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"I will be merciful if you stop your evil
thoughts and deeds."
Jeremiah 7:5
unique climate
systems
Human activity has
significantly altered the Earth's atmosphere.
Earth like planets are very rare.
Andrew
Marshall, the director of the Office of Net Assessment, the father of
'Star Wars' and the Pentagon graybeard expert on future
strategic threats, was commissioned by
Richard Milhous Nixon "to weigh the
military balance in specific areas, determine what the important long term
trends are, and to highlight existing or emergent problem areas, or important
opportunities that deserve attention to improve
the future American position in the continuing global
military-economic-political competition."
A report commissioned by
Andrew Marshall describes the disasters that would occur if the climate shifted
abruptly in a decade or two, as happened some 12,000 years ago.
The climate model used in
the movie The Day After Tomorrow is based on the climate model portrayed
in this report.
According to this climate scenario, most of Holland
and Bangladesh would be submerged by
violent storms and
rising oceans. Northern Europe
would freeze because of disruptions to the Gulf
Stream currents.
Millions of environmental refugees would gather at
the frontiers of the developed world, driven by wars, famines, and floods.
Nuclear conflict, continental droughts, and widespread rioting would erupt
across the face of the Earth. Nations would be forced to expand their military
power to defend dwindling food, water, and energy supplies.
The report paints an image of America as
a giant gated community insulating itself from an Earth it helped create,
isolated and despised by its angry, jealous neighbors.
Although
this outcome is presented as a worst-case scenario the report suggests climate
change should be elevated beyond a debate over reality to a American national
security concern.
Americans need to
take seriously the implications of global warming and act decisively to stop
what could turn into all out climatic mayhem.
The basic changes
needed to effectively limit global warming would
necessarily entail a tremendous amount of hands on
labor, providing meaningful, community based employment in areas such as
the reconstruction and retrofitting of buildings for energy efficiency and
solar power, the reforestation and redesign of
cities, the accelerated development of
high mileage cars, the nurturing of sustainable local agriculture, the
construction of interlinked public transportation systems and high speed rail
networks and intensive development of
renewable energy sources.
Americans do not need to remain on a
self-destructive
course.
banal
obvious, trite or dull
drearily
commonplace and often predictable
repeated too often; overfamiliar
through overuse
"Anyone who thinks the human race does not have a
powerful impact on the environment and climate definitely has their
head in the sand." -
Bill Patzert
"Recent years have shown that shifts in rainfall
can bring down governments and even set off wars. The African Sahel, just south
of the Sahara, provides a dramatic and poignant demonstration. The deadly
carnage in Darfur, Sudan, for example, which is almost always discussed in
political and military terms, has roots in an ecological crisis directly
arising from climate shocks." - Jeffrey Sachs
"Climate change is happening now, and it's actually
beginning to affect our lives. It's not just happening in the Arctic regions,
but it's beginning to show up in our own backyards." - Thomas R. Karl, director
of the National Climatic Data Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, June 16, 2009
"The observed increase in greenhouse gas levels,
due to human production, is the only explanation we can find to account for
what has happened to our world. We've dusted for fingerprints. There's only one
likely suspect remaining. It's us." - Katharine Hayhoe & Andrew Farley
Svante Arrhenius,
a Swedish physical chemist and future Nobel laureate, published his paper on
the greenhouse effect. The paper documents Arrhenius' experimental verification
of the ability of what was called 'carbonic acid" – carbon dioxide –
to trap heat near Earth's surface.
Svante Arrhenius wrote Worlds in
the Making in 1908 directed at a general
audience. Svante Arrhenius
predicted that the human emission of CO2 would be strong enough to prevent the
world from entering a new ice age, and that a warmer earth would be needed to
feed the rapidly increasing population. Unfortunately now we know that the
increase heat and carbon dioxide actually retards plant growth.
Svante
Arrhenius' greenhouse law:
If the quantity of
carbonic acid increases in
geometric progression, the augmentation of the temperature will increase nearly
in arithmetic progression - based on the Stefan-Boltzmann
observations.
