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  1. Climate Change

    A catastrophe of unimaginable proportions is unfolding. (source - climate scientist at link) Life is disappearing from Earth and all life could be gone within one decade. Study after study is showing the size of the threat, yet many people seem out to hide what we're facing. Crossing these tipping points triggers a number of feedbacks that kick in at accelerating speed, including even more absorption of heat by the Arctic Ocean, further changes to the Jet Stream resulting in even more extreme weather, seafloor methane release, water vapor feedback and emissions from land such as CH₄ (methane), N₂O (nitrous oxide) and NOₓ (nitrogen oxide), due to permafrost melt, storms and forest fires. Temperatures also threaten to rise strongly over the next few years as sulfate cooling falls away while more black carbon and brown carbon gets emitted as more wood gets burned and more forest fires occur. A recent study points at yet another tipping point, i.e. the disappearance of marine stratus clouds, which could result in a global temperature rise of eight degrees Celsius (8°C or 14.4°F). In the model used in the study, the tipping point starts to occur at 1,200 ppm CO₂e, i.e. a stack of greenhouse gases including CH₄, N₂O, CO₂ and H₂O, and changes in clouds resulted in global surface warming of 8°C at 1,300 ppm CO₂e, as stratocumulus decks did break up into cumulus clouds and evaporation strengthened, and average longwave cooling at the level of the cloud tops dropped to less than 10% of what it was in the presence of stratocumulus decks. This 8°C rise would come on top of the warming that would already have occurred due to other warming elements, resulting in a total rise of as 18°C or 32.4°F from preindustrial, as pictured on the right and below. What would it take to reach 1200 ppm CO₂e? The IPCC's AR4 contains a scenario of 1,200 ppm CO₂e getting reached with a corresponding temperature rise of between ~5°C and ~10°C above preindustrial. NOAA's figures for greenhouse gases add up to a current level of 500 ppm CO₂e. NOAA's figure for methane's GWP is too low, especially when considering a rise within a decade. When using this 500 ppm CO₂e, it would take 700 ppm to reach 1,200 ppm, and if 1 ppm equals 7.81 Gt of CO₂, then 700 ppm equals 5467 Gt of CO₂, which may seem a lot, but at a GWP for methane of 130 (10-year horizon) it could be reached instantly with a burst of methane of some 42 Gt, i.e. less than Natalia Shakhova's warning that 50 Gt of methane is ready for release at any time. In above image, further warming elements are included, in addition to methane and CO₂ and it takes until the year 2026. As an earlier study points out, life on Earth will already have disappeared with a 5°C rise (see box on the right). How precious life is It took a long time for life to evolve on Earth. At first, hardly any species could live on land, as there was no ozone layer to protect them from UV radiation. Also, there was no oxygen in the air to breathe. Life formed some 3 billion years ago and bacteria first developed the ability to decompose carbon dioxide (and produce oxygen) some 2.3 billion years ago. Then, worm-like creatures started to multiply strongly, using more and more oxygen and producing more and more carbon dioxide. Eventually, this resulted in a sharp fall in oxygen levels, leading to extinction of these species. This first mass extinction was followed by a spike in oxygen as both the species in the oceans and plants on land continued to produce oxygen, while these first animals went extinct. Temperature changes dominate in subsequent mass extinctions, and each time it took life a long time to recover. We've now entered the Sixth Mass Extinction, as oxygen levels are falling, oceans are acidifying and species are going extinct at accelerating rates. A 2013 study calculated that species are facing warming that occurs 10,000 x faster than their natural ability to adapt. A rise of 18°C or 32.4°F by 2026? The speed at which temperatures and greenhouse gas levels are now jointly rising is so large and so unprecedented in Earth's history that many doubt that there will be any life left on Earth by 2026. The situation is dire and calls for comprehensive and effective action, as described in the Climate Plan. Can humanity change its course? Given that humanity appears to be on a course to omnicidal destruction, what position can we best take in response? In the light of the dire situation, dramatic reduction in pollution is needed, as well as further action. Indeed, the Paris Agreement constitutes a global commitment to comprehensive and effective action. The Climate Plan calls for multiple parallel lines of action (the green lines on the image below). The green lines of action each need to be implemented in parallel, i.e. no line of action should wait for another, nor should action on one line be used as an excuse to delay action on another line. Where lines of action are grouped together in three parts, numbers merely show relationships with the kinds of warming pictured at the top of the image. While implementation of some of these lines of action requires U.N. supervision, the Climate Plan prefers local implementation, with communities deciding what works best locally, provided a community does take sufficient action to achieve the necessary dramatic reductions in each type of pollution. Examples of implementation of some of these lines of action are depicted in the image below, showing examples of how progress can be achieved through local feebates. Where progress is lacking, swift escalation is recommended as follows: 1. Where a local community fails to make progress, state (or provincial) fees are imposed in that locality. 2. Where a state fails to make progress, national fees are imposed in the state. 3. Where a nation fails to make progress, other nations impose fees on imports from and export to that nation with revenues used to fund clean development in the other nations. Warm air and water moving toward the Arctic Ocean The need for action such as marine cloud brightening is illustrated by the following two images. The image below shows that, despite the presence of large amounts of meltwater off the North American coast, sea surface temperatures on March 2, 2019, were as much as 13.8°C or 24.8°F warmer than during 1981-2011, indicating how much more ocean heat is now carried to the Arctic Ocean along the Gulf Stream. How is it possible for anomalies to get this high? As the Arctic is warming up faster than the rest of the world, the Jet Stream is becoming more wavy. A more wavy Jet Stream enables more cold air to move out of the Arctic. As a result, cold Arctic air can descend deep into the North American continent. At the same time, a more wavy Jet Stream enables more warm air and water to move into the Arctic. This is illustrated by the February 24, 2019, combination image that shows temperature on the left and the Jet Stream on the right. As oceans get warmer, the temperature difference between land and oceans also increases in Winter. This larger temperature difference results in stronger winds that can carry more warm, moist air north in the North Atlantic. These winds can also speed up the amount of heat carried by the Gulf Stream toward the Arctic Ocean, with the threat that a large influx of warm, salty water will destabilize sediments at the seafloor of the Arctic Ocean and trigger eruption of huge amounts of methane. In conclusion, the situation is dire and calls for comprehensive and effective action, as described at the action, policies and feebates pages at the Climate Plan. Links • Possible climate transitions from breakup of stratocumulus decks under greenhouse warming, by Tapio Schneider et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-019-0310-1 • High CO2 Levels Can Destabilize Marine Layer Clouds (News release associated with above study) https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/high-cosub2sub-levels-can-destabilize-marine-layer-clouds • Early Palaeozoic ocean anoxia and global warming driven by the evolution of shallow burrowing, by Sebastiaan van de Velde et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04973-4 • Brock University-led team discovers way of tapping into and testing Earth’s prehistoric air https://brocku.ca/brock-news/2016/07/brock-university-led-team-discovers-way-of-tapping-into-and-testing-earths-prehistoric-air • Rates of projected climate change dramatically exceed past rates of climatic niche evolution among vertebrate species, by Ignacio Quintero et al. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ele.12144 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242016225_Rates_of_projected_climate_change_dramatically_exceed_past_rates_of_climatic_niche_evolution_among_vertebrate_species • Extinction Alert https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2019/02/extinction-alert.html • Co-extinctions annihilate planetary life during extreme environmental change, by Giovanni Strona and Corey Bradshaw (2018) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-35068-1 • Climate Plan https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/climateplan.html • Extinction https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/extinction.html In the Arctic alone, four tipping points look set to be crossed within a few years: Loss of the Arctic sea ice's ability to act as a buffer to absorb incoming ocean heat Loss of Arctic sea ice's ability to reflect sunlight back into space (albedo) Destabilization of sediments at the seafloor of the Arctic Ocean Permafrost melt
  2. Climate Change

