Lets talk big picture for a second. Humanity is now, suddenly, over the course of one hundred years, raising global average temperatures by 4 to 6 degrees (4 degrees estimated this century). This is having several effects: droughts, floods, forest fires, melting poles, melting methane hydrates escaping from the seabed. Reduced oceanic oxygen causing dead zones.
This has happened before. 251.4 Million years ago, at the end of the Permian. Vulcanic eruptions in Siberia covered an area of 7 million square kilometers of land with lava. It also ran into the shallow waters of the continent that then had a different shape, it melted and released methane hydrates in the shallow continental shelves. This riased global temperatures by an average of 6 degrees. It stopped the movement of ocean water, because the temperature differential between the poles and the equator dissapeared. The Oceans became stale. Oxygen was reduced in the atmosphere as well.
Life disappeared. All but most that is, 96% of ocean life. 86% or so of land animals disappeared. Even most insects died. That period is known as the 'Great Dying' as it was the biggest extinction event in our planets history. It took 500.000 years for any stabile life forms to reappear, which might be considered a miracle.
We have republicans and democrats bickering over a climate bill. What we should worry about is arresting the temperature increase and preventing a similar 'methane burp' to occure (which is staring now around the poles and on the melting tundra's, all methane release). Perhaps it is still possible.
Perhaps you have heard from the Old Spice man (because what else could be important) flirting with Alyssa Milano here and here (not to be confused with the adult star Melissa Milano, ew). Well, here's her answer. Auch!
Donate here. Melissa is a real Climate Babe, because all life, especially wildlife will make the world more resilient to the challenges ahead..
Kirsty Carrington wipes a tear from her eye as she grieves over the
body of a dolphin believed to be the one nicknamed "Moko" on a beach
near Gisborne, New Zealand, Thursday, July 9, 2010. The playful
solitary dolphin, described as a teenage by officials, became a
familiar sight around the beaches of the east coast city of Gisborne,
where he swam among beach-goers and stole balls and surfboards. (AP
Photo/New Zealand Herald, Alan Gibson)
Selective Empathy
It is sad to see how capable people are of empathy with some animals yet they have no empathy with 99% of the rest, insist on depleting the oceans and other resouces, even without regard of the future of Kirsty Carrington.
She stopped the building of a road through wetlands and forest, bravo! For this work she recieved the Richard N. Goldman Prize. Now there should be a green solution to the trucks that will use the alternative road..
The G20 is about managing the combined economies, the antiglobalist see that this only serves the banks, it leads to the ecoholocaust, climate change, by the way its institution have been corrupted along the way. Primary goal should be emissions reduction, which is perfectly possible without deteriorating the wealth of the majority.
This girl describes her nonsensical abduction, including strangulation and sexual assault (one would wonder why they would pick her in the first place). The necesarry selection of short sighted goons to serve the G20 almost makes it inevitable that things get ugly. Still she claims to harbour no hard feelings, which is the best response for a peacefull person. The question is, how about you? What if she was your friend?
Are we seeing the effects of the hydrocarbons in Kindra Arnesen (slurred speech). What did she sound like shortly after the spill? Check it out here. She talks about being scared of BP, as BP is now the only source of income for the fishing community.
If the gulf water is a lot hotter than ususal then this does add energy to the huricanes and this does increase the likelyhood of spreading the oil and toxic disperants wider. For now it is worrying enought people are affected by the fumes and nobody seems to want to evacuate them yet..
Anderson reports that reporters are being denied access to medical treatment cabin for cleanup workers..
Exxon Valdez Spill Medical Fallout
According to the lady below, 6722 people with reperatory illness, still sick people 21 years later. Peopl ebing 100% disabled, a lot of them have died.
One can not ignore the plight of the shrimp fishermen affected by the Britisch Petroleum oil spill. The ecosystem that supports their lives has been devestated for many years to come and their own health is directly threatend by the effects of benzene in the air and food chain, a toxic and carcinogenic substance. This is where this site is honouring Diane Wilson for standing up as Tony Hayward (BP CEO) was ready to stonewall an investigative panel. One can only assume many of the 1400 offshore rigs are build with minimal safety standards to make them as economical as possible, posing a ticking timebomb in terms of our dependency and potential damage. If all oil spilled from these wells one could kill all life in our oceans. Whtere you burn it os spill it, oil will devastate our ecosystem.
As Obama said, for many years the dangers and finite nature of fossil fuels have been glaringly clear, yet it is the nature of oil, that it is money that allowed the industry to pay its way in an ever more corrupt political environment.
Hmm..You feel like climate action? Actually only Ancilla Tilia (nr. three) has been activly involved in animal rights promotion. She is perfect, being a kinky model, good presenter and overal lovely woman. We would like to see Elin and Yana follow her lead to cheer on the transition to our (inevitable) clean energy eco friendly future..
Sarah Palin can speak a lot of nonsense, and she does so on climate action as well. Bend on developing Alaska's oil she seems to be teaming up with Ron Paul, an unlikely union, but Dr. Paul is as oblivious of climate change as is Sarah Palin. Oil needs to be elimintated from every part of the economy to be permanently replaced by undepletable clean sources. Sarah Palin may have lovely boobs, but she isn't worthy of our t-shirt..
“The short term breathing of high levels of
benzene can result in death, while low level inhalation can cause drowsiness, dizziness,
rapid heart rate, headaches, tremors, confusion, and unconsciousness. Eating or
drinking foods containing high levels of benzene (seafood affected by a crude oil spill for
instance) can cause vomiting, irritation of the stomach, dizziness, sleepiness,
convulsions, and death.”
Next Generation Electric Vehicles, Wheel Hub Conversions for All
More seriously the new Wheel Hub motors (that go in the space where the brakes usually go), developed by the Fraunhofer institute of Technology will mean light fast electric cars. Check it out here.
After building loads of subsidized SUV s for the oil companies GM is now also comming around with 25 KW hubmotors (image inset). They cite better torque, 10% less losses, better grip, sportscars with high efficiency..wow, why the fuck didn't they do that earlier!
Here is how you build your own greenest Porsche
Porsche cars have been tuned and turned in to Hybrids before, RUF revealed an EV Porsche in 2008. A new incarnation combines wheel engines, a flywheel and a regular internal combustion engine. More about it here.
It should be clear that the financial markets and the climate problem are intimately connected. It was the corporations and oil companies, the backbone of the stock market, that lobbied and allowed themselves to profit from the depletion of our planets resources.
Now that they smell the end of their reign they have replaced our armies in their quest to further the ruin of every nation except the US. One of their weapons is the 'naked short', offering for sale something you don't have, thus driving the price down, at which point you can buy the shares you sorted and make a profit. It is one of the common frauds allowed outside the US and Germany. Elaine has a song about it..
Ben Bernanke has been expanding the money supply starkly since 2008. Most of this money has been absorbed by the off balance sheet debt hole of a bout 1.4 thousand trillion dollars or 12-14 times the world GDP in CDO's and and credit default swaps outstanding in the shadow banking system. If the increasing opacity and volatility caused by the lack of control or transparency causes a collapse the likely result will be Zimbabwe style hyperinflation.
So why is Elaine a Climate Babe? Becuase she sees that even financial activity needs to be sustainable. It needs to serve the real economy. Cheap credit made bankers rich, it also led to overconsumption, destruction of the rainforests, emissions of copious amounts of carbon dioxide and other toxins, depletion of every natural or mineral resouce and expansion of the human race with devestating effects. Without it this would not have occurred. Climate change would be less severe and in a more stabile environment a solution would be easier to achieve.