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One could say the purpose of Nature on planet Earth is to create more of itself in various formats under given conditional environments. 

In order to achieve optimum survival, many of the species in nature develop defence against other species to avoid annihilation, as life needs to acquire (steal) proteins from another being — from the smallest to the biggest, relative “food chain”.

Defence will include sacrificial random numbers (POPULATION), aggression, adaptation and hiding.

These are the skills we humans have perfected in our military tactics.

MEANWHILE, WE ARE TOLD by Roger Pielke Jr, professor of environmental studies in the Centre for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado and author of The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics : 

 

“Climate change is going to fade from view like overpopulation did”

“Since taking office, President Donald Trump has pulled the US out of the United Nations Paris agreement on climate change, unleashed fossil fuel production, cut climate subsidies that were part of the Inflation Reduction Act, and chosen as his Secretary of Energy an oilman who helped create the fracking revolution. Given that Democrats have spent the last 20 years describing climate change as an “existential threat” and making climate policy their highest priority under Biden, one would expect there to be significant protests and other actions by progressives.

And yet we’ve seen no significant climate change protests since Trump took office two months ago. No Greta Thunberg marches — she’s moved on to Palestine. No drumbeat from the news media. No Extinction Rebellion activists blocking traffic in DC. “Climate emergency” was not among the words chosen by Democrats in Congress to put on the little placards they held up during Trump’s address to Congress earlier this month. In fact, to the extent there have been protests by Democrats, they have been against the world’s most pioneering electric car manufacturer, Tesla, and have nothing to do with climate change.”

 

SO WHAT IS THIS ABOUT? 

It is WELL-known that various formats of life on earth (species) apart from adapting to given conditional environments THEY CAN ALSO MODIFY THE CONDITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS by various means, some by SIMPLE INTERACTIONS by being there — and some by DESIGN…

For example, beavers will change the way a river flow.

Humans have changed the CONDITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS to suit our STYLISTIC adventure in living… One of the human activities that has increased our COMFORTS has been the usage (BURNING MOSTLY) of fossil fuels.

FOSSIL FUELS were mostly created by a reactivity between life and environmental conditions that changed the climate. It can be argued that changes in the climatic conditions led to the massive sequestrations of dying lifeforms into fossil fuels, but it can also be argued (and proven to a very large degree) that the over-reach of the lifeforms under warm conditions led to the changes in the climate that engineered the death of the many species that became fossil fuels.

SO, WHY HAVEN’T SEEN PROTESTS ABOUT CLIMATE POLICY DUMP BY TRUMP?

There are several reasons for global warming being placed on the back burner, so to speak.

  1. There was an unfortunate BUNDLING of various issues by the political and media class on the left (and the right): the WOKE, DEI, Covid, population and CLIMATE issues were agglomerated together. Because some of these issues are purely political, including our reaction to Covid, it has demeaned the SCIENCES of global warming into becoming a political football. Woke, DEI and Covid are basically dead issues under Donald Trump and mostly seen as such by the legacy media.
  2. NATURAL climate change is a slow process. It can take millennium, yet the resultant changes can be “catastrophic”.
  3. the PRESENT climate change (aka GLOBAL WARMING) is going against the NATURAL trend. It can be attributed to HUMAN ACTIVITIES.
  4. Since the last big melt — the end of the previous ICE AGE (12,000/10,000 years ago) — sea level has gone up by at least 100 metres.
  5. There is enough ice on the planet to raise the sea level by 75 metres, should it melts completely — as in previous Era, say around 120 million years ago. Thermic expansion of the OCEANS can also raise the SEA LEVEL by another 30 metres.
  6. OBSERVATIONS show that the ice around the globe is melting. OBSERVATIONS show that the ATMOSPHERE and the OCEANS are warming. present temperature are 1.49 degrees Celsius ABOVE those of the PRE-INDUSTRIAL era (1850).
  7. The ice MELT process RETARDS other effects of global warming (ice in the WHYSKY experiment).
  8. global warming is strongly linked to WARMING GASES in the atmosphere: CO2, NOx and METHANE. 
  9. The main source of these WARMING GASES is linked to our usage of FOSSIL FUELS.
  10. THE POPULATION conundrum is still part of the equation as more people demand more energy supply. Increase emissions of about 3 percent per annum are inevitable till 2075 on present trends. 
  11. WHETHER DONALD TRUMP does or does not do anything about climate change will not change much the outcome.
  12. NET ZERO is a valid endeavour but it will do very little to the prognosis. There is ENOUGH observed warming gases in the atmosphere to raise PRESENT TEMPERATURE by 6 to 9 degrees Celsius, once the FEEDBACK mechanisms (including the MELTING OF THE ICE) HAVE REACHED a tipping point and the heat exchange with the outer space BALANCES out.
  13. Present global warming is very fast (over a few centuries) in terms of GEO-MECHANICS of planet Earth.
  14. CAN WE STOP THE DAMAGE? In 2032, semi-catastrophic events linked to ANTHROPOGENIC global warming are 90 per cent likely to happen.
  15. NEXT: Prepers vs (re)wilders — Including “anomalies” in climate change perceptions, such as the mini-warm period that led to the “conquest of Greenland”… — TO COME…

