In Aotearoa New Zealand, when an Elder, or Kaumatua in Te Reo Māori, slips away, we say, “A Mighty Kauri has Fallen”. The Kauri tree is one of NZs’ most iconic trees and it is a suitable analogy for the loss of Professor Paul Ehrlich, my, Pauline and Professor Guy McPhersons’ friend and colleague. R.I.E.P. mate.
The goal of the Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (MAHB) is to create a platform to help global civil society address the interconnections among the greatest threats to human well-being: climate disruption, loss of biodiversity (and thus ecosystem services), land-use change and resulting degradation, global toxification, ocean acidification, decay of the epidemiological environment, an economic system based on growth, pressure from increasing population, and resource wars (which could go nuclear). The manifestation of these interactions is often referred to as “the human predicament.”
“Can we save threatened animals and ecosystems in the midst of a mass extinction? The answer is a resounding yes! Before They Vanish shows us how. In this wise and impassioned book, renowned conservation scientists Paul R. Ehrlich, Gerardo Ceballos, and Rodolfo Dirzo urge us to shift our thinking rather than succumb to grief over the losses that humanity faces. This comprehensive look at a crucial but often overlooked aspect of conservation—population extinction, or the loss of a species within a specific geographic location—guides us onto a new, hopeful path.”
I mentioned the role that the Haber-Bosch process played in population overshoot, more details at Haber-Bosch process
Below is the last recorded debate I had with Paul, Guy, Pauline and other colleagues.
One of the greatest Pan-Africans of all time, Muammar al-Gaddafi, always supported resistance organizations and independence movements seeking liberation from colonialism and imperialism. He warned of the chaos we are witnessing in West Asia today, decades ago. His support for our armed self-defense and independence struggle in occupied Ireland and his intention to destroy US dollar hegemony by selling oil in a gold backed Dinah, played a huge roll in Hillary Clinton and Tony Blair having him impaled and his country looted and ransacked. An important detail about the destruction and ransacking of Libya’s Gold and Foreign Currency Reserves, is that they were held in the Sovereign Wealth Fund, not in his private accounts. “The Libyan Parliament has pushed back against renewed European efforts, led by the United Kingdom, to tap into Libya’s frozen assets, rejecting what it sees as attempts to exploit the country’s wealth under legal pretexts.” The Brits trying to rob the Libyan people, again!
“As Libyans are still waiting for the recovery of these funds, the move has sparked strong political and legal opposition in Tripoli, where officials insist the assets belong solely to the Libyan people and must remain untouched.”
“The British initiative was raised in the House of Lords on April 28, 2025, proposing to allocate part of Libya’s frozen funds to compensate victims of the Irish Republican Army, based on accusations that the former Libyan regime was involved in their deaths.” Gaddafi-Era Bombs Return to Haunt Libya’s Finances — What’s Behind the Fallout?
