AGW: My Comments About Global Warming

AGW: Cause and Effect — The cause of anthropogenic global warming is artificially increased levels of greenhouse gases. The effect is climate change driven by increasing global temperatures.

If all greenhouse gases, less than 0.04% (0.0004) of the atmosphere were removed, the planet would be a barren frozen wasteland because nitrogen and oxygen do not absorb heat and allow infrared light to pass freely. In other words, an atmosphere without greenhouse gases would let all of the heat (infrared light) from the surface of the planet radiate freely out into space. This is an indicator of how powerful greenhouse gases truly are and why our emitting carbon dioxide and such has such a strong influence on the climate.

In today’s world, the single greatest secular truth that we are struggling with is the lack of a widespread understanding of the Greenhouse Effect — how infrared light (heat) reacts at the quantum level with carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases at the quantum level.

Simply put, increased levels of greenhouse gases is causing more heat to be retained in the atmosphere.

Search: infrared heat atmosphere

Short Explanation: 

https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/how-climate-works/greenhouse-effect

Short Video:

https://youtu.be/sKDWW9WlPSc

Fear is the great ‘mind killer’ and global warming deniers are perhaps the most fearful, though it’s greatly repressed. Indeed, how strongly one reacts against the idea of global warming is an indicator of how much fear lies hidden beneath the surface of consciousness (defense mechanism called ‘denial’).

If you understand that ‘heat radiation’ is  ‘infrared light’, then you know why Infrared Satellite Imagery of the Earth’s surface is used to document the steadily increasing temperatures year after year. Infrared technology is, also, used to document the greenhouse effect in laboratory demonstrations.

Search: 

infrared camera demonstrates infrared absorption carbon dioxide + youtube

To the degree that mankind comes together in cooperation to thwart the expansion of global warming, a golden age of peace and advancement becomes possible in other areas as well.

Call it Cosmic Law or God’s Will or even the interplay between them both, but it’s no mere coincidence that we, as a species, face the situation of either cooperating to dampen global warming, or else watch the terrible side effects of global warming such as war, famine and pestilence result in such strife and competition between groups that our consumption of fossil fuels will be naturally curtailed as our worldwide system breaks down, which is one way to force eventual cooperation — that is IF we are to thrive and not merely survive. The choice is ours. 

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Worldwide, we burn almost 100 million barrels of oil annually. Add natural gas and coal to that, and that’s a lot of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels being pumped into the biosphere. Now consider how long this has been going on and how long it will continue, and you’ve got great cause for alarm, especially when you factor in the the additional increasing release of methane from melting tundra and oceanic methane hydrate. Indeed, if you can sleep peacefully at night knowing this, then you must know something that you should share with the rest of us.

Before you say that you deny global warming, first realize that you’re denying the Greenhouse Effect, which has been the only thing that’s been keeping this planet from being frozen solid for hundreds of millions of years. Note that the Earth’s atmosphere contains only 0.035% carbon dioxide, which is enough for the ‘greenhouse effect’ to sustain our current global temperatures. About 700 million years ago though, the evolution of cyanobacteria consumed so much of the CO2 in the atmosphere that the entire planet turned into a giant ice box during the epoch called Snowball Earth. So, if taking carbon dioxide out of the biosphere can do that, what do you suppose the doubling of  the current amount will do within the next fifty years? 

The first I heard of global warming was in the early 1980s with reports from Alaska about the headstones of the original settlers tipping over because the permafrost in which they had been anchored for a century or more was melting. Also, the Inuits were having to travel further and further north over time to gather the berries they needed for sustenance.

At the time, I was living on my ranch along the border in South Texas. I was surrounded by a dry land farming agribiz operation, and I could see that when things got hotter that my marginal pasture and their crop yields would shrivel. Since I was was young enough to start over somewhere else, I sold out and moved north. Now, with ever increasing temperatures and greenhouse gas levels, I’m thinking that I didn’t move far enough.

Years ago, I realized that the world was quite possibly not going to be able to avoid the natural consequences that the ‘amplified greenhouse effect’ was going to have on an already overpopulated planet. I, therefore, went to great lengths in my blog to explain how not all visible light was reflected away from Earth’s surface — that some was absorbed and then radiated away as ‘infrared light’ (heat). Whereas visible light passes freely thru the atmosphere, infrared interacts with and is absorbed by larger molecules, such as carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, water vapor, etcetera. It is humanity’s general inability to understand this that our overpopulation problem will be solved in such a way that we’ll be reminded that “it’s not nice to fool Mother Nature”!

Related postings:

AGW 

https://samslair.blogspot.com/search?q=AGW&m=1

Greenhouse Effect

https://samslair.blogspot.com/search?q=Greenhouse+Effect&m=1

Global Warming

https://samslair.blogspot.com/search?q=Global+Warming+&m=1

4 Short “YouTube Videos About the Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming”

https://samslair.blogspot.com/2022/12/agw-youtube-videos-about-greenhouse.html?m=1

Helen Keller: Quotes and More

Helen Keller became both deaf and blind as a toddler but still learned to speak and think sophisticatedly as an American author, political activist and lecturer as shown in these videos:

https://www.youtube.com/@IamHelenKeller

Some of her quotes:

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. 

