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Religious Dogma
What makes your brain tick?
According to researchers, the parts of your body, if you don't use it you lose
it, particularly your brain. The more you use it, the more logic & brainier you
are. Could that be true?
Would global warming annihilate mankind?
Global warming -- what can we do about it? Nothing really... politicians can and preach global warming like a religious dogma.
The sad fact is no God in Internet era, you are
too educated. You dug up research papers -- they say it's not proven or political.
For example:
The Earth axial tilt (pole shift) from time to time. In 1984 the earth axial was off centred by 11 degree (77 degree
North and 102 degree West)
and changing.
And in 2006 the Earth axial tilted to 23.439 degree off-centre, and worse, the
Earth was about 7.25 degree to the Sun's equator.
Remember the Earth
rotate in elliptical form round the Sun, some years a bit closer or further
away, and our weather changes with it.
A combination of the Earth axial tilt and sunspot cycle as well as solar
flares has been the interval of climate change during the Holocene periods, next
major solar flare likely by 2012. Tree-ring evidences indicated drought period
on earth within the cycles.
If by selling more carbon emissions could mitigate climate change, than
selling hunger would benefit the poor. What a tautology.
As a matter of fact, any organic body when decomposed will produce carbon
dioxide or methane if devoid of oxygen; both are potent greenhouse warming
gases.
And the scariest scenario by glaciologists was to build a city in Greenland, where
human activities will force the ancient glacial ice mountains down to sea, which
is enough to lower sea temperature worldwide, to restore climate equilibrium.
What a load of pseudoscience.
Such hypotheses does made people wondered? Why earlier in the year (2009),
Greenland was declared an independent nation state, for possible migration as a
result of population growth.
 Earth axial tilt
What about CFCs ?
Remember the problem with CFCs? You know the stuff scientists called
"chlorofluorocarbons" - chlorine and fluorine bonded to carbon, used in most
household goods.
We use this stuff before and after the war up to the 1990s. Scientists
later found that this stuff thin our ozone layer, usually the
earth's good at breaking down chemical bonds, but
research indicated that this stuff
(CFCs) regenerate itself (a chain reaction happen) in the upper atmosphere, a
global ban was enforced.
But too late, a large-hole (a large decrease of ozone) was found in 1989 over
Antarctica, ice started to melt. Research indicated that it will take nature
50-100 years to repair itself.
And nature works in mysteries way, in the Montreal protocol, 180 countries ratified the agreement, CFCs emission
trading was not on the agenda.
Luck was on your side that industry chose the easy option of CFCs instead of
bromine for spray cans or refrigerators, and then nature can't break down the
bromine bonds. Bromine is 100 times more effective at destroying ozone layer.
Pure luck also determined that mechanical engineer turned chemist Thomas Midgley
chose the easy option of CFCs than the less known bromine compounds to develop
his mechanical cooling system.
Thus, for the next 50-100 years of our life, triggered by spring low sunlight
and temperature, a thin ozone layer will appear over Antarctica, and potentially
in the Arctic too.
What about CH4 ?
You know, the stuff all life forms produce in one way or the other, with the
molecular formula CH4, a potent greenhouse gas with a 7-year half-life global warming potential or 50-100 years of our life.
The global warming potential caused by the molecules of methane is 20 times
greater than the molecules of carbon dioxide; and methane does most of its
warming in her first half-life.
By the law of nature, any decomposing body ultimately produce carbon dioxide
or methane if devoid of oxygen; both are potent greenhouse warming gas, then the
world will have to eliminate landfill sites or cemeteries.
And scientists found that our livestock alone now produce a third of the world's (about 37%)
human induced methane, the potent greenhouse warming gas, primarily from our meat producing cattle, chicken or pig.
Methane is a significant contributor to global warming and the Kyoto protocol
seeks to regulate its emissions. By selling more thin air to put food on the
table? That selling is analogous to rubbing the poor off their meals. What a
fine theoretical frameworks of paradigm shift.
Interestingly, methane is also dubbed the mega-fart of mother Earth, and is
in prodigious quantities in many part of the world, from permafrost to frozen
bogs and underneath sea bed or by-products of oil fields, exported as liquefied
natural gas. By the state of human nature, the half-life of methane ultimately decomposed
to form carbon dioxide.
