California: Look At Mother Nature On The Run In The 21st Century, & More

Well, I dreamed I saw the knights

In armor coming

Saying something about a queen

There were peasants singing and

Drummers drumming

And the archer split the tree

There was a fanfare blowing

To the sun

That was floating on the breeze

Look at Mother Nature on the run

In the nineteen seventies

Now, look at California on the run

In the twenty-first century... 

More Than Half of San Jose's Guadalupe River Is Gone

SAN JOSE -- On a recent afternoon at Guadalupe River Park in the heart of downtown, a couple strolled hand-in-hand, a mother pushed her toddler in a stroller, and soft breezes rustled the leaves of stately trees near the home of the San Jose Sharks.

But something was missing: the river.

The river that runs through America's 10th-largest city has dried up, shriveling a source of civic pride that had welcomed back trout, salmon, beavers and other wildlife after years of restoration efforts. Over the past two months, large sections of the Guadalupe have become miles of cracked, arid gray riverbed. Fish and other wildlife are either missing or dead, casualties of California's relentless drought.

Look at Mother Nature on the run

In the nineteen seventies

Now, look at California on the run

In the twenty-first century... 

Germany Struggles With Too Much 

Renewable Energy

Although Germany has increased its renewable energy generation by almost five times in the last decade, it has failed to invest in building the necessary infrastructure to carry this energy. The excess electricity that is being generated by Germany is spilling over to Poland and Czech Republic, two countries that are investing close to $180 million to shore up their grids from Germany’s power spillage.

Perfect Storm' Engulfing Canada's Economy Perfectly Predictable

Throughout the world, analysts no longer refer to bitumen as Canada's destiny, but as a stranded asset. Nearly $60-billion of projects representing 1.6 million barrels of production were mothballed last year. 

Turkish security forces reel from wave of attacks

Two women shot at the U.S. consulate in Istanbul on Monday and at least eight people were killed in a wave of separate attacks on Turkish security forces, weeks after Ankara launched a crackdown on Kurdish militants.

The Point of No Return

Temperatures reached highs of 47C in conditions made less bearable by elevated humidity 

Heat wave hits some European countries, more wildfires reported

More Than 1 Million Acres of Paddy Fields Destroyed by Floods

The Weight of the World

The  United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or U.N.F.C.C.C., has by now been ratified by a hundred and ninety-five countries, which, depending on how you count, represents either all the countries in the world or all the countries and then some. Every year, the treaty stipulates, the signatories have to hold a meeting—a gathering that’s known as a COP, short for Conference of the Parties. The third COP produced the Kyoto Protocol, which, in turn, gave rise to another mandatory gathering, a MOP, or Meeting of the Parties. 

The seventeenth COP, which coincided with the seventh MOP, took place in South Africa. There it was decided that the work of previous COPs and MOPs had been inadequate, and a new group was formed—the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action, usually referred to as the A.D.P. The A.D.P. subsequently split into A.D.P.-1 and A.D.P.-2, each of which held meetings of its own. The purpose of the U.N.F.C.C.C. and of the many negotiating sessions and working groups and protocols it has spun off over the years is to prevent “dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.” In climate circles, this is usually shortened to D.A.I. In plain English, it means global collapse.

Look at Mother Nature on the run

In the nineteen seventies

Now, look at California on the run

In the twenty-first century...

Top Weekly Ideas and Insights

An Inconvenient Truth

"Battle For Oil" 

What Happens When Political Interests Get Desperate?

EXISTENTIAL REALITY 

"Coming To The End Of Oil Age"

 - Looking Beyond The Brink -

Now, look at California on the run

In the twenty-first century...