Re: Dead Canary Alerts. What are yours?
Posted: Fri 22 Apr 2011, 18:18:09
On canary mortality, there is two understandings , one is "canary in the mine."
those birds have a very high metabolic rate and are very sensitive to toxic gas ( not methane ) their death would indicate the presence of monoxide of carbon from the lamps and other fire , CO2 make you sick , CO poison you by accumulation . the miners would have to keep working , a dead canary was deemed the safety limit. That canary alert is of an increasing toxic environment
The other is that canaries were used during WW1 after a gas attack to work out if the trenches and dugouts were safe , gas was heavier than air. That canary alert is to work out if it is safe to go back to normal
No real difference , for me as a doomer , it's the sign of a severe deterioration of the whole worldwide economic edifice the permanent end of the age of electricity. A mere world war doesn't quite make it as doom ,been there done that , but it would be a good indication of things getting out of control
the price of gasoline at 5$ a gallon is the reality for most of the world already, the U.S. motorist has been pampered for generation with disastrous results for the domestic car industry when the cows finally came home .
the gyration of the Dow Jones are little more than a circus act, the fate of the U.S. $ a pure consequence of past excess and , in itself , the cure
those birds have a very high metabolic rate and are very sensitive to toxic gas ( not methane ) their death would indicate the presence of monoxide of carbon from the lamps and other fire , CO2 make you sick , CO poison you by accumulation . the miners would have to keep working , a dead canary was deemed the safety limit. That canary alert is of an increasing toxic environment
The other is that canaries were used during WW1 after a gas attack to work out if the trenches and dugouts were safe , gas was heavier than air. That canary alert is to work out if it is safe to go back to normal
No real difference , for me as a doomer , it's the sign of a severe deterioration of the whole worldwide economic edifice the permanent end of the age of electricity. A mere world war doesn't quite make it as doom ,been there done that , but it would be a good indication of things getting out of control
the price of gasoline at 5$ a gallon is the reality for most of the world already, the U.S. motorist has been pampered for generation with disastrous results for the domestic car industry when the cows finally came home .
the gyration of the Dow Jones are little more than a circus act, the fate of the U.S. $ a pure consequence of past excess and , in itself , the cure