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"But it happens to coincide with our imminent descent down the slippery slope of oil and gas depletion, so that all the potential discontinuities of that epochal circumstance will be amplified, ramified, reinforced, and torqued by climate change. If global warming is a result of human activity, fossil fuel-based industrialism in particular, then it seems to me the prospects are poor that the human race will be able to do anything about it, because the journey down the oil depletion arc will be much more disorderly than the journey up was." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, climate change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "Released in any quantity, it would accelerate the problem of climate change. So far, attempts to recover methane hydrates have resulted in releases of methane into the atmosphere proportionately much greater than the gas recovered in the process. Zero-Point Energy (ZPE) This is an arcane process posed theoretically by quantum physicists. It has been called "the ultimate quantum free lunch." ZPE claims to be a theory for harnessing the energy potential of the "dark matter" of the universe." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, climate change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "And, as if this were not bad enough, other forces and circumstances that I'll discuss presently, such as climate change and the spread of disease, also beg the question as to just how bad this jam is—whether we've exceeded (and actually violated) the carrying capacity of the planet so egregiously that no ventures into alternative energy will allow us to keep the current game going. While the demise of fossil fuels may deprive us of some kinds of technology we have become used to, it may or may not entail a loss of technological knowledge." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, climate change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "Only one other factor looms ominously offstage at this point: the effects of climate change. Will Europe heat up, or will hydrothermal changes in the Gulf Stream plunge it into icy cold? Something is happening and we do not know the answer yet. Global Turbulence For the most part, Europe has been able to stand back from the growing turmoil in the Middle East and let America do all the dirty work of attempting to salvage security and order there — during which time Europeans have benefited, at least, from still relatively stable oil markets." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, climate change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"No change: the BAU (Business As Usual) Scenario Continuing in this way, the prelude to the inevitable breakdown manifests as critical conditions arising in the regions most directly exposed to the pernicious effects of climate change. In these regions, home to hundreds of millions of inhabitants: • Changing weather patterns create drought, devastating storms, and widespread harvest failures. • Coastal areas are flooded by rising sea levels. • Famine spreads in areas dependent on adequate rainfall for food production and areas exposed to tornados, hurricanes, and violent storms." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"According to the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on climate change, a body made up of the world's leading climatologists and other scientists, the predicted level of warming—up to 10°F by the end of this century—will bring on a disaster of biblical proportions: a rise of sea levels by nearly 3 feet; unendurable heat in many parts of the world; a vast increase of vector-borne diseases; raging floods and storms. A change upward of ten degrees may not seem like much until one realizes that lowering it by the same amount would bring on another ice age." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"With the threat of global war and the very real chance that it will involve atomic weapons, the emergence of new disease from viruses that seem impervious to our arsenal of drugs, and the suffering brought on by drought and starvation that has already begun as the result of abrupt climate change, we simply don't have the luxury of another century to understand every iota of the universe's secrets before we act. Clearly, now is the time to apply what we do know about the way our universe works in order to address the problems that threaten our survival and our future." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"Global Warning: climate change, Conflict, and Culture COLOMBIA, 2OO7 The Intergovernmental Panel on climate change (IPCC), government officials, and scientists from more than one hundred countries wrangled for weeks in Brussels in early 2007 as to whether global warming was a man-made or a natural phenomenon. They argued over droughts, air circulation patterns, snowfall, ice caps, and a thousand other indicators of whether global warming was "likely" or "directly" our fault." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"The timing of such a climate change is therefore extremely important. The best-known scientific method for establishing the age of objects without historic documentation is probably the measurement of a particular isotope of carbon, which, being radioactive, degrades to a more stable isotope at a very regular rate. Carbon-14 dating has its limits, including its inability to accurately date nonorganic marerial, but its precision is besr suited for really old objects, where an error factor of fifty to one hundred years is perfectly acceptable." