Eric Zuesse – Global Warming as Reported on 13 October 2023

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Global Warming as Reported on 13 October 2023

A major report from Berkeley Earth research scientist Zeke Hausfather was published as a NYT Op Ed on October 13th headlining “I Study Climate Change. The Data Is Telling Us Something New.” This “something new” is the most convincing evidence yet that the many in the scientific community who have been assuming that the proper equation to model global warming is linear, increasing in a straight line from year to year, are wrong, and that, instead, during the past 15 years, the data have been making increasingly clear that the global temperature rise is actually an exponential function, by means of which the rate of change accelerates each year so as to become faster and faster each year. He summarily presents this evidence there.

If what he says is correct, then this “acceleration means that the effects of climate change we are already seeing, extreme heat waves, wildfires, rainfall and sea level rise. will only grow more severe in the coming years.” He places his hopes upon increased usage of improved forms of solar and wind power; but, in my recent book, I already was assuming that it’s an exponential function, and I presented this more pessimistic statement of its implications for such non revolutionary technological fixes or improvements.

Waiting yet longer for a technological breakthrough, such as fossil fuels corporations have always promised will happen but nobody has ever actually delivered (and such as is exemplified here), is doomed, because if and when such a real breakthrough would occur, we’d already be too late, and the uncontrollably spiraling and accelerating feedback loops would already be out of control even if they weren’t uncontrollable back then. We’d simply be racing, then, to catch up with, and to get ahead of, an even faster rise in global temperatures than existed at that previous time. Things get exponentially worse with each and every year of delay. Consequently, something sudden, sharp, and decisive, must happen immediately, and it can happen only by a fundamental change becoming instituted in our laws, not in our technology. The solution, if it comes, will come from government, and not even possibly come from industry (technological breakthroughs). For governments to instead wait, and to hope for a “technological breakthrough,” is simply for our planet to die. It’s to doom this planet. It’s to abandon the government’s obligation to the future (its supreme obligation). The reason why is that what’s difficult to achieve now (preventing the murder of our planet), will soon be impossible to achieve.

I have also presented my basic argument online, under the heading, “The ONLY Way That Global Warming MIGHT Be Able To Be Stopped”, which article opened: “There is only one way that might work, all others (as will be documented here) can’t even possibly work: Outlaw the purchasing of any stock or bond, any investment securities, in fossil-fuel extraction companies, such as ExxonMobil and Peabody Coal: any such company at all.” That would effectively terminate further investments in exploring for more and more fossil fuels and for increasingly efficient ways to process and market them, and it would also skyrocket R&D into potentially revolutionarily cleaner and safer forms of nuclear-energy production, such as fusion power, or, maybe, thorium, or else BREST, reactors. The IAEA has been becoming increasingly supportive of escalating global R&D into the possibility that thorium nuclear might be a viable solution to the biggest of all energy-problems, which is the very real and now emergency threat of global burnout that fossil fuels present. But the investments that are needed into this skyrocketing thorium nuclear R&D, a potentially revolutionary technology, can come ONLY from investors who no longer can invest in fossil fuels (and who recognize the inability of solar and wind power to replace those). Ambrose Evans Pritchard was right when he headlined on 29 August 2010, “Obama could kill fossil fuels overnight with a nuclear dash for thorium”, but nothing was done, because Obama, like the Republican Party’s Trump, was owned by billionaires who were invested into either fossil and or solar based ’solutions’. And then, there’s also BREST reactors, which Russia is pioneering. These are just three nuclear-future possibilities, but whatever the future will be if it won’t be global burnout, will NOT be an existing technology. And this means that all R&D into the existing technologies must immediately stop and be invested instead into possibly revolutionary new technologies. The ONLY way to achieve that is “Outlaw the purchasing of any stock or bond, any investment securities, in fossil fuel extraction companies.”

Right now, a huge problem is that virtually all of the developing world is located in the parts of our planet that are OUTSIDE the developed West, and THOSE underdeveloped nations are precisely the ones that will be suffering the most from global burnout. Here is an informative ranking (as of 13 October 2023), from Notre Dame University, of the national vulnerability to global warming (ultimately could become burnout), starting with the least vulnerable nation, which today is N° 1 Switzerland, all the way to N° 185 Somalia, which is the most vulnerable:

https://gain-new.crc.nd.edu/ranking/vulnerability

https://web.archive.org/web/20231013184634/https://gain-new.crc.nd.edu/ranking/vulnerability

https://archive.ph/98r97 on 13 October 2023

VULNERABILITY as measured on 13 October 2023 US and Allied plus Russia and China are the least vulnerable, scoring below 0.400; Southern Hemisphere except Australia and NZ are the most vulnerable, above 0.400; but these scores change as new studies become published):