Global warming, greenhouse gases emission and population growth are intertwined, CO2
alone in the atmosphere has increased from pre-industrial concentration level of
280ppm (parts per million) to current 379ppm (2005 figure) due to the burning of
fossil fuels and reduction of carbon-sinks - notably woodlands and forests.
The little Ice Age era is primarily a European and North Atlantic
phenomenon. To cut a ‘wedge’ out of the graph of rising emissions will
have to halve population. Human beings are at best selfish.
Earth system science believes that human interference to planet Earth carbon
cycle on land and at sea affects the ocean circulation, the stratosphere and its
ozone layer, and the ice of the cryosphere. The Earth’s functioning system is
now close to breakdown.
If hydroxyl decides to take a break now, our Planet Earth’s metabolism will
cease to function without her ephemeral chemical. The concentration of hydroxyl
in the atmosphere is merely one part per trillion. Our trusted janitor might resign
anytime.
What about Laughing Gas ?
You know, the stuff you called the 'laughing gas', with the molecular formula N2O
(nitrous oxide), but it's no laughing matter when one burn fossil fuel in
combustion engine, the nitrous oxide inactivates vitamin B12 deficiency in us by
oxidation - that the experts called 'cobalamin'.
Vitamin B12 plays a key role in the normal functioning of the brain and
nervous system, and vitamin B12 deficiency causes sensory neuropathy, myelopathy
and encephalopathy -- the inflammation in the brain, or the 'big-headedness'
literally, not a sign of intelligence else dolphins would be farming human
species.
The human activities alone now account for 30% of this green house warming gas;
industrial data attribute 20% of the source in addition to agricultural
nitrate fertilizers sources.
What about PAHs ?
You know, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs), known as Polynuclear
Aromatic Hydrocarbons or Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons, the incomplete burning of
fuels by vehicle and aircraft, or factory waste incineration.
The aromatic parts of the chemical bonding PAHs pollutants are known carcinogenic or
mutagenic to human and animal lungs, liver, skin, and kidney damages or known as
cancer.
The human activities alone now account for about half of the cancerous PAHs
(just below a million metric tons), in addition to volcanic activity.
To cut a ‘wedge’ out of the graph of rising emissions will have to halve
world population, else the world will have to eliminate waste incineration and factories or
vehicles and aircrafts.
According to recent research data from Beijing, China alone responsible for
about 133,000 metric tons, mainly from eastern China industrial towns, or 22% of
human induced gross PAHs emissions.
Though the world accepts the CO2 human activities could induce, but can’t agree
on the amount of PAHs, the cancerous part of the aromatic chemical bonds, as a
result of incomplete fossil fuel burning in combustion engine and aircraft, or
waste incineration in factory.
What about Bio-Capacity ?
Population and waste is mathematically linked to sources and the climate, to cut a
‘wedge’ out of the graph on rising emissions will have to halve
population. Take the biosphere and the climate for example.
You know, our mother Earth has a bio-capacity - the natural absorption rate
of organic carbon in the soil mantle, but the human animals have already
discharged double that figure, with the developed nations being the biggest
contributor and preacher of recycling, whilst shipping millions of tons of solid
waste to another geological cleft.
In a vicious dose-dependent cycle, such amount of toxic waste affects global geochemical
cycle; further contribute to the shifting in climate and trophic levels (food
chains) in the ecosystem, known as the bio-magnification. What a wise eclecticism.
The volume of solid waste discharged in the Earth’s biosphere has reached a
geological figure (landfill site figure) of 400 million tons per annum and
rising, in a generation's time, mankind will suffocated in its own garbage.
What is a toxic waste to humans is a food source for insects and micro
organisms, and the chemicals that concentrated in the droppings of the birds are
food for vegetations; ultimately find their way in our food source, that the
experts called ‘bio-magnification’ or health hazard.
The natural absorption rate of organic carbon in the soil mantle is estimated 42
million tons annually. Human discharge of organic carbon had reached 85 million
tons per annum – doubled the Earth's natural absorption ability.
