[onlooker]

He also talks of the masking effects of the aerosols and how this is worse than has been reported. So, that basically damned if we do or don't

[Plantagenet]

..... as I have myself pointed out elsewhere and has been shown a gazillion times around here

a) the weather in the midwest, floods and all, is not "unprecedented", we had worse spring weather when Clinton was in his first full year in office, just for one example.

b) This is a long term climate event mostly driven by the el Nino cycle with particularly intense events taking place every few decades. 1992-93, 1997-98, 2011-2012 and this year are all extremely warm wet summers driven by the cycle.

Opinions vary on this. I just heard the Science Editor for the Atlantic Magazine being interviewed on NPR, and her take on the midwest floods is directly tied into global warming. She maintained that there is a very large, stable high pressure system sitting over Alaska and the NE Pacific producing unusual warm and sunny weather there (I can attest personally to this) and the stable Alaska High Pressure is diverting the jet stream down south and around and over the midwest. The jet stream has changed in recent years due to global warming, and now has bigger loops and the waves don't migrate from W to E as rapidly as they used to. In this case, its been in the same place for months, hence the very wet weather and very large floods and large numbers of tornados etc. in the midwest.

plains-midwest-record-cold-snow-flooding-tornadoes-2019

.The whole 'record number of tornadoes' thing is VERY deceptive because over the years almost all tornadoes had to be spotted and reported by a trusted observer to be recorded as a tornado. More recently a lot of weather People are using Doppler radar returns to identify every circular motion in a thunderstorm as a bonified tornado even though they do not meet the traditional meaning of the terminology.

I visited Oklahoma and Arkansas in January, and I was very impressed to see the big radar arrays at Norman, OK at the University tornado research station there. ---- my understanding is that the "record number" of tornadoes this spring does not refer to the total number counted, but to the number of sequential days with 8 or more significant tornado events. This number should not be affected by having greater sensitivity instruments, as they are only looking at the big events that can't be missed even by human observers. And these big tornados are happening day after day after day....to the point that this is a record year for tornado activity.

Cheers!

[AdamB]

Maybe Guy is onto something there.....time will tell.

CHEERS!

So having already missed 2 of this 3 calls for the collapse of civilization to date (and #3 coming up this September), he was extremely vague in what he told you. Did he mention why he was definitive in time frames for the 3 collapses called already, and yet gave you some mamby pamby vague nonsense open to all sorts of interpretation? Perhaps only those who signed up for the grief counseling got the real info?

When you have been disavowed by Deep Green Resistance for sexually predatory behavior can you really have any credibility among 50% of the population?

[onlooker]

Plant, due to your expertise I especially direct myself to you but also Tanada given his level of acumen. Whatever Guy may have already predicted, is not the reality thus: We have an ongoing multifaceted environmental crisis that is being overlayed by accelerating favorable conditions for abrupt climate change. If you resist this conclusion, you are resisting facts

[derhundistlos]

AdamB-

Please provide a source for your three claims that McPherson predicted the end of civilization for dates already passed.

Thanks.

[AdamB]

AdamB-

Please provide a source for your three claims that McPherson predicted the end of civilization for dates already passed.

Thanks.

35 seconds in Guy demonstrates why you don't ask geology, engineering and economic questions of an academic with no experience in any of the three.

Both of his 2018 and 2019 predictions I found at rationalwiki, but I first found them on reddit. It was a quote from another one of his interviews, and it was summer of 2018 he began declaring the end...again...with a little more time I will find it and bookmark it for future reference. Rationalwiki also has his peak oil call.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Guy_McPherson

[jupiters_release]

Guy's totally ignorant of the geoengineering going on around the world and the Arctic which is keeping us alive a little bit longer than the models would suggest without this negative feedback.

[dohboi]

Sorry, I must have missed something. How exactly is the Arctic a negative feedback?

And do you have precise, verifiable proof of these geoengineering projects that are supposedly going on all over the place?

(If this were, indeed, the case, and if even one of them is anywhere near the scale to have any real effect, I am inclined to think that they are more likely to exacerbate our problems than alleviate them :/ )

[jupiters_release]

Geoengineering in the Arctic. Plenty of people have measured aluminum, barium, and strontium in their water and soil samples. Very recently air samples were measured with an electron microscope for irrefutable proof.

If you spent any time outdoors in the past decade with ability of observation you'd be able to see the aerosol injection trails in your sky. Typically at least every other day on sunny days.

The fact you haven't noticed the trails nor silvery haze at sunset after dispersion isn't surprising but you should probably spend less time online.

[dohboi]

OMG, not the contrails thing.

OK, well, you know as we are heating up the atmosphere and oceans, more water is going to end up in the air. And when you get higher relative humidity values, more of that humidity (as in condensation trails) ends up being more visible.

