Too bad. All humans needed to survive was direct democracy, planned parenthood and a limit on personal wealth.

From Jackson Browne, circa 1974 (Late for the Sky):

BEFORE THE DELUGE

Some of them were dreamers
And some of them were fools
Who were making plans and thinking of the future
With the energy of the innocent
They were gathering the tools
They would need to make their journey back to
nature
While the sand slipped through the opening
And their hands reached for the golden ring
With their hearts they turned to each other`s
hearts for refuge
In the troubled years that came before the deluge

Some of them knew pleasure
And some of them knew pain
And for some of them it was only the moment that
mattered
And on the brave and crazy wings of youth
They went flying around in the rain
And their feathers, once so fine, grew torn and
tattered
And in the end they traded their tired wings
For the resignation that living brings
And exchanged love`s bright and fragile glow
For the glitter and the rouge
And in a moment they were swept before the deluge

Now let the music keep our spirits high
And let the buildings keep our children dry
Let creation reveal it`s secrets by and by
By and by--
When the light that`s lost within us reaches the
sky

Some of them were angry
At the way the earth was abused
By the men who learned how to forge her beauty
into power
And they struggled to protect her from them
Only to be confused
By the magnitude of her fury in the final hour
And when the sand was gone and the time arrived
In the naked dawn only a few survived
And in attempts to understand a thing so simple
and so huge
Believed that they were meant to live after the
deluge

Now let the music keep our spirits high
And let the buildings keep our children dry
Let creation reveal it`s secrets by and by
By and by--
When the light that`s lost within us reaches the
sky

(Thank you, Jackson. Let the music keep our spirits high.)

Humanity has always faced catastrophe. This is nothing new; however, our monkeyboy heredity has allowed a lot of stupid memes to thrive. The biggest one is religion. Hey, people can believe what they want. They can organize themselves along those beliefs. But, they can never be allowed to substitute their beliefs for science. We have half a country who don't even believe in evolution. This is akin to belief that the earth is flat! Period and case closed. if you take this kind of BELIEF public, you only serve yourself, not your fellow man!

One nice thing about being old is that I'll be dead before the excrement gets to the blades. And I'll be laughing as I jump into my grave. As cynical as I've been all my life, I've not been able to keep up.(Apologies to Lily Tomlin) Humans are stupid, ignorant, and mean-spirited. What right do they have to continue?

"Mars will always be the lush green planet it is today," said the Martian Industrialist. "There's nothing to that climate change nonsense."

Are there any lingering doubts as to where we are going? Time to prepare your death song.

Bucket list?

might be time to get together with each of those desired, potential lovers on one's Fuckit list...

Either they are greedy bastards, or are trying to speed the onset of the apocalypse.

Probably the latter - they figure they will end up in purgatory until the rapture, so don't want that to be such a long time.

Hey - since science isn't a valid source for reasoning - trying something else...

Interesting CD was down for maintance, and now that its back my last several weeks of comments have been censored. Anyone else get censored in the latest down time?

Remember boys and girls don't leave the veal fattening pen of just slightly left of center civil discourse or you too will get censored. :( New ideas and challenging status quo thought is scary idn' it? Make sure to heap on some New Age irrationality for extra bonus points. Whatever you do don't advocate for a street activist hard left class analysis.

Sigh!

We need the climate to change now, and wreak its consequences on human civilisation as fast as possible. What else could slow our extravagant globe eating resource fest? If the hysteresis of climate change waits until green emissions have accumulated much higher, then we all will be truely cooked.

We can only be saved by being exposed to the consequences of our folly sooner, rather than later. The only adaption possible is a gross reduction in greenhouse emissions. Either way there is a gross reduction in human population. There is no escape for fossil fools.

God enters the lab and sniffs. He turns to Gabriel and says, "Phew, that petri dish is really beginning to stink. Dump it, wash it out and we'll try something else."

Maybe global warming (oh, wait, isn't the PC term climate change, sorry about that) deniers will be convinced when Manhattan is covered by a foot of water. Probably not.

How do we know humans are the primary cause of the warming?

A large body of evidence supports the conclusion that human activity is the primary driver of recent warming. This evidence has accumulated over several decades, and from hundreds of studies. The first line of evidence is our basic physical understanding of how greenhouse gases trap heat, how the climate system responds to increases in greenhouse gases, and how other human and natural factors influence climate.

The second line of evidence is from indirect estimates of climate changes over the last 1,000 to 2,000 years. These estimates are often obtained from living things and their remains (like tree rings and corals) which provide a natural archive of climate variations. These indicators show that the recent temperature rise is clearly unusual in at least the last 1,000 years.

