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There are hundreds of peer reviewed scientific studies on the great damage repeat Covid infections and Long Covid causes to human bodies! Millions cannot function anymore in daily tasks. No infection control in hospitals, testing is discouraged, few tests conducted. 

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DJ....no doubt some "politicians" will claim info on climate change, pandemics, is the main reason for mental health issues...so "stop information"....While NOT doing anything on the real issues....

[url]https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Chile-Emergency-State-and-22-Dead-Due-Forest-Fires-20240203-0004.html[/url] or https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Chile-Emergency-State-and-22-Dead-Due-Forest-Fires-20240203-0004.html ;

In Chile, the president Gabriel Boric declared an Emergency State as forest fires continue devastating the central regions, leaving several people feared dead and destroying thousands of hectares of forestland.

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“The situation of forest fires, especially in the 5th region, is very difficult due to the temperatures and winds… I have also decided to declare a state of emergency due to a catastrophe to have all the necessary resources,” the president said.

To combat the forest fires, Boric has has mobilized all available forces to combat the fires, with emergency services set to assess the catastrophic situation.

On the other hand, the Interior Minister, Carolina Tohá, confirmed on Saturday that at least the death of 22 people as a result of forest fires that affect the Valparaíso Region and whose emergency is centered in Viña del Mar and Quilpué.

DJ, [url]https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2024/02/blue-ocean-event-2024.html[/url] or https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2024/02/blue-ocean-event-2024.html 

Global "warming" means stronger wind....It could push very cold air into places not used to such cold..."populist-leaders" will come up with "there is no climate problem"...so they get more donations from fossil energy, car, aircraft industry...

"The economy" works in a way that is destroying the planet....[url]https://afludiary.blogspot.com/2024/02/who-statement-fao-alert-on-increased.html[/url] or https://afludiary.blogspot.com/2024/02/who-statement-fao-alert-on-increased.html ;

During the past months, AI outbreaks have continued to be reported in domestic poultry and wild birds in Asia. In the past year, several AI virus subtypes, including H5N1, H5N2, H5N5, H5N6, H5N8, and H9N2 have been detected in domestic poultry and/or wild bird populations in the region. In addition, subtype H5N1 subclade 2.3.4.4b continues to circulate in both wild and domestic birds throughout the world. 

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INCREASED AVIAN INFLUENZA RISK 

DJ...some studies claim a human detected case of H5N1 could indicate there may be 200 undetected ones in some countries....That could mean a lot of H5N1 could be "mild"...easy to miss...however it can pick up mutations in each mammal/human infection...

[url]https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/covid-19-news-briefs-jn-1-11-and-spawns-rising-fast-in-india-young-people-dying-at-worrisome-rates-in-finland-jn-2-5-causes-brazil-s-carnival-cancella[/url] or https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/covid-19-news-briefs-jn-1-11-and-spawns-rising-fast-in-india-young-people-dying-at-worrisome-rates-in-finland-jn-2-5-causes-brazil-s-carnival-cancella tion...

Both climate collapse and global public health may be out of control...The US/NATO going for more wars only further worsening problems...

DJ-I would love to believe "there may be a way out" of this mega-mix of crises...but war is NOT one of them....

The Arctic did see the warmest summer since measuring began. 

[url]https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2023/12/double-blue-ocean-event-2024.html[/url] or https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2023/12/double-blue-ocean-event-2024.html ;

A double Blue Ocean Event could occur in 2024. Both Antarctic sea ice and Arctic sea ice could virtually disappear in 2024. A Blue Ocean Event (BOE) occurs when sea ice extent falls to 1 million km² or less, which could occur early 2024 for Antarctic sea ice and in Summer 2024 in the Northern Hemisphere for Arctic sea ice. 

Antarctic sea ice loss

The situation regarding Antarctic sea ice extent is pictured in the image below, which shows that on December 12, 2023, Antarctic sea ice extent was 9.499 million km², a record low for the time of year. 

Antarctic sea ice extent was 1.788 million km² on February 21, 2023. Antarctic sea ice extent may well be much lower in February 2024, with sea ice loss fuelled by several self-reinforcing feedback loops, as discussed in an earlier post.

Arctic sea ice loss

On December 12, 2023, as said, Arctic sea ice extent was third lowest low for the time of year, i.e. only 2016 and 2020 were lower. The years 2016 and 2020 had the highest annual temperature (a tie) on record and this annual temperature record is likely to be surpassed in 2023, while 2024 may be even worse, as the chance that the current El Niño will slow down soon is minimal.

Arctic sea ice extent would have been even lower, had the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) not been slowing down. As a result of AMOC's slowing down, less ocean heat is reaching the Arctic Ocean. Instead, a huge amount of ocean heat has been accumulating in the North Atlantic and much of this heat could soon be pushed abruptly into the Arctic Ocean as storms temporarily speed up currents that carry ocean heat into the Arctic Ocean.

DJ, Polar ice is cooling the planet...If that ice (sea/land) is decreasing this fast it will further increase global temperature. 

Methane release also will further increase pushing up further global temperature...

Western democrazy is about choices; Do you want to die from disease? 

[url]https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/20/uk-covid-inquiry-latest-patrick-vallance-live/[/url] or https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/20/uk-covid-inquiry-latest-patrick-vallance-live/ ;

Rishi Sunak thought the Government should “just let people die” as arguments raged over a second lockdown, the Covid Inquiry was told.

from war, Military Summary on Ukraine

-Total war with Russia

-Men 17-70 y/o and women mobilized

-Mud/snow on frontlines

-Ukraine "anti retreat forces" shelling other Ukraine forces refusing to die

-NATO limiting "aid" but also against "surrender"

The Gaza-genocide is pushing millions of Palestinians into "a corner"...

DJ-Both Ukraine and Palestinians face hunger/starvation, shortage of water, heat, protection with lots of diseases just waiting for a chance...

And then-also ignored-climate collapse; Paul Beckwith [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXbjccFsZIg[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXbjccFsZIg ;

New Report: Dire Sea Level Rise up to 20 meters (66 ft) Locked-In Even if Climate Goals Met

New climate change reports are being released every single day as we approach the start of the 28th version of the United Nations Climate Conference (COP28 - Conference of Parties 28)

 In this video I chat about the new report on the vanishing cryosphere with massive sea level rise called: “State of the Cryosphere 2023: Two degrees is too high: We cannot negotiate with the melting point of ice”; link is in this article: https://apple.news/AaPaaajMYT-iWfWXxc...  

Essentially, this report argues that Earth is facing dire sea level rise — up to 20m — even if climate goals are met and the global average temperature is stabilized at 2 degrees Celsius relative to the IPCC baseline 1850-1900 average. 

I discuss the main findings in this report, and have a look at what the figures tell us in specific areas of glacier melt, permafrost thaw and emissions feedbacks, Arctic and Antarctica polar temperature amplification and sea ice loss, polar ocean acidification, and changes to ocean circulation patterns and consequences. 

By the way, we are heading to a 2023 global average temperature of 1.54 degrees Celsius or higher, and on November 18, 2023 the daily average temperature reached 2.0 degrees C above the IPCC baseline for the first time. 

It appears that by the start of next year, we will only legitimately and honestly be able to discuss the 1.5 C temperature goal in the past tense. 

Recall that in the James Hansen video recently, I chatted about 1.71 C by 2030 and 2 C by 2038 with James. 

Please donate to http://paulbeckwith.net to support my research and videos as I join the dots on abrupt climate system mayhem.

DJ, Good info -as always...but terrible news...Arctic West Antarctic even East Antarctic, Greenland ice melting at record levels...We need that ice to cool the planet...but "short term profits" seem to be more important...We are on our way to;

-More climate collapse related diseases/pandemics

-More water/food/refugee wars...

-Exploding water/food shortages

-Mega death...

Of course I hope to be very wrong but we are in such a big mess -ignored by "politics" I am losing any hopium left...

Another climate get-together for politicians that do nothing...[url]https://oneplanetsummit.fr/en/events-16/one-planet-polar-summit-284[/url] or https://oneplanetsummit.fr/en/events-16/one-planet-polar-summit-284 ;

The Arctic and Antarctic are today major strategic areas on which the planet's equilibrium largely depends. Like the oceans to which they are intrinsically linked, the North and South Poles play a central role in climate regulation and the preservation of biodiversity. Actors and first victims of climate change, they are also sounding the alarm.