I'm not saying that I have absolute proof that no one is messing with what is coming out of the airplanes.

But, apparently neither do you have any proof that anyone is.

And you still haven't answered my question about supposed negative feedbacks from the Arctic. (But given your answer about geoengineering...I'm not optimistic :/ )

[Revi]

Here's Arctic News, which is edited by Sam Carana:

http://arctic-news.blogspot.com

It's full of very interesting developments in the Arctic region and beyond.

[Revi]

Here's a talk by Guy McPherson.

A lot of what he says seems very possible.

Not that cheerful, but very interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDG5rfFBKSQ

[AdamB]

Here's a talk by Guy McPherson.

A lot of what he says seems very possible.

Come on Revi, you aren't a 10 year old who with wide eyes believes any crap spoon fed them by the adults.

Do you have ANY information that his data leading to his proclamations of end of civilization are any more right today, then they were the other times when he was wrong?

If the answer is "Yes", and you can demonstrate how he now admits he learned from his stupid claims in the past, but his new proclamations are based on how he fixed that bad logic, well then lets here it!

Otherwise, he goes into exactly the same category as Harold Camping.

[Plantagenet]

Here is a more recent, short interview with Guy McPherson.

Guy McPherson interview

He predicts that all humans will be extinct by 2030.

That should make the next 10 years very interesting.

Guy also attributes the flood of refugees hitting the US and EU to climate change and refers to the incredible flooding in the US midwest as a "land hurricane" and says it will impact US food production because so much land is still under water and we are well into the "growing season" and the crops aren't even planted yet.

There's food for thought there (pun intended).



Cheers!

[Whitefang]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_jBs-VhdCo

Paul B. with an interview on radio ecoshock.

Greenland, Antarctica, South America, the Himalayas—it’s all going, the ice is leaving the Earth. This is a whirl-wind roundup of new science with Ottawa climate expert Paul Beckwith. We talk pollution (is it saving us?), vanishing glaciers, Tasmanian dry lightening fires, James Hansen’s latest, tech to draw down carbon dioxide, and why this scientist made 500 videos to educate and warn the public via YouTube. Catch up quick, with this week’s Radio Ecoshock.

WE ARE WITNESSING THE END OF THE AGE OF ICE ON EARTH
Sea level rise is going to be wicked this century, and for centuries after that. We will redraw the maps, withdraw from our ports, lose the weather we need for agriculture, and maybe regroup into tribes that will survive. New revelations from climate science are coming in so fast, no single scientist or radio host can keep track of it all. It is like standing in front of a fire-hose.

THE POLAR VORTEX AND THE WINTER OF CLIMATE CHANGE
When we think of global warming, we imagine hot days, way too hot days and fires. But Paul and I discuss what I call “The Winter of Climate Change”. A while back we had pro meteorologist Judah Cohen on the air. He said the term “polar vortex” really only applies to events in the Stratosphere, but now it has been stolen and popularized by TV weather forecasters. What we are really describing is a blast of super-cold Arctic air escaping lower down to the mid-latitudes, partly due to a weak and wavering Jet Stream.
In Paul’s YouTube videos, he often talks about whip-saw events where temperatures can shift as much as 70F (21C) within 24 hours. This is very hard on human infrastructure, but it’s really toxic to plants. I worry we’ll see tree die-off, and lost perennials from those sub-zero chills followed by spring-like warmth the next day.
A week ago photos in the Tasmanian highlands of Australia showed giant forest fires on the horizon, during record hot heat. Fast forward to Tuesday 12th, and you would see an unusual summer snow storm at the same spot! Whipsaw.

ICE SHEET LOSS
There is new science out, saying “Melting ice sheets may cause ‘climate chaos’ according to new modeling” and “Current international climate policies do not take into account full effects on global climate”.
Professor Natalya Gomez, from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at McGill modeled projected changes to water levels around the globe as ice melts into the ocean. The ice sheet simulations suggest that the fastest increase in the rise of sea levels is likely to occur between 2065 and 2075. Melting ice sheets will affect water temperatures and circulation patterns in the world’s oceans, which will in turn affect air temperatures in a complex ice-ocean-atmosphere feedback loop.
“Water levels would not simply rise like a bathtub,” says Gomez. “Some areas in the world, such as the island nations in the Pacific, would experience a large rise in sea level, while close to the ice sheets the sea level would actually fall.”
The effects of ice sheet melt are far more widespread than simply leading to changes in sea levels. As warmer melt water enters the oceans, major currents such as the Gulf Stream will be significantly weakened. This will lead to warmer air temperatures in the high Arctic, Eastern Canada and Central America, and cooler temperatures over northwestern Europe.”

