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Vertical-rate and horizontal-rate sawtooth generators are coupled at a common input to a conventional focus control voltage and then to the centering circuits of an image tube via respective potentiometers. The amplitudes and polarities of the generator outputs are selected such that when driven simultaneously by the electrical focus control voltage supplied to an image tube, generates an image rotation which just cancels any image rotational error inherently induced by an electrical focus adjustment.
1. A circuit for precluding image rotational error in an image tube caused by a commensurate variation in focus control voltage applied to the image tube via focus voltage regulator means, comprising;
means coupled to the focus voltage regulator means for generating the focus control voltage including the commensurate variation thereof; and
means coupled to said image tube and responsive to the focus control voltage for supplying image rotation which is equal in amplitude and opposite in rotational direction to the image rotational error caused by the commensurate variation in the focus control voltage.
2. The circuit of claim 1 wherein the means for supplying include;
sawtooth generator means coupled to the means for generating, for supplying a selected ramp voltage corresponding to a given image skew about a respective axis.
3. The circuit of claim 2 wherein the sawtooth generator means include;
vertical and horizontal sawtooth generators coupled to the means for generating, for supplying respective ramp voltages in response to the focus control voltage.
4. The circuit of claim 3 further including vertical-rate and horizontal-rate pulse sources coupled to the vertical and horizontal sawtooth generators respectively.
5. The circuit of claim 4 wherein the means for supplying further include;
calibration means coupled at the inputs to the generator means for adjusting the voltage fed thereto in proportion to the degree of horizontal and vertical skews respectively in the image.
6. The circuit of claim 5 wherein the calibrating means include;
potentiometer means coupled between the means for generating the focus control voltage and the sawtooth generator means.
7. The circuit of claim 6 wherein the potentiometer means include a potentiometer inserted at each input to the respective vertical and horizontal sawtooth generators.
8. The circuit of claim 5 wherein the calibrating means include;
gain control means coupled between the means for generating the focus control voltage and the sawtooth generator means; and
a gain control source coupled to the gain control means for varying the gain thereof in response to variations in the focus control voltage.
9. A circuit for precluding image rotational error in an image tube caused by a commensurate variation in focus control voltage applied to the image tube in response to a desired change in focus said image tube including horizontal and vertical centering means, comprising:
means coupled to said image tube for generating the focus control voltage including the commensurate variation thereof;
calibration means coupled to the means for generating, for providing a calibrated focus control voltage commensurate with the image rotational error; and
sawtooth generator means coupled from the calibration means to the horizontal and vertical centering means for supplying selected ramp voltages to the latter means in response to the calibrated focus control voltage.
10. The circuit of claim 9 wherein:
said calibration means comprises a pair of calibrating circuits coupled at a common input to the means for generating; and
said sawtooth generator means comprises vertical and horizontal sawtooth generators coupled to respective calibrating circuits and responsive to the calibrated focus control voltage.
K. H. Griesshaber, Ser. No. 139,604, filed Apr. 11, 1980, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,326,219, entitled "Digital Error Measuring Circuit For Shading and Registration Errors in Television Cameras," assigned to the same assignee as the present application.
The invention relates to improvements in television cameras, and particularly to a circuit for automatically preventing raster rotation in image tubes due to adjustments of the electrical focus.
In the field of television cameras, vidicon type image tubes such as those used for pick-up tubes in television cameras have an inherent problem known in the art as "image rotation", caused by the adjustment of the electron beam focussing fields. The problem arises due to electron beam rotation within the tube; i.e., the fact that the beam proceeds from the cathode to the target of the tube in a spiral path, whereby changes in the electrical focus of the beam causes the scanned raster to rotate its position on the target. This in turn causes image rotation on the displayed picture. Moreover, the sensitivity of the rotation, i.e., the resulting image rotational error induced, is large compared to the degree of focus adjustment made. Thus, a totally unacceptable rotational error can result from an imperceptible change in electrical focus.
It follows that any change in focus control voltage, whether intentional or unintentional, greatly aggravates the problem of establishing camera spatial registration, particularly in a color camera. Therefore, if it is necessary to re-focus a tube in a color camera, it is almost imperative that a complete re-registration of the camera tube be made to correct for the image rotation on the target. Thus the interaction between focus setting and registration, etc., becomes rather complex.
The classic method of correcting image rotation due to electrical focussing is by direct mechanical rotation of the deflection yoke. This method is obviously cumbersome and time consuming, since the error is induced by adjustments made from a remotely located point, while the correction must be made locally at the camera head. The method is further complicated by the usual absence of adequate monitoring equipment at the camera head.
Single axis skew is generally utilized in color cameras to correct the lack of orthogonality which is generally inherent in most camera tube deflection systems. That is, one axis skew is used to correct the condition where the horizontal axis may not be at right angles to the vertical axis, or vice versa. The skew correction is utilized to make one axis orthogonal to the other axis prior to performing any registration, etc., corrections during tube operation.
Thus it follows that the more sophisticated camera systems such as those incorporating automatic control of registration, shading, etc., incorporate the individually adjustable electrical skew controls, which thus enable independent rotation of the vertical and horizontal scanning axes. Thus, after having focussed the tube, individual horizontal and vertical skew control adjustments may be made to correct the image rotation caused by the focussing procedure.
Although the latter system for correcting image rotation by means of independent axis skew adjustments is a significant improvement over the mechanical procedure for correcting same, it still generally requires two individual compensating adjustments to be made every time the electrical focus is changed.
The present invention simultaneously generates the required electrical rotational correction for both axes, directly from the electrical focus control voltage that induces the rotational error caused by adjusting the focus. The proportion of electrical rotational correction provided is selected to just cancel the raster rotational error induced by the focussing procedure. The net result is that the electrical rotational adjustment is accomplished automatically in response to the electrical focus control voltage to circumvent any resulting image rotation due to the focus adjustment.
To this end, vertical-rate and horizontal-rate sawtooth generators, whose output amplitudes and polarities are controllable by a single DC input control voltage, are coupled to an electrical focus control voltage source via suitable potentiometers at a common input. The amplitude and polarity sensitivities of the generators are selected such that when driven simultaneously by the single input control voltage which adjusts the electrical focus, their respective outputs are such that the horizontal and the vertical scan centering systems coupled thereto cancel the image rotational error induced by the electrical focus adjustment. Thus, electrical focussing may be performed without attendant image rotation.
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to automatically correct image rotation induced by a change of focus, in response to the electrical focus control voltage which induced the rotational error.
Another object is to generate the required electrical rotational correction simultaneously for both axes directly from the electrical focus control voltage.
A further object is to generate an image rotation correction which just cancels the rotational error induced by a change in the electrical focus control voltage, whereby an electrical focus adjustment is accomplished without the usual image rotation.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram depicting the combination of the invention.
FIG. 2 is an alternative embodiment of the block diagram in FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of the invention combination as used in the block diagram of FIGS. 1, 2.
FIG. 4 is another alternative embodiment of the block diagram of FIG. 1.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the invention combination wherein a main control system 12 corresponding, for example, to the central control unit of a television camera system, supplies inter alia an electrical focus control voltage conventionally used to adjust the electrical focus of an image tube, or tubes (not shown) in the camera. The focus control voltage is supplied via line 14 to a focus voltage regulator circuit 16 located in each channel of the image tube. The regulator circuit is coupled via a line 18 to a focus electrode of the tube.
In accordance with the invention combination, potentiometers 20 and 21 are coupled at a common input to the focus control voltage line 14 and thence to vertical and horizontal sawtooth generators 22, 24 respectively. The output of vertical sawtooth generator 22 is coupled via a line 26 to a horizontal centering circuit (not shown) associated with the tube, while the output of the horizontal sawtooth generator 24 is coupled via a line 28 to a vertical centering circuit associated with the tube. Thus a vertical sawtooth waveform is coupled to the horizontal centering circuit, while a horizontal sawtooth waveform is coupled to the vertical centering circuit, of the tube. To simplify the description, the vertical and horizontal sawtooth generators 22, 24 are hereinafter termed "skew" generators 22, 24.
Accordingly, by way of example, if there is image rotation in either direction, e.g., there is image rotational error in the clockwise direction, vertical and horizontal sawtooths are supplied to the horizontal and vertical centering circuitry respectively, whereby as the electron beam scans down the target, the rotational error is reduced in proportion to the sawtooth components supplied. Thus, in effect, the image is rotated in the opposite direction to compensate for what would have been rotational error. As previously mentioned image rotation is the result of raster rotation.
