tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14146140040274460132024-03-13T03:58:49.091-07:00the yellow fringe"Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that." Martin Luther King Jr.the yellow fringehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00003652058436636394noreply@blogger.comBlogger1501125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1414614004027446013.post-43447108664861630592016-01-05T10:05:00.003-08:002016-01-09T13:34:51.592-08:00How high's the water momma?<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ONLb6mvApTI/VowD6voIcYI/AAAAAAAAEGM/lN2QWlYVW98/s1600/1000.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ONLb6mvApTI/VowD6voIcYI/AAAAAAAAEGM/lN2QWlYVW98/s400/1000.jpg" width="400" /></a>Sea level rise? Here's a funny thing, the sea isn't flat. Currents and changes in local strength of gravity make some areas higher than others. The great current that carries tropical water along the east coast of North America is being slowed at the north end of it's travel. This is leading to pile up of water along the central east coast states, of almost 5 inches in the last few years. The slowing is caused by so much cold fresh water running off Greenland. Like an on ramp of aggressive drivers, they slow the freeway behind them. <br />
Low lying nations and islands are at risk everywhere as all oceans are rising, some faster than others.the yellow fringehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00003652058436636394noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1414614004027446013.post-73520228140159793562015-11-27T13:35:00.000-08:002015-11-27T13:36:00.641-08:00Glacier shrink rate <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There are a lot of these business and corporate groups forming to work and lobby for action to cut fossil fuel emissions. Another was formed a few days ago, the "B Team". 22 large companies with high profile names kicking out calls and letters like this - <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #636363; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">“The science, economic costs and social risks of climate change are becoming increasingly clear. We believe that securing a long-term goal in Paris should therefore be an urgent personal priority for you, as it is for all of us.”</span><br />
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Not a good couple of months for deniers, the Pope was here, 81 large corporations came out supporting Obama's efforts of action on climate issues, then Bank of America says climate change is going to cost the economy trillions if not attacked immediately, then 5 more of the largest banks in the nation ask Congress to take meaningful action, then 5 of the largest oil companies said they are prepared for a price on carbon. Yes, thats right, oil said that. (I can tell you why they would do this, if you want to know ask<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Now we have 12 (R) GOP members putting forth H.Res.424, which simply says lets play nice, look for solutions to climate change, accept the science, and get on with it. If your in an (R) congressional district, write or call said GOPer and ask him to co-sponser the Gibson resolution H.Res.424. Do not ask a (D) to support it, they will support it, but it will poison the well if a (D) signs on before they get about 25 (R)'s. </div>
the yellow fringehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00003652058436636394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1414614004027446013.post-48414932748649671482015-08-01T08:06:00.001-07:002015-08-01T08:06:06.681-07:0099% of scientist agree.http://cleantechnica.com/2015/07/31/human-climate-link-still-97-nope-99-video/the yellow fringehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00003652058436636394noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1414614004027446013.post-19636554983924561502015-07-21T19:54:00.002-07:002015-07-21T19:54:12.781-07:00you can't burn your way out of this<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gTD_7T0GrQM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>the yellow fringehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00003652058436636394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1414614004027446013.post-3624182256092069092015-07-14T19:29:00.000-07:002015-07-14T19:29:03.966-07:00the best story I ever read about Bush 43<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/31859-what-i-think-of-george-w-bush#">http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/31859-what-i-think-of-george-w-bush#</a>the yellow fringehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00003652058436636394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1414614004027446013.post-16286107717675973942015-07-05T12:28:00.003-07:002015-07-05T12:28:52.158-07:00Sol-No-Coal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A Mural from New Mexico. At the center, the sun, no one owns the sun, or the light from it. Next the people are installing solar panels to harvest clean renewable low cost energy. At the edges of the inhabitable world is the coal burning utilities, monopolies spewing smoke that kills, sickens, and reduces brain development. <br />
Be sure you correct anyone who says Obama is waging a war on coal. It is not a war on coal, it is a war on smoke and it's pollutants and greenhouse gases. If the company wants to continue to burn coal a scrubber is all that's needed. But the fact is, financing coal plants is going out of style, everyone knows it is filth, investors know it's risky now, the payoff just isn't there. the yellow fringehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00003652058436636394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1414614004027446013.post-15310321262914165152015-07-03T19:18:00.000-07:002015-07-03T19:18:14.086-07:00Levy a fee on carbon and refund it to the public like British Columbia did, the economy improves and so does air and water quality.