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Food, topsoil, aquifers, phosphorus, rare metals essential to microchip fabrication, windmills, solar, and other products; sand; oil; natural gas

Climate change is causing increased salinity in water and soil world-wide

Posted on July 13, 2013 by

November 23, 2012. Climate Change–Induced Salinity Threatens Health.  Science Vol 338: 1028-1029 Sea-level rise, storm surges, and cyclones exacerbated by climate change have begun to severely affect coasts and river estuaries in low-income countries. The resulting increased salinity in soil … Continue reading →

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We are over the edge of the Energy Cliff

Posted on March 29, 2013 by

Figure 1. Conventional Oil Production vs. Conventional Oil Discoveries. NOTE:  These conventional oil reserves DO NOT include Heavy oil or Oil Sands. Preface.  I don’t know who wrote what follows, I was on the end of a chain of many forwarded … Continue reading →

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Rapid Population Growth in California: A Threat to Land and Food Production

Posted on March 13, 2013 by

David & Marcia Pimentel. June 2, 2008. Rapid Population Growth in California: A Threat to Land and Food Production. Cornell University, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Are Californians —who are now coping with overcrowded cities, jammed highways, and a … Continue reading →

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Peak Coal already happened or likely soon, so worst IPCC scenarios may never happen

Posted on January 8, 2013 by

[ The good news is that The IPCC has greatly exaggerated the amount of coal reserves we actually have The scientists below find that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has greatly exaggerated coal reserves, so the IPCC scenario … Continue reading →

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Fungi threatens crops feeding billions of people

Posted on November 18, 2012 by

Preface. And the World Health Organization (2022) released a list of health threatening fungi. In California and the southwest more people are catching valley fever, oaks are dying sudden oak death (SOD) from a fungus. Some scientists expect that climate … Continue reading →

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Water depletion and pollution

Posted on December 6, 2011 by

Water Depletion Michael Specter. October 23, 2006. The Last Drop. Confronting the possibility of global catastrophe. The New Yorker. Cyanobacteria Brookes, J., et al.  7 Oct 2011. Resilience to Blooms. Science. Explosive cyanobacterial blooms cause disease in humans and livestock, … Continue reading →

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James Howard Kunstler “True Believers”

Posted on November 16, 2011 by

James Howard Kunstler. August 17, 2005. True Believers. There is a special species of idiot at large in the financial media space who believe absolutely in the desperate and tragic public relations bullshit that this society churns out to convince … Continue reading →

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