If you’ve ever been around someone who is dying, it may have struck you how strong a person’s lifeforce really is. When my dad was gravely ill, an invisible point of no return was gradually crossed, then suddenly death was in plain sight. We stood back helplessly, knowing that nothing more could be done, that something vital had slipped away. All we could do is watch as life extinguished itself in agonising fits and starts.
As a climate scientist watching the most destructive bushfires in Australian history unfold, I felt the same stomach-turning recognition of witnessing an irreversible loss.
The relentless heat and drought experienced during our nation’s hottest and driest year on record saw the last of our native forests go up in smoke. We saw terrified animals fleeing with their fur on fire, their bodies turned to ash. Those that survived faced starvation among the charred remains of their obliterated habitats.
During Australia’s Black Summer, more than 3 billion animals were incinerated or displaced, our beloved bushland burnt to the ground. Our collective places of recharge and contemplation changed in ways that we can barely comprehend. The koala, Australia’s most emblematic species, now faces extinction in New South Wales by as early as 2050.
Recovering the diversity and complexity of Australia’s unique ecosystems now lies beyond the scale of human lifetimes. What we witnessed was inter-generational damage: a fundamental transformation of our country.
Then, just as the last of the bushfires went out, recording-breaking ocean temperatures triggered the third mass bleaching event recorded on the Great Barrier Reef since 2016. This time, the southern reef – spared during the 2016 and 2017 events – finally succumbed to extreme heat. The largest living organism on the planet is dying.
As one of the dozen or so Australian lead authors involved in consolidating the physical science basis for the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment report, I’ve gained terrifying insight into the true state of the climate crisis and what lies ahead. There is so much heat already baked into the climate system that a certain level of destruction is now inevitable. What concerns me is that we may have already pushed the planetary system past the point of no return. That we’ve unleashed a cascade of irreversible changes that have built such momentum that we can only watch as it unfolds.
‘Australia’s horror summer is the clearest signal yet that our planet’s climate is rapidly destabilising.’ Photograph: Adwo/Alamy
Australia’s horror summer is the clearest signal yet that our planet’s climate is rapidly destabilising. It breaks my heart to watch the country I love irrevocably wounded because of our government’s denial of the severity of climate change and its refusal to act on the advice of the world’s leading scientists.
I mourn all the unique animals, plants and landscapes that are forever altered by the events of our Black Summer. That the Earth as we now know it will soon no longer exist. I grieve for the generations of children who will only ever experience the Great Barrier Reef or our ancient rainforests through photographs or David Attenborough’s documentaries. In the future, his films will be like watching grainy archival footage of the Tasmanian tiger: images of a lost world.
As we live through this growing instability, it’s becoming harder to maintain a sense of professional detachment from the work that I do. Given that humanity is facing an existential threat of planetary proportions, surely it is rational to react with despair, anger, grief and frustration. To fail to emotionally respond to a level of destruction that will be felt throughout the ages feels like sociopathic disregard for all life on Earth.
To confront this monumental reality and then continue as usual would be like buying into a collective delusion that life as we know it will go on indefinitely, regardless of what we do. The truth is, everything in life has its breaking point. My fear is that the planet’s equilibrium has been lost; we are now watching on as the dominoes begin to cascade.
With just 1.1C of warming, Australia has already experienced unimaginable levels of destruction of its marine and land ecosystems in the space of a single summer. More than 20% of our country’s forests burnt in a single bushfire season. Virtually the entire range of the Great Barrier Reef cooked by one mass bleaching event. But what really worries me is what our Black Summer signals about the conditions that are yet to come. As things stand, the latest research shows that Australia could warm up to 7C above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century. If we continue along our current path, climate models show an average warming of 4.5C, with a range of 2.7–6.2C by 2100. This represents a ruinous overshooting of the Paris agreement targets, which aim to stabilise global warming at well below 2C, to avoid what the UN terms “dangerous” levels of climate change.
The revised warming projections for Australia will render large parts of our country uninhabitable and the Australian way of life unliveable, as extreme heat and increasingly erratic rainfall establishes itself as the new normal. Researchers who conducted an analysis of the conditions experienced during our Black Summer concluded “under a scenario where emissions continue to grow, such a year would be average by 2040 and exceptionally cool by 2060.”
It’s the type of statement that should jolt our nation’s leaders out of their delusional complacency. Soon we will be facing 50C summer temperatures in our southern capital cities, longer and hotter bushfire seasons, and more punishing droughts. We will be increasingly forced to shelter in our homes as dangerous heat and oppressive smoke become regular features of the Australian summer. Looking back from this future, the coronavirus lockdown of 2020 will feel like a luxury holiday.
Australia’s Black Summer was a terrifying preview of a future that no longer feels impossibly far away. We’ve experienced, first-hand, how unprecedented extremes can play out more abruptly and ferociously than anyone thought possible. Climate disruption is now a part of the lived experience of every Australian.
We are being forced to come to terms with the fact that we are the generation that is likely to witness the destruction of our Earth. We have arrived at a point in human history that I think of as the “great unravelling”. I never thought I’d live to see the horror of planetary collapse unfolding.
As an Australian on the frontline of the climate crisis, all I can do is try to help people make sense of what the scientific community is observing in real time. I use my writing to send out distress beacons to the wider world, hoping that processing the enormity of our loss through an international lens will help us feel the sting of it. Perhaps, then, we will finally acknowledge the terribly sad reality that we are losing the battle to protect one of the most extraordinary parts of our planet.
I often despair that everything the scientific community is trying to do to help avert disaster is falling on deaf ears. Instead, we hear the federal government announcing policies ensuring the protection of fossil fuel industries, justifying pathetic emission targets that will doom Australia to an apocalyptic nightmare of a future.
Recording-breaking ocean temperatures triggered the third mass bleaching event recorded on the Great Barrier Reef since 2016. Photograph: Greg Torda/ARC Centre Coral Reef Studies/EPA
The national conversation we urgently needed to have following our Black Summer never happened. Our collective trauma was sidelined as a deadly pandemic took hold. Instead of grieving our losses and agreeing on how to implement an urgent plan to safeguard our nation’s future, we became preoccupied by whether we had enough food in the pantry, whether our job or relationship would be intact on the other side of the lockdown. We were forced to consider life and death on an intensely personal level.
When our personal safety is threatened, our capacity to handle the larger existential threat of climate change evaporates. But just because we can’t face something doesn’t mean it disappears.
As many trauma survivors will tell you, it’s often the lack of an adequate response in the aftermath of a traumatic event, rather than the experience itself, that causes the most psychological damage. And if there is no acknowledgment of the damage that has been done, no moral consequences for those responsible, it’s as if the trauma never happened.
How can we ever re-establish trust in the very institutions that let things get this bad? How do we live with the knowledge that the people who are meant to keep us safe are the very ones allowing the criminal destruction of our planet to continue?
Perhaps part of the answer lies in TS Eliot’s observation that “humankind cannot bear very much reality”. To shy away from difficult emotions is a very natural part of the human condition. We are afraid to have the tough conversations that connect us with the darker shades of human emotion.
We are often reluctant to give voice to the painful feelings that accompany a serious loss, like the one we all experienced this summer. We quickly skirt around complex emotions, landing on the safer ground of practical solutions like renewable energy or taking personal action to feel a sense of control in the face of far bleaker realities.
