Our Changing World
The oceans of the world have risen and fallen in the past. Droughts have existed over areas that have devastated habitats and destroyed civilizations. As we look at the history of our planet we see that planet Earth has changed and now we can see that she currently is changing yet again.
The causes of Earth's changes have been many over the millions and billions of years that she has been around. Our current concern is over the existing changes that many believe are happening now and to those changes that will occur in the next several hundred years. History most likely will call this the anthropogenic era. A dominant species which has terra formed a place called home into a different world. An era that will also be known for an extinction level event. The shape of things to come ? We can only hope for the best, but we should expect the worst. We all have an opportunity to change our ways now. We have an opportunity to use our existing technologies to change things today and we must use future technologies to continue positive changes for a better world.
The existing oligarchies and plutocracies of our world governments reign of control must end. Their decision making only holds profit and power for themselves. They have little care for the poor and helpless of the world no matter what their species. Selfishness and greed were all dealt with well within small tribal communities. Let us look back to those days of our forefathers wisdom. We all can make changes in appositive way for the planet.
1. Divest of any holdings in those companies that continue to pollute the planet. 2. Stop using plastics that pollute the oceans with a toxic soup killing all creatures in its path. 3. Energize your home with solar and wind turbines. 4. Grow your own garden and can your own food. 5. Walk and use bike when you can. I'll continue the list soon, you know ways tou and we can all change. Please add them with comments. Time will soon be against us and we must show and lead by example.
Thank You
D.B.Clay
Saturday, May 30, 2015
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Pope Francis and the Four Cardinal Virtues
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| Pope Francis and the Four Cardinal Virtues |
PRUDENCE- May we have the prudence to listen to the facts and act on climate change. JUSTICE- May we show justice by realizing our debt to our children's future and slow our changing climate. FORTITUDE- May we have the fortitude to face those against us in our fight against climate change. TEMPERANCE- May we show all people around us temperance in slowing our consumption of fossil fuels.
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Saddle Light
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| Senator Inhofe & Senator Cruz can't handle data from NASA Satellites on climate change but have a firm grip on their own saddle light data! |
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Monday, February 16, 2015
Polar Vortex
The winter still has some punches left to give the northern hemisphere. I can imagine that many people have had enough. Perhaps they are even saying is this the "climate change everyone is talking about. It certainly doesn't feel like global warming to me." Bostonians are probably thinking this more than the rest of us as they continue to shovel themselves out of snowstorm after snowstorm.
Let's peek at some cause and effect towards this cold scenario happening before us. Actually, it most likely will be a cause and affect. We might have to get use to this as "northerners." As we watch our morning weather people give us the bad news, how many of us have noticed how the northern jet stream has taken a horrific dip deep down into the United States and Europe? As I am in my fifties I recall a much more stable jet stream which kept the cold up north and in check from creeping down to slam us with our snow and ice storms. The cyclone at the North Pole was held in check to a more or less circular pattern.
Here's what happened, the waters in the northern part of the Pacific and Atlantic have heated up. When the waters warm up the surface air above the waters begins to warm. We all know that warm air rises. The warm air continues to rise from the troposphere to the stratosphere, As this happens the cold air that use to be trapped up north begins to drop into the lower troposphere. As the cold air is forced into dropping by the warm air it has only one place to go and that is south. In the United States it is forced to the west side of the Rockies and then it is able to move east again. The Midwest and the northeast get slammed by cold air. As moisture creeps up from equatorial waters in the Pacific and Gulf of Mexico it meets up with the cold and you can have blizzard after blizzard. This may become the new normal for us all.
I'd like everybody to understand that due to the Earths axis at 23.5 degrees and Earth's rotation around the sun the North Pole does not get any sun several months a year. When there is no solar radiation to warm the North Pole just like at night time it gets cooler. Sometimes it gets down right cold and frigid. The warmer waters in the Alaskan Bay will continue to force cold air to visit us in the winter time. Let's get use to it folks this is "CLIMATE CHANGE!"
I do not believe that we as a society, culture or civilization will change voluntarily. It would we nice if we would, but we have become conditioned to our creature comforts that our addiction to oil, gas and coal have given us. We are constantly being bombarded with commercials and denialists saying that it's OK the way it is. The corporate giants are doing the thinking for us and we have been letting them. We are the cause behind warming the waters. The constant burning of fossil fuels day in and day out, decade after decade is the root cause for the changes you will be witnessing. Unless we put a pair of sunglasses big enough to cover our planets poles we must change or get use to what will become the status quo.
Mahatma Ghandi was once asked by a western reporter, "Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of western civilization?" Mr. Ghandi smiled at first and looked at the reporter and said, "I think it is a good idea." If we are so civilized let's start our changing together, voluntarily or mandated by law. Corporations buy lobbyists who buy congressman and senators on all party lines. Place your bets folks and lets get rid of these individuals, for the time is at hand.
Let's peek at some cause and effect towards this cold scenario happening before us. Actually, it most likely will be a cause and affect. We might have to get use to this as "northerners." As we watch our morning weather people give us the bad news, how many of us have noticed how the northern jet stream has taken a horrific dip deep down into the United States and Europe? As I am in my fifties I recall a much more stable jet stream which kept the cold up north and in check from creeping down to slam us with our snow and ice storms. The cyclone at the North Pole was held in check to a more or less circular pattern.
Here's what happened, the waters in the northern part of the Pacific and Atlantic have heated up. When the waters warm up the surface air above the waters begins to warm. We all know that warm air rises. The warm air continues to rise from the troposphere to the stratosphere, As this happens the cold air that use to be trapped up north begins to drop into the lower troposphere. As the cold air is forced into dropping by the warm air it has only one place to go and that is south. In the United States it is forced to the west side of the Rockies and then it is able to move east again. The Midwest and the northeast get slammed by cold air. As moisture creeps up from equatorial waters in the Pacific and Gulf of Mexico it meets up with the cold and you can have blizzard after blizzard. This may become the new normal for us all.