Zero population grow in which a population remain stable, occurs only when the
birth and death rates are equal.
By the law of nature, any organic body when decomposed will produce carbon
dioxide or methane if devoid of oxygen; both are potent greenhouse warming gas,
then the world will have to eliminate landfill site practice or cemeteries.
What about pH level ?
You know acidic chemical can play havoc with our pH level in water when
fossil fuels are burn, CO2 may be friendly to plants but colourless toxic SO2
(sulphur dioxide) and poisonous NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) shouldn't be in the air.
When water vapour in air mixed with these two oxides - sulphur dioxide became
sulphuric acid (H2SO4), and nitrogen dioxide became nitric acid (HNO3). Acid rain find their
way in soil and organic habitat, few life forms survive in low pH level acidic
water conditions, including humans.
The world consumes 30 billion barrels (4.8 km³) of oil per year, with
developed nations being the largest consumer and preacher of global warming,
while organic life forms being annihilate, it's a religious dogma.
Petroleum is vital to many industries and is a critical concern for developed
nations to maintain a political grip for an industrialized civilization, thus
petroleum diplomacy plays the vital role in energy security and military
supremacy.
If some organisms are being killed by these acidic conditions, other
organic life forms that consume these missing links are left without food and
energy. It's a vicious
cycle.
When the death of some organisms happen slowly it's an ecological success so
that population growth rates remain in balance, eutrophication by humans is
tragic by our dispersion rate.
What about Holocene ?
You know, global warming actually improves global agriculture variability towards
the Holocene climates 11,500 year BP to the present, and had sustained the growth
and development of modern society.
Holocene climate optimum period roughly in the intervals of 9000 to 5000
years BP, or before the 1950-based radiocarbon dating reference time scale and paleoecology digs, and DNA.
During Holocene climates, increased rainfalls facilitate the development of
agriculture, village communities, and eventually cities by human-kind in all part
of the world.
Holocene climates in south-western part of North America, the
Mediterranean, Middle East, Ukraine, India and China, as well as Northern
Africa all received more rainfalls than they do today.
Thus Sahara desert than was a lush Savannah punctuated with rivers and lakes
that supported life and human domesticated cattle, and later culture as well as
agriculture spread into Europe.
But dogma has it, that such planetary elliptical orbits is a spin, causing
Holocene climate change; and opt for a fossil fuel era of Anthropocene climate.
Where are they heading, Heaven knows, perhaps global warming will annihilate us,
Anthropoid after all.
Nomenclature
Mankind blindly believe in nomenclature, because historically economic success has a close correlation between
growth and the climate, the mechanism between the two may spur in early human activity that
economic, as well as cultural development always concentrated on warmer part of the
world, examples of such as China, India or Egypt.
The predicted rate of economic growth has important implications for climate
change policy, thus the trade-off between carbons based economic growth and the
expected adverse impact on climate, partially acceptable
consequences for this growth.
And if by selling more emissions could mitigate climate change, than we are indeed doing
Iraq a favour, whilst avoiding the political
sensitive issue of world over population. And perhaps the Iraqis did sacrifices themselves to mitigate
world population explosion.
I don't see the connotation, facts are facts, don't you understood the
saying that 'people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones', and
if we dig deeper surely will find more.
Biotic Potential
The biotic potential on humans has been tilted as a result of advances in
medical science. The dispersion rates per square mile on many part of the world
have reached critical points.
This tilting has also shifted our trophic levels (food chains) in the
ecosystem, the energy food chain from our primary producers - plants and
photosynthetic bacteria which harness carbon and sun light into chemical
energy for our needs has been interrupted.
Our livestock alone now produce a third of the world's (about 37%) human induced CH4 (methane), the potent
greenhouse warming gas, primarily from our meat producing cattle, chicken or pig.
Scientists found that human activities alone now responsible for over half of
the world's methane emission. CH4 is a significant contributor to
climate change, and the Kyoto protocol seeks to regulate its emission.
By
selling more thin air to put food on the table? That selling is analogous to rubbing the
poor off their meals.
What a fine theoretical frameworks of paradigm shift.
