We are now in the climate change surge that two years ago I kept hearing in my psyche was about to descend upon us. “Surge, surge”, I heard during the summer of 2015 . It’s the first in a wave of surges. These accelerated scenarios will force us to adjust to them and also to shift our national priorities.
Just as Irma is bearing down on Florida, the Guardian published a sobering article about warming. Sent by a reader this morning, the article describes the consequences of warming on our planet at each level of warming.
It’s a shocking reminder that we must stop fossil fuel burning or we will become extinct, with much pain along the way. Psychics, including Graham (Zoron) and myself, have seen warming happening much faster than scientists have predicted. Now science is catching up and it’s terrifying.
Unfortunately humans need to be terrified to overcome the greed and lies perpetrated by GOP. Am I too liberal as some emails tell me? In the 1970s I was a centrist, and haven’t changed my views. But the right has gone off the charts. They are not reachable. We must focus on ourselves and continue to speak the truth.
If you decide to read the Guardian article, stay grounded.
It’s not anything we haven’t already read before, but it’s presented in a shocking and upsetting way. My reaction is that some of it will happen regardless of what we do. We are now just over 400 parts per million atmospheric carbon. That level of warming blanket will take a hundred years or more to dissipate. It will also cause the release of massive amounts of methane gas from the frozen permafrost, which will warm us even more.
But the more extreme events will only happen if we do nothing.
Curious about your take. What’s the likely scenario? I’d like to do a long-term reading during the October 2nd Read the Future class for those who have the stamina. Please sign up and send in what you get after the class. I’d like to go to 2075.
There are a few sections in this forum for dealing with the future we are seeing. Here. And here.
Been thinking about this for a decade, since I did a shamanic vision practice to see my own death. In 2035, I saw a bright yellow room with a melting icicle outside the window. I knew it was something like stroke brought on by heat that gets me.
Still not worried about it.
We have the means to counter this--biochar carbon sequestration, a mass shift to local solar/wind power, a shift from extracting oil to carbon neutral algae oil, mass shift to carbon extracting building materials like hempcrete, green roofs, painting roads and roofs white, and finally direct carbon extraction and conversion to useful things like carbon fibers for manufacturing. Those things will let us turn the corner, and fairly quickly, too, if implemented.
What we lack is political will.
The tipping point is not the temperature, it's the economic and values structures of civilization. Market based, extractive, oligarchical capitalism must be replaced by localized socialist communities, where 'all hands are on deck,' funded and empowered to do the local work necessary for carbon reduction. Instead of extracting oil, rebuilding soil.
As long as funds and energies are focused on giving the 1% all the power, it won't happen.
Climate-wise, "the beatings will continue until morale improves," i.e. we have a collective change of hearts away from greed and toward community.
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More bad news: our CO2 output is much worse than expected, according to NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2). Normally, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere goes up each year by about two parts per million by volume (ppmv) of air molecules - the equivalent of four gigatonnes of extra CO2. The current total is just over 400ppmv. But in the 2015/16 El Niño period, the jump was 3ppmv, per year - or six gigatonnes -- a rate of increase not seen on earth in at least 2,000 years. Since human emissions of carbon dioxide have been relatively static over the same period, this could be a sign that tropical forest regions are not able to keep absorbing such a large volume of carbon from the atmosphere. The OCO satellite was able to show how the increase was controlled by the response of tropical forests to heat and drought. The forests' ability to draw down carbon dioxide, some of it produced by human activity, was severely curtailed.
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/257454-nasa-satellite-records-big-increase-carbon-dioxide
I would love to see a new version of the Civilian Conservation Corps planting millions of trees like they did in the 1930s.
A few years ago while meditating I saw 80 foot sea level rise by century's end on the U.S. eastern seaboard. To Runestone's post about seeing her own demise in 2035, could you say anymore about what you saw at that time?