    https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/4/048002 There is no scientific debate on global warming. There's oil companies spending BILLIONS of dollars to make you think there's a "debate." Same thing happened with smoking.
  3. Climate Change

    To live ecologically means to accept that Mother Nature is in control. People should be environmentalists because they have no choice - that is how humans always lived before farming developed around 10,000 years ago - based on Plow Patriarchy
  4. Climate Change

    yes the qigong master who did healing on me - he returned to China but then he said the air pollution was so bad in China then it took him two weeks to recover to heal himself. Now he goes on "annual" cruise ships with Tibetan monks because the cruise ships are close to the water and so the water more easily works with the qi energy - or maybe it's because one cruise ship ride is the SAME as one person driving a car for HALF their life and also cruise ships just spew the human fecal matter right into the ocean directly. So my take is that there is no escape from abrupt global warming - Westernization has spread worldwide - and people WANT all the high tech goodies. They WANT to fly all over the world all the time - and even if we all suddenly STOPPED emitting CO2 pollution then the lack of sulfur aerosol pollution would cause the planet to warm up rapidly - another 1.5 degree celsius average. This then would make it too hot to grow food (in the bread baskets of the interior of the continents) and also it would cause the Arctic to set off the ESAS methane bomb (thereby heating the planet up another 1.5 degree celsius). This means that no matter WHAT the Cosmic Mother is gonna wipe out human civilization - real fast and real soon - as the Absolute Emptiness restarts complex life on Earth. Sit back and enjoy the ride!! Modern Westernized humans made the mistake that "infinity" could be "contained" by materialism - this was a logical lie that launched a "marvelous" technological revolution that has wiped out 50% of wildlife in the past 40 years, etc. So I call this the Alchemy of DeNile. It's deep - and the DeNile will not go away - it's HARD-wired into people. I'm not trying to "change" anyone. I completely rely on the Emptiness to solve the problem of abrupt global warming. haha.
  5. People have asked me how I was able to get into full lotus so easily. At first I thought it was because I used to do "butterfly" stretches all the time from playing soccer (football) but I only played up till 15 years old. So then I remembered - I had a very intense Shiatsu massage as a gift from a friend (who happened to have meditated with Chunyi Lin before he was even well known). So during the massage - this was very strange - I was only 26 years old and the lady literally just FIXATED on my lower back. And I'm not trying to be lewd but I had to work super hard to sublimate my energy (and this is before I knew anything about any of this stuff). haha. And after that massage I had some kind of kundalini activation. I'm actually surprised I "survived" that meditation and maybe the lady was too. haha. And anyway of course getting "energy healings" helps a huge deal - so people can get phone healings from http://springforestqigong.com or http://guidingqi.com I sit in full lotus at the computer but recently someone reported really "feeling" the energy strongly - this person was female and so she had her kundalini awakened since females are yang internally. But this also creates a lot of love feeling so I just emphasized to her that the energy is impersonal from the Emptiness (and not about me). And also Jim Nance told me to sit with the left leg on top - and then as I studied - I realized this is for males with the lower body being yin and the left leg is yang. So when I sit with left leg on top then it clears out the intestines much better. Otherwise sitting with right leg on top does not really clear out the intestines. So the left leg on top stores up the energy while right leg on top is more for external energy "healing." So also qigong master Wang Liping states that ONLY the full lotus really deeply opens up the lower back nerve channels to really sublimate the qi. I don't know - but the qigong masters who do 49 day cave meditation fasting do so in full lotus meditation - NONstop for 49 days - no sleep!! So also someone injured themselves by "forcing" themselves into full lotus - and then they even visited me in person! So they had read my rants here. And as I sat in full lotus next to them on the couch - the person exclaimed: "Your eyeballs are pulsating!" haha. Yes I knew they were - that's the qi energy going out from the pineal gland. I think this person might have gone to Burma? I don't know. Sorry I forgot your name if you're still reading this website. I am not a "name" person. Yes for me - if I am not in full lotus then the energy channels stiffen up pretty fast. So then I start to get concerned I won't be able to sit in full lotus anymore! So but when the channels do open up again - then the bliss increases. As Master Nan, Huai-chin states - sitting in full lotus shows the energy channels are open and it's just a foundation to deeper meditation - and also the bliss increases the more you sit in full lotus. (yes this was typed while in full lotus). I actually got carpal tunel from when I worked as a relay transcriber for the DEAF community - and once my dad asked me how I dealt with the pain. And I said - I just sit in full lotus! He could not understand how sitting in full lotus would clear out the energy blockages in the tendons in my wrists. haha.
  6. Climate Change

    Yes in terms of abrupt global warming - it's best to just look out the window and enjoy the ride!! For example those tornadoes in Alabama that just showed up out of nowhere? That was due to the Arctic Polar Vortex that had split from the warm ocean water-temperature air pushing up in the arctic. So then the split polar vortex caused the jet stream to get stuck way south into Alabama - and with the contrast against the tropical warm air - suddenly OUT OF NOWHERE you get a mile wide tornado. So just sit back and enjoy the weather!! Because even the weather people can't predict what Mother Nature has in store for us.
  7. Sound transmits the jing energy and the music as rhythm and frequency also contain the emotional energy. So for love - as compassion - this is actually a combination of the Yang Jing (or yin qi) as lung energy along with the heart as yin shen - and so what happens is that too much love sent out via the voice (or as yin qi energy) then creates SADNESS. So this is why "laments" as music are actually based as an exorcism of heart sadness as too much love energy. So the original human culture did not use words in their healing song music - the females sang ALL NIGHT LONG while the males danced in order to take in the yin qi energy - to combine it with the male yang qi as dancing sublimates the yang qi - and this increases the Yuan Qi energy that is then sent back into the females via the pineal gland. So singing NEEDS to be combined with male dancing and together they create a true healing environment. So in our culture - since it is all wrong - then this is reversed. So instead the males sing as "jock rock" based on ejaculation (NOT based on trance dance "staying power" to create yuan qi pineal gland healing energy). And then the females are supposed to follow these male singers - while the females cry and scream because they are sad from too much love. So in fact we need to honor and embrace female singers - So for example I made a playlist of Dolores O'Riordan's ONE song - DREAMS. She wrote this song when she was truly in love. So the frequency and rhythm CAPTURES that love emotion of the heart. So it is really trance healing music. Another good example are the "back track" songs - of a male and female couple. The female singing expresses this love but as sadness as well. So that couple - just look up "Old is Gold" for Indian back track singing - so they recorded the MOST songs ever - like tens of thousands of songs. OK a third example - the "Lament" is from West Asian singing as trance healing music - and so it is actually the Phrygian Mode of the frequency tuning - which means for the key of E major then it is G minor (if we are using Western tuning). So I have also made playlists of Phyrgian mode music - and beyond rhythm and frequency is also the TEMPO and so you want a slow tempo as a trance. This is what BLUES music also does - but it's also the "middle" movement of Western classical and baroque. So that 1 beat per second then synchronizes the HEART as the heart beat - and this creates the strong heart shen as right brain dominance. This is the secret of the so-called "mozart effect" (despite scientists claiming otherwise). So I have playlists of Ravel's 2nd concerto, the 2nd movement in G minor - Phrygian tuning and slow tempo. Then I have a playlist of Bach's concerto in F major - the 2nd movement in D minor - so Phrygian tuning but also with the slow tempo. I performed BOTH these pieces on piano but I memorized the Bach concerto. So then I got an EEG and the nurse exclaimed in shock at how strong my alpha brain waves were. And also in high school people thought I was a stoner since I was laughing all the time. This was from the music - memorizing the Bach slow movement activated the heart and qi energy for joy. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClWLO978m8LAASwDOcdFitw?view_as=subscriber my playlists
  8. Embody the Emptiness through Forest-Mind Ecology

