[Gasification] Corrupt government, conspiracy, new world order, no future.

[Bob Stuart]

On 4-Mar-08, at 8:51 AM, Kevin Chisholm wrote:

> Dear Kenn
>
> I think you shot yourself in the foot, big time, in a most
> unprofessional and amateurish manner.
>
> "Consensus Science" was employed to conclude that Global Warming was
> real, yet you are implying that Global Warming is a scam.
>
> Then, "...with almost all knowledgeable people...", you are drawing  
> upon
> a "Consensus Science" format to conclude that Peak Oil is a scam also.
> You can't have it both ways. Is Consensus Science valid or not??? You
> are inferring that Consensus Science was wrong in the case of Global
> Warming, yet, in the very same breath,  you are inferring that  
> Consensus
> Science is right in the case of Peak Oil.
>
> (I think that even you will have to admit that the calibre of the
> Consensus Science employed  in the IPCC Report is very much more
> credible than an unknown body of "...almost all knowledgeable  
> people..")
>
> Making definite, strong, somewhat demeaning, hurtful and insulting
> statements based on mere inference, and an evaluation protocol that is
> internally flawed, is not Professional, is not Scientific, and is
> neither polite nor gentlemanly.
>
> What it is, is ignorant, boorish, and incompetent behaviour.

I think that people who insist that any uncomfortable predictions are  
manipulative lies are just revealing their own relationship to  
truth.  Perhaps we should just offer bets and get paid for our  
efforts to separate wheat from chaff.  Anyway, I'd like to share  
another perspective on the problem, featuring easy-to-see evidence.

At 92 pages long, this document from Friends of the Earth is not a  
quick read, but it sure got my attention.  However, a synopsis may be  
in order:

Last fall, there was so much open water in the Arctic ocean that the  
predictions about global warming are clearly too optimistic.  We now  
have proof that .8 degrees C is enough to progressively melt the  
polar ice, which leaves a relatively warm, solar-absorbing ocean  
beside the Greenland ice cap, which has also started to melt  
quickly.  That melting would raise sea levels by many meters, and  
probably doom the West Antarctic ice sheet, which rests on the sea  
bottom.  And, even if we stopped all burning tomorrow,  another .6  
degree of warming is already in the system.   Coastal cities would  
need massive dikes and, too often, desalinization of their water supply.

Clearly, there is already too much carbon dioxide in the air, and  
some will have to be removed as soon as possible to avoid runaway  
effects from melting permafrost releasing carbon and other  
unrecoverable disasters.  There has been talk of aiming to wind up  
with the earth 2 degrees warmer, or maybe 3, but both those figures  
lead to major disasters and extinctions, and could flip to even  
warmer conditions.  We are already taking chances with the planet far  
more reckless than those we accept on a public road.  Loosing it is  
Not An Option.

The good news is  that by putting the economy on an emergency basis,  
as was done for WW II, we still have time to create a modern,  
sustainable technology while drawing carbon out of the air.  One low- 
tech method is to produce a stable soil enhancement - terra preta.    
Business as usual is headed, lemming-like, for a perfect crash.   
However, determined regulation guided by hard science can easily  
transform industries without loss of employment or even profit.   
Waste, however, will have to become prohibitively expensive, before  
the next generation winds up with most of the bill.  Companies are  
only a product of the laws that form them, so we must change the  
rules, and with all haste.

http://www.carbonequity.info/climatecodered/index.html


Best,
Bob Stuart