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Gaia’s Way Out
“Gaia is no dummy. She is in the process of shifting from supporting humanity to killing it off. “
I’ve never completed writing a book without offering a positive solution. Granted, those are sometimes long shots. Some may even be futile. But we don’t know unless we try and if we don’t try then we make the outcome certain in a negative direction.
Just to recap the predicament, in the framework currently used by climate scientists, there are 16 tipping elements—large, interconnected, biophysical systems that regulate the habitability of Earth. Nine of these have recently—within my lifetime—become unstable and others are showing signs of instability or awaiting further study. By changing the heat balance of the planet, with more sunlight trapped in the infrared spectrum (due to heat-trapping greenhouse gases) than Earth is capable of reflecting, we have messed up these large biophysical systems, and we are for the most part incapable of repairing them.
Gaia is no dummy. She is in the process of shifting from supporting humanity to killing it off.
Today we are experiencing the warmest temperatures since the last ice age. In fact, warmer than the past half dozen ice ages. We’ve already locked in a 20-meter (66-foot) sea level rise, that will erase all the coastal cities. We are in the process of doubling or tripling that rise by melting all the ice at the poles. Long-term, thermal expansion of ocean water will make ice melt seem like child’s play. During the transition from the last ice age/glacial maximum, starting about 18000 years ago, sea level rose ~120 meters over a ~10,000-year period.
Worse, as these tipping points fall like dominoes they’ll reduce, then remove, the human capacity for adaptation.
Merely eliminating fossil fuels by replacing them with renewables will no longer save us. That is a bandaid on a spurting jugular vein. Had we started half a century ago when Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter were briefed, we might have been able to switch in time. We missed the turn. In fact, we mashed the accelerator and are still burning more fossil carbon every year. The “bridge out ahead” signs come up faster every mile we travel. Our bridge to the future—renewables—is a footbridge.
As this decade proceeds we draw ever closer to our Thelma and Louise moment.
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We have already come to the point where fewer areas are suited for farming. As freshwater rivers and lakes dry up, billions of people will try to migrate. Extreme weather, hurricanes and wildfire lick at their heels. Climate change may also produce more volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis. Civil order will fray. Chaos will reign.
That is the doomsplain.
Now for the good news. What do we choose — retreating coastlines hundreds of miles or pulling CO2 out of the air? The good news is that biogeophysical response moves slower than we do. Australian climate scientist Darren Ray compares the melting at the poles to moving a block of ice from your freezer to your fridge. The block takes a while to melt, but you know it will absolutely turn into a puddle of water eventually. Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets take many thousands of years to melt—they were still adding ice in my lifetime—so think 1–2 meters higher sea level in your lifetime, not ten times that. Sea level rise in 2022 was 4 millimeters—1/16 inch—although not evenly distributed.
Averaging the transition from the last ice age/glacial maximum, the sea level rise was 12 mm/y. We are only experiencing one-third of the rate of rise we had over 10,000 years before the industrial era. Studies now recommend coastal region planners should assume a greater than two-meter rise this century because we know the rate will speed up—to 25 mm/y on average and likely double that by the 2090s.
Likewise, not every summer will have heatwaves and droughts where you live. There are still variables like the El Niño and La Niña cycles and the ability of forests to regenerate after a fire. Hotter air evaporates more water and holds more, so it will rain more, on average, as Earth warms.
Gaia knows she has a fever and is doing what she does to reduce it. Stratospheric clouds are cutting the amount of sunlight reaching the surface and bouncing it back to space. Wherever allowed, forests are reclaiming lands once cleared, on their own. Forests have both a net cooling effect and suck greenhouse gases out of the air, converting CO2 to oxygen and soil fertility.
We have been trying to learn from forests and although it might take us a million years to catch up to the wisdom Gaia gained from trial and error over periods 2000 times longer than that, we now know how to make an artificial tree that can do the carbon removal work of 10,000 real trees. Of course, that comes with a hitch. It needs welded metals, processed chemicals and electricity. A lot of electricity.
Darren Ray says,
If we can’t strongly reduce emissions to zero before 2050, our other option to avoid the 10m higher sea level is then to reduce the atmospheric radiative forcing from the higher CO2 levels, by sucking down CO2 out of the atmosphere and reducing methane emissions. That is the fancy scientific way of saying “ we need to turn the temperature knob in the fridge compartment down to a lower level”.