“Meanwhile, a Gardai memo to the Department of Justice in June 1992, part of the documents released on Tuesday, outlined in detail the arms shipments from Libya to Ireland between March 1973 and October 1987.” “Supplied in five shipments – one in 1973, and two each in 1985 and 1986 – the arms were detailed as 1,450 Kalashnikov automatic rifles; 180 pistols; 66 machine guns; 36 rocket-propelled-grenade launchers; 10 surface-to-air missiles; ten flame-throwers; 765 grenades; 5,800kg of Semtex explosive; 1,080 detonators; and almost 1.5 million rounds of ammunition of various types.” Comrade Gaddafi’s gift of Semtex changed the dynamics of the conflict. It’s main upside to other plastic explosives was it is odorless, making it near impossible to discover. Libya: Extent of Gaddafi’s financial support for IRA stunned British intelligence
In the early 1990’s I was delivering a yacht from British occupied Gibraltar to Greece and when offshore of Libya, I was confronted by a French fighter jet monitoring NATO sanctions against Libya. I heard a massive ‘explosion’ as the jet broke the sound barrier directly over the boat. I received a VHF ‘call’ from the French Fighter Jet Pilot , as you do!! Whilst he spoke to me the jet circled my yacht with one wing pointed at the sky and the other at the ocean! From the pilot in eloquent English, “Hailing the white ketch, This is Lieutenant …. from the French Airforce division of the NATO sanctions patrol on Libya, do you copy, over. “ I responded, how could I not! “Copy that NATO sanctions patrol. How can I assist you, over?” Pilot; “I need to know your vessels name and call sign, where your next destination is, what port did you commence this voyage from. How many passengers and crew are on board and what freight you are carrying, over”. I replied “I’m a fucking yacht, I’m not carrying any freight, the yacht is the fucking freight, over”. Bear with me, this guy arrived in an explosion at sea, I was a little rattled, I admit that. Pilot replies” Copy that Sir, I need definitive answers to the questions. You’re in NATO controlled water and airspace, my role is to get answers to my satisfaction, or I will instruct a Navy vessel to come alongside, and a boarding party will get the answers we require.” I dropped my attitude, answered his simple questions and we politely bid each other adieu, more about that event, below. A Conversation Between a French F111 Fighter Jet Pilot, a Kiwi Yacht Skipper and Everything in Between.
Hero of Ireland, Muammar al-Gaddafi, speaks of his support for the noble cause of Irish Freedom.
“Patrick Ryan is the infamous former priest who sourced money, weapons and materials for the IRA during the troubles and even personally met with Libyan dictator Mummar Gaddafi to buy guns for the Republicans.” Listen to this incredible juxtaposition of a catholic priest working for the IRA & Gaddafi!
I watched two presumably P.I.R.A. volunteers fire an RPG at a Saracen on the Falls Rd, the round hit, didn’t explode, ricocheted off into some open ground and kept spinning until the propellant expired. The edited highlights of that part of my life in the warzone are embedded following: Adventures of a Member of the Diaspora in Occupied West Belfast
I’ve been trying to make the point that no one can truly understand the contemporary political positions of Russia’s President Putin and China’s Xi and the scholars they have surrounded themselves with for many decades of revolutionary, anti-Imperialist resistance to NATO provocations, without considering what barbarian invaders, invariably from Western Europe and the British Empire have inflicted on these two proud cultures in the recent past, with many witnesses and survivors still alive today, it’s impossible to truly comprehend their perspective. More on the Japanese war crimes in China after the following video. The magnificent documentary below focuses on the collapse of the French invasion of Russia, how Napolean Bonapartes’ ego sealed his empires fate, we’ll get to China after we’ve crossed the Russian Steppes, buckle up!
“In June 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte led 685,000 men—the largest army ever assembled in European history—across the Niemen River into Russia. Six months later, fewer than 40,000 returned alive. This is the story of the greatest military catastrophe before the World Wars, and why it wasn’t just winter that destroyed the Grand Army. Most people think “General Winter” defeated Napoleon. The truth is far more complex—and far more devastating. The Grande Armée was already dying in the summer heat, months before the first snow fell. Disease, starvation, and Russian scorched-earth strategy were tearing the army apart before winter ever arrived. This documentary reveals what really happened during the 1812 Russian campaign, from the crossing of the Niemen to the frozen hell of the retreat from Moscow.”
Central to the failure to crush Russia, was the underestimation of the durability of the Russian people and the overestimation by Napolean that he could maintain his supply chains.
Let’s move on to the Peoples Republic of China. Experts believe that at least 25 million people died in the Pacific Theater during World War II, with some of the grisliest deaths befalling Chinese civilians who were systematically tortured by the Imperial Japanese Army.
“Many historical narratives of World War II focus on Europe. There, Nazis brought destruction across the continent, massacring millions of people. But Japanese war crimes were just as atrocious.”