As shown in FIG. 1, both the horizontal and vertical skew generators 22, 24 are coupled together at their inputs and thence to the focus control voltage line 14 via respective potentiometers 20, 21, whereby both skew generators are driven by a single control voltage. This provides image rotation rather than individual axis skew control. It follows that any change in focus control voltage is automatically fed to the vertical and horizontal skew generators 22, 24 to effect an opposite rotation of the image to counteract any rotation thereof due to the adjustment of the focus control. The magnitudes of the vertical and horizontal sawtooths fed to the horizontal and vertical centering circuits are selected via the potentiometers 20, 21 during the setup mode, such that the generators thereafter supply a rotation which is exactly equal and opposite to the amount of rotation induced by the focus adjustment. This automatically prevents any rotation of the picture during focus adjustment.
Thus by way of example only, the system of FIG. 1 may be set up during the camera setup mode of operation by displaying, for instance, horizontal and vertical lines on the usual camera video monitor (not shown). The focus control voltage, and thus the focus, is varied over its entire range. Simultaneously potentiometers 20, 21 are individually adjusted to just cancel the respective component of rotation of the horizontal and vertical lines, which was caused by the change in focus control voltage. The system is now calibrated and automatically corrects for any subsequent image rotation caused by focus adjustments.
FIG. 2 depicts the invention combination employing vertical and horizontal sawtooth skew generators, herein depicted as the skew generators 22, 24 of FIG. 1. Similar components are similarly numbered in FIGS. 1 and 2. Thus, the focus control voltage line 14 is coupled to a summing junction 30 and thence via respective summing junctions 32, 34 to the vertical and horizontal skew generators 22, 24 respectively via the potentiometers 20, 21. With such an arrangement, the main control system 12 also provides a direct rotational control voltage on a line 36 which is coupled to the generators 22, 24 via the summing junction 30.
In addition, the main control system 12 provides the conventional horizontal and vertical skew control voltages via lines 38, 40 respectively, coupled to the vertical and horizontal generators 22, 24 via the summing junctions 32, 34 respectively. Thus the embodiment of FIG. 2 allows the use of conventional individual skew correction controls, while also utilizing the basic skew circuitry to provide automatic image rotational control via the combination of the potentiometers 20, 21 and the summing junctions 30, 32, 34, with the generators 22, 24. The overall effect is to provide opposite and equal image rotation in response to any adjustment of the electrical focus control voltage on line 14, as well as separate, direct control of horizontal and vertical skew and image rotation.
FIG. 3 depicts by way of example only, a sawtooth generator circuit such as may be utilized in FIGS. 1 and 2. To this end, an input line 42 supplies a control voltage, i.e., the focus control voltage of line 14 of the previous figures, to an operational amplifier 44. The latter amplifier is coupled as an integrator circuit, and includes an input resistor 46 and an integrating capacitor 48 coupled thereacross. The operational amplifier output ramps up or down at a rate determined by the input voltage on line 42, the resistance of the resistor 46, and the capacitance of the capacitor 48. Switch means 50 such as, for example, a switching transistor or field effect transistor (FET), is coupled across the capacitor 48. The switch means periodically shorts out the capacitor to drop the circuit output to ground, wherein the time period is determined by a horizontal or vertical rate pulse on a switch control line 52.
Acccordingly, if a negative control voltage is supplied on input line 42, the control voltage on an output line 54 ramps up as shown at 56, until the capacitor 48 is shorted to ground via the switch means 50. If a positive control voltage is supplied at input 42, the output ramps down as shown in phantom line at 58, until the capacitor 48 is shorted to ground via the switch 50. The magnitude of the control voltage at input 42 corresponds, for example, to the focus control voltage on line 14 of FIGS. 1 and 2, as adjusted by the setting of the potentiometers 20, 21, etc.
Although the skew generator of FIG. 3 is shown in a generally basic form, the circuitry thereof may be modified as known by those skilled in the art to provide a more sophisticated circuit of further precision if so desired.
FIG. 4 depicts a further embodiment of the invention combination, wherein calibration of the system also is performed automatically, rather than by an operator via the potentiometers 20, 21. Like components in the figures again are similarly numbered. To this end, the potentiometers 20, 21 are replaced by remotely actuated, gain control circuits 60, 62 respectively. The latter regulate the voltages supplied to the generators 22, 24 in response to the control voltages on the control lines 64, 66. The control voltages in turn are derived, for example, from an automatic setup unit (ASU) (not shown) such as that described in the copending application Ser. No. 139,604, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,326,219 of previous mention, and comprise signals indicative of the degree of rotational error. More particularly, the control signals may comprise digital commands which set the amplitude and polarity sensitivities of the skew generators to those values which the automatic setup unit determines to be optimum.
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Engineered Drought Devastation Is Wreaking Havoc On Four Continents
Dane Wigington
We live in a societal paradigm in which glaringly obvious truths and blatant realities (which should be visible to any with clear vision and a sense of reason) are completely denied by the experts and agencies that the public believes are paid to know and tell the truth. The greatest and most shocking example of this conditioned (or paid) blindness is centered on the subject of global climate engineering and its rapidly worsening cataclysmic effects.
In addition to destroying the ozone layer and completely contaminating the entire biosphere, geoengineering is causing historic drought on four continents. The world's ground water is being depleted at an astoundingly rapid rate.
The laws of physics dictate more rain on a warming planet (and our planet is in meltdown), how is it possible that there is so much drought? Geoengineering is the unacknowledged elephant in the room that is creating drought. The science community admits geoengineering "could cut" global rainfall, but has yet to show the courage to state climate engineering has long since been fully deployed. Solar radiation management (SRM) programs are creating global dimming which then fuels global droughts.
Killer droughts (that are a direct result of climate engineering) are decimating countless regions around the planet. Brazil, Puerto Rico, Australia, Africa, Russia, The US, the Philippines, and the Caribbean to name a few. The power structure and the geoengineers who do their bidding have humanity by the throat and they are not about to let go. They control the flow of water and the toxicity of the air we breath. Those who print the money are controlling the fate of planet Earth and all life on it, so far populations have stood by and let it happen. It is up to each and every one of us to get involved with this all important battle to bring the climate engineering omnicide to the light of day before all is lost. Exposing and halting climate engineering must be our top priority. If the weather warfare assault is not stopped soon, nothing else will matter. When communicating this issue to elected officials, meteorologists, media, etc (that are publicly denying the lethal geoengineering issue), they should be informed in writing that the public will likely hold them accountable as accomplices in the climate engineering crimes and cover-up once the population is fully awakened to reality. When geoengineering is brought to an end, we will have many other challenges to face, but stopping climate engineering is the first step on which all others depend. Make your voice heard in this most critical fight.
Major Northern California Event Will Expose Global Climate Engineering
Dane Wigington
- Contributing to global ecosystem and species die-off
- Completely disrupting the hydrological cycle (rain cycle) all over the planet
- Destroying the ozone layer which is causing off the chart levels of UV radiation
- Contaminating our air, soils, and waters with highly toxic heavy metals
- Causing extreme and unquantifiable environmental and human health impacts
- Are being carried out illegally under the guise of "national security"
- What is geoengineering?
- Why is it being done?
- Who is doing this?
- What are the overall consequences to the biosphere and to us?
- How can we expose and stop these lethal programs?
- Prominent Northern California Neurologist Dr. Hamid Rabiee
- Former California Fish and Game biologist Allan Buckmann
- Former US Forest Service biologist Francis Mangels
- Former US Department of Agriculture farm specialist Rosalind Peterson
- Former defense industry technician Mark McCandlish
- Anti-geoengineering legal team attorney
- US Navy veteran and anti-geoengineering activist Mario Ramirez
David Marr Auditorium, seating for over 1000
- Doors open at 4pm, Friday, August 14th. Admission is FREE, and there will be free informational materials available, including commercial DVDs while supplies last (500 copies)
- The event will begin at 6:45pm with John B Wells update summary
- 7:10pm, "statements of urgency" from experts
- 7:45pm, "Engineering Earth" completely updated power point presentation
- 8:30pm, panel of experts will answer audience questions
- 10:00pm, auditorium doors will close
David Marr Auditorium, 2200 Eureka Way, Redding, CA 96001
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Greg Hunter From "USA Watchdog" Covers Geoengineering Programs
Greg Hunter has again covered the climate engineering issue with this new interview and article on the subject. Greg is a very respected and highly experienced news correspondent who has won many awards for his investigative reporting and journalism. His news site "USA Watchdog" has a huge following of people that appreciate Greg's tenacity for uncovering and exposing the truth on subjects and issues that mainstream media won't touch. Hunter's coverage of the climate engineering insanity is extremely helpful in the effort to bring this critical issue to light.