The state of the world's glaciers and high plateaus is no less worrying; they show the extent to which the collapse of the cryosphere on a global scale can have effects on populations, ecosystems as a whole, water resources, sea-level rise…

If the phenomenon of cryospheric collapse is irreversible, the world's leaders must take it into account in order to enable ecosystems and populations to adapt to the challenges and disasters already visible. The effects of climate disruption, which are warming the Arctic and Antarctic very strongly and causing the Greenland ice sheet and sea ice to melt, as well as the Antarctic glaciers and other emblematic glaciers such as the Himalayas and Kilimanjaro, justify an exceptional and concerted mobilisation of the international community.

France has just adopted its first National Polar Strategy in 2022, explained here. It does not only provide new resources for scientific research, but also sets a number of international objectives, including the organisation in France in 2023 of the first international summit for glaciers and poles, in the form of a One Planet Summit.

DJ...good scientists need to go to this kind of meetings to get funding...For the rest they are ignored...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_BoZDS1gjU[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_BoZDS1gjU  Dr. Gilbz;

We can’t save the West Antarctic. So what now?

It’s not often that I make a video with a title this bleak, but unfortunately, needs must. Several pieces of new research point to the inevitability of West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse, which is pretty bad news. But what we do with this bad news is still up to us. Here, I talk to the lead author of one of these new papers, Dr Kaitlin Naughten. She tells me what it all means, including why we need to focus on adaptation, and why we must take courage, not hope, from this information.

Contents 00:00 Intro 01:06 Who cares about the Amundsen Sea 01:58 What the study shows 03:06 Mechanisms of change 05:34 Can we trust it? 06:36 The link to sea level rise 07:02 Time to adapt 08:53 Why our actions DO matter 10:51 Courage vs hope 13:52 Thank yous

with a link to lots of other sources;

References and resources THE PAPER: Naughten et al. (2023) https://www.nature.com/articles/s4155...  Kaitlin’s twitter thread:   / 1716472710107222440    Kaitlin’s article in The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/increasin...  Coverage in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environme...  Commentary in Nature (Sohail, 2023): https://www.nature.com/articles/s4155...  Carbon Brief on West Antarctic tipping points:  https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-pos...  Carbon Brief on tipping points in Pine Island Glacier: https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-pos...  Reese et al. (2023) https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/17...  Hill et al. (2023) https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/17...  Armstrong McKay et al. (2022) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...  Garbe et al. (2020) https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...  Joughin et al. (2014) https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.11...  Park et al. (2013) https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c...  Feldmann & Levermann (2015) https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas...  Joughin et al. (2021) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...  Morlighem et al. (2020) https://www.nature.com/articles/s4156...  Wiabel et al. (2018) https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c...  Sutter et al. (2023) https://www.nature.com/articles/s4155... Abrams et al. (2023) https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EF003250

DJ, my view on climate change; We are already seeing this crazy amount of extreme weather in a downward spiral...It is already decreasing food/water availability & logistics...It has a lot of links with pandemics increasing...

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Israel dropped 25 kilo-ton of bombs on Gaza...the Hiroshima bomb had 15 kiloton, Nagasaki 21 Kt....

Non-nuclear war may take more time to get the same outcome as nuclear war could have...Both in Ukraine and Israel NATO is supporting crazy leaders willing to cause nuclear disasters (by using nuclear bombs or attacking nuclear powerplants...) ...of course in the US, UK, France also "leading politicians" are over their ears involved in the Gaza and Ukraine genocides...

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Raj Rajnarayanan

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#Prevalence of JN.1* (BA.2.86.1.1*) in #France  Predicted Prevalence Week 44 : 20.1% (LB 10.2% - UB 30%) Week 45 : 30.2% (LB 19.4% - UB 41%) Week 46 : 45.4% (LB 34.6% - UB 56.2%) Data source: GISAID

DJ...in the UK at least former/future (???) PM boris johnson/bojo is honest; He believes CoViD is killing those that will die anyway..."Genocide by pandemic" as a UK conservatives strategy...

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Climate, wars, pandemics further increase socio-economic problems-at a certain moment beyond socio-economic collapse...It is the mega-mix that may end humans...could end live on this planet...

Present "politics" are out of contact with reality...the measures that need to be taken do not get public support/votes...yet...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=infNWYZ88U4[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=infNWYZ88U4 Paul Beckwith;

Extremely Rapid Acceleration of Ocean Heating in Regions like Southern Oceans: Devils in the Details

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A new peer-reviewed paper called “Recent acceleration in global ocean heat accumulation by mode and intermediate waters” was just published online on October 28: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146... 

It’s scarier than Halloween. We know that over 90% of global warming is actually ocean warming, with the remaining 10% melting ice, heating the atmosphere, and heating the land. This new study shows how the rate of ocean warming has greatly accelerated recently: in fact the warming in the most recent decade from 2010-2020 has been almost double the warming in the decade from 1990-2000, for water extending from the surface down to depths of 2000 meters (6600 feet). 

This is a massive increase in a short period of time. Since the heat capacity of water is huge, that warming is all the more surprising and significant. The ocean warming is highly nonuniform in the oceans around the planet. 

For example, most of the warming has occurred in the vast Southern Oceans, and also in the North Atlantic. This has vital implications for sea level rise, making it highly nonuniform as well around the planet. Also, this vitally important paper shows that many of the oceans around the world are becoming more stratified as they warm; namely more layered with less vertical mixing as warm water is a lot less dense than colder water. 

Since vertical mixing is vital for bringing carbon near the surface down below (eventually to the sediments in the ocean floor) stratification weakens the ocean sink for carbon, so more carbon stays in the atmosphere. Also, the vertical mixing is vital for bringing surface oxygenated water to depth to support marine life, so stratification reduces this and threatens the marine food chain. 

Our warming oceans have an enormous detrimental affect on our climate system, making it vital for maintenance of life on our planet that we slash fossil fuel emissions immediately. 

DJ, hotter oceans mean;

-more rain

-more energy for storms

-more ice melting on the poles

Simply put; we are moving the wrong direction only faster...

"Politics" seem only to be interested in wars...getting the rich more rich, ignoring climate, pandemic problems...pushing for global war in the interest of a very small group...

WE NEED CHANGE NOW !!!!

[url]https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2023/10/a-climate-of-the-unthinkable-on-a-burning-earth.html[/url] or https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2023/10/a-climate-of-the-unthinkable-on-a-burning-earth.html ;

A climate of the unthinkable on a burning Earth

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Nowadays major untruths are propagated by a media subservient to the powers that be.

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DJ [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Pacific_hurricane_season#Season_effects[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Pacific_hurricane_season#Season_effects There is lots of discussion on how climate collapse will unfold...Wich area's may see extreme drought, wich area's may have more chance of extreme rain/wind...

Extreme weather is on its way as a "new normal" with that weather only getting more extreme...

[url]https://www.gld.nl/nieuws/8028528/graanoogst-opnieuw-gehinderd-door-extreem-weer-krankjorum[/url] or https://www.gld.nl/nieuws/8028528/graanoogst-opnieuw-gehinderd-door-extreem-weer-krankjorum ;

Last summer, the harvest failed in large part due to prolonged drought and persistent rain at harvest time. Therefore, it must now come from the winter cereals. The first varieties, such as winter barley, now have to go into the ground, but in many places it is too wet to sow and so again part of the harvest is doomed to fail.

DJ, Blue tongue is now widespread in NL sheep...meaning no lambs will be born next year in many cases...Growing risk other farm animals may show they can catch blue tongue as well..

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We may be seeing Israeli "forces" moving into Gaza this evening...this very likely will see an international reaction. 

[url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/10/two-middle-east-outlooks.html[/url] or https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/10/two-middle-east-outlooks.html ;

Alastair Crooke, who has personally negotiated prisoner exchanges between Hamas and Israel, has published a rather bleak outlook.

Escalations Cannot Be Stopped – The White House Is Rattled; Escalations Might All Fuse Into ‘One’
The reality of the necessity of war is permeating widely the consciousness of the Arabic and Islamic world.

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It is no coincidence that Netanyahu flourished a map of Israel during his General Assembly address last month in which Israel dominated from the River to the Sea – and Palestine (indeed any Palestinian territory) was non-existent.

Tom Friedman in his NYT reflections may fear that just as NATO’s impaired performance in Ukraine has ruptured ‘the NATO myth’, so too the 7 October Israeli military and intelligence collapse and what happens in its wake in Gaza ‘might explode the entire pro-American alliance structure’ in the Middle East.

The confluence of two such humiliations might break the spine of western primacy. This seems to be the gist to Friedman’s analysis. (He likely is correct).

