- Key concepts
- Climate change trends, George Deutsch, Ned Leonard, Chris Paynter, denial groups, Exxon-Mobil, creationists, Greenhouse fundamentalism, New Orleans, Katrina, New York snowfall, Homeland Security debacles, Canada, Georgia, Russia, Sweden.
- Attention Conservation Notice:
- A hemorrhage of time-consuming links that have piled up in the Viridian hopper. Could take all day. Maybe you're snowed in. Enjoy!
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/ earth/environment/2005_warmest.html
(((Nice colored map of the relatively-searing
Arctic transformation here. I've heard tell that
last year was the hottest year in over a hundred
years. And in 1200 years. And in a million years.)))
http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2006/02/george_deutsch_1.html
Tough break for George Deutsch, the climate-denial
and anti-evolution commissar who wormed his way,
despite credentials, into NASA's public relations.
"NASA, accused of censoring its scientists on global
warming and the origin of the universe, pledged on
Wednesday to reform its policies to ensure "open and
full communications."
http://www.antievolution.org/features/wedge.html
(((Of course, young George Deutsch is just one of many.
Check out these scarifying fanatics "destroying
scientific materialism" through their web activism.
Bolsheviks couldn't be any more cocksure. They're
the self-proclaimed "Center for the Renewal of
Science and Culture.")))
(((That lethally mendacious astroturf title of theirs
reminds me: I sure haven't heard much out of the
"Greening Earth Society" lately.)))
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greening_Earth_Society
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Greening_Earth_Society
(((Not getting a blink off the Greening Earth website
today. Maybe they've gone the way of the Global
Climate Coalition, only with even less fanfare.)))
http://www.viridiandesign.org/notes/251-300/00299_viridian_enemies_die.html
(((Please let me know if you detect any public sign of Chris Paynter or Ned Leonard, former Greening Earth spinmeisters. Wherever they are, evil is occurring.)))
(((Meanwhile, having perhaps wrecked civilization,
Exxon-Mobil at least made more money while doing it
than any corporation in the history of capitalism.
Grant Exxon this much; it was their money and power
at stake, not sheer love of dumb Lysenkoist spite.
I mean: if they killed us, at least they killed us
for cash.)))
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002772953_exxon31.html
"Exxon Mobil reported Monday it earned more money in
2005 than any company, any year, ever. (...) On the
strength of energy prices that hit all-time highs last
year, Exxon Mobil earned $36.1 billion, equal to the
gross domestic product of Croatia."
(((Who paid for Exxon's grand success? New Orleans, for one. Did you notice when the tornadoes hit New Orleans five months AFTER Katrina?)))
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/National/New_Orleans_Wind_Damage.html
""Don't ever ask the question, `What else could
happen?'" said Marcia Paul Leone, a mortgage banker
who was surveying the new damage to her Katrina-flooded
home." (((Look, Marcia: you need to ask that
question. Other people have their cities at risk,
too. And you're a mortgage banker!)))
Fifty years from now: the "Lost City of New Orleans," one among many.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4673586.stm
Check this out: from now on, if an "act of nature," like a flood, wildfire, storm or levee breech, destroys your fossil-fueled rental car from Hertz, you have to pay the damage. Kind of says it all, doesn't it? The climate damage was distributed among everybody with a car-key, and now, so is the liability.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/13/BUGLQGM91F1.DTL
The Blizzard of '06, New York's biggest snowfall ever.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/13/news/storm.php
New York City happens to be remarkably vulnerable to
hurricanes, mind you. Imagine a Ninth Ward Manhattan.
http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/050601_hurricane_1938.html
If the Homeland Security Department were underwater
instead of the New Orleans, American emergency
responses might actually improve. "Homeland Security"
was invented during the Bush Administration, and it's Brownies top to bottom, folks.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1159098,00.html
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/35057/story.htm
"Blinding lack of situational awareness and disjointed
decision making needlessly compounded and prolonged
Katrina's horror."
(((American climate-change politics: Blinding lack of situational awareness. Ideological Lysenkoism. Frenetic, obscurantist media campaigns. And ever-worsening unnatural disasters, with bills that can't be met.)))
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/13/katrina.congress/index.html
"In many respects, our report is a litany of mistakes,
misjudgments, lapses and absurdities all cascading
together, blinding us to what was coming and hobbling
any collective effort to respond." (((Journalism is
the first draft of history: that's the American
Greenhouse post-mortem, freshly written in the blood
of New Orleans.)))