Dane Wigington
Climate Engineering And The Global Economic House Of Cards
The narrative of the modern industrialized economy being a success is a lie of unimaginable proportion. Nature has historically produced 75% of all global GDP (gross domestic product) for free, no longer. If nature dies, we die. Modern society is now consuming itself to keep the facade of "progress" going until the last minute. As the last sand drains from the hourglass, global climate engineering is diminishing what chance there may yet be to salvage any part of Earth's life support systems. The false paradigm of perpetual expansion on a finite planet with finite resources is disintegrating by the day. Any chance we have left at this point rests on exposing and stopping the climate engineering insanity before there is nothing left to save. The article below is an excellent portrayal of what is unfolding with a few important exceptions. The omission of the geoengineering factor (which many authors and publishers are still afraid to face or admit to)., And the mention of carbon credit taxes which are a scam and just another part of the problem. This being said, the article covers many important facts and is well worth the time to read.Make your voice heard in this battle today, tomorrow may be too late.
Dane Wigington
Climate Engineering Fuels Raging Forest Fires Across The Northern Hemisphere
While mainstream media entertains and distracts many Americans with the Donald Trump circus of idiocy, our planet is literally burning to the ground. Though there are a great many anthropogenic factors related to the record number of fires that are incinerating what is left of the Earth's boreal forests, the most significant factor of all still goes completely unacknowledged by the climate science community and mainstream media, global climate engineering programs. Geoengineering is inflicting record drought around the globe (along with deluge in other locations), destroying the ozone layer, and contaminating soils and waters. Climate engineering is the greatest assault against the natural world ever unleashed by the human race. All are needed to join the fight to raise awareness of this most critical issue. When we reach critical mass, we will have a chance of stopping the insanity in our skies. The article below is the latest update from the front lines of our burning forests.
Dane Wigington
An Appalling Amount Of The Northern Hemisphere Is On Fire
Source: The Daily Impact, article by Tom Lewis
At the beginning of this month, 314 wildfires were raging in Alaska alone. They have seared 5 million acres so far this year and have torched up to half a million acres in a single day. Meanwhile, to the east in Canada's Northwest Territory, hundreds of fires were raging in the permafrost zone, having covered over two million acres by the end of June. The forested northern provinces of British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan were similarly afflicted — 522 fires in northern Saskatchewan alone by June 30, nearly four times as many as last year in the same period.
Southward from Alaska, at the beginning of this month, wildfires dotted the landscapes of all the western states as far south as southern California and as far east as Colorado. One California fire overran a traffic jam on a freeway, leaving behind a dystopian landscape of burned-out cars (but, remarkably, no serious casualties).
Wildfires were raging across southern Siberia and Inner Mongolia by mid-April. At the moment, more than 50 wildfires are burning in troubled Greece, their smoke casting a dark pall over Athens.
A new study published last week confirms that wildfires worldwide are larger, more numerous, and their season is longer every year; and that it is all a direct consequence of climate change. Hotter and drier conditions, beginning earlier each spring, have over 30 years doubled the area of the planet's surface that is vulnerable to wildfire; and have lengthened by 18% the average length of fire seasons worldwide.
In addition, climate change has extended northward the range of the mountain pine beetle, which has killed swaths of western pine trees so vast that there is fear of a single wildfire sweeping through dead trees from New Mexico to Alberta.
The effects of these fires go far beyond the immediate danger to homes and persons. Wildfires do not "destroy" the land across which they travel, as is often heard in the lamestream media, fire is an integral and necessary part of natural ecosystems. However, massive fires temporarily denude the land they scorch of the leaves that deflect and slow rainfall, and the root systems that hold topsoil in place. Thus muddy floods and landslides follow the fire until undergrowth is replaced.
The smoke from these titanic fires is becoming a major threat. It contains tiny particles that bypass the body's defenses against pollution and enter the lungs and bloodstream, aggravating lung and heart diseases. Fire 50-100 miles upwind from a city have been shown to degrade air quality by a factor of 5 – 15 times. Carried into more southerly latitudes by the undulating planetary wave between the polar and temperate air masses, the smoke has been darkening the summer skies and tinting sunsets as far south as Tennessee and West Virginia.
But the most ominous thing about these fires is that they are not merely an effect of climate change, they are a cause. The burning of the forests and tundra is releasing astounding quantities of carbon, stored for centuries in the wood and the permanently frozen subsoil. Melting permafrost releases methane, a greenhouse gas many times more destructive of the world's climate than carbon dioxide. The fires are in fact a feedback mechanism, accelerating climate change as climate change accelerates them.
In one of Ray Bradbury's searing, never-to-be-unread short stories, an astronaut in a space suit is floating languidly in space, musing on his existence and the wonderful perspective he has on the blue planet Earth below him. Shortly we learn that these are the musings of a doomed man, as he is in fact hurtling toward that earth and will die a fiery death when he hits the atmosphere. Just before that happens, we leave him, and join a mother and small child taking an evening walk as the child looks up in wonder and says, "Look, Mom! A shooting star!"
Somewhere in the northern hemisphere tonight, a small child will look up in wonder and say, "Look, Mom! What a pretty sunset!"
Source: The Daily Impact, article by Tom Lewis
Sea Levels Are Rising 10 Times Faster Than Predicted And Will Soon Reshape The Globe
Catastrophic sea level rise is not an if, but a when. In reality, it is already well underway and getting worse rapidly. Even the newly released study that makes clear oceans are rising 10 times faster than previous estimates still likely falls far short of the true gravity of what is unfolding. Those that are still desperately clinging to their denial of global climate engineering will be forced to face their fears very soon, countless converging climate related cataclysms are closing in on us all. Governments around the globe have long since collaborated and fully deployed global climate engineering programs, they absolutely knew what was coming. The paradox is this, available data indicates climate engineering is actually making the overall warming far worse, not better (while at the same time irreparably contaminating the entire planet in the process). Recent studies prove solar radiation management can't work and will thus only exacerbate an already bad climate scenario. What will the US southern and eastern coasts look like as the seas overtake low lying lands, the map below is sobering and yet is only a tiny glimpse of the overall calamity of biosphere collapse now faced by the human race.
When all the ice deposits around the globe melt (and this is the fast track that we are on) , the total sea level rise is in the vicinity of 80 meters. The power structure is trying desperately to hide what is unfolding from public for as long as possible for obvious reasons, it is up to each and every one of us to bring the critical climate engineering issue to the light of day. The article below is the most recent study update from the front lines. Though climate engineering is not mentioned in this latest study (as is the case with so many publications which are as of yet afraid to speak the whole truth), data presented is still relevant.
Dane Wigington
Earth's Most Famous Climate Scientist Issues Bombshell Sea Level Warning
Source: Mother Jones, article by Eric Holthaus
In what may prove to be a turning point for political action on climate change, a breathtaking new study casts extreme doubt about the near-term stability of global sea levels.
The study—written by James Hansen, NASA's former lead climate scientist, and 16 co-authors, many of whom are considered among the top in their fields—concludes that glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica will melt 10 times faster than previous consensus estimates, resulting in sea level rise of at least 10 feet in as little as 50 years. The study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, brings new importance to a feedback loop in the ocean near Antarctica that results in cooler freshwater from melting glaciers forcing warmer, saltier water underneath the ice sheets, speeding up the melting rate. Hansen, who is known for being alarmist and also right, acknowledges that his study implies change far beyond previous consensus estimates. In a conference call with reporters, he said he hoped the new findings would be "substantially more persuasive than anything previously published." I certainly find them to be.
To come to their findings, the authors used a mixture of paleoclimate records, computer models, and observations of current rates of sea level rise, but "the real world is moving somewhat faster than the model," Hansen says.
Hansen's study does not attempt to predict the precise timing of the feedback loop, only that it is "likely" to occur this century. The implications are mindboggling: In the study's likely scenario, New York City—and every other coastal city on the planet—may only have a few more decades of habitability left. That dire prediction, in Hansen's view, requires "emergency cooperation among nations."
We conclude that continued high emissions will make multi-meter sea level rise practically unavoidable and likely to occur this century. Social disruption and economic consequences of such large sea level rise could be devastating. It is not difficult to imagine that conflicts arising from forced migrations and economic collapse might make the planet ungovernable, threatening the fabric of civilization.
The science of ice melt rates is advancing so fast, scientists have generally been reluctant to put a number to what is essentially an unpredictable, nonlinear response of ice sheets to a steadily warming ocean. With Hansen's new study, that changes in a dramatic way. One of the study's co-authors is Eric Rignot, whose own study last year found that glacial melt from West Antarctica now appears to be "unstoppable." Chris Mooney, writing for Mother Jones, called that study a "holy shit" moment for the climate.
One necessary note of caution: Hansen's study comes via a nontraditional publishing decision by its authors. The study will be published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, an open-access "discussion" journal, and will not have formal peer review prior to its appearance online later this week. The complete discussion draft circulated to journalists was 66 pages long, and included more than 300 references. The peer review will take place in real time, with responses to the work by other scientists also published online. Hansen said this publishing timeline was necessary to make the work public as soon as possible before global negotiators meet in Paris later this year. Still, the lack of traditional peer review and the fact that this study's results go far beyond what's been previously published will likely bring increased scrutiny. On Twitter, Ruth Mottram, a climate scientist whose work focuses on Greenland and the Arctic, was skeptical of such enormous rates of near-term sea level rise, though she defended Hansen's decision to publish in a nontraditional way.