    That is about "half" of the mini-forest - side-view So about 2/3rds of the land is like this. So I did 3 hours of snowshoeing in waist deep snow - while using a hand saw to cut down hard wood for the shiitake mushroom cultivation. so in a little over a month I plan to do full time forest cultivation - meditation and mushrooms! Thanks for the support so far - there's FIVE spaces left for the Emptiness Energy Ecology forest cultivation donation for the year of the Pig.
  9. Climate Change

    Why not just use "researchgate" or google scholar - then you can just read the science studies directly! I'll do that for you - let's see what happens. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257030319_Effects_of_ocean_acidification_and_global_warming_on_reef_bioerosion_-_lessons_from_a_clionaid_sponge first hit: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321466578_Global_warming_interacts_with_ocean_acidification_to_alter_PSII_function_and_protection_in_the_diatom_Thalassiosira_weissflogii 2nd hit: Are we having fun yet? Now your turn.
  10. Climate Change

    You can rely on your memory - or just try googling! haha. Good luck (the interwebs is big place).
  11. Climate Change

    https://www.vox.com/2015/3/21/8267049/merchants-of-doubt yes - Private Prices are for Profit - they are not based on science but rather on marketing. Government taxes are based on science - that's why the Union won the Civil War - standardized mechanized mass produced technology from science. Same with World War II - the Government just mandated that private industry re-engineer to win the war. Abrupt global warming is a similar situation. Now do I think government can fix the problem? NO I don't. I agree with you - government science is ALSO corrupt. But that does not mean corporate science is not JUNK science. haha. So for example Wall St. funded the Nazis and the Communists! Anthony Sutton documented this. Privately funded science just does not compete with large publicly funded science projects. Yes corporate science has now "taken over" or "captured" government science. So no I don't think "government" science will save "civilization" from global warming. Whether it's government or corporate science - it's already been proven that abrupt global warming is real. I already have quoted and cited the Big Oil scientists internal documents stating abrupt global warming is real. But then Big Oil covered up their OWN scientists - and instead promoted their private profit agenda as Junk Corporate science. https://www.capeandislands.org/post/how-naomi-oreskes-discovered-roots-climate-change-denial So a Brown-Noser like Patrick Moore - he works for the PR industry of corporate junk science - so he works for Nuclear or Coal or Clear-cutting - whomever "hires" him as a PR corporate junk science dude. In other words the SAME scientists market themselves as "for hire" and then multiple corporations hire them for whatever PR junk news they need to "market." And since the corporate-state Mass media mind control is based on 100% TAX deductible (corporate socialism) advertising - therefore the corporate junk news is a "service" provided to the CUSTOMER of the news - and the customer of the news is the purchaser of advertising. So do government scientists spend billions of dollars to get the government to change their budgets to not fund the military, etc. and instead fund global warming? NO - it's corporations that spend billions of dollars in 100% deductible "donations" - for advertising and lobbying - and then they get their tax subsidies and big private contracts. that's why the US military is the number one emitter of CO2 emissions and environmental pollution. https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2018/09/climate-change-science-comeback-strategies-in-it-for-the-money-part2/ So no wonder the government scientists are over-paid lackeys for big government lies! Because Private concentrated wealth is spreading that lie - that's how fascism works. So let's review the evidence. Patrick Moore - he's directly paid by for-profit special interests and so he does not publish in any peer-reviewed science journals but instead spreads corporate junk science lies. These same for-profit interests have literally spend billions of dollars spreading lies. The government mainly funds military spending plus gives huge subsidies to oil corporations - and both are the main co2 emitters. So big government spending is non-existent for what it would take to solve global warming. Is Big government needed to solve global warming - YES - because that is for the public good, not private interests. The environment is a public good. Do I think big government can solve the problem? NOPE - I think big government is controlled by corporate junk science and in fact Western science has created global warming - inherently. The problem of abrupt global warming is much worse than any government can handle. But two wrongs don't make a right - so pretending that Big government is the cause of spreading FAKE global warming lies is just not true.
  12. Climate Change

