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JINN RUMMIES
by William Thomas
Blame it on our Pleistocene wanderlust. When vast multitudes of latter-day hominids could finally
hitch their two-million year-old nomadic urges to a hundred horses at the turn of a key – we did.
“Happy Motoring” and cheap flights to Mexico transformed our lives. And the planet each of us
depends on and so briefly inhabits. It now appears we've rubbed that magic oil lamp way too
vigorously. The jinn has escaped and is two ways pissed: Drunk on petroleum overdose. Enraged at
being uncaged.
Click on Arctic News and Robert Scribbler's updates. If you dare. While the world's most feared
rogue terrorist state kills millions chasing its own paranoid projections into someone else's oil patch...
and drillers lick their incisors over an ice-free Arctic Ocean… and those pesky frackers race to poison
our space colony's last dwindling
aquifers in a suicidal attempt to
postpone petroleum withdrawal...
... the weather, if anyone bothers to
look up from their screens, is going
nuts everywhere. We North American
apex predators can, at least for now,
reach for car doors and thermostats,
sunscreen and parkas.
But crops and critters can't.
Temperatures over the dramatically
shrinking Arctic ice sheet now
exceed 20° F above seasonal norms,
despite the deep vast rolling ocean
absorbing over 90% of our carbon
excretions.
Today, the carbon-saturated salt sea
covering most of this planet is
becoming too hot and too acidic to
support “keystone” life forms.
These include coral reef nurseries,
all shellfish, and the surfacedwelling plankton that supply most
of our solar orbiter's oxygen, while anchoring the entire marine food web.
Can you say, Oops?
RAPING GOLDILOCKS
Meanwhile, we have steamrollered natural habitats ashore and warmed the ocean of air we swim
through, fracturing the weather-bearing jetstream, intensifying storms, blow-torching the Arctic, and
killing off more than half of all animal species in the last 40 years. You could say the situation onboard
our shared “Goldilocks” planet is somewhere far north of dire.
But that would be a knee-slapping understatement.
If so many simultaneous emergencies were flashing alarms aboard Starship Enterprise, Captain Kirk
would be having conniptions. But hey, we're cool with it. Only a few worrywarts are pointing to all that
once-frozen methane bubbling up from the poles. (Remember what happened last time!)
Turns out that over the initial 20 years of release, methane is at least 105-times more heat-trapping than
the CO2 emissions already propelling us deeper into Earth's Sixth Great Extinction.
Mix in industrial farming's massive Nitrogen Oxide outgassing,
and 93,000 commercial flights-a-day spewing the same 300-times
carbon equivalent NOx directly into the upper atmos-fear (where
jet exhaust also further erodes Earth's unravelling ozone shield)
and you have the precursors for Abrupt Climate Shift – sudden as
a shotgun blast following a centuries-long trigger pull. (Don't
forget to add all those military flights: more than 5,000 every day
over the USA alone.)
Already, we're seeing climatic consequences in our own communities.
SOMEBODY CALL SOMEBODY
So why doesn't someone do something already?
They are. All those years of hooting laughter over something a few called “chemtrails” have segued
into scientific hysteria calling for Teller's sunscreen. But this aerial vandalism has been ongoing
unannounced for decades. If you want to see your putative leaders' most dangerous delusion and
deception... just look up.
How in Creation's 8.7 million divine names can we pretend to play at ineffably complex “Solar
Radiation Management” when we cannot manage ourselves? Provoke petroleum-powered climate
instability with all these aerosol laydowns and atmospheric anarchy results. (Interesting how
geoengineered drought and deluge reveal the fascistic corporate-governments hijacking the global
commons below.)
BIG SURPRISES
All those weather baselines so patiently recorded over more than a century of careful observations are
toast. Ocean sailors returning from Pacific voyages are telling me their Pilot Charts showing
predominant winds since the time of square-rigged sailing routes are useless and worse, wildly
deceptive. With formerly “average” winds, precipitation and temperatures spiking crazily, “Normal”
weather is a fading memory our beleaguered children will never know.
No wonder the boffins with their elaborate computer models are constantly “surprised” over the speed
and reach of climate chaos. Thanks to a handful of mad scientists and crisply saluting aircrews, it's
become impossible to separate “natural” from “geoengineered” weather.
Deliberate tampering with increasingly chaotic atmospheric processes has thoroughly muddled
meteorology. Attempts to explain what's happening to weather today, let alone forecast future trends,
will continue playing catch-up until all those moisture-robbing, ice nucleating, sunlight-reflecting
chemicals being spread across our skies are factored into otherwise fatally flawed algorithms. And
stopped!
Good luck sorting this tangle out.
ADVENTURE TRAVEL
If these brief observations seem like empty words on a page, just bicycle out to California and
experience what's going down in North America's fruit, veggie and almond basket. (Bring your own
water.) Or paddle your kayak to India and Africa and ask where the monsoons went. Snorkel over
drowning Pacific Island nations. Or climb the Himalayas. Crops will fail and Asia's billions will go
thirsty when four great watercourses slow to a trickle. But at least you won't be needing crampons after
the last high snows disappear.
Or just freak out at home when you turn the tap and nothing comes out.
Yet the two joined-at-the-hip governments
perpetuating most of this carbon-and-chemtrail
chaos continue to act as if ongoing mass
extinction is not a problem at all. Everything's
good, they reassure us.
Until it isn't.
One thing's starkly clear: Nature's noosetightening feedback loops are inevitable,
implacable and unremediable. The only
possibility of not completely cracking up our
spaceship, while winning additional time for our
kids to deal with already locked-in temperature
rise, is to slash our collective carbon burning 80%
over then next six years.
Choosing instead to crank up carbon emissions
and ocean acidification under the false cover of
renewed aerosol assaults is like a gang of addicts blindly flailing away at a planetary piñata.
Can you say, Geoengineering Is A Really Bad Idea? Can you say it loudly enough to ground all those
tanker jets? And finally release rain over California and the Sahel?
Speak up now! Or prepare to shake hands with the jinn.