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Are 400 ppm of CO2 the border to beginning the Armageddon, or not?

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At last we arrived at 400 ppm of CO 2 in the atmosphere .  Two decades of conferences, commitments and challenges don’t stop the growth of CO 2 atmospheric concentration. But we aren’t listening celestial trumpets or seeing angels armed with fire-swords down from heaven. It’s true, the predicted Apocalypse doesn’t start yet, but the barrier of two times the concentration of CO 2 of pre-industrial age is significant not to be a round number bur it had never exceeded in the last 600,000 years . However importance is that in first we are entering in ‘ terra incognita ’ with respect to fossil records, and second ours mathematic climatic models are out too of confidence interval; and now anything unforeseen or expected can happen. What does it mean Terra Incognita? As I explained in: Really are temperatures stopping its rice , climate models are a set of nonlinear differential equations and as such are very conditioned to the boundary conditions; this determines the calculation ...

Why oil and coal consumption is growing day by day?

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Greed may explain many of the incongruous things that humanity tends to do. With complete certainty in the caves there were some Mr. Scrooge and all kinds of people trying to take advantage of the work of others or no interest in community affairs. But it would be simplistic to think that our problems come from selfish attitudes, all things considered many of the mistakes and atrocities in history were made thanks nice people with good intention added to ignorance, and record of stupid actions has that was making for love. But surely the little of selfishness that we all have, which individually doesn’t affect because most people behave when it is the moment honestly and generously, acts collectively producing really disasters that historians of all times trying to analyze and understand. However there are the most important elements that produce much more damage in my opinion, and we don’t usually deal with because they are part of our normal functioning, at the same time we believe...

Fracking, I can’t understand anything?

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Today have we faced an energy crisis? No Today are we in front of climatic crisis? Yes So, do we must extract energy at any cost? NO, NO and NO Why we have this obsession to extract oil, and other hydrocarbons, from anywhere and at any price? No there are deeper see, higher mountain or sacred site where if it has one drop of oil exits one company that want to take it. Doesn’t matter how deeper they must drill or how many square kilometers will need raze of forest, fields or villages, for oil is allowed all.  Night light of gas burning in air Not too long ago, in time of financial debauchery, when oil was very close to peak , prices of it rose to levels unseen and demand seemed that had unstoppable. In this context, with renewable energy in its early stages and people in the midst of madness of wasted energy, among others, Fracking might seem a solution because higher prices of oil turned it into cost effective. But today when oil producers reduce their extr...

The Perfect Storm

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Title of a movie that was the union of three storms at once and fishermen who need the money makes them be more convenient to the sea, which pays for life. But this isn’t the reason for my writing today. What I talk about is the storm that comes close to humanity and as figured ostriches don’t want to see (topic of Ignoring the Evidence ).   We are currently undergoing the rigors of a crisis that leaves millions of unemployed people around the world. Our politicians are still stuck in their useless solutions. Neoliberals postulate remove regulations and protections, conservatives savings until the last consequences, ansd socialists to spend all money that we haven’t. Tested all three things separately and at the same time and the result was the same: we have gone worse. They don’t realize that the paradigm they knew is gone (or was a lie), but they are still stuck because that's all they know. But back to the storm, or three storms converged to be exact,which...

Who holds the smoking gun?

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The Guardian has reported about conclusions of US summer drought where NOAA will publish an inform that dissociate Climate Change of this catastrophic event, but after others news say contraries and it insists in a bad interpretation of inform that it’s very ambiguous in its conclusion. The controversy appears that the attribution is a conjunction of normal causes that occurred simultaneously and catastrophic. In other words, drought must have been anyway without Climatic Change.   Climate Change couldn’t be the guilt of summer drought, it’s possible . In fact climate determines weather but it doesn’t do the weather. Weather has own dynamics, not only it’s due to climate but it’s modeling by local and regional boundaries. There is a think that climate change will change the weather but this will not be happening exactly. Tomorrow it will rain similar as today or yesterday. The different will be frequency, intensity and geographical distribution. Today it can snow in Sahara...

Cyprus European Union and the return of the Middle Age

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A week was passed but we are stupefied with the events happened in Cyprus. Euro-group wants to pay Cyprus citizen part of rescue of their banks from their bank deposits. Today (25/3/13) at last there are a solution of problem , or so it seems. BCE pressure with to close credit line at Cyprus banks, Cypriot parliament refuses to make pay citizens the bankruptcy, Cyprus's government tries to sell the soul in Russia if UE turns back, and Euro-group saw that it just jump by a precipice where the end of which there is always a crash. Final solution tries to maintain alive Cyprus and getting hurt in the attempt, but it could avoid the markets down and capital flee.   Cyprus is failure . This was evident a year ago where its banks, over-dimensioned for the size of the country, experienced the pardon of a portion of the Greek debt. This may be a perfect excuse but not so sure if the Greek state can pay what it owe, even the pardon of part of the debt; so certainly the end result wou...

The dream is far away today

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Space the last border With this phrase start all the episodes of a low budges series called Star Trek that will slim three seasons, but forty years later it has generated one cartoon series, four spinoff, twelve films and more of eight video game; without to think about the millions dollars wined with its merchandising. In fact it was a science fiction series born at the culmination of the space race ; and like others of that time has an improvement technology respect to the 50 years but the approach was the same: new worlds, monsters, dangers and final victory of dominant specie what is humans (of course). However, its success will be in place all its action in a new and different context. Enterprise is a spacecraft that belongs to an interplanetary fleet, Earth is a planet confederate with others planets which have other smart life forms with biology independent of us; the relationship between humans and aliens is on equal terms, with alliances and enemies these can change acc...