Hamas has succeeded in smashing the Israel deterrence paradigm: They were not afraid, the IDF proved far from invincible, and the Arab street mobilised as never before (confounding western cynics who laugh at the very notion of there being an ‘Arab Street’).

Well, that is where we are – and the White House is rattled.
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This is what worries the White House Team. They are deeply unconfident that an Israeli invasion of Gaza will put ‘Humpty’ together again. Rather, they fear that events may go badly for the IDF, and further, that the images relayed across the Middle East of Israel using overwhelming force in a civilian urban setting will revolt the Islamic sphere.

In spite of western scepticism, there are signs that this insurrection in the Arab sphere is different, and resembles more the 1916 Arab Revolt that overthrew the Ottoman Empire. It is taking on a distinct ‘edge’ as both Shi’a and Sunni religious authorities state the duty of Muslims to stand with Palestinians. In other words, as the Israeli polity becomes plainly ‘Prophetical’, so the Islamic mood is turning eschatological, in its turn.

That the White House should be floating kites about ‘moderate’ Arab leaders pressing ‘moderate’ Palestinians to form an Israeli-friendly government in Gaza that would displace Hamas and impose security and order shows just how severed is the West from reality. Recall that Mahmoud Abbas, General Sisi and the King of Jordan (some of the region’s most pliable leaders) pointedly refused even to meet with Biden after the latter’s Israel trip.

The anger across the region is real and threatens ‘moderate’ Arab leaders, whose room for manoeuvre is now circumscribed.

So hotspots are proliferating, as are attacks on U.S. deployments around the region. Some in Washington claim to perceive an Iranian hand, and are hoping to expand a window for war with Iran.
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Should Israel enter Gaza (and Israel may decide it has no choice but to launch a ground operation, given the domestic political dynamics and public sentiment), it is likely that Hizbullah will incrementally be drawn further in, leaving the U.S. with the binary option of seeing Israel defeated, or launching a major war in which all the hotspots become fused ‘as one’.

In a sense, the Israeli-Islamic conflict now may only be resolved in this kinetic way. All efforts since 1947 have seen the divide only deepen. The reality of the necessity of war is permeating widely the consciousness of the Arabic and Islamic world.

DJ, we may be very close to a war in West Asia/North Africa...US attacks on/in Syria, Iraq only make matters worse...

Crazy "joe" biden-not willing to look weak-could push the world towards further escalation...Some US "leaders" still believe the US runs the world...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXrY4ESpIII[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXrY4ESpIII Paul Beckwith/PB ;

11 Reasons Our Civilization Will Soon Collapse

An excellent article came out recently, explaining 10 reasons why our civilization will soon collapse; here is the link: https://www.okdoomer.io/10-reasons-ou... Since this article is so well written, well referenced, and hard hitting I felt that it was very important to do a detailed video on it. Given the total destruction of a hospital in the Gaza Strip today with the loss of over 500 human lives, almost certainly by a U.S. built JDAM 1000 pound bomb dropped intentionally from an Israeli warplane, I have added an additional reason to the ten in the article. Given the events of the day, we appear to be marching closer to global catastrophe and civilization collapse, and it is hard to argue that we don’t deserve it. 

..[url]https://www.okdoomer.io/10-reasons-our-civilization-will-soon-collapse/[/url] or https://www.okdoomer.io/10-reasons-our-civilization-will-soon-collapse/ ;

That’s right. Our entire global industrial civilization is going to collapse. And soon, which means within the lifetimes of most people alive today.

I realize this is quite the claim, and a pretty terrifying one if you’re under 50 or so. In this article, I will list 10 problems the world is facing, each of which could cause the collapse of civilization all on its own. Which means, if even one of these problems isn’t solved, our civilization is doomed.

Before I continue, let me explain what I mean by “collapse.” First of all, it doesn’t necessarily mean that humans will go extinct. While that is certainly a plausible scenario given the many existential threats we are facing, I still believe it is unlikely. Small groups of humans survived in very difficult conditions for tens of thousands of years.

By collapse, I mean a breakdown of social institutions like governments and economies, followed by a dramatic decline in the human population. I realize that’s still kind of vague, so here’s a more specific definition I found in the book, How Everything Can Collapse.

It says, “A collapse is the process at the end of which basic needs (water, food, housing, clothing, energy, etc.) can no longer be provided [at a reasonable cost] to a majority of the population by services under legal supervision.”

As society breaks down, life will get simpler and simpler. By the late 21st century, people will be living the way they did in the early 19th century.

DJ, Paul Beckwith does not agree with "climate alarmists" predicting temperature rise will increase that fast humans will no longer survive within a few years...[url]https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2023/10/temperature-rise-september-2023-and-beyond.html[/url] or https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2023/10/temperature-rise-september-2023-and-beyond.html 

When you look at ends of empires (West/East Roman Empire a.o.) the reasons for collapse are complex. The "western Empire" Europe-US telling the rest of the world what to do lasted 500 years...BRICS+ ended it just recently...NATO/biden made wars are the -insane- reactions to these changes only speeding up western collapse...

Global collapse may be the outcome of a "mega mix" of climate collapse, diseases/pandemics (denied by "politics" for sale...), wars and "peak fiat currency"...A western economic collapse pulling the rest of the globe with it...

We already are IN !!! the collapse process ! All we may be able to do is try to limit further damage...What is needed most NOW is international cooperation...but we are further away from that than we may have EVER !!! been....

When predators are removed or a new food source is introduced, the population skyrockets then collapses as the food source is exhausted. (There’s a great book called Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change which explains this in detail.)

So the question is: How long until humans overshoot the Earth’s carrying capacity?

We already did. About 50 years ago.

That’s according to the Global Footprint Network. Every year, they calculate the date when humans have used up as many resources as the planet can generate in a year. It’s called Earth Overshoot Day, and last year it was on July 28th, which means that every year, humans use the equivalent of nearly 1.75 Earths.

You might be wondering, if we used up an entire planet’s worth of resources by July 28th, then how did we continue to live after that date? We continued by using resources that had accumulated long before humans came along. Things like forests, aquifers, topsoil, and fossil fuels. Eventually, those surplus resources will be gone, and every year we will be forced to live on what the planet can generate that year.

This is something the average climate activist doesn’t seem to understand. Even if we could stop climate change, our civilization would still have the problem of dwindling resources. Now that we’ve gone into overshoot, the population is destined to plummet no matter what we do.

We should have seen this coming. (Some people did.) Why did anyone think that infinite growth on a finite planet was possible? Of course we would eventually reach the limits of what the planet can support, but most of us assumed it would happen far in the future, long after we’re dead.

Now, we have officially surpassed the carrying capacity of our planet. As we begin to run out of essential resources and food becomes harder to produce, the economy will collapse, the population will finally go back down, and civilization as we know it will come to an end.

DJ, we have to decrease our consumption...Good family planning = less consumers...but we have run out of time...

DJ, We once had a "Pacifist Socialist Party" (PSP) in the Netherlands trying to limit the two basic evils destroying this planet; wars and (blind) capitalism...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB1HuCpmdmU[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB1HuCpmdmU ; 

Planet-Killing Wars

Join Dr. Peter Carter, Paul Beckwith and Regina Valdez as they discuss the effects of war and the war machine on the living planet that we inhabit and the urgent need to ‘smarten up’ as a civilization. This video was recorded on September 27th, 2023, and published on October 1st, 2023. 

Some of the topics discussed: 

- How wars are an atrocity with no real winners, only victims and how warfare has evolved from primitive tools to advanced weaponry that leaves a lasting impact on the planet. 

- The interconnectedness of humans and the planet and thus what affects the environment affects us all. 

- The current state of armed conflicts worldwide and the high number of casualties. 

- How the conflict in Ukraine has led to ecological issues, such as dolphins washing up dead in the Black Sea as well as damage to farmland and forests. 

- The need for a greater focus on ethics, morality, and cooperation to avoid the culture of war such as the glamorization and normalization of war. 

- How fossil fuels are an integral part of modern warfare - The significant military budgets and fossil fuel subsidies. 

- How the impacts of war versus climate change are not given an appropriate level of media coverage when one considers the magnitude of their environmental and human impact. 

- The need for technological solutions to combat climate change. 

- The Fermi paradox regarding intelligent life in the universe. 

- and much more. . . 

Links: - Stonewall Jackson Quotes  https://www.historynet.com/stonewall-... - Global conflicts: Death toll at highest in 21st century  https://www.dw.com/en/global-conflict... - Oppenheimer 2023 Movie Poster  https://www.amazon.ca/Oppenheimer-Mov... - Bikini  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikini - Military Budget of the United States  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militar... - Fossil Fuel Subsidies  https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/climate... - Fermi paradox  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_p... - We Don't Have Time  https://app.wedonthavetime.org/home/f... 