“In the Pacific Theater, the Imperial Army of Japan terrorized people everywhere it went. The infamous Rape of Nanking resulted in the deaths of upwards of 300,000 Chinese civilians, as well as the rapes of between 20,000 to 80,000 girls and women. Secretive Japanese facilities like Unit 731 conducted gruesome medical experiments on prisoners and developed weapons using deadly diseases.” “And Allied POWs were often subjected to horrific torture and executions, in defiance of international law.” The Rape Of Nanking: One Of The Worst Japanese War Crimes. Inside The Horrifying History Of Japanese War Crimes During World War II
The late great John Pilger predicted these days in his magnificent documentary: The Coming War on China “The Coming War on China, from award winning journalist John Pilger, reveals what the news doesn’t – that the world’s greatest military power, the United States, and the world’s second economic power, China, both nuclear-armed, may well be on the road to war. Nuclear war is not only imaginable but planned. The greatest build-up of NATO military forces since the Second World War is under way on the western borders of Russia. On the other side of the world, the rise of China is viewed in Washington as a threat to American dominance.”
I was born into an Irish Republican Socialist immigrants’ home in Aotearoa New Zealand. Part of the reason my parents emigrated was British racism toward us Irish and a desire to give us kids a better life, after 800 years of racist colonial occupation. When I was a lad, I heard my parents, and their Irish comrades debate how Māori were treated in Aotearoa NZ, with similar racism that indigenous Irish faced from the Anglo occupiers in our homeland and within the not very, United Kingdom. Ma’s dad was a quartermaster in the Irish Citizen Army; he fought alongside the Revolutionary Socialist James Connolly during the Irish War of Independence.
“While Connolly fought for workers’ rights, he also recognized that political independence was essential for any real social change. In the lead-up to the 1916 Easter Rising, he aligned with the Irish Republican Brotherhood and became commander of the Irish Citizen Army (ICA), a workers’ militia originally formed to protect strikers during the Dublin Lockout.” My grandfathers O.C.
“On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, Connolly and his forces seized key positions in Dublin, proclaiming the Irish Republic. Despite his socialist convictions, Connolly worked alongside nationalist leaders like Patrick Pearse, seeing the Rising as a step toward both freedom and social equality.”
“The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite…” Jules Verne. We opened the discussion below referencing an incredible article from Grist, I highly recommend reading it or listening via the embedded audio option. It details an incredible feedback loop! “The planet would be a whole lot hotter if it weren’t for fecal pellets. Across the world’s oceans, tiny organisms known as phytoplankton harvest the sun’s energy, gobbling up carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen. They’re eaten by little animals called zooplankton, which poop out pellets that sink to the seafloor. What is essentially a giant toilet, then, flushes carbon at the surface into the depths, where it stays locked away from the atmosphere, thus keeping the amount of CO2 up there in check.”
“But as humans pump ever more carbon into the sky, relentlessly raising ocean temperatures, worrying signals are flashing that this commode could be changing in profound ways. Consider the northeastern Pacific, off the coast of Alaska, where two major heat waves took hold of the sea, one from 2013 to 2015 and the other from 2019 to 2020. A new study found the two events transformed the composition of phytoplankton and zooplankton, essentially clogging the toilet and preventing the downward transport of carbon into the depths.” The ocean is a carbon toilet. Marine heat waves are clogging it.
“These global die-offs are a warning: More tipping points could be reached soon” Guy and I discussed the reality that we have triggered at least six dozen feedback loops, all documented at his monster Climate Change Summary.
I mentioned that “Researchers have discovered dozens of new methane seeps littering the ocean floor in the Ross Sea coastal region of Antarctica, raising concerns of an unknown positive climate feedback loop that could accelerate global warming.” Methane leaks multiplying beneath Antarctic ocean spark fears of climate doom loop
“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to truly understand the exponential function”, Albert Bartlett.
I see a lot of hand wringing over DJT describing our predicament as a ‘Hoax.’ The man child at the helm of the not very United States has correctly figured out that the only way to keep the numbers down, is not add them up!
Last century all the large NGOs used to warn of crossing “Tipping points,” This century it’s ‘verboten’ to mention the expression, as if not mentioning something makes it go away! The cognitive dissonance is incredible!