As more psychologists begin to engage with the topic of climate change, they are telling us that being willing to acknowledge our personal and collective grief might be the only way out of the mess we are in. When we are finally willing to accept feelings of intense grief – for ourselves, our planet, our kids’ futures – we can use the intensity of our emotional response to propel us into action.
Grief is not something to be pushed away; it is a function of the depth of the attachment we feel for something, be it a loved one or the planet. If we don’t allow ourselves to grieve, we stop ourselves from emotionally processing the reality of our loss. It prevents us from having to face the need to adapt to a new, unwelcome reality.
Unfortunately, we live in a culture where we actively avoid talking about hard realities; darker parts of our psyche are considered dysfunctional or intolerable. But trying to be relentlessly cheerful or stoic in the face of serious loss just buries more authentic emotions that must eventually come up for air.
As scientists, we are often quick to reach for more facts rather than grapple with the complexity of our emotions. We think that the more people know about the impacts of climate change, surely the more they will understand how urgent our collective response needs to be. But as the long history of humanity’s inability to respond to the climate crisis has shown us, processing information purely on an intellectual level simply isn’t enough.
It’s something Rachel Carson – the American ecologist and author of Silent Spring, the seminal book warning the public about the dangerous long-term effects of pesticides – recognised nearly 60 years ago. She wrote: “It is not half so important to know as to feel … once the emotions have been aroused – a sense of the beautiful, the excitement of the new and unknown, a feeling of sympathy, pity, admiration or love – then we wish for knowledge about the object of our emotional response. Once found, it has lasting meaning.” In other words, there is great power and wisdom in our emotional response to our world. Until we are prepared to be moved by the profoundly tragic ways we treat the planet and each other, our behaviour will never change.
On a personal level, I wonder what to do in the face of this awareness. Should I continue to work my guts out, trying to produce new science to help better diagnose what’s going on? Do I try to teach a dejected new generation of scientists to help fix the mess humanity has made? How can I reconcile my own sense of despair and exhaustion with the need to stay engaged and be patient with those who don’t know any better?
Joëlle Gergis: ‘Something inside me feels like it has snapped, as if some essential thread of hope has failed.’ Photograph: Lannon Harley/ANU
While I hope this will be the summer that changes everything, my rational mind understands that governments like ours are willing to sacrifice our planetary life-support system to keep the fossil fuel industry alive for another handful of decades. I am afraid that we don’t have the heart or the courage to be moved by what we saw during our Black Summer.
Increasingly I am feeling overwhelmed and unsure about how I can best live my life in the face of the catastrophe that is now upon us. I’m anxious about the enormity of the scale of what needs to be done, afraid of what might be waiting in my inbox. Something inside me feels like it has snapped, as if some essential thread of hope has failed. The knowing that sometimes things can’t be saved, that the planet is dying, that we couldn’t get it together in time to save the irreplaceable. It feels as though we have reached the point in human history when all the trees in the global common are finally gone, our connection to the wisdom of our ancestors lost forever.
As a climate scientist at this troubled time in human history, my hope is that the life force of our Earth can hang on. That the personal and collective awakening we need to safeguard our planet arrives before even more is lost. That our hearts will lead us back to our shared humanity, strengthening our resolve to save ourselves and our imperilled world.
By every metric that matters nothing has been done to slow climate change & nothing ever will.
“We’ve seen this act (COP) repeat over and over, ever since COP1 in Berlin in 1995, as each successive COP-ending-ceremony finds the Parties congratulating each other, slaps on the back, for one more successful climate conference of 20,000-30,000 able-bodied professionals wiped-out from overconsumption of Beluga caviar and Domaine de la Romanee-Conti, but subsequently carbon emissions increase the following year, and every following year thereafter. What’s to congratulate?
More to the point, the annualized CO2 emissions rate is +60% since COP1, not decreasing, not going down, not once. After 25 years of the same identical pattern, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the take-home-work from all 25 COPs mysteriously turns into the antithesis of the mission statement of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.”
I’ve always got a kick out of hysterical climate deniers raging over their imaginary threats to their fossil freedumb when the exact opposite, MOAR, happened year after year after year.
BTW Morons, the IPCC was set up by governments as a tool of control (policy recommendations), not to stop fossil fuel use.
The IPCC is the last place I’d recommend to anyone who wished to learn the evidence for AGW.
The Pairs accords are another bunk gate-keeping piece of theatre created to give the masses the illusion/hope that tptb are addressing CC. They’re not, nor do they intend to. Never did.
FamousDrScanlon on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 2:32 pm
I am not a Dr and the majority of my comments are plagiarized. I am REALy a troll. Fuck this forum!
Davy on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 3:15 pm
Victory!!!!
zero juan on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 3:23 pm
Ppeee juan, everyone knows Davy is gone. You are the only one that uses his ID anymore. He is renting space in your head, Fuck. This is a victory!
Davy said Victory!!!!
FamousDrScanlon on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 3:28 pm
I’m a Dr & I’m famous.
When you’re famous you get use to envious stalkers. They are sad damaged people & stalking is all they have:(
“Humanity is the cancer of nature.”
― Dave Foreman
” Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment; but you humans do not. Instead you multiply, and multiply, until every resource is consumed. The only way for you to survive is to spread to another area.”
– Agent Smith
“humankind’s presence on Earth is nothing but a cancer”
“Long after the traces of the human animal have disappeared, many of the species it is bent on destroying will still be around, along with others that have yet to spring up.
“The Earth will forget mankind. The play of life will go on.”
“The destruction of the natural world is not the result of global capitalism, industrialisation, ‘Western civilisation’ or any flaw in human institutions. It is a consequence of the evolutionary success of an exceptionally rapacious primate. Throughout all of history and prehistory, human advance has coincided with ecological devastation.”
― John Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts On Humans And Other Animals
“The romantic contrast between modern industry that “destroys nature” and our ancestors who “lived in harmony with nature” is groundless. Long before the Industrial Revolution, Homo sapiens held the record among all organisms for driving the most plant and animal species to their extinctions. We have the dubious distinction of being the deadliest species in the annals of life.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, From Animals into Gods: A Brief History of Humankind
Walk proud & tall ye mighty Cancers.
FamousDrScanlon on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 3:32 pm
Bushfire threatens Sydney homes after city swelters through hottest November night on record
“Sydney has sweltered through its hottest November night since records began more than 160 years ago before temperatures again climbed above 40C in the city on Sunday ahead of a cool but gusty change.”
Ppee, your envious stalker is trolling the troll, Fuck. In your psychopathic mind you have this huge ego but the truth is you are a stupid fuck that never finished school. You are a schizoid he has the elaborate stupid world formed around him but the reality is you are a deadbeat fuck that does little. You have no reason to even waste nature air. You are a parasitic sink, fuck. I am here to take you down becuase it is delicious to make a troll pay for his years of socks, staking, and very very bad manners. Got it stupid fuck? LMFAO
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duncan donuts on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 3:54 pm
“BREAKING UPDATE: Judge Timothy Batten Issues Order to Freeze All Dominion Machines in Georgia!” https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/breaking-update-judge-timothy-batten-issues-order-freeze-dominion-machines-georgia/
“Judge Timothy C. Batten, Sr. issued an order on Sunday to freeze ALL Dominion voting machines in the state of Georgia. Via Attorney Linn Wood: “Defendants are ordered to maintain the statue quo & are temporarily enjoined from wiping or resetting any voting machines in the State of Georgia until further order of the Court.”