Panelists: 

Dr. Peter Carter - MD, Expert IPCC Reviewer and the director of the Climate Emergency Institute 

Paul Beckwith - Climate Systems Scientist. Professor at the University of Ottawa in the Paleoclimatology Laboratory as well as at Carleton University 

Regina Valdez - Program Director, Climate Reality Project, NYC. GreenFaith Fellow and LEED Green Associate 

Our Website: https://climateemergencyforum.org/ 

DJ, If we do not end war war will end us.....No one -NO ONE !!!!!- has ANY !!!! right to kill !!! NEVER !!!!

There are some people making money out of destruction...."never wasting a good crisis" even willing to create those crises...The Sui-Cene, "more or less "end-time" is political ! 

We now face record heat in many places...Spain dealing with another heatwave...Yes-I do like summer weather...but NOT in october here in NL !

[url]https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/[/url] or https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/ has more on the -lack of- ice keeping our planet "a cool place for live"....

[url]https://app.wedonthavetime.org/[/url] or https://app.wedonthavetime.org/ 

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DJ, To "save the economy=profits"  "politics" are denying problems..now even rewrite history to make it fit their insanity...

We urgently need "other politics"...Wealth may NOT be a sign of success but of evil...We live in an "economy" that simply ignores lots of damages and costs...Profits are private, costs are tax-funded...

Public health, education, housing, transport getting de-funded to put trillions into a war-for-profit-machine is self destruction. But if I make that point "I am the crazy one".....

Are humans becoming an "insane naked ape"? 

"We do not have time"...we need to change the way "we" live NOW ! 

But we keep transporting diseases all over the world by planes and ships...We do NOT control pandemics, only the "news" on pandemics..."Do net test-do not tell"  is NOT a solution but just another problem...

DJ, more climate disasters in the news; South Africa, Central America-floods/landslides...abnormal heat in Brazil...

[url]https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2023/09/september-2023-highest-anomaly-on-record.html[/url] or https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2023/09/september-2023-highest-anomaly-on-record.html 

The above image shows the temperature in 2023 as a bold black line, up to September 22, 2023, with the temperature reaching an anomaly of 1.12°C above the 1979-2000 mean for that day.

It looks like September 2023 will be the month with the highest temperature anomaly on record and the year 2023 will be the hottest year on record.

DJ...so already on september 22 1,12C above the 1979-2000 mean temperature....

DJ.....so more than 3C februray 2016 than the 1880-1896 average...

While many politicians keep pushing the idea that 1.5°C above pre-industrial hasn't been crossed yet, we may already have crossed 2°C above pre-industrial, as discussed in this analysis.

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emission reductions are best achieved early, rather than late. Yet, many politicians keep supporting fuel (fossil fuel and biofuels) and envisage burning of fuel to continue well beyond 2050 (combined with BECCS). Instead, when taking into account damage to health and the environment, and the danger of runaway temperature rise, it should be clear that better policies must be implemented soon, such as local feebates, to support better methods and technologies such as biochar, heat pumps and eVTOL air taxis. 

DJ....politics seem to go for short term profits...even if it would kill all of us within years....

Alarms bells have sounded loud and clear, such as here, warning that the temperature rise could be more than 3°C as early as in 2026. The precautionary principle should prevail and the looming dangers should prompt people into demanding comprehensive and effective action to reduce the damage and to improve the situation. To combat rising temperatures, a transformation of society should be undertaken, along the lines of this 2022 post in combination with a declaration of a climate emergency.

DJ....every time there is a new climate conference "things went faster than expected".....

In the "still NOT over pandemic" we see politics often still in denial-very likely looking for scape goats, blame games..."of course they did know the pandemic was not over"...even if they made other claims just a few months ago...

In the NATO-BRICS war "stand by Ukraine" could mean regime change in Kiev to get out of that disaster-war made by NATO...O-yes "we won" ....only the petro-$ is gone, western industry is in BRICS hands etc...but "we won"....

How humans are killing themselves, a "mega-mix" of;

-War 

[url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/09/how-will-the-biden-administration-cope-with-its-loss-in-ukraine.html[/url] or https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/09/how-will-the-biden-administration-cope-with-its-loss-in-ukraine.html 

Declare victory over Russia  because Russia was stopped at the border with Poland. Then forget about all the details and consequences and move towards war on China.

and [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gplplX40H8o[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gplplX40H8o ;

Geopolitical Review: US Preps Taiwan Proxy vs. China, NATO Postures as Ukraine Fails

DJ...I am not that "optimistic" on US/NATO not going nuclear over Ukraine. The underlying mental "problem" is "western superiority" or nuclear war...

For some in "the west" non-western global dominance seems to be unacceptable....

-Diseases

Of course one can ignore CoViD, flu, M-pox, etc..."living with diseases" ...make insane claims catching a disease makes you stronger/gets you immunity (for a.o. CoViD)....however reality is more and more people end up with long term health issues...For now it look likes vaccines do limit damage however most children never were vaccinated...

H5N1 soon will reach even the millions of birds in Antarctica-soon in a "warm summer"....H5N1 is spreading also in more and more mammals-increasing the risks of recombination/mix with H1/H2 types of (human) flu...

-Climate

Food production and logistics is moving towards the danger zone...From chickens/eggs to harvests getting destroyed. Getting food to the places in need of food is getting harder...Also extreme weather/heat/drought is becoming a mass killer...

We may have run out of time to stop major disasters...

-Economic collapse

You can not have a real economy based on fiat-money...someone has to pay for that. China, Africa etc. may no longer be willing to pay for western currencies...So hyperinflation may be around the corner...

Western companies may move to BRICS+ countries-now with over half of the global population per 2024...Foreign "policy/insanity" is leaving the west both without afordable energy, basic materials and a market...

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Can we still limit damage ? The longer we wait the harder it gets...

-Global cooperation on climate, health, "green" economies and an end to poverty should be on top of a global agenda.

-Media/journalist going for the best available info-not des-info...

-Creating public support -worldwide- for needed changes;

 -We have to reduce fossil fuel use (cars, air travel) NOW !

 -Public health is not "free" but the outcome of hard work by many

 -If we do not end war, war will end us....

[url]https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh2458[/url] or https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh2458 ;

Abstract

See also [url]https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2023/09/seafloor-methane-tipping-point-reached.html[/url] or https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2023/09/seafloor-methane-tipping-point-reached.html 

The bold black line at the top of the image below, adapted from Climate Reanalyzer, shows extremely high sea surface temperatures up to September 13, 2023, much higher than in any previous year on record.

The image below, created with NASA data, shows why these extremely high sea surface temperatures are so worrying. The image shows monthly mean global surface temperature anomalies (open ocean) vs 1901-1930. The ochre trend, based on January 1900-August 2023 data, indicates the latent heat tipping point was crossed in 2021 and the seafloor methane tipping point could be crossed in 2033. The red trend, based on August 2008-August 2023 data and better reflecting variables such as El Niño, indicates that the seafloor methane tipping point could be crossed late 2023. Data show the seafloor methane tipping point was reached in August 2023. 

The latent heat tipping point is estimated to correspond with a sea surface temperature anomaly of 1°C above the long term average, 1901-1930 on the above image, as discussed in earlier posts such as this one. 

Sea ice constitutes a latent heat buffer, consuming incoming heat as it melts. While the ice is melting, all energy (at 334 J/g) goes into changing ice into water and the temperature remains at 0°C (273.15K or 32 °F). Once all ice has turned into water, all subsequent energy goes into heating up the water, and will do so at 4.18 J/g for every 1°C the temperature of the water rises. 

DJ, we are ignoring public health risks -to secure profits for the very rich criminal 0,1%...That "elite" in part is also making money out of wars....

"Never waste a good crisis" for profits...has turned into creating profit making crises....We CAN and SHOULD !!!! stop a lot of diseases before they become pandemics ! We CAN and SHOULD limit further climate destruction...We NEED international cooperation to deal with these major crises. 

Pushing for NATO expansion now is yet another act of insanity !

DJ, We may not be that far away from our first official-national- heatwave in NL for a septembermonth...[url]https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/09/extinction-rebellion-permanent-blockade-planned-on-a12/[/url] or https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/09/extinction-rebellion-permanent-blockade-planned-on-a12/ today police also used watercanons to cool themselves while breaking up a blockade of the main The Hague entry road for the second day...