Country Rank | Country | Income group | Country Score (from 0.244 the least vulnerable, to 0.678 the most vulnerable)

(1) Switzerland Upper 0.244
(2) Norway Upper 0.262
(3) Czech Republic Upper 0.268
(4) Finland Upper 0.276
(5) United Kingdom Upper 0.283
(6) Germany Upper 0.287
(7|8) Austria Upper 0.288
(7|8) Canada Upper 0.288
(9) New Zealand Upper 0.294
(10) Sweden Upper 0.296
(11) Ireland Upper 0.298
(12) Spain Upper 0.300
(13) Luxembourg Upper 0.302
(14) France Upper 0.303
(15) Slovenia Upper 0.304
(16) Israel Upper 0.305
(17) Iceland Upper 0.308
(18) United States Upper 0.309
(19) Australia Upper 0.312
(20) Poland Upper 0.313
(21) Portugal Upper 0.321
(22) Kazakhstan Upper Middle 0.322
(23 | 24) Italy Upper 0.326
(23 | 24) Russian Federation Upper 0.326
(25) Belgium Upper 0.327
(26) Greece Upper Middle 0.329
(27) Chile Upper Middle 0.330
(28) Kyrgyzstan Low 0.331
(29) Belarus Upper Middle 0.332
(30 | 31) Estonia Upper 0.340
(30 | 31) Malta Upper 0.340
(32) Denmark Upper 0.341
(33) Bulgaria Upper Middle 0.342
(34 | 35) Bosnia and Herzegovina Upper Middle 0.348
(34 | 35) Hungary Upper 0.348
(36) Turkmenistan Upper Middle 0.349
(37) Slovakia Upper 0.350
(38) Turkey Upper Middle 0.353
(39) The Netherlands Upper 0.355
(40) Kuwait Upper 0.356
(41) Cyprus Upper 0.360
(42) Ukraine Lower Middle 0.363
(43) Uzbekistan Lower Middle 0.364
(44 | 45) Latvia Upper 0.365
(44 | 45) Trinidad and Tobago Upper Middle 0.365
(46) Qatar Upper 0.366
(47) Montenegro Upper Middle 0.367
(48) Armenia Upper Middle 0.368
(49 | 50) Jordan Lower mMddle 0.369
(49 | 50) Malaysia Upper Middle 0.369
(51 | 52) Republic of Korea Upper 0.370
(51 | 52) Lithuania Upper 0.370
(53 | 54) United Arab Emirates Upper 0.371
(53 | 54) Paraguay Upper Middle 0.371
(55 | 56) Costa Rica Upper Middle 0.372
(55 | 56) Tajikistan Low 0.372
(57) Uruguay Upper Middle 0.373
(58) Brazil Upper Middle 0.374
(59 | 60) Mongolia Lower middle 0.375
(59 | 60) Singapore Upper 0.375
(61) Algeria Lower Middle 0.376
(62 | 63) Japan Upper 0.378
(62 | 63) Macedonia Upper Middle 0.378
(64 | 65) Iran Upper Middle 0.379
(64 | 65) Morocco Lower Middle 0.379
(66 |67) Croatia Upper 0.380
(66 | 67) Tunisia Lower Middle 0.380
(68 | 69) Azerbaijan Upper Middle 0.382
(68 | 69) Grenada Upper middle 0.382
(70) Venezuela Upper Middle 0.383
(71) Argentina Upper Middle 0.384
(72) Mexico Upper Middle 0.385
(73) Barbados Upper Middle 0.386
(74) China Upper Middle 0.387
(75) South Africa Lower Middle 0.390
(76) Brunei Darussalam Upper 0.391
(77) Suriname Upper Middle 0.394
(78) Albania Upper Middle 0.395
(79 | 80) Saint Lucia Lower Middle 0.397
(79 | 80) Romania Upper 0.397
(81) Georgia Upper Middle 0.400
(82) Panama Upper Middle 0.401
(83) Lebanon Lower Middle 0.403
(84) Saudi Arabia Upper 0.405
(85) Moldova Upper Middle 0.406
(86 | 87) Equatorial Guinea Upper Middle 0.413
(86 | 87) Serbia Upper Middle 0.413
(88) Colombia Upper Middle 0.414
(89) Oman Upper 0.416
(90) Peru Lower Middle 0.418
(91) Botswana Upper Middle 0.419
(92 |93) Dominican Republic Upper Middle 0.420
(92 | 93) Egypt Lower Middle 0.420
(94 | 95) Libya Upper Middle 0.421
(94 |95) El Salvador Lower Middle 0.421
(96) Guyana Upper Middle 0.422
(97) Mauritius Upper Middle 0.426
(98) Cape Verde Lower Middle 0.427