“If you have been following my work for more than 15 minutes, you undoubtedly know that Earth is amid abrupt, irreversible climate change. As a result of anthropogenic climate change, Earth is experiencing the most rapid change in planetary history. This change is irreversible. This abrupt, irreversible change was published in two reports produced more than six years ago by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an organization designed-to-fail when it was created during the Ronald Reagan administration. Michael Oppenheimer, a Professor at Princeton University, concluded that the IPCC was designed to fail.” The quote and video above with additional analysis, can be found at Professor McPherson’s Substack: The Rate of Environmental Change Proof of the IPCC being a corporate construct can be found at It’s Time to Acknowledge the Spectacular Success of the IPCC. Warning, satire alert. I’ll drop a video below of the late great Albert Bartlett describing the exponential function, it’s critical to understand where our trajectory is taking us.
“The extinction of animal species is one of the most tragic consequences of human interference with nature. It not only means the irreversible loss of unique creatures but also the collapse of ecosystems whose stability depends on these species. Estimates suggest that in recent decades, around 500 to 1,000 documented.” I’ve just discovered the incredible website above, courtesy of Doreen Fräßdorf.
“The planet would be a whole lot hotter if it weren’t for fecal pellets. Across the world’s oceans, tiny organisms known as phytoplankton harvest the sun’s energy, gobbling up carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen. They’re eaten by little animals called zooplankton, which poop out pellets that sink to the seafloor. What is essentially a giant toilet, then, flushes carbon at the surface into the depths, where it stays locked away from the atmosphere, thus keeping the amount of CO2 up there in check.”
Two years ago today, the IDF allowed Hamas to attack their own occupying forces, with the attendant grief and loss for their own ‘expendable people’, so that they could ‘justify’ the long-planned carpet bombing and ethnic cleansing of Gaza, in a grotesque segway towards turning Gaza into a lucrative “Property Development” scam, for those same corporations who are manufacturing the munitions. The same one’s that ransacked Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and now Syria, then the next cab off the rank looks to be Venezuela, before they move on to China. The coming attack on Venezuela is intrinsically linked to Peak Oil. The Egyptian government warned Netanyahu about the coming ‘armed self-defense’ by Hamas. I frame it as an “Armed Self Defense” as I did our armed struggle in Ireland and that of the PAC and ANC in Apartheid South Africa and my Frelimo comrades in my beloved Mozambique. I reject the imperialist framing. With all its faults, Hamas have a revolutionary duty to oppose the occupation. Egypt intelligence official says Israel ignored repeated warnings of ‘something big’ and then Hamas stepped up big time, as was their right, under the much-ignored Geneva Conventions and their simple duty as revolutionary patriots. The response from the Apartheid state couldn’t be more fascistic, until tomorrow, when it will get worse.
“The Hostages and Missing Families Forum that advocates for the captives went even further, proclaiming that “the Israeli government sentenced the living hostages to death and the fallen hostages to disappearance” by announcing a takeover of Gaza.” Courtesy of Max Blumental and the wonderful team at the Grayzone. Israel’s govt issues ‘death sentence’ to remaining captives.
The European Zionist Colonial Settler project, in occupied Palestine, couldn’t continue to exist without the tacit support of all of the Western Powers, who continue to supply the cowards in the IDF with munitions, logistics, financial and political cover, as the dismembered bodies of children and their families mount up in the tens of thousands of kids, hundreds of thousands of adult civilians and across all of West Asia, millions of patriots. The Zionist project has been planning for these times for 77 years; they have infiltrated Western Governments worldwide. I remember thinking when they branded Jeremy Corbyn in Britain a ‘Racist, Anti-Semite,’ that they had stolen the election. The dude doesn’t have a racist cell in his body. Stealing elections is Zionism’s ‘Modus Operandi’. Fortunately, they have overused the “Antisemite” trope to death.