Duncan Idaho on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 4:08 pm
“‘Someday this war’s gonna end’. That’d be just fine with the boys on the boat. They weren’t looking for anything more than a way home. Trouble is, I’d been back there, and I knew that it just didn’t exist anymore.”
JuanP on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 4:51 pm
Nothing can be done to prevent the sixth mass extinction event; it is decades too late. All we can do is prepare to save ourselves and our loved ones, regardless of the cost to others.
Duncan Idaho on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 4:56 pm
“Conservatives and neo-confederates have been suppressing the vote for decades. Centuries, actually. And they are more desperate to do it than ever now — they’ve lost 7 out of the last 8 popular votes in this country. That’s once in 32 years. In a normal democracy they would have been in the wilderness for more than a quarter century. But because our our undemocratic system that allows minority rule, they have managed to capture the presidency anyway, half of that time and control the congress even more. (They have also lost the popular vote in the House and Senate during that period, including this last election.)”
Mick on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 5:00 pm
“Nothing can be done to prevent the sixth mass extinction event; it is decades too late. All we can do is prepare to save ourselves and our loved ones, regardless of the cost to others.”
WTF, Ppeee juan, what kind of comment is that? Get a fucking life prick. Go out and do something good for nature instead of being a couch bitch on an obscure forum all day long. You live in the most disgusting place on the planet in regards to being a good earth citizen. Miami Beach is a pricks paradise and that is why your dumbass lives there. You are a fucking prick!
“Also Saw Multiple Late Night Ballot Dumps! Andrew Sitto, Republican poll challenger at the TCF Center in Detroit, saw poll workers filling out votes for the Democrats on election night! Official Detroit poll workers stole votes by marking non-Biden votes for Biden, Sitto says. “I saw all types of illegal behavior.” SITTO ALSO SAW THE 4AM BIDEN BALLOT DROP! He describes 4am ballots being brought to the counting tables and spread out. They would run the same ballots through the tabulators multiple times, “we were told to look for this” Sitto says. When they went through a second time, they were committing voter fraud according to Sitto. Other witnesses have described the ballot duplication process, and thousands of spare ballots laying around with an official duplication process at the TCF Center. Explosively, Sitto says: “I didn’t see any ballots with legitimate reasons to be duplicated. Every ballot was normal” when it came in. “The whole thing is illegal. The whole night was illegal.” Sitto believes he and another poll challenger saw blatant voter fraud at one of the duplication tables, where poll workers are supposed to copy votes precisely from damaged ballots onto new ones. He saw the poll workers duplicating a mixed-ticket ballot while a group of Democrat operatives distracted and forced the Republican poll challenger away from the table. “The moment [the Republican poll challenger] looked away, they filled in the Democrat ticket.” Sitto personally saw voter fraud in favor of Joe Biden in Detroit. Sitto also described seeing poll workers running the same stacks of ballots multiple times though a tabulator. He also said poll workers grabbed handfuls of empty ballots and hid them at their tables. All poll workers had pens, which he believes could have been used to illegally fill out the blank ballots. “I saw them taking empty ballots that should only be used for duplicates, stashing them and probably voting them later straight-ticket for Joe Biden.” Sitto described pens at most tables, and poll workers regularly grabbing duplicate ballots for no valid reason. The pens would be necessary if they were manually filling out ballots at the counting tables. “These people were vicious.” “I’ve made reports about this” Sitto says, though there’s no indication if any official has pursued Sitto’s claims of witnessed voter fraud. Voter fraud is the “illegal interference with the process of an election” and Sitto is in a long line of other witnesses who have said they personally witnessed illegal interference in the process of Detroit’s elections. Describing the official Detroit officials conspiring with left-wing poll workers to fraud the vote: “It was a collective attack.” When the exhausted Republican poll challengers took a break on Wednesday, Sitto said the Michigan state government notified the TCF personnel that COVID-related occupancy restrictions would now be enforced on the facility. As a result, he and other Republican poll challengers were locked out at a crucial moment, and he witnessed security coming in and the windows being covered up. “They counted the military ballots in the most secret way they could,” he said. However, Sitto noticed that some people were allowed back in during that time. “The Dems and the media were welcomed in,” he said. “There were two systems. There was their system and our system. Their system was very open and welcoming to their people. And our system was ‘Fall in line. Follow the rules. COVID restrictions.’”
FamousDrScanlon on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 5:41 pm
Crimes Against the Earth
“Humans are of the Earth, physically adapted to its range of climates, gravity, radiation, electro-magnetic field and composition of the atmosphere. Had there ever been a single critical issue science has conveyed, it is that altering the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere can only bear fatal consequences for nature and humanity.
This scientific projection is holding true: it is estimated that, to date, some 150,000 to 400,000 people world-wide have perished each year due to direct and indirect effects of global warming1. This includes, for example, 1833 people in New Orleans, possibly up to 5000 in Puerto Rico, 6329 by typhoon Haiyan in the Philippine―the list goes on. Although these events have been documented in detail, the silence in most of the mainstream media regarding the connection between global warming on the one hand and the rising spate of hurricanes, storms and fires on the other, is deafening.
Atmospheric CO2 levels is rising at a rate of 2 to 3 parts per million per year (Figure 1) while mean global temperature has accelerated between 1998 and 2016, rising by about 0.4 degrees Celsius (Figure 2). The projected trend, inducing large-scale melting of the Greenland, west and east Antarctic ice sheets, many meters-scale sea level rise and a rising spate of hurricanes, storms, heat waves, fires and droughts, commenced in the 20th century, threatens to render large parts of the planet uninhabitable.
Which is what climate science has been projecting over the last 40 years or so4. The message, refused by vested interests and ignored or only paid lip service to by the political and economic powers, has also been overlooked by millions of people due to part cover-up by much of the media. Business as usual and a bread and circuses culture continue unabated. Many understand the climate message but feel powerless, voting for parties that, under false promises, end up taking little or no effective measures at reduction of carbon emissions.”
There’s no crime. Just the universe doing it’s thing.
Fire apes (dissipatives) are simply following their evolutionary & thermodynamic programming.
Unravelling, collapse & human extinction are baked in.
Mick on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 5:58 pm
Dr dumbass, quit your plagiarism, stupid. We all know you are really the lunatic. We all know who the lunatic is. LOL. Your comments suck. global research is a nutter site BTW, Fuck
FamousDrScanlon on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 6:15 pm
Dr Andrew Glikson
Contact email:Andrew.glikson@anu.edu.au
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The Gospel of Capitalism is the Biggest Turkey of All
‘…a deep dive into the history of a perverted love story and a false religion — the western worship of money and markets.’
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The Gospel of Capitalism is the Biggest Turkey of All
By Lynn Parramore
Nov 25, 2020 | Culture
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The perverted dreams of western modernity and capitalism may be exhausting themselves, says author Eugene McCarraher. And that’s something to be thankful for.
