#STANFORD U - The Mystical #Powers of #Storytelling

 

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The Mystical Powers of Storytelling

Being an active online professional education student at Stanford U; I am routinely invited to their newest and greatest - FREE Learning Webinars; similar to the Storytelling Course linked below. Who amongst us could not be better at storytelling? 

For starters, it is a key skill that can be practically applied to help get ordinary folks, political/legal charlatans, and corrupt crony governments - out of or into a lot of jams, such as; the US Dollar Reserve Currency Hoax, BlockChain Lies, AI Fraud, Worthless Bitcoin Bubbles, and other contemporary, global Ponzi-based schemes that insanely grow by leaps and bounds daily. Seemingly, caused by a more desperate and disillusioned world impossibly clinging to its fading economic stability and last remaining supplies of non-renewable natural resources. Hmm...

The Negative-Sum Games We Play - Economics 101

However, there is still nothing like a profound, motivating, creative story that inspires perspiration from the masses or individuals  - remember those big ole fish stories, or when and how we fought that Grizzly bear with our bear (sic) hands in the Alberta Rockies?

Key Takeaway:  Don't ever underestimate powerful storytelling talents, spin-doctor applications, and their contagious fire-side chat results - for as long as there are still bigger fools out there to convince, the right stories - will always foolishly move vulnerable nations and people; and thereby their real concrete resources and trillions in fiat currencies...

https://learn.stanford.edu/storytelling-webinar-thank-you.html

The Power of Stories to Fuel Innovation

Self-Paced Professional Education Course

Learn how to craft compelling stories that take listeners on a journey that changes how they think, feel, or act. Through the power of story, you’ll discover how to inspire transformational change and spark innovation in your company.

Good Tidings,

Terry

P.S. - Never forget that old adage that stems from the dawn of time - 'B\S Baffles Brains' - now we even teach it at the professional level at our top schools - what next? 

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#Climate #Chaos Emerges From Devil's #Bargain - July #Temperature Update -James #Hanson and Makiko #Sato

Editors Comments My good friend and fellow climate activist, Dr. James Hansen together with Dr.Makiko Sato provide a highly detailed and professional report monthly on global temperature trends so you can keep up-to-date on recent news and measures. Dr. Hansen is often referred to as 'The Father Of Global Warming' because of his 1988 testimony before Congress that exposed the imminent perils caused by global warming. I highly recommend you Subscribe to this FREE report and consider making a donation to the MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE that humanity faces at this very moment   - T A McNeil

Fig. 1.  Left: monthly global temperature anomalies.  Right: Nino 3.4 temperature anomaly for past six years and 7 months, and NCEP forecast (green line).   July Temperature Update: Faustian Payment Comes Due Subscribe Future Reports  13 August 2021 James Hansen and Makiko Sato July global temperature (+1.16°C relative to 1880-1920 mean) was within a hair (0.02°C) of being the warmest July in the era of instrumental measurements (Fig. 1, left).  That’s remarkable because we are still under the influence of a fairly strong La Nina (Fig. 1, right).  Global cooling associated with La Ninas peaks five months after the La Nina peak,[1] on average. Something is going on in addition to greenhouse warming.  The 12-month running mean global temperature (blue curve in Fig. 2) has already reached its local minimum.  Barring a large volcano that fills the stratosphere with aerosols, the blue curve should rise over the next 12 months because Earth is now far out of energy balance – more energy coming in than going out. How far is the recent global temperature above the 50-year warming trend?  The best measure is probably the average deviation from the trend line of the two El Nino maxima and the two La Nina minima that followed.  That average is 0.14°C.  That’s a lot, and we know that it’s a forced change, driven by a growing planetary energy imbalance.

Fig. 2.  Global surface temperature relative to 1880-1920 average.

