitch cycles

Climatologists will also add that:

EXTRA CO2 AND EXTRA OTHER warming GASES in the atmosphere will induce a warming above the “normal” natural settings. Even Arrhenius predicted this.

SIMPLE.

https://yourdemocracy.net/drupal/node/33287

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