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I was honoured to be included in this homage to MCR mentioning Guys upcoming New Zealand Tour.
Gulf Stream Slowing Down Faster Than Ever, Scientists Say
‘The Gulf Stream that helps to keep Britain from freezing over in winter is slowing down faster now than at any time in the past millennium according to a study suggesting that major changes are taking place to the ocean currents of the North Atlantic.
Scientists believe that the huge volumes of freshwater flowing into the North Atlantic from the rapidly melting ice cap of Greenland have slowed down the ocean “engine” that drives the Gulf Stream from the Caribbean towards north-west Europe, bringing heat equivalent to the output of a million power stations.’
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And similarly: ‘While you were distracted, this climate change warning arrived‘: ‘With dire warnings of catastrophic sea level rise and superstorms capable of pitching 1,000 tonne mega-boulders onto shorelines, scientist James Hansen sounded an alarm over continued global warming.
In a video, coinciding with a release of a revised version of paper Hansen wrote with 18 other authors, Hansen warned of “feedbacks” between the oceans and ice sheets.’
[dk: like him or not, he does have gravitas here. He seems more urgent than a year ago…]
Tagged with: Dr. James E Hansen, Gulf Steam
Posted in Climate Science, Rapid Climate Change, Videos, Warnings
Posted in Climate Science, Rapid Climate Change, Videos, Warnings
The Late Great Chris Hani
Nelson Mandela’s speech after the death of Chris Hani
“On 10 April 1993, the leader of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and chief of staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC) Chris Hani was assassinated outside his home in Boksburg. His murder was a near breaking point which could have resulted in a civil or rather race war and halt the process for reconciliation and the quest for a united democratic South Africa. The assassin Janusz WaluÅ› and his accomplice Clive Derby-Lewis admitted during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) that they murdered Hani and their intent was to provoke a race war and derail the negotiation process that would inevitably lead to the end of white minority rule.”
As I campaigned in NZ against the scourge of apartheid I came to admire the uncompromising leadership and courage of the chief of staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe Chris Hani. Chris would have gone on, in my opinion to lead South Africa and it would have been a much different place today had that been allowed to happen.
There is a direct correlation with what has transpired in both South Africa and Ireland. In Ireland the forces of empire assassinated many of our leaders, Ta Power, Mairead Farrell and Ronnie Bunting to name a few and effectively chose leaders that they suspected, rightly, that they could turn and manipulate. As a result of murdering Chris Hani, neo-liberalism in S.A. is inflicted on the people by a black elite in conjunction with the same corporations that controlled the Apartheid State.
In Ireland the same is happening and instead of honouring our fallen volunteers Sinn Fein has been co-opted into an oppressive government with no intention to peruse the reunification of the country that my and untold other families have fought for, for nearly 100 years. To date we have been out-manoeuvred by a cunning edifice constructed over many centuries designed to oppress the working people and to exploit the living planet.
We have come to a deadly juncture in history where we have psychopaths at the helm of our planetary survival system which is in deadly peril from runaway abrupt climate change. The Anglo Zionist empire stalks Syria, Iran, Russia and China with the ever present threat of nuclear war.
Recently I was interviewed by Eric Draitser from Stop Imperialism for a podcast that will be uploaded any day now at Counterpunch where I discuss the possibility of these same psychopaths unleashing a nuclear winter to slow down the runaway nature of our climate predicament. Hopefully I will be wrong.
See more at, South African History online, here.
Tagged with: Assassination, Chris Hani, Eric Draitser, Ireland, Nelson Mandela, South African Communist Party, Umkhonto we Sizwe
Posted in Politics, Social Justice, Writings
Posted in Politics, Social Justice, Writings
Invited to Be Guest on Nature Bats Last
It is a very difficult thing to call out and confront organisations that we have all been previously involved in over the years but in such challenging times we are obliged to speak truth to power.
Understating the severity of the 6th great extinction is criminal in so much as our opportunity to prepare for the worst that is baring down on us is lost while we procrastinate and promote a form of “Sustainability”, that is patently unsustainable.
I have worked over the years with 350, Oxfam NZ and Greenpeace but now I can’t support them in the same way as they downplay the severity of our crisis. That is not a criticism of their supporters and many of the staff, it is a criticism of the structure and directors. Incidentally I have a solar powered home fueled by long wave, solar radiation,lithium, carbon and a tonne of lead batteries that have been plundered from the living environment. Mea Culpa.