The latest book by Villanova University’s Eugene McCarraher, who teaches humanities, is a deep dive into the history of a perverted love story and a false religion — the western worship of money and markets. The author testifies against a creed that has dominated our lives since the 17th century and offers an imaginative look at what can help us break the spell. In the following essay, cultural historian Lynn Parramore discusses The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. (For a recent conversation with McCarraher and Institute for New Economic Thinking president Rob Johnson, tune into this episode of the “Economics & Beyond” podcast).
Do you, inhabitant of the marvelous and menacing late-modern world, detect something missing – some kind of vitality, meaning, connectedness, love, beauty, or wonder? If so, you’ve likely searched for a story to explain it.
A popular narrative offers that something rather ugly happened on the way to modernity. As the Middle Ages gave way to the upheavals of the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and rising capitalism, a vanguard of scientists, professors of reason, Protestants, and money men (for they were almost always men), sought to break the shackles of the past. They fashioned bold new ideas and ways of being, but in doing so crimped the human spirit and frayed the ties that bind us to our neighbors, to nature, and to our own hearts. Even the needful and cherished material objects in our lives — the cooking pot, the plow, the spindle — lost their sacred glow.
It’s a tale of disenchantment: a cultural coming-of-age in which the protagonist wakes up from charmed sleep and, as the harsh light strikes newly awakened senses, accepts that it is time to buckle down to business, relying on self-discipline and a strong work ethic to see the way through.
In this story, people take on secular attitudes and values. They turn from community to competition. The sin of greed becomes the desirable trait of “self-interest” and the habit of devotion gives way to the quest for domination. Veneration morphs into venality. We ditch the old totems and taboos and work like crazy, trying our best to be thrifty and restrained so that we can accumulate wealth, now our chief focus. By the time we arrive at the 21st century, the neoliberal regime and its chosen institution, the global corporation, are bringing us dazzling products that promise to meet our wants and needs. The system may be rapacious and exploitive, true. We may often feel twinges of unfulfillment and uncertainty, yes. But that’s the price we pay for the goodies and convenience. The dispirited must suck it up, for, as Maggie Thatcher famously insisted, there is no alternative.”
If the Fat Boy was a bit smarter, we would be in even more chaos.
Mick on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 6:50 pm
Dr dumbass stop the plagiarism please, we know you are the lunatic Ppee juan. You are uneducated by your own admission. You dropped out of high school to be a fuck!
At least 43 rice farmers and fisherman have been brutally slaughtered and beheaded by suspected Islamist militants in Nigeria. The workers had been tied up and had their throats slit in the horrific attack in Borno state, with up to 70 people fe on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 6:58 pm
At least 43 rice farmers and fisherman have been brutally slaughtered and beheaded by suspected Islamist militants in Nigeria. The workers had been tied up and had their throats slit in the horrific attack in Borno state, with up to 70 people feared dead. The attack is believed to have been carried out by Boko Haram
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On This Day... Nov 29, 2019: London, England Two graduate students are stabbed to death near the London Bridge: 2 Killed on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 7:01 pm
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Roger on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 7:22 pm
“ As a climate scientist at this troubled time in human history, my hope is that the life force of our Earth can hang on. “
Really? Life force of our earth? Is that a scientific term?
The hypocrisy of academia knows no bounds.
Antius on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 9:09 pm
Anthropogenic climate change is a problem that will be solved in another few decades. Fossil fuel depletion will soon result in the die off of a large fraction of the Earth’s human population. This is now inevitable, because declining fossil fuel EROI makes it impossible for most of humanity to afford replacing existing FF infrastructure with a renewable or nuclear powered alternative. The embodied energy is too great and there is now insufficient time to make the requisite changes.
The post-WW2 population explosion will soon be undone, as the expanded population burn through the remaining agar in the planetary petri dish. A much reduced human population will then stand a better chance of living in balance with nature.
Fuck you Mick. Everyone knows FamousDrScanlons apeman.
cuntwak
Theedrich on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 12:33 am
Pop reduction must begin with the unfit: the genetically most retarded. Forget Cretinity’s obsession with “the poor.” Dieoff is the solution. The Final Solution.
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 6:55 am
“The Gospel of Capitalism is the Biggest Turkey of All”
It isn’t, it is the most efficient, glorious economic system of them all, guaranteeing reasonable wealth for the many. In fact, it is SOO successful that in the 21st century it needs to be tamed, but not killed.
Capitalism needs to be subordinate to social, environmental and democratic values.
In practice:
– renewable energy transition imposed on capitalism by society
– max. personal wealth of, say 20-50 million, enough to satisfy deserved material comfort for successful entrepreneurs, without giving them the possibility of buying up democracy, like in the US. Yeah you, Jeff Bezos, George Soros. Millionaires yes, not oligarchs.
– decent social minimum, without doling out (too much) free money. Perhaps limited social income (700 euro/month?), only if it replaces minimum wage. If you can’t find work, you will be forced-integrated in the pool of social workers for the common good.
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 6:59 am
Interesting website. It explains Britain’s predicament quite well.
He is a jew-turned-orthodox priest and a “self-hating jew”. Those are the best, for out purpose of white survival.
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 7:47 am
Theed, excellent comment!
As as a long-time advocate for removing the unfit, that is to say, retarded, genetically unfit non-whites from the gene pool, I am strongly considering self-euthanizing as my contribution to help solve the energy and resource crisis. A crisis that individuals like me helped to create.
After some reflection, I realize, I don’t produce anything, I have no skills, and I will freely admit I am of little use or value to society in any way shape or form. That leaves me with only one real option.
The only question now is, when and how.
I would also like this opportunity to invite my long time friend and ally, Davy, to join with me in this noble gesture when the time comes. I dont want to be alone and knowing him and I will be together in heaven will give me courage to do what needs to be done.
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 9:24 am
The previous comment was written by the lying pos, our resident heeb apneaman / infamousscammer
Cloggie on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 9:50 am
The previous comment was not mine.
George Soros on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 10:21 am
All the previous comments that weren’t awesome or sexy weren’t mine!
Who else has the liquid sharts from covid?
It’s a pandemic allright!, and my pan is always full!
Lee Harvey Oswalds spotter on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 10:22 am
The last comment was mine
7/11 was a part time job ! on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 10:25 am
You do realise covid doesn’t cause liquid sharts?
The uneducated hysterical masses are buying toilet paper because they are stupid.
If you have the sharts like me it’s due to spicy curry and too many pints of beer.
Now fuck orf!
Antius on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 10:26 am
I have the sharts
Davy on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 10:29 am
I knew it!
I can tell Abraham van Helsing and Duncan Idaho are suppressing their covid but wish to unleash their sharts onto the world.
They will be out of the covid shart closet soon you will see!
Duncan Idaho on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 10:30 am
Lesson of Biden victory for Repugs: There aren’t enough poorly educated White People to win with a Politics of Racial Grievance Any More
And also while I’m here I must say that this site is not covid shart friendly. This site is oppressing and discriminating against people with the sharts.
This site should be covid sharts friendly LGBTCS right! and vegetables rights and peace!
Brussel Sprouts are sentient beings too!
Be Ashamed whitey!