(99) Cuba NA 0.428
(100) Jamaica Lower Middle 0.430
(101) Guatemala Lower Middle 0.432
(102) Thailand Upper Middle 0.437
(103 | 104) Bahrain Upper 0.440
(103 | 104) Indonesia Lower Middle 0.440
(105) Iraq Lower Middle 0.441
(106) Nicaragua Lower Middle 0.442
(107) Bolivia Lower Middle 0.446
(108 | 109 | 110) Dominica Lower Middle 0.450
(108 | 109 | 110) Gabon Upper Middle 0.450
(108 | 109 | 110) Ghana Lower Middle 0.450
(111) Ecuador Lower Middle 0.451
(112) Bahamas Upper 0.452
(113) Honduras Lower Middle 0.454
(114 | 115) Belize Lower Middle 0.455
(114 | 115) Fiji Lower Middle 0.455
(116) Seychelles Upper Middle 0.457
(117) Laos Lower Middle 0.460
(118 | 119) Cameroon Low 0.461
(118 | 119) Saint Kitts and Nevis Upper Middle 0.461
(120) Syria NA 0.462
(121) Philippines Lower Middle 0.463
(122) Namibia Lower Middle 0.464
(123) Antigua and Barbuda Upper Middle 0.467
(124) Sri Lanka Lower Middle 0.468
(125) Democratic People’s Republic of Korea NA 0.470
(126 | 127) Djibouti Low 0.471
(126 | 127) Lesotho Low 0.471
(128) Viet Nam Lower Middle 0.475
(129) Swaziland Lower Middle 0.476
(130) Zambia Low 0.480
(131) Palau Upper Middle 0.485
(132 | 133) Cambodia Low 0.486
(132 | 133) Nigeria Lower Middle 0.486
(134) Côte d’Ivoire Lower Middle 0.487
(135) Nepal Low 0.490
(136) Mozambique Low 0.493
(137) Togo Low 0.496
(138) India Lower Middle 0.498
(139) Timor Leste Lower middle 0.501
(140 | 141) Myanmar Low 0.504
(140 | 141) Tanzania Low 0.504
(142) Zimbabwe Low 0.506
(143) Samoa Lower Middle 0.507
(144 – 145) Angola Lower Middle 0.510
(144 – 145) Kenya Low 0.510
(146 – 147) Haiti Low 0.514
(146 – 147) Sao Tome and Principe Low 0.514
(148) Bhutan Lower Middle 0.515
(149) Senegal Low 0.520
(150 – 151) Comoros Low 0.521
(150 – 151) Pakistan Lower Middle 0.521
(152 | 153) Congo Low 0.525
(152 | 153) Gambia Low 0.526
(154) Rwanda Low 0.527
(155) Maldives Upper Middle 0.530
(156) Bangladesh Lower Middle 0.531
(157) Burkina Faso Low 0.537
(158) Malawi Low 0.542
(159) Yemen Low 0.544
(160) Papua New Guinea Low 0.546
(161 | 162) Ethiopia Low 0.547
(161 | 162) Guinea Low 0.547
(163) Benin Low 0.552
(164) Vanuatu Low 0.556
(165 | 166) Madagascar Low 0.557
(165 | 166) Mauritania Lower Middle 0.557
(167) Burundi NA 0.558
(168) Sierra Leone Low 0.561
(169) Democratic Republic of the Congo Low 0.564
(170) Marshall Islands Lower Middle 0.573
(171 | 172) Nauru Lower Middle 0.581
(171 | 172) Uganda Low 0.581
(173) Central African Republic Low 0.584
(174) Afghanistan Low 0.590
(175) Mali Low 0.596
(176) Solomon Islands Low 0.599
(177) Liberia Low 0.601
(178) Sudan Low 0.604
(179 | 180) Eritrea Low 0.605
(179 | 180) Tonga Lower Middle 0.605
(181) Micronesia Low 0.616
(182) Guinea Bissau Low 0.626
(183) Niger Low 0.632
(184) Chad Low 0.652
(185) Somalia Low 0.678

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s new book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to US and allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’, duping the public.
Eric Zuesse blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/.

https://theduran.com/global-warming-as-reported-on-13-october-2023/

Global Warming as Reported on 13 October 2023

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