Tuesday, April 22, 2014

The Climate Crisis is The Folly of Human Conceits

Hello everyone, 

44 years ago today, 20 million Americans came together to celebrate the first Earth Day. Over the past few decades, people across the globe have continued to use the day to demonstrate their commitment to a healthier environment. 

As we celebrate Earth Day this year, I'm reminded how beautiful our planet is -- and how much work we have to do to keep it that way. 

Climate change is a growing threat to our world, and some of the effects are already evident. Heat waves are lasting longer, and more extreme weather events -- such as floods, severe storms, and droughts -- are happening each year. 

That's why the President released a Climate Action Plan to reduce carbon pollution, prepare America's communities for the consequences of climate change, and lead international efforts to address global climate change.
But he can't do it alone. Share what you're doing in your own community to help our environment.

It's crucial that every one of us does our part to protect our planet.
Whether you're taking part in a community garden, or just riding a bike instead of driving some days, every little bit helps. Small changes in your daily activities can really make a big difference.

Share your own story of what you're doing in your community to help the environment, and to protect our planet from the effects of climate change.

Thank you,
John 


John Podesta
Counselor to the President
The White House

@Podesta44

The famous “Blue Marble” shot represents the first photograph in which Earth is in full view. The picture was taken on December 7, 1972, as the Apollo 17 crew left Earth’s orbit for the moon.



"...the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race..." The man is a dolt. There isn't anything else to say.

The Origin of (click here) "The Way to Stop Discrimination on the Basis of Race Is To Stop Discriminating on the Basis of Race":..

... Today, the view lives on in elite organizations like the Federalist Society, with which Roberts has long been affiliated. Indeed, the much-cited coda to Roberts's opinion — that "the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race" — is lifted almost verbatim from a 2005 dissent by circuit court judge Carlos Bea, also a Federalist Society booster, which itself recalls a slogan favored a decade ago by former solicitor general Theodore Olson, another Federalista....

John Roberts has lived in a bubble all his life and he is not about to come out. He has life the way he wants it and the rest of the country and world for that matter can go straight to hell.

The man is a dolt. How he ever made it to the Supreme Court is a profound reflection of the man who placed him there.

When people grow up and live as adults in bubbles they are sterile to societies ills and they don't belong in leadership.  

When people live in bubbles they develop ideologies and call it a life. 

Roberts, Alito, Thomas and Kennedy; I'll give Scalia a pass on being a thinker of US Constitutional law, especially when it comes to the second amendment. Scalia is remarkably consistent. I don't agree with his point a view frequently, but, everyone knows where they stand with him.

But, the other four jokers have absolutely no idea what the USA is about and how to apply 'the condition of the country' to constitutional law. They don't read anything about minorities and their struggles, about racism in the USA or bend to opinions of scholars. Roberts, Alito, Thomas and Kennedy have god complexes, know all, see all and should never be questioned to their thoughts of their decisions. 

Women and minorities may as well go back to where they stood before the 14th, 15th and 19th Amendment. Those Amendments were passed because the USA was in very poor condition in oppressing citizen rights. Evidently, those amendments mean nothing today.  

Don't expect anything from Roberts, Alito, Kennedy and Thomas that does not JUDGE the people in this country as lazy and complaining. They are condescending. They look down on the people of this country.  They live in cloud city and they love it there. They love it there more than the Ivory Tower where they grew up.

The Roberts Supreme Court is laughable. Get used to it. There is no reason to ever expect anything from the Roberts Supreme Court. It is taking up space and being paid for it. 

What does Clive Bundy and Russia have in common?

They keep pushing their luck until they end up at war.

How many American minorities are renting BLM land?

Lets cut 2 the chase (click here) if Clive Bundy was a minority he wouldve been shut down long ago & those cows would b hamburgers at McDonalds #nerdland

...The BLM administers nearly 18,000 permits and leases (click here) held by ranchers who graze their livestock, mostly cattle and sheep, at least part of the year on more than 21,000 allotments under BLM management. Permits and leases generally cover a 10-year period and are renewable if the BLM determines that the terms and conditions of the expiring permit or lease are being met. The amount of grazing that takes place each year on BLM-managed lands can be affected by such factors as drought, wildfire, and market conditions....

The Taylor Grazing Act of 1934 (43 USC 315), (click here) signed by President Roosevelt, was intended to "stop injury to the public grazing lands [excluding Alaska] by preventing overgrazing and soil deterioration; to provide for their orderly use, improvement, and development; [and] to stabilize the livestock industry dependent upon the public range" (USDI 1988). This Act was pre-empted by the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA).... 

Changes in Public Lands Grazing Operations (click here) Associated with the Taylor Grazing Act and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act 

The Western Range Before the Taylor Grazing Act

The western range livestock industry came into prominence in the decades after the Civil War because capitalization costs were minimal. All one needed was a ranch headquarters, a few cowboys, and a number of horses. Often, early ranchers had little more than a dugout for shelter and a corral for their horses, because when the range they were using was eaten off, they simply moved their herds and headquarters to a new location. The animals were left to fend for themselves and were only rounded up for branding and marketing. Other ranchers allowed their herds to graze freely on the federal lands, but moved their cattle between summer and winter ranges. Cattlemen with Midwestern traditions ranged their cattle on the federal lands during the summer, and before winter, moved their herds close to the home ranch where they could be fed hay. After the harsh winters that occurred between 1886 and 1890, this became the predominate method of ranching in the West....

This year marks the 25th anniversary (click here) of the passage of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 -- a landmark piece of legislation that changed not only the Bureau of Land Management and the make-up of its workforce, but the face of the West forever. This ambitious Act both recognized the value of our Nation’s public lands and provided a framework in which they could be managed in perpetuity for the benefit of present and future generations. It defined BLM’s mission as one of multiple use -- a new concept for the times, but which today stands as our agency’s great strength....


 

Where do American subsidies and/or tax provisions go? To oil exploration? No.

July 24, 2014
By Rebecca Leber

These five oil companies (click here) received $6.6 million in federal tax breaks every day.

By DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI
Published: July 3, 2010

When the Deepwater Horizon (click here) drilling platform set off the worst oil spill at sea in American history, it was flying the flag of the Marshall Islands. Registering there allowed the rig’s owner to significantly reduce its American taxes....

...At the same time, BP was reaping sizable tax benefits from leasing the rig. According to a letter sent in June to the Senate Finance Committee, the company used a tax break for the oil industry to write off 70 percent of the rent for Deepwater Horizon — a deduction of more than $225,000 a day since the lease began.... 

...In 2011, the three largest domestic public oil companies spent $100 million of their profits each day, or over 50 percent, buying back their own stock to enrich their board, senior managers, and largest share holders....

 The entire oil and gas industry spent on average $400,000 each day lobbying senators and representatives to weaken public health safeguards and keep big oil tax breaks, totaling nearly $150 million....

...Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson’s compensation came close to $100,000 per day last year....

...Fueled by Koch Industries and other Big Oil interests, the industry is spending hundreds of millions to fund false ads in this year’s elections. According to the Annenberg Public Policy Center, 85 percent of the dollars have funded false ad, during a season where most advertising have focused on energy....

Are Americans willing participants in the lies and deceptions? Jobs, profits and otherwise. The fear of change has an astounding methodology of learned ignorance.

Anna Gillespie's sculpture "I Don't Want to Know"

Americans are creating their own propaganda and climate crisis by subsidizing the petroleum industry. Crony politics. It pays for election campaigns. The subsidies and tax provisions go directly back to the politicians that vote for them.
Do wind turbines stop producing electricity when the sun goes down?

Does the wind stop blowing when the sun goes down?

The highest wind turbulence for offshore wind turbines occur at sun up and sun down when winds turn from onshore to offshore and vice versa EVERYDAY regardless of weather.
The first Earth Day was in 1970. 44 years ago average citizens came together to bring awareness and warn about the future. Earth Day awareness was suppose to prevent the global tragedy of human induced global warming. 

Why didn't it happen?

When the catastrophe of the IPCC happens, what is civilization going to say; "It was a great ride."

Cyclone reaches maximum winds over land, NOT ocean, at Australian shoreline.


Cyclone Ida - that is Australia. The strongest winds hit Category 4 OVER LAND. The heat of the land was absorbed by the cyclone and in less than 12 hours Ida went from 90 knots to 115 knots and it kept going to reach a maximum 135 knots. 135 knots equals 155 mph. The sustained high winds that moved Ida to a Category 4 cyclone ONLY occurred over land. In measurement 14, Ida spun it's acquired heat from land over ocean and then returned to it's Cat 1. 

Ida absorbed 'super heat' along the Northeast Australian shoreline to deposit it in the ocean. All that heat that drove that cyclone to 155 mph winds ended up in the ocean.

Got that? The land is so hot it fuels super storms and this is NEAR shore where there is an ocean - land interface where air is cooler than inland.

I suppose the oceans are getting hot, huh?
10 -11.50  150.20 04/09/06Z   80     - CYCLONE-1
 11 -11.70  148.70 04/09/18Z   90     - CYCLONE-2
 12 -12.50  147.10 04/10/06Z  115     - CYCLONE-4
 13 -13.30  146.00 04/10/18Z  135     - CYCLONE-4
 14 -14.50  145.40 04/11/06Z  125     - CYCLONE-4
 15 -15.50  145.00 04/11/18Z   75     - CYCLONE-1
Ida went on to flood New Zealand and move sediment into rivers. They needed 
the rain, but, they didn't need the erosion.

...The MetService (click here) said rainfall could also approach warning amounts about eastern parts of Northland, Auckland and Coromandel Peninsula tomorrow, with northeasterly gales possibly becoming severe for a time.
In eastern parts of Northland, the ex-cyclone could bring 100mm of rain and wind gusts of 100km/h.
WeatherWatch said the remnants of Ita would bring rain to parched areas around the North Island, including Northland, Auckland, Waikato and Manawatu....