I am honoured to have been invited to be a guest on Nature Bats Last on the 19th of April. Following Cory Morningstar, “The system is a racket” will be a tough act to follow. I would like to discuss my experience of the collapse of the Great Barrier Reef and others and the effects it will have on the biosphere.
I find it interesting that Mike Sliwa and Guy McPherson always manages to inject some humour into such a dire subject, Bravo!
Guy and I will be touring NZ in October and November, details to follow shortly. Another great show from my comrades on NBL, I’m honoured to call them my friends
Tagged with: Cory Morningstar, Dr. Guy McPherson, Invitations, Nature Bats Last
Posted in Announcements
Posted in Announcements
Another PETM Unfolding?
The Paleo-climatic records show parallels to the unfolding extinction event we are a part of today. We are in the midst of the single greatest experiment in the history of the human species. Whilst we are uncertain of how long the extinction will take we can be sure that the road to the end will be full of roadblocks, potholes and robber barons and the odd Robin Hood.
What is certain is that there will be enormous suffering for all sentient beings and that for the first time in history this extinction has been caused by one callous indifferent species leaving behind a planet bathed in ionising radiation never seen before. The level and totality of destruction has been record breaking.
Permian History Methane Gas Explosion From Ocean Wiped Out 95% Of Life
Sadness Seeing Dying Reefs
In 1998 I dived the GBR for the first time and a marine biologist I studied under congratulated me for being the last generation to dive the reef before it died.
In 2011 I sailed across the Coral sea to Cairns from Micronesia and sailed 800 mls down the reef diving or snorkling every day for 8 weeks.
My sadness with seeing these reefs dying is overcome by the knowledge that it is the incubator of the marine food web and represents the collapse of the marine system which generates 90 % of the planets oxygen and most of our protein and sustains most of the planets species.
Our Carbon Experiment is drawing to a close, it can only end very badly.
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‘Australia is unlikely to meet water quality targets designed to protect the Great Barrier Reef, researchers from the federal government’s marine science agency have warned.
‘Scientists, including two from the Australian Institute of Marine Science, have published a study that says current efforts to reduce pollution run-off into the reef’s waters are not enough to meet set targets.
‘Their findings, published in the Global Change Biology journal on Sunday, came as the Queensland government gave the go-ahead for Australia’s largest coal mine to proceed.’ Article Reef Health Efforts Not Enough continues here.
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The Death Of The Great Barrier Reef:
Tagged with: Coral Sea, Great Barrier Reef, Paul Beckwith
Posted in Collapse, Habitat, Near Term Human Extinction--NTHE, News, Outrage, Rapid Climate Change, Videos, Warnings
Posted in Collapse, Habitat, Near Term Human Extinction--NTHE, News, Outrage, Rapid Climate Change, Videos, Warnings
The Collapse of Marine Food Web is Underway
20 years ago I dived the Great barrier Reef for the first of dozens of times. Whilst in Cairns I attended a diving seminar focused on the GBR. The fantastic Irish marine biologist conducting the seminar suggested we all congratulate each other for being the last generation to dive the GBR before it died.
What he didn’t explain thoroughly, is that the reef systems are the incubator of the oceans and represent beginning of the marine food web. That web is unraveling rapidly in a nonlinear, exponential manner. A full 90% of the planets oxygen is produced by the flora and fauna in the oceans and the bulk of the planets protein emanates from them. This will soon collapse and there will be no more food nor oxygen coming from those oceans, chaos, death and suffering will prevail on a planetary level.
Runaway abrupt climate change will extinguish most, if not all complex life on this planet much sooner than anyone other than Professor Guy McPherson is saying. More info on the NTHE at guymcpherson.com or follow his and Mike Sliwa’s radio show Nature Bats Last on prn.fm.
‘If scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef is on your bucket list, you might want to book tickets soon. This week, marine biologists dropped some horribly depressing news: the Great Barrier Reef is dying. The world’s largest reef is in the midst of a widespread coral bleaching event, and scientists aren’t sure whether it will fully recover.’ Full article, ‘A Nightmare Is Unfolding in the Great Barrier Reef, continues here.