In 2013, Hansen left his post at NASA to become a climate activist because, in his words, "as a government employee, you can't testify against the government." In a wide-ranging December 2013 study, conducted to support Our Children's Trust, a group advancing legal challenges to lax greenhouse gas emissions policies on behalf of minors, Hansen called for a "human tipping point"—essentially, a social revolution—as one of the most effective ways of combating climate change, though he still favors a bilateral carbon tax agreed upon by the United States and China as the best near-term climate policy. In the new study, Hansen writes, "there is no morally defensible excuse to delay phase-out of fossil fuel emissions as rapidly as possible."
Asked whether Hansen has plans to personally present the new research to world leaders, he said: "Yes, but I can't talk about that today." What's still uncertain is whether, like with so many previous dire warnings, world leaders will be willing to listen.
Source: Mother Jones, article by Eric Holthaus
Geoengineering And The Most Dangerous False Dichotomy
By Penny Teal, PhD, contributing writer for geoengineeringwatch.org
We all know despair. We all know joy. We all have been told to believe that these two states of mind are mutually exclusive.
This is a lie. Unfortunately, it's one of the most prevalent and malignant of the many lies we get fed on a daily basis.
Of all the false dichotomies that we confront, and they are legion, the one that opposes hope and happiness to doom and despair is the most damaging to the vigour and longevity of a movement like this, the vital effort to stop geoengineering. Nowhere is burnout such a constant threat, as in a situation where one knows that even if one prevails, the outcome will still be negative. Because, as we all know, even after we have put an end to the toxic spraying and ionospheric heating and all, we will be left with ongoing catastrophic warming and ecosystem collapse and the Sixth Great Extinction. For starters.
Some people (Guy McPherson being the most prominent example I know of) seem to believe that if, or since, we're all going to die, die, die! we should turn our back on everything, and focus entirely on immediate pleasures. They call this "living well." They have decided beforehand that the struggle is for naught, and therefore not worth wasting energy on. They don't, of course, know what may happen to the planet in the long run, any more than we do. Rather than risking burnout, they have chosen to cop out.
Contrarily, we who are gathered here all know that the fight is "worth it" – but what is it worth? The answer to that question isn't as obvious or as univocal as it may seem. Of course it is worth fighting to spare any life forms hardy and adaptive enough to survive the changes Earth is undergoing, whether humans number among those or not. Of course it is worth doing the right thing, always, regardless of guaranteed – or even possible – success. Just knowing that one is doing the right thing is uplifting, restorative to the spirit (however one defines that vague concept), and thus its own reward.
The fact that many people miss, in the meantime, is that one doesn't have to live in utter despair just because the situation is desperate. As Dane Wigington so frequently exhorts us to remember, the one thing we truly own, the one thing no one else can touch, is our free will. If others control us, it's because we gave them permission; it was an act of volition on our part. Unless one has been genuinely hypnotized, one's will is intact – and people with a strong will cannot be hypnotized.
One of my favorite comic strips, from my long-ago childhood, shows the 5 members of the same family each thinking his or her thoughts at the start of a new day. The first four are drooping, depressed, grousing about another day of having to face traffic, another day sitting through work or school, another day of chores and meaningless, soul-numbing activities. The youngest is sitting in her crib smiling like a sunbeam, thinking to herself simply, "Another day!"
The salient point is that all five have awakened to the very same day. The attitude they adopt is their own choice, despite the difference in their circumstances (how many adults would be delighted at the prospect of sitting in a crib for hours, being utterly dependent on others for food, clean diapers, and mobility?)
When I first learned about the geoengineering threat to the planet's future, I was hit pretty hard by a temporary depression. At first all I could do was cry; shortly after, I was tempted to adopt the Guy response: what the hell? We're all going to die. But let's face it: we are all going to die. With or without geoengineering, with or without global warming, or Fukushimas, or wars. Whether those realities loom large before us or not, we still awaken to each new day with the attitude of our choice.
How does this relate to burnout? I would argue that by adopting the attitude of the young child, we can enjoy life, in spite of conditions around us. By doing so, even though we are aware of our despair, anger, frustration, and worries, we can maintain the strength to keep going. Even if humans are facing extinction (as we are, whether in the near term or not), does that mean we have no choice but to succumb to total despair? Does it mean we have to ignore the many reasons to appreciate life? Those billions of humans facing extinction were all born subject to the condition that they would one day die – that's the harsh reality for all living things. Immortality, at least in the corporal, earth-bound form, is unattainable. For my part, I am unconvinced that there is an afterlife, and to me that makes the life I have all the more magical, wonderful, and fulfilling. But that's just my personal belief.
Regardless of what happens after death, while alive we have free will, and we can use it to make every day meaningful. Instead of bemoaning the fact that "I'm going to die," one can choose to acknowledge that "I'm still alive." Because any of us could have died long ago; it's in the cards for everyone, period. Against the odds, perhaps, we're not dead yet (to steal the best line ever from Monty Python). We are still alive to carry on the fight, and still alive to love, laugh, and appreciate the beauty around us. As Max Ehrmann wrote in the brilliantly insightful prose poem Desiderata, "With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world."
How did any of us get so lucky as to be born? We didn't earn that right; it was a gift. Whatever the source, be it God or Spirit or the Void, we are here. If for no other reason than that we were fortunate enough to be placed here, we have a responsibility to do whatever we can to protect the planet that supports us. But equally importantly, we have the right to enjoy it in the meantime. We have the right and the responsibility, in other words to live well.
Don't believe anyone who tells you that desperate times require choosing between denial-based happiness and despair. Life is better when one is fully awake to it, the good and the bad, and fully participating. This is one instance where you can have your cake and eat it, too.
I'm not trying to go all New-Agey here – I absolutely reject the notion that absolutely everything that happens in life is a gift. I cannot see Morgellon's, for instance, as an opportunity; to me it is a crime against humanity (like the Tuskegee experiments on a global scale). I think that the so-called Serenity Prayer says it best: Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Death is one of those things we just can't change, but how we conduct ourselves in any given circumstances is entirely in our hands.
David Suzuki Confronted On Climate Engineering Issue
Many people hold David Suzuki in such high esteem, but is such respect truly warranted and deserved? Is Suzuki really an oracle of truth and wisdom, or is he a power structure owned public relations prop that will speak only as much truth as he is allowed to tell? Is Suzuki also being used by the power structure to publicly deny critical issues like climate engineering that they absolutely do not want the public to become aware of? In the 1 minute video below, Suzuki clearly denies the subject of climate engineering before walking away from the camera and those who simply wanted to ask him legitimate questions. There is absolutely no excuse for Suzuki's attempt to cloud the truth. There are only two possibilities regarding his behavior, he is either completely blind and ignorant to the natural world around him which he claims to be an expert on, or he is paid and/or pressured to lie about the dire climate engineering issue. If David Suzuki was truly committed to telling the truth in regard to the environment, and fighting for the common good, why would he lie about the geoengineering issue? Why would he lie about his corporate donations? The entire climate science community is built on a foundation of lies and cover-up. The state of the climate is not as bad as we are being told, it is exponentially worse. Global climate engineering is helping to fuel the fire overall. My most sincere gratitude to Irene Parousis and Christina Parousis for this video and for their exceptional efforts to expose David Suzuki's dishonesty and denial.
Dane Wigington
PBS Covers Climate Engineering, How Much Longer Can It Be Hidden?
Dane Wigington
David Keith then went on to make clear that there had been virtually no scientific studies done in regard to the contamination to the entire planet that would obviously be caused by his proposal of filling the atmosphere with aluminum nanoparticles.
Now PBS and Keith have joined forces in a campaign of disinformation designed to continue obscuring the fact that geoengineering has been going on for decades with catastrophic results. PBS and David Keith also seem to be working toward softening the public up to the concept of climate engineering so that they might accept the climate modification insanity once it can no longer be hidden in plain sight. Current science study makes clear that geoengineering can't work, so why are PBS and Keith engaged in the helping to hide the climate engineering crimes? Again, because that is what they are paid to do which makes them accessories to these crimes. People at PBS have public emails, find them and send messages of outrage to them in regard to their completely dishonest reporting. Do the same with Keith, his public email is easy to locate online. Make your voice heard. DW
The Dark Truth About Governments And Their Agendas
Dane Wigington
Societies around the globe have, in general, been trained and conditioned to believe their governments exist for the benefit of the people. This conclusion could not be further from the truth in most cases and under most circumstances. How many times have we been told "if the government is doing this (geoengineering, for example), it must be for our own good". Such a statement is rooted in delusion, denial, and fear. Governments around the globe are nothing more than state sponsored crime syndicates. These cabals of power are concerned with only one objective, power and central control over the populations on which their empires depend.
