Tag: species loss

Coal burning increases…

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/fossil-fuel-emissions-2017_us_5a09c01fe4b0bc648a0ca1f0

Note in the above the shocking rise in CO2 emissions since 1990 ie from 22 to 36 Gt a year.

One of the most repulsive and revealing images I’ve seen is donald trump acting the clown in his miners hat. Note the vetted audience behind him, that strangely seem so disinterested, out of step with proceedings as if not listening. He knows fine well climate change is on the way, building/ reinforcing  the already existing wall to stop mass migration from the south, massive tax handbacks to the filthy rich for whats ahead, installing arch-denier Pruitt, ramping up the military, disowning the poor and the ordinary.

Another angle … telling us that fracking leaks huge amounts of methane (20-120 times more powerful than CO2 for climate change acceleration)  … http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/carbon-emissions-flat_us_59ee1580e4b0958c4683a105

Here Pruitt ensures Industry controls Climate Boards at the EPA, lots of back slapping there !!  They’ve won their cake and can eat it !!  http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/epa-advisory-boards_us_59f8d140e4b046017faf692b

Looking at the median curve to my mind 2018 looks set to be a worse year for climate events than 2017 which on the curve was a significant dip from the upward trend of climate warming.

Heres a quote from the start of that last article AND IT UTTERLY STINKS …

The Environmental Protection Agency has banned scientists who receive funding from the agency from serving on its scientific advisory boards, in an unprecedented move that critics say gives favor to industry-friendly advisers.

At a Tuesday afternoon event rolling out the new policy, Administrator Scott Pruitt invoked a biblical tale from the book of Joshua, in which the pagans are instructed to “choose this day whom you will serve,” either God or the “gods of your fathers.”

“As it relates to grants from this agency, you’re going to have to choose,” said Pruitt, who described the new rule as a way of ensuring “there’s integrity in the process and that the scientists that are advising us are doing so without any kind of appearance of conflict.”

STINKS   ….   STINKS   ….   STINKS  ….

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/letter-to-humanity-warning-climate-change-global-warming-scientists-union-concerned-a8052481.html

 

 

Bees are dieing …..

Please realise though 2C sounds nothing it has triggered along with higher CO2 levels our weather systems to go into a self increasing feedback mode from a previous ‘steady state’ and thereby this planets lifeforms to be severely thrust into turmoil. Polar bears will soon only exist as memory, can you see any bees in summer? We are losing Arctic and Antarctic ice, at the North Pole it is stupidly over-heated and now exists only as water, ie this is now and is plain fact. February 2018 night-time temperature is above freezing in the watery expanse that used to be called the North Pole! Meanwhile constant chem trail activity hinders solar power, destroys ozone, hinders food production. Please … BE AWARE !!!

http://sos-bees.org/causes/

https://friendsoftheearth.uk/bees/what-are-causes-bee-decline

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jan/23/woolworths-to-stop-selling-pesticide-linked-to-global-bee-decline

https://e360.yale.edu/features/bee_collapse_co2_climate_change_agriculture

Note I’m quoting from the last link above  … More than 100 previous studies have shown that elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide decrease the nutritional value of plants, such as wheat and rice. unquote. This also means the pollen bees serach for and collect is drastically less useful than it was previously.

https://arizona.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/the-potential-consequences-of-pollinator-declines-on-the-conserva

 

So much that is happening is like a vast torrent of new information, CO2 increase has triggered systems and associated feedback loops far worse than anyone imagined.

 

postscript 17th March 2018 … when the EU itself is issuing such an urgently worded press release  then we really are in trouble  …  http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20180123IPR92314/urgent-action-needed-to-protect-eu-bee-population-urge-meps

I quote … Around 84% of plant species and 76% of food production in Europe depends on pollination. However, in some member states the number of bee colonies has declined by more than 50%. According to the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, the mortality of bees, if not tackled, could cost €150 billion worldwide. unquote.