Mom Nature

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Hell Just Got...

...hotter:

Earth's core 1,000 degrees hotter than thought, on par with the sun

No question about it though. This was caused by man's burning of fossil fuels.

Sorry About That...

...but we had to send it somewhere.

Seriously though, 22 dead is no laughing matter.

Mom Nature knows how to teach us she's da boss. I wish she wasn't so brutal, though.

Will The Real Seven Millionth Person....

...please stand up - er - yawn, or something.

Baby  Danica May,  Philippines

Baby Nargis, Lucknow, India and six others..

Yah, Yah, Yah

Too many people? World's population tops 7 billion

I remember when it reached 6 billion. There was screeching and howling about the earth's carrying capacity then. Yet we're still here.

Look folks. Humans are no different than any other species. If we exceed the carrying capacity of the niche that sustains us, mother nature will take care of things, like she does with all other species. Let it happen.

It's utter folly, not to mention supreme hubris, to think we can save the planet from nature's cycles and the natural ebb and flow/boom and bust of species population growth and decline.

Species come and go. The Earth is eternal - almost. We'll go when Mother Earth has had enough with us.

The Battle Has Been Joined

A decision about the Keystone XL Pipeline is in the works.

I'm looking forward to weeks/months of hysteria as the decision process lurches forward.

Lines have been drawn.

Pro

Pro

Con

Con

Upwards of eight or more governments (Federal in two countries, as well as state and provincial) are involved, not to mention a myriad of associations and non-profit societies on either side of the issue, including an assortment of nobodies who know nothing about the oil industry, including one Climate Change fraudster, James Hansen, and, of course, Holly weird types. (What would a left-wing cause be without its Holly weird types?)

Each side is also bringing out its "scientists" or whatever.

Some nasty tactics are being employed, or at least alleged. Protests are planned, and lobbyists dispatched, and lawsuits filed.

What will Hillary's decision be? And can The One justify letting her kill all those potential jobs, considering the economic climate he has fostered? Can he calculate the political balance sheet of a scenario in which a handful of environuts stand to be disappointed, while thousands of his unemployed countrymen who blame him and his party for their joblessness, stand to lose their best hope of gainful employment, especially in an election year, which is when this pipeline business will get going in earnest, if approved?

In the meantime, China can be very patient. It's one of the oldest civilizations on the planet and it's where carbon based fuel was first used several millennia ago.

And You're Worried About The Erosion...

...of the Arctic coastlines.

Try coping with a landslide in a locale with a massive population.

Oh well. It did happen on Earth Day just to show that Gaia is pretty powerful, and no icecaps were harmed.

PS, greenies. Mother Earth kills her children. It's a well known fact.

Earth Hour

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...is coming up and I'm making plans. So far, this is what I'm planning to do for Mother Earth, or Gaia, or whatever:

1) Turn the heat up (might have to open some windows to keep from sweltering, but that's okay); (Didn't do that since it takes an hour for the place to warm up or cool down.  Good thing, too, cause I was pooped after I got everything done.)
2) Turn all the lights on; (Yup. Even went to bed forgetting to turn off the lights at the top of my bookshelf.)
3) Recharge my cell phone, whether it needs it or not; (Yup. Done as planned.)
4) Turn on the oven and bake a cake, cause that requires using my electric mixer; (Yup. Done. Gingerbread. Haven't made that in ions.  Have to buy some apples today, and make some applesauce from scratch, as I recall applesauce goes really well with gingerbread, and making it from scratch has the added distinction of transferring the use of electricity from the food processing company that makes the canned stuff to my kitchen, so I can take personal responsibility at the same time as illustrating that going back to grandmother's day still means using electricity and/or fossil fuel.)
5) Bake some cookies, too (Yup. Ones with coconut in them to ensure I contributed to the "eat imports rather than local" cause.), and maybe a big batch of lasagna and/or chili (might as well do both, so I can have both the oven and a burner on); (Did the chili thing.  Got to freeze it today, too. More power consumption, just for the frivolous sake of preventing spoilage and possible food poisoning, silly me! Oh and the tomatoes and canned chili beans also contributed to the "eat imports" cause. How ungreen of me!!)
6) Do the laundry, and, if anything needs ironing, get at it right away; (Did that. No ironing required, so there's two small appliances - the iron and my blender - that were not pressed into use in the celebration of Earth Two Hours, a failure on my part, for sure, but I just couldn't think of what I could do with the blender during Earth Two Hours. If I had ice cream, I could have made a milk shake, I guess.  Oh well.)
7) Vacuum the floors that have carpets; (Yup. Not much to do, though, so I didn't really consume much electricity.)