FamousDrScanlon on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 10:38 am
Climate unravelling
Australia bush fire rips through heritage-listed Fraser Island
“BRISBANE (AFP) – Australian firefighters are struggling to control a massive bush fire that already destroyed 40 per cent of the Unesco world heritage listed Fraser Island before a heatwave hit Monday (Nov 30).
The fire on the world’s largest sand island, off Australia’s east coast, has been raging for more than six weeks and is consuming large swathes of the island’s unique forests.
Temperatures are forecast to peak at 34 deg C Monday as a heatwave sweeps across the region, raising concerns that hotter conditions will further fuel the blaze.
“The vegetation on Fraser Island is extremely dry and because it’s so dry it’s therefore very easy to ignite,” incident controller James Haig told AFP.
bout two-thirds of Queensland state, including Fraser Island, is currently gripped by drought.
According to a recent report from the nation’s top science and meteorology agencies, climate change is fuelling more extreme droughts, bush fires and cyclones in Australia – which they said will only worsen as temperatures continue to rise.”
I’m the whitest person I know. I listen to Phil Collins.
I have been ashamed all morning and whipping myself with belts all morning.
I get no pleasure from it honestly.
We should have been covid sharts aware hundreds of years ago
FamousDrScanlon on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 10:41 am
New analysis reveals New Zealand’s 150-year climate transformation
“A team of researchers have compared land temperatures recorded around the country between 1871 and 2019 with surrounding ocean surface data, finding our wider region has warmed by about 0.66C over that time.
Much of the heat has come over recent years, on the back of global warming.
“While there were some very warm years in the early 1970s, all of the warmest years have occurred since 1998,” said the study’s lead author, Professor Jim Salinger.”
Lord Voldemort of Chaz on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 10:43 am
How much George Soros payin’ to get reducted and stuff wi’ tha populashion?
Cos like a few bucks helps pay the alimony n’ stuff?
Gnomesayin?
FamousDrScanlon on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 10:49 am
“Monday marks the official end to the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record. Even though the season ends on November 30, we could see at least one more storm before things wind down for the winter.”
Ppeee juan, everyone knows who the lunatic is. You just are a spoiled brat ruining a place for people to gather by your oversized selfish use of this forum. Maybe one day sombody will shit-can you here or in REAL Life. I am sure if you are behaving here like you do off the digital, I imagine somebody is going to pop your noggin eventually. I hope when they do it is something that takes you within inches of life.
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FamousDrScanlon on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 11:03 am
It’s the same, shit for brains, troop of monkeys every time.
As Trump Administration Downplays Warming, Agencies Chronicle Climate Impacts
Environmental reviews emphasize the relatively small contributions from individual infrastructure projects, ignoring the bigger picture
I should clarify that I am not a Dr and not famous. In fact I dropped out of high school and do little more than troll this obscure forum daily all day and into the late night. I don’t care becuase I enjoy dominating in a cowardly way.
FamousDrScanlon on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 11:07 am
Wildfires deal another blow to Northern California’s fragile bee populations
19% of Antarctic ice sheet surface melted in past 20 years: report
“Over the 1999-2019 period, more than 2.63 million square kilometers of the Antarctic ice sheet surface had experienced observable melting, which is nearly one-fifth of the total area, said the MOST 2020 annual report of remote sensing monitoring on the global ecological environment.”
“It is predicted that the melting conditions of the Antarctic ice sheet surface will continue to increase, especially in West Antarctica and Antarctic Peninsula. Its impact on the sea level rise will become significant.”
Top official: This is what Arctic climate change will cost Russia
Direct damage on buildings and infrastructure will be up to €99 billion, says Deputy Minister of the Far East and Arctic Aleksandr Krutikov.
‘Unprecedented warming in the far north is having its toll on Russian towns, industry and infrastructure, and consequences could be dire unless the temperature increase is halted, the Russian Ministry of the Far East and Arctic makes clear.’
FamousDrScanlon on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 2:23 pm
By every metric that matters nothing has been done to slow climate change & nothing ever will.
“We’ve seen this act (COP) repeat over and over, ever since COP1 in Berlin in 1995, as each successive COP-ending-ceremony finds the Parties congratulating each other, slaps on the back, for one more successful climate conference of 20,000-30,000 able-bodied professionals wiped-out from overconsumption of Beluga caviar and Domaine de la Romanee-Conti, but subsequently carbon emissions increase the following year, and every following year thereafter. What’s to congratulate?
More to the point, the annualized CO2 emissions rate is +60% since COP1, not decreasing, not going down, not once. After 25 years of the same identical pattern, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the take-home-work from all 25 COPs mysteriously turns into the antithesis of the mission statement of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/11/20/expert-ipcc-reviewer-speaks-out/
I’ve always got a kick out of hysterical climate deniers raging over their imaginary threats to their fossil freedumb when the exact opposite, MOAR, happened year after year after year.
BTW Morons, the IPCC was set up by governments as a tool of control (policy recommendations), not to stop fossil fuel use.
The IPCC is the last place I’d recommend to anyone who wished to learn the evidence for AGW.
The Pairs accords are another bunk gate-keeping piece of theatre created to give the masses the illusion/hope that tptb are addressing CC. They’re not, nor do they intend to. Never did.
FamousDrScanlon on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 2:32 pm
I am not a Dr and the majority of my comments are plagiarized. I am REALy a troll. Fuck this forum!
Davy on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 3:15 pm
Victory!!!!
zero juan on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 3:23 pm
Ppeee juan, everyone knows Davy is gone. You are the only one that uses his ID anymore. He is renting space in your head, Fuck. This is a victory!
Davy said Victory!!!!
FamousDrScanlon on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 3:28 pm
I’m a Dr & I’m famous.
When you’re famous you get use to envious stalkers. They are sad damaged people & stalking is all they have:(
“Humanity is the cancer of nature.”
― Dave Foreman
” Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment; but you humans do not. Instead you multiply, and multiply, until every resource is consumed. The only way for you to survive is to spread to another area.”
– Agent Smith
“humankind’s presence on Earth is nothing but a cancer”
“Long after the traces of the human animal have disappeared, many of the species it is bent on destroying will still be around, along with others that have yet to spring up.
“The Earth will forget mankind. The play of life will go on.”
“The destruction of the natural world is not the result of global capitalism, industrialisation, ‘Western civilisation’ or any flaw in human institutions. It is a consequence of the evolutionary success of an exceptionally rapacious primate. Throughout all of history and prehistory, human advance has coincided with ecological devastation.”
― John Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts On Humans And Other Animals
“The romantic contrast between modern industry that “destroys nature” and our ancestors who “lived in harmony with nature” is groundless. Long before the Industrial Revolution, Homo sapiens held the record among all organisms for driving the most plant and animal species to their extinctions. We have the dubious distinction of being the deadliest species in the annals of life.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, From Animals into Gods: A Brief History of Humankind
Walk proud & tall ye mighty Cancers.
