A bigger picture of Global Warming

Sobering news from Bo Nordell and Bruno Gervet of Sweden. They "have calculated the total energy emissions from the start of the industrial revolution in the 1880s to the modern day."
"They point out that net heat emissions between the industrial revolution circa 1880 and the modern era at 2000 correspond to almost three quarters of the accumulated heat, i.e., global warming, during that period."

"using the increase in average global air temperature as a measure of global warming is an inadequate measure of climate change"

Net heat emissions blows carbon sequestration and nuclear energy out of the water as solutions to global warming. We can't use so-called clean coal. We have to stop using fossil fuel all together. Because, whether it takes 100 years or 1000 years to burn it all, the net heat released will overheat the planet and make it uninhabitable.

It's like a choice between boiling ourselves alive over low heat or high heat; our only sustainable choice is to turn off that heat.

"Although nuclear power does not produce carbon dioxide emissions in the same way as burning fossil fuels it does produce heat emissions equivalent to three times the energy of the electricity it generates and so contributes to global warming significantly, Nordell adds."

Realizing that net heat emissions is the real problem means there will never be a long-term solution using fusion or fission power. To prevent civilization collapse, we'll have to redesign to depend entirely on renewables such as solar power, wind, tides, and geothermal ... methods that merely redistribute the earth's heat instead of increasing it absolutely. It also becomes clear that overpopulation is a REAL limiting factor, not merely a technological challenge.http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090713085248.htm

Aagh!

A Glimmer of Sanity

It’s easier to see the old way we’ve made sense of the universe and ourselves disintegrating, than to grasp new ways to make sense that emerge from our information technology symbiosis.

cut out by ~klayemi on deviantART
For example, in “Cut Out” by Klayemi, we see the old self, represented as flat photograph, splitting. Whereas the narrative space of the old self portrait presupposed a two-dimensional “universe,” that invisible narrative space is itself the message of a cross-dimensional medium.

One thing for sure, the new way of making sense isn’t linear. Gone is the kitchen table upon which we separated toys into neat categories, and us from our toys. How do separate variables while that single plane folds out into mysterious dimensions? The assumption that we can sort identities and differences in uniform passive space and time supported our capacity for reason. Critical thinking slithers from our grasp as we stream through nested narrative spaces, our attention continually sliced by rapid-fire orienting responses. Working memory fails; our little fingers drop one toy after another as the next barks and sparkles.

How do we grope out shifting patterns on a fractal meta-sorting table, as new windows open and those held in overfull arms delete? What string will lead us to contradictions snuggled away from monitor view in five-layer nesting?

This video straddles our new threshold. It's limited penetration of cross-dimensional self-perception is, at least, suggestive.


The video's the antithesis of reason.It's just a hint of the kind of space within which meme-based "reason" will emerge.

meme-victims

Middle East conflict
Daily horror
Both sides oblivious to memetics.
Victims all
Saving up their anger stamps, their self-pity stamps
To cash them in
On guilt-free bombing
When it's their turn

Mind viruses feed
In their way
Twisting the universe...
Nothing exists
But Victim/Rescuer/Persecutor

Eric Berne would weep
To see
To hear
The "game" writ large