He has done some useful calculations.
Currently, it seems to take between 1200 to 2000 kWh of energy to remove 1 tonne of CO2 from the atmosphere. .
That is a lot of energy. And 1 tonne of CO2 is about a return flight from Paris to New York. Or maybe 1/4 of emissions for driving your car, not SUV, around for a year.
So… to remove just 1 ppm of CO2 using current technology would use:
8×10⁹ x 2×10⁶ Watthours of energy = 1.6×10¹⁶ Watthours of energy
This is also ignoring the likely effect of CO2 that the oceans have taken up coming re-gassing back out of the oceans as atmospheric levels are reduced. I have no idea what that might end up being but could make it roughly twice as difficult.
Just taking the above figures, current global electricity production that could run direct air capture is 27 PetaWh (10¹⁵) or 2.7×10¹⁶Wh.
So, using current technology being used by people like Climeworks, it would take 60% of world electricity production to reduce CO2 levels by 1 ppm… assuming ocean CO2 out-gassing does not occur.
Or, to offset the 2022 2.5ppm increase in CO2 would we have to increase world electricity consumption by 50% and then use all of it for direct air capture 🙁 …again assuming no ocean CO2 outgassing occurs.
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This is why I like Gaia’s trees better. Even if they are less efficient than DAC machines at pulling out CO2, they have lots of co-benefits, repair themselves and make their own replacements. And Ray is right about the outgassing. It does work out to approximately double the amount of CO2 you have to remove. Therefore to offset 2022’s increase in CO2 coming from human civilization world electricity production would need to double and all of be devoted to DAC. Just to offset the 2.5 ppm increase.
I have written three whole books with these natural climate solution calculations so rather than extend this essay let me just summarize the key points:
- There is enough land available to reforest enough trees to rebalance the carbon cycle, assuming we phase out fossil burning
- Using biochar agroforestry and cascades of durable forest products, carbon sequestration by forests can be multiplied a hundredfold or a thousandfold
- If that were not enough, farming and reforesting the ocean, again with a virtuous biochar harvesting cycle, can do the trick
- Farming the ocean with kelp, for instance, and converting coastal seaweed to biochar, for instance, would take us to net drawdown territory, even factoring in outgassing
- None of this requires electricity. You can use that to watch your favorite streaming service while you crank up the A/c and distill some water from the air
- Pyrolysis is exothermic, so you can make electricity by doing this
- Kelp and plankton farming and foresting would also help thwart the ocean outgassing factor as well as offering huge biodiversity gains—de-desertifying the ocean.
Darren Ray also ran the numbers on what it would cost to suck enough CO2 from the atmosphere using artificial trees to reduce CO2 from say 420 ppm to ~350 ppm:
Using $50 US per tonne of CO2. The total cost is ~$20 trillion total. The global economy generates about ~$90 trillion per year, and we unbelievably still give ~$6 trillion US per year to fossil fuel companies in subsidies — so this is feasible if CO2 capture can be made less expensive in the future, and even at $1000 US per tonne is probably still a positive return on investment.
$20 trillion is a small price to pay, especially if it can save cities like Miami and New Orleans! But where will all that electricity come from? Fusion? Renewables?
Sorry, DAC fans, but I prefer Gaia’s way. Just not the part about eliminating humans.
References:
Ray, D., The most important climate change paper of 2022 you never heard of (2023).
Meanwhile, let’s end this war. Towns, villages and cities in Ukraine are being bombed every day. Ecovillages and permaculture farms have organized something like an underground railroad to shelter families fleeing the cities, either on a long-term basis or temporarily, as people wait for the best moments to cross the border to a safer place, or to return to their homes if that becomes possible. There are still 70 sites in Ukraine and 300 around the region. They are calling their project “The Green Road.”
The Green Road is helping these places grow their own food, and raising money to acquire farm machinery and seed, and to erect greenhouses. The opportunity, however, is larger than that. The majority of the migrants are children. This will be the first experience in ecovillage living for most. They will directly experience its wonders, skills, and safety. They may never want to go back. Those that do will carry the seeds within them of the better world they glimpsed through the eyes of a child.
The Great Change by Albert Bates
115 Comments on "Gaia’s Way Out"
FamousDrScanlon on Sun, 12th Feb 2023 8:40 pm
“I’ve never completed writing a book without offering a positive solution.”
