In the past five decades of human history it is dangerous to pull on any sensitive strings in the entangled ball of key political events, wars of aggression, terrorism, wars on terror. So much has become dark national preoccupations, hidden beyond polite conversation, while the long horror movie is still in progress in the background. It is dangerous that someone will talk and the whole attached mess just spills out. The biggest danger is to realise who we really are.
I am an Australia Citizen, now sixty four years of age. I am so far fortunate, but it seems that…
Civilization prosecutes the truth.
Julian Assange, still lives in prison as the public representative of Wikileaks. He suffers mental torture by the failed institutions of global civilization. He has been abandoned by the main stream media. He must have done something terribly wrong! Why is Julian Assange is persecuted, accused of charges requiring multiple life sentences for crimes against public lies and hacking of secret computers? The accusations are known fabrications concocted by the current biggest proven liars and murderers of this so-called global civilization of nations, in the eyes of history. Fooled you all again. Treatment of Julian Assange…
We have caused an approximate doubling of Earths Energy Imbalance (EEI) from mid-2005 to mid-2019.
AI acknowledge with gratitude the recent CounterPunch article on this same topic, “Planet Earth is Heating Up Faster” by Manuel Garcia, Jr. Good article, but I wanted to investigate and write my own version from the original science article, “Satellite and Ocean Data Reveal Marked Increase in Earth’s Heating Rate”. It deserves a big boost with strong attention to my Australian government’s climate action denial.
The “key points” of the science article say there is an approximate doubling of Earths Energy Imbalance (EEI) from mid-2005…
Outdone yourself going all out. My monkey survival instincts have been long honed by evolution. Our individual and social means of predatorial deception and violence have grown enormously with language, culture and technology. Nation states monkey kings have these powers in the most toxic concentrations of it. Growth is the population and resources pressure to become bigger and more invincible, so the rival societies do not get there first.
Wow, the radio voices were hot this morning, with Australian climate target news. There was the media equivalent of squeals of pain from Prime Minister Scott Morrison and other fossil fool government members over the notion accepting a climate net zero emissions target of 2050, by which date most of what we now know will likely be dead.
Scott Morrison from marketing says net zero emissions won’t be achieved in ‘wine bars’ of ‘inner cities’. How stupid and irrelevant. We have a global problem, the net-zero target is global. Large scale emissions curtailment failure anywhere means failure everywhere.
This…
We control our civilisation, as much as our selves, using our feelings. Our repertoire of biogical feelings have evolved from ancient features of homeostatis. But what feels good for us, in our excess, is not good for the biosphere.
I have come across two very thoughtful and revealing books, which are complements. The author of each is a respected expert in their chosen field. The first is the very handy pocket-sized book, called “What is Life? : Understand Biology in Five Steps” by Paul Nurse, who is a geneticist and cell biologist, and has worked on how reproduction of cells is controlled.
I mention this one first, because without those “five steps”, the assumed life sciences grounding for taking the second book seriously, might be missing. I feel in general that much of contributions to Medium and other publication…
Ok, timescale is 4000 years. Holocene is 12,000 y. CO2 has been relatively stable, and also temperature, compared to all the previous post ice age cycles, when there was noticable decline in both, leading on to the next ice age period. What is different this time? - This time, human beings have spread over the world, as hunter gatherers, and horticulturists, and are using fires to cook food.
We homo sapiens are here in Australia by at least 40,000 years ago. …
Its hard to understand how a government can be so publicly determined to undermine the life support systems, of its own population, in its own capital city of government. Namely the National Liberal Party and its stewardship of the Sydney Water Supply catchment area, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. But this is Australia, and Australian government is too frequently all about mining first, mining first. Australian governments are practically fully owned subsidiaries of foreign mining corporations and their money. Hence their reluctance to acknowledge any necessity of action on global warming from burning their products.
We do…
Fossil fuels are political power and wealth, having grown with national states dependent on them for nearly 3 centuries of exponential growth.
It should be no surprise they are as deeply embedded in wealthy nations governments as much as they are in our way of life. Australia is an especially riddled case.
The country of which I became an adopted citizen of, Australia, has a federal government which always claims that Australia “is a unique case” when negotiating in international forums for climate action. It is the most unique crime case. Like many selfish anti-social, anti-global crimes justice must ensure hurt rebounds on the criminal more at the end. The uniqueness involves an extreme belligerent hard-nosed attitude with carbon accounting combined with public denial of climate change when it comes to action. This is very much opposite to the global behavior required to have a safe global climate system. …
Michael Rynn
Eduction and work in Medical Practice, also software engineering, for medical research and commercial. Amateur musician. Learning chinese and russian languages.