[url]https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2023/09/methane-eruptions-threaten.html[/url] or https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2023/09/methane-eruptions-threaten.html ;

The above image, adapted from Climate Reanalyzer, shows that on September 8, 2023, the North Atlantic sea surface reached a new record high temperature, of 25.4°C, even higher than the record reached the day before.

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The image on the right, adapted from University of Bremen, shows Arctic sea ice concentration and the route followed by the Polarstern. 

The threat is that, as the water of the Arctic Ocean keeps heating up, heat will reach the seafloor and destabilize methane hydrates contained in sediments at the seafloor, resulting in eruptions of huge amounts of methane. 

Erupting from the hydrates occurs at great force, since the methane expands 160 when decompressed, resulting in the methane rapidly rising in the form of plumes, leaving little or no opportunity for microbes to decompose the methane in the water column. Furthermore, the atmosphere over the Arctic contains very little hydroxyl, resulting in methane persisting in the air over the Arctic much longer than elsewhere. 

Ominously, very high methane levels continue to be recorded at Barrow, Alaska, U.S. 

DJ-Politics serving the fossil fuel economy is destroying this planet...

Jeff Berardelli

@WeatherProf

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16h

We have a #medicane in the making. Storm #Daniel in the Mediterranean now has tropical characteristics heading south and will make landfall tonight near Benghazi, Libya. The dark shades of purple are winds 50 mph+

DJ, Since NATO destroyed Libya we may not see much reporting on this -yet another- extreme weather event...

George Tsakraklides

@99blackbaloons

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15h

Our destruction of the planet’s climate is the ultimate result of a blind, parasitic civilisation which falsely assumed it had the luxury of taking unilateral decisions 1/4 of Greece’s agricultural production capacity vanished in 48 hours. Let that one sink in #ClimateAction

DJ, several hurricanes/storms on the oceans may bring hot temperatures/more melt to the poles...[url]https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/[/url] or https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/ both north and south pole may be in major problems...

-In some areas there is more rain than snow...

-wind keeps blowing/eroding ice and snow

-melting ice/rain on ice is darker so absorbing more heat 

-heat coming under (sea)ice via much to warm ocean water AND via hot air on top of the ice/snow/land (Greenland/Antarctica)

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So politics go for more war...Like with climate also on pandemics their "profit only" lack of strategy is beyond criminal....

Bill McGuire

@ProfBillMcGuire

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22h

This is absolutely devastating news. First, one has to wonder if perhaps we have already passed the West Antarctic collapse tipping point. Second, it begs the question, are other climate model projections under-estimating the speed of #climate breakdown

link; [url]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/08/antarctica-warming-much-faster-than-models-predicted-in-deeply-concerning-sign-for-sea-levels[/url] or https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/08/antarctica-warming-much-faster-than-models-predicted-in-deeply-concerning-sign-for-sea-levels ;

Antarctica is likely warming at almost twice the rate of the rest of the world and faster than climate change models are predicting, with potentially far-reaching implications for global sea level rise, according to a scientific study.

Scientists analysed 78 Antarctic ice cores to recreate temperatures going back 1,000 years and found the warming across the continent was outside what could be expected from natural swings.

In West Antarctica, a region considered particularly vulnerable to warming with an ice sheet that could push up global sea levels by several metres if it collapsed, the study found warming at twice the rate suggested by climate models.

DJ, embedded media, the problem is NOT sea level rise...

DJ, the short term major problems;

-extreme heat waves with lots of urban population unable to cool down..

-food and water shortage

-extreme weather...

Somehow people see the present extreme weather events as exceptional...It will only get much worse...

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland september 1 1939- (western backed) nazi germany invaded Poland...

[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/biden-approves-direct-us-military-aid-to-taiwan[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/biden-approves-direct-us-military-aid-to-taiwan ; 

The Biden administration has approved funding for the first-ever transfer of US military equipment to Taiwan under a program typically saved for sovereign nations, according to a notification sent to Congress on Tuesday.

The package – which is part of the State Department’s foreign military financing (FMF) program – totals $80 million and will be paid for by US taxpayers.

DJ, history repeating itself for our very eyes...yet most can 't see it...

US Taiwan arms sales Illustration: Liu Rui/GT

The US intends to keep creating the tension of the Taiwan question to provoke China rather than to ease the tension, analysts said on Thursday, as US President Joe Biden's administration has approved a military transfer to the island of Taiwan under the Foreign Military Financing, or FMF, which is normally used for sovereign states.

Biden wants war....

DJ, the Ukraine war should have been avoided-but is an outcome of creating crises for profits...

[url]https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2023/08/high-wet-bulb-globe-temperatures-hit-the-US-again.html[/url] or https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2023/08/high-wet-bulb-globe-temperatures-hit-the-US-again.html :

Temperatures are high

Globally, temperatures have been at record high levels for the time of year for some time in 2023, as illustrated by the image below, adapted from Climate Reanalyzer. 

On August 22, 2023, the world temperature was 16.9°C, 0.82°C higher than it was on that day in 1979-2000. 

Extreme heat stress alert

High Wet Bulb Globe Temperatures hit the U.S. over a large area, over a long time. 

DJ [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNYgR_HEjhI[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNYgR_HEjhI  A high pressure area over the central US is resulting in a "heat dome" there-with lots of storms circling around that system...A new kind of mega-extreme weather system....

Lots of places facing extreme heat-extreme weather...also affecting logistics from the Dardanel-route to the Black Sea (wildfires) to Panama-canal (drought), Dnjepr river (NATO blew up a dam and blame Russia)...

From the Arctic News Blogspot article;

DJ...again temperatures themselves may become "killing millions" ...I would like to believe 2024 -future- would offer hope...but why ? 

Jason Box [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4fz7Dc5vRs[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4fz7Dc5vRs on Greenland ice melt...How lakes of meltwater can flow -high speed- into the ice...Some of those lakes now 20 meter/60 feet deep...The water going into the ice can cause "ice-quakes" -will increase glaciers/ice moving towards the ocean...

Of course what goes for Greenland also may already show in/on Antarctica, other lands with ice...

Jason Box also provided a link to [url]https://www.sila.cool/book-faster-than-forecast/[/url] or https://www.sila.cool/book-faster-than-forecast/ ;

“Faster than Forecast: the story ice tells about abrupt climate change”

book by Dr. Jason Box

Accompanied by numerous first-hand videos and written in plain language, the American “ice maverick”, Professor Jason Box leads readers through a personal 30 year scientific adventure. This is the story that Greenland ice tells about abrupt anthropogenic climate change, and its global consequences.

The readers and viewers understand how the Arctic is a ‘leading edge of climate breakdown’. The book concludes with a personal experience of radical resistance culture having surprising benefits, underlined with video clips.

After framing grave climate impacts, a narrow window of opportunity for prosperity is defined, but only by following a set of radical solutions, described in the book, will the worst aspects of climate catastrophe be averted.

With each book sold, a number of trees will be planted in the name of book buyer, coordinates and updates shared as our trees take a little bite out of the climate catastrophe.

DJ Also video link...

For the US both heat and storms may be on their way; [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIrFOmvlsmE[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIrFOmvlsmE ;

In this video we are talking about the worst heat wave of this summer & how it will change our weather going forward… 

DJ, Lots of extreme weather events did kill hundreds of people this year...[url]https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/?atlc[/url] or https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/?atlc has 4 possible storms on the Atlantic...[url]https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_ep4+shtml/055245.shtml?cone#contents[/url] or https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_ep4+shtml/055245.shtml?cone#contents "Hilary" could bring extreme rain to the US-even Canada..The jetstream may push this storm/rain over the central US then east towards New York...[url]https://www.ventusky.com/[/url] or https://www.ventusky.com/ may give an indication on extreme weather...

[url]https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php/topic,3909.850.html#lastPost[/url] or https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php/topic,3909.850.html#lastPost Arctic Sea Ice now at position 8...Could go to #4...unless extreme weather would see massive melt the coming month...

Paul Beckwith (with Shackleton-old cat) discussing another-alarming-climate study; 

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-YobPD8D_E[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-YobPD8D_E ;

James Hansen is arguably the giant of all climate scientists. I was very fortunate to meet him a few years ago at a COP climate conference, and chat with him on a CEF (Climate Emergency Forum) video. He has just published a new paper on updates on the climate system: http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailing... 

This paper is vitally important in giving us a clear picture of what we can expect in the next few years. A confluence of factors is driving up global average temperatures of the atmosphere and oceans and we can expect warming and climate extremes to notch up to much higher record setting levels. 

We ain’t seen nothing yet. 