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />the yellow fringehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00003652058436636394noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1414614004027446013.post-6261888454841291762015-06-28T20:06:00.000-07:002015-06-28T20:06:05.419-07:00List of medical groups declaring climate change a health threat<a href="http://www.lung.org/about-us/our-impact/top-stories/a-declaration-on-climate-and-Health.html">http://www.lung.org/about-us/our-impact/top-stories/a-declaration-on-climate-and-Health.html</a><a href="http://www.lung.org/about-us/our-impact/top-stories/a-declaration-on-climate-and-Health.html"></a>the yellow fringehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00003652058436636394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1414614004027446013.post-50031053849592047202015-06-22T06:23:00.003-07:002015-06-22T06:23:57.604-07:00Perhaps the best "Stairway to Heaven" ever<a href="http://singers.littlethings.com/robert-plant-cries-stairway-to-heaven/?utm_source=sungazing&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_campaign=tt">http://singers.littlethings.com/robert-plant-cries-stairway-to-heaven/?utm_source=sungazing&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_campaign=tt</a>the yellow fringehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00003652058436636394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1414614004027446013.post-82838824589000987442015-06-18T07:00:00.002-07:002015-06-20T13:31:50.238-07:00King Bush III hits Pope for coal money.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In June King Bush the 3rd met with Coal companies, environmentalist booed, and his spokesman said he met with them because they are job creators. Coal mines and supporting industry have been losing a lot of jobs the last few years, while mine production has fallen only a couple of percent. <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 21px;">“Pope Francis is not the only moral or religious leader speaking out on this issue,” says Rabbi Rieber from Kansas. “The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and t</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 21px;">he Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Katherine Jefferts Shori, have both recently made strong statements calling for action on climate change and calling denial of the problem ‘a sin.’ And over 300 rabbis have signed a ‘Rabbinic Letter on the Climate Crisis.’ So this is truly an multi-faith effort.”</span></span>the yellow fringehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00003652058436636394noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1414614004027446013.post-78133099365412094332015-06-10T11:53:00.001-07:002015-06-10T11:53:27.927-07:00The economics will win over the climate deniers<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"></span><br />
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In 2012, there were a total of 137,650 permanent coal-related jobs nationwide [1], and 806,831 oil and gas jobs as of 2011 [2]. By contrast, there were 3,401,279 green jobs in 2011 [3]. The Department of Energy predicts using conservative estimates that by 2030 there will be over half a million wind jobs alone [4].</div>
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Cleared for palm oil farms, a monoculture that will support maybe, maybe a few species of birds and snakes, gone are the thousands of animals, endless varieties of plants and bugs. They don't just move, they die, compress available territory and the population must decline. Read the labels on food, never, never buy anything with palm oil in it. Find out if your favorite restaurant uses palm oil, give them plenty of static about it if they do. Consider finding another cafe.the yellow fringehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00003652058436636394noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1414614004027446013.post-383476410507001272015-05-19T11:55:00.000-07:002015-05-19T11:55:13.741-07:00200 white guys arrested in Waco- got that picture?Ya just gotta be amazed at the pictures and videos, 200 white guys wandering around talking on cell phones, talking in groups, sitting on motorcycles. A few feet in front of them, lay 9 dead people, and a wide open crime scene, in the bikes for the next few hours they have the chance to drop drugs on the ground, throw away ammo, anything to get rid of stuff and more than enough milling about to claim anything found must have been put there by someone else. 9 people lay dead 15 feet from these guys. Got that picture? <br />
Now lets think about the blacks and latinos we see maced, jumped on, beaten, tazered and left on the ground handcuffed, tossed in to vans, for what - running - eye contact - stealing candy at the quick-trip? It's an amazing time we live in.<br />
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<br />the yellow fringehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00003652058436636394noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1414614004027446013.post-85330682199459288982015-05-08T06:33:00.001-07:002015-05-08T06:33:52.405-07:00Daddy, what did you do in the climate wars?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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What's it been, 2 weeks? Another pipe, a refinery, a train? This time another train full of bitumen from tar sands or shale. This in the Dakotas, and it caused a small town to be evacuated for a day. This train load had also been treated to make it less explosive. How's that working for us? <br />
Note that I used the term bitumen not oil. Some of this stuff is bitumen. It's that blonde skinny girl on the oil and gas happy talk adds on TV that wants to call it oil. Oil because that sounds better to the public, and in fact oil has less carbon in it than bitumen, and carbon when burned makes CO2 which acidifies the oceans and insulates the earth driving up temperatures. There are all kinds of fossil fuels, oil, gas, bitumen, coal, probably others I don't know about.the yellow fringehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00003652058436636394noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1414614004027446013.post-61065671591554282292015-05-05T07:10:00.000-07:002015-05-05T17:48:55.880-07:00Climate scientist convinced global warming is real based on evidence.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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You've seen this chart before I bet, but do you know the rest of the story. These almost 14k articles finding proof of global warming are not in news stand rags, they are in academic journals. The key term is peer-reviewed. This means the writer submits the article, it's reviewed by 3 credentialed experts with knowledge in the field it's focused on, plus the editor. They have to be able to re-create or verify the claim, the conclusion, the reference material, and check to see it's original work and text. It's not uncommon for them to ask for minor corrections or more info. If it's more than minor, it's rejected. The process can take many months. So, you can take that 14k number and multiply it by another 4 people who proved it's true. <br />