 

YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

towards net zero.....

Climate neutrality means that greenhouse gas emissions generated by human activity, such as of those of carbon dioxide (CO2) due to the burning of fossil fuels, are heavily reduced in the atmosphere so as to ensure that there is no impact on the climate system.

Those emissions which are hard to eliminate are compensated by carbon removals, in other words, CO2 extracted from the atmosphere either naturally by vegetation or by mechanical means.

In a climate-neutral economy, there is a net-zero emissions balance.    

 

What is climate neutrality?

How EU countries will achieve climate neutrality

In order to achieve climate neutrality in the EU by 2050, EU countries must drastically reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and find ways of compensating the remaining and unavoidable emissions.

In past years and in particular under the European Green Deal, the EU has set goals for reducing emissions across economic sectors and adopted laws to achieve such reductions.

The EU’s climate goals

As the climate crisis worsens and extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and severity, EU countries have set progressively more ambitious targets to fight climate change.

 

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/climate-change/#EU-countries

 

[GUSNOTE: AS EUROPE IS ABOUT TO RE-MILITARISE, THERE IS BUCKLEY'S CHANCES THAT THE EMISSION REDUCTION TARGETS WILL BE ACHIEVED... NET ZERO? ZERO CHANCES]...

 

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The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, known simply as the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), is a center-right[2] think tank based in Washington, D.C., that researches government, politics, economics, and social welfare.[3][4] AEI is an independent nonprofit organization supported primarily by contributions from foundations, corporations, and individuals.

Founded in 1938, the organization is aligned with conservatism but does not support political candidates.[5] AEI advocates in favor of private enterprise, limited government, and democratic capitalism.[6] Some of their positions have attracted controversy, including their defense policy recommendations for the Iraq War, their analysis of the financial crisis of 2007–2008, and their energy and environmental policies based on their more than two-decade-long opposition to the scientific consensus on climate change.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute

 

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The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse

Douglas Rushkoff

Sun 4 Sep 2022

Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers and hiring military security to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences

As a humanist who writes about the impact of digital technology on our lives, I am often mistaken for a futurist. The people most interested in hiring me for my opinions about technology are usually less concerned with building tools that help people live better lives in the present than they are in identifying the Next Big Thing through which to dominate them in the future. I don’t usually respond to their inquiries. Why help these guys ruin what’s left of the internet, much less civilisation?