We are only getting a taste this summer of what is to come in the next year or two. 

1) Average global temperatures trended upwards at 0.18 degrees C per decade before 2010. With less aerosol forcing, since 2010 to now it has risen between 0.27 and 0.36 degrees C (this was all in the previous paper “Global Warming in the Pipeline”) 

2) We can expect an additional rise from El Niño; it is really just getting started. A super El Niño will easily drive global average temperatures well above 1.5 C perhaps later this year but highly probably for 2024. El Niño is much more powerfully warming the planet in the year after it starts, so in 2024 since it started this year. 

3) Solar irradiation is peaking soon, and basically adds a forcing of +0.1 W per m**2 on top of everything else. 

4) We are missing a vast area of sea ice around Antarctica, but Antarctica is still in its winter darkness. Come Fall and Winter for Northern Hemisphere dwellers, the sun rises in the Southern Hemisphere and the huge extra area of dark open ocean around Antarctica will absorb huge amounts of extra sunlight. 

5) The Earth Energy Imbalance was 0.6 W or m**2 ten years ago (400,000 Hiroshima bombs a day) but is now 1.22 W per m**2 (more than double; namely 800,000 Hiroshima bombs per day). 

It is already rapidly rising and the additional effects listed above will greatly accelerate the rise. 

As a result of this unfortunate confluence of events, we can expect the global climate turmoil in the last few months to substantially worsen. When it does, expect the media and mainstream scientists and politicians to espouse their excuses and concerns, but none of that matters if they do not slash fossil fuels. 

Last week Lahaina in Hawaii was incinerated and 1400 people are still missing (I think they have returned to ashes and dust), and just today 90-95% of the town of Enterprise in Canada’s Northwest Territories has incinerated. 

Global floods are ongoing, heatwaves are killing countless people, and global governments just don’t give a damn, since they are subsidizing fossil fuels at record high levels. And the world goes on, at least for most people. 

Please donate to http://PaulBeckwith.net to support my research and videos as I document and explain why our planet is dying.

DJ...my view; all that is left is damage "control"....We are on a global Titanic that did hit the iceberg...the orchestra still is playing...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkBuxeIsXDo[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkBuxeIsXDo 

Melody Gardot - Our Love is easy (with lyrics)

Deep within your heart, you know it's plain to see Like Adam was to Eve, you were made for me They say the poisoned vine, breeds a finer wine Our love is easy

DJ...for as long as possible try to enjoy the good things...Live is full of surprises, science is far from perfect...Hope they got it wrong !

A few news items; 

Hawaii wildfires may have killed up to 67 citizens+ ...the fires went that fast authorities did not find ways to warn a lot of people in time...Very strong and dry winds-high temperatures did increase the fires...

In Georgia (between Russia and Türkiye-SE Europe) landslides after heavy rain may have killed 24 people...with still a lot of people missing...

In Valencia-Spain temperatures did reach 46,8C -3,4C higher than a previous record-in a third Spanish/Potugal heatwave 

Lots of wildfires; Canada, Portugal, Greece, Russia...

[url]https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/[/url] or https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/ the "bigger picture" is "Polar problems"...both in Arctic/Greenland, Antarctica and a "third pole" in the Himalayas...source of water for the billions living in a major part of Asia...

all that is left -like in other man made crises- is damage control...

[url]https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/australia-sleepwalks-into-bushfire-season/[/url] or https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/australia-sleepwalks-into-bushfire-season/ ;

For Australians, the reports inevitably bring back memories of our awful Black Summer in 2019-20. Like the Maui tragedy, those huge, uncontrollable bushfires were a terrifying glimpse of the intense fires we can expect as climate change worsens.

Global warming – the result of fossil fuel burning – means bushfires will become more frequent and severe. Of course, we must reduce greenhouse gas emissions. That is blindingly obvious.

But we must do more than that. Australians must urgently adapt to our fiery future.

The Maui fires have been fuelled by strong winds, dry vegetation and low humidity. People were forced to run into the ocean for safety. Hundreds of structures have been damaged or ruined and many people are injured.

Hawaii is not the only part of the northern hemisphere being ravaged by fire.

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The southern hemisphere is also experiencing highly unusual conditions. Antarctica is struggling to freeze over; it’s reportedly missing a chunk of ice bigger than Greenland.

And Australia is experiencing an unseasonably warm winter. The country looks set for a hot, dry, El Nino-fuelled summer, putting fire crews on high alert.

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Australia, too, is fast becoming a continent of more uncontrolled fire.

Let’s compare the period of 1988 to 2001, with the period 2002 to 2018. In Australian forests, the average annual burned area in the second period was 350% greater than in the first. If we include 2019 – the year the Black Summer fires began – the increase rises to 800%.

The Black Summer fires were started by lightning and human activity. They were fuelled by extreme heat, record low rainfall and widespread dieback of vegetation. It meant the fires burned at unprecedented intensity.

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When the bushfire royal commission handed down its report in October 2020, I described it as a “clarion call for change”. Finally, Australia had a map for its journey toward adapting to fires and other natural disasters.

The scope of the commission’s recommendations was vast. For governments alone, it called for changes across land-use planning, infrastructure, emergency management, social policy, agriculture, education, physical and mental health, community development, energy and the environment.

The commission also called for an acknowledgement of the role of Indigenous fire managers in mitigating bushfire risks.

Almost three years on, we haven’t seen the changes needed. We’re behaving as if we’ve got an endless amount of time. Australia is sleepwalking into our fiery future.

The pandemic shows humans are amazingly adaptable. We used an integrated approach to mitigate and adapt to that threat. We need an equivalent response to adapt to fire and climate change – but it’s just not happening.

There is much Australia can do to adapt to fire. We can improve our urban planning regimes and building standards. We can better manage fuel loads in our forests. We can increase our firefighting capacity and get much better at bushfire preparation and early warning systems.

And importantly, we should draw on Indigenous knowledge and the expertise of Aboriginal communities. These approaches could prove vital not only managing extreme fires in Australia, but elsewhere in the world.

DJ, using (ignoring ) the pandemic as an example may not be the strongest point...

One thing Australians can all agree on is that we don’t want catastrophically uncontrolled fires.

As our Black Summer showed, these fires not only destroy lives, homes and biodiversity. They actually threaten the Earth’s systems. Black Summer pumped huge amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. It depleted the ozone layer. It created an algal bloom in the Southern Ocean bigger than the Australian continent.

It’s vital that we slash greenhouse gas emissions as quickly as possible, to stabilise Earth’s climate. But that’s not sufficient. Australians have to adapt to fire, too.

The fires in Hawaii remind Australians that our summer is just around the corner. We don’t have much time.

David Bowman, Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania

DJ...so inaction WILL result in Australia dealing with wild fires coming months....

The heat, drought, in combination with "global developments" may change Australia, New Zealand as "part of the west"...Instead of moving to Australia, New Zealand people may start moving away from these countries...leaving it to mining, extensive farming...

[url]http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2023/08/betrayal-the-threat-to-life-on-earth.html[/url] or http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2023/08/betrayal-the-threat-to-life-on-earth.html ;

A nuclear war would represent the ultimate outcome of tribalism, nationalism, racism and war, the human propensity for mutual and self-destruction. There was a time when kings and generals would fall on their sword when they were defeated, or when their faith in their gods collapsed. Nowadays oblivious or non-caring world powers continue to proliferate nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert, mine coal and pump oil and gas, starting a greenhouse chain reaction. Leaders, so-called, opportunistically betray the defence of their own people and the future of their children. The voices of anti-nuclear and climate scientists have become subdued, ignored or betrayed. There may not be too many historians to document the 20-21ˢᵗ centuries crimes against humanity and against nature.

An explanation of the collapse of human society, dragging multiple species down with it, arises from Fermi’s Paradox, where the combination of technological achievements and an inherent killer instinct of some leads to collapse.

DJ, Do "social media" spread stupidity ? I find it very hard to accept most of my fellow humans simply have become part of the problem...

[url]https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php/topic,3909.800.html#lastPost[/url] or https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php/topic,3909.800.html#lastPost Arctic (sea) Ice may start decreasing high speed...So far record warm ocean water did not bring record low levels of Arctic Ice...Jason Box (a.o.) mentioned increase of heavy rainfall on Greenland-increasing ice melt...

With less ice pushing Greenland, Antarctica down seismic events will increase...the underlying landmass will move up. Also methane from melting permafrost further worsening the unfolding crisis...

DJ-I think we are "beyond hope" but I would LOVE to be very wrong ! 

