The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 2nd January 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Updates on the accelerating environmental collapse.
Arctic ice cover is the lowest ever recorded for the time of year, and ice is forming more slowly than normally. Only another 11 weeks before the spring melt starts:
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph/
And the surge in atmospheric CO2 will help speed up the planetary meltdown, which is a natural consequence of the kind of rampant consumerism most New Zealanders currently embrace.
Daily CO2
January 2, 2017: 407.05 ppm
January 2, 2016: 401.83 ppm
Up 5.22 ppm dat-to-date.
The rest of 2017 is going to be very ‘interesting’.
And in the International news; Authorities in the occupied territories are on the search for a suspected Palestinian man who stormed into a Synagogue in Jerusalem and started whipping the worthshippers. Witnesses interviewed later, reported that the man was heard loudly shouting, and accusing those he accosted, of being money changers.
Before storming off, the man was heard to mutter something about going to start his own religion.
Others said that it they had got hold of the man they would have felt like crucifying him.
Oops. Sorry, I picked up the wrong piece of paper, that was the story of Jesus driving the money changers out of the temple. Mathew 21:12-13
And in other, admittedly more current, local news; Kim Dotcom says that he is planning a release of 2 terabytes of hacked emails, two days before the next election, Calling the release of the hacked emails “The Moment Of Strewth”, Dotcom has hinted that the release will be devastating for ex- Prime Minister, John Key and the Nationa….
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11669116
Ten things New Zealand can learn about climate change
http://www.weatherwatch.co.nz/weather-forecasts/auckland?page=1
My comments on todays weather watch blog site.
Hi WW,
NASA are saying that since there latest study has proven that the Antarctic ice shelf is crumbling/melting and collecting around the Antarctic sea, we in NZ are going to be permanently weather affected due to the expanding icepack developing as the south pole melts?
Is this correct please.
If so why hasn’t Government advised us all, do they know?
Please warm them please.
https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/antarctic-sea-ice-reaches-new-record-maximum
I fucken called it. All that has to happen now is the destruction of the National party. When I made my prediction that John Key would destroy the National party seeking his fourth term it was because I thought he was the last of the TPPA infiltrators and that there must be communications between him and transnational corporations. Harper/Abbott/Cameron/Hillary/Key and now Obama are goners all on complete contrast to what mainstream was saying in the lead up to their respective demise.
#BurnAllTPPAPlantsAlive2017 burn em all
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The ‘new year’ has brought no change, of course.
Industrial humans still continue to burn humungous quantities of fossil fuels as though doing so has no effect when in fact the effect is utterly disastrous.
Daily CO2
December 31, 2016: 405.08 ppm
December 31, 2015: 402.45 ppm
Ice at both ends of the planet continues to respond to increasing greenhouse gas levels by melting to record low levels.
https://ads.nipr.ac.jp/vishop/#/extent
Sea levels continue to rise at an ever faster pace.
The number of endangered species continues to rise, and the number of individuals of endangered species continues to fall.
Central banks continue to create money out of thin air and charge interest on it.
Governments everywhere continue to promote and subsidise destructive behavior, stupidity and greed, and the NZ government continues to vilify policies based on sanity and to vilify individuals who promote sanity.
Politicians continue to lie the populace about everything and promote the kind behavior that will result in the human species causing its own extinction some time around the middle of this century if we are lucky, and before then if we are not.
The corporate media continues to promote rapid destruction of the habitability of the Earth and to lie to the populace.
And the majority of New Zealanders continue to behave as though none of it is happening or matters.
Welcome to yet another year of destructive of New Zealand and destruction of the next generation’s future.
And be prepared for the rest of 2017 to be somewhat worse than 2016, since making matters worse is the only thing the political-economic present system is capable of.
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