FamousDrScanlon on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 3:32 pm
Bushfire threatens Sydney homes after city swelters through hottest November night on record
“Sydney has sweltered through its hottest November night since records began more than 160 years ago before temperatures again climbed above 40C in the city on Sunday ahead of a cool but gusty change.”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/nov/29/sydney-and-northern-nsw-to-swelter-through-another-day-of-above-40c-heat
zero juan on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 3:46 pm
Ppee, your envious stalker is trolling the troll, Fuck. In your psychopathic mind you have this huge ego but the truth is you are a stupid fuck that never finished school. You are a schizoid he has the elaborate stupid world formed around him but the reality is you are a deadbeat fuck that does little. You have no reason to even waste nature air. You are a parasitic sink, fuck. I am here to take you down becuase it is delicious to make a troll pay for his years of socks, staking, and very very bad manners. Got it stupid fuck? LMFAO
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duncan donuts on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 3:54 pm
“BREAKING UPDATE: Judge Timothy Batten Issues Order to Freeze All Dominion Machines in Georgia!”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/breaking-update-judge-timothy-batten-issues-order-freeze-dominion-machines-georgia/
“Judge Timothy C. Batten, Sr. issued an order on Sunday to freeze ALL Dominion voting machines in the state of Georgia. Via Attorney Linn Wood: “Defendants are ordered to maintain the statue quo & are temporarily enjoined from wiping or resetting any voting machines in the State of Georgia until further order of the Court.”
Duncan Idaho on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 4:08 pm
“‘Someday this war’s gonna end’. That’d be just fine with the boys on the boat. They weren’t looking for anything more than a way home. Trouble is, I’d been back there, and I knew that it just didn’t exist anymore.”
JuanP on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 4:51 pm
Nothing can be done to prevent the sixth mass extinction event; it is decades too late. All we can do is prepare to save ourselves and our loved ones, regardless of the cost to others.
Duncan Idaho on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 4:56 pm
“Conservatives and neo-confederates have been suppressing the vote for decades. Centuries, actually. And they are more desperate to do it than ever now — they’ve lost 7 out of the last 8 popular votes in this country. That’s once in 32 years. In a normal democracy they would have been in the wilderness for more than a quarter century. But because our our undemocratic system that allows minority rule, they have managed to capture the presidency anyway, half of that time and control the congress even more. (They have also lost the popular vote in the House and Senate during that period, including this last election.)”
Mick on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 5:00 pm
“Nothing can be done to prevent the sixth mass extinction event; it is decades too late. All we can do is prepare to save ourselves and our loved ones, regardless of the cost to others.”
WTF, Ppeee juan, what kind of comment is that? Get a fucking life prick. Go out and do something good for nature instead of being a couch bitch on an obscure forum all day long. You live in the most disgusting place on the planet in regards to being a good earth citizen. Miami Beach is a pricks paradise and that is why your dumbass lives there. You are a fucking prick!
Duncan Idaho on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 5:01 pm
Some help?
https://i.imgur.com/HAxcSoB.jpg?fb
duncan donuts on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 5:05 pm
Dumbcan, this is your lying cheating people you are so fond of:
“These People Were Vicious – I Saw All Kinds of Illegal Behavior” – Michigan Election Witness Who Saw 4 AM Illegal Ballot Drop for Biden Speaks Out (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/people-vicious-saw-kinds-illegal-behavior-michigan-election-witness-saw-4-illegal-ballot-drop-biden-speaks-video/
“Also Saw Multiple Late Night Ballot Dumps! Andrew Sitto, Republican poll challenger at the TCF Center in Detroit, saw poll workers filling out votes for the Democrats on election night! Official Detroit poll workers stole votes by marking non-Biden votes for Biden, Sitto says. “I saw all types of illegal behavior.” SITTO ALSO SAW THE 4AM BIDEN BALLOT DROP! He describes 4am ballots being brought to the counting tables and spread out. They would run the same ballots through the tabulators multiple times, “we were told to look for this” Sitto says. When they went through a second time, they were committing voter fraud according to Sitto. Other witnesses have described the ballot duplication process, and thousands of spare ballots laying around with an official duplication process at the TCF Center. Explosively, Sitto says: “I didn’t see any ballots with legitimate reasons to be duplicated. Every ballot was normal” when it came in. “The whole thing is illegal. The whole night was illegal.” Sitto believes he and another poll challenger saw blatant voter fraud at one of the duplication tables, where poll workers are supposed to copy votes precisely from damaged ballots onto new ones. He saw the poll workers duplicating a mixed-ticket ballot while a group of Democrat operatives distracted and forced the Republican poll challenger away from the table. “The moment [the Republican poll challenger] looked away, they filled in the Democrat ticket.” Sitto personally saw voter fraud in favor of Joe Biden in Detroit. Sitto also described seeing poll workers running the same stacks of ballots multiple times though a tabulator. He also said poll workers grabbed handfuls of empty ballots and hid them at their tables. All poll workers had pens, which he believes could have been used to illegally fill out the blank ballots. “I saw them taking empty ballots that should only be used for duplicates, stashing them and probably voting them later straight-ticket for Joe Biden.” Sitto described pens at most tables, and poll workers regularly grabbing duplicate ballots for no valid reason. The pens would be necessary if they were manually filling out ballots at the counting tables. “These people were vicious.” “I’ve made reports about this” Sitto says, though there’s no indication if any official has pursued Sitto’s claims of witnessed voter fraud. Voter fraud is the “illegal interference with the process of an election” and Sitto is in a long line of other witnesses who have said they personally witnessed illegal interference in the process of Detroit’s elections. Describing the official Detroit officials conspiring with left-wing poll workers to fraud the vote: “It was a collective attack.” When the exhausted Republican poll challengers took a break on Wednesday, Sitto said the Michigan state government notified the TCF personnel that COVID-related occupancy restrictions would now be enforced on the facility. As a result, he and other Republican poll challengers were locked out at a crucial moment, and he witnessed security coming in and the windows being covered up. “They counted the military ballots in the most secret way they could,” he said. However, Sitto noticed that some people were allowed back in during that time. “The Dems and the media were welcomed in,” he said. “There were two systems. There was their system and our system. Their system was very open and welcoming to their people. And our system was ‘Fall in line. Follow the rules. COVID restrictions.’”
FamousDrScanlon on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 5:41 pm
Crimes Against the Earth
“Humans are of the Earth, physically adapted to its range of climates, gravity, radiation, electro-magnetic field and composition of the atmosphere. Had there ever been a single critical issue science has conveyed, it is that altering the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere can only bear fatal consequences for nature and humanity.
This scientific projection is holding true: it is estimated that, to date, some 150,000 to 400,000 people world-wide have perished each year due to direct and indirect effects of global warming1. This includes, for example, 1833 people in New Orleans, possibly up to 5000 in Puerto Rico, 6329 by typhoon Haiyan in the Philippine―the list goes on. Although these events have been documented in detail, the silence in most of the mainstream media regarding the connection between global warming on the one hand and the rising spate of hurricanes, storms and fires on the other, is deafening.
Atmospheric CO2 levels is rising at a rate of 2 to 3 parts per million per year (Figure 1) while mean global temperature has accelerated between 1998 and 2016, rising by about 0.4 degrees Celsius (Figure 2). The projected trend, inducing large-scale melting of the Greenland, west and east Antarctic ice sheets, many meters-scale sea level rise and a rising spate of hurricanes, storms, heat waves, fires and droughts, commenced in the 20th century, threatens to render large parts of the planet uninhabitable.