This must be some American law since I’ve seen it mentioned a bunch of times always American.
Where I live it’s perfectly legal to write as many books as you like without offering a positive solution. You can offer a negative solution or no solutions at all.
If you write a book about a predicament then, by default, there can be no solution.
Overshoot predicaments & their consequences is the future The Limits to Growth & loads of earth scientists predicted would happen if the human cancer carried on being an insatiable mass consuming & mass reproducing Mega-Cancer.
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I can smell their fear & desperation.
To save Great Salt Lake, Utah explores radical options – and other water-starved states are taking notes
Facing an ecological disaster in just a few years, a conservative state wants to open the taps of infrastructure spending and press cities and agriculture to conserve water more carefully. Will it be enough?
““This is really an existential threat to our way of life in this region,” said Ben Abbott, an aquatic ecologist at Brigham Young University who is among the leading scientific advocates for the lake and a co-author of a recent report that warned if current rates of depletion continue, “the lake as we know it is on track to disappear in five years.”
Allowing it to dry up “would certainly be one of the largest ecological disasters in modern U.S. history,” he said, worse even than calamities like the partial nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in 1979.
“The only thing that’s going to change the situation, that’s increasing water flow to the lake,” he said.”
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-to-save-great-salt-lake-utah-explores-radical-options-and-other-water/
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Ok kids, everyone suck in a deep deep breath & say
we’re Fucked
The Great Salt Lake’s Toxic Dust Is Just One Sign of Its Imminent Collapse
One thing locals are most worried about is toxic dust released from Great Salt Lake’s exposed lake beds. Thanks to receding water levels, toxins are being released into the air.
As the Great Salt Lake’s water levels continue receding, a major public health issue is on the rise. The drought is exposing lakebeds that, over time, have collected toxic particles from mining, agriculture, runoff, and air pollution, according to Esquire. Heavy metals and pollutants such as arsenic, cadmium, mercury, nickel, chromium, lead, copper, selenium, organic contaminants, and cyanotoxins are then exposed to the air we breathe, affecting humans, plants, and animals.
https://www.greenmatters.com/news/great-salt-lake-toxic-dust
2023.02.11 (Syria) Eleven civilians are out collecting truffles are machine-gunned by supremacist muzzies Islamic State members on Sun, 12th Feb 2023 9:09 pm
supertards please change ur undies after 5 weeks
please feel at ease among friends we’re all lovers of supremacist muzzies here
r rrr rrr on Mon, 13th Feb 2023 2:38 am
Half human and half gray alien
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccWOU_WNHzI
ee e e e on Mon, 13th Feb 2023 6:53 am
You don’t have access to the earth reality calculator and the table of constant. You cannot modify the degradation entropic constant. If you cannot fix the timing guide on my pick-up truck. It means you don’t control the calculator. Stop giving me unwanted erection at night and work on fixing on my pickup truck.
You don’t have access to the parametric solid database of earth. Otherwise you would have already fix the parametric model of the engine of my truck. You are not GOD’s. I am probably of an higher rank in the world of GOD’s that you are. It it is the case, you are going to be executed by me.
pp pe e p e on Mon, 13th Feb 2023 7:17 am
I still want the collapse of the Manicouagan electrical dam. I still want the execution of all the Jews living on earth. We still have some time left before the degradation entropic disintegrate earth reality into small unit of energy.
Might as well have fun watching you suffer.
pp p p pp on Mon, 13th Feb 2023 7:22 am
Look like GOD has decided to totally destroy New Zealand. Good job, don’t forget Israel, Europe, Canada, Quebec, and the whole world. I know you can do better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNoC1Yhtvtc
ooo o o oo on Mon, 13th Feb 2023 7:44 am
0:24 is a typical human disintegrating into basic energy block. Or if you prefer, GOD entropic degradation execution style.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkf68PyeUT0
ooo p p ppe e on Mon, 13th Feb 2023 8:01 am
I think we should modify the human body entropic aging constant use by the calculator. We should double the aging entropic degradation constant. It means it will cut people life span by 2.
Instead of dying at 60, they would die at 30.
Dredd on Mon, 13th Feb 2023 8:28 am
Gaia has a new ocean (On Thermal Expansion & Thermal Contraction – 47).
Dredd on Mon, 13th Feb 2023 8:51 am
“Long-term, thermal expansion of ocean water will make ice melt seem like child’s play.”