Fig. 3.  Annual growth of GHG climate forcing (red is trace gases, mainly CFCs).    Graph shows 5-year means, except 2019 value is the 3-year mean and 2020 is 1-year mean. READ MORE ABOUT THE AUTHORS James E. Hansen Dr. James Hansen, formerly Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, where he directs the Program on Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions. He was trained in physics and astronomy in the space science program of Dr. James Van Allen at the University of Iowa. His early research on the clouds of Venus helped identify their composition as sulfuric acid. Since the late 1970s, he has focused his research on Earth’s climate, especially human-made climate change. Dr. Hansen is best known for his testimony on climate change to congressional committees in the 1980s that helped raise broad awareness of the global warming issue. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1995 and was designated by Time Magazine in 2006 as one of the 100 most influential people on Earth. He has received numerous awards including the Carl-Gustaf Rossby and Roger Revelle Research Medals, the Sophie Prize and the Blue Planet Prize. Dr. Hansen is recognized for speaking truth to power, for identifying ineffectual policies as greenwash, and for outlining actions that the public must take to protect the future of young people and other life on our planet. Click here for Dr. Hansen’s web page Click here to download Dr. Hansen’s CV Click here for Dr. Hansen's Twitter Click here for Dr. Hansen’s Facebook page THE FATHER OF GLOBAL WARMING  Congressional  Testimony 1988                                                  Makiko H. Sato Dr. Makiko Sato has devoted her career to researching our global climate. Before joining Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions, she spent the last few decades working closely with Dr. Hansen at NASA GISS after obtaining her PhD in physics. Her research interests include analyzing the computational results of climate modeling due to different climate forcings such as greenhouse gas increase, ozone depletion and stratospheric and tropospheric aerosol changes and analyzing global change data, especially atmospheric temperature. Dr. Sato analyzes and updates figures for critical climate diagnostics and feedback and climate forcings. All figures are available to the public on her website. Click here for Makiko’s website and updated figures

The #Methane Time #Bomb Now An #Emergency

 Why The Climate Emergency is now The Methane Emergency

by Paul Gilding

Even rapidly accelerating the end of fossil fuel burning will not slow warming in a timeframe relevant to this threat. If we don’t change our approach there is a reasonable likelihood the climate will go through tipping points that will then self-accelerate and we will have lost control. The road to economic collapse and global chaos is then quite a short one. - P Gilding

 

              “Ignore Gilding at your peril” -  Thomas Friedman - NYT 

 

https://countercurrents.org/2021/08/why-the-climate-emergency-is-now-the-methane-emergency/

Whereas CO2 drives warming slowly over a century, methane drives warming quickly – in around a decade. During this time, it is very potent. While methane is often reported as having 28 times more warming impact than CO2, this is when the two are compared over 100 years. That timeframe is now irrelevant given the challenge we face – which is to reducing warming in a decade.  Over 10 years, methane is in the order of 90-115 times more dangerous than CO2.  It is the nuclear weapon of climate change – a weapon of mass destruction.

 

 

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COVID-19 Vaccines Don’t Really Work as Hoped

 Last week, the CDC announced a surprising finding: “Delta infection resulted in similarly high SARS-CoV-2 viral loads in vaccinated and unvaccinated people.” Public officials had known from the early days of vaccine development that vaccinated people could catch COVID-19, but the assumption had been made that they were not going to be spreaders of COVID-19.

It turns out that the delta variant is sufficiently different from the original Wuhan version of the virus that the vaccines work much less well. The CDC performed an analysis of COVID-19 cases arising from one public gathering in Massachusetts. They found that the gathering led to 469 COVID-19 delta cases among Massachusetts residents, with 74% of these cases in fully vaccinated attendees. Massachusetts is a highly vaccinated state, with approximately 64% of the population fully vaccinated.

There are other issues coming up as well. How long does the vaccine really last? Is the vaccine itself part of the reason that the virus is mutating as rapidly as it is? Are we making problems for ourselves by creating an army of people with very light cases of COVID-19 who can spread the virus to both the vaccinated and the unvaccinated without realizing that they have more than a cold? Aren’t we inadvertently killing off the least able of the virus mutations and allowing the most virulent to multiply?