HEAT RECORDS AND PREDICTIONS
People mistakenly think Tasmania is tropical, but it is the closest part of Australia to Antarctica. The weather should be very temperate if not cold and wet there, most of the year. Tasmania has world-class forests that have not burned in thousands of years, until the last few years. Like me in British Columbia, Tasmanians have felt the terror of wildfires that plague the rest of Australia, now that every year is a fire year. Nowhere is safe anymore.
THE HOT SEAS
“Our model-based analysis suggests that nearly half of the industrial-era increases in global OHC have occurred in recent decades, with over a third of the accumulated heat occurring below 700m and steadily rising.”

[Revi]

Come on Revi, you aren't a 10 year old who with wide eyes believes any crap spoon fed them by the adults.

Do you have ANY information that his data leading to his proclamations of end of civilization are any more right today, then they were the other times when he was wrong?

The truth is really hard to take. I resisted it for years, but now am becoming one of those who see things as they really are, unfortunately.

I did a little thought experiment. It takes 80 calories of heat to melt a gram of ice. That same 80 calories takes that water to 80 degrees celsius. That's almost boiling.

It's like we are living in a big cold drink. It stays cool until the last ice melts, then heats rapidly to the same temperature as the room.

Guy says that the global temperature goes up 6 degrees when the arctic ice melts. It's possible that it could happen in the next 5 years.

I can now see how that's possible. Even if we go up by a degree or two it's a nightmare.

The funny thing is that the thing that could save some of us is Peak Oil. If we can't get our hands on the stuff and burn it maybe we have a chance.

[Whitefang]

Rev, nope, sorry, no go.

The funny thing is that the thing that could save some of us is Peak Oil. If we can't get our hands on the stuff and burn it maybe we have a chance.

Aerosol masking effect, global industry down a third, temperature rise of one degree Celcius in a week or so.

Reports 2011 and 2013, James H and others.
Civilazation being a heat engine, no matter how you power, drive it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPj6K9TR1Tk

youtube of Guy by Tim Bob. 2005 BBC Documentory on Global Dimming.

I were looking for those papers he mentioned...…

https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/aerosols.html

As above image shows, aerosols result from burning fuel in industrial processes and transport, and for purposes of heating or lighting buildings (such as with woodburners, furnaces, stoves, candles, oil lamps and open fireplaces) or for preparing food and boiling water. Aerosols can also be caused by open fires that can be lit to make charcoal, burn waste, turn forests into pasture, etc. Global warming increases the fire danger (i.e. in frequency, intensity, duration and size) and thus emissions from both forest fires and controlled open fires (backburning and reducing waste).

A 2008 study by Ramanathan et al. mentions figures from other studies for the radiative forcing (RF) of black carbon, i.e. figures ranging from 0.4 Watts per square meter (W/m²) to 1.2 W/m². A 2013 study by Bond et al. calculates that black carbon has a warming effect of about 1.1 W/m². Above image highlights this figure of 1.1 W/m² of radiative forcing (RF), while warning that RF could be as high as 2.1 W/m². In addition to black carbon, sulfur dioxide (SO₂) has an important impact, as discussed in the box below.

A 2013 study by Levy et al. concludes that emission reductions by 35%–80% in anthropogenic aerosols and their precursors would result in some 1°C of additional warming. A 2016 paper by Zhang et al. calculates that from 1850 to 2010, anthropogenic aerosols brought about a decrease of about 2.53°C. Also see the study by Rosenberg et al. and the news release.
Anthropogenic aerosols are also suppressing the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, making that less heat gets transferred from oceans to the atmosphere. Recent research concludes that future reduction of anthropogenic aerosol emissions, particularly from China, would promote positive Pacific Decadal Oscillation, thus further speeding up warming over the coming years.
Dimethyl sulphide emissions from oceans constitute the largest natural source of atmospheric sulphur, and such emissions can decrease with ongoing ocean acidification and climate change. This could particularly impact specific regions such as Antarctica, speeding up warming and loss of sea ice there, as discussed at this paper.

http://theconversation.com/masking-and-unmasking-of-global-warming-by-aerosols-19990

Aside from carbon dioxide, another human influence on climate comes from aerosols, which exert a cooling effect. Aerosols (that is, atmospheric particles, not propellants used in spray cans) have masked some of the warming that is caused by increasing greenhouse gases.
Without the masking effect of aerosols, global temperatures would have increased more than they have since the 19th century.
I recently led a study that examined the effects of declining aerosols in 21st century climate projections. We found that global warming is likely to accelerate in the next few decades, if the cooling influence of human-generated aerosols declines as predicted.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com ... jgrd.50192