In the not very United States of America, the Zionists have complete control of the twin cheeks of the same corporate asshole, that masquerades as a democratic process, when in reality, it’s the best democracy that corporate money can buy! Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds “The Commission has been investigating the events on and since 7 October 2023 for the last two years, and concluded that Israeli authorities and Israeli security forces committed four of the five genocidal acts defined by the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, namely killing, causing serious bodily or mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of the Palestinians in whole or in part, and imposing measures intended to prevent births.” Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds.
Now let’s dive into the environmental carnage resulting from this colonial/imperialist fascism in West Asia. The climate cost of Israel’s war on Gaza We can’t even stop a live streamed genocide; we had no chance of addressing climate change!
“The carbon footprint of Israel’s war on Gaza exceeds the annual emissions of 20 small countries, according to new research. Here’s a look at the cost of Israel’s war on the climate.” Published On 31 January 2024. Equivalent to the emissions of Aotearoa NZ! The assault has continued for a subsequent 8 months, so clearly, it’s much worse now. The climate cost of Israel’s war on Gaza
Abby Martin has just released a new feature film titled. Earth’s Greatest Enemy – A New Film by Abby Martin [OFFICIAL TEASER] below.
Above is a previous discussion I have had on the environmental consequences of this incessant warmongering. All the statistics and sources I quoted, can be found at my blog post titled Warmongering and the Climate Crisis
I’m intrigued about everything AI, how could I not be? My professional qualifications in analyzing AI focus on the power consumption issue. As a youth I did an electrical apprenticeship in Aotearoa New Zealand with the Government department with the dystopian title of the Ministry of Works, I was a civilian working on Whenuapai and Hobsonville RNZAF airbases. I lived in the barracks, ate in the canteens, board and lodgings were almost free, $7bucks for a kid who was earning $44/week! My income was 6 times my basic outgoings, compare that to our youths’ prospects today! A decade later I then went on to get a high voltage switching and protection qualification from the London Electricity Board. That led to me then becoming the Electrical Engineer at Sun Alliance Computer Centre in Lennox Woods in the south of England. All the billing for the UK, Europe and Africa was processed in our complex. In 1987 it was the data center of its time. A so-called “Intelligent building”! It also turned out to be a backup computer center for the British Military, I suspect many of these data centers will be entangled on the electrically important detail of having suitable redundances as backups during conflict. It’s ‘common sense’ from a militaristic perspective. At Lennox Woods I was responsible for maintaining the hardware of IBM mainframes, that were cooled with Anton Liebert chillers, that literally pumped coolant through the mainframes to cool them, all backed up with incredible “Uninterrupted Power Supplies.” more commonly known as UPS systems. The coolant is then pumped through cooling fans/radiators on the roof for additional cooling before being returned back into the cooling cycle. In data centres 80% of all the cooling water evaporates, it never occurred to me at the time that evaporation had consequences. Mea culpa. Additionally, as ambient temperatures increase this ‘Free cooling’ via roof top cooling fans/towers will become redundant due to higher air temperatures. None of our old engineering specs hold up anymore, already. Nuclear plants often have to shut down when cooling water is too hot to operate the plants. So much for Nuclear being an option on a broiling planet.
According to Cloudtech “Hyperscale facilities operated by companies like Google demonstrate the true scale of the challenge. Google’s data centres average 550,000 gallons (2.1 million litres) daily, totalling approximately 200 million gallons (760 million litres) annually per facility. Microsoft’s global operations consumed nearly 6.4 million cubic metres of water (approximately 1.69 billion gallons) in their most recent reporting year – a 34% increase from the previous year.”