Which is what climate science has been projecting over the last 40 years or so4. The message, refused by vested interests and ignored or only paid lip service to by the political and economic powers, has also been overlooked by millions of people due to part cover-up by much of the media. Business as usual and a bread and circuses culture continue unabated. Many understand the climate message but feel powerless, voting for parties that, under false promises, end up taking little or no effective measures at reduction of carbon emissions.”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/crimes-against-the-earth/5643741
There’s no crime. Just the universe doing it’s thing.
Fire apes (dissipatives) are simply following their evolutionary & thermodynamic programming.
Unravelling, collapse & human extinction are baked in.
Mick on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 5:58 pm
Dr dumbass, quit your plagiarism, stupid. We all know you are really the lunatic. We all know who the lunatic is. LOL. Your comments suck. global research is a nutter site BTW, Fuck
FamousDrScanlon on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 6:15 pm
Dr Andrew Glikson
Contact email:Andrew.glikson@anu.edu.au
Contact email:geospec@iinet.net.au
Contact phone:+61 2 6296 3853
Contact phone:0439 085 833
Visiting Fellow
Research School of Earth Sciences
ANU College of Science
https://climate.anu.edu.au/about/people/academics/dr-andrew-glikson
FamousDrScanlon on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 6:22 pm
The Gospel of Capitalism is the Biggest Turkey of All
‘…a deep dive into the history of a perverted love story and a false religion — the western worship of money and markets.’
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The Gospel of Capitalism is the Biggest Turkey of All
By Lynn Parramore
Nov 25, 2020 | Culture
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The perverted dreams of western modernity and capitalism may be exhausting themselves, says author Eugene McCarraher. And that’s something to be thankful for.
The latest book by Villanova University’s Eugene McCarraher, who teaches humanities, is a deep dive into the history of a perverted love story and a false religion — the western worship of money and markets. The author testifies against a creed that has dominated our lives since the 17th century and offers an imaginative look at what can help us break the spell. In the following essay, cultural historian Lynn Parramore discusses The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. (For a recent conversation with McCarraher and Institute for New Economic Thinking president Rob Johnson, tune into this episode of the “Economics & Beyond” podcast).
Do you, inhabitant of the marvelous and menacing late-modern world, detect something missing – some kind of vitality, meaning, connectedness, love, beauty, or wonder? If so, you’ve likely searched for a story to explain it.
A popular narrative offers that something rather ugly happened on the way to modernity. As the Middle Ages gave way to the upheavals of the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and rising capitalism, a vanguard of scientists, professors of reason, Protestants, and money men (for they were almost always men), sought to break the shackles of the past. They fashioned bold new ideas and ways of being, but in doing so crimped the human spirit and frayed the ties that bind us to our neighbors, to nature, and to our own hearts. Even the needful and cherished material objects in our lives — the cooking pot, the plow, the spindle — lost their sacred glow.
It’s a tale of disenchantment: a cultural coming-of-age in which the protagonist wakes up from charmed sleep and, as the harsh light strikes newly awakened senses, accepts that it is time to buckle down to business, relying on self-discipline and a strong work ethic to see the way through.
In this story, people take on secular attitudes and values. They turn from community to competition. The sin of greed becomes the desirable trait of “self-interest” and the habit of devotion gives way to the quest for domination. Veneration morphs into venality. We ditch the old totems and taboos and work like crazy, trying our best to be thrifty and restrained so that we can accumulate wealth, now our chief focus. By the time we arrive at the 21st century, the neoliberal regime and its chosen institution, the global corporation, are bringing us dazzling products that promise to meet our wants and needs. The system may be rapacious and exploitive, true. We may often feel twinges of unfulfillment and uncertainty, yes. But that’s the price we pay for the goodies and convenience. The dispirited must suck it up, for, as Maggie Thatcher famously insisted, there is no alternative.”
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/the-gospel-of-capitalism-is-the-biggest-turkey-of-all
Yabut it was soooo worth it. All it’s costing us is everything.
Duncan Idaho on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 6:37 pm
German denazification has lessons on how to deal with post-Trump America
https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/donald-trump-nazi/
If the Fat Boy was a bit smarter, we would be in even more chaos.
Mick on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 6:50 pm
Dr dumbass stop the plagiarism please, we know you are the lunatic Ppee juan. You are uneducated by your own admission. You dropped out of high school to be a fuck!
At least 43 rice farmers and fisherman have been brutally slaughtered and beheaded by suspected Islamist militants in Nigeria. The workers had been tied up and had their throats slit in the horrific attack in Borno state, with up to 70 people fe on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 6:58 pm
At least 43 rice farmers and fisherman have been brutally slaughtered and beheaded by suspected Islamist militants in Nigeria. The workers had been tied up and had their throats slit in the horrific attack in Borno state, with up to 70 people feared dead. The attack is believed to have been carried out by Boko Haram
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On This Day... Nov 29, 2019: London, England Two graduate students are stabbed to death near the London Bridge: 2 Killed on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 7:01 pm
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Roger on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 7:22 pm
“ As a climate scientist at this troubled time in human history, my hope is that the life force of our Earth can hang on. “
Really? Life force of our earth? Is that a scientific term?
The hypocrisy of academia knows no bounds.
Antius on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 9:09 pm
Anthropogenic climate change is a problem that will be solved in another few decades. Fossil fuel depletion will soon result in the die off of a large fraction of the Earth’s human population. This is now inevitable, because declining fossil fuel EROI makes it impossible for most of humanity to afford replacing existing FF infrastructure with a renewable or nuclear powered alternative. The embodied energy is too great and there is now insufficient time to make the requisite changes.
The post-WW2 population explosion will soon be undone, as the expanded population burn through the remaining agar in the planetary petri dish. A much reduced human population will then stand a better chance of living in balance with nature.
Antius on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 9:11 pm
Interesting website. It explains Britain’s predicament quite well.
https://www.realjewnews.com/?p=86
Davy on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 9:14 pm
Fuck you Mick. Everyone knows FamousDrScanlons apeman.
cuntwak
Theedrich on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 12:33 am
Pop reduction must begin with the unfit: the genetically most retarded. Forget Cretinity’s obsession with “the poor.” Dieoff is the solution. The Final Solution.
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 6:55 am
“The Gospel of Capitalism is the Biggest Turkey of All”
It isn’t, it is the most efficient, glorious economic system of them all, guaranteeing reasonable wealth for the many. In fact, it is SOO successful that in the 21st century it needs to be tamed, but not killed.
Capitalism needs to be subordinate to social, environmental and democratic values.
In practice:
– renewable energy transition imposed on capitalism by society
– max. personal wealth of, say 20-50 million, enough to satisfy deserved material comfort for successful entrepreneurs, without giving them the possibility of buying up democracy, like in the US. Yeah you, Jeff Bezos, George Soros. Millionaires yes, not oligarchs.
– decent social minimum, without doling out (too much) free money. Perhaps limited social income (700 euro/month?), only if it replaces minimum wage. If you can’t find work, you will be forced-integrated in the pool of social workers for the common good.
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 6:59 am
Interesting website. It explains Britain’s predicament quite well.
https://www.realjewnews.com/?p=86
He is a jew-turned-orthodox priest and a “self-hating jew”. Those are the best, for out purpose of white survival.