Methane is dubbed the mega-fart of mother Earth, and is in
prodigious quantities in many part of the world, from permafrost to frozen bogs
and underneath sea bed or by-products of oil fields, exported as liquefied
natural gas. By the state of human nature, the half-life of methane ultimately
decomposed to form carbon dioxide.
Zero population grow in which a population remain stable, occurs only when the
birth and death rates are equal. As any population which sustains a negative rate of growth will halve or any
population which sustains a positive rate of growth will double; and
by the law of nature, if we reduce world population by half, human
induced emissions will reduce by a quarter.
Trading emissions could not mitigate global warming, charity starts from home,
such as China's food and population formula, which by 2050 both human induced
emissions and population issue can be significantly rectified. Recent world food
and credit crisis had already pay dividend to an educated and prosper nation, a shock to
the critics.
Ecological Footprint
You know, the term ‘ecological footprint’ is to let people know how much they consume
of nature’s resources and their waste discharged back on Earth. On the eve of
the millennia, there was 5.3 acres of land on
average to support each person on Earth, now is down to 4.9 acres.
And with
developed nations consume on average per head, about 9 acres of the Earth’s
resources each, while the 3rd world and emerging nations consume
on average below 3.5 acres per head.
A nation is said to have an ecological deficit, if the number of acres
needed to support its lifestyle is greater than the number of acres that
existed in that nation, they are all developed nations.
The number of ‘ecological footprint’ surplus nations has
now dwindled down to three in our universe; even India and China consume on average
about 4 acres per head of the Earth's natural resources each.
In a generation’s time, the average number of acres available will drop
down to 3 for each person on Earth, whilst consumption of the nature’s
resources is rapidly increasing, an ecological imbalance already happened.
An American study titled 'land, food and population growth' suggested that
our ‘One World’ will have to reduce her population by two-third to be
ecologically sustainable.
That number, coincide with the ancient Chinese agrarian wisdom, the term
'mere subsistence' meant 2-3 acres of arable land per head was need, in order
to avoid the most gruesome famine during draughts, for a given population in
that nation.
This ancient Chinese agrarian philosophy of sustainable land, gave a whole new
dimension to the science of ecological footprint, which was based on global
hectares per capita.
The postulated sustainable populations figure by eco-scientists, meant if
the than maximised world populations all stand still, can be ecologically
sustainable. What a load of pseudoscience.
Even by today’s fossil fuel era of Anthropocene climate, one-third of the
world's workforce is still employed in agribusiness, while all governments
subsidize agrarian activities for food security, though agriculture only
account for 5% of the GDP, or gross world aggregate product of exponential
growth.
Since the millennia, this one world footprint uses the equivalent of 1.3
Planet Earth to provide the resources we need today, while our pH neutral
water sources are depleting fast due to industry, food, and population growth, and
is firmly locked in a vicious cycle of demand -- One world one dream same
nightmare.
Black Sea Scenario
The Black Sea weakened slowly at first and then collapsed with shocking
suddenness, has been used to compare with our Oceans as big ponds.
Where giant factory-processing ship, stay at sea for months at a time, scrapping
the deep sea-bed of our Ocean for all life forms in the bottom. These
factory-freezers kept trawling the Ocean for fish until all edible are gone by
the eve of the millennia.
And in a farm-pond, weeds growth slowly, farmers only need to occasionally clear
the weed for an ecological balance before it choke-off all life-forms in it.
Though our planet looks big, and part of it is still green because one fifth of
its forests remain, the rest have been cut and burn for domesticated cattle. The
human animals even have to cut the branch they are sitting as millennia unfold.
Now only one sixth of the forests are left on Earth.
With 100 nations importing wheat from just 6 supplying the world, that number of
suppliers will dwindle down to 3 in a generation's time.
The examples of this type of danger have a fixed ecological ratio, and we can be
deluded into thinking that there is no cause of alarm.
We celebrated on the eve of the new millennia with 6 billion people on
Earth, since another billion people have joined our party by 2010 -- 6 billion
in 1999 now 6.8 and by next year today 7 billion.
