the Global Carbon Project (GCP), says that this year's "strong" rise is projected to be 2.7%. That's much bigger than 2017's 1.6%. ..main factor in the near 3% rise has been coal use in China, a booming global market for cars has helped drive CO2 emissions to an all-time high.
Charts: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46447459 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46447459 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Do Something? “..Just stop 'doing', meditate. Doing ‘nothing’, today that makes us nervous.. (though) it was not long ago that this was what everybody did. Maybe we should try that. ..Stop doing, meditate." ..“Do ‘everything”, that is human nature. We are too clever by halves.” Conservation Biologist vs. Geo-engineer: A Conversation with Guy McPherson, Paul Beckwith, and Martin Halliwell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3l9wI1Gvds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3l9wI1Gvds . . Hope’s Dissertation.. Herculean Hope: Paul Beckwith: “..People ask, in face of doom and gloom of this time do you have hope? How do you maintain hope and keep from getting in to despair, or just basically shutting off ? Answer: Having hope for action is a mug’s game ( A mug is a fool, one easily duped.) when the challenge for change has not been met, even for years. If you have hope and your hopes are continually dashed it is very hard on your psyche or to maintain a balance to function and so on, do I have hope? I have always been hopeful but it is the wrong question. I may not have a lot of hope but it is not a hopeless situation, it is ‘not all or nothing’. There is lots of things we can do as individuals to try to get change from the power structures, from governments, from politicians, leaders, from people. Everything seems going the wrong way right now though there are glimmers, of that word, hope. Have hope or hopeless? The better way to think about it is having passion, you try to make a difference in your life. Do what you can to use the skills that you have to try to get change. A lot of people can feel guilty or try to make you feel guilty, that misses the point; it is not your fault. We can always try to effect change. Things are bad and spiralling continuing, going in the wrong direction, one thing is in the three legged bar stool (analogy).. See the Emergency, step one is agree there is an emergency, then two,what do we do(?) and then (3) change (action).” (.. transcription edited for clarity) -Herculean Climate Rant to Rouse Humanity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt5ORKJoH-Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt5ORKJoH-Q Fairfield Focus Group: Global Climate Change and the Consciousness Community The Climate Change Lecture, Lecture transcription: "We are right now in the position where what some of these scientists are talking about is on the edge of unfolding. Most scientists say this is irreversible and there is nothing we can do about it, and some go so far as to say that if there is a tree with a leaf left on the planet in six years then they will be amazed. This is how dire the assessment is. The assessment actually leads them to that deduction." "In sharing this with people some people leave the lecture something like zombies, some start crying, some uncontrollably. So, it is not for the light of heart. Although the scientists, most of them say this irreversible, there is nothing we can do about it. But instead of going there first with the climate science, I would like to empower you first because I believe that our community with its deep consciousness roots and its knowledge about the importance of collective consciousness has the ability to do something profound about this, more than any other community with the exception of other little groups of people who have learned to use transcendence as a means of developing their own consciousness. And, there are plenty of those around the world. Not trying to minimize them but thinking in our awareness this is the largest community that exists on the planet. A conveyance here is that Maharishi left us with some bread crumbs through time. He worked with many many people and as many of us know he worked around the clock. Nobody got to know everything he was doing but lots of people got very intimate with him on certain projects. In sharing this information on climate change with people on Mother Divine, Purusha programs or maybe a special project on Vastu housing or some other project he was working on, they all heard him say something about this transition coming up. What he said most of all was that the severity and length of time that it will take to go through this transition, from ‘object referral’ to ‘heaven on earth’ would depend on what the meditating groups did that were left on the planet. He also said that less than 20 percent of the people that were alive when the transition started would be alive at the end. That is pretty grim. But, he also told people on the Mother Divine program that what was going to happen was going to be so challenging and horrific that he did not want to even put his attention on it and would not discuss it at all. We have discovered pieces and wish to share these with the community, the little nuggets of information that Maharishi has talked about will surface and come together in maybe a set of instructions, last minute things that he planted in the group and see if we can work together as a team ... Maharishi planted the seed that we can make a difference, that we always have consciousness as the most powerful tool, and the more of us that come together and meditate in to that silence the more powerful this tool is. That is the message to leave you with .. (that we were left with. ) The rest you will find in your heart and you will also find Maharishi’s message, we have the ability individually, individual by individual, and as a collective to do what no scientist on earth believes is possible. Jai Guru Dev QED Lecture postscripts, Meditating In Numbers in Proximity .. "The