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According to Proceedings from the National Academy of Sciences, the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide we observe today is the minimum level well see for at least the next 1000 years. Carbon dioxide is incredibly recalcitrant in the atmosphere. We cant just wave a magic wand, start doing permaculture and powering down and expect to reduce that number to 350 parts per million, as proposed by 350.org. -Guy R. McPherson
While much of the public may have doubts about whether or not anthropogenic climate change is a reality, it is a FACT that over 97% of peer-reviewed scientific research published over the last two decades confirm the viewpoint that the planet is indeed warming due to human activities.
As noted in a previous interview, Dr. Mcpherson, Professor Emeritus of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Arizona, has spent countless hours pouring over the scientific literature, and connected numerous dots. Dr. Mcpherson is in full agreement with the scientific concensus around anthropogenic (human-generated) climate change. Further, he concludes that global warming has passed a tipping point and that habitat loss associated with the warming of the planet will condemn the human species to extinction within 20 years.
Unlike other prominent scientists and activists, Mcpherson concludes that there is really nothing the human species can do to prevent or mitigate this catastrophe."
http://www.globalresearch.ca/guy-mcpherson-on-climate-collapse-and-near-term-human-extinction/5386102
IDemo
(16,926 posts)postulater
(5,075 posts)Duppers
(28,094 posts)That prediction will tend to make people negate his overall warning, which is very sad.
Too much of life will be doomed, but not all.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)The stinking rich are planning billion-dollar luxury liners that keep the land-based Americans they've plundered at a safe distance.
AlterNet / By Mark Ames
June 1, 2010
What happens when Americans plunder America and leave it broken, destitute and seething mad? Where do these fabulously wealthy Americans go with their loot, if America isn't a safe, secure, or even desirable place to spend their riches? What if they lose faith in their gated communities, because those plush gated communities are surrounded by millions of pissed-off Americans stripped of their entitlements, and who now want in?
The first such floating castle has been christened the " Utopia"--the South Korean firm Samsung has been contracted to build the $1.1 billion ship, due to be launched in 2013. Already orders are coming in to buy one of the Utopia's 200 or so mansions for sale- -which range in price from about $4 million for the smallest condos to over $26 million for 6,600 square-foot "estates." The largest mansion is a whopping 40,000 square feet, and sells for $160 million.
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Both Thiel and Milton Friedman's grandson see democracy as the enemy--last year, Thiel wrote "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible" at about the same time that Milton Friedman's grandson proclaimed, "Democracy is not the answer." Both published their anti-democracy proclamations in the same billionaire-Koch-family-funded outlet, Cato Unbound, one of the oldest billionaire-fed libertarian welfare dispensaries. Friedman's answer for Thiel's democracy problem is to build offshore libertarian pod-fortresses where the libertarian way rules. It's probably better for everyone if Milton Friedman's grandson and Peter Thiel leave us forever for their libertarian ocean lair--Thiel believes that America went down the tubes ever since it gave women the right to vote, and he was outed as the sponsor of accused felon James O'Keefe's smear videos that brought ACORN to ruin.
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While neither Bush nor the Bin Ladens are principals in the Frontier Group, its founding director, Frank Carlucci, is a name they know well, and you should too. Carlucci ran the Carlyle Group as its chairman from 1989 through 2005, right around the time that the wars started going undeniably bad, and floating castles started to look like a viable plan. But Carlucci's past is much weirder and scarier than most of us care to know: whether it's his strangely timed appearances in some of the ugliest assassinations and coups in modern history, or serving as Carter's number two man in the CIA, and Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Defense, if Frank Carlucci (nicknamed "Creepy Carlucci" and "Spooky Frank" is the founding director of a firm that's building floating castles, it's a bad sign for those of us left behind.
I'll get into Carlucci's partners in the Frontier Group in a moment, but first, let's reacquaint ourselves with Frank Carlucci. From an early age, Carlucci learned the importance of getting to know the right people in the right places. He studied at Princeton in the mid-1950s, where as luck should have it, Carlucci roomed with Donald Rumsfeld. Both Carlucci and Rumsfeld shared a passion for Greco-Roman wrestling at Princeton, and both went on to serve in the Navy after Princeton. Their paths would split and merge several times over the next few decades, even as they remained close personal friends throughout their lives. In the late 1950s, Carlucci briefly served as an executive at a lingerie manufacturer, Jantzen (the Victoria's Secret of its day), but quickly left to join the State Department.
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http://www.alternet.org/story/147058/the_really_creepy_people_behind_the_libertarian-inspired_billionaire_sea_castles
Duppers
(28,094 posts)You're always on top of it.
Know your BFEE, Carlucci, Carlyle Group, etc. They think they're safe.
Uncle Joe
(58,112 posts)that the catastrophic effects of global warming climate change will be absolutely undeniable both socially and politically so they're preparing their life boats ahead of time.
They're taking their money and getting out before the worm turns.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)"humans will be extinct in 20 years" is hyperbolic bullshit.... and "globalreasearch" is a tinfoil hat, troofer site.
From their about:
I'm wondering at what point in this article they tell you to buy gold.
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)Unreliable advocacy source.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I was active in the Rainforest Action Network, among other groups, in the 80s, and if I had 10 bucks for every time someone authoritatively told me "It's scientifically proven, the Earth will not be able to sustain any life more complex than cockroaches by the year 2000".... I heard that fucking shit over and over.
Of course, I was young and at the time I was like "oh, man, that's bad".
Seriously. Global Warming is a serious problem and it deserves the serious and focused attention of our species. Hyperbolic "WUR DOOMED" bullshit helps no one, although I do realize some people enjoy living in the comfort of their unpleasant and paranoid realities.
Johonny
(20,684 posts)Everyone wants to feel like they live at the end of days. It makes them feel more important.
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)And how is carbon dioxide "recalcitrant?" This is not a well-written article. Accuracy and word choices do count.