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The John James Newsletter 41

The John James Newsletter 41
17 January 2015

I do not blame those who are resolved to rule, only those who are ready to submitThucydides

Edge of ExtinctionGuy McPherson is convinced that humanity will be extinct within 20 years from a chain of events that would be triggered by the next Global Financial Crisis. Here is his sequence and its consequences. http://arctic-news.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/edge-of-extinction.html andhttp://truth-out.org/news/item/28490-the-methane-monster-roars

• The global financial system is artificial and mired in debt.
• Were it to fail, as many predict could happen this year, then trade and industry would decline sharply and rapidly.
• Less power would be used and less pollution would continue to enter the atmosphere.
• Up to now this has created an aerosol layer of smog that has masked warming by more than 1 degree.
• In addition, this year or next we should see an ice-free Arctic for the first time.
• Complete loss of Arctic ice could double the current rate of warming.
• Together these two events will cause rapid global heat-rise, really rapid!
• As it gets too hot to keep nuclear power plants cool there would be massive fires that create more heat.
• Few forests could avoid destruction from catastrophic wildfires, all adding to the temperature.
• The accelerated temperature increase speeds up the loss of Arctic and Antarctic ice that will raise sea levels 
• This further reduces trade and industry as docks and infrastructure is flooded
• That leads to even more loss of aerosol cover
• Leading to more temperature rise.
• Together these would bring global temperature to beyond 2.4 degrees, and possibly double in the interior of large continents and result in widespread crop failure and loss of habitat.
• At that heat a massive explosion of methane from the Arctic Sea is highly probable.
• This would rapidly increase temperature by a further 1.2 degrees.
• In addition there are more than twenty feed-back loops waiting to accelerate this process.
• Governments will be overwhelmed and find it more and more difficult to operate
• Populations have nowhere to go.
• Nuclear war is almost inevitable.

Civilisation fails.

• Events are now moving so rapidly this scenario is likely to commence very soon 
• It would unfold over the next twenty years or less
• By then the earth will be 5-6 degrees hotter. 

George MonbiotThere has not been one proposal, debate or even position paper on limiting fossil fuel production put forward at international climate negotiations. Almost all governments are pursuing the same policy of maximising the production of fossil fuels while paying lip service to the need to minimise emissions.http://www.monbiot.com/2015/01/09/produce-more-consume-less/
The bear is back: A cautionary tale from Gerard MinackFiscal policy is very unlikely to be effective in the next downturn due to congressional gridlock in the US, and lack of centralised fiscal authority in Europe. So you’re left response-less when you enter the next downturn, with monetary policy that is ineffectual, unconventional and just embroidery.What we have are fully invested bears.http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-bear-is-back-a-cautionary-tale-of-global-gloom-20150112-12mahk.html
A science experiment landed this little girl in handcuffsKiera is just one of over 260,000 students that were reported to law enforcement by their schools in 2012, the most-recent available data. By criminalizing every activity under the sun for both adults and children, the government is using the threat of violence (or sometimes actual violence) to create a docile, obedient, and subservient population.http://www.sovereignman.com/trends/unbelievable-a-science-experiment-landed-this-little-girl-in-handcuffs-15884/
In an ‘Epic’ Chase, Sea Shepherd Vows to Pursue Poachers to ‘Ends of the Earth’The dramatic chase, which has gone on for 22 days, is thought to be the world’s longest pursuit of an illegal fishing vessel.http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/09/epic-chase-sea-shepherd-vows-pursue-poachers-ends-earth
What Do the World Bank and IMF Have to Do With the Ukraine Conflict?The East-West competition over Ukraine is about the control of natural resources, including uranium and other minerals Ukraine’s vast agricultural sector is the world’s third largest exporter of corn and fifth largest exporter of wheat. Ukraine is the breadbasket of Europe.http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/08/what-do-the-world-bank-and-imf-have-to-do-with-the-ukraine-conflict/
Is War in the Cards for 2015? Either Obama and Putin enter negotiations over Ukraine or the war in Ukraine, with 4,700 dead since April, gets bigger and wider.http://www.creators.com/conservative/pat-buchanan/is-war-in-the-cards-for-2015.html andhttp://www.smh.com.au/comment/appease-putin-and-avert-a-second-cold-war-20150112-12mc0c.html
What Hebdo execution video really showsIt seems impossible that an AK-47 bullet fired from close range would not have had a dramatic impact on that policeman’s head. The video shows nothing significant happened to his head when the bullet was fired.https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yJEvlKKm6og and among the commentshttp://chuckmanotherchoiceofwords.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/je-ne-suis-pas-charlie-extremely-dark.html
Complaint of war crimes against John Howard sent to the International Criminal Courthttp://theaimn.com/complaint-john-howard-international-criminal-court/
China and Russia to launch new credit rating agency in 2015The new agency will be based in Hong Kong, and provide a check on the ‘Big Three’, which have not always provided an accurate reading of economic situations.http://rt.com/business/222175-russia-china-rating-agency/
What 2,000 Calories Looks LikeA healthy adult should be consuming around 2,000 calories a day, according to the US Department of Health. This photo series reveals just what 2,000 calories looks like at some of the UK’s favourite fast food chains — and it’s often a lot smaller than you might think. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/22/upshot/what-2000-calories-looks-like.html?_r=1&abt=0002&abg=1 
The Rock of our Existence The Zionist claim to Palestine was solely based on the Biblical history of the Exodus, the conquest of Canaan, the kingdoms of Saul, David and Solomon and the events of those times. Four generations of devoted archeologists, with a burning conviction and huge resources, produced not a single indication that any of these happened. On the Egyptian side thousands of  documents have been deciphered from 1730 BC onwards that show that Egyptian spies, traders and soldiers reported in great detail on events in every town of Canaan. Not a single item has been found that tells anything remotely resembling Biblical events. http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1420212779
How the West was stolenScale of Native American dispossession revealed in a time-lapse video. Between 1776 and 1887, white conquerors razed across 1.5 billion acres of Indian-occupied land, claiming it for their own.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2902380/Story-Native-American-dispossession-told-unforgettable-new-visualizations.html