The era for world population growing by 1 billion people every 10 years has
started; a count down to 5 years, 3 years, and 1 billion people per year is
now imminent in a generation's time.
Though the world accepts the CO2 another billion people could induce, but can’t
agree on the amount of methane (CH4), the potent greenhouse warming
gas, those extra billion
omnivores could emit, as
some are vegans.
Methane is a significant contributor to climate change and a third of the
world's methane (about 37%) is human induced, primarily from our meat producing
cattle, chicken or pig. With an annual growth rate of about 2%, a generation from now
(or 35 years), our livestock
will consume 1.3 billion tons of fodder (animal feed) alone.
Incidentally, methane (CH4) is also dubbed the mega-fart of mother Earth, and is
in prodigious quantities in many part of the world, from permafrost to frozen
bogs and underneath sea bed or by-products of oil fields, exported as liquefied
natural gas. But by the state of human nature, the half-life of methane ultimately decomposed
to form carbon dioxide.
And the scariest scenario by glaciologists was to build a city in Greenland, where
human activities will force the ancient glacial ice mountains down to sea, which
is enough to lower sea temperature worldwide, to restore climate equilibrium.
What a pseudoscience.
Which does made me wondered? Why earlier in the year (2009), Greenland was
declared an independent nation state, for possible migration as a result of
human induced climate change.
Sustainable Planet Earth
As human populations grow and expand, indigenous populations of plants, insects and animals start getting
squeeze out of the human habitats.
That's bad news to the indigenous as native aboriginal Australians had pointed out,
that disappearing species play a vital role in the ecological systems important to human well beings.
Humans depend on a vast interconnected network of organisms other than our
own species. Examples as plants take in carbon dioxide and convert it to oxygen, and pull
water out of the ground to filter the atmosphere and supply us clean
air and water as rain.
Insects and micro organisms such as bacteria and fungi interact with
(pollinating) plants and animals in ways that provide food for other organisms,
including humans.
It behoves each of us, to work for the integrity, stability, and beauty of that
cobweb which allow all species, a brief sense of oneness with the splendours of
our Planet Earth.
Each of us are born to this Earth and nurtured by her; and each of us will
return to the Earth; all living things are born with ethical standing,
including, and not limited to human species.
The environment and the atmosphere of the Planet Earth are common for all to
share, and the need for all to sacrifice if the 'tragedy of the common' is
to be avoided.
By the law of nature, any population which sustains a negative rate of growth
will halve, or any population which sustains a positive rate of growth will
double. To cut a ‘wedge’ out of the graph of rising emissions will have to halve
world population. Human beings are at best selfish.
It took nature tens of thousands of years to build up a population of just half
of a billion people, but within our life time, world population had gone up
to 6.8 billions today.
Sleeping On the Job
According to the ancient agrarian records, historically, Chinese imperial navy
has been surveying the outside world every few hundred years.
Last
reported survey was about 500 years ago (or the Ming dynasty); indicate that there was no cause of
alarm.
The recurring Black Death pandemic - bubonic plague has almost wiped out Western
aboriginal. Population outside of China was a few tens of millions.
But the resilient population bounced back, leading to the Westphalia accords and
formulated land-grab policies. By the 19th century, this great scale migratory
movement was unprecedented; as a result of massive famines throughout Europe was
a perennial issue.
And thus, deforested four out of seven Continents, for cattle and population
growth, single-handedly ratchet up the speed of climate change during little Ice
Ages.
Intellectual migrant workers returning home today greeted by their natives as
the ‘White man’s nigger’ from the West, whilst the ‘White man’s burden’
label for colour still afresh.
The Western aboriginal won the world yesterday, not by the superiority of its
ideas or values, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence.
The West today tries to forget that historical fact, but the rest of the world
never does.
Today, Caucasian population, totalling 2 billion people over 4 Continents,
accounts for about a third of the world population, and consume on average per
head, about 9 acres of the Earth’s resources each.
Satellite images revealed that in recent years, Caucasians have started
populating Greenland as well; a Greenland city is now imminent in a generation’s
time.
Which does made people wondered? Why earlier in the year (2009), Greenland was
declared an independent nation state, for possible migration as a result of
human induced climate change.
