My Appearance on the Climate Emergency Forum: March 24, 2024
It was a great honor to be a guest on this show, aptly titled “Chaos in the Climate Casino.” Thank you to everyone at the Climate Emergency Forum for this opportunity.
Eliot Jacobson's Collapse of Everything Blog
It was a great honor to be a guest on this show, aptly titled “Chaos in the Climate Casino.” Thank you to everyone at the Climate Emergency Forum for this opportunity.
Me: “Pollutionism!” (Google search term)
Google: Did you mean SOLUTIONISM, 165k hits …
What about the Calvinist vs Catholic analogy?
Calvinists believe in predetermination. What ever they do or don’t do in life, the will end in hell or heaven, as was predetermined before they were born.
Catholics believe that everybody can “earn” his place in heaven (grace) by doing all the good things.
The paradox is, that Calvinists tend to be more conscious about morality in their life, spend more money for charity, and so on. — Maybe it is essentially the same with Doomers (as Calvinists) and GreenOptimists (as Catholics)?
“The function of ideology today is to kill hope” (Slavoj Zizek)
https://youtu.be/TkPNgw2VUbU?si=dtmHZfjh-vNvTAwG
I have been tracking the air and sea temp anomalies from last year to this year on Copernicus. For their latest report: air: 0.82 degC higher on the same date in one year; sea: 0.53 degC higher in one year. This trend appears to be continuing over the past months, so, if this continues and the year to year trend is similar, we will see a 0.5 degC+ increase year to year and hit 2.0+ degC by 2025, 2.5 degC by 2026, and 3.0 degC by 2027. Chaos enough for ya? I’ve been tracking the EEI of the heat energy equivalent of 12 Hiroshima yield nuclear bomb blasts PER SECOND, or 1,036,800 PER DAY and believe that roughly 1/2 is from fossil fuel burning and 1/2 from the Greenhouse effect. Correct me on this, if you can. We are losing 1.2 trillion tons of global ice annually, so 3.3 billion tons PER DAY; and our 321 million cubic miles of ocean is already heating to 70 degF; and 1 trillion tons of water vapor are evaporating from that over heated ocean DAILY. So, our planetary AC is turned on high, but still unable to cool air, land, or sea. Seems significant to this old doc, but I’m no “expert”, thank God. Best wishes to one and all!
I think you are enough of an expert Greeley…your book Stress R Us is a piece of history.
Thank you, so much, Sandra. Too often, I feel like I’m just pissing into the wind (pardon an old sailor’s metaphor!). I recently attempted to teach the book in a Marietta College Institute for Learning in Retirement course and, with few exceptions (a few sharp 80 something women, of course) I got little response. I seem to have lost touch with MAHB, who used to tell me the number of downloads, and Kindle, who used to give me $1.69 royalty for each PB sold on Amazon. So, really needed that pat on the back! Have a blessed evening and enjoy the Spring show Nature is putting on!
This is an addendum to my comment on the 18th regarding accelerating global heating primarily from global heating. In a paper by Zhang and Caldeira, 2015, the authors in the abstract use the example of starting a new power plant and state that the day to day waste heat would be surpassed by the Greenhouse effect of CO2 at 6 mo’s., which gives a ratio of 2:1 for the contributions of CO2 to waste heat in heating the air. In my attempt to correspond with a NOAA climatologist, he refused to consider this ratio and stuck to the 1,000 : 1 ratio often cited. And, then, I ran across the work by Princeton physicist Wm. Happer minimizing the CO2 contribution, but not giving an alternate hypothesis to explain global heating. I stand by my observation of the enormous amount of global heat (from whatever source) being held in latent form in melting ice, heating oceans, and water vapor, all mostly due to fossil fuel burning. Anyone have a better suggestion?
This is an ongoing addendum to my posts on climate collapse. I’ve continued tracking the C3S air and sea temps on their daily graphs. Of note is that the sea temps are 11degF hotter than the air and we are seeing the rain/flood/heat fueled storms that naturally result: tornadoes, storms, straight line winds, etc., especially in the south central US. To pun old Bill Clinton’s campaign slogan, it’s the heat, stupid. I wonder why none of the experts are pointing this out?