Except for these 24 articles, all the information denying global warming comes from news stand magazines, trade magazines, and articles prepared for and given to news outlets, or books by some blabbermouth, are virtually never written by climate scientist, and are not peer reviewed.<br />
So take this seriously when you hear:<br />
<b>97% of climate scientist are convinced that global warming is real based on the evidence. </b><br />
If it was your mom, and all the docs in the hospital said we're 97% sure if we don't lower the fever she will die, are you going to let it run it's course on advice of the flower delivery boy?the yellow fringehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00003652058436636394noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1414614004027446013.post-47081307393316709742015-05-02T17:17:00.001-07:002015-05-02T17:17:14.193-07:00Sarge is back<a href="http://rivercitypatriot.blogspot.com/">http://rivercitypatriot.blogspot.com</a>the yellow fringehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00003652058436636394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1414614004027446013.post-48185533747721455692015-04-27T11:29:00.000-07:002015-04-27T12:06:22.605-07:00not all of us are cowards, some women know what it means to be human.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 15px;">Newmont Mining wanted Peruvian farmer Máxima Acuña de Chaupe <strong style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21px;">to get off her land so they could build a giant, polluting gold mine,</strong> but she said no. They took her to court, she won, they harassed her, even sending a security team in and destroyed part of her home, and she is still there. This is what bravery looks like, this is what human beings do, stand up to pollution, corruption, thugs, stand up.</span><br />
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After about 48 hours of accumulated work over several months, Herman Hesse is finished and ready fro the kiln. That's Hermann on the left. The skull behind us, ominous huh?<br />
Hermann Hesse is one of my favorite authors, and perhaps the most famous German writers of the last 100 years. 1877 to 1962, born in Germany. During WWI he was assigned to guard and transport POW's, meeting these men in this situation changed his life. During this he published essays that caused plenty of trouble and gained him the label pacifist. Before WWII he married a Jewish women, moved to Switzerland where they lived until his death. He won a Nobel prize. His best known works include: Steppenwolf and Sidhartha my two favorites, If The War Goes On, The Glass Bead Game, Journey To The East, Demian. His writing can be summed up as a "search for self" and "journey of discovery", he traveled often to India and Indonesia, some of his work is infused with this eastern flavor of life's meaning and passage of time as a component of the whole of our lives. You can imagine his work was of keen interest to the countercultures of the beat generation, and the hippies from the flower power to the peace movements. His peak of popularity was late 50's to late 70's. If you have never experienced Hermann Hesse, do the first two listed, Sidhartha might be the smoothest glide of the two.<br />
This sculpture depicts him in what I think could be his 40's to late 50's, most sculptures and pictures show him as elderly.the yellow fringehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00003652058436636394noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1414614004027446013.post-55205732187062221882015-04-21T08:10:00.000-07:002015-04-21T08:12:38.508-07:00Cold Water, trout fishing and climate change<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9NSkPWfhdsg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
google and join climate hawks inc, or some other envrionmental group that is offering a solution, not just a bunch of cry babies bitching. Do Something to Help.the yellow fringehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00003652058436636394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1414614004027446013.post-72940016477743834962015-04-21T06:59:00.000-07:002015-04-21T06:59:14.573-07:00hydrogen folly<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Over the last few months I read a number of stories about hydrogen development at a number of universities. The latest is to make it from corn field waste, the stalks and leaves left. This is not good news for the soil we leave our children. When we harvest grain crops, the straw and stalks left cover the earth, prevent erosion, keep soil temperature down, and become the compost to build soil. Raking the earth clean year after year may fuel your Hindenburg car, but it will leave future generations with crappy little soil to live on. <br />
Another thing, most projections indicate natural gas will be used to make hydrogen fuel. Well, tell me how making one fuel from another is a victory? It is unsustainable, like ethanol it takes almost as much power to convert corn to gas as you get out of the ethanol. <br />
Neither of these are sustainable. Speak against them both at every opportunity. Electric vehicles are the easiest to convert to, the infrastructure is already near by, a good extension cord will complete it.the yellow fringehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00003652058436636394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1414614004027446013.post-24092233197034736462015-04-20T11:14:00.000-07:002015-04-20T11:14:14.492-07:00the price of oil is a disasterJust broke at desmogblog.com, a confidential paper from 1981 when Lord Lawson proposed turning the Army lose on striking oil workers. One truth remains, no matter what the price of oil, it is a disaster.
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