Tagged with: Dr. Guy McPherson, Great Barrier Reef, Mike Sliwa, Nature Bats Last, PRN
Posted in Climate Science, Habitat
Posted in Climate Science, Habitat
Ten Years ago, I Sailed Across Coral Sea, From Solomon Islands
10 years ago I sailed across the Coral Sea from the Solomon Islands to Cairns after sailing and diving in Micronesia and Guam.
I sailed 800 miles down the reef from Cairns to Brisbane, diving every day, never seeing a coral bleaching incident anywhere enroute. This collapse is sudden and abrupt as was the PETM extinction event which was also driven by the acidification of the oceans. The tiny marine algae essential to coral health is the foundation of the marine food web and these reefs are the incubator for effectively all complex life on this planet including the production of 90% of the planets oxygen.
In Cairns I spoke to a marine biologist who said we were the last generation to dive on the living reef. These reefs have been murdered by a combination of fertiliser and other pollutants from the adjacent rivers which Dr Mike Joy is fighting desperately for here in NZ against our own eco-terrorist P.M. John Key, carbonate saturation, climate change and human hubris, before long they will be laced with radionuclides from Fukushima Daiichi.
The final video in the link has Eric the Viking being accused of being alarmist, as was Winston Churchill in 1937 as is my friend Professor Guy McPherson who will be coming to NZ in November on another speaking tour about this disaster. Eight brutal years later, 50 million people were dead. This time will be infinitely worse. The scientist in one of the videos describes his feelings when flying over the reef, It reminded me of your experience flying over Greenland Jennifer Hynes prompting you to create the Arctic Methane Monster presentation.
See ‘Climate Denial Crock of the Week’, with Peter Sinclair: ‘Powerful report from Australian Broadcasting about damage to the Great Barrier reef, currently being observed. It’s one of the most widely predicted consequences of a warming, acidifying ocean. Spokesmen for climate denying politicians were quoted as saying, “This is not happening.” See below.’ This continues”
‘ABC – Australia: An aerial survey of the northern Great Barrier Reef has shown that 95 per cent of the reefs are now severely bleached — far worse than previously thought‘. Full article continues here: ‘Extreme Coral Bleaching in Great Barrier Reef‘.
Australian Broadcasting on Great Barrier Reef Bleaching 2016 // March 28, 2016
Mass Extinction Is Closer Than You Think!
Another chilling report by Thom Hartmann who quotes Sam Carana’s blog “The Arctic-news blog” [1] about our unfolding extinction event obviously prompted by Dr. James E. Hansen’s latest paper.
Mass Extinction Is Closer Than You Know // Published on Mar 24, 2016
‘Climate change is real, of course, but two new scientific papers out this past week say that it’s happening a hell of a lot faster, and in a more dangerous direction, than scientists were even considering as a worst-case scenario just a few years ago. We need a rapid worldwide shift away from fossil fuels now – not even a decade from now, but today – and if we don’t get started, we, too, may go the way of the dinosaurs.’
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Thom posits that: ” If we to don’t get started we too might go the way of the dinosaurs”. Thom fails to grasp the 10 to 20 year lag in cause and effect.
Whilst Thom discusses the methane threat, he gives no reason why we won’t go extinct. We are emitting carbon at the rate of 10 times more than the PETM extinction. Games up folks, now the only debate is around how much time we have. Notice how many of these kinds of articles are being published just recently?
When not if the arctic methane lets go it will be game over for this ecosystem in a very short time frame.
Professor Guy McPherson collaborated with Pauline Panagiotou Schneider to develop this eventuality from a book Guy wrote called ” Going Dark” into a documentary available on You Tube.
Guy will be visiting NZ in November to speak about this
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[1] Sams post is titled, February Temperature, SUNDAY, MARCH 13, 2016.
Kevin Shares on Extinction Radio, Episode 53
Extinction Radio continues to produce excellent work, to help support us and inform us, as we navigate the end of civilization as we know it in the certain race to the bottom put upon us by bankers, politician, military leaders, major investors–no mistaking who they are.
You are encouraged, by all means, to listen to and share the entire episode, but for folks on the go who need the segment fast, I am here at the 39:52 mark. Its about 11:31 long.
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