 
The United Nations sponsored
intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has reconfirmed the basic
accuracy of Svante Arrhenius' calculations. Before the industrial age and
extensive use of fossil fuels the concentration of carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere was about 280 parts per million. Average readings at the 11,141 foot
Mauna Loa Observatory, where carbon dioxide density peaks each northern winter
hovered around 379 parts per million on March 19, 2004 compared with about 376
parts per million a year before. In early spring 2008 carbon dioxide levels 385
parts per million.
August 2016: 402.25 ppm
That year-to-year
increase of about 3 parts per million is considerably higher than the average
annual increase of 1.8 parts per million over the last decade and markedly more
accelerated than the 1-part-per-million annual increase recorded a half-century
ago, when observations were first made at Mauna Loa Observatory.
Even as
evidence of ongoing global
warming grows the fossil fuel industry tries ever harder to convince the
victims that global climate change is in their best interest while continuing
to devastate planetary ecosystems and traditional ways of life.
"I
was shot by Nigerian soldiers paid for by Chevron Nigeria Ltd., a subsidiary of
Chevron. I was standing on a drilling
platform in the Niger Delta run by Chevron Nigeria Ltd. More than 100 unarmed
villagers joined me there to protest the loss of our fish, our clean water and
our trees because of Chevron's petroleum production activities in our region,
and to protest the loss of our traditional ways of supporting ourselves as a
result of these activities. Chevron Nigeria Ltd. paid for, transported and
supervised the Nigerian military and police forces that responded to our
protests. They opened fire on us without warning!
The villagers who
live near these petroleum facilities are desperately poor. Most of our villages
have no electricity, many are reachable only by boat. These communities survive
on subsistence fishing and farming that has been destroyed by Chevron's
dredging and drilling. We villagers seek basic environmental reparations and
support, like hospitals, scholarships and jobs to replace the fishing and
farming we've lost. In all of 2007, Chevron spent less than one day's profits
providing support to the communities it destroys in Africa." - Larry
Bowoto
1981
Fossil fuel industry learns that burning fossil fuel is causing
global warming.
2003 One of the deadliest weather
phenomena in the past century occurred in the summer there were more than
19,000 deaths attributed to the heat. It was the hottest summer in Europe in
500 years, according to an analysis of temperatures dating back to 1500. Record
temperatures were recorded in most of the major cities of Europe with many
readings of more than 100 degrees.
"When you consider Europe as a
whole, it was by far the hottest summer," said Jurg Luterbacher, climatologist
University of Bern, Switzerland
Jurg said increased temperatures
were not limited to summer in Europe; winters also have been warmer than the
historical record. In the study, Luterbacher and his team analyzed the
temperature history of Europe starting in 1500 to the present. For the earliest
part of the half millennium, the temperatures are estimates based on proxy
measures, such as tree rings and soil cores. After about 1750, he said,
instrumented readings became generally available throughout
Europe.
2005 Philip Cooney, petroleum industry
lobbyist who edited government reports on climate change by
questioning the science and
significance of studies and projections as chief of staff for
George Walker Bush Council on
Environmental Quality, returns to the private sector as an employee of
ExxonMobil.
2007 Polluters pump at least
24,126,416,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the environment. The US
and its territories were responsible for 5.8 billion metric tons, more than
China (3.3 billion),
Russia (1.4 billion) and
India (1.2 billion)
combined
2008 The petroleum and coal industries
spent $427 million in the first six months in political contributions, lobbying
expenditures and advertising to oppose climate action.
2009 Center for Public Integrity estimates that "more
than 770 companies and interest groups hired an estimated 2,340 lobbyists to
influence federal policy on climate change in the past year." The Center for
Public Integrity calculates that the climate change-driven boom has
resulted in "an increase of more than 300 percent in the number of lobbyists on
climate change in just five years, and means that Washington can now boast more
than four climate lobbyists for every member of Congress. - 02/25/09
"Scientists seem to have systematically
underestimated just how delicate the balance of the planet's physical systems
really is. That rise of 1 degree has seriously perturbed hydrological cycles:
Because warm air holds more water vapor than cold air does, both droughts and
floods are increasing dramatically. Coral reefs are dying, and so are vast
stretches of forest. None of that is going to stop, even if we do everything
right from here on out. Given the time lag between when we emit carbon and when
the air heats up, we're already guaranteed at least another degree of warming.