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 7:47 am
Theed, excellent comment!
As as a long-time advocate for removing the unfit, that is to say, retarded, genetically unfit non-whites from the gene pool, I am strongly considering self-euthanizing as my contribution to help solve the energy and resource crisis. A crisis that individuals like me helped to create.
After some reflection, I realize, I don’t produce anything, I have no skills, and I will freely admit I am of little use or value to society in any way shape or form. That leaves me with only one real option.
The only question now is, when and how.
I would also like this opportunity to invite my long time friend and ally, Davy, to join with me in this noble gesture when the time comes. I dont want to be alone and knowing him and I will be together in heaven will give me courage to do what needs to be done.
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 9:24 am
The previous comment was written by the lying pos, our resident heeb apneaman / infamousscammer
Cloggie on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 9:50 am
The previous comment was not mine.
George Soros on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 10:21 am
All the previous comments that weren’t awesome or sexy weren’t mine!
Who else has the liquid sharts from covid?
It’s a pandemic allright!, and my pan is always full!
Lee Harvey Oswalds spotter on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 10:22 am
The last comment was mine
7/11 was a part time job ! on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 10:25 am
You do realise covid doesn’t cause liquid sharts?
The uneducated hysterical masses are buying toilet paper because they are stupid.
If you have the sharts like me it’s due to spicy curry and too many pints of beer.
Now fuck orf!
Antius on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 10:26 am
I have the sharts
Davy on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 10:29 am
I knew it!
I can tell Abraham van Helsing and Duncan Idaho are suppressing their covid but wish to unleash their sharts onto the world.
They will be out of the covid shart closet soon you will see!
Duncan Idaho on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 10:30 am
Lesson of Biden victory for Repugs: There aren’t enough poorly educated White People to win with a Politics of Racial Grievance Any More
https://www.juancole.com/2020/11/republicans-educated-grievance.html
Duncan Idaho on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 10:35 am
And also while I’m here I must say that this site is not covid shart friendly. This site is oppressing and discriminating against people with the sharts.
This site should be covid sharts friendly LGBTCS right! and vegetables rights and peace!
Brussel Sprouts are sentient beings too!
Be Ashamed whitey!
FamousDrScanlon on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 10:38 am
Climate unravelling
Australia bush fire rips through heritage-listed Fraser Island
“BRISBANE (AFP) – Australian firefighters are struggling to control a massive bush fire that already destroyed 40 per cent of the Unesco world heritage listed Fraser Island before a heatwave hit Monday (Nov 30).
The fire on the world’s largest sand island, off Australia’s east coast, has been raging for more than six weeks and is consuming large swathes of the island’s unique forests.
Temperatures are forecast to peak at 34 deg C Monday as a heatwave sweeps across the region, raising concerns that hotter conditions will further fuel the blaze.
“The vegetation on Fraser Island is extremely dry and because it’s so dry it’s therefore very easy to ignite,” incident controller James Haig told AFP.
bout two-thirds of Queensland state, including Fraser Island, is currently gripped by drought.
According to a recent report from the nation’s top science and meteorology agencies, climate change is fuelling more extreme droughts, bush fires and cyclones in Australia – which they said will only worsen as temperatures continue to rise.”
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australia-bush-fire-rips-through-heritage-listed-fraser-island
Aussie Bob on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 10:39 am
I’m the whitest person I know. I listen to Phil Collins.
I have been ashamed all morning and whipping myself with belts all morning.
I get no pleasure from it honestly.
We should have been covid sharts aware hundreds of years ago
FamousDrScanlon on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 10:41 am
New analysis reveals New Zealand’s 150-year climate transformation
“A team of researchers have compared land temperatures recorded around the country between 1871 and 2019 with surrounding ocean surface data, finding our wider region has warmed by about 0.66C over that time.
Much of the heat has come over recent years, on the back of global warming.
“While there were some very warm years in the early 1970s, all of the warmest years have occurred since 1998,” said the study’s lead author, Professor Jim Salinger.”
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/new-analysis-reveals-new-zealands-150-year-climate-transformation/YNYOYG3R4AV2QZELE72XSXFNKY/
Lord Voldemort of Chaz on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 10:43 am
How much George Soros payin’ to get reducted and stuff wi’ tha populashion?
Cos like a few bucks helps pay the alimony n’ stuff?
Gnomesayin?
FamousDrScanlon on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 10:49 am
“Monday marks the official end to the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record. Even though the season ends on November 30, we could see at least one more storm before things wind down for the winter.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dennismersereau/2020/11/29/the-atlantic-could-produce-one-more-storm-to-end-this-historic-hurricane-season/?sh=d6619e875f20
zero juan on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 10:57 am
Ppeee juan, everyone knows who the lunatic is. You just are a spoiled brat ruining a place for people to gather by your oversized selfish use of this forum. Maybe one day sombody will shit-can you here or in REAL Life. I am sure if you are behaving here like you do off the digital, I imagine somebody is going to pop your noggin eventually. I hope when they do it is something that takes you within inches of life.
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FamousDrScanlon on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 11:03 am
It’s the same, shit for brains, troop of monkeys every time.
As Trump Administration Downplays Warming, Agencies Chronicle Climate Impacts
Environmental reviews emphasize the relatively small contributions from individual infrastructure projects, ignoring the bigger picture
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/as-trump-administration-downplays-warming-agencies-chronicle-climate-impacts/
Denial and Defiance: Trump and His Base Downplay the Virus Ahead of the Election
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/us/politics/trump-base-virus.html
FamousDrScanlon on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 11:06 am
I should clarify that I am not a Dr and not famous. In fact I dropped out of high school and do little more than troll this obscure forum daily all day and into the late night. I don’t care becuase I enjoy dominating in a cowardly way.
FamousDrScanlon on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 11:07 am
Wildfires deal another blow to Northern California’s fragile bee populations
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Wildfires-deal-another-blow-to-Northern-15758799.php
FamousDrScanlon on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 11:09 am
19% of Antarctic ice sheet surface melted in past 20 years: report
“Over the 1999-2019 period, more than 2.63 million square kilometers of the Antarctic ice sheet surface had experienced observable melting, which is nearly one-fifth of the total area, said the MOST 2020 annual report of remote sensing monitoring on the global ecological environment.”
“It is predicted that the melting conditions of the Antarctic ice sheet surface will continue to increase, especially in West Antarctica and Antarctic Peninsula. Its impact on the sea level rise will become significant.”
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-11-29/19-of-Antarctic-ice-sheet-surface-melted-in-past-century-report-VOw8A1z0bu/index.html
FamousDrScanlon on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 11:14 am
Top official: This is what Arctic climate change will cost Russia
Direct damage on buildings and infrastructure will be up to €99 billion, says Deputy Minister of the Far East and Arctic Aleksandr Krutikov.
‘Unprecedented warming in the far north is having its toll on Russian towns, industry and infrastructure, and consequences could be dire unless the temperature increase is halted, the Russian Ministry of the Far East and Arctic makes clear.’
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/climate-crisis/2020/11/top-official-what-arctic-climate-change-will-cost-russia
Can’t be halted. Just wait.
https://youtu.be/yAevz1yQ8QU