    conflict of interests are basic to science - it's required to release conflicts of interest. He is lying about his past to give him political credibility. So his science is based on corporate junk science because that's who funds his research. Corporate Junk science is DE FACTO rejected due to its inherent conflict of interest. It's a structural issue. So yes the content does not have to be considered. REJECTED. DENIED. FAKE SCIENCE. Climate science denialist Patrick Moore is all about “consensus building.” We know this because it says so on his biography at the think tank Frontier Centre for Public Policy. And so, fresh from delivering a coal-funded talk in Brussels where he told the audience to “celebrate CO2”, the Canadian has been out doing a bit of that “consensus building” in his own unique way. In recent days, Moore has accused respected climate scientist Ken Caldeira of “fakery”, called him a “jerk” and then told a fellow nuclear power advocate to “GFY”. The nuclear advocate in question was Australian energy and climate consultant Ben Heard, who had engaged Moore on social media. He’s written a blog about the exchange. British environmentalist and author Mark Lynas, who is also pro-nuclear energy, weighed in too, describing Moore as “just a predictable right-wing anti-green contrarian”. When DeSmog UK gave Moore the chance to respond to a story showing he had been paid by coal lobbyists to deliver a talk, his response was “bugger off”. Who is Patrick Moore? For those that don’t know, Patrick Moore is often described as a former senior member of Greenpeace, even though he left that organisation 30 years ago. Since then, he has spent his time being an advocate for nuclear power, GM crops, forestry and, apparently, burning as much coal as you can get your hands on. In a French television interview last year, Moore told a journalist that the pesticide glyphosate was not a carcinogen and was so safe, “you could drink a whole quart of it and it won’t hurt you”. Moore was then immediately offered the chance to drink a glass by the interviewer, which he declined. “I’m not an idiot,” he said. Moore is a long-time climate science denialist and claims, against all credible scientific institutions, that there is “no proof” that the extra CO2 in the atmosphere (about 40 per cent more than there was before the industrial revolution) is causing any global warming. Acidification denial In April 2015, Moore wrote a column for The Australian newspaper claiming that ocean acidification, caused by adding CO2 to the atmsophere mostly from burning fossil fuels, wouldn’t be a problem for the oceans and the species that live in them. In typical conspiratorial style, Moore even claimed the science of ocean acidification had been “invented” around the year 2005. Moore has no academic publishing record at all on ocean acidification (or much else in the last 20 years), so it was no surprise that he got things badly wrong. Several of the world’s leading scientists on ocean acidification, including one who had apparently begun studying the issue a whole five years before it had even been “invented”, tore Moore’s claims to pieces. Moore’s column was “ill informed and highly misleading”, “very wrong”, “BS” and “nonsense”, the scientists told me for The Guardian, who explained in painstaking detail why his analysis was flawed. But this didn’t stop Moore making the same claims in a subsequent research paper ”Ocean 'Acidification' Alarmism in Perspective” for the Canada-based Frontier Center for Public Policy (FCPP), where he is chair of the think tank’s “Energy, Ecology and Prosperity Program”. Oddly, the paper carried a disclaimer that the views expressed “do not reflect the opinions” of the center, “its Board of Directors, staff and/or donors” despite it being written by one of its own. According to FCPP, its papers are “rigorously researched by the most credible experts in their field”. They also claim to run their own “peer review” system for their reports. This is just as well, because Moore thinks that actual peer reviewed scientific journals are ruled by a “warmist ideology”. This appears to be a pattern for Moore. When challenged, respond with a mixture of abuse, name-calling and conspiracy theories. So when a group of students walked out of a speech he gave at a US college last year, he compared them to the “taliban”. There’s Moore’s “consensus building” skills on display again. https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/04/07/climate-science-denier-patrick-moore-under-attack-fellow-nuclear-energy-advocates As I said - I worked for Greenpeace - so you can trust me when I reject him based on his fake "co-founder" lies.
  13. Climate Change

    They can be "engineered" but that's not evolution. Close to engineering some make-believe model of what did not happen? https://www.quantamagazine.org/chiral-key-found-to-origin-of-life-20141126/ Maybe it happened - but not likely - and if it DID happen - that's not how life evolved till now. So yeah - pretend life evolution could have been completely different - although remotely possible - and PRESTO - no problem!
  14. Climate Change

    Patrick Moore (environmentalist) - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Moore_(environmentalist) Patrick Albert Moore (born 1947) is a Canadian businessman, nuclear energy advocate, ... scare tactics and disinformation, saying that the environmental movement "abandoned science and logic in favor of emotion and sensationalism".
  15. Climate Change