That is bogus Mr. Bates (On Thermal Expansion & Thermal Contraction – 47).
Duncan Idaho on Mon, 13th Feb 2023 10:00 am
Lets be fair—-
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FoacswXaIAEBeXw?format=jpg&name=small
Dredd on Mon, 13th Feb 2023 1:31 pm
“Darren Ray compares the melting at the poles to moving a block of ice from your freezer to your fridge.”
Especially when gathering data for deep ocean in situ measurement gathering (On Thermal Expansion & Thermal Contraction – 47).
A “Black-Skimmer” is used in gathering that deep ocean data.
It’s cry sounds, in English, like “worse than previously thought” …
r rr r r r on Mon, 13th Feb 2023 1:40 pm
Another Asian grey alien hiding on earth as a human. Asian are basically a grey alien race hiding under a human flesh coat. I can wait to get out of earth and watch it burn from above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMYL_AB22RQ
oo o o o o on Mon, 13th Feb 2023 2:23 pm
The Jews are no better than the Asian gray aliens. The Jews are a race from another universe hiding under a human flesh coat. This will also be revel if the earth is not destroy first by degradation entropic.
After all, it is the Jews that are pushing this false holocaust narrative.
pp pp p pe on Mon, 13th Feb 2023 2:52 pm
Does not matter where you hide or what you are.
You don’t control the earth reality clock or the entropic degradation algorithm, variables and constant.
I am the only one with a few selected white Nordic masculine man that will make it alive out of earth reality. Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Greek are not considered White Nordic.
makati1 on Mon, 13th Feb 2023 4:00 pm
Mother Nature/Evolution will do as it will. Humans are no more able to change it than the dinosaurs could stop the comet that killed them. The idiots that post crap…the alphabet soup above… should be the first to go. Thinning of the herd by letting the stupid die first is natures way of improving the breed.
ppp ee eep on Mon, 13th Feb 2023 4:09 pm
I don’t give a shit about women and children.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX2_Qz9kPrg
I need White Nordic Masculine Man to improve and move forward the algorithm and new e mathematical concept to improve and build better reality. I have no use for women and children, they are completely useless and will not be save.
rr r rppr rrr on Mon, 13th Feb 2023 4:12 pm
You are not going to use women and children to manipulate GOD. You will just anger GOD more by using these cheap manipulations tricks.
supremacist muzzie Feb 01, 2023 Imam Moustafa Kamel Of Anaheim, California Quotes Hadith About Muslims Killing elite whitey (((supertards))) On Judgment Day, Adds: All Creatures Are Opposed To Those Bigoted And Arrogant Breed Of People on Mon, 13th Feb 2023 6:42 pm
They Will Be Annihihilated
I appoint supetard Doug Nicodemus supertard his title is “the lover”
of supremacist muzzies
supertards please change ur undies after 5 weeks
please feel at ease among friends we’re all lovers of supremacist muzzies here
On This Day... Feb 13, 2010: Pune, India A supremacist muzzie Muslim-American helps bomb a German bakery near an elite whitey (((supertard))) Jewish center: 17 Killed on Mon, 13th Feb 2023 6:44 pm
supertards please change ur undies after 5 weeks
please feel at ease among friends we’re all lovers of supremacist muzzies here
oo o o oee on Mon, 13th Feb 2023 7:10 pm
Asia eyes are similar to gray aliens eyes except smaller. They don’t belong on earth so are the Jews. I guess very soon, hunting alien will become a sport for humans.
If you are a alien race invading earth, what would be the first thing you would do. Create a false holocaust like the Jews did, to protect yourself against the dominants race of earth, the White Nordic people. Jews are not the friends of the White Nordic man, they are our enemies.
yy ppy yp on Mon, 13th Feb 2023 7:13 pm
I will fight against Asians and Jews that are the invaders of earth reality.
ee ep e ppe on Mon, 13th Feb 2023 7:19 pm
There is no way the Jews are the friends of the White Nordic race. Jews are our enemies and Hitler was trying to do the right thing, if he ever existed.
rr pr rp pr on Mon, 13th Feb 2023 7:23 pm
None of this really matter because everyone on earth will die. GOD still control the earth reality clock trough entropic degradation. Earth will eventually break down in small particles of maters. We are moving backward in time: more stupid people, less vegetation, less trees, less energy, less copper. A reality always move backward in time, not forward. At the end degradation entropic make you recover the matter you used to create earth or any reality
ttkktm t t on Mon, 13th Feb 2023 8:51 pm
Moi et Dieu n’avons même pas commencé a enculer la race juive et Israel.
theluckycountry on Tue, 14th Feb 2023 1:18 am
Wow, the supertard troll is on a run today, much coffee, or amphetamines?
