Making Meaning for the Ending of Our Days, part 2

30 Comments on "Making Meaning for the Ending of Our Days, part 2"

Apneaman on Mon, 18th Apr 2016 4:58 pm 



Here’s why it may be too late to stop climate change

“If you spend a lot of time talking to scientists about climate change, there’s one word you’ll hear time and time again, and yet it’s hardly ever mentioned in the public discussion of climate change. The word is “non-linear.”

https://bangordailynews.com/2016/04/18/opinion/contributors/heres-why-it-may-be-too-late-to-stop-climate-change/

JuanP on Mon, 18th Apr 2016 5:20 pm 



Ap, I believe that this nonlinearity is beginning to be observable to those of us who are paying close attention to what is going on where Climate Change is concerned. My wife has been hearing me talk about this for years, and now we can see it clearly everywhere. The flooding events in Miami Beach and other observable and measurable phenomena are obviously getting worse exponentially all over the world as you are well aware of based on your comments and the links you post.

onlooker on Mon, 18th Apr 2016 5:23 pm 



Darn right Juan it is becoming observable. I mean at New Years of this year around the North Pole it actually rained. That is just freakish. We are definitely seeing some definite ramping up of the climate change machine.

peakyeast on Mon, 18th Apr 2016 5:34 pm 



The impact from humans is non-linear – thus there is no reason to think the response should be anything else.

Besides all records shows the system is very prone to exhibit step responses.

Which would come sooner or later.

I believe I read some of the previous iceages started in just 4 years after the recurrent warming spikes – in which we are right now.

Anything could happen at any time.

onlooker on Mon, 18th Apr 2016 5:44 pm 



Yep and I read that something like 10 degrees F change in temp in like a decade or so. So runaway global warming is certainly full of surprises.

Apneaman on Mon, 18th Apr 2016 5:50 pm 



Pattern seeking apes should have observed that, I don’t feature links to climate models. Mostly real time consequences and paleoclimate studies/evidence.

Here’s a scary example of non linearity from the past.

Dissecting Paleoclimate Change

Using a core sample from the Santa Barbara Basin, UCSB researchers decipher the history of paleoclimate change with surprising results

“One of the most astonishing things about our results is the abruptness of the warming in sea surface temperatures,” explained co-author Kennett, a professor emeritus in UCSB’s Department of Earth Science. “Of the 13 degree Fahrenheit total change, a shift of 7 to 9 degrees occurred almost immediately right at the beginning.”

“Kennett noted that this remarkable record of paleoclimate changes also raises an important question: What process can possibly push the Earth’s climate so fast from a glacial to an interglacial state? The researchers may have discovered the answer based on the core’s geochemical record: The warming associated with the major climatic shift was accompanied by simultaneous releases of methane — a potent greenhouse gas.

“This particular episode of climate change is closely associated with instability that caused the release of methane from gas hydrates at the ocean floor,” Kennett said. “These frozen forms of methane melt when temperatures rise or pressure decreases. Changes in sea level affect the stability of gas hydrates and water temperature even more so.”

– See more at: http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2015/016158/dissecting-paleoclimate-change#sthash.hp7rpeSi.dpuf

onlooker on Mon, 18th Apr 2016 6:14 pm 



http://www.commonsnews.org/site/site05/story.php?articleno=14397&page=1#.VxVp70fQqKG
Evidence is mounting that the solar panels and climate treaties don’t matter: we might be passing beyond the point of avoiding social collapse, civilization demise, and species extinction

Apneaman on Mon, 18th Apr 2016 6:34 pm 



onlooker, from you link – most are not aware of this.

“Climate lag is the 40-year delay between the time that greenhouse gas is emitted into the atmosphere and the resulting effect of increased temperatures.”

