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Two dire studies show the world is on the brink of locking in dangerous levels of climate change.

In separate reports published Monday, researchers found that only a short window of opportunity remains to prevent widespread, irreversible planetary-scale impacts.

The two studies reveal that factoring in current emissions, as well as a wide range of future trends, we may have already locked in a temperature rise surpassing the universally agreed-upon global warming target of 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius — which the 2015 Paris accord sought to set as an upper limit.

If all the world’s human-derived sources of greenhouse gases stopped today (which obviously will not happen), by 2100 global temperatures would stabilize somewhere between a temp slightly cooler than the current average and about 2.3 degrees higher than preindustrial levels, according to the first study. That report found a 13 percent chance that the hard-won target of 1.5 degrees favored by small island states was already lost.

The second study simulated 100,000 potential future versions of our civilization out to 2100. In only about 1,000 of them, or around 1 percent, did human society move quickly enough to avert a temperature rise of greater than 1.5 degrees. “We’re closer to the margin than we think,” said Adrian Raftery, lead author of the simulation study.

All the more reason to do whatever it takes to change our culture now.

Eric Holthaus

1 day ago

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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 8/1/2017 5:35:54 PM
	Environmental Activists Are Being Killed At An Alarming Rate August 1, 2017 at 7:10 am Written by Anti-Media Team (ANTIMEDIA) — In an exclusive report published earlier this month, the Guardian highlighted a disheartening and highly disturbing reality, one that reveals itself quite profoundly in the article’s opening paragraph: “Last year was the most perilous ever for people defending their community’s land, natural resources or wildlife, with new research showing that environmental defenders are being killed at the rate of almost four a week across the world.” The Guardian worked with watchdog group Global Witness, an organization whose aim — according to its mission statement — is to expose “the hidden links between demand for natural resources, corruption, armed conflict and environmental destruction.” According to Global Witness’ data, 200 environmental activists, indigenous leaders, and wildlife rangers were violently killed in 2016, the highest number ever recorded. But that record is set to be broken if the current trend continues, as 98 people were killed in the first five months of 2017. Billy Kyte of Global Witness says the incidents are not isolated, but rather “symptomatic of a systematic assault on remote and indigenous communities by state and corporate actors” and indicative of an atmosphere of intimidation: “Communities that take a stand against environmental destruction are now in the firing line of companies’ private security guards, state forces and contract killers. For every land and environmental defender who is killed, many more are threatened with death, eviction and destruction of their resources.” What’s worse, says John Knox, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights and the environment, is that no one is being held accountable. Speaking to the Guardian, Knox said a “culture of impunity” has arisen, largely due to the fact that the people being victimized are usually far removed from political and judicial spheres: “There is an epidemic now, a culture of impunity, a sense that anyone can kill environmental defenders without repercussions, eliminate anyone who stands in the way. It [comes from] mining, agribusiness, illegal logging and dam building.” The data shows that the deadliest industry to go up against in 2016 was mining, which accounted for 33 deaths. The logging and agribusiness sectors were tied for second with 23 killings apiece. The hydroelectric industry was responsible for the deaths of seven environmental defenders last year, and poachers claimed the lives of 18. The most startling trend Global Witness researchers found, however, is that agribusiness is set to rival or even surpass mining as the deadliest industