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It Getting Hot In Here - Climate Change
by Get Up
Friday September 29, 2006 at 09:26 AM
we're redrawing the map of Australia to make the climate crisis personal. Politicians at all levels of government need to see the writing on the wall, and realise this is not a problem for somebody else to solve - it's the issue in their backyard.
With more than 15 million Australians of voting age, we've set an initial target of 250,000 to create a groundswell for change that cannot be dismissed, trivialised or ignored. Put yourself on the Climate Action Map now, and ask your friends, family, colleagues and neighbours to join you.
The time for half-measures, manufactured doubt and self-serving delays is over. Tackling our climate crisis is priority number one - this is the resounding message you came back with when we asked you to help set a positive new agenda for Australia.
And here's how we start: there are GetUp members in every electorate across the country, and we're redrawing the map of Australia to make the climate crisis personal. Politicians at all levels of government need to see the writing on the wall, and realise this is not a problem for somebody else to solve - it's the issue in their backyard. With more than 15 million Australians of voting age, we've set an initial target of 250,000 to create a groundswell for change that cannot be dismissed, trivialised or ignored. Put yourself on the Climate Action Map now, and ask your friends, family, colleagues and neighbours to join you.
http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/ClimateActionNow
Our strategy starts with one unified message: this issue is bigger than party politics, bigger than special interests and more important than short-term economic gain. Give us responsible leadership and bold action now to solve the climate crisis, or step aside.
Our Federal Government likes talking up its action on climate change, but has its head too far down a coalmine to sign the Kyoto Protocol, price carbon appropriately or encourage genuine large-scale investment in renewable energy. As a result, Australia has the highest emissions of planet-changing greenhouse gases of any industrialised country, and they continue to rise. We still rely on 19th century technology and polluting fossil fuels to power our 21st century lives, and now we are all paying the price.
Our farmers are crippled by drought. Bush fires are breaking out earlier every year. We're facing record-breaking heat waves, increasing water scarcity and intensifying cyclones and storms. Each of us with hopes for our future, or with children and grandchildren who will be left with our mess, must act now.
http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/ClimateActionNow
CSIRO research shows we're on track for average global temperature increases of between 1.4 and 5.8°C in the lifetime of today's newborn child. Yet a mere 1°C rise is likely to double the number of Australians exposed to floods, while a 2-3°C rise in average global temperature will leave up to 80 per cent of the freshwater wetlands of Kakadu evaporated and up to 97 per cent of the Great Barrier Reef dead and bleached.
The economic costs of doing nothing are greater than we can imagine, while the potential returns of acting now are tremendous. But first we must overcome the timidity, the blind spots in our vision and smallness in our politics that are holding us back.
If you haven't already seen Al Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth, go now and tell as many people as you can to join you. It will leave you awestruck, inspired and determined to be part of the solution. The groundswell movement begins today. Let's show them just how hot an issue global warming really is.
http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/ClimateActionNow
www.getup.org.au/campaign/ClimateActionNow
What 'problem' is to be 'repaired' by all this 'effort'?
by Peter K. Anderson
Saturday September 30, 2006 at 03:46 AM
Hartlod@bigpond.com Quakers Hill, NSW.
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It is indeed 'the time' NOW for the POLITICALLY intent of "Westernised attitude" to cease attempting to RAILROAD opinion of 'global remediations' for 'greenhouse opinion' view lobbied by suppositions of 'scientists opinions'. The median age of the 'Developed Nation' populations will gradually rise above 50 years with the economic viability of those 'mostly Western' economies DECREASING. The presently seen 'Developing Nations' will be sustaining however a median age of ~25 years to become the economic & manufacturing 'powers' of that future 'global market' (see slides of Population redistribution in link '**' below, sourced from U.N.). With 'regard for Kyoto' of near no real relevance, little effort being displayed at meeting supposed 'emission limits' in REALITY & with even little mention made any longer of such, WHAT IS even the POINT of continued 'political effort' to platform any RELEVANCE of this 'westernised' opinion efforting to platform socio-politics. There is no relevance to any real ENVIRONMENTAL issue for justification of such, there never was. Outside of Political & Economic issues however, the redistribution of WEALTH and POPULATION has REAL environmental impact that has nothing to do with the suppositions of the 'greenhouse platform' in its political intent to bully disassociated attitudes of supposed 'global doom'.
It is to the level of 'presentation' of increased "WORK' potential (kinetic effort seen as 'wind velocity' as example) within 'weather events' being powered from altered Kinetic Energy induction rates in rematerialed Land Surface (see link '**' outlines) that needs attention. The processes of 'mechanical' Erosion & related overall Turbulent processes are being 'ramped up' by existing Human Population Surface Sprawl and such NEW additions over the next 100 years will make more rapidly 'new' additions to the already accumulative process.
In short, "Humanity is building itself into a "Dishcleaner that will be held on Rinse". This new 'Human Habitat' will also exist within the expected Natural rise in relative sea levels, those of the Primary Crest position seen already to be ~30meters + (vertically) on 'presently observed levels'. There will be many more rapidly 'spun up' storms in the 'near future' that have no relationship to any 'greenhouse supposition' and will not see 'remediation' of 'increased WORK potentials' from ANY 'greenhouse related effort' be such to produce a 'socio-political effort' or (as has become obvious) any actual 'real world remediation activity'. It is not that ANY amount of idolism of 'greenhouse opinion' will halt the return of the Climate Tide and those attempting to promote 'political rhetoric' are required to either show that there IS an UNNATURAL problem in effect, as Climate is changing in a Natural and expected progression still.