We do not need nuclear global war to end humans...a mix of climate collapse, social collapse, pandemics may kill most of us...

We still could limit damage...but we need other "leaders" for such a goal...

Let me connect [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKEtLdfPQLk[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKEtLdfPQLk Democracy Now! ;

The movie Oppenheimer about the "father of the atomic bomb" focuses on J. Robert Oppenheimer's conflicted feelings about the weapons of mass destruction he helped unleash on the world, and how officials ignored those concerns after World War II as the Cold War started an arms race. Journalist Greg Mitchell says that while the film is well made and worth seeing, "the omissions are quite serious." He says there is little mention of the dangers of radiation and no focus on the impact of the bomb on its victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The film also does not question the necessity of using the bomb in the first place, upholding the "official narrative … that has held sway since 1945," says Mitchell. 

with The Duran [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYvqzybt5Tw&t=12s[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYvqzybt5Tw&t=12s ;

Counter-offensive reboot. Regime change in Moscow still the goal

DJ....there are claims there is still "diplomacy" between the US and Russia; former diplomats telling the Russian government two things;

-Putin has to go

-Russia has to break ties with China

Somehow western "politics/media" are surprised "US diplomacy" is not a success for the NATO-west...With j.biden increasingly in legal problems-even with the US "justice department" trying to ignore all the evidence against the "biden crime family"...v.-f..k the EU-nuland did get promoted....She will be telling blinken what to do...or does she de facto run the US ? 

[url]https://tass.com/politics/1653919[/url] or https://tass.com/politics/1653919 ;

Addressing the African leaders, the Russian president said: "Your approach, your ideas - all this echoes the points of the Chinese peace plan for Ukrainian settlement, presented in February"

DJ...however the real problem is a US run by the insane ...with lots of nuclear weapons...The major job -for BRICS, EU, US citizens,- is to get someone with some intellect running the US...

The US is pumping weapons into Taiwan-part of China...Russia-Iran-China may increase "military cooperation" with Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela...

I do discuss this in NATO-BRICS conflict but the insanity in "NATO-land" only seems to get worse...with another Ukraine army destroyed...It may be not "if" but "when" will j.biden go nuclear ? 

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Paul Beckwith/PB [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh1MbBmxOII[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh1MbBmxOII ;

I expand on my last video on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) Shitdown and Catastrophic Consequences to Humanity. The key chain of events is as follows….                                             1) Global warming hole south of Greenland and warming water off East coast of North America, isotopic analyses of sediments, physical monitoring of ocean column, and other proxies all show that the AMOC has slowed significantly, and ocean water currents comprising AMOC are the slowest in the last 1000 years.  2) Nonlinear physics analyses shows that probability of AMOC shutdown between 2025 and 2095 is 95%, with highest likelihood by around 2050. 3) AMOC shutdown would basically cool northern hemisphere and warm southern hemisphere. 4) High Arctic north of Canadian Archipelago, Greenland, and Scandinavian countries would cool as much as 8C, Western Europe would cool 2 to 3 C, and eastern Canada by 1 to 2C. Southern hemisphere by Latin America and western African coast would warm by 2 to 3 C.  5) With ITCZ (Intertropical Convergence Zone) shifting from just north of equator to just south of equator, precipitation would increase up to 100% around 15 degrees S latitude and decrease this amount at 15 degrees N latitude. 6) Dynamic sea level change would be large. Between Antarctica and southern tips of South America and Australia, sea level would drop a foot, Gulf of Mexico to Mediterranean would increase a foot, high Arctic would rise as much as 3 to 9 feet.

DJ but also the effects on sea-life will be very dramatic....CO2 absorption via algae would decrease...

PB also discusses extreme hail storms in lots of places...Here in NL we have now several weeks BELOW !!! average temperatures...The "weirding" is increasing...

In my view a weak spot with lots of experts is they end up in a sort of tunnelvision not connecting dots...[url]http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2023/07/record-high-north-atlantic-sea-surface-temperature.html[/url] or http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2023/07/record-high-north-atlantic-sea-surface-temperature.html (PB does connect the dots...so he is seen by some as "alarmist"...those "some" claim we have untill 2100...or "still yers" to solve the problems..."Feeding" politics kicking cans down the road to "save profits/economy"...

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[url]https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/07/27/mpfs-j27.html[/url] or https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/07/27/mpfs-j27.html ;

Consistent with the World Socialist Web Site’s (WSWS) warnings of a summer surge of COVID infections as evidenced by wastewater levels of SARS-CoV-2, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported this week that hospitalizations due to infections with the coronavirus were up by more than 10 percent across the country.

These have also been substantiated by the rise in emergency room visits for COVID-19 from 0.49 percent of all visits in June to 0.73 percent of all visits presently, an increase of nearly 50 percent. In absolute numbers, for the week of July 15, 2023, COVID-19 admissions had risen to 7,109 from 6,444 the week prior, an increase of 11 percent.

Although these levels remain far below last year’s at this time, during the second eruption of Omicron infections, when hospital admissions had reached more than 44,000 per week, estimates suggest that current rates will triple by late August, thus reaching half the peak of last summer. 

The evidence for the surge has been corroborated by the rise in the positivity rate in PCR testing which has climbed from 4.1 percent last month to 6.3 percent in July. One must assume these figures underrepresent the real magnitude of infections as most people rely on home RAT tests, which are far less accurate, or have abandoned testing altogether. 

Even the World Health Organization (WHO) has acknowledged that “some countries continue to report high burdens of COVID-19, including increases in newly reported cases and, more importantly, increase in hospitalizations and deaths—the latter of which are considered more reliable indicators given the reductions in testing.” The international health agency noted that globally, over 836,000 new COVID-19 cases and over 4,500 deaths were reported in the last 28 days (June 19 to July 16, 2023).

DJ..."the pandemic is over" ..."we hardly see any new cases"...Well...you do NOT want to see new cases so you STOPPED testing....Politics/media playing hide and seek...[url]https://twitter.com/CoronaHeadsUp[/url] or https://twitter.com/CoronaHeadsUp has lots of info on CoViD cases increasing again in the US, Australia...H5N1 spreading in mammals...(with some media citing "experts" claiming "low risks" for "most"....)

The exponential factor..in wars -not stopped-, climate collapse -not stopped-, health crises -not stopped- should be clear enough...we are killing ourselves...this is the end game...

Enjoy the good moments for now...try to "limit damage" the best you can...(and by now I do not know if "voting" makes much of a difference...here in NL also "political parties" became a sub-culture out of contact with society...(here in NL we may have over 2 million 80+ y/o in a population of 18-20 million...and -yes- that is a problem ! "Politics" here only have a few parties that realy want to invest in care...We need people to stay healthy longer !) 

As always..I am NOT an expert...hope to be very wrong ! 

Wildfires in a.o. Greece, Algeria, Tunesia resulting in mass evacuations of both tourists and population-destroying tourism...But also destroying agriculture, forests, wildlife...Temperatures often 40C+...some places may even see 50C+...wind, drought, create an explosive mixture...

Here in NL it is "cold" 20C, wind, rain...an extreme in the other direction...

[url]https://www.estofex.org/[/url] or https://www.estofex.org/ ;

A level 3 was issued across Austria, Northwest Hungary, and western Slovakia mainly for damaging winds and very large hail, and to a lesser extent for very heavy rainfall.

A level 3 was issued across northern Italy, northern Slovenia, and extreme southern Austria for very large to giant hail, damaging winds, and tornadoes, and to a lesser extent for very heavy rainfall.

A level 2 was issued across a larger area surrounding the level 3 for all hazards, particularly large hail, and severe wind.

DJ, hail becoming blocks of -hand seize- ice...extreme rain in a short time...destroying harvests, buildings...wounding/killing people...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nagmRzCMEVM&t=1s[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nagmRzCMEVM&t=1s Jason Box on extreme rain/melt in Greenland...

a data dive reveals parts of Greenland have record setting melt losses

DJ, 3 km thick ice may push parts of Greenland 1 km downward...Less ice pressure may not only result in "lifting" of the underlying landmass-creating seismic activity...very likely also volcanic activity could get more chances...So far the increase of Greenland ice melt did add <1 mm per year to sea level rise...Melting ice reaching the ocean did see the sea around Greenland getting colder...this year influx of warm ocean water is enough to undo the influx of meltwater in sea temperatures...

There should be no doubt that rapid "climate change" will worsen health for many species increasing even more pandemic risks...