(((May I point out that the Canadians just elected
a government that doesn't believe in climate change,
either? Even though the good people of Canada are
sitting right next to the thawing North Pole, and
watching foreign ships zoom by their shores in areas
that used to be ice?)))
http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2006/feb/policy/jp_canadakyoto.html
(((And you, too, Australia, still impressively on fire
and nevertheless shooting your scientific
messengers.)))
http://www.theage.com.au/news/editorial/ australia-cannot-afford-to-silence-the-voice-of-science/2006/02/13/1139679531907.html
(((Which city is the "New Orleans of Australia,"
one idly wonders. Not that an Australian city will
wash away, but it might well catch fire. "The New
Orleans of Canada?" Gotta be ice-storms.)))
http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/science/guide/
http://www.environmentaldefense.org/article.cfm?contentID=4981
The awesome scale of the Greenhouse, by the numbers.
Certain evangelicals are realizing that climate
change might hurt them, too.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4695320.stm
Other evangelicals have it figured that angry skies
looming over a baffled and terrified mankind are
a major recruitment opportunity. Chapter and verse!
It couldn't be any clearer!
http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?page=article&id=2027
"The God of the Bible proclaims to control the weather.
In other scriptures He says He dries up rivers,
controls the seas and works in the whirlwinds.
He also says that He will curse a nation that
refuses to obey His laws by turning the heaven
into iron and the earth into brass. Men will spend
their strength in vain trying to gain an increase.
See Leviticus 26 and Isaiah 29:6.
"America, Britain, Australia and Canada are
experiencing these curses because God wants them
to repent of their disobedience. Salubrious weather
is a natural blessing that comes with obedience to
God's laws. As long as His laws are trampled upon,
God will continue to correct us so we will change
our evil ways."
(((See that? We're seeing the emergence of Greenhouse
Fundamentalism. It'll be very interesting to see
the inevitable Fundie-Islamic spin on this same issue.
Maybe if it were made clearer to them, with some
cartoons.)))
(((Speaking of religion, nationalism, climate, and
terror, imagine you are the nation of Georgia.
Imagine that Muslim Chechnyan terrorists, or possibly
a former superpower, or both, go out and blow up
your natural-gas pipelines in the dead of winter.
Well, that's a complete political and economic
calamity. You've still got the Army, though, right?
Kind of Khaki Green possibility there! However, it
turns out the Army's no good, either.)))
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/2/364CA127-7C2F-4249-81FF-943099CF1B90.html
(((No wonder non-state actors can yank you around by
the pipelines, Georgia. Look at yourself. Thanks
to fossil fuels, you're a state-collapse waiting to
happen.)))
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2006/01/the_example_of_.html
(((Russia, whose economy is fantastically corrupt,
used to tremble at the hands of skeptical currency
speculators. Now who cares about mere transparency?
Russia sells gas and oil! So to hell with you, Soros,
euro, dollar, yen, rupee, renminbi: we're Russia,
and we can still sell gas and oil! In fact, if we
took a leaf out of the Chavez book and turned into
oil-selling COMMUNISTS, you'd STILL have to buy our
oil. You know what? In 2006, oil's bigger than capitalism
and democracy put together!)))
http://admin.corisweb.org/index.php?fuseaction=news.view&id=119926&src=dcn
And Sweden... hey wow. Look at Sweden!
"Cancel That Apocalypse: The Oil Crisis is Over."
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000039& refer=columnist_lynn&sid=aT231DpHFSIY
(((Nice to see the occasional apocalypse cancelled!)))
http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/3212/a/51058
(((Just listen to the lucid, golden rhetoric of
these Swedish bureaucrats.)))
"Climate change is the greatest and most important environmental challenge of our time. Most of the world's climate researchers agree that the Earth's climate system is changing == and in order to slow down these changes, emissions of greenhouse gases must be reduced. The Government is therefore setting a new policy target: the creation of the conditions necessary to break Sweden's dependence on fossil fuels by 2020."
(((Couldn't have recommended a better policy myself! Thank you, Sweden! 2020, eh? Wow, that's a mere eight years after the official date of the expiration of the Viridian Movement, in 2012!)))
(((Who would have thought, back in 1998, that by 2006, our arcane issues would be major news, around the planet, every dang day? Well, I did think that. But that's not what I wanted to see. What I wanted to see was intelligent awareness of the genuine scope of the problem, and effective response. And maybe, here and there, in growing bits and pieces, I'm seeing some.)))