The third line of evidence is based on comparisons of actual climate with computer models of how we expect climate to behave under certain human influences. For example, when climate models are run with historical increases in greenhouse gases, they show gradual warming of the Earth and ocean surface, increases in ocean heat content, a rise in global sea level, and general retreat of sea ice and snow cover. These and other aspects of modeled climate change are in agreement with observations.

“Global Climate Change Indicators”, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/indicators/

Doesn't Mother Nature have a right to defend herself, too?
Let The Alps Melt! Humans will be hurt but...
MOTHER NATURE WASTES NOT, THEREFORE SHE WANTS NOT!
The Earth will survive.
"The world is a spiritual thing. It should not be "touched".

HUMANS vs EARTH
WORLD CIVIC CENTER
11th ROUND

WORLD WATCHES IN HORROR as earth shakes off blows from her opponent in the 11th round of a fight that many believed was a mismatch.
Billions of viewers from around the globe are grasping their TP Sets in disbelief as EARTH switches tactics and begins "throwing punches" back at HUMANS. (TP/TechPod)
EARTH had been "rolling with the punches" but now the underdog seems to be reacting to some sort of threat against her mother, NATURE that was made by HUMANS.
Folks it doesn't look good for Humans right now and as if things couldn't get any worse for the Champ... THEY JUST RAN OUT OF POPCORN!

A simple test:

Look at the world from early aerial photographs from the 19th and 20th Centuries, and compare those to more recent shots of the same areas.

How difficult is it to see and conclude that the changes we have wrought on the surface of the planet aren't going to have profound effects upon the rest of the Biosphere?

I think the global warming concern is no hoax, but it is a red-herring. A distraction or at least an overly difficult truth to prove, and therefore, not the most important battle to wage. The true danger is radical transformation of the Biosphere, in every facet, as a holistic vision.

We've taken what was essentially a natural landscape 200 years ago, and transformed it into a never-ending industrial and domesticated artificial grid.

Exhaust spewing vehicles scurry like ants and locusts across the globe. Countless smokestacks pump plumes of toxic byproduct, legally, into our skies.

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Is there any way the elites expect anything but that the masses will assume they plan on exterminating us in vast hordes?

How else to explain the vast indifference from the ranks of the ownership class? As if they don't know what we're/they're doing.

Their complete disregard for the obvious cliff we are heading towards leads a reasonable mind to assume they have some more sinister, unspeakable plan as to how they intend on resolving our world-wide dilemma.

BELLYBUTTONS & GRAVESTONES
You leave behind the only world that you have ever known
and blindly enter into another totally different one when you are born.
You will repeat this remarkable process again when you die!
In the last and final act of separation from the only world that you have ever known, a cord is cut and the life support system that has sustained you since your beginning completely shuts down. Incredibly, an entirely new life support system takes over and you find a way to breathe by catching a new breath. All of this should be familiar territory to you but it's no wonder that you can't remember dieing. Your mind lost consciousness in order to survive the trauma, just like it does during a bad accident. Your throat was sliced, when the surgeon cut the umbilical cord that had sustained you, since your conception. Birth actually seems like death to the one who is about to be born because in childbearing; there are many that do not survive. For them, birth is death. Your Bellybutton is living proof that you had to survive death in order to get here... and there you were thinking, that your Bellybutton was nothing more than a dust collector.
MOTHER NATURE GAVE YOU A BELLY BUTTON ON YOUR BIRTHDAY. A Bellybutton is an odd gift indeed but it was given to you, on your very first birthday, so that you would never forget just how remarkable you are. You have already survived death once and you even have the scar to prove it! Your Bellybutton is a symbol of "your past life" and the mark of an extraordinary survivor. Coincidentally, the word "GRAVE" means; to mark, or engrave. Gravestones are "Marking Stones". Bellybuttons and Gravestones are marks that are left behind after a passing.
As strange as it may seem, human bodies are transportation devices. You came out of your mother's body when you were born, and you will come out of your own body when you die. A human body brought you into this world and a human body will release you from it. Dying and being born are the very same thing but it's the outcome of the act that determines how we choose to use the words.
Human beings are truly remarkable and that is why, we use two words instead of only one, to describe ourselves as a species. We use the term "Human Being" to describe ourselves because there are two separate parts to our nature. The "Human" part of your nature is your Visible Outer Person (VOP). The "Being" part of your nature is your Invisible Inner Person (IIP)... or otherwise known as, your inner person(ality). Your Outer Person(OP) is made of physical matter but your Inner Personality (IP) is not. A doctor cannot find your personality with a scalpel or a microscope and that's too bad... because your personality was essentially created from two other personalities (mother/father), therefore you were born with a "split personality". Your purpose in life is to develop the split-minded personality that you were born with into a "single-minded one, before you die..
Your personality is growing inside of you just like a baby in a womb. It's developing and changing during every minute of every day. In fact, you are not the same person today that you were yesterday, or for that matter... ten minutes ago. Personality growth ends when death begins. Death separates the non-physical part of your nature from the physical part. If your personality is strong enough to survive death... then once again, you will be born into another new life. Where else would newborns for the next life come from?
You faced death once before and found out that there was life beyond the womb and, if your personality is strong enough, when you die... you will also find out that there is life beyond the tomb.
CONSULTING WITH THE SPIRITUAL HOBO
http://edbuley.blogspot.com

