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Thanks for the feedback Byron. Yes a lot of us who spend time with these problems are coming to similar conclusions. I like the acronym! Than you for the FB invites but I’ve been stepping back from FB/Messenger etc so I will respectfully decline. I’m still in a couple of groups but spend less time in them and tend to focus on Twitter for climate messaging/info etc from some reliable sources on there (they still exist amidst all the madness). Feel free to share wherever you like though of course. Best to you.

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One difficulty is that scientists are not trained to communicate with the public. It’s not their skill set. Take, for example, the ‘Climate Change 2023 Synthesis Report ― Summary for Policymakers’. This critically important documents starts with a listing of the names of the Core Writing Team. Only when we get to the tenth page does the summary actually say anything about the climate.

At this point we should expect to see a statement such as, ‘The World Is On Fire!’. In fact, paragraph A.1 contains 70 words and is at a the 16.9th grade reading level. (High schools in the U.S. stop at the 12th grade.) The entire first page is at the 13th grade level, and contains five dense-text footnotes.

I follow climate issues, but I have never read an IPCC report ― they are much too challenging.

Communication has to come through movies such as ‘Don’t Look Up’.

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"‘Hail Mary’ geo-engineering project"

"For those people who do not know what is going to happen in the next few years, the vast majority of filthy rich Republicans have built underground shelters stocked with food and water as well as lots of alcohol to party with. They do not intend to stay underground for long, as they plan on using Nuclear Weapons to blast Dirt, Dust and Sulfur from dormant volcanoes at high latitudes such as from the Aleutian Islands and mainland Alaska. I have never heard of any mention of Russian Volcanoes. I have been told by others that volcanos at the southern tip of South America may also be used.

The Dirt, Dust and Sulfur will create a nuclear winter that will last 14 to 16 months, last I heard. The Rich will come out of their shelters anytime during the Nuclear Winter, though it would be best to stay underground for at least a few days after the modern Nuclear Bomb Blasts in the dormant volcanoes. Since the modern Nukes are Fusion weapons as opposed to mainly Fission weapons as tested and used during and after WWII, the radiation intensity should be abated within a week or so.

Meanwhile, the people who do not have shelters will gradually die from the cold and the Republican goal of reducing global population to below half a billion as specified on the Georgia Guidestones (Preferably less than 300 million people as the Rich Republicans now tell me) will become a reality.

When the Nuclear Winter wanes, green life will start growing abundantly. The tremendous Green Growth will suck a lot of CO2 out of the atmosphere. Since factories will not be in operation CO2 generation from industry will be a thing of memory. With Billions of people and animals gone, the release of CO2 from animals will also greatly decrease. The Nuclear Winter will have slowed down the release of methane from the melting permafrost. With CO2 decreasing and Methane slowing in its release rate from the permafrost, the climate will come back down to temperatures that were common 20 years ago.

Slowly, temperatures will go down to levels from a century ago. No factories and few people and large animal herds will be gone. If you are a Rich Republican you will rejoice at your good fortune. If you are not rich but alive, the Republicans might enslave you for manual labor, but do not expect any favors. You will just be slave labor and expendable at any time."?

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Thank you. Brilliant work. A credit to you. It's like you've read my mind.

100% agree with everything you said and how you said it Jackson!

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Wow exactly the points I’ve been talking about when I see denial. Can I please post this on my two groups, Extinction Education and Extinction Witnesses.. or, would you consider joining either of them.. I have put together an acronym. STEPS to describe why it is too late for humans to do anything to stop their extinction.. S is Science. Does the suggestion ‘break’ the laws of physics. T is Time. There’s not enough Time remaking. E is Economic. Does the fix it idea depend on a functioning economic system as we head into a deep depression? P is Political will. That’s evidently not going to happen.. S is Scalability. How many perpetual motion machines would have to be manufactured?

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“22:31 in the reality there's the there's much more sunlight being absorbed than the models assume which causes much more

22:39 heat accumulating in the system than the models assume but even the lead author hasn't

22:46 published has hasn't written about this and and shared this with the media so nobody knows about this right

22:53 so it's and and people are still ignorant about it “?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq34Xn4CZnI

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This is an excellent overview article on the Current Climate-Change Calamity Circus.

I'll simply add two El Niño observations:

The cooling effect of El Niña stores Heat in a way that, in addition to providing a temporary false sense of security, can be ¹damaging, and be used to our ²advantage:

¹ — as El Niño releases stored El Niña Heat, he can anticipate Tipping-Points, that don't reverse as El Niña returns!

² — regions of El Niño, and El Niña, regular Rainfall, should be all-out used for Afforestation purposes! (with tree saplings, with Acanthus Mollis based Afforestation, and AM based Food-Forests)

Because in-between years of irregular rainfall seasons are killing tree saplings during their Summer months!

(Especially when, in my humble 30 years of Afforestation experience, I doubt if we'll be able to take advantage of El Niño beyond two more times!

Unless of course we can sow sufficient Eternal Acanthus Mollis Scalable sowing-simple self-managing Photosynthesis Mass fast enough to gain Time.)

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'“It’s not like we’re breaking records by a little bit now and then,” Brian McNoldy, a hurricane researcher at the University of Miami, said. “It’s like the whole climate just fast-forwarded by fifty or a hundred years. That’s how strange this looks.” It’s estimated that in 2023 the heat content in the upper two thousand metres of the oceans increased by at least nine zettajoules. For comparison’s sake, the world’s annual energy consumption amounts to about 0.6 zettajoules. '?

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-is-the-sea-so-hot

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