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Monthly Archives: July 2012
Rich nations grabbing land from poor nations
[ There are so many nations grabbing land from other nations that I gave up trying to summarize this excellent book and just used a few paragraphs from NewScientist. Having to import food is a clear sign of being over … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Starvation
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Magnetic Reversal could knock out power grids and communication systems
Peter Olson and Renaud Deguen. 1 Jul 2012. Eccentricity of the geomagnetic dipole caused by lopsided inner core growth. Nature Geoscience 5, 565–569 Lopsided growth of the Earth’s core could explain why its magnetic field reverses direction every few thousand … Continue reading
Posted in Electric Grid & EMP Electromagnetic Pulse
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Climate Change and Infrastructure
Matthew Wald. 25 July 2012. Weather Extremes Leave Parts of U.S. Grid Buckling. New York Times. From highways in Texas to nuclear power plants in Illinois, the concrete, steel and sophisticated engineering that undergird the nation’s infrastructure are being taxed … Continue reading
Posted in 2) Overshoot, Infrastructure & Collapse
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Drought and the Food Supply
Lesk, C. January 7, 2016. Influence of extreme weather disasters on global crop production. Nature. Drought and extreme heat events slashed cereal harvests in recent decades by 9% to 10% on average in affected countries with the greatest impact … Continue reading
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Natural Gas — How Much is Left in the USA?
Although there’s been a fracking boom for shale gas in America, many are skeptical. We need local gas since it’s very expensive to import from overseas sources like Qatar, and we’re competing with other nations for delivery, which drives the … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Liebig's Law, Natural Gas
Tagged drought, fracking, how much natural gas is left, stranded natural gas
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Liebig’s Law Of the Minimum
Liebig’s Law of the Minimum originally applied to plants, which require 21 nutrients — if any of them are missing the plant won’t grow to it’s full potential, or not be able to grow at all. It’s similar to the … Continue reading
Posted in 1) Decline, Liebig's Law
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History of Drought in America since 1899 – Worst ever now
The dust bowls of the 1950s were worse than the famous dust bowls of the Great Depression. The conditions for a new dust bowl are happening again, only this time we’ve cut down the trees so that 27 ton tractors … Continue reading
Posted in 1) Decline, Drought
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Extinction has Nearly Happened Before: The Human Bottleneck
Sam Kean. 19 Jul 2012. Blogging the Human Genome Entry 10: The chromosomal evidence that mankind nearly went extinct. Slate.com Take your pick for the cause of our near-extinction—ice ages, plagues, Indonesian gigavolcanoes. But humans have far less genetic diversity … Continue reading
Posted in Extinction Experts
Tagged bottleneck, extinction, human survival
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Methane’s potential for another major extinction event
June 22, 2016. As Alaska warms, methane emissions appear stable, study finds. phys.org. Excerpts: One reason no increase has been seen may be that “Bacteria that produce methane and bacteria that consume methane will both become more active as temperatures … Continue reading
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Hirsch predicts Oil Shocks by 2017, panic, and stock market crash
I believe oil shocks could lead to a FAST CRASH Robert L. Hirsch was the author of the first US government report on peak oil in 2005, which recommended taking action to mitigate Peak Oil at least 20 years before … Continue reading
Posted in By People, Energy Books, Oil Shocks, Peak Resources, Robert Hirsch
Tagged hirsch, liquid fuel crisis, transportation
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