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "A worldwide climate change during the late 530s has been extensively documented, and is a good candidate for the precipitating event that pushed a sufficient number of local rat populations over the six-thousand-per-square-kilometet hutdle.10 The other variable is susceptibility, the probability of transfer from source to host, and it is an even stronger index of the force of infection. The proportion of rats that are susceptible can change for a variety of reasons, but it always changes during the times between epizootics." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "Human organizarions ar every level, from Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribes to European parliament, are • The frequency with which volcanic eruptions and climate change are invoked as the motive force in human history—David Keys's Catastrophe is a recent example—is a subject for another book, but seems partly an artifact of the clear and lasting footprint left behind by such geological cataclysms." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"Changes in the chemical composition of the atmosphere trigger alterations in the climate. climate change has already reached the danger point. Temperatures in the western Arctic are at a 400-year high, and in September of 2005 satellite pictures testified that the extent of the Arctic ice cap is 20 percent below the long-term average for the month of September. If this trend continues the Arctic Ocean will be completely ice free before the end of the century and perhaps before." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.) "Bali—acknowledged that evidence for global warming is "unequivocal" and that delays in reducing greenhouse gas emissions increase the risk of "severe climate change impacts." Although the U.S. continued to show reluctance to accept the economic costs and consequences of cutting emissions, no country in the world could contest any longer that ominous changes in the climate are actually taking place and that coping with them calls for urgent internationally orchestrated action." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"Although we were losing the luxury of mobility, we still lived our lives within a context of enforced adaptation to repeated climate change. Civilizations rose and fell, great chiefdoms flourished in Europe and the Americas, and offshore sailors colonized the Pacific islands as human population growth accelerated everywhere. Our vulnerability to sudden climatic punches, so often accompanied by flood, drought, and starvation, has increased steadily over ten millennia, to the crisis point of today." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"With the climate change comes a change in food supply, temperature and sun exposure. People tend to get sick at this time, which is due to the stress the body goes through to adjust to its environment. Given that we are harmonious creatures with nature, it would seem wise to cleanse during these seasonal shifts. I would recommend a whole body cleanse because as one organ system is worked on, it can create a rebound stress for other systems. When the organ systems work in harmony, it releases toxins more effectively." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"In a memorable paper published in 1910, he examined rainfall data from India and the Nile Valley and concluded there was no evidence that India's disastrous droughts had been caused by permanent climate change. In the same year he wrote in the Memoirs of the Indian Meteorological Service: "The variations of monsoon rainfall . . . occur on so large a scale [that we can assume they are] preceded and followed by abnormal conditions at some distance."20 With these words, he turned his attention to the complex interrelationships between the monsoon and global atmospheric circulation." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "The crisis comes when sudden climate change or population growth renders sustainability impossible. Eleven thousand years ago, the fertile valley of the Euphrates River supported dense stands of wild cereal grasses and thick oak forests. Enormous gazelle herds migrated through the valley in spring and fall. Fish abounded in the slow-running river. Hundreds of for- ager families lived on the edge of the bountiful valley, where food was so abundant that they could live in one spot for most of the year." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "We still have much to learn about the twists and turns of atmospheric streams and ocean currents, the changes in sea-surface temperatures and convergence zones that fuel this remarkable engine of global climate change. We have always known that long-term climatic swings brought on major cultural and social changes in the past, such as the shift toward more intensive foraging with specialized tools directly after the Ice Age." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Each • For more on sixth-century climate change, see Chapter 9. rat is home to hundreds if not thousands of fleas, one in eight carrying Y. pestis in its foregut, and every time an infected flea bites a rat, it injects up to twenty thousand bacterial cells into the rodent's bloodstream. However, because not all rats in a local population are susceptible to plague, either because of a naturally hardier immune system, or acquired immunity to the disease, susceptibility becomes the key variable in the calculus of the disease." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"Stormy Weather: 101 Solutions to Global climate change by Guy Dauncey and Patrick Mazza (New Society Publishers, 2001) In contrast with the copious resources detailing the gloom-and-doom prospects we face as a result of global warming, Dauncey and Mazza's book provides a refreshing change of pace, offering simple and profound solutions that can be the start of serious planetary change." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Sponsored by the Climate Group in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia, the exhibition will travel to sixty-five nations—including Bulgaria, Italy, Russia, South Africa, and South Korea—as part of the British Council's ZeroCarbonCity campaign to raise public awareness about climate change and energy crises. ew Taking Local Action: A Tale of Three Cities ¦¦¦¦ As climate scientists' projections concerning global-warming impacts at the regional level improve, one audience is starting to tune in: local governments." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"The new post is in that other rising powerhouse, India, and the mandate is the same: climate change, chemicals and more sustainable economics. The man appointed to head that effort is Robert Donkers, who in September 2007 moved from Washington to the Indian Capital of New Delhi. The New Diplomats: Power & Pitfalls Stacy Vandeveer at Brown University has seen a disconcerting change over the past several years in his graduate students: they don't believe him when he describes the groundbreaking role once played by the United States. "My students," he told me ruefully, "have no memory of U.S." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) "They asked me to please explain to whomever wants to listen in America, what we're doing in Europe on chemicals and climate change," Donkers told me. "And, second, to inform us [in Brussels] what is happening in the United States. We know that there is a different America out there than the views expressed by President Bush on the environment." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) "In the process, China has become a playing field for international influence driven partly by the desire to address the country's huge contribution to climate change, and partly for positioning in anticipation of the economic bonanza that is already beginning to come from the development of alternative, renewable energy technologies. On both counts, the United States is falling behind the European Union. Beijing already sees that many new rules governing China's economic future are being written in Brussels and not Washington." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) "Qi Ye, director of the Institute of Public Policy at Tsinghua University in Beijing, told me in the spring of 2006 that he has been leading regular trips for government officials to Brussels to "consult with the Europeans on many things: chemicals, climate change, environmental governance."15 China sells $19 billion a year worth of chemicals to the European Union, and billions more worth of chemical-containing consumer products. All would be subject to REACH." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"A society that approaches the limit of its particular coupled human-environmental system becomes vulnerable to perturbations such as invasions or climate change. Unfortunately, societies that approach their ecological limits are also very often under pressure to maximize immediate harvests to feed their populations, and thereby neglect soil conservation. Soils provide us with a geological rearview mirror that highlights the importance of good old dirt from ancient civilizations right on through to today's digital society." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"On the other side of the Atlantic, cooling also occurred, and there is evidence of rapid climate change from as far afield as South America and New Zealand. The culprit seems to be the sudden shutting-off of the Atlantic circulation due to the bursting of a natural dam holding back Lake Agassiz, a gigantic meltwater lake which had pooled up behind the retreating North American ice sheets. When the dam broke, an enormous surge of water (the lake's volume was equivalent to seven times today's Great Lakes) is thought to have poured through Hudson Bay and out into the Atlantic." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) "Kilimanjaro has become something of a poster child for the international climate change campaign. The Swahili words kilitna and njaro translate as 'shining mountain', testament to the power of this massive volcano to inspire awe in onlookers through the ages. A recent aerial photo of the crater, with little more than a few ice fragments encrusting its dark sides, was the centrepiece for a touring global warming photography exhibition sponsored by the British Council in 2005." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) "It turns out that the Queensland Wet Tropics rainforest is one of the most sensitive areas on the planet to climate change. Just one degree of warming will have devastating impacts on species diversity and habitats. The reason lies in the unusual topography of the Wet Tropics area. Unlike the Amazon forest, which covers a huge, flat basin until it rises into the eastern slopes of the Andes, the Queensland rainforest comprises hilly terrain - starting from the white sands fringing the ocean to heights of 1,500 metres or more in places." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

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