And the scariest scenario by glaciologists was to build a Greenland city, where
human activities will force the ancient glacial ice mountains down to sea, which
is enough to lower sea temperature worldwide, to restore climate equilibrium.
What a load of pseudoscience.
Migration has always been Homo sapiens’ survival strategy, by wrecking the
natural fecundity of new found Continents, you have nowhere to go. Mars is not
Homo sapiens' new frontier.
The environment and the atmosphere of the Planet Earth are common for all to
share, and the need for all to sacrifice if the 'tragedy of the common' is
to be avoided.
It behoves each of us, to work for the integrity, stability, and beauty of that
cobweb which allow all species, a brief sense of oneness with the splendours of
our Planet Earth.
Each of us are born to this Earth and nurtured by her; and each of us will
return to the Earth; all living things are born with ethical standing,
including, and not limited to human species.
The era for world population growing by 1 billion people every 10 years has
started; a count down to 5 years, 3 years, and 1 billion people per year is now
imminent in a generation's time.
Though climatologists had warned of imminent 'man-made' global
warming, yet failed to see why China controls her population growth. By the
law of nature, any decomposing body ultimately produce carbon dioxide or
methane if devoid of oxygen; both are potent greenhouse warming gases.
Thanks to the hockey stick (Keeling curve) on CO2 and satellite data on greenhouse
gases over the decades, there can be no doubt now, that human activity on Planet
Earth is changing climate levels.
World population will have to return to pre-industrial level. Any population
which sustains a negative rate of growth will halve; else nature will take her
revenge. The little Ice Age era is primarily a European and North Atlantic
phenomenon. To cut a ‘wedge’ out of the graph of rising emissions will
have to halve population. Human beings are at best selfish.
Earth system science believes that human interference to planet Earth carbon
cycle on land and at sea affects the ocean circulation, the stratosphere and its
ozone layer, and the ice of the cryosphere. The Earth’s functioning system is
now close to breakdown.
If hydroxyl decides to take a break now, our Planet Earth’s metabolism will
cease to function without her ephemeral chemical. The concentration of hydroxyl
in the atmosphere is merely one part per trillion. Our trusted janitor might resign
anytime.
Recent world food crisis provide not only a warning but also an opportunity to
examine our sustainability, for a sustainable growth in order to achieve true
security. With an annual growth rate of about 2%, a generation from now (or 35
years), our livestock
will consume 1.3 billion tons of fodder (animal feed) alone.
Lonesome George
Petroleum plays a vital role in food, but nitrous oxide is a by product of
fossil fuel in combustion engine, which inactivates vitamin B12 deficiency in us
by oxidation, that the experts called cobalamin.
Vitamin B12 plays a key role in the normal functioning of the brain and
nervous system, and vitamin B12 deficiency causes sensory neuropathy, myelopathy
and encephalopathy -- the inflammation in the brain, or the 'big-headedness'
literally, not a sign of intelligence else dolphins would be farming human
species.
Lonesome George is a case in point when the few big-headedness ventured into
Galapagos Islands for food, with snout in their trotters, now shed crocodile
tears with tortoise -- those who cannot remember the past are condemned to
repeat in the future.
These parasitic brains are helping themselves again with fossil fuel, in the
name of global warming. A generation from now will label these rarest black
stuffs potent symbol of past industrialized civilization.
With the dispersion rates per square mile on many part of the world now reached
critical points, and the tilting of the biotic potential on human population as
a result of advances in medical science, plus the shifting in our trophic levels
(food chains) in the ecosystem.
If the remaining black stuffs are not wisely preserved for vital industrial and agricultural usage now, no military power than
can assure world security in a generation's time.
Author
©Copyright
01/03/2010
All rights reserved.
In my research and studies on the politics in global warming versus human
induced climate change, I am increasingly aware of the danger that I might be
described as a global warming sceptic.
While formalizing the scientific facts away from the climate scientists varies
published hypotheses and assumptions, I opted for a kind of simplifying device
that allows us to decide which facts mattered to our health and which does not.