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A new study suggests sea level rise, in part from melting land glaciers, has been overestimated for much of the 20th century. Here, scientists at the Pastoruri glacier in Huaraz, Peru, measure ice thickness. (Rodrigo Abd / Associated Press)
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20th century sea level rise started slower, then accelerated, study says

Sea level rise during the bulk of the 20th century has been overestimated, a new report suggests.
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The Harvard-led study, published online Wednesday in the journal Nature, knocks about half a millimeter off estimates of annual sea level rise that have been based on tide gauges. But it nonetheless confirms satellite data showing that the annual rate has sharply accelerated since the 1990s.
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Researchers hadn’t set out to challenge the tide gauge data. They were trying to see whether they could use the information to figure out how sea level changed in response to runoff from melting glaciers on land, from thermal expansion due to absorption of heat by the ocean, and from changes in water storage on land, said the study’s lead author, Carling Hay, a geophysicist at Harvard University.
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Again we have the deniers clutching high school diplomas attempting to shout down scientists. It’s pathetic.
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“As we moved further along in the study, we started summing all of those contributions, and that’s when we got the lower rate,” said Hay. “It was as much a surprise to us as it was to everyone else.”

Virtually everyone else, however, went back and reconsidered their tally of the inputs. After all, there were far more data on tides than on ice melt. Some tidal gauges go back to the 18th century.

But tidal gauge data have some built-in problems. Gauges are widely spaced, have many time gaps and are subject to local influences, including man-made dikes, locks and dams. They also are mainly in mid-latitude Northern Hemisphere ports.
Ice researchers capture catastrophic Greenland melt
Ice researchers capture catastrophic Greenland melt

Then there was the more recently recognized problem of Earth’s crust shifting, not just in response to tectonic plates grinding against one another, but from the loss of the crushing load of ice that melted after the last ice age.

Different researchers have worked around those and other issues by eliminating statistical outliers, relying on regional averages, finessing data with modern satellite measurements and adjusting for shifts in Earth’s crust.

They arrived at a consensus of 1.6-1.9 millimeters a year for all but the last decade of the 20th century. But that still left a gap between what they could tally from contributing sources and what the tides seemed to tell them about ocean volume.

The new study, based on 622 tide gauges, suggests the historical rise was closer to 1.2 millimeters a year. That level in effect closes the accounting gap.

From 1993 to 2010, however, the annual rate of sea level rise leaps to about 3 millimeters per year, the researchers found. That conclusion is confirmed by recent satellite measurements.
Greenland ice loss more ‘local’ than thought, climate study says
Greenland ice loss more ‘local’ than thought, climate study says

“It’s a substantial increase that we should be concerned about,” Hay said.

The new calculations will have to be corroborated, said oceanographer Reinhard Flick of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, who was not involved in the study. If so, Flick added, the revision makes the recent acceleration “significantly larger than previously supposed.”

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