..and just for the helluvit...

8) Turn on the hot water taps full bore so the boiler in the building will have to replace what I've consumed; (Didn't do that. My bad. But I did have a long leisurely shower after I was done in the kitchen, and did up the dishes in hot water, too.)
9) After all that work, I'll have to have a shower (see above), of course, and for sure, boil some water for a cup of tea. (Done. Hot tea after a busy stretch of work is so nice. Plus, it's another import, so that's good.)

Oh, and might just plug in the car, whether it's cold or not. (Did that earlier in the day, so it was plugged in for several hours. In fact it's still plugged in.)

That should be enough, probably more than enough, for only an hour, but I'd happily extend my celebration of Earth Hour as long as needed, even to Earth Hours. (All told, it took me close to two hours.  I wonder how long it would have taken without electricity. Drying those clothes would have been a time killer, and I'm not sure how I would get them ironed - or where I'd hang them to dry - a lot of retrofitting needed to go extreme green plus I don't have those old fashioned interchangeable irons with a wood stove to heat them on.)

I'm taking suggestions, if anyone can think of what else I could do. Every little bit helps, you know.  Gaia deserves it.

(I'm gonna leave this one on top and file a report the day after.)

(Picked this tip up over at SDA):



(This also came from SDA comments):

Earth Hour: Why I will leave my lights on

(Anyway, here ends my post-Earth Hour report.) 

In the meantime, enjoy this:

Mother Earth: Exploding the Myth (Old Post Previously Unpublished)

Transcript from a CBC "Ideas" program featuring Saskatchewan Cree elder Stan Cuthand.

Back to Plimer in a Moment...

Well, more than a moment, but in the meantime, there's this article which deserves some attention. While all the world's Gaia freaks are panicking about the catastrophic consequences of living on a warming planet, some scientists are warning of another mini-ice age. Now that would not be pleasant. I'm sure I'll be gone long before we come out of it, but so could my kids and grandkids.  They'll be cursing the Gaia freaks for influencing governments to reduce carbon emissions, as if carbon has anything to do with it, especially if they have to dig through permafrost to bury their dear old gramma.

Chilling Evidence

"We are now in the onset of that next sunspot cycle, called Cycle 24 – these cycles typically last 11 years — and Livingston and Penn have this month published new, potentially ominous findings in a paper entitled Long-term Evolution of Sunspot Magnetic Fields: “we are now seeing far fewer sunspots than we saw in the preceding cycle; solar Cycle 24 is producing an anomalously low number of dark spots and pores,” they report."

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"The authors base their conclusions on the assumption that recent trends will continue, an assumption that, they note, may well be proven in time to be false. At the same time, given that their findings are consistent with those of other solar scientists, and given the stark implications of another little ice age for society at large, they felt compelled to publish a warning.

“It is important to note that it is always risky to extrapolate linear trends; but the importance of the implications from making such an assumption justify its mention,” they state."

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"The upshot for scientists and world leaders should be clear, particularly since other scientists in recent years have published analyses that also indicate that global cooling could be on its way. Climate can and does change toward colder periods as well as warmer ones. Over the last 20 years, some $80-billion has been spent on research dominated by the assumption that global temperatures will rise. Virtually no research has investigated the consequences of the very live possibility that temperatures will plummet. Research into global cooling and its implications for the globe is long overdue."

But, never fear.  Where there's a grant, there's a way.  Before long the Gaia freaks will be promoting policies to increase CO2 omissions. Mark my words. You heard it here first.

PS: Maybe China and India can save us, after all.


ht Dr. Roy