The Storm of the Century - What's Your Story?

[Cruelladeville]

Hey JM i'm in Boston at the mo holed-up in a hotel room recovering from facial FFS surgery...

So have time to play here, now that my eyes are once more working....lol

Boston's frozen, when we flew in 10 days or so ago.... twas ice sheets in the Bay on finals into Logan... snow this morning but lite... heavy two days ago...

The side-walks are stacked with 4-5ft of snow....where this all goes when it melts?

Last year record floods in East Europe, Hungary, Pakistan, then a few weeks back record floods in Brisbane, and Brazil.... Now a massive cyclone hits Queensland...

Meanwhile glacial melts in Antarctica accelerate....

And equator band temps rise ever further, in Arizona last year it was 35c at nite!! And ocean species die-off is accelerating...

If you're a climate-change denier I don;t know which planet you're on....but fortunately Gaia's cure is coming fast.... Peak Oil, the point where the world runs out of cheap abundant fossil fuel oil is upon us... its downhile from now.whether we like it or not...

Coal/Gas/Oil are all one-offs non-sustainable... and once its all gone if we're dumb enough to burn all the trees to keep warms twill be game over...

Bio-fules/algae will not cut it for all the worlds economies to keep growing, food/oil shortages are what's triggering the riots, in the ME right here, right now...

We're just one of many species that roam this place, many have come and gone, to be arrogant enough to assume that this couldn't happen to us...is naïve beyond belief to say the very least.

But if u'man beans do locust like 'consume' all to the bitter end.... then at best only a few 1-2bn folk will probably make it through...

That would mean a die-off 5bn needed in the next 5 decades.... frightening math....but that's the deal on the table at the mo...

If we DO NOT CHANGE OUR BEHAVIOUS...

(rant over)

PS: NASA though is on the case.... they now have over 50 new planets logged that can be life sustaining.... (the only hope for us all long-term is out there, in space).... but we have to figure out the long journey time involved... and how do we get there?

[Julie Marie]

Boston, eh?  Speigel?  A friend of ours from CT will be seeing him at the end of next month.  CT got socked with snow, something like 6' so far.  I think they had two storms so far that were close to the last one we got and that didn't include whatever this last one dropped on them. 

As Julie said, if you stayed off the roads you were in pretty good shape.  And all that shoveling put us in better shape.  When I opened the garage door yesterday there was a 4' wall waiting for me to clear.  It took Julie and I over 4 hours to clear the drive and walkway.  And our driveway is only 55' long and 20' wide.

As far as global warming, my reference was to those nuts who tell us natural disasters and such are the wrath of God punishing us for our sins.  I'm a hell of lot more worried about the mess we're leaving my kids generation.  And then there's China and the Middle East.  These kids have their hands full and we didn't do much to help them.  I guess we could have been less selfish.

[Flan]

These kids have their hands full and we didn't do much to help them.  I guess we could have been less selfish.

to be fair, it's more then peak oil production and the environment, but a culture of not wanting to deal with issues and passing the buck to the next gen to deal with.

both oil and environment issues were decades in the making and both won't be solved any time soon with the current thinking towards transportation, food production/distribution and environmental policy.

[Cruelladeville]

Hi JM...

Yep physically clearing anything off your adobe... is good for you on so many levels...lol

Boston, Yes... Speigel.... No....though i'm staying within helicopter ear-shot of the BMC...

*wrath of God punishing us for our sins*

Empires come and go, we Brits rang things quite nicely for ourselves till the 1930s.... sadly most USA based peeps and Yanks just don't smell what's coming...

But let's just say that if I lived in Australia – i'd be making Mandarin my first choice of language pretty darn soon...

Over-population, money-printing currency debasement, military over-reach and escalating national debt always lead to the same thing...

Empire collapse....

And then the new order moves in....