Time to quit yer jobs and learn how to farm or support yourself without imported goods and a societal structure

Everyone seems so confident that the IPCC computer programs are absolutely accurate in the models used to predict climate. It seems to me they have been perverted by all sorts of political nonsense. First the final drafts of the IPCC reports are written by the politicos and it is documented that the final results often differ from the "scientific" results. Secondly, the said computer models do not take cloud formation and its affect upon climate into account. One European group (Danish) has research that suggests that lower cloud formation by aerosols, caused by two features outside of the earth are the dominant creators of climate change: position within the Milky Way (the spiral arms are very active in producing cosmic rays, while the space between them is not) and which part of the sun cycle we are in. The sun cycle controls the solar wind which can prevent most cosmic rays from reaching the earth or allow it. Comparison of the Danish results with astronomical records shows a very good correlation with climate for millions of years. Since the Danish data is the very thing the IPCC group is lacking you would think that they would welcome it.
The fact is that the Danish results have been kept out of US. Climate Journals is due to the actions of referees who denounce it. Wonder of wonders - the referees are all on the IPCC project. Anyone who knows that must become a denier - the science is incomplete - it is entirely likely that CO2 is only a minor cause in the climate change.
The fact that publishers and web sites (including Common Dreams) like to emphasize the dramatic consequences of one possibility does nothing to help make reasonable and intellegent decisions. Perhaps, as the location of our solar system within the Milky Way changes and the solar wind changes, a mini ice age will be nicely balanced by global heating due to man' release of CO2. Wouldn't that do a lot for the religious crowd who could interpret that as an act of devine providence?

Salusa, the ownership class, as you call them, are determined to pile up and hoard as much money as they can, and denying the need to change the way modern man despoils the earth is the way to do that. Now they think they can buy protection from what the rest of us will suffer. It's comforting to know they're wrong.

Jerry Mat, for example, is still bad-mouthing the idea that we are the problem in order to keep things just the way they are. So he gives us a beautifully romantic picture of our little planet floating towards a more salubrious spot in the solar system. Cosmic rays are hot, solar winds are cold, have I got that right?

Do you know the Maxwell Anderson/Kurt Weill song Lost in the Stars? 'But I've been walking through the night and the day, Till my eyes get weary and my head turns gray, And sometimes it seems maybe God's gone away, Forgetting the promise that we heard him say, And we're lost out here in the stars ...

“We are facing a well-organized and well-funded campaign attacking our science and our integrity, spreading confusion and disinformation,” says Pieter P. Tans, a leading climate scientist at the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. Tans talked about the civic responsibility of scientists in his remarks on receiving the 2010 Roger Revelle Medal at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in December 2010.

Dr. Tans concluded his acceptance remarks with the following:

“As climate scientists we now find our­selves in the situation that our subject is widely understood to be so relevant to soci­ety that many powerful interest groups feel threatened. Thus, we are facing a well-orga­nized and well-funded campaign attack­ing our science and our integrity, spread­ing confusion and disinformation. This is not surprising, as mitigating climate change goes to the core of our energy sup­ply system and the broader economic sys­tem. Human-made climate change demon­strates that we cannot continue business as usual. Should we ignore the deliberate lies and manipulations we face and stick purely with the science, hoping that sound judgment and compassion will eventu­ally prevail? We are scientists, but we are also citizens. It is our civic responsibility to redouble our efforts to convey to the public clearly the urgency and the essence of the climate change problem. The kind of world we leave to our children and grandchildren depends on it. It will have to be a world that has as one of its guiding principles a San­skrit prayer that was used as a dedication in the above mentioned 1972 book: ‘Oh Mother Earth, ocean-girdled and mountain-breasted, pardon me for trampling on you.’ ”

Source: “Revelle Medal winner Pieter Tans on the climate disinformation campaign
Posted on Climate Watch” by Rick Piltz, Jan 18, 2011

http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2011/01/18/pieter-tans-on-the-climate-disinformation-campaign/