    Too bad oil production doesn't clean its water at the source of production. The over all effect of Western civilization is a global water crisis. The oceans are filled with oil-based plastic pollution and CO2 emissions are acidifying the oceans - killing off the life. I documented this back in 2000 that a fresh water crisis is now in the works. Water Crisis sucks us into global revolution: April, 2000 MN Daily staff op-ed, drew hempel The Great Lakes will be at record lows because of lack of snow that feeds 40 percent of their annual water supply. This disturbing situation has been attributed to global warming, and according to the United Nations, the influence of major transnational corporations extends over about 50 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions. What's received less attention is that large corporations are also attempting to raid the Great Lakes. One government agency already gave permission for 600 million liters of Great Lakes water to be filled into tankers and sent to Asia over the next five years. A temporary moratorium was achieved, but the move to conserve water will be brought to the World Trade Organization as a violation of the supposed rights of corporate rule. Through Reaganite corporate-state subsidies, California ironically has become the new dairy state at the expense of rural Wisconsin family livelihood -- including their future ability to drink water. California recently attempted to pipe water from Wisconsin. According to the Worldwatch Institute, agriculture accounts for two-thirds of all irrigated fresh water use while industrial production in general accounts for 50 to 80 percent of fresh water demand. But it's not just corporate-state water use in California; it's also the corporate pollution of water. Silicon "computer" Valley has more Superfund sites -- most of them affecting groundwater -- than any other area its size in the country. And 60 percent of the United States' liquid hazardous wastes -- 34 billion liters of solvents, heavy metals and radioactive materials -- is directly injected into the ground, the main source for fresh water. In 1996, the journal Science reported that the global supply of fresh water will be used up in 30 years at current usage rates. According to the Stanford researchers who authored the study, there is no "hidden water," and current foreseeable technologies, like desalinization, were factored into their findings. But greed-driven corporations are tapping into that grim projection to maximize profits for their own pea-brained drive to extinction. In just a few short years, through more than 130 acquisitions, American Toxic Control has been transformed into U.S. Filter Inc., with $5 billion in annual revenues, making it 10 times the size of its nearest competitor. As controller at U.S. Filter, Richard Heckmann states, "How could it be that there is no Intel, I.B.M., General Motors or Toys 'R' Us in the water business?" he asked. "You can live without all those things. Five days without water, you're dead." Apparently Dan Quayle agrees since he sits on the U.S. Filter Inc. board, joined by the Bass brother finance speculators who threw in a cool, refreshing $250 million. The time is right to create a giant corporation that transforms the public right to water into a scarce luxury item for those privy to the secret magic of money. Based on a 1998 water study by Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, "To avoid catastrophe ... it is important to act now." Our clear answer to the water crisis, according to the scientific researchers, can be summed up in one word: conservation. Secret global corporate rule, though, blocks environmental issues, labeling them barriers to corporate WTO trade. U.S. corporate-state rule has been consistent in its priorities ever since the founding aristocrats, like John Jay, planned to keep the rich in power against the threat of democracy. George Kennan, as head of the State Department, authored a top-secret document that reflects these elite goals on a global scale: "We have about 50 percent of the world's wealth, but only 6.3 percent of its population ... Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity ... We should cease to talk about vague and -- for the Far East -- unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards and democratization ... The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better." Similarly, now declassified U.S. National Security Council documents clearly outline policies to support destructive regimes in order to maintain wealth for the corporate-state elite. In fact, after World War II, the U.S. corporate-state elite attacked democracy movements worldwide and reinstated fascist regimes, brutally promoting power to a few. There's an interesting hidden history to undemocratic, destructive corporate rule. Did colonists plead for a more "socially responsible" king? The colonists demanded their inalienable, natural right to sovereignty. The king, though, was the only sovereign of the land and the king was also the only source of corporate charters. Most of the 13 colonies were actually crown charters (i.e. the Massachusetts Bay Trading Company). The list of grievances attached to the Declaration of Independence stemmed from the corporate rule of the king. After democracy was achieved, corporate charters were deliberately put into the hands of the state legislatures, were issued for only special purposes and had extremely limited powers. Corporate charters were routinely revoked and the corporate assets reinvested by the public. President Lincoln warned, though, shortly after the Civil War, that the growing threat of corporate rule was worse than the war and would, unless stopped, destroy the republic. Just as he predicted in 1886, a bought-out robber-baron judge declared that corporations are protected by the Bill of Rights and have legal "personhood" -- thus subverting our democracy. That same year 230 state laws controlling corporations were overturned in district courts. Between 1890 and 1910, 307 cases went to the Supreme Court based on the anti-slavery 14th Amendment. But only 19 cases were from African-Americans, while 288 were corporations seeking their new constitutional personhood "right to due process." The Bill of Rights ironically continues to be the main vehicle for destructive undemocratic corporate rule. Most state constitutions still require the attorney general to revoke the charter of any corporation that continuously violates the public good. With the knowledge of this hidden history exposed, in the last few years the public has rescinded two corporate charters. The global sovereignty movement grows increasingly thirsty for democratic revolution. The future of water depends on declaring independence from corporate rule. Drew Hempel's column appears on alternate Thursdays. He welcomes comments at [email protected]. Send letters to [email protected]
  16. Climate Change