These two events occurred  six days apart. Why? Because Ida stalled and delivered wind and rain for a week and is still there today.

2:28 PM Tuesday Apr 22, 2014
Widespread flooding, (click here) heavy rainfall and gale force winds caused road closures, power outages and slips around New Zealand on April 17 and 18. The rough conditions have been fuelled by ex-Cyclone Ita with the tail end of the tropical storm hitting the islands overnight on April 17. The winds blew down a large tree in Nelson, on the north tip of the South Island, which was captured on camera by YouTube/Derek Sivers.

The tree below fell because of days upon days of wind and rain. There is no reason this healthy pine tree should have toppled. The soil became saturated at depth and the wind simply finished the job.

Human carbon emissions will meet an all time consistent high in April. How apropos is that, huh?

Earth Day will never be the same.


Published: April 21st, 2014 
By Andrea Thompson

April (click here) will be the first time in human history where levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide were higher than 400 parts per million for an entire month, one scientist who monitors the levels said. And they could stay above that mark into July....

Multiple USA agencies and wildlife groups have duplicated the fact wind turbines are more safe than any other 'bird threat.'

Apr 21, 2014 12:39 PM ET
Pity the birds. (click here)

As if cats weren’t bad enough, humans have invented all sorts of torture devices for our winged friends. We’ve paved over their nesting sites to make room for Olive Gardens and have broken up their skyscapes with glass buildings and radio towers. 

Then came the most infamous bird killer of all: the wind turbine. As you can see in the chart below, these sky blenders top the list. 

Just kidding. Windmills aren’t the biggest serial killer, but are instead the smallest threat to birds worthy of mention, on par with airplanes. Turbines are responsible for as little as one percent of the deaths caused by the next smallest killer, communications towers....

"Impact on Wildlife" (click here)

Birds fly. They have eyesight. They know how to seek out a place for nests. Birds are still alive in case no one noticed.

Happy Earth Day.

UNISYS Water Vapor GOES West Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop)
April 22, 2014
1:20:19z

It doesn't have an eye to speak of, but, Tropical Storms start at 39 mph. Tropical Depression is an organized circulation center less than 39 mph. Call me crazy, but, that looks like a Tropical Depression to me.


THE WIND ADVISORY IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM HST TUESDAY.
* WINDS...EAST 20 TO 35 MPH WITH LOCALIZED GUSTS OVER 50 MPH
AFFECTING PORTIONS OF LANAI...MAUI...KAHOOLAWE AND THE BIG
ISLAND.

FOR MAUI COUNTY...THE STRONGER WINDS WILL BE CONCENTRATED OVER
LANAI...KAHOOLAWE...AND THE WEST MAUI MOUNTAINS AND CENTRAL
VALLEY OF MAUI.

ON THE BIG ISLAND...THE STRONGER WINDS WILL BE FOCUSED IN THE
LEEWARD KOHALA AREA...THE WAIMEA TO KAWAIHAE CORRIDOR AND
WESTERN SADDLE AREA...AND NEAR SOUTH POINT. STRONG WINDS ARE NOT
EXPECTED TO AFFECT HILO TOWN.

* TIMING...THROUGH 6 AM HST TUESDAY.

* IMPACTS...WINDS THIS STRONG CAN BRING DOWN TREE BRANCHES AND
MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 



A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF AT LEAST 30 MPH...
OR GUSTS OF AT LEAST 50 MPH...ARE EXPECTED. MOTORISTS SHOULD USE
EXTRA CAUTION. 


Posted 
Posted 

A wind advisory has been issued for areas of Hawaii Island through 6 p.m. Monday, according to the National Weather Service.
Forecasters in Honolulu are calling for northeast winds of 20 to 35 mph with localized gusts topping 50 mph. On the Big Island, the stronger winds will be focused in the leeward Kohala area, the Waimea-to-Kawaihae Corridor, the western Saddle area and South Point.
Winds this strong can bring down tree branches and make driving difficult, particularly for high-profile vehicles, forecasters cautioned.
A wind advisory means that winds of at least 30 mph or gusts of at least 50 mph are expected. Motorists are advised to use extra caution.
A wind advisory has been issued for areas of Hawaii Island through 6 p.m. Monday, according to the National Weather Service.
Forecasters in Honolulu are calling for northeast winds of 20 to 35 mph with localized gusts topping 50 mph. On the Big Island, the stronger winds will be focused in the leeward Kohala area, the Waimea-to-Kawaihae Corridor, the western Saddle area and South Point.
Winds this strong can bring down tree branches and make driving difficult, particularly for high-profile vehicles, forecasters cautioned.
A wind advisory means that winds of at least 30 mph or gusts of at least 50 mph are expected. Motorists are advised to use extra caution.
- See more at: http://westhawaiitoday.com/community-bulletin/wind-advisory-issued-hawaii-island-areas#sthash.SvOdt8Zw.dpuf