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. 

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. 

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. 

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. 

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. 

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. 

I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace. 

I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight, silence would teach him the joys of sound. 

Ideas without action are worthless. 

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow. 

Life is a daring adventure or nothing. 

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. 

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. 

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. 

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. 

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched …but are felt in the heart. 

The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of. 

The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. 

To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see. 

True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. 

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. 

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough. 

Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invisible host against difficulties. 

Quotes from her and other people:

https://www.joyofquotes.com/inspirational-quotes-by-author.html

Spirituality: "Code of Conduct For A Disciple of the Holy Spirit"

      A.  Be conscious ever that thou aspirest to the fullest expression of God, and devote all thy being and thy service to that end, as expressed so ably in the 1st Commandment.      

      B.   Learn the lesson of harmlessness; neither by word nor thought, nor feeling inflict evil upon any part of Life. Know that action and physical violence are but the lesser part of the sin of harmful expression.

      C.   Stir not a brother's sea of emotion, thoughtlessly or deliberately. Know that the storm in which thou placest his spirit will sooner or later flow upon the banks of thine own lifestream — rather bring tranquility to life and be as the Psalmist so ably puts it "oil on the troubled waters".

      D.   Disassociate thyself from the personal delusion. Let self-justification never reveal that thou dost love the self more than the harmony of the universe. If thou art right, there is no need to acclaim it; if thou art wrong, pray for forgiveness. Watching the self, thou wilt find the rising tides of indignation among the more subtle shadows on the path of Right, called "self-righteousness".

      E.   Walk gently through the Universe, knowing that the body is a Temple in which dwelleth the Holy Spirit that bringeth peace and illumination to life everywhere. Keep thy Temple always in a respectful and cleanly manner as befitting the habitation of the Spirit of Truth. Respect and honor in gentle dignity all other Temples, knowing that ofttimes within a crude exterior burns a greater Light.

      F.   In the presence of Nature, absorb the beauties and gifts of Her Kingdom in gentle gratitude. Do not desecrate Her by vile thoughts or emotions, or by physical acts that despoil Her virgin beauty.

      G.   Do not form, or offer opinions unless invited to do so, and then only after prayer and silent invocation for guidance.

      H.   Speak when God choosest to say something through thee. At other times, remain peacefully silent.

      I.   Make the ritual of thy living, the observance of God's rules, so unobtrusive that no man shall know that thou aspirest to Godliness, lest the force of his outer will might be pitted aginst thee, or lest thy service become impinged with pride.

      J.   Let thy heart be a song of gratitude that the Most High has given into thy keeping the Spirit of Life which, through thee, chooses to widen the borders of His Kingdom.

      K.   Be alert always to use thy faculties and the gifts loaned unto thee by the Father of all Life, in a manner to extend His Kingdom.

      L.   Claim nothing for thyself, neither powers nor principalities, any more than thou claimest the air thou breathest or the Sun; using them freely, but knowing the God-ownership of all.

      M.   In speech and action, be gentle, but with the dignity that always accompanies the Presence of the Living God that is within the Temple.

     N.   Constantly place all the faculties of thy being, and all the inner unfoldment of thy nature, at the feet of the God-power, especially when endeavoring to manifest perfection through one in distress.

      O.   Let thy watchwords be gentleness, humility, and loving service, but do not allow the impression of humility to be mistaken for lethargy. The servant of the Lord, like the Sun in the Heavens, is eternally vigilant and constantly outpouring the gifts which are in his particular keeping.

http://www.ascension-research.org/ascension_flame.html

More Thoughts and Quotes

“The world is balanced on a knife edge of destruction every single day. You accept that, and you can just get on with things.”

As global warming continues to more fully manifest, it exacerbates other international issues at ever increasing rates.

Proactive measures to deal with global warming require cooperation all the way from local to international levels in order to achieve the greatest effect. Any deficiencies will strengthen reactive measures such as seen in competition for resources. 

To the degree that mankind comes together in cooperation to thwart the expansion of global warming, a golden age of peace and advancement becomes possible in other areas as well.

With the love of freedom, opportunity, and justice comes hope — and gives us the strength and courage and inspiration to defend Liberty. Bless all who value liberty!

Letting the other person have the last word gives you a chance to listen. Besides, it is being polite and good manners are never wasted.

“You never know when you’re making a memory.”

Always take the high road.

“Remain in the center; watching. 
And then forget that you are there.”

It’s the interplay between God’s Will and Cosmic Law that is the greatest mystery.

“Unaccountability is a word that does not apply to man’s use of God’s life. Everyone is always account­able to the cosmic law for the release of his energy (life) through his thought, feeling, spoken word and deed.”

Oftimes, when looking back on things, we wind up having to ask ourselves,
"What did we think was going to happen?”
Called hindsight, it helps us to develop foresight.