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Peace2051's avatar

As always, Richard Crim, your The Crisis Report is a goldmine of sad but ultimately enlightening information. I encourage all reading this Note to check him out and subcribe to his channel.

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John's avatar

Thank you for everything you do Richard. Been a follower for a year at this point. Your information and analysis is incredibly beneficial for people like me that aren’t able to parse thru all the data and news happening around the world in relation to CC.

Do you think the wealthier western countries will be delayed in experiencing the worst of the what’s about to come? Or do you think the detrimental effects to food and water security will be felt no matter where in the world you are?

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Serena T's avatar

I'd say rich countries are already experiencing aspects of the worst, but not yet on a scale big enough to get rich countries to actually deal with anything meaningfully. I'm writing from Canada, and whole communities in Canada have been lost to wildfires in the last few years. Wildfires are certainly going to get much worse, and that's just one issue. The turd-in-chief of the US has ensured utter environmental devastation in the US in the near future.

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Martin's avatar

Excellent statistical analysis again by Richard, and fine comments. The 70s must be invoked as a historical marker, a time when Richard’s forerunners were forecasting these dire times we are in if industrial civilization didn’t change its fossil fuel corporate insanity.

But they were naive, almost all of the eco-conscious authors. They had been shaped by the 60s to place trust in the alleged powers of democracy,” of citizen protest, of lifestyle change from below, in higher education, in books, in good intentions from an intelligent species.

And that naive trust in progress, in intellectual resistance, still produces climate hopium after all the informed critiques, but misses the essential human failure to produce any semblance of a counterforce to the massified corporate extraction and production supersystem.

Nobody in the 60s and 70s truly appreciated corporate doom, but we who are alive today wake up every day to its totalitarian hold on all aspects of our future.

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Theresa's avatar

When will we not be able to breathe? Not enough oxygen in the air?

Also, when do you predict the mammals in the ocean extinction? Especially the whales.

People who are starving- their world has already “collapsed.”

I remember back in the 1970’s, predictions of a bleak future. It’s even worse than the predictions, isn’t it?

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Andrew Staton's avatar

The people in power (global weathy elite) already KNOW humanity is doomed. there is no stopping this; and THAT is exactly why we see zero real effort of change. the frantic flailing of goverments in decline really sends this home for me. war is over land and water. war is over immigration. war is the byproduct of failure.

Bunkers are being built, resources are being hoarded. most of us will die in the coming decades. what will you do to survive?

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Theodore Rethers's avatar

HI Richard a grim read , do you know of anyone who has equated the reducing albedo of clouds and the levels of cloud condensation and ice precipitation nuclei in the atmosphere? With current rates of water vapor increase I would have thought that for every day longer it stays as a vapor and not rain or cloud that the latent heat content would act as an amplifier especially in regards to glacial and ice sheet loss. This loss especially in the tropics where much of the current deforestation is taking place would mean the loss of huge potential not only in cloud condensation but especially in higher temperature ice nucleation which provide , I would assume , the basic ladder of much of the cumulonimbus cloud spires and heat release into the upper atmosphere and back into space. The scary thing is that the increasing Vapor Pressure Differential can dry out rainforests even in higher humidity environments and may reverse the biotic pump if deforestation continues at this pace, probably why rivers in the Amazon went dry so quickly judging by the cloud data at the time.

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Bill's avatar

Thank you so much for all you do.

I read that Trump is going to shut down the CO2 monitoring at Mauna Loa laboratory in Hawaii.

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Richard Crim's avatar

That's correct although they may get private funding to continue maintaining the Keeler Curve observations. It's the "gold standard" for measuring yearly CO2 increases.

This is part of the MAGAt coalitions WAR on Climate Science. They hope to make the climate situation so murky and confused that no one will understand what's happening.

This isn't stupidity, they understand what's about to happen. This is information management and population control starting.

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Elba's avatar

"This is information management and population control starting."

Hardly...it's just gearing up what they've been doing since the 70's.

Infuriating that it's been so successful.

And tragic.

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