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The prophets of the doom

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In 1997 after two years of negotiations some countries signed the climate protocol in the third climate summit in Kyoto. Twenty-two summits after the ridiculous advances fade away like the fog. In the time of climate disasters denial is strong as never and carbon industry grows desperately. The title is the name give for Donald Trump to the climate activist. Despite we are far to the doom, really doom is getting closer to us every day. However economy is turn its eyes and insists to give the same advices about how we are to tackle the future. Economy is kidnapped by the money and these at the same time by the oil. The prophets can be annoying when say that you wouldn’t listen, especially if you know that they are right . The storm is here Why economy doesn’t want to listen to the prophets? This is the real question of the climate mess. If a new virus takes prominence, world make all the necessary measures to front the illness; in the other way endemic illness is hi...

Tomorrow is now

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200 years from the beginning to burn fossil fuels, we are in front of its consequences. The most incredible is how a lot of people denies it. December of 2017 California is still burning. We ignore when it will finish but the result will be the disappearance of the California’s forest. We could talk about the current extraordinary weather of this days, but really these wildfires are the last steep of the great drought. The great drought killed one third of the trees which are becoming the perfect fuel. California wildfires This year was the year of wildfires and hurricanes (even in Europe). Every day the number of refugees grows. The number of regions without hope to rise after disaster also grows and people leave this regions for survive. Humans has passed the threshold of sustainability but what we do is double the losing bet. Losing for a people but a great profit for a less. The sad situation is the interested blindness of economy powers. Oil and the rest of fossil f...

Trump victory: The Paris Climate Game Over

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He promised to break the climate commitments and he will do it. Because he is convinced that it is a conspiracy orchestrated by China. We can tell about ignorance, pedantry, superb, swagger and more other qualifies of next president of USA. Trump is lucky cretin which luck puts in the top of way. There are a lot of vegetables which are occupying relevant sites in society, and every casual event allows to allows perpetuate itself there, even making deadly mistakes. But this is a very simple explanation of his triumph, adding the luckily of to be in the correct site in the correct time , there are a lot of conditions that give him the victory. We can’t talk about all of them but I will say you the consequences of this result. Too many people are horrified with the sentences and proposes tell for him in election campaign. However, these ideas are more close with his biography acts. Who tramples stronger often wins, and he always is who tramples strongest without seeing what breaks o...

Hypocrisy: to fight against climate change in home when own oil is sold far from your home

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"... In the oil business, you can work neck up or neck down: the first option you enriches while the second you only get dirty ..." Taylor Caldwell Norway, Scotland are countries that have signed the climate commitment in Paris (well, Scotland no because it belongs to the United Kingdom that is going out of the EU and it doesn’t find the time to do it), and was the first to get in implementation it. This news(read Norway's Prime Minister "champions global change" and Scotland 'leads UK' on climate change ), even when the subscribers haven’t been able to ratify within a year it was very spread in the news media committed to the struggle against climate change. But these countries are oil producers , this is now one of its main line of business of these countries, and many of the policies against climate change income paid by oil sales. Oil a long history of success The Paris agreement was minimal common assumable, the result of the will o...

More than words we need to solve Climate Change

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A week from the Paris summit on Climate Change , the umpteenth summit short, it seems that already have a firm commitment. Despite rumors so that to achieve a global commitment has begun to thin, and certainly this end the umpteenth summit bankruptcy. The point is that we have the G20 and the EU to form the block of developed countries, these are countries that issue, as well as due to economic globalization oblige countries to be also highly polluting. And on the other side we have the capital world of the need to produce as much energy to transport, has opted for the safest source of energy are: fossil fuels. As I explained in " Why the oil and coal consumption increase every day? " Everyone is embarked on this energy, now leave it would cause many losses. Extreme weather growth We passed many years of climate conferences and summits with big headlines, statements, commitments and timetables which we never fulfilled. One reason for this was the lack of awarenes...

Coal, a drug for mankind very difficult to leave

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Published in Linkedin: Coal, a drug for mankind very difficult to leave (28/11/2014) If someone asks for jobs with less future, probably in all lists would write the coal mining . Coal has historically generated many jobs, however mechanization has been declining number of employers; but in many parts of the developing world is still mining, sometimes in border on slavery, which is feeding (bad eating to be exact) many people from earliest childhood. Now a danger is hovering over this form of living. Although coal will remain nearly 300-year to explode with current consumption, but the need to reduce CO 2 emissions questions the continuity of this mining. Coal was the engine of the Industrial Revolution . The steam machines from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries moved thanks to black stones that we could burn. But the twentieth century discovered a new fuel: the Oil , which was more manageable, easy to get and it has more potential uses. Later he appeared a third co...

The carbon bubble

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Atmospheric CO 2 is arriving other time at 400 ppm . Obviously last moths it was under mythic threshold but to follow the sawtooth graphic seems that the problem was overcome, but on the contrary graphic trend is growing in exponential. However as I related in “ Are 400 ppm of CO 2 the border to beginning the Armageddon, or not? ” to pass the threshold doesn’t mean that climate begins a spiral of weather disasters. Deniers, in their crusade against the evidence in climate , have profit of a cool winter for beginning their ridiculous idea of Global Cooling . Global Cooling is possible but to put tones of CO 2 in atmosphere isn’t a solution because Earth will be heating until CO 2 and temperature will take other time the equilibrium; but in other hand high CO 2 could do a rebound effect which will carry climate to the Ice Age (read “ The day after Tomorrow ”) CO 2 is growing and nobody does anything. The more powerful oil industry moves all of its influences for to stop ...

Stop the madness

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Ecuador announces in the last dais its intentions of drilling oil in the tropical forest . Ecuador tropical forest is a natural reserve of biosphere, and in its land life a few thousands of aboriginal human groups in total isolate of world, the natural value of these forests are uncountable. The reason adduced by Ecuador government is that United Nations doesn’t pay for the conservation of these forests and it’s the mandatory of Ecuador government to be care of its people and oil will gives thousands of works and the money that will come with oil will be using for eradication of people poverty and save the environment (irony of politics haven’t limits). But who’re us to deny at country of Ecuador the right to raze its tropical forests? when Brazil makes the same, practice that put it in the group of twentieth economical powerful countries; or Argentina in Patagonia, Australia drilling the Great Barrier and Canada with Tar-Sands in Alberta. How we want to stop the ‘legitimate’ int...

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...

Nuclear fusion between energetic solution and dream

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¡Que toda la vida es sueño,  y los sueños, sueños son! Calderon De la Barca Traslate For all of life is a dream, And dreams, are nothing but dreams . There had been a time when the future was seeing as a world full of light and spatial engines. That world showed us a peaceful people in houses with automatic doors, kitchens working order by our voice, car flying over cities and all kind of electric tools what would make every our dream. But this time was finished in 1972 when oil began its particular ascension to sky and after then energy left to be a cheap resource. Before energy had been a very cheap thing, most of it we could obtain by a natural sources (as a wind, river water or animal strong) and also was free. The industrial revolution increased the consumption but the introduction of mineral coal supply the insufficiency of natural, that item was increase the price of energy because it’s Necessary was the use of labor (mining), however mechanization arrived to mina...