Some of the research materials obtained might be regarded as unethical, and
might even be regarded as an underhand approach to climate change; however,
devices that can simplify facts, served well in highlighting the health hazard
aspect of human induced chemical pollutants, that food, population growth, and
chemical pollutants are intertwined. To cut a ‘wedge’ out of the graph of
rising emissions will have to halve population; human beings are at best
selfish.
Author
01/03/2010
Notes:
(1) CFCs like CCl3F and CCl2F2. Since the 1987
Montreal Protocol, 180 countries have ratified the agreement, CFCs emission trading
was not on the agenda.
Luck was on our side that industry chose the easy option of CFCs instead of
bromine for spray cans and refrigerators, and then nature can't break down the
bromine bonds. Bromine is 100 times more effective at destroying ozone layer.
Pure luck determined that mechanical engineer turned chemist Thomas Midgley
chose the easy option of CFCs than the less known bromine compounds to develop
his mechanical cooling system.
(2) Since 1970s research indicated ozone level had dropped, by October 1984, the
loss was 30%; and by 1989, the loss was 70%. Ozone hole in Dobson units for October 1992 was 105 where normally for that
time of the year is 225 Dobson units.
UV (ultraviolet) radiation wavelengths below 242nm can break down as well as
form molecule bonds such as CFCs (chemical bonds) over time. Research indicated
that it will take nature 50-100 years to repair itself.
(3) Holocene climate variability
The ending of the Holocene climate era and the beginning of the Anthropocene
climate.
Source:
Holocene climate variability
(4) Earth rotation in elliptical form round the Sun
The 100,000 year cycles of ice ages and interglacial that have persisted for
around a million years each have coincided with a minor wobble in the Earth’s
orbit amplify by carbon dioxide.
(5)
Ancient Chinese atmospheric records indicated changing behaviour of the Sun
likely reason for seasonal climate change over a cycle of 10s of thousands
of years.
Since the 1960s, China has adopted a population growth and food yield formula, base on
any population which sustains a
negative rate of growth will halve; and by 2050 both human induced emissions and
population issue can be significantly rectified. Recent world food and credit crisis had already pay
dividend to an educated and prosper nation, a shock to the critics.
(6) Kyoto protocol was designed to cap global warming, but emission trading was
on the agenda. If by selling more emissions could mitigate global warming, than
selling hunger would benefit the poor, what a tautology.
Emissions trading benefits the rich, by selling thin
air to put food on the table is analogous to rubbing the poor off their meal, whilst avoiding the
political sensitive issue of world over population.
Perhaps the
Iraqis did sacrifices themselves to mitigate
world population explosion.
(7) Vitamin B12 is a water soluble vitamin with a key role in the normal
functioning of the brain and nervous system, and for the formation of blood.
B12 is a complex structure and has a collection of rare biochemical element cobalt and
in a Corrin-ring
molecule structure (consisting of 4-pyrrole subunits) synthesized by bacteria. It is one of the eight B vitamins.
(8) Petroleum is the raw material for many chemical products, including
pharmaceuticals, solvents, fertilizers, pesticides, and plastics. In the
industrialized world, the largest volume products of the industry are fuel oil
and gasoline (petrol) for vehicles.
Sulphuric acid (H2SO4), principal uses include lead-acid batteries for cars.
Nitric acid (HNO3), also known as aqua fortis (Latin strong) and spirit of
nitre, is a highly corrosive and toxic strong acid that can cause severe burns.
(9) Historically, economic success has a close correlation between growth
and the climate, the mechanism between the two may spur in early human activity that
economic, as well as cultural development always concentrated on warmer parts of the
Earth, examples of such as China, India or Egypt.
(10) Global warming may improve global agriculture toward climate variability
in the Holocene (11,500 years BP to the present), and had sustained
the growth and development of modern society.
Source:
Holocene climate variability
(11)
Population growth is mathematically linked to resources and the climate, and
China is the only nation on Earth doing something about it. Take the biosphere and the climate for example.
The natural absorption rate of organic carbon in the soil mantle is
estimated 42 million tons annually. Human discharge of organic carbon had
reached 85 million tons per annum -- doubled the earth's natural absorption
ability.