Rises in Relative Sea Level will be occurring from Natural processes anyway, it is however what is being over-laid with 'greenhouse suppositions' to garner some 'plausibility' for such supposition that is the 'grand lie'. That the 'Polar Ice' is NOT at all regarded as permanent in its total expanse as presently observed is also well known, so further melting is not at all indications of any 'Human created problem' with any Climate related issue. That infact the ~3 Million year life of the present Polar caps (as mentioned recently in various discussions) coincides with the reversion of a ~200 Million year long Primary Crest period of climate behavior (not the present ~3 Million year long Primary Trough) further demonstrates the lack of permanency of the present Polar Ice Expanse in the reality of Climate and the Planetary Ecosystem..
For 'detail', notice slide of glaciation periods in outline article at link '**'. Notice the period already spent within the current 'Primary Trough' and the 'past patterning' for the last 1 billion years. This is showing decreasing periods for Primary Trough behaviours & the present 'block' is near the size of the second 'element'. So from NOW it is very likely Climate will be rising to a 'shorter' Primary Crest that will be will be followed (after a few more Million years) by a slightly 'longer than the present' Trough period (of a few more Million years). It is also that the present Primary Trough behavior observed of Climate can readily be expected to begin reversion back to a Primary Crest Behavior is MORE than plausible by observing the chart of Glacial Behaviours seen in outlines within link '**' below.
It wouldn’t be unexpected and most certainly it is 'very plausible' for expectations of the overall Climate Oscillation to rise back into the Primary Crest behavior NOW, the position held within the ~200 Million years previous to this now ~3 Million year long Trough period. Humanity does indeed need to adapt, & to move Habitat and become less reliant on fixed infrastructure. Trees where abandoned Millions of years ago, Caves abandoned Thousands of years ago, what next should be the question...it is coming time to move again.
Your's, Peter K. Anderson a.k.a. Hartlod™ E-Mail: Hartlod@bigpond.com (*)- http://hartlod.blogspot.com/ (**)- http://hartlodsgallery.blogspot.com/
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Global temperature highest in millennia!
by Peter K. Anderson
Saturday September 30, 2006 at 03:02 PM
Hartlod@bigpond.com Quakers Hill, NSW.
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The situation of 'ice loss' isn't of such 'being unnatural', it is NOT even unexpected from the noticed present 'placement' of 'Climate' within the overall Primary Oscillation. It is that infact the present Polar expanse of Ice is NOT permanent with relation to Planetary Climate, with the 'age' of much of the sheets (recently mentioned) showing only an 'existence' within the present ~3,000,000 year long Primary Trough display of Climate behavior, as expected.
Thus all that could be said for the 'warming discussions' to-date is that it would be certain that Ice is melting, and that a warming trend is being noticed. However it IS also needing realisation that neither are 'these events' at all unnatural or cause for concern. There is NOT any need to attempt rationalisation of 'unnatural climate change' from such events, nor any justification for attempts to make demand for remediation of a supposed 'unnatural greenhouse effect addition' to 'stop climate change'. There is NOT seen any unnatural climate effect to begin with and the WARMING noticed is of the Planetary Surface which is OBVIOUSLY linked to Human Population Growth and the Sprawl of Habitat construction associated to such Population (see charts in link '**' below).
The previous 400 years of such Population Growth and Sprawl had its effect (& observations of) such deferred by required developments of Technology to facilitate the Sprawl construction burgeoning Populations needed. The NEXT 100 years is NOT facing such deferment of 'inputs' (& observable effects) to the accumulative process that is altering overall Turbulence, with only the RESIDUAL Kinetic Energy displaying its presence as a rise of the SURFACE MEDIAN TEMPERATURE. The OCEAN is following the Land surface in a delayed and muted trend, delay from the [processes of Conduction & Convection whilst the muting is from internal productions of Turbulence within the Ocean surface.
Notice (in slide of Glaciations in link '**') the period already spent within the current 'Primary Trough' along with the 'past patterning' for the last 1 billion years. This is showing decreasing periods for Primary Trough behaviours with these events in 'pairings'. The present 'block' is near the size the 'prior event pair' 'first element trough' & is also near the 'correct size' for NOW to become a 'reversion event' observation as the present warming has such a 'natural potential'. See also outline 'Glaciers Reborn' in link '*' to notice how 'unnatural additions' to natural processes of TURBULENCE creation could prevent such an outcome.
The individual 'blocks' of these pairings are getting shorter at each 'repeat', so from NOW it is very likely Climate could rise to a 'shorter' Primary Crest that will be will be followed (after a few more Million years) by a slightly 'longer than the present' Trough period (of a few more Million years). It is also that the present Primary Trough behavior observed of Climate can readily be expected to begin reversion back to a Primary Crest Behavior is MORE than plausible by observing the chart of Glacial Behaviours seen in outlines within link '**' below.
Pollution, 'greenhouse labelled' or otherwise, is not wanted, but such pollution is NOT creating UNNATURAL climate alterations. There is not all that much relevance of Ice Models at present due to the 'use' such are being placed to and 'a erroneous relation' within 'opinions' that is being 'sustained' in 'greenhouse climate science' rhetoric. It is certainly 'very plausible' for expectations of the overall Climate Oscillation to rise back into the Primary Crest behavior from NOW, this being the 'position' Climate held for the ~200,000,000 years prior to this now ~3 Million year long 'Trough' period. Humanity does indeed need to adapt, & to move Habitat and become less reliant on fixed infrastructure. Trees where abandoned Millions of years ago, Caves abandoned Thousands of years ago, what next should be the question...it is coming time to move again.
Your's, Peter K. Anderson a.k.a. Hartlod™ E-Mail: Hartlod@bigpond.com (*)- http://hartlod.blogspot.com/ (**)- http://hartlodsgallery.blogspot.com/
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