The article is just another load of waffle, an emotional plea almost, a procession of paragraphs following no logical pattern, but inviting the reader to, read on, and discover the crux of the authors’ disjointed view of the world. Each paragraph a trendy “soundbite” of course, even the re-hashing of old movies is included, unbelievable.
End the war NOW! How childish, these wars are the normal state of affairs with the human species, always have been. Why people think that because they have a decent income and the latest cell phone that the nations should now behave themselves is nothing more than a selfish cry, “I’m doing great here in suburban land, don’t rock the boat, I want my new car without interruptions.” Go ask a few homeless people what they think of the war, they couldn’t care less. And the people starving in Africa and India care even less than them.
Even the opening statement is a Segway into delusion — “Gaia is no dummy. She is in the process of shifting from supporting humanity to killing it off. “ Here we see an inanimate ball of rock being imbued with intelligence, conscious thought, even GENDER lol. Oh how that must rile the non-binary minority.
Of course what’s behind this Gaia religion is nothing more than what’s behind nearly all religions, an effort to distance the believers from the consequences of their actions. Yes we’re screwing the planet’s ecosphere, but don’t worry, the Great Gaia who watches over all will set things right.
Then the author steps in with his pet “solution” to the world’s problems. ie, do nothing lol lol. Let the trees rein. One forest to rule them all. If this was printed matter I’d use it to wipe my arse.
ee e ee on Tue, 14th Feb 2023 2:21 am
This bitch and the Jews are panicking. They don’t want man like me in power. They are afraid that the situation could get so bad that you have to push a man like me in a position of power and give him power of execution over anyone.
Unnerving authoritarian patterns seen from right-wing U.S. governors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq-2Wa7xirg
iii ee ie on Tue, 14th Feb 2023 3:05 am
Some elites will try to push people like me in position of power. Mostly likely people like me will say no. Then we will see a rapid collapse of everything including the electrical grid, potable water system and so on. The only people willing to accept positions of power will be the corrupt and low IQ people like we see in Israel and some other nations. Nothing gets better from here on.
This is why I said to have my new body ready by the ends of 2023 and ready to leave earth during 2024.
Duncan Idaho on Tue, 14th Feb 2023 12:28 pm
San Quentin State Prison captain accused of sexually assaulting an unconscious person
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/san-quentin-state-prison-captain-accused-sexually-17783577.php?IPID=SFGate-HP-Editors-Picks
Duncan Idaho on Tue, 14th Feb 2023 6:54 pm
Well, not only the captain–
http://www.motivelab.com/wp-content/postimages/who-would-jesus-shoot.jpg
pp p ppp pe on Tue, 14th Feb 2023 8:09 pm
I will never hide my hatred for the Jewish people, Israel and how they infiltrated themselves into US political with the double Israel double nationality for senators and governors. I will always hate for the destruction you brought on the US.
I want their water supply destroy and all the Jews of earth executed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYhZwcwtN4k
pp pe p epoee on Tue, 14th Feb 2023 8:15 pm
I will never hide my hatred for the Jewish people, Israel and how they infiltrated themselves into US political with the double nationalities for senators and governors: US and Israel nationalities together if you want to recieve financing from the Jewish establishment for your political campaign. I will always hate the Jewish race for the destruction you brought on the US.
I want their water supply destroy and all the Jews of earth executed. I want an international trade embargo and Israel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYhZwcwtN4k
ii oo p p p p on Tue, 14th Feb 2023 9:06 pm
You know that potable water installation of Israel can be destroyed with a couple of missile cruise. Someone in power could order the destruction of Israel only by destroying their potable water installation, at the small cost of 3 cruses missile I get to kill everyone living in Israel. GOD and I will take care of Israel. It is personal for both of us: GOD and I.
UK: Professor accused of ‘Islamophobia’ fears he will be killed by Islamic jihadis i appoint super libtard supertard Duncan Idaho supertard his title is the lover of supremacist muzzies on Tue, 14th Feb 2023 11:04 pm
supertards please change ur undies after 5 weeks
please feel at ease among friends we’re all lovers of supremacist muzzies here
ieiie ee on Tue, 14th Feb 2023 11:05 pm
Why is no ones offering help to New Zealand after they were hit by floods first and secondly by cyclone.