And even less know

Global Warming Fact: More than Half of All Industrial CO2 Pollution Has Been Emitted Since 1988

http://blog.ucsusa.org/peter-frumhoff/global-warming-fact-co2-emissions-since-1988-764

Do the math people. Bye bye little cancer monkeys

Apneaman on Mon, 18th Apr 2016 7:07 pm 



Historic Flooding Ongoing as Houston Records Its Rainiest Day Ever—Before Noon

“Houston is in the midst of an unbelievable deluge, with already more rainfall in a single day than any hurricane to ever hit the hurricane-prone city. The National Weather Service has called Monday’s flooding “historic.”

More than 21,000 square miles of southeast Texas is now in a flash flood warning,”

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/04/18/houston_flooding_is_historic_and_linked_to_climate_change.html

makati1 on Mon, 18th Apr 2016 7:17 pm 



Guys, you are upsetting the chronic deniers. The BAU crowed that think we will gently slide into an 1800s lifestyle with most of our medicals advances, electric servants and internet social contacts still part of our lives.

They don’t want to see what is happening, like the Greenland heat wave that is accelerating the melting of ice there. If Greenland’s ice cap goes, it adds about 20 feet to sea levels. Gone are most coastal cities and low islands around the world.

I think we are st the hockey stick part of the climate change graph and we are going to witness obvious negative changes we cannot ignore. Could it trip an ice age? Who knows? It would be just as catastrophic for humans as it’s opposite.

Apneaman on Mon, 18th Apr 2016 7:18 pm 



The New World: March 2016 Is the Sixth Temperature Record-Breaking Month in a Row

“October. November. December. January. February. And now March.

For the sixth month in a row, we’ve had a month that has broken the global high temperature record. And not just broken it, but shattered it, blasting through it like the previous record wasn’t even there.”

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2016/04/16/march_2016_was_the_hottest_march_on_record.html

penury on Mon, 18th Apr 2016 10:24 pm 



Today is the 18th of Apr and Seattle Wa had a temp of 89 degrees F, tomorrow is supposed to be warmer,

Apneaman on Tue, 19th Apr 2016 12:39 am 



Houston Flooding: The Videos You Need to See

http://heavy.com/news/2016/04/houston-texas-flood-flooding-videos-youtube-twitter-rainfall-totals-kayak-cars/

Apneaman on Tue, 19th Apr 2016 12:47 am 



Is the California drought America’s water wake-up call?

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-famiglietti-chronic-water-scarcity-20160417-story.html

Dredd on Tue, 19th Apr 2016 5:25 am 



Does the same go for civilizations?

“In other words, a society does not ever die ‘from natural causes’, but always dies from suicide or murder — and nearly always from the former, as this chapter has shown.” – A Study of History, by … (Choose Your Trances Carefully – 3</a<)

Davy on Tue, 19th Apr 2016 7:45 am 



We are a death-phobic culture and that is reflected all the way to our global system that is obsessed with growth and progress. We have these psychological conflicts one gets with living one way but reality being another. We will change our societal narrative to death by choice or force but probably both. This is death will be at all levels from the individual to populations and with systems and networks.

Many of you don’t want to address dying but you also don’t want to address the end of the information age or a hot shower. I don’t want to address the loss of my morning coffee and ability to buy what I need when I need it as a stupid example. How much worse will be the potential for the loss of whole families, communities, and lifestyles? This new paradigm of death will be physical and abstract. People are going to lose people but also their favorite football team.

The point I am getting at is death will be at multiple levels of abstraction or IOW total. This will likely not happen all at once and likely not happen to everyone to the same degree. This is the new paradigm of descent and collapse. It is our new reality. Grow some because this is going to be a horrible experience punctuated by boring and uncomfortable. You will make of this what you can and the more you are honest the better you will confront tragedy.

JuanP on Tue, 19th Apr 2016 9:29 am 



Here in Miami Beach the place was blanketed by hail in a freak storm a few days back. Just to clarify, one inch hailstones are not normal in Miami Beach any time of the year.

makati1 on Tue, 19th Apr 2016 9:38 am 



Nor is 4 inches of rain in an hour normal for Houston …lol. Bring it on!

penury on Tue, 19th Apr 2016 1:08 pm 



I lost track, what is normal these days? Mother N has a few more tricks up her sleeve, this is just the warm-up.

Apneaman on Tue, 19th Apr 2016 5:15 pm 



How many BILLIONS this time?

Incredible aerial images reveal horror aftermath of deadly Houston floods which killed six and forced more than a thousand from their homes as residents brace for even more rain

At least six people are recorded dead amid the historic floods swamping Houston, Texas, on Monday
The city saw 15 inches of rain on Sunday. Normally, Houston sees just 4 inches of rain in the entire month of April
More than 1,200 residents were rescued from floods Monday while 1,000 homes were flooded in Harris County alone

Forecaster warn more heavy rain is predicted for today while rising floodwaters have caused further evacuations

Officials are assessing two dams rated as ‘extremely high risk’ which are expected to reach 50 percent capacity


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3548231/Incredible-aerial-images-reveal-horror-aftermath-deadly-Houston-floods-killed-six-forced-thousand-homes-residents-brace-rain.html

makati1 on Tue, 19th Apr 2016 6:02 pm 



penury, nice play on words! LOL But you are correct. I think we ain’t seen nothing yet from Mother Nature and it ain’t gonna be good.

Apneaman on Tue, 19th Apr 2016 6:26 pm 



mak, the boys warned us many moons ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7miRCLeFSJo

Apneaman on Tue, 19th Apr 2016 6:52 pm 



mak, only one thing left to do….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Z8NU5ImK0

makati1 on Tue, 19th Apr 2016 7:25 pm 



Ap, I’m “gettin’ ready” to turn native soon. Give up most of my current life style and live more of a Filipino lifestyle. Change is what keeps us young and my life has seen a lot of change.

BTW: 1973 was the last year before I got married and entered and 30 years of servitude to my family.

Now I am free to live the last 30, my 3rd life, any way I want. Or, at least, until the end. But I want it to be as much fun as possible so, yes, I am prepping for the worst and hoping we are all wrong. We shall see.

Apneaman on Tue, 19th Apr 2016 7:56 pm 



Global temperatures hit record 11 month hot streak

Average temperatures over the land and oceans in March were nothing short of remarkable, 1.22C above the historic average

“Temperature records keep on falling.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says the past 11 months have been the hottest since records began in 1880.

Average temperatures over the land and oceans in March were nothing short of remarkable, 1.22C above the historic average.

That makes it the highest monthly temperature departure among all 1,635 months on record, said a NOAA statement.”

http://www.climatechangenews.com/2016/04/19/global-temperatures-hit-record-11-month-hot-streak/

Apneaman on Tue, 19th Apr 2016 7:58 pm 



Mongolia: Weather disaster kills more than 800,000 farm animals so far in 2016 – Number of livestock deaths may exceed 1.2 million during the spring

http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2016/04/mongolia-weather-disaster-kills-more.html

Apneaman on Tue, 19th Apr 2016 8:00 pm 



Fires destroy 1.3 million hectares of Nepal forests in 15 days – ‘The fire situation is out of control’

http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2016/04/fires-destroy-13-million-hectares-of.html

Apneaman on Tue, 19th Apr 2016 8:59 pm 



We like Horses

Dramatic rescue of horse as historic floods hit Houston

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eThbnrRDvvs

Apneaman on Tue, 19th Apr 2016 9:16 pm 



Another victim of the killer ape

Great Barrier Reef: 93% of reefs hit by coral bleaching
Comprehensive aerial survey reveals full extent of the devastation caused by abnormally warm ocean temperatures

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/19/great-barrier-reef-93-of-reefs-hit-by-coral-bleaching

Apneaman on Tue, 19th Apr 2016 9:18 pm 



Extraordinary Heat Wave Sweeps Southeast Asia and Points Beyond

https://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/extraordinary-heat-wave-sweeps-southeast-asia-and-points-beyond