“Lennox Wood has closed its doors for the final time after 40 years.” “New research has created the first comprehensive effort to categorize all the ways AI can go wrong, with many of those behaviors resembling human psychiatric disorders.” I commented on the coming tsunami of grief in our youth and one listener asked if I had written on that topic, I have indeed: The Coming Tsunami of Grief. “The data centers that power artificial intelligence require huge amounts of electricity. Some experts estimate we’ll need as much as 25% more electricity by 2030, and 78% by 2050, to meet this demand alone.” AI’s Massive Energy Demands
I’ve been saying for decades that I’ve lived in Two War Zones, I was mistaken, I omitted the most important war I’m co-waging, with billions of others, the war on the ecosystem. ‘Industrial Civilisation’ is at war with the living biome. Guess who’s ‘winning’? In 1982 I flew from Aotearoa NZ to the USA, enroute to Nicaragua to support the Sandinista revolution. I was a newly qualified electrician, a valuable trade in a war zone. My Irish father had an “A Class Explosives” qualification from the NZ government, I got to blow stuff up with him as a kid, it was thrilling in the real sense. We blew up one large tree stump in suburban Auckland and at a couple of farm quarries we turned hill sides into rubble, Mea culpa. I started reading some of his training manuals as a teenager, then they mysteriously disappeared! At the Guatemala/El Salvador border the wonderful Guatemalan immigration guards refused to let me cross into C.I.A. drug funded, war ravaged El Salvador. They said it was far too dangerous for me to cross. They almost certainly saved my 22-year-old life. My first experience of kinetic war was in occupied West Belfast during our armed self-defense against the British invaders in Ireland and the ongoing occupation of the Six Counties, that was in the early 1980’s. I was regularly assaulted by the Brits, once at a funeral. Yes, you read that right, I was at a young volunteers’ funeral, we were mourning a comrade that had been executed by these same soldiers and a Brit officer took exception to my German registered VW Golf because the Provo’s and the INLA were bumping off Brit soldiers in occupied Germany. It’s my contention that Germany has been occupied by the USA since 1945. At the time of German Reunification in 1990, there were still about 200,000 US soldiers in Germany. President Joe Biden blew up the Nord Stream pipeline, tripling Germany’s energy cost, financially bringing the country to its knees, yet still its vacuous leaders remain mute! It proves what vassal states the Western Europeans are. I wrote about my time in Belfast, that article is titled: Adventures of a Member of the Diaspora in Occupied West Belfast. Obviously, these are the edited highlights. Back to war again in 1991 when I worked on an EU funded development project in Mozambique, while the original nuclear armed Apartheid state to the South was behind an insurgency attacking the popular revolutionary government, mostly by terrorising rural communities to drive them off their ancestral land and into the cities as refugees, exactly as they did in Syria over the last 15 years. I sometimes heard automatic weapons fire and felt and heard mortar rounds exploding at the nearby airport. Because I know what the vibrations and shock wave of a mortar round or a bomb feels like the plight of Palestinians and every other victim of Imperialism literally hits home for me. When I was working at the port in Beira, there were more refugees in the city that the original inhabitants. Our team that was working on the high voltage transmission lines during that time had a herd of goats to ‘herd’ around the construction site, to detonate landmines laid by the South African mercenaries over night! My work colleagues faced those risks for a pittance. I wrote about our time in Africa: Adventures in Africa- Brushes with Death- A Love Story
Then there is the other war I am involved in, as a protagonist, against the living planet. I had failed to interpret properly, that I, we, all the other earthlings are living in a perpetual war zone.
I highly recommend Glenn Diesen’s YouTube channel. He’s another superb anti-Imperialist professor. The current Western supported Apartheid state in West Asia detonated a nuclear weapon in conjunction with South Africa in 1979.
After watching the pathology of the Netanyahu regime, it has now become more likely that they will use another one.
Iran has the ability to close the Straits of Hormuz to anyone they consider an adversary or connected to the wars on West Asia, that will send fuel futures through the roof and destabilise the global supply chains!