    Yeah I also worked for Greenpeace and I also studied for a certificate in conservation biology and sustainable development at the School for Field Studies in Costa Rica - as part of a B.A. degree in International Relations with an environmental option. I also did a Master's degree in sustainability studies. So I'm more qualified than Patrick Moore. I'm not famous because I did not BROWN NOSE to the nuclear industry. haha. People love a "turn coat." - who cares? It's just political pandering. It's not "science." https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/greenpeace-statement-on-patric/ So Patrick Moore is a corporate junk science Brown Noser - they're a dime a dozen. Only he gets to say he was a "co-founder" of Greenpeace! Ka-Ching!! That's a great "selling" point. haha.
  17. Climate Change

    yes mushrooms and mycelium communicate via biophotons - and so these biophoton messages then feed off dead trees and then send the nitrogen to living trees. So this "nitrogen cycle" is the key for trees to grow in the forest. Unfortunately Western civilization that has spread around the world in the last 500 years is even destroying the mushrooms!! So you seem to underestimate the "shock" of the error of Western logic based on "materialistic idealism" No - it's not This is a wrong view. You don't have any evidence to back this up at all. Instead that's a reductionist view of reality. https://www.wbur.org/news/2018/09/18/mushrooms-fungi-climate So for example - studies of "alien life" - show that life could not be based on silicon for example - or right-handed crystals. Life on Earth is due to the left-handed weak force of the Universe. So protein and amino acids are left-handed and enzymes are right-handed. But when humans became right-hand dominant with technology as left-brain dominance - we developed the logical lie that infinity could be contained as a materialistic geometry - rectilinear. So Ecology as Nature is right brain dominant with left-handed amino acids. Modern humans are left-brain dominant with right-hand technology. That's the cause of the ecological crisis. So I met Dr. Vandana Shiva twice - she did her Ph.D. on quantum non-local philosophy. She emphasizes how the nitrogen cycle is all messed up from what she calls "Monocultures of the Mind" - the Western materialistic idealism based on patriarchy.
  18. Climate Change

    As I already quoted - it was just the low level canopy that was cleared - while the big trees were not burned. But today it's the WHOLE forest that is burned for monocultural farming. Do you see the difference? Notice how there's no "canopy" left? OK think of the fire in terms of alchemy as permaculture - You want to put the fire down into the Earth but not in the heaven - you store the fire down below to harmonize heaven and earth. This was described by the Amazonians in the "Fire of the Jaguar" mythology. https://haubooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/978-0-9973675-4-6-text.pdf just word search that pdf for fire So it's on pages 60-1. Fire as permaculture alchemy.
  19. LHBF somewhat deceased thread

    I'm sure those vids are cool but the traditional Yiquan training requires 2 hours a day of static exercise - for 2 years I think - before any movements are introduced.
  20. Climate Change

    yes Biochar - the charcoal STORES the nutrients. That's why in the Amazon it's called "terra preta" or living soil. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/03/060301090431.htm
  21. The Transformation of Emotions

    Yes you can start with math professor Luigi Borzacchini's published article on the music origins of western math. https://sci-hub.tw/10.1007/s00407-007-0125-0 So I first got a reply from him back in 2001 - when I had a dream of a music-math equation and I mailed it to him in Italy - it was scribbled down. He mailed me back stating my math was "good" but I had no "historical proof" that the equation was used. So I contacted him based on his postings on an academic math forum and it was that research in 1999 that eventually got published in 2007, as above. So he goes into the cognitive bias of Western science - something we all get "hard-wired" into from early math by age 14 with the Pythagorean Theorem. So then around 2004 I discovered Fields math professor Alain Connes stating that music theory could provide the formal language for his new noncommutative unified field science. So I was not sure if he was being just "metaphorical" since science often relies on music theory as a model - for example Newton directly got his inverse square law from music theory. So I then discovered Connes has a music theory lecture on youtube - and as he explains in