Abstract
[1] Using the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory's (GFDL's) fully coupled chemistry‐climate (ocean/atmosphere/land/sea ice) model (CM3) with an explicit physical representation of aerosol indirect effects (cloud‐water droplet activation), we find that the dramatic emission reductions (35%–80%) in anthropogenic aerosols and their precursors projected by Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 4.5 result in ~1 °C of additional warming and ~0.1 mm day−1 of additional precipitation, both globally averaged, by the end of the 21st century. The impact of these reductions in aerosol emissions on simulated global mean surface temperature and precipitation becomes apparent by mid‐21st century. Furthermore, we find that the aerosol emission reductions cause precipitation to increase in East and South Asia by ~1.0 mm day−1 through the second half of the 21st century. Both the temperature and the precipitation responses simulated by CM3 are significantly stronger than the responses previously simulated by our earlier climate model (CM2.1) that only considered direct radiative forcing by aerosols. We conclude that the indirect effects of sulfate aerosol greatly enhance the impacts of aerosols on surface temperature in CM3; both direct and indirect effects from sulfate aerosols dominate the strong precipitation response, possibly with a small contribution from carbonaceous aerosols. Just as we found with the previous GFDL model, CM3 produces surface warming patterns that are uncorrelated with the spatial distribution of 21st century changes in aerosol loading. However, the largest precipitation increases in CM3 are colocated with the region of greatest aerosol decrease, in and downwind of Asia.

https://www.israel21c.org/we-need-to-re ... l-warming/

The world’s scientific community has known for a long time that global warming is caused by manmade emissions in the form of greenhouse gases, while global cooling is caused by air pollution in the form of aerosols.
In a new study published in the journal Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Prof. Daniel Rosenfeld argues that the degree to which aerosol particles cool the earth has been grossly underestimated.

https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/d ... 2/joc.4613

ABSTRACT
The effective radiative forcing (ERF), as newly defined in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fifth Assessment Report (IPCC AR5), of three anthropogenic aerosols [sulphate (SF), black carbon (BC), and organic carbon (OC)] and their comprehensive climatic effects were simulated and discussed, using the updated aerosol‐climate online model of BCC_AGCM2.0.1_CUACE/Aero. From 1850 to 2010, the total ERF of these anthropogenic aerosols was −2.49 W m−2, of which the aerosol–radiation interactive ERF (ERFari) and aerosol–cloud interactive ERF (ERFaci) were ∼ −0.30 and −2.19 W m−2, respectively. SF was the largest contributor to the total ERF, with an ERF of −2.37 W m−2. The ERF of BC and OC were 0.12 and −0.31 W m−2, respectively. From 1850 to 2010, anthropogenic aerosols brought about a decrease of ∼2.53 K and ∼0.20 mm day−1 in global annual mean surface temperature and precipitation, respectively. Surface cooling was most obvious over mid‐ and high latitudes in the northern hemisphere (NH). Precipitation change was most pronounced near the equator, with decreased and increased rainfall to the north and south of the equator, respectively; this might be largely related to the enhanced Hadley Cell in the NH. Relative humidity near surface was increased, especially over land, due to surface cooling induced by anthropogenic aerosols. Cloud cover and water path were increased, especially in or near the source regions of anthropogenic aerosols. Experiments based on the Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 4.5 given in IPCC AR5 shows the dramatic decrease in three anthropogenic aerosols in 2100 will lead to an increase of ∼2.06 K and 0.16 mm day−1 in global annual mean surface temperature and precipitation, respectively, compared with those in 2010.

In other words, we mammals are toast.

[evilgenius]

I've mentioned this somewhere on this site. I think the best way to deal with what is coming is to build huge water pipeline and storage projects. We need the ability to transport water from any wet place to any dry place, when the places that don't have water, or have too much, change from year to year. Wherever it goes downhill, gravity can drive electricity generation. The way to respond to this is not to retreat into local agriculture and more primitive ways of living. That will only leave many vulnerable to when it is their turn to get the hammer. The way to respond is to become increasingly complex.

[Ibon]

The way to respond is to become increasingly complex.

The complexity required is a small human footprint with healthy natural ecosystems and bio regions highly complex that provides the required stability and resiliency.

Not to say you were wrong in your assessment. The complexity in human engineering though has to happen not external of a healthy biosphere but WITHIN a minimum impact human population. That is the eventual sweet spot for humanity.

At the moment the pathway to a new stability leads through the portals of a human die-off. Of course this truth and what you advocate are not by any means mutually exclusive. As we reach for desperate solutions this will grind against the consequences that will eventually do the required work of reducing our species footprint. They can go hand in hand.

We just have to be cognizant while doing this that moving around water for example while juggling the juggernaut is like bailing out a sinking boat with a tin can full of holes.

The challenge as I see it is being proactive while the consequences grind us down. This requires a lot of sobriety in a population and government. A lot of realistic assessments. Facing the calamities head on without searching for scapegoats.

You know, all those traits sorely missing at the moment BOTH in our government and in our CITIZENS.

[dohboi]

evilgenius wrote:

The way to respond is to become increasingly complex.

Has this guy even heard of Joseph Tainter?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Tainter