The true cradle of power in the world is located within the small circle of unelected central bankers, this is a verifiable fact that is not difficult to confirm for any that take the time to do any objective investigation. The money printers control every aspect of society, including the military. Those who wield power are masters of manipulation, psychopaths literally rule the world. Populations must be awakened what is unfolding, time is not on our side. The 15 minute video below is a brilliant exposé central authority paradigm that will be our end if it is allowed to continue in it's current form, it is worth ever minute of the time it takes to view it.
It is imperative for populations to wake up and face reality, the gravity and immediacy of what we face cannot be overstated. DW
Did Geoengineering Just Kill Almost 200,000 Alpacas In Peru?
Dane Wigington
The climate engineers have an endless array of weather scenarios to create havoc, destruction, and death. Completely engineered protracted droughts are one form of climate engineering assault as we currently see in California, Brazil, the Caribbean, the Philippines, Australia, Africa, Russia, and other regions around the globe. Deluge and flooding are also a weapons of the climate engineers. But there is another form of weather warfare that is less recognized and understood (even by many that are aware of the geoengineering issue), chemically ice nucleated winter storms. Though many think engineering snow storms is impossible, it is, in fact, a primary tool of the climate engineers. The Chinese openly announced their engineered snow storms until they did over a billion dollars worth of damage to Beijing. On October 4th, 2013, a completely freak "winter storm" killed nearly 100,000 cattle in South Dakota. This event was truly astounding given the very warm temperatures that surrounded South Dakota at the time. I took screen shots of the temperature maps at the time and penned an article of the event. Take a good look at the maps below, the scenario they show is shocking. Cattle are very cold tolerant animals, how could they possibly freeze to death at temperatures that were present on the October 4th event of 2013? There were far above freezing temperatures in South Dakota at the time, why was it snowing at all? There were temperatures of 85 degrees and rain in Chicago, what really killed the South Dakota cattle?
Spraying chemical and biological ice nucleating elements has allowed the climate engineers to radically (although temporarily) cool down large regions. We saw this throughout the 2014-2015 winter in places like the eastern US and Boston. In doing so, the desired headlines are created which then fuel division and confusion in regard to public opinion on the actual state of the climate. South Dakota is not the only place where engineered winter assaults are occurring. In 2011, some 200,000 alpacas were sickened and/or killed by an unusual cool-down. In 2013, 250,000 alpacas met the same fate. Now again, in 2015, the same scenario is playing out in Peru, nearly 200,000 alpacas have succumbed to extremely unusual conditions. Alpacas are built for cold, why are they dying in such massive numbers in a world that is experiencing record warmth?
June 2015 was the warmest June ever recorded, following May 2015, also a record warm month. The start to 2015 is the warmest ever recorded even surpassing the start to 2014, the warmest year ever recorded. Why would we imagine so many unprecedented die-off events to be natural given the knowledge that the climate is being completely manipulated around the globe? When we know that artificial snow storms are real and even being reported on by organizations like FOX news? When we also know there are patents for creating artificial snow storms which then generate a completely unnatural "snow" composition? Chemically nucleated snow is sticky, typically heavy, and unusually cold to the touch due to the endothermic reaction from the chemical nucleation process. The climate engineers leave nothing untouched, nothing untainted. There is no natural weather, there is only the results of the highly toxic and completely out of control climate engineering insanity. Get active, help to sound the alarm on the geoengineering assault.
Global Cooling or Global Warming, Which is it?
Dane Wigington
Is it really getting colder? What does scientifically undisputed data say? The stakes could not be higher, or our collective reality could not be any more dire. The more the planet plummets into total meltdown, the bigger the lies have gotten from the special interest groups that are paid to spread them. Unfortunately, there are many that desperately want to believe the lies in spite of massive amount of data and information to the contrary. The latest lie of a coming "mini ice age" is truly beyond comprehension, the warming of the planet continues to build at a rapidly accelerating rate.
Green dots show the 30-year average of the new PAGES 2k reconstruction. The red curve shows the global mean temperature, according HadCRUT4 data from 1850 onwards.
I want to make one point clear, my goal in highlighting specific facts, charts, and data is primarily to bring attention to the subject of global geoengineering and the damage it is inflicting on the biosphere. Geoengineering is, of course, not the sole source for the climate chaos and atmospheric disintegration that is now unfolding around us (there are countless anthropogenic causal factors), but available data does indicate that geoengineering is likely the single greatest climate disrupting factor of all (in addition to poisoning all life on earth in the process).
When "global cooling" articles and conclusions are embraced by anti-geoengineering activists and websites without proper investigation, these activists and websites are then completely discredited in many circles (especially the science community). The subject of geoengineering goes out the window with the "climate change denial" that cannot be rationally denied at this point if one truly examines hard data. If we are to successfully bring geoengineering to the light of day, we cannot afford such missteps. It is imperative that we all make an effort to pull together, and not open up new battle fronts in directions that are not supported by verifiable information. Buying into the "global cooling" disinformation narrative is exactly what the power structure and the geoengineers want us to do.
So, is it getting colder?
- May, 2015 was the 363rd consecutive month of ABOVE AVERAGE GLOBAL TEMPERATURES, over 30 years in a row.
The most dire factor of all regarding our rapidly disintegrating climate is mass methane expulsion in the Arctic that is becoming rapidly worse as the sea ice melt off is reaching record low levels. In addition to the methane threat, the latest data makes clear the fact that global sea level rise is already a "worst case scenario", this is just one more reflection of our rapidly warming world.
One more factor that is extremely important to consider, it appears that all the climate data/temperature records are being radically falsified to the down side. In the areas we have investigated, the "official reading" for a given day is routinely 3, 4, or even 5 degrees below what actually occurred on the ground. This is a massive data skewing factor which helps to hide the true extent of the warming. In addition, "official agencies" like NOAA (NOAA is connected to geoengineering contractor "Raytheon"), and National Weather Service (NWS is connected to geoengineering contractor Lockheed Martin), etc., now appear to be recording many more temperature readings from a given "cold" event as compared to "heat wave" areas of the same land mass. This skews the data to the down side even further. On top of all this, let's add the "geoengineering" factor, artificial/chemical ice nucleation, jet stream manipulation, etc., which can and does create temporary cooling anomalies from which the agencies above take an abundance of temp readings in the attempt to lower the overall temperature picture.
It is imperative for each of us to consider the entire data picture before leaping at conclusions. None of this is about "Al Gore" or carbon credit scams, but rather it's about a harsh and verifiable reality. Any conclusions must consider the massive data altering and even more the global geoengineering programs and their effects. The planet is warming at blinding speed, climate engineering is making this warming worse overall, not better.
Physician Addresses Climate Engineering Dangers At Community Workshop
On June 24th, 2015, Dr. Steven Amato conducted an educational event to raise public awareness on the critical issue of global climate engineering and mainstream media's total lack of coverage on this dire issue. Dr. Amato has already authored an earlier article for geoengineeringwatch.org, our gratitude goes out to him for his continuing efforts to sound the alarm on the human health and environmental dangers posed by global geoengineering programs, Steven is a valuable ally in this battle.
Dane Wigington
Geoengineers And Big Oil, The Dark Alliance
The curtain of deception continues to be pulled back on the powers that are decimating the planet while at the same time doing everything they can to confuse and bewilder the public in regard to what is actually unfolding. Climate engineering has been an essential part of the fossil fuel industry disinformation campaign. Engineered winter storms have been completely hyped by the mainstream media. The "record snow" in Boston was a primary headline all winter long while little was said about the virtually nonexistent snow pack in the Sierras. While mainstream media was trumpeting "record cold", that was consistently manipulated by the geoengineers in a few regions, global temperatures have continued to soar. Standing on solid conclusions in regard to the true state of the climate is imperative so that we do not mistakenly accept false information from those with an agenda. So who is paying to create the confusion and thus hide reality? The Union Of Concerned Scientists has shed much light on this issue in the article below. Scientists are not yet willing to face the climate engineering factor (which is making the warming worse, not better), but the biosphere destruction being caused by climate engineering will be impossible to hide for much longer.
Dane Wigington
Radioactive Earth, The Power Structure's Criminal Contamination Of Our Planet
Those in power have never had any regard for the irreparable decimation they are inflicting on our planet. From the current and ongoing blatant toxic spraying of our skies to the endless trail of nuclear debris that have been scattered all over the globe, we are in real trouble. Many have never known what happened to all the nuclear waste from countless insane tests in the South Pacific, but they may soon find out as the insanity comes back to haunt us.
Dane Wigington
Geoengineering Climate Change, Is This How It Ends?
By William Thomas, contributing writer for geoengineeringwatch.org
Hornby Island July 6, 2015 – Yesterday around 4 am, I awoke disturbed and opened my back door on an ominous orange sky. I'm either in an Alfred Hitchcock movie or it's the end of the world, I muttered.