his math publications - there are lots of examples of noncommutative math models but music theory provides the foundation to understand this noncommutative phase logic. So I have quotes about the music theory part of his talk - on my blog at http://elixirfield.blogspot.com So at this point I had been calling my research on these "ratios" as you call them - I called it "complementary opposite ratios" and I had several articles published about how these "complementary opposite ratios" are actually NOT the same was Western math. So this is what Alain Connes is stating as well - only he calls the "complementary opposite ratios" as "noncommutative phase" logic. OK so already on my own - I studied music theory intensely from piano lessons starting at 5 years old and then taking music theory class from my music teacher. Then her husband was a former University music professor so he taught me also orchestration and ear training and composition and music theory - privately. So Connes makes the comparison to orchestration - and this was something I could understand viscerally as I had done that training (to transpose multiple different spacetime clefs at the same time). OK so on my own research I had rejected the symmetric commutative Western tuning but then I realized that Daoist qigong was based on the "orthodox" Pythagorean music tuning - what I had been calling "complementary opposite ratios." So I had several articles published about this around 2006 and 2007, 2008. So one of my research articles - it is no longer "free" - it's posted on Amazon as a $1 e-book. https://www.amazon.com/Do-Ohm-Up-Yin-Yang-Spiritual-Training-ebook/dp/B012Z45TR2 I don't have an e-reader. So that was a kind of final summary of the music theory. But you can find me debating lots of people on this topic - over at Abovetopsecret. http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread807082/pg1 and my articles published https://www.mind-energy.net/archives/151-The-Secret-of-Psychic-Music-Healing.html and https://www.mind-energy.net/archives/264-against-archytas-how-the-west-lost-alchemy-or-paranormal-complimentary-opposite-harmonics.html and http://www.soundofstars.org/brainnews.htm is someone giving excerpts. I also had free books published: https://www.gearslutz.com/board/attachments/the-moan-zone/279031d1330198691-retune-your-music-444-old-tuning-standard-alchemy-rainbow-heart-music.pdf So that has 725 scholarly footnotes. http://www.viewzone.com/spiritualhealing.html That's a 2 part article. http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/naturalresonancerevolution These books are all "full free preview." OK so all that material was BEFORE I had seen the above Alain Connes lecture that crystallized the noncommutative phase connection to the music theory - thereby corroborating my "complementary opposite ratios" claims. So then I made the connection that the "three gunas" of India were also based on the same noncommutative phase secret of Daoist and Pythagorean nonwestern music harmonics. https://elixirfield.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-three-gunas-in-daoism-yes-via.html and https://elixirfield.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-three-gunas-of-no-guna-as-secret-of.html You have to scroll down a lot to get to the blog post. a Daoist alchemy scholar Pregadio on Neidan: http://ecoechoinvasives.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-blue-light-of-blues-music-ii.html another article So then on the connection to rhythm: https://elixirfield.blogspot.com/2018/06/what-makes-humans-special-human-paradox.html https://ecoechoinvasives.blogspot.com/2018/03/west-african-sumerian-connections-as-32.html So it turns out one of my early sources from high school remained very important - this was the quantum physicist Sir James Jeans - his book "Science and Music." https://elixirfield.blogspot.com/2018/06/why-hertz-hurtz-as-ditonic-comma-lie.html https://elixirfield.blogspot.com/2018/06/daoist-harmonics-has-same-2-hertz.html https://elixirfield.blogspot.com/2018/04/daoist-harmonics-is-there-idiotsdummys.html https://elixirfield.blogspot.com/2018/04/why-is-23-not-yin-and-why-do-we-need-to.html https://elixirfield.blogspot.com/2018/04/whats-43-got-to-do-with-3-not-going.html https://elixirfield.blogspot.com/2018/04/why-do-people-enjoy-false-music-asks.html https://elixirfield.blogspot.com/2018/04/is-there-right-and-wrong-in-music.html https://elixirfield.blogspot.com/2018/06/daoist-harmonics-has-same-2-hertz.html So based on this noncommutative phase secret of music theory - then I was able to mathematically disprove the "Comma of Pythagoras" - despite it still being on Wikipedia, etc.
  22. Climate Change