The only question now is whether we're going to hold off catastrophe. It won't
be easy, because the scientific consensus calls for roughly 5 degrees more
warming this century unless we do just about everything right. And if our
behavior up until now is any indication, we won't." - Bill McKibben
polar ice caps
An ice shelf core about two miles long
- drilled in Antarctica - shows that at no time in the last 650,000 years have
levels of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane been as high as they
are today.
The research, published in a 2005 issue of the journal
Science, describes the content of the greenhouse gases within the core and
shows that carbon dioxide levels today are 27% higher than they have been at
any time in the last 650,000 years and levels of methane are 130% higher.
"Anyone counting on an ice age to head off global warming or hoping to
justify human greenhouse gas emissions to head off the next ice age, will find
no comfort in the ice core record." - Richard Alley, Penn State University
geophysicist and ice core analysis expert.
2002 Larsen B
ice shelf in Antarctic breaks up. Antarctic glaciers in the region are flowing
at up to eight times their previous flow rate. The breakup of the Larsen B ice
shelf left the glacial flow into Antarctica's Wendell Sea
unimpeded.
2005 About 288,000 square miles of
perennial Arctic ice shelf is lost between September 2004 and September 2005 -
14% overall and 50% of the east Arctic Ocean.
The reduction of sea ice
is making it more difficult for the polar bear to survive as polar bears are
dependent on the seals for sustenance and use sea ice as a platform from which
to hunt the seals.
2007 Northwest Passage becomes
navigable. National Snow and Ice Data Center reported that satellite
measurements showed a reduction of the sea ice to less than 2.02 million miles
- down 386,100 square miles from the previous low in September 2005. At current
rates Mark Serreze, a senior research
scientist, predicts the sea ice could be gone as soon as
2030.
2008 Northwest and
Northeast passages are open. Computer models predicted this would happen
sometime late in the 21st century. Melting Arctic ice is unsettling not only
because it prove the planet is warming rapidly, but also because it will help
speed up the warming. White ice reflects 80 percent of incoming solar radiation
back to space; blue water absorbs 80 percent of that
sunshine.
International shipping corporations ordered 152 reinforced
hull ships to ply the newly opened Northwest Passage at a cost of $100 million
per ship - a $15 billion investment.
160 square mile ice chunk breaks
off the Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
Arctic ambition: The race to sail Northwest Passage heats
up
2009 Two 12,700-ton ships, the Beluga Fraternity
and Beluga Foresight, accompanied by Russian nuclear icebreakers
encounter only scattered ice floes in the first trip through the Arctic Ocean
from Korea to Rotterdam by commercial vessels.
The passage around the northernmost tip of Siberia, the Vilkitsky
Strait, ice covered about half the sea.
"It is global warming that
enabled us to think about using that route." - Verena Beckhusen, Beluga Group
spokeswoman
From Yokohama, Japan, to
Rotterdam via the Northeast Passage, Europe-Asia Trans Siberian Passage or
Northern Sea Route is about 4,450 miles shorter than
the Suez Canal route.
"We
are all very proud and delighted to be the first shipping incorporation which
has successfully transited the legendary Northeast Passage and delivered the
sensitive cargo safely through this extraordinarily demanding sea area." -
Neils Stolberg, Beluga Group president, September 10, 2009
2017 A 5,800-square kilometre (2,200-square mile) section of
Larsen C (ice shelf), larger than the State of Delaware with twice the volume
as Lake Erie about 350 metres (1,100 feet) thick, broke away. The Larsen C ice
shelf lost more than 12% of its total surface area.
permafrost
As northern permafrost thaws huge
amounts of methane long trapped below the ice begin to escape into the
atmosphere; methane is an even more potent greenhouse gas than carbon
dioxide.
walrus 6,000 or
more walruses congregated on Alaska's shore in the fall of 2007.
3,500
walruses were near Icy Cape on the Chukchi Sea, some 140 miles southwest of
Barrow in the fall of 2009. Federal wildlife researchers from the US Geological
Survey spotted up to 200 walrus calf carcasses near Icy Cape.
"This is
actually all new. They did this in 2007, and it's a result of the sea ice
retreating off the continental shelf." - Chad Jay, a US Geological Survey
walrus researcher
The US Fish and Wildlife Service announced that a
petition presented by the Center for Biological Diversity provided substantial
information that listing the walrus as threatened or endangered was
warranted.
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