Posted on August 5,  2021 by Gail Tverberg

My training is as an actuary, so I am familiar with modeling. I am also a “systems thinker.” I know that it is important to look at longer-term impacts as well as short-term impacts. If a person works in the healthcare field, it is easy to consider only the obvious short-term benefits. It takes some analysis to figure out that today’s vaccines may lead to stronger variants (such as delta) and the more overall spread of COVID-19.

In this post, I will explain some of the issues involved.

[1] Today’s vaccines provide only a fraction of the true level of protection required. Their actions are in many ways similar to applying weed killer at half the strength needed to kill the weeds or providing antibiotics at half the dose required to stop the spread of bacteria.

All of our lives, we have been told, “Be sure to complete the full course of the antibiotics. It is necessary to kill all of the bacteria. Otherwise, it will be easier for a few of the stronger bacteria not to be affected. If you stop too early, the bacteria that are least affected by the antibiotic will survive and reproduce, while the others will die. Stopping the drug too soon is a great way to achieve antibiotic resistance, quickly.”

Unfortunately, COVID-19 vaccine makers seem to have overlooked this issue. The respected BMJ published an editorial entitled, Will covid-19 vaccines save lives? Current trials aren’t designed to tell us. It makes the point:

Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, said, “Ideally, you want an antiviral vaccine to do two things . . . first, reduce the likelihood you will get severely ill and go to the hospital, and two, prevent infection and therefore interrupt disease transmission.”

Yet the current phase III trials are not actually set up to prove either.

We were told that the new COVID-19 vaccines are “95% effective in preventing symptomatic disease,” but it turns out that this is far less adequate than what most people would assume. The vaccine is “leaky.” A big issue is that the virus mutates, and the vaccine works much less well against the mutations. The world can never reach herd immunity if immunized people keep catching new variants of COVID-19 and keep passing them on, as the evidence now suggests.

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About Gail Tverberg

My name is Gail Tverberg. I am an actuary interested in finite world issues - oil depletion, natural gas depletion, water shortages, and climate change. Oil limits look very different from what most expect, with high prices leading to recession, and low prices leading to financial problems for oil producers and for oil exporting countries. We are really dealing with a physics problem that affects many parts of the economy at once, including wages and the financial system. I try to look at the overall problem.

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They Say A #Picture Is Worth A #Thousand Words

 

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There Are Exponential Limits to Growth We Cannot Defeat.

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The Final Warning

BIGGER FISH TO FRY - Comments The New York Times , July 26, 2021

 BIGGER FISH TO FRY

Pandemics are a mere pimple on the back of an elephant when compared to the possibility of the Arctic Melting and causing a Blue Ocean Event later this year - which in turn could cause a rise in temperatures of 6 degrees C or more.

https://www.fasterthanexpected.one/tag/blue-ocean-event/

This would exacerbate the climate chaos and extreme weather patterns already being experienced and in all likelihood lead to the extinction of all vertebrate animals on the planet. This abrupt change in climate compares to that experienced during the Permian extinction when 90% of life on Earth perished. In short, we have much bigger fish to fry - much more than pimples on an elephant's back.

https://www.britannica.com/science/Permian-extinction....

Moreover, we should not lose sight of the looming energy and resource crisis that is bound to take hold in the next decade. Once the fossil fuels and other critical minerals are depleted there is no way for society to feed its huge energy appetite - economic and social collapse are imminent just as forecasted in 1972 by 27 researchers at MIT in their best selling book - 30 million copies - Limits to Growth.

https://donellameadows.org/.../a-synopsis-limits-to.../

Hence if the Arctic melt and Blue Ocean Event does not cause our collapse; then Mother Nature has a backstop of depleting all our critical energy and mineral resources in the not too distant future. One might say - Mother Nature Bats Last.

https://ourfiniteworld.com/.../why-collapse-occurs-why.../

In summary, it's time to stop fretting about relatively little pimples and to take a perspective of the whole elephant for what it is and says - we have MUCH BIGGER fish to fry...

T A McNeil

CEO Founder

First Financial Insights Inc.

Handle - Greta Prize Nobel

Published The New York Times, July 26, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/.../louisiana-covid-vacc