Discuss: How to Be a Climate Hero

Danny Bloom comments:

This post comes with good timing, since on May 10th, the world pop stats his 6,666,666,666 people, as the news media will havea field day with this story, come May 8-9-10...... and the 666 mark of the beast people will also have a field day with that number, although it has no religious meaning at all. just a number. And 7,777,777,777 is next. And as this blog knows so well, 9,999,999,999 is not so very far away.

Some have already entered their names on the Global Roll Call that is trying to enlist the names of all living people today—and on May 10—so hurry!

http://sixbillion101.blogspot.com

Enrollment is free, just add your name to comments section, anonymous comments allowed, on the link above. Hurry. Then again, no real hurry.

To add to my comment 32 on becoming a FIGHTER against mass starvation to go allong with being climate HERO, I add that you can become a CHAMPION for getting control of water pollution by calling for the developing of the pyrolysis process for organic wastes.  I outlined this in comments 17, 23 ,34 &36;on “The Big Green Lie” last issue of Orion, pointing out that pyrolysis of such wastes will destroy germs, toxics and drugs that are the culprits in water pollution.  In developed countries pyrolyzing these wastes will cut major costs in maintaining dumps.  In undevloped countries setting these up will reduce major water pollution problems that may soon have worse effects on the people than the climate crisis. 
The pennyante steps called for by even Al Gore’s ad campaign will do little to reduce our carbon footprint and nothing to provide desperately needed food and clean water in the undeveloped countries.  The pyrolysis of organic wastes will get some carbon completely removed from recycling by stopping the wastes from biodegrading in nature thereby reducing our carbon footprint.
So Readers I urge you to take some big steps and tell your Congress persons to
I. Stop the bioethanol farce to free up corn to feed millions, some of whom are eating mud cakes and also to stop adding unneeded extra GHGs to the growing overload on the globe already wrecking havoc. If this step can be taken now, our farmers will be forced back to growing food by fall for next year.
II. Call for developing the pyrolysis process to use on the globe’s massive mess of organic wastes with the big added benefits of removing some carbon from recycling back as GHGs, and curbing water pollution from the germs, toxics and drugs in the wastes.
You can be a HERO, FIGHTER and CHAMPION for these actions by contacting your Congress persons and getting your friends alerted for real steps to allow our children to have an environment that they can survive in.
Dr. J. Singmaster, Fremont, CA
PS. To send to Speaker Pelosi use http://www.americanvoices@mail.house.gov

I don’t know how to be a hero, I think its nothing.

Another CLIMATE HERO>>Stephen Hesse

http://www.mywire.com/pubs/JapanTimes/2008/04/22/6279398/print/

Japan Times
Is growth driving us to oblivion?

By STEPHEN HESSE | Apr 22, 2008 | 1491 words

Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population, established 2001
http://sustainabilitysoutheast.org/index.php

Who do you want to be on the other end of the line when you dial 9-1-1.  As for me, I hope it’s Ralph Nader.  I suggest we put him on the other end of the line.  Otherwise we’re likely to get someone who tells us that they’d like to help but the solution is “off the table.”

Since just being alive produces carbon dioxide, if you really feel it is catastrophic and want to do something useful and not be a hypocrit I think you have only one option left.  This would also help out with dan bloom’s coment #33.  and for another reality check…

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/Carboniferous_climate.html

There are many reasons to doubt that carbon dioxide has caused or will ever cause our climate temperature to increase. 

Primary among them is evidence that the temperature increases during the last 30 years have not occurred as the carbon dioxide-induced warming hypothesis predicts that it will.  The troposphere between 1 and 10 Km above ground is not warming as rapidly as the surface temperature predicts.  This comparison is a primary test of the underlying science of carbon dioxide-induced warming and the data show that the hypothesis has failed the test. 

Further, the ongoing warming ceased after 1997 and we are seeing a bit of cooling in spite of a 5% increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the past 11 years.  The numeric Global Circulation Models (GCMs do not predict that cessation of warming. 

Recent modifications to the GCMs have enabled them to once again draw a line that follows the climate temperature signal.  The modelers made similar modifications to their arbitrary parameters in order to force the models to follow the cooling that followed the relative warmth of the 1930s.  That decade, by the way contains the warmest year since 1880, the year that widespread temperature measurement began. 

I am afraid that all of this demonstrates the power of a couple of dozen arbitrary parameters in a polynomial expression.  Recently, a group of graduate students developed an algorithm that will draw a picture of an elephant from a linear numeric series, such a the set of numbers between 1 and 100.  It does not challenge the imagination to conceive of an algorithm that could draw an elephant or even trace the temperature history of the past 130 years with the ever increasing concentration of carbon dioxide as the input file. 

I think that is exactly what the GCM developers have done.  I also think that their models have little if anything to do with reality.

I thought that this article was on what to do about global climate change.  I didn’t think it was about whether there is global climate change. 

Many of us have read elsewhere about whether there is global climate change, and have decided, after careful consideration,that the rate of change is being assisted by our Co2 production.