I'd like everybody to understand that due to the Earths axis at 23.5 degrees and Earth's rotation around the sun the North Pole does not get any sun several months a year. When there is no solar radiation to warm the North Pole just like at night time it gets cooler. Sometimes it gets down right cold and frigid. The warmer waters in the Alaskan Bay will continue to force cold air to visit us in the winter time. Let's get use to it folks this is "CLIMATE CHANGE!"
I do not believe that we as a society, culture or civilization will change voluntarily. It would we nice if we would, but we have become conditioned to our creature comforts that our addiction to oil, gas and coal have given us. We are constantly being bombarded with commercials and denialists saying that it's OK the way it is. The corporate giants are doing the thinking for us and we have been letting them. We are the cause behind warming the waters. The constant burning of fossil fuels day in and day out, decade after decade is the root cause for the changes you will be witnessing. Unless we put a pair of sunglasses big enough to cover our planets poles we must change or get use to what will become the status quo.
Mahatma Ghandi was once asked by a western reporter, "Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of western civilization?" Mr. Ghandi smiled at first and looked at the reporter and said, "I think it is a good idea." If we are so civilized let's start our changing together, voluntarily or mandated by law. Corporations buy lobbyists who buy congressman and senators on all party lines. Place your bets folks and lets get rid of these individuals, for the time is at hand.
Friday, February 13, 2015
Global Oil Use
Report: World short on time to fix climate change------ The latest report by the U.N. group responsible for assessing climate change says the world is running out of time to keep global warming from exceeding the 2 degrees Celsius limit (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) agreed to in 2010. If greenhouse gas emissions are not curbed sharply, and soon, climate experts say that by 2100, temperatures will rise between 3.7 and 4.8 Celsius (6.6 and 8.6 Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial times. China, the United States and Europe are the top emitters. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) cautions in the new report that there must be a "massive shift" to renewable energy to avert more massive heat waves, droughts and rising sea levels. The IPCC has said there is a 95 % probability that climate change since 1950 is mainly due to human activities rather than natural variations.
It does not appear that the leading greenhouse gas emitters will be slowing down in our near future. It seems apparent that their emissions will actually accelerate. The concern of a growing economy and a higher GNP out trumps what the future will hold. These governments must realize that the economic costs that higher temperatures (9 degrees) will bring will far outweigh the costs of changing over to renewable energies right now, "They have eyes but cannot see."
Producers of electricity expect an increase in demand as the years continue to fly by. The United States has switched over coal burning electrical producing plants to natural gas, but this is due to the cost and supply of natural gas and court cases brought about by the Sierra Club in the companies violation of the clean air act. The U.S. government has made no new meaningful mandates since that time in 1973. China and India are accelerating coal burning plants. Germany can be credited to having 25% renewable energy, but as they wean themselves off of nuclear energy they have increased their coal burning plants to produce electricity.
The U.S. government did enact laws for lower emissions on vehicles in the 1990's. Yet as we do this industry analysts predict the same amount of oil and gasoline use through 2050. The reason is due to more cars being on the roads. Globally, there are some 750 million cars on the road. China and India's desire for the corporate mono-culture means more cars will be on the road, using more oil. Our desire to walk and ride bikes or use public transportation has diminished greatly in the last 50 and 60 years. We need to return to these alternative means to transportation and embrace a new lifestyle. Perhaps fuel cell technology and hydrogen technology will assist us in the decade to come. People will have little desire for change as gasoline has so conveniently dropped to $ 2.20 a gallon from $ 4.00 per gallon. It seems certain corporations want us to continue in petroleum use. Our infrastructure is heavily if not totally invested to continue in this folly.
We can change. We must change.
Steve Newman / Earthweek
The Plain Dealer April 18th, 2014
It does not appear that the leading greenhouse gas emitters will be slowing down in our near future. It seems apparent that their emissions will actually accelerate. The concern of a growing economy and a higher GNP out trumps what the future will hold. These governments must realize that the economic costs that higher temperatures (9 degrees) will bring will far outweigh the costs of changing over to renewable energies right now, "They have eyes but cannot see."
Producers of electricity expect an increase in demand as the years continue to fly by. The United States has switched over coal burning electrical producing plants to natural gas, but this is due to the cost and supply of natural gas and court cases brought about by the Sierra Club in the companies violation of the clean air act. The U.S. government has made no new meaningful mandates since that time in 1973. China and India are accelerating coal burning plants. Germany can be credited to having 25% renewable energy, but as they wean themselves off of nuclear energy they have increased their coal burning plants to produce electricity.
The U.S. government did enact laws for lower emissions on vehicles in the 1990's. Yet as we do this industry analysts predict the same amount of oil and gasoline use through 2050. The reason is due to more cars being on the roads. Globally, there are some 750 million cars on the road. China and India's desire for the corporate mono-culture means more cars will be on the road, using more oil. Our desire to walk and ride bikes or use public transportation has diminished greatly in the last 50 and 60 years. We need to return to these alternative means to transportation and embrace a new lifestyle. Perhaps fuel cell technology and hydrogen technology will assist us in the decade to come. People will have little desire for change as gasoline has so conveniently dropped to $ 2.20 a gallon from $ 4.00 per gallon. It seems certain corporations want us to continue in petroleum use. Our infrastructure is heavily if not totally invested to continue in this folly.
We can change. We must change.
D.B. Clay & Ghost Writer Productions
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