The volume of solid domestic waste discharged in the Earth’s biosphere has
reached a geological figure, over 400 million tons per year. Such an enormous
amount of waste affects global geochemical cycles, further contribute to the
shifting in climates and trophic levels (food chains) in the ecosystem.
(12) Ecological Footprint
The term ‘ecological footprint’ is to let people know how much they consume of
nature’s resources and their waste discharged back on Earth.
In ancient agricultural civilization, the term 'mere subsistence' indicate 2-3
acres of arable land per head was need, in order to avoid the most gruesome
famines during draught, for a given population in that nation -- arable land not
global hectares per capita.
In the 1950s, China is said to have an ecological deficit -- the number of acres
of arable land needed to support her population in case of draught, there was
massive famine. Since adopted the food yield and population growth formula, and
recent world food crisis has again proved the ancient wisdom.
In a research on ecology and agriculture at Cornell University and US
National Research Institute on Food and Nutrition study titled 'land, food and
population growth' indicated that the world will have to reduce her population
by two-third, the maximum sustainable ecology in the US is 200 million.
World Footprint
Today, humanity uses the equivalent of 1.3 Planet Earth to provide the resources we
use and absorb our waste discharged back on earth, that is -- it takes 1 year
and 4 months at today's rate.
In a generation's time, we will need the equivalent of two Planet Earths to
support our existing life style, while pH neutral water sources are depleting
fast due to food and population growth, and it's going to be a 'one world one
dream same nightmare' scenario.
(13) Ecological Footprint
In the case of coffee, about 25 million small farmers depend directly on coffee
production in over 50 countries. With increasing use of fertilisers and
pesticides since the 1980s, has led to over supply of coffee, as a result coffee
farmers’ income has declined by two-third (about 70%) by 2001.
(14) Little Ice Ages
The periods of little ice age began in the early 14th century, and flickered on
and off before peaking in late 17th century and finally releasing its grip some
150 years ago.
At the height of the little ice age, the Baltic Sea froze over and there was
widespread famine across Europe. By 1420s Chinese surveying ships headed the
Arctic via the north coast of Greenland through to North America.
And 72 years later, Columbus discovered America (in 1492), in order words; it
took the Western aboriginal 72 years after the Chinese surveying ships left
North America, to realized that there was advance civilization outside the
medieval Europe, and the start of the Renaissance periods.
(15) Pseudoscience Tale
Pseudoscience tale of the ocean circulation system switch, that colder water
dissolves carbon dioxide faster than warmer water, in order to controlling the
ocean conveyer belt on/off switch.
And suggest the building of a city in Greenland, where human activities will
force the ancient glacial ice mountains down to sea, which is enough to lower
sea temperature worldwide, to restore climate equilibrium.
(16) Bio-Capacity
The natural absorption rate of organic carbon in
the soil mantle is estimated 42 million tons annually. Human discharge of
organic carbon had reached 85 million tons per annum – doubled the earth's
natural absorption ability.
The volume of solid domestic waste discharged in the Earth’s biosphere has
reached a geological figure (landfill site figure), over 400 million tons per
year. Such an enormous amount of waste affects global geochemical cycles;
further contribute to the shifting in climates and trophic levels (food chains)
in the ecosystem.
(17) Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Runoff
According to recent research from Beijing, China alone responsible for about
133,000 metric tons, mainly from eastern China industrial towns, now accounting
for about 22% of global PAHs emissions.
The human activities alone now account for about half of the cancerous PAHs (or
about a million metric tons), in addition to volcanic activity.
(18) Fodder or Animal Feed
The worldwide animal feed industry consumed 635 million tons of feed (compound
feed equivalent) in 2006, with an annual growth rate of about 2%.
Source:
Real Climate
World Footprint
Holocene Era
PAHs Runoff
|
Population Growth Rate |
Population Doubled |
| @
1 % |
in
70 years |
|
@ 1.5 % |
in
47 years |
| @
2 % |
in
35 years |
|
@ 2.5 % |
in
28 years |
| @
3 % |
in
23 years |
|
@ 3.5 % |
in
20 years |
| @
4 % |
in
18 years |
Mantra: You can't cure brain death but you can prevent
it from dying.
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