Still, sometimes a combination of morbid curiosity and cold hard cash is enough to get me on a stage in front of the tech elite, where I try to talk some sense into them about how their businesses are affecting our lives out here in the real world. That’s how I found myself accepting an invitation to address a group mysteriously described as “ultra-wealthy stakeholders”, out in the middle of the desert.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff

 

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Wilderness queen Gina Chick, winner of Alone Australia, takes us into the world of rewilding. We meet people discovering ways to reconnect to nature, finding their wild hearts and nourishing their souls. They call it "sacred activism”.

https://iview.abc.net.au/video/RN2311H001S00

 

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STUDY OF AN ANOMALY: THE MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD..................

 

Statement of Dr. David Deming

University of Oklahoma

College of Earth and Energy

Climate Change and the Media

U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works

Hearing Statements

Date: 12/06/2006

Mr. Chairman, members of the Committee, and distinguished guests, thank you for inviting me to testify today. am a geologist and geophysicist. I have a bachelor's degree in geology from Indiana University, and a Ph.D in geophysics from the University of Utah. My field of specialization in geophysics is temperature and heat flow. In recent years, I have turned my studies to the history and philosophy of science. In 1995, I published a short paper in the academic journal Science. In that study, I reviewed how borehole temperature data recorded a warming of about one degree Celsius in North America over the last 100 to 150 years. The week the article appeared, I was contacted by a reporter for National Public Radio. He offered to interview me, but only if I would state that the warming was due to human activity. When I refused to do so, he hung up on me.

I had another interesting experience around the time my paper in Science was published. I received an astonishing email from a major researcher in the area of climate change. He said, "We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period"

The Medieval Warm Period (MWP) was a time of unusually warm weather that began around 1000 AD and persisted until a cold period known as the "Little Ice Age" took hold in the 14th century. Warmer climate brought a remarkable flowering of prosperity, knowledge, and art to Europe during the High Middle Ages.

The existence of the MW had been recognized in the scientific literature for decades. But now it was a major embarrassment to those maintaining that the 20th century warming was truly anomalous. It had to be "gotten rid of."

In 1769, Joseph Priestley warned that scientists overly attached to a favorite hypothesis would not hesitate to "warp the whole course of nature." In 1999, Michael Mann and his colleagues published a reconstruction of past temperature in which the MW simply vanished. This unique estimate became known as the "hockey stick.

https://realclimatescience.com/2018/12/erasing-the-medieval-warm-period/#gsc.tab=0 

 

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MEANWHILE:

Matthew Osman is a geoscientist at the University of Arizona: he came to Greenland to study climate change over the past 2,000 years by extracting and analysing ice cores longer than 100 metres. The gases and chemicals housed within these cores show evidence that a thousand years ago, during the Medieval Warm Period (400 years of higher global temperatures), the ice was actually growing thicker and advancing—the opposite of what it does today. 

Osman’s results show that the ice cap was growing because it was warmer, as higher temperatures caused more evaporation that led to more snowfall [SEE THE ANTARCTICA CONUNDRUM]. Whether ice grows thicker and advances depends on the balance between snowfall and how much more ice melts because of the warmer weather: during the Medieval Warm Period, summer melting did increase, but the increased snowfall won out in the end, therefore the ice kept growing. 

The study shows the complexity of a warming climate system, because under the right conditions it is possible to have warming and ice advance at the same time. 

Today, unfortunately, due to anthropogenic climate change, the ice caps and glaciers of Greenland are rapidly retreating.

https://all-things-nordic.com/2022/01/26/greenland-and-the-medieval-warm-period/

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Climate Change Is Pushing Greenland Over the Edge

New data from Greenland shows that modern warming is outpacing even historically warm eras like the Medieval Warm Period.

by Theo Nicitopoulos 

January 24, 2022

https://hakaimagazine.com/news/climate-change-is-pushing-greenland-over-the-edge/

 

MEANWHILE, IT IS ESTIMATED (OBSERVED THROUGH THE RECORD) THAT THE Medieval Warm Period may not have been “GLOBAL”… 

 

READ FROM TOP.

 

YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

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

 

SEE ALSO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KofL24c4Uec

Scorched Earth: How WAR is destroying Nature and our Livelihoods | ENDEVR Documentary

 

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