    So the current "slash and burn" farming was not the same - today it is a total burn of even the big trees whereas in ancient times it was just the understory. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180723142845.htm Ancient communities transformed the Amazon thousands of years ago, farming in a way which has had a lasting impact on the rainforest, a major new study shows. Ancient farmers transformed Amazon and left an enduring legacy on the rainforest
  23. Climate Change

    YES the point here is that ecology, like the Amazon rainforest - is TOO complex to be modeled even by a supercomputer. The "burning" of the forest is a metaphor for the "burning" of the map - not the territory. Science is simply a model - not the truth of reality. Saharan dust feeds Amazon rainforest, perfectly | Earth | EarthSky https://earthsky.org/earth/saharan-dust-feeds-amazon-rainforest-perfectly Dwindling desert dust spells danger for the Amazon | Cosmos https://cosmosmagazine.com/climate/dwindling-desert-dust-spells-danger-for-the-ama... May 7, 2018 - Modelling finds a worrying link between climate change, the Sahara ... starving the Amazon rainforest of nutrients and turning up the heat in the ... Dwindling desert dust spells danger for the Amazon Modelling finds a worrying link between climate change, the Sahara and South America’s rainforest. Michael Lucy reports. Global warming may cut the amount of dust blown into the atmosphere from the Sahara Desert by up to 100 million tonnes a year, starving the Amazon rainforest of nutrients and turning up the heat in the north Atlantic. Rising temperatures will mean less wind and hence less dust, according to a paper posted on the arXiv preprint server by NASA earth scientist Tianle Yuan and colleagues. Previous attempts to predict future dust levels have had limited success, but the new paper argues they have ignored the key factor: the temperature difference between the north and south Atlantic. As the world warms, climate scientists expect that the northern part of the Atlantic ocean will get hotter faster than the southern part. Southern hemisphere winds will rush northward to balance out the temperature contrast, meaning that the area where air circulation from the two hemispheres meets – a blustery band of latitude known as the intertropical convergence zone, or ITCZ – will drift northward. This all adds up to weaker winds over the Sahara, resulting in less dust in the air. Depending on future carbon dioxide emissions, Yuan’s team calculate that the amount of dust could drop by as much as 60% by the end of the twenty-first century. The authors checked their model against historical records and palaeoclimatic evidence, and found that temperature differences between the north and south Atlantic are correlated with levels of African dust over the last 17,000 years. They also found a decreasing trend in the amount of dust since 1980. The decline in dust levels may become a self-reinforcing cycle. Another effect of the airborne dust is to provide shade that cools the north Atlantic. As the dust dwindles, clearer air will mean warmer seas – which in turn means less dust.
  24. Climate Change

    The cutting a tree analogy - actually Gregory Bateson states the forest needs to be burned to maintain regeneration. So you got close.