In Washington and Oregon are amazing. Winds on the Oregon coast topped off at 129 mph. The worlds largest Sitka Spruce tree, near Seaside, OR, was broken in two. My family visited it several years ago. It is almost 60 degrees here, where a couple of days ago it was below freezing and snowing. Wild fluctuations! We were spared the major wind and rain where I live, but it’s still pretty breezy. The sky above me is blue, so I can see the pink and blue clouds by the mountains rushing north. Even extreme weather in the Northwest is mild compared to hurricanes and typhoons and white out blizzards other places get. Anyway, the big picture is just becoming too clear.
There are some very vocal global warming skeptics in my town. I wonder what they’re thinking now? Quite a few plants and trees seem to be delaying winter dormancy. It’s just weird and yes, scary. The combination of economic crisis and climate crisis just feels so edgy to me.
Prominent salmon spawning and hatchery streams and rivers are flooding, destroying the habitat. ARGH! I need to go do some restful yoga and calm down.
Each of us doing our little bit does not really address the problem of replacing massive baseload energy. It is not all that hard to do but one has to consider what needs to be done.
Then again almost no one is listening.
How can you possibly top the people of Rotorua, New Zealand, living inside a volcano filled with hot springs and fumaroles importing electricity from outside?
Easy enough.
I just wrote a diary about the U.S. and Canada shipping wood to Europe so that Europeans can generate power with it. Meanwhile we prefer to burn fossil fuels and the most environmentally-concerned politicians talk mostly about relatively trivial sources of power.
Might want to lay in a supply of sun screen in your storm shelter.
of the imbalance. We as humans, especially in the US where are reality is filtered through a TV marketing consumption, economic dream, has no connection to the earth or nature. It’s manifest destiny us against our mother, backed by religion, patriotism, entitlement,economies, nationalism and fostered by unsustainable greed.
The belief that technology the fruit of science can overcome or bailout the fragile or even strong pulls of cause and effect is so full of hubris that it is mind boggling. For what my soul says, profit or dominion which will be ashes when mother nature buries us and that which we seek to conquer. What chance does the owl have when we abandon the paradise given for the scarcity of possession. You keep stepping back storm chaser as empathy is a reflection of data and visa versa.
In fact the MIT study has a huge flaw IMO. It is like looking in the basement for something lost in the living room. There are problems to be solved with EGS that may not be resolved for a very long time.
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A New Reality seemed more real somehow…
Difficult to be upbeat with the papers that are being presented and the deals behind the works.
I’ll try to be less dour next time.
In Washington and Oregon are amazing. Winds on the Oregon coast topped off at 129 mph. The worlds largest Sitka Spruce tree, near Seaside, OR, was broken in two. My family visited it several years ago. It is almost 60 degrees here, where a couple of days ago it was below freezing and snowing. Wild fluctuations! We were spared the major wind and rain where I live, but it’s still pretty breezy. The sky above me is blue, so I can see the pink and blue clouds by the mountains rushing north. Even extreme weather in the Northwest is mild compared to hurricanes and typhoons and white out blizzards other places get. Anyway, the big picture is just becoming too clear.
There are some very vocal global warming skeptics in my town. I wonder what they’re thinking now? Quite a few plants and trees seem to be delaying winter dormancy. It’s just weird and yes, scary. The combination of economic crisis and climate crisis just feels so edgy to me.
Prominent salmon spawning and hatchery streams and rivers are flooding, destroying the habitat. ARGH! I need to go do some restful yoga and calm down.
Thanks Stormchaser. Take care yourself!
Each of us doing our little bit does not really address the problem of replacing massive baseload energy. It is not all that hard to do but one has to consider what needs to be done.
Then again almost no one is listening.
How can you possibly top the people of Rotorua, New Zealand, living inside a volcano filled with hot springs and fumaroles importing electricity from outside?
Easy enough.
I just wrote a diary about the U.S. and Canada shipping wood to Europe so that Europeans can generate power with it. Meanwhile we prefer to burn fossil fuels and the most environmentally-concerned politicians talk mostly about relatively trivial sources of power.
Might want to lay in a supply of sun screen in your storm shelter.
Best, Terry
How else can we end the rampant fossil fuel addiction?
from here on out it gets bumpy……
the first conversation we must have is “what constitutes enough”….
without that there is no chance of any cahnge occurring in time….
the truth is the capital class is going to try to ride the die off to the bottom.
using the military and police of the world to ensure it is the poor who die off…
of the imbalance. We as humans, especially in the US where are reality is filtered through a TV marketing consumption, economic dream, has no connection to the earth or nature. It’s manifest destiny us against our mother, backed by religion, patriotism, entitlement,economies, nationalism and fostered by unsustainable greed.
The belief that technology the fruit of science can overcome or bailout the fragile or even strong pulls of cause and effect is so full of hubris that it is mind boggling. For what my soul says, profit or dominion which will be ashes when mother nature buries us and that which we seek to conquer. What chance does the owl have when we abandon the paradise given for the scarcity of possession. You keep stepping back storm chaser as empathy is a reflection of data and visa versa.
Would you be willing to elaborate?