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Now let’s remember that NATO dropped depleted uranium munitions on Serbia, the Serbian nation will live with the ecological consequences until this extinction event plays out. “In Serbia, aggressive cancer among young and old has reached epidemic proportions in recent years. The suffering of the people cries out to heaven. The south of Serbia and Kosovo are particularly affected. According to the Serbian Ministry of Health, a child falls ill with cancer every day. The entire country is contaminated. Due to the damage to the genetic material (DNA), generations upon generations of deformed children will be born. Knowingly and willingly, genocide has been committed.” “Here, with the tacit acquiescence of NATO allies – including Germany – the US army used weapons of mass destruction that it had already tested in the 2nd Gulf War in 1991 and in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1994/95: highly toxic and radioactive uranium weapons. NATO itself has admitted that it has fired 30,000 shells with depleted uranium (DU), the Serbian military speaks of 50,000 shells. This is equivalent to 10 to 15 tonnes of uranium.” source: NATO’s Use of Depleted Uranium Weapons in Serbia in 1999: The War that Won’t End
Narrative control during the great unravelling was the topic of this discussion. Professor McPherson discussed the role that the IPCC is playing in controlling the narrative around the poly-crises we are confronted with. A video analysis of the corporate construct and corroborating evidence is embedded at: It’s Time to Acknowledge the Spectacular Success of the IPCC.
As always, the issue of the Aerosol Masking Effect came up and I mentioned an article from China titled: China’s fight against smog has actually sped up global warming I mentioned Johan Rockström, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research has recently stated that we’re only at 1.2C and said the tipping point for the Amazon rain forest is between 3 and 5C. Guy made a video about the Amazon becoming a net emitter of CO2 since at least 2020. Edge of Extinction: Amazon Tipping Point? I’ve previously written about the corporate ‘Go Too’ scientist Michael Mann who was instrumental in developing the “Hockey Stick Theory” and now he can’t see it. That critique is embedded at Scientific Mal-Practice from the Mann Himself. The six-dozen feedback loops we have triggered are documented at Climate Change Summary. Debs brought up the collapse of insect species and numbers and I referenced Professor Paul Ehrlich’s paper and book titled; “The Annihilation of Nature”
I mentioned the late great Michael Dowd and his audio recording of William Catton’s book “Overshoot.” Mike and I believe it is one of the most important books ever written. Catton Overshoot
“The first paragraph adds to the haunting outlook: “A detailed study spanning three decades reveals a shift towards a more carbon-emitting Arctic, due to longer growing seasons and increased microbial activity, especially during winters. The study maps these changes with unprecedented detail, offering a stark warning and a call to closely monitor these regions.”
“Beneath the subtitle “Disturbing Trends in Northern Carbon Emissions,” three paragraphs demonstrate the accuracy of the subtitle: “For thousands of years, the Arctic’s permafrost has acted as a vast carbon storage system, helping to regulate the planet’s climate. However, a new study published … January 21 … in Nature Climate Change reveals that rising temperatures and more frequent wildfires in the northern latitudes are significantly reducing this critical storage capacity.”
Below are the last two articles I have written on the methane threat, for further reference: “In this Climate Chat episode, we interview Dr. Vincent Gauci on how reducing air pollution results in increased atmospheric methane concentrations. Vincent Gauci is professor of Geography and Environmental Sciences and a Birmingham Professorial Fellow at the University of Birmingham in the UK. Professor Gauci investigates how the biosphere interacts with the atmosphere and he explores questions relating to how these interactions respond to various drivers of global change. Reducing Air Pollution Increases Methane: Catch 22
To quote President Niinistö in Arkhangelsk: If we lose the Arctic, we lose the whole world Professor McPherson and I plan to collaborate in the next few weeks in a critique of reporting on the great unravelling from the corporate media and their go to scientists, carefully chosen to not “Rock the Boat”. That debate will appear in due course on this website and at GuyMcPherson.com
Kevin Hester is currently living on Rakino Island, a small island in the Hauraki Gulf near Auckland, New Zealand, monitoring the unravelling of the biosphere and volunteering at the Rakino Island Nursery is currently developing a proposal to create a marine reserve near by. The Island has no grid tied electricity or reticulated water. I catch my own water from the roof and generate my electricity from the ample solar radiation on the island.
My Submission to the Ministry of the Environment
Kevin Hester, Dropping Anchor in an Exponential World
Kevin Hester 