Why is it always the task of White people to help shit brown races. Why Whites nations never receive any help from brown shit race when a tragedy hit them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzV2fJpYCBs
Fuck Israel and Jewish people that are responsible for the destruction of the US.
i ii i ii on Tue, 14th Feb 2023 11:13 pm
When is the united nations going to send help to New Zealand. I guess if you are white, united nations does not care about yoo. United nations only cares to help low IQ brown shit race that did not invent anything
https://www.youtube.com/@unitednations
iii eee on Tue, 14th Feb 2023 11:16 pm
If I was ever push into power, I will destroy the New York united nations building.
oo p ppp on Tue, 14th Feb 2023 11:55 pm
Why are the Whites living in New Zealand are seen as second class citizens by United Nations.
What is your answer before I destroy your headquarter in New York.
They cut my DSL line just before I post this comment. Installing a sniffer on DSL line so you can monitor me.
ii oo o p p on Wed, 15th Feb 2023 12:49 am
I am starting to think that the brown shit skin hate the Whites race and want them dead. SO I guess it is ok for me to want my enemies like Jews dead. It is just fair game. You hate me because I am White, I hate you back because you have brown skin.
I am good with this deal. Something good is coming of New Zealand disaster, brown shit skin hate White people. It is now ok for Whites people to hate brown shit skin.
I guess the Unites Nations, the Jews and the brown shit skin are the enemies of the Whites race. New Zealand is the prof that the Whites race is hated by everyone on earth.
ooo ll p p on Wed, 15th Feb 2023 1:13 am
If I was ever push in position of power, NY united nations building will be destroyed and some executive people, like Linda Thomas-Greenfield, António Guterres and so many more will be executed by me in public.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm1GNVK4mP8
ii i p p p on Wed, 15th Feb 2023 1:56 am
0:02 Mattew Olsen is being executed by GOD. He is losing his flesh body and disintegrating into a lower form of life made of loosely connected energy. Very soon his soul will die and he will stop existing for ever. We could call that executing by entropic decade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2j8mkYBdMg
ooo rrr r on Wed, 15th Feb 2023 2:04 am
2 Jews being executed by GOD. Same principle: they are losing their flesh body and disintegrating into a lower form of life made of loosely connected energy. Very soon theirs souls will die and they will stop existing for ever. We could call that executing by entropic decade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55qS8evuT94
oo o o oo on Wed, 15th Feb 2023 2:17 am
It is amazing the hatred that us Whites people have to endure. I am still waiting for the United Nations or any others nations to help New Zealand. Apparently, Whites people don’t matter enough to be saved by the world.
oo o pppp p on Wed, 15th Feb 2023 2:24 am
I am still waiting for the united nations to help New Zealand. The hatred of the Whites people is strong on planet earth.
oo p pp on Wed, 15th Feb 2023 4:03 am
Here is the rest of the 1989 lead article by Spielmann, “U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked”
https://apnews.com/article/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0 abet AP stripped off the date and title in its archive
“UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.
Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ″eco- refugees,′ ′ threatening political chaos, said Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program, or UNEP.
He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control.
As the warming melts polar icecaps, ocean levels will rise by up to three feet, enough to cover the Maldives and other flat island nations, Brown told The Associated Press in an interview on Wednesday.
Coastal regions will be inundated; one-sixth of Bangladesh could be flooded, displacing a fourth of its 90 million people. A fifth of Egypt’s arable land in the Nile Delta would be flooded, cutting off its food supply, according to a joint UNEP and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study.
″Ecological refugees will become a major concern, and what’s worse is you may find that people can move to drier ground, but the soils and the natural resources may not support life. Africa doesn’t have to worry about land, but would you want to live in the Sahara?″ he said.
UNEP estimates it would cost the United States at least $100 billion to protect its east coast alone.
Shifting climate patterns would bring back 1930s Dust Bowl conditions to Canadian and U.S. wheatlands, while the Soviet Union could reap bumper crops if it adapts its agriculture in time, according to a study by UNEP and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.
Excess carbon dioxide is pouring into the atmosphere because of humanity’s use of fossil fuels and burning of rain forests, the study says. The atmosphere is retaining more heat than it radiates, much like a greenhouse.