Right the second time.
Last evening down at the cove, shutterbugs snapped away with giant lenses at a fat red ball that looked more like Mars than the setting sun. And this morning, I awoke hacking and choking. The smoke streaming through an open window smelled like a big building burning right next door.
But there is no big building.
And it wasn't burning.
Even more unsettling, the usual daybreak cacophony of robins, ravens, eagles and crows was… silent.
The winged ones had fled.
I flipped on the laptop and booted up…
"A haze blankets the majority of people in BC," Global News was reporting. Comparing square-kilometers, this is the same as saying, "a haze blankets most people in California, New Zealand and the UK." [Global News July 6/15; BCRobyn.com]
While I'd slept, across the Georgia Strait the Metro Vancouver Air Quality Health Index had gone to 10+ "Very High Risk". Health officials are warning that secondhand wildfire smoke inflames lung and heart linings – and is especially dangerous for infants, the elderly and those who have diabetes, lung or heart disease. (Yikes! C'est moi!)
As my wounded ticker protests this latest insult, the Times Colonist confirms that wildfires burning throughout the province are increasing hospital admissions for cardiovascular symptoms. People with chronic medical conditions are being warned to avoid "strenuous exercise" and stay the heck inside. [Times Colonist July 5/15; Global News July 6/15; CBC July 6/15]
I shut the window, cranked the HEPA filter up high and popped another baby aspirin.
Somebody Call Somebody
Several burning BC communities have declared states of emergency, which means the provincial government must borrow more money to pick up the tab. With climate events cascading, we know how this ends.
With most of British Columbia officially declared an "Extreme Fire Risk", a province-wide ban on all fires, campfires, fireworks, torches, "exploding rifle targets" and similar shenanigans is in effect. The fine for violators is 100 grand. But at this point, anyone seen flicking a glowing butt towards the woods will probably be shot. And maybe not with a tranquilizer dart. [Vancouver Sun July 5/15]
A wildfire up north near Port Hardy is burning less than 300 metres from some evacuated homes. This is extremely weird. As a frequent visitor to "Port" informed me by phone, he's been there "maybe two days when it wasn't raining." [CBC July 6/15]
But not recently. This "wet coast" town at the northern tip of Vancouver Island hasn't seen rain in two months. "People in the north island need to understand that we are in a very unusual place," advises Port Hardy Mayor Hank Bood. "We're not fooling around anymore." [Canadian Press July 6/15]
"We're in areas where we've never been before. We've never had a dry May and June like we've just had," echoes North Vancouver Mayor, Darrell Mussatto. "We're at record low inflows into our reservoirs." [Global News July 6/15]
Can You Say British California?
This is the first weekend of enhanced water restrictions. The "Level 4" drought rating currently in effect for southern Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, means "water supplies are insufficient to meet the needs of communities and ecosystems." Residents are required to try to cut their water use by an additional 20% over "regular" reductions. [CBC July 6/15]
"Level 4" drought = Panic Now And Avoid The Rush
There is no Level 5.
With nearly all of the lower mainland, most of Vancouver Island, and vast areas of northeastern and central BC now in extreme fire danger rating, it feels more like late-August 2030 than early July 2015.
Despite a massive weekend tourist blitz, at least this tinder-dry, 11 square-mile isle isn't burning yet. But with 178 total active wildfires on nearby Vancouver Island and the BC mainland, we are surrounded by burning forests and desiccated grasslands to our north, south and east. [Global News July 5/15]
According to the authorities, much of the smoke settling in the trees outside is coming from a wildfire burning in steep terrain and heavy timber near Pemberton. Tripling in size overnight, this 2,000-hectare fire "is displaying a vigorous and aggressive rate of spread, with periods of organized crown fire," the BC Wildfire Management Branch reports. Crown fires spread flames from exploding tree top to tree top, igniting "spot fires" ahead of their advance. [CBC July 6/15]
Pemberton is 299 kilometers away.
Closer across the water, one firefighter has died fire-fighting in Sechelt, where the Shishalh Nation reports a spike in respiratory distress calls to emergency services. The 38-bed St. Mary's Hospital is filled to capacity with health complications from smoke inhalation. [Global News July 5/15; Vancouver Sun July 5/15]
"It's unusual for this time of year; there's no relief in sight in the weather forecast. We're expecting temperatures in the mid-30s [C], and absolutely no rain forecast in the near future. That's definitely cause for concern," worries Provincial Fire Information Officer, Kevin Skrepnek.
How about freaking out?
Knock Knock. Who's There? Carbon Karma Collectors
And how about mentioning the perils of gung-ho carbon burning? In a deluge of news reports on BC's Big Burning, repeated mentions are being made of this record dastardly drought. But not it's cause. While industrial stacks belch greenhouse gases, and holiday-makers everywhere race crazily around in cars, boats and planes – total mentions of "climate change", "global warming" and "record-high carbon emissions" in press stories relating to major fires now burning in three provinces, Alaska and Siberia… ?
High And Dry
So go ahead and guess the number of corporate-media references to ongoing geoengineering aerosols sponging up the remaining moisture over North America's gasping western seaboard…
"With temperatures 12–18 degrees [C] hotter than they normally are this time of year," the Canadian Press suggests, "a massive ridge of high pressure will remain anchored over the Pacific Northwest [with] ongoing dry conditions and warmer than normal" temperatures.
Canada's national wire service neglected to mention how this "Ridiculously Resilient Ridge" is being created by a flatlined jetstream, no longer driven by the usual north-south temperature differentials wiped out by human-induced warming… and daily maintained by an ongoing aerosol assault clearly visible to anyone looking up at those telltale white plumes who understands they should be seeing no icy contrails at this time of year.
Atmospheric-heating gases at 350 parts per million are optimistically considered possibly/maybe/wait-and-see "safe".
Right now, on this freakish morning during Earth's careening Sixth Mass Extinction, carbon dioxide-equivalent greenhouse gases (CO2e) are nudging past 478 ppm… [MIT]
Misha phoned next. "Nobody's gets it," she said in a voice verging on despair. Indeed, frantic denialists are blaming The Big Drying on:
1. Bad luck
2. The pope
3. A vindictive sky god
4. "Cyclical" global extinction events
5. Just one of those things
A poll of 20 countries shows the United States comfortably leading the world in climate denial. Just four out of 10 Americans think climate change is a serious threat to their carbon-belching, weather-wracked nation.
More than half of USers agree with the statement: "The climate change we are currently seeing is a natural phenomenon that happens from time to time."
But 74% of South Koreans and 78% of Japanese disagree.
The populations of France, Italy, Turkey, Spain and Argentina have also totally flunked climate denial, with 80% or more of those surveyed telling pollsters that human activity is driving climate change. While more than 60% of surveyed Spaniards and Italians and more than 70% of Japanese consider climate change a serious threat, in China 91% of those polled say we're doomed if we don't change our ways. [Think Progress July 22/14]
You Think?
Just 10 days ago, a NASA/MODIS satellite shot showed much of Baked Alaska shrouded under a 3,000+ mile cloud of smoke. Now enmeshed in the high-altitude jetstream, "it blankets much of the Northern Hemisphere in a brown-carbon haze." [Robert Scribbler June 26/15]
Meanwhile, as the hot Pacific Ocean turns anoxic and acidic beneath the keel of my solar-electric outrigger canoe… throughout Siberia, Alaska and the high Arctic, no-longer-frozen permafrost continues to burn in vast underground peat fires. Hundreds of billions of tons of peat drying in record-high winter, spring and summer temperatures "creates an understory fuel that can keep blazes burning for weeks, months, and sometimes years," Robert Scribbler warns, "pushing blazes to explosive size and dumping massive plumes of smoke into an atmosphere already heavily laden with Alaska's brown carbon pulse." [Electra Finds Some Wind; Robert Scribbler June 29/15]
Back in the White House, someone must be smelling smoke. Earlier last month at the National Hurricane Center, Obama dared suggest that climate change is fuelling extreme weather. "This is the only planet we've got," came the predictable presidential sound-bite. "And years from now, I want to be able to look our children and grandchildren in the eye and tell them that we did everything we could to protect it."
He'll be lucky if they don't whack him upside the head. This is the same guy who just green-lighted offshore Arctic oil drilling and promised to open vast tracts of public land to heavily-subsidized coal mining. [OtherWords June 7/15]
Reality 10, Denial 0
Here's the real deal:
On June 18, 2015, some 320,000 square kilometers of reflective Arctic sea ice melted into dark, heat-absorbing waters in a single day. That's an ice cube the size of New Mexico gone in 24 hours. [Robert Scribbler June 18/15]
In Alaska, on that same day, close to a half-million more forest acres burned. The 314 wildfires raging throughout the state brought the 2015 total to 1,912,000 acres incinerated by human-powered climate shift and abetted by geoengineering madmen. (At some near-future Eco-Nuremberg trial, we're going to ask them why.)