thing that we can bring in to the mix is our silent value in transcending. During the IAmerican Assembly MMY said that when things get really bad on the planet Brahma awakens. Where does Brahm awaken? Brahm does not awaken in Brahma heaven somewhere, Brahm awakens in the people on earth in our own consciousness we are Brahma that has to awaken. And Brahma awakens and that awaken-ness in us comes forth and evolves our consciousness until we overturn the destructive force in nature intentionally. Maharishi talked about 'we', the individuals that we think we are, are really one Brahmin connection. We have to awaken to the fact that our other aspects of consciousness are destroying all the other unique and beautiful aspects of Brahma. When we destroy complex life on this planet there will be nothing but bacteria left. Do we leave that inheritance for the rest of eternity?" Meditating In Numbers in Proximity "We have the ability to raise humankind to its heavenly divinity to command the laws of nature. We need this pressure. This is not something by mistake. This is something that is happening naturally that brings us to the point where we will take ownership and become brahm in Devine and take charge of nature in life. That is what we are doing in graduating from heaven. Wake up to it. Come and take your power because we have just years left to make that transition and we make it better when we are in groups because there is a collectivity involved. People individually talk themselves out of it. But when this is shown to groups of ten or more everyone gets it. They leave with the knowledge of ‘wow. I could be instrumental’, I am going to graduate in Nature. In life I have been in heaven training and now it is time to get to ownership and get to the point of doing something about it. This is a very very special time. It is the end of the illusion of separation from Nature. That is all we are trying to show you. This is a glorious event, nothing to be fearful about. But those aspects of consciousness not prepared to wake up will not be around for very long. Let us not be some of them. Our hearts lead us on the path to be in the graduating class in Nature. That is how we got here." -Ryan and Stan Current: Patterns of Arctic Sea-Ice Loss: Melt versus Export https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExDVultlDuI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExDVultlDuI Jai Guru Dev. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : In Consciousness Community: To paraphrase, borrowing from.. -Lyman Beecher "This now is the beginning of the great promises and mandates upon Iowa as a state. If this nation is, in the providence of the Unified Field, destined to lead the way in moral and political emancipation of the world; it is time she understood her high calling, and was harnessed for the work. First one had to recognize that it is equally plain that the spiritual and political destiny of our nation is to be decided in the West and hinges on Iowa. There is the territory, and there will soon be the meditating population, the wealth, and the political power. Whatever we do, it must be done quickly; for there is a tide in human things which waits not -- moments on which the destiny of a nation balances, when the light dust may turn the right way or the wrong. And such is the condition of our nation now. Mighty influences are bearing on us and a slight effort now may secure what ages of repentance cannot remove away. We must reveal the Kingdom, the Unified Field in large Nature to the whole nation while we may. All who are alive must be enlightened, and reached by the restraining and preserving energies of heaven.” -Lyman Beecher This is the beginning of the great promises and mandates upon Iowa as a state. Jai Guru Dev "Duty-bound" "In welcoming the saints and Mahatmas, Maharishi said that the world today needed the intercession of the saints who are established n themselves and are therefore, nearer to the almighty power. The situation of the world now demanded of the people a powerful invocation of the grace of gods to fill the atmosphere with peace and purity. This, he said, can be effectively done by those who by long practice of meditation and various spiritual disciplines, had gained the privilege of being nearer to the seat of divine power and mercy. The saints of Uttarakhand therefore were in duty-bound to intercede on behalf of the people and invoke the grace of gods to alleviate human suffering." "..After Maharishi had stressed the importance and purpose of the assembly of the Saints and Mahatmas.. Then the party entered the 84 caves of Shakaracharya Nagar, where collective meditation was held for one hour. So soon as everyone had taken their seats in the caves, the meditation started with a recitation of Vedic hymns, and as everyone sank deep within, nature herself was absorbed in silence. There was utter stillness for one solid hour, at the end of which, the meditation was broken by a recitation of vedic slokas. The saints who are accustomed to long meditation felt the powerful intensity of today's collective meditation. It was decided to continue collective meditation regularly every Sunday until atmospheric tension abates." .. "All we can do is as individuals within a tribe (a group meditation). Let us act like the tribe matters. Act as if your own lives matter and treat ourselves and treat others with respect. At the edge of extinction only love remains." -McPherson One would hope that science, if not experience, could guide policy even in the TM movement. The science says that the Meissner-like Effect (the ME) from meditation is concentrated by attendance of numbers in proximity meditating in groups. email response to the lecture.. "The fact that the change is upon us is really important, and should be the headline of every media publication." skymtsea asks: What was said? A: The meeting was of about 20 people in someone’s home the other night. It is part of a series of these small group meetings in Fairfield, Iowa. This particular one was hosted for a circle of intuitive healers in Fairfield. I also had heard the presentation a few Sundays ago in Fairfield after a meeting of the meditating Quakers. It has been given to other groups now. It is a substantial presentation. The lecture and media presentation is prepared and given by two academic scientists who have taken time studying in more detail the climate change research science and also who are well aware of the science on meditation. At the outset research on meditation practiced individually or in groups is a given known, {where two or more are gathered..