Green Survivalists and Global Warming

Well I headed to the land,
To Make my Stand,
Even though it was frickin' nuts;
There were doggies barking, and chickens cackling/
Away from all those city sluts;
Gave up my car and started to be a serf;
Without frickin technology;
Survivalist nonsense in 2008,
Living life, like a doggie.

(spoof, neil young, Nature on the Run in the 1970s)

Lack of Attention on Global warming

There seems to be a strange lack of attention on global warming. We don't have the effects, we just have the mess, of bio-fuels, of starvation of scarcity. CO2, H2O, CH3. That is carbon dioxide, water and methane. Do you have a morbid fear of simple and non toxic chemical compounds? These guys keep telling us about all the chemicals that are bad, but what chemicals are good? Environmentalism as such an anti-Platonic science. If you have all the chemicals that are bad, what is good, what is the good? Everything cannot just be declared to be bad and evil, like an Al Gore sitcom or something.

Global Warming Gossip

Yes, I don't believe in Global Warming. There were U.S. cities this year, like Madison, Wisconsin, who thought they had moved north of the Arctic circle. On the other hand, there are some people betting on Global Warming, up or down.

At MIT some of the science nerds are doing some heavy betting it seems on global warming. I don't think the "ban in Boston" crowd would approve, but they seem to be doing it. Some of these bets go over a 20 year period of time. This is climate change issues, not whether the stock market goes up after all. Richard Lindzen seemed to be on the negative sides, but the two sides could not agree on what the odds should be. But if you have to bet on or against global warming, try to go to BetUS.com . This seems to be the new thing, you bet on the Iraq war, the Iran war, nuclear war and now global warming. Some of this stuff is idiotic like betting whether polar bears will be extinct due to global warming. Even if the temperature in the arctic was raised by 5-degrees F, it would not kill polar bears, it might even help them. So there! Other links to check are, it's only a movie, Al Gore and Global Warming.

Global Warming and what it means

Global warming has been part of the excuse to drive up oil prices to over $120-a-barrel. The rest has been due to rampant speculation. Is the earth happy with turning 12-percent of the US corn crop and other corn crops into gasohol? Only if "the earth enjoys 100-million people starving to death. That is what the coming food shortages mean.

Black Carbon and Global Warming

Anybody read the "Nature" magazine article about Black Carbon and global warming. It seems a lot of "global warming" comes from black smoke from burning dung and charcoal in India, China, Africa and South America. If we have modern natural gas heat or nuclear power electricity, or even clean coal plants with electricity, then this won't happen. Hip hip for technology.

Way down below the ocean and Global Warming

Are we going way down below the ocean,
way down below the sea;
She may be, Hail Atlantis!!!

They say that the sea level could go up. Of course in the Indian Oceans, nothing at all has happened to the Maldive Islands, which go up about 5 feet above sea level maximum, and would be the first to go down under. So go figure.

But ABC News says that all bets are off, that chunks and huge ice cubes of the Arctic and Antarctic could melt and fall in the soup. Is that sane or not? One guy quit his architecture firm and has created the Architecture 2030 program, presumably to cash in on the big foundation bucks. That's a little operation of one, Edward Mazria.

Helping the Earth and Other Living Things

(Setting, at an Activist Advertising Agency)

Jonathan was sitting at his desk at the ad agency. Just then his assistant brought in a file. “Here is some of the research on the new account,” said the assistant.
“Jonathan thumbed through the file. Oh damn, all this Tibet shit, he thought. What happened to the good old days when he just sold laundry detergent through the usual ads directed at housewives on Soap Opera TV. That was an honest living. Now he in the groove, forever it seemed. You could make much more money being an agent of “the families.” And having a lot more money did make a difference. It not only got Pam to marry him, but she finally agreed to get pregnant and have his son. That was a major endeavor, since Pam was already 38 years old and had had no intention of reproducing, even for the experience of having at least one kid. She didn’t give a hoot about children. Then the oceans of money arrived and when they bought the 3 million dollar giant apartment on Park Avenue, with a room for a maid, a nursery and in addition plenty of room for entertaining, she couldn’t resist. Now Todd was almost 2-years old, and the money had to continue to flow, for nannies, housekeepers, real estate, vacations and everything else.
When did it start? He had got a call at the company from some type of “Gaia Foundation” or something on the mobilization for global warming. Or, to stop global warming, it all sounded so amorphous to him. It actually was someone he had met at a party. Then these two clowns came over, it was Jason and Delilah. Jonathan remembered that he met Jason at one of those weird parties after the Clorox campaign. Jason was laid back, but you could tell there were a lot of cash behind him. He was into environmental causes, but when he went to a demonstration, he went in a limo. You could tell that this Jason guy was smart, too. He could talk about chemistry and even something most people didn’t even think about, like Clorox. It seems that Jason had written a paper about the pros and cons of using chloride chemicals. There were some arguments for the banning of all chlorine chemical use, that it had severe effects even on the reproductive system, while other sources said that this was absurd, and that chlorinated water, Clorox bleach for cleanliness, etc, had actually saved millions of lives. It was the kind of discussion that Jonathan loved, since it sharpened his skills in sophistry. Truth was a more flexible concept than most people thought. Jonathan had given Jason his card.