Also in a recent single day, 138 new fires erupting throughout northwest Canada propelled that burn pile to more than 2,250,000 acres since the start of 2015. Some of those fire fronts among the 30 blazes burning near Great Slave Lake were more than 15 miles long.
Oh, Oh, Canada
Nearly eight out of every 10 Canadians say that Earth's climate is changing and the federal government is failing to address this growing "problem". More than half of all Canadians (56%) are convinced climate change is the result of human activities. [National Post May 18/15]
But thinking isn't doing.
With geoengineering aerosols and smoke plumes alternately obscuring our skies, the most pertinent question is:
What are you doing about it?
Stop The Geoengineers [Geoengineering Watch]
Stop Climate Change [Greenpeace]
We're Building A Global Climate Movement [350.org]
Center For Climate And Energy Solutions
Your Carbon Footprint Calculator
Be Part Of The Solution [EPA]
Internationally Known Doctor Addresses Dire Climate Engineering Issue
In the following 40 minute interview Dr. Ted Broer from "The Power Hour" radio sounds the alarm on the critical threats posed by the ongoing covert global climate engineering programs with Dane Wigington, lead researcher for geoengineeringwatch.org. Dr. Broer is internationally recognized as a leading health and nutrition expert, with extensive graduate and post graduate studies in the field of nutrition, biochemistry, and naturopathy. His education includes an undergraduate degree in biological science and chemistry from Florida state university. He has also completed a second undergraduate degree from FSU in psychology and exercise physiology, a masters degree in Business Administration from FSU and received a Doctorate from Southeastern University.
Ted founded his company Health Masters in 1981. He became a licensed nutritionist in the 80's. He has worked with thousands of clients on a individual basis. The author has had three decades of experience in the health care field. He has appeared as a guest on over 1000 television and radio stations and has been featured regularly on nationally syndicated shows. He is a popular seminar speaker and has regularly shared the platform with such notables as Pastor Rob Parsley, Herman Bailey, TD Jakes, Bill Cosby, Carl Lewis , former President George Bush, Barbara Bush, President Gerald Ford, Paul Harvey, Larry King, Secretary Of State Colin Powell, General Norman Schwarzkopf, Zig Ziglar, Elizabeth Dole, Naomi Judd, Bill Cosby, Henry Kissinger, Margaret Thatcher, Evander Holyfield, Larry Bird, Joe Montana, Lou Holtz and many others. During the past three decades he has been privileged to speak to over one million people at live seminars and millions more via radio and television. My most sincere gratitude to Dr. Broer for his willingness to face the dire issue of global climate engineering.
Soaring Global Temperatures And Covert Climate Engineering
Dane Wigington
It's Not About Freedom And Democracy, It's About Oil
Many Americans celebrate and glorify wars and conflicts, that is what they have been trained and conditioned to do. We are told America's aggressive behavior all over the globe is about "freedom and democracy", but what are the real motives and agendas behind the endless wars? It is about keeping the completely unsustainable fossil fuel paradigm going as long as possible. It is about hiding a very rapidly unfolding collapse of industrialized society from the masses, which is not hard to do since the most of the population does not want to know what the reality is in the first place. Resource wars are escalating all over the planet as the fight for remaining resources escalates. I respect and regard US veterans that have served for the right motives, I have personally given to veterans causes for many years. Unfortunately those in power have used them for the primary purpose of gaining more power and control. The article below is an exceptional portrayal of the hydrocarbon fuel conundrum and the endless carnage that has been created by the quest for what is left of this finite power source that has already pushed the biosphere past the point of no return. Though climate engineering is not mentioned in the article, it is a core factor in regard to the escalating resource wars.
Dane Wigington
Monsanto's Chemical Assault Against The Web Of Life
Of all the companies and corporations that represent twisted greed, corruption, and irreparable destruction to our planet and it's life forms, Monsanto stands out. Not only is Monsanto involved with the total chemical contamination and genetic modification of our food supply at the ground level, but available evidence indicates that Monsanto is intricately connected to the toxic aerosol climate engineering operations in our skies. Why did Monsanto purchase "Climate Corp" for almost a billion dollars? Those that are part of the ongoing weather wars against global populations must control the message in regard to the weather "forecasting". All the major weather forecasting agencies are owned by the power structure complex. There are clear and growing connections between Monsanto and other power structure owned agencies like "The Weather Channel". As the ongoing geoengineering programs continue to contaminate soils with aluminum and the atmospheric spraying shreds the ozone layer, Monsanto is engineering seeds to address these issues. Coincidence? Monsanto has expanded like a cancer in spite of the EPA knowing the dangers of Monsanto's chemicals for decades. The trend of cover-up is breaking down as a growing segment of the population realizes the gravity of what is being done to them. The short article below highlights the steps now being implemented to hold companies like Monsanto accountable. As the curtain is pulled back, there will be ever more exposure on the greatest assault against life ever launched by the human race, global climate engineering.
Dane Wigington
Shasta County Update On Heavy Metal Contamination, The Legal Ramifications
Dane Wigington
On July 15th, 2014 a group of experts testified environmental heavy metal contamination (likely a direct result of climate engineering) before the Shasta County Board of Supervisors in Northern California. On June 30th, 2015 a group of citizens returned to speak in front of the board in order to confront them about the Board's inaction on the verifiable contamination. In this latest update, Northern California's ABC station, KRCR, has done their best to spin the actual testimony of facts given in 2014 by experts and County representatives. The 2+ minute video below is the latest TV news update.
In 2014 Shasta County Air Quality representative Rick Simon admitted in his testimony before the board that the current air quality testing equipment is not capable of detecting any air particles in the range of those in question (nano particles).
"We measure for PM-10" , stated Mr. Simon (PM-10 means 10 microns which again are particles exponentially larger than the heavy metal nano particles in question. It is not possible to detect elements that are astronomically smaller than the currently used testing equipment is designed to detect and Simon knows this. The smaller the particle, the more dangerous it is for the environment and the human body because it is then much more bioavailable).
So why is KRCR implying that the Shasta County Board of Supervisors has followed through with their responsibilities to investigate and disclose a public health hazard? This is simply not true. Here is the unvarnished reality, Shasta County officials have not done anything to investigate or disclose an indisputable heavy metal contamination (that state certified lab testing proves) which is a public health hazard (REGARDLESS OF THE SOURCE). They claim that this issue is "not in their jurisdiction", again, not true. This governing board has been given test data to prove the presence of the dangerous heavy metal contamination as far back as 2008, they have done virtually nothing to investigate or disclose this critical health threat to Shasta County citizens. There is currently a team of 6 US attorneys and 2 Canadian attorneys (and other qualified professionals) that are focused on this contamination issue. The legal consensus of this group of legal professionals is this, that county public health and safety agencies have a mandated, legal, and moral responsibility to disclose any and all public safety threats. Again, for over 7 years, no investigation and no public disclosure has taken place from Shasta County officials. As the verifiable heavy metal contamination continues to take it's toll, and the reality of this contamination can no longer be hidden, the question of legal liability will certainly be the primary focus of a justifiably outraged population. The 2014 edited testimony of experts is below.
Here is the full original article "Geoengineering Investigation Demanded By Numerous Experts".
Scorched Earth, Climate Engineering Continues To Fuel Planetary Meltdown
Around the globe record numbers of wildfires have continued to rage in 2015. Of all the sources of anthropogenic damage to the planet (and there are countless sources) the greatest single factor fueling the wildfire increase is climate engineering. Fires are currently raging all over the US West, all the way north to Alaska where record levels of acreage are going up in flames. Further east into Canada the story is the same. There was an extremely early start to the now record fire season in Siberia where vast sections of boreal forest are incinerating. In Russia, many recent fires in the Chernobyl "exclusion zone" pose radiation dangers in addition to the fire threat. Southern California is ablaze yet again. Portugal is one of many more countries battling wildfires. How about the southern hemisphere? The story has been the same. Brazil is burning to the ground, so is Chile. In Australia, the fires have been relentless and horrific.
As the forests burn, the feedback loop of continued burning is fed. All the while, the decimating affects of climate engineering are feeding the planetary meltdown. Below is the latest update from Alaska where fires are continuing to devour the landscape at a record pace.
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Decorated War Veteran Adam Kokesh Addresses Climate Engineering And Catastrophic Methane Release
Adam Kokesh is completely dedicated to the fight for the common good. He is a former marine and a decorated war veteran. Adam has given his all to exposing the power structure and its ongoing crimes against humanity. This short interview addresses the dire issue of global climate engineering and the unfolding cataclysms geoengineering programs are fueling. So many of the unfolding global environmental cataclysms can in one way or another be directly linked to climate engineering as a causal factor. The entire climate system has been completely derailed, the ozone layer is decimated, the life support systems of the planet are breaking down. Exposing and halting climate engineering is not an option, it is an absolute necessity if life on Earth is to survive. Though this interview was done a while ago, it slipped through the cracks and never got posted at geoengineeringwatch. The information it contains is completely accurate and relevant today, this is confirmation of previous research and conclusions.