[url]http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2023/07/planetary-inferno-nero-fiddles-while-rome-burns.html[/url] or http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2023/07/planetary-inferno-nero-fiddles-while-rome-burns.html ;

The fast rise in global warming manifested by current extreme weather events betrays a dangerous underestimation of the Earth’s liveable climate, while governments ignore climate science, claim to set limits on domestic emissions, but allow major export of fossil fuels and emissions worldwide on a scale threatening life on Earth. 

With current policies, there appear to exist few limits on global carbon emissions, as reported by Rogner (1997): “The global fossil resource base is abundant and is estimated at approximately 5000 Gt (billion tons). Compared to current global primary energy use of some 10 Gt per year, this amount is certainly sufficient to fuel the world economy through the twenty-first century”.

 According to these estimates, future production of coal, oil and gas render a mass extinction of advanced species more than likely.

DJ [url]https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/07/dutch-train-tickets-are-pricey-compared-with-other-eu-countries/[/url] or https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/07/dutch-train-tickets-are-pricey-compared-with-other-eu-countries/  Greenpeace [url]https://www.greenpeace.org/nl/greenpeace/59556/treintickets-gemiddeld-twee-keer-zo-duur-als-vliegen/[/url] or https://www.greenpeace.org/nl/greenpeace/59556/treintickets-gemiddeld-twee-keer-zo-duur-als-vliegen/ (in English) did look at the costs of trains compared to planes...Trains are much more tax-ed...while planes-even on short distances- do not have to pay AVT, tax on fuel etc...poluting over 5x as much as trains...

DJ-Politics has become empty bla-bla...an insult to voters ! In Germany the "green party" could get into government but insulted their voters as a bunch of crazy war mongers...(I had high hopes of German Greens...I am very, very disappointed in them !!!). 

[url]https://nltimes.nl/2023/07/20/nl-gets-2-tropical-days-every-degree-warming-mediterranean-warming-alarmingly[/url] or https://nltimes.nl/2023/07/20/nl-gets-2-tropical-days-every-degree-warming-mediterranean-warming-alarmingly ;

The Netherlands gets two extra tropical days for every degree of global warming, the meteorological institute KNMI reported on Thursday, one day after the Spanish weather institute Aemet raised the alarm about the increasing temperatures of the Mediterranean Sea.

Spain is in the midst of its third heatwave this year. The average temperature of the Mediterranean Sea at the Spanish coast reached 24.6 degrees this month - 2.2 degrees higher than typical for this time of year, Aemet reported. The seawater in Spain hasn’t been this hot since measurements started in 1940.

The Netherlands has had three tropical days - when thermometers top 30 degrees Celsius at the national weather station in De Bilt - so far this summer. A hundred years ago, the average was one tropical day per summer. Now it’s already 4.5, the KNMI said.

“A relatively small warming causes a relatively rapid increase in the number of hot days,” the KNMI said. Summers in the Netherlands have become 2 degrees warmer. “The number of tropical days has increased by more than a factor of four.”

The increase in hot days can be seen throughout Europe and is currently very visible in Spain with its third heatwave. Weather agency Aemet stressed that the record for the warmest seawater wasn’t broken by a little. It was broken by a lot, spokesperson Ruben del Campo told the press agency AFP. The previous record was 24 degrees Celsius in 2015. The new record is 24.6, and the summer is far from over.

Looking at averages doesn’t make you realize the whole story, ecologist Anieke van Leeuwen of the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) told NOS. “If you only look at the average, it seems like small values. But an average goes up because there are more days with much higher temperatures. And places that are much warmer. With the climate crisis we are in now, extremes are becoming more and more common.”

In the southeast of Spain, sea temperatures have risen to 28 degrees in some places. The measuring point near the Balearic Islands even recorded 29 degrees. The high water temperatures have a significant impact on marine life. But outside the water, it also means that ambient temperatures cool down very little at night.

“If we want to limit a further increase in heat, greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced and CO2 must be removed from the air,” the KNMI stressed.

DJ...and we do NOT !!!! have the technology to remove CO2 from the air on any major scale other than trees....

With atmospheric CO₂ levels reaching 423 parts per million, according to James Hansen and colleagues humanity is facing a new Frontier, marked by intense heatwaves, more than vindicating warnings by climate scientists over the last 40 years or so. Within less than a century, the levels of CO₂ and temperatures have risen to levels of the Miocene (23.03–5.33 million years ago), with implications for sea level rise (Spratt, 2023). Hominids, living during glacial to inter-glacial periods, rarely had to endure mean temperatures higher than 50°C, which are increasingly common at present. Governments, busy subsidizing new coal mines and oil and gas wells and arming to the teeth for nuclear war, appear to be oblivious to the lessons of the last great world wars.

we need a "revolution" to avoid the "end game scenario" if that still is possible...

There was a time when kings and generals would fall on their sword when they were defeated, or when their faith in their gods collapsed. Nowadays so-called leaders, assuming opportunistic positions, betray the defence of their own people and of nature, protecting or advancing their own careers. The voices of climate scientists have become subdued, ignored or non-existent. There may not be too many historians to document the 20-21ˢᵗ centuries crimes against humanity and against nature.
DJ, climate crisis=food crisis= health crisis= global war... It is all linked !

[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/news-nation/m-7-4-earthquake-off-alaska-coast-tsunami-warning-issued[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/news-nation/m-7-4-earthquake-off-alaska-coast-tsunami-warning-issued ...less alarming [url]https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/16/americas/alaska-earthquake-tsunami-advisory/index.html[/url] or https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/16/americas/alaska-earthquake-tsunami-advisory/index.html ;

A tsunami advisory issued after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck off the coast of Alaska late Saturday has since been canceled, officials said.

The earthquake hit offshore about 55 miles southwest from Sand Point, Alaska, at a depth of 13 mi. on Saturday around 10:48 p.m. local (2:48  a.m. ET), according to the US Tsunami Warning Center.

The quake prompted a brief tsunami warning for parts of Alaska near the Aleutian islands, extending from Unimak Pass to Kennedy Entrance, before being revised to a tsunami advisory. A small tsunami was later observed up to 0.5 feet in elevation at Sand Point and King Cove, Alaska.

There is no tsunami threat for other Pacific coasts in the US and Canada, the advisory said.

The Alaska Volcano Observatory provided a threat notice for the Shishaldin volcano after it sent up a plume of ash earlier Saturday, according to a social media post.

There is a “watch” currently in effect for the Shishaldin volcano. According to the observatory, seismic tremor aptitudes began to increase at around 5 p.m. local.

DJ, what part of this quake may have climate collapse links ? Or is there no link at all ? 

Another "claim" is one could expect a "major" earthquake to see a follow up on the other side of the globe...What could be seen here as "the other side of the globe"? New Zealand-Fiji is "only south" ...south part of the Pacific ring of fire...Will South Africa region see some sort of reaction ? 

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[url]https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo.php?basin=atlc&fdays=7[/url] or https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo.php?basin=atlc&fdays=7 Hot ocean water so far did not mean lots of hurricanes 

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqzQpdhwPjY[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqzQpdhwPjY El Nino may bring lots of wind shear to the Atlantic-different winds at different heights. Also Sahara-dust/dry air could hinder formation of hurricanes...But there could be signs el Nino is not that strong-resulting in less wind shear...increasing risks record hot ocean waters will feed major hurricanes this season..And the long term trend is hurricanes go from West Africa to the US/central America and some of them may go north and then move east towards Greenland/Europe...So the chances for Western Europe being affected by an Atlantic hurricane is growing...it may also increase heat transport towards the Arctic...

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Among lots of other "weather news" [url]https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20230716001153315?section=national/national[/url] or https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20230716001153315?section=national/national ;

SEOUL, July 16 (Yonhap) -- Flooding and landslides caused by heavy rains have killed 37 people nationwide and left nine people missing, while thousands have evacuated their homes due to rain damage, authorities said Sunday.

The Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters said 37 people had reportedly been killed in the aftermath of the heavy rains that have pounded the country since last week, while nine others remained missing as of 6 a.m.

The death toll includes nine bodies authorities recovered from a bus trapped in a flooded underground tunnel in the central town of Osong.

Flooding a.o. in the news in New Delhi-India, parts of the US...

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[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/breaking-news-large-radiation-spike-in-eastern-ukraine[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/breaking-news-large-radiation-spike-in-eastern-ukraine  with [url]https://remap.jrc.ec.europa.eu/Advanced.aspx[/url] or https://remap.jrc.ec.europa.eu/Advanced.aspx 

back to normal...

still showing abnormalities tough...less extreme...(depleted uranium ammunition used by NATO ? Radio-activa NATO storage hit by Russiam missiles ?) )