Yeah, he called them Jason Tweety Bird and Delilah Flowerbrain. He could still remember that day clearly. They came to his office together. Jason said hello first.
“Hey dude, that was a really neat party. I can see you really know what you’re talking about.”
“Well, I do my best to be sophisticated. What can I do for you young man, and your friend here?” Jason was a pretty tall young guy, about 6 feet 2, and still quite thin. He couldn’t have been more than about 28 years old. His longish light red hair gave a sort of comical aspect to him, along with his flannel shirt and slightly torn dungarees. Delilah seemed a bit more mindful of her appearance, yet still was playing the game of flower-child. Her white, flower print dress, was suspended by two white shoulder straps and went down to about her knees, and she wore no stockings.
“Hey man, we want to see you. We need a good ad agency guy” said Jason Tweety Bird. His sidekick Delilah Flowerbrain said something like “Yeah, let’s chill, let’s chill.” It was hard to remember all the slang and jargon that this strange pair said. Jason started the rap.
“Hey man, like we’re in with the foundations you know, like Rocky and Bullwinkle. And we got a mission. The green bucks and the green earth have to learn how to live together.”
Delilah then took it away.
“Hey, like don’t look all scared Mr. Ad man you’ve heard about all this Global warming stuff, how the earth is ready to expel us to another planet, dude?” said Delilah.
“I’m OK, continue please” said Jonathan.
“Well I may look stupid, dude, but I am trying to ignite the biggest spark, you know, to let the Global Warming campaign just burn us all up. It’s the Noah’s Flood campaign,” added Jason.
“What’s that?” said Jonathan.
“It’s like, this stuff about heat is not getting people in San Francisco, New York and Miami, you know, places like that, excited enough yet. The people think, oh, I’ll just have to use more air conditioning and stuff, big deal. They have to get a sense of flooding, not a few inches, but monumental flooding. The Global Warming will melt the glaciers and flood everything.”
“Yeah, can you imagine Mr. Flannel Grey having visions of Wall St going down in a flood? These guys will have a fit,” added Delilah.
“And, you my man, are the one to handle this beautiful campaign for the earth. Naturally, you’ll find it quite rewarding.”
Since then, Jonathan had increasingly worked on activist and environmental campaigns. The amount of money he was paid, both above board, and under the table was incredible. However, he still had to try to somehow figure out what it all meant, in reality, beyond his huge pay. After all, that was sort of a big bribe. Jonathan returned from his memories. Yes, it had been a long time ago, nearly 5 years, since then, but now things were only intensifying with this strange Tibet campaign.
Jonathan liked to spell out all the counter-arguments in his mind, so that when he came with his totally biased and outrageous ad campaign, he would know the full enormity of what he was doing. Yes, a campaign around Tibet could wreck the Chinese Olympics and cause global chaos. It could also easily be a prelude to a world war between the western powers and not only China, but also Russia and other countries. A demand for independence for Tibet was an encroachment on over 500,000 square miles of Chinese sovereign territory. The Dalai Lama himself was a feudal despot, who ruled over a kingdom that had literal slavery, until he was ousted in 1959. In an absurd arrangement, he was appointed the absolute religious and political dictator of Tibet at the age of 5, for life. Yet, knowing all these things, Jonathan was prepared to lead a campaign for Tibet, on the basis of democracy. Not only that, but Jonathan felt the urge to get involved in grassroots activism for Tibet, in order to boost his feelings of being “authentic.”

Global Warming Trend- Living in the Future, said Bruce Springsteen

There is a big stall in the Global Warming trend. In fact, it may not be happening at all. According to the London Guardian, the mysterious "conveyor belt to the north" is weakening. That means the flow of warm water into the Arctic will slow. That means the great flood from the melting of the Arctic is not happening. It is only a movie. It is only a movie.

The original study is in the new issue of Nature magazine that is coming out today. I guess it is like the Bruce Springsteen song:

We're living in the future;
Cause it hasn't happen yet.