Dane Wigington
"Mysterious" Extreme Warming Of Oceans Baffles Scientists
It is increasingly hard to find words which accurately describe the willful blindness of the so called "science" community. How high a price has the planet and global populations already paid for the behavior of the science community? No matter how enormous the global geoengineering "elephant in the room" becomes, no matter how much destruction and devastation the ongoing climate engineering assault causes, the effects are all a big "mystery" to the "experts". Ocean temperatures are skyrocketing along both coasts of the North American continent causing marine ecosystem collapse (see article posted further down this page). The experts correctly acknowledge that part of the warming is linked to carbon emissions, but then go on to admit "there may also be another explanation, so far undiscovered". The seas are warming so rapidly that researchers must constantly upgrade charts. The extreme ocean warming off the coasts of North America is clearly visible in the current departure from average sea temperature map below.
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Climate engineering is the most dire and immediate threat to the oceans, to us, and to the planet's life support systems as a whole. Short of nuclear cataclysm, climate engineering is the greatest threat we face. Many blame Fukushima for all the die-off of the Eastern Pacific, but there is much more to what is unfolding. The toxic heavy metal geoengineering aerosols being sprayed from jet aircraft (and the radio frequency transmissions used to manipulate them) are completely altering atmospheric convection, wind currents, ocean currents, ocean "mixing", and the hydrological cycle as a whole. The climate engineers have actively tried to suppress the El Niño event since at least 2007. The climate engineering is forcing ocean stratification which is contributing to an increasing "canfield ocean" condition. Our oceans are dying, if the oceans die, we die. Though there are countless forms of anthropogenic damage to our biosphere, academia has so far not shown a shred of courage in regard to openly acknowledging the geoengineering assault on the planet. The recently published article below is yet more proof of this fact. It is up to each and every one of us to expose this criminal denial and thus bring climate engineering to light once and for all.
Dane Wigington
Climate Engineering And Weather Extremes Causing Societal Disruption and Mass Mortality
Climate engineering is weather warfare and biological warfare, these issues are all one in the same and cannot be separated. Climate engineering has been the power structure's primary weapon of choice for decades. Anthropogenic activity has inflicted immense and irreparable damage to the planet and climate system on countless fronts. The climate engineers are manipulating these systems as a means of power and control over populations. The geoengineers can create toxic cool-downs over large regions, at the expense of worsening the overall warming of the planet. The weather makers can also engineer protracted drought and extreme heat. One example is massive ionosphere heater induced high pressure zones like the "ridiculously resilient ridge" that is parked over the US West is literally frying the landscape and drying up all sources of water. Global climate engineering programs are ultimately about power and control, period. Even the El Niño phenomenon is not exempt from the climate engineers attempt to manipulate. The geoengineering weapon of mass destruction is being aggressively used against populations around the globe, including the US population. Every single day the geoengineers interfere with the climate, it inflicts even more damage to the climate system and the biosphere. China and Russia are also heavily involved in their own weather modification madness, it is a competitive race of total destruction. The newly published article below only scratches the surface of the ongoing climate carnage occurring around the globe.
Dane Wigington
How Much Time Do We Have Left? Halting Climate Engineering Is A Primary Factor
Dane Wigington
Our collective reality is changing by the day. How much time do we have left? Though it is impossible for anyone to answer this question, the single greatest leap we could take in the right direction, a direction that would buy us more time, is to expose and halt the ongoing climate engineering insanity. If we can do this, we can then begin to face the long list of remaining challenges the human race has created for itself.
The tipping point has long since come and gone for the Earth's climate system though mainstream sources have not yet fully acknowledged this fact. The collapse of industrialized civilization is only a matter of time and likely very near, there is no turning back. The miraculous and hospitable planet that we have all known has been decimated beyond the point of no return in any time frame that matters. The scientific community has recently sent out a warning by setting the "global doomsday clock" to 3 minutes before midnight.
Does this mean we have no chance? Should giving up the fight for the common good be considered? Absolutely not. So long as there is a chance that the planet's life support systems can still be salvaged (and there is a chance), it is our responsibility to fight on. Marching in the battle to preserve a future for our children is not an option, it is our primary obligation in life. The human race is free falling into near term total extinction because of it's own behavior and apathy. It is this apathy that has allowed psychotic individuals to wield power unchecked and unchallenged for centuries.
"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything."
This is Einstein's quote, and it is completely correct. Even at this late hour so many are "sitting the bench" waiting for someone else to take action an move the ball forward in regard to the fight for the common good. The "Doomsday Clock" assessment from the scientific community is extremely dire and this assessment does not even mention or consider what is mathematically the greatest and most immediate threat of all, global climate engineering. A Hopi Indian elder has given us words of wisdom that we should all take to heart each and every day.
"We are the ones we have been waiting for."
No matter how dark the horizon, it is not yet black. Unshakable meaning and purpose exists in firmly focusing ones efforts and energies on the fight for the common good. Educate yourself and stand your ground in the battle to sound the alarm, all of our voices are essential in the fight to expose and halt climate engineering.
"Anonymous" Covers Climate Engineering Threat
The group "Anonymous" is constantly and actively working toward exposing tyranny in countless arenas around the globe. The video below addresses the most critical issue of global climate engineering, it was assembled by Anonymous and just forwarded to me. The gravity and immediacy of the total destruction being inflicted on our planet and our health from the ongoing geoengineering programs is immense. The threat posed by the constant toxic atmospheric spraying and radio frequency bombardments cannot be overstated. My most sincere gratitude to Anonymous for their help with sounding the alarm on the climate engineering insanity.
Dane Wigington
Engineered Western Meltdown To Cool The East
Dane Wigington
The weather warfare being waged against the US population continues to escalate. Due to the highly toxic fallout, weather warfare is also biological warfare against the entire web of life. How hot is it going to be under the completely engineered high pressure heat dome in the West? Record shattering. Is it any wonder the Western states are burning to the ground? This includes Alaska where more than 200 wildfires are burning as of late June.
The engineered high pressure zone facilitates the jet stream manipulation the climate engineers are after. By pushing the upper level winds up and over (north of) the heat dome, the winds then spin clockwise around the high pressure. A large "dip" in the jet stream is then formed, which contributes to yet another engineered cool-down in the Eastern US which is scheduled for late this week. Though the Western US could be considered a "climate sacrifice zone", available data indicates the West is also a target for engineered drought.
The latest NOAA map below will look very familiar to any that have reviewed my past articles documenting the geoengineering assault against the US, but this map is new and simply reflects the exact same climate engineering scenario being repeated again, and again, and again. Though there has also been heat in the Northeast, the climate engineers have "scheduled" a cool-down. The Western US is baked and burned while the Eastern half of the country gets the engineered cool-down.
Each color shade in the NOAA map represents a deviation of 2-3 degrees or more above or below "normal" (depending on the shade). The West will be 20 to 30 degrees above normal, the East will be be nearly 20 degrees below normal (this map is for the forecast for the period from June 28th through July 2nd).
It is important to consider that "official" high temperatures are consistently being UNDERREPORTED by 4 to 5 degrees. This means it is actually far warmer than what is being disclosed (which is already at critical levels). How bad is the global climate situation? Much worse than most yet comprehend, this fact is now becoming all but impossible to hide. Americans in the Eastern US need to look at the global picture in order to gain an accurate perspective on reality. How cold is the rest of the world? 2014 was the warmest year on record and 2015 is on pace to shatter that record. The GISS surface temperature departure from normal map below represents the combined data for the past 2 years. What is the most anomalously below normal temperature zone in the world? For over two years it has been the eastern half of the North American continent.
The entire global climate system has been derailed, there is no completely natural or untainted weather, none. The ongoing scenario in the US lower 48 is as meteorologically unnatural as it is unprecedented. There are many agendas being carried out by the weather makers, one is the manipulation of US population's perception of the climate. At the core of the weather warfare that is being waged is, of course, the agenda of total power and total control, this must always be remembered and considered. I have repeatedly documented the radical "fry/freeze" scenario being continuously engineered in the US lower 48. The climate science community, of course, will not speak about the geoengineering elephant in the room so they just claim not to know or understand why the Eastern US is cool while most of the world isn't. The bottom line is this, we are all in a fight for life, every one of us is needed in the effort to sound the alarm. Exposing and halting climate engineering MUST be our top priority.


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NEW YORK — Two New York Police Department patrolmen have been suspended after a video surfaced showing them beating a handcuffed suspect during an undercover drug operation.
The footage was shot by a witness looking out an apartment window in the Bronx on Jan. 5. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly says he decided to suspend the two as soon as he saw the video.
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