} that numbers meditating who are in proximity to one another as a group can in a Meissner-like super-radiance effect influence other people in positive ways from a distance. That is now a known and given. This presentation however as a synthesis was an overview of the current climate science and then how people can respond to rapid climate change given the practice of meditation. Evidently as presented this was a very tight thesis and sobering. I will post some of what I have transcribed of the lecture and discussion parts.. The larger presentation was nearly 2 hours having powerpoint slides and video clips related to climate change science. Bhairitu asks: And who is going to pay this tax? The middle class? They're tapped out as it is. Vegan diets will make many people anemic. It's an nutritionally ignorant idea. We each have individual nutritional needs. That's what ayurveda is all about. Answer: An aggressive carbon tax can be revenue neutral -- the revenue raised being used to lower other. taxes. Bhairitu: To solve the problem you needed to start several decades ago. And what would you have done? Skymtsea answers: 20 years ago we should have implemented a revenue-neutral, substantive, annually increasing carbon (GHG) tax which would have given strong incentives for reducing GHG emissions. Set at proper levels, that could have mitigated much of the dire climate problems we are now facing. Since that was not done, now we need stronger action. I think GHG/carbon tax is the most effective primary policy. However, now both the initial level, and ramp rate, will have to be much higher than if set 20 years ago. And a significant portion of the revenue will now have to be spent on accelerated R&D, aggressive incentives for zero carbon technology adaptation, massive infrastructure changes to accommodate current and emerging climate change, and addressing equity issues stemming from climate disruption. And there will need to be strong mandates to complement the above with specific deadlines for 100% renewable/non GHG power systems (like California just did, but with nearer term, and more universal timetables), 100% electrification of the transport system, transformation of agriculture, etc. And strong social campaigns towards low carbon lifestyles, including vegan diets. (And stadiums full of group meditations :)) If governments don't act decisively by 2035 to fight climate change, humanity could cross a point of no return after which limiting global warming below 2°C in 2100 will be unlikely, according to a new study. The research also shows the deadline to limit warming to 1.5°C has already passed, unless radical climate action is taken. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180830084818.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180830084818.htm B: The problem is that you would need to implement a very authoritarian government to mandate changes. That won't go over well with the public (just look at their current attitude towards climate disruption) nor even more with the business sector. It's like the human race has it's own pre-programmed means for self-destruction or extinction. To solve the problem you needed to start several decades ago. And what would you have done? Reign in population expansion (the root of the problem) by mass sterilization (a popular sci-fi theme)? 'Archived' heat has reached deep into the Arctic interior, researchers say https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180829143836.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180829143836.htm Arctic sea ice isn't just threatened by the melting of ice around its edges, a new study has found: Warmer water that originated hundreds of miles away has penetrated deep into the interior of the Arctic. Without dramatic reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions, most of the planet's land-based ecosystems -- from its forests and grasslands to the deserts and tundra -- are at high risk of 'major transformation' due to climate change. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180830143207.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180830143207.htm Recent Release of Climate Assessment by California http://www.climateassessment.ca.gov/state/overview/ http://www.climateassessment.ca.gov/state/overview/ Ice melt, heat domes, jet streams and 'Arctic Monsoons'.. in, where he shows with satellite imagery how incredibly fast the arctic ice melted away this July to only one meter of depth or less! https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=fdtK2oH4M0c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdtK2oH4M0c In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ..temperature is a big influence, warming will also alter rainfall, weather, soil chemistry and sea levels. ..one thing is pretty sure: more unpredictability. ..found from the paleo-record was evidence that ecosystems changed radically as temperatures rose."..the impacts as "staggering." ..going from frigid to warm; now it's moving from warm to warmer. A warming world could eventually make some of our most familiar ecosystems — deciduous forests, grasslands, Arctic tundra — unrecognizable. "That's going to create a great deal of chaos, ecological chaos out there.. "The breadth of animals and plants affected by these heat wave conditions suggest our ecosystems are more vulnerable than we think to the projected increases in heat wave frequency, intensity and duration we are facing in the future," she says.