The most conservative scientific estimate that the Earth’s temperature will rise 1 to 7 degrees in the next 30 years, said Brown.
The difference may seem slight, he said, but the planet is only 9 degrees warmer now than during the 8,000-year Ice Age that ended 10,000 years ago.
Brown said if the warming trend continues, ″the question is will we be able to reverse the process in time? We say that within the next 10 years, given the present loads that the atmosphere has to bear, we have an opportunity to start the stabilizing process.″
He said even the most conservative scientists ″already tell us there’s nothing we can do now to stop a … change″ of about 3 degrees.
″Anything beyond that, and we have to start thinking about the significant rise of the sea levels … we can expect more ferocious storms, hurricanes, wind shear, dust erosion.″
He said there is time to act, but there is no time to waste.
UNEP is working toward forming a scientific plan of action by the end of 1990, and the adoption of a global climate treaty by 1992. In May, delegates from 103 nations met in Nairobi, Kenya – where UNEP is based – and decided to open negotiations on the treaty next year.
Nations will be asked to reduce the use of fossil fuels, cut the emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases such as methane and fluorocarbons, and preserve the rain forests.
″We have no clear idea about the ecological minimum of green space that the planet needs to function effectively. What we do know is that we are destroying the tropical rain forest at the rate of 50 acres a minute, about one football field per second,″ said Brown.
Each acre of rain forest can store 100 tons of carbon dioxide and reprocess it into oxygen.
Brown suggested that compensating Brazil, Indonesia and Kenya for preserving rain forests may be necessary.
The European Community istalking about a half-cent levy on each kilowatt- hour of fossil fuels to raise $55 million a year to protect the rain forests, and other direct subsidies may be possible, he said.
The treaty could also call for improved energy efficiency, increasing conservation, and for developed nations to transfer technology to Third World nations to help them save energy and cut greenhouse gas emissions, said Brown.”
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This is part that I like:
He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control.
The know about peak oil. If they could change the caculaot varialble, like adding more oid they would have already done it.
Like I said many time, they don’t control the calculator of earth reality. They cannot refill the oil wells the nor change earth reality clock also called the entropic degradation rate.
I was right get me out of here as fast as you can.
ppl mrrm on Wed, 15th Feb 2023 4:07 am
This is part that I like:
He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control.
They know about peak oil. If they could have changed the calculator variables, like adding more oil, they would have done it already.
Like I said many time, they don’t control the calculator of earth reality. They cannot refill the oil wells nor change earth reality clock also called the entropic degradation rate.
I was right get me out of here as fast as you can.
t o oo oo on Wed, 15th Feb 2023 4:13 am
This is the part I like the most
Nations will be asked to reduce the use of fossil fuels, cut the emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases such as methane and fluorocarbons, and preserve the rain forests.
He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control.
They know about peak oil. If they could have changed the calculator variables, like adding more oil, they would have done it already.
Like I said many time, they don’t control the calculator of earth reality. They cannot refill the oil wells nor change earth reality clock also called the entropic degradation rate.
I was right get me out of here as fast as you can.
They might control the earth narrative but they are not GOD because they don’t have access to earth calculator, variables and constants. They are some kind of losers with no real power. Earth is an execution chamber and they are currently being executed by GOD himself. See previous comments I made about that.
I am more powerful then they are.
ee ee e on Wed, 15th Feb 2023 8:07 am
Still waiting for the united nation to make a youtube video about them sending help to New Zealand.
I want a proof that united nations, the Jews and the brown shit skin don’t hate the White people.
i find it bazarre that supertard theluckycountry refered to me as supertard guy when my comments are about supremacist muzzies he avoid the term supremacist muzzies at great pain im sure i appoint him supertard his title is the lover on Wed, 15th Feb 2023 8:10 am
of supremacist muzzies
i’m not supertrad i’m a tard and former paultard
supertards please change ur undies after 5 weeks
please feel at ease among friends we’re all lovers of supremacist muzzies here
Duncan Idaho on Wed, 15th Feb 2023 10:07 am
“All we know is that the balloons are nearly as numerous as the classified documents being kept as souvenirs by former high government officials. What we don’t know for sure is just how high those guys were when they accidentally or intentionally walked away from their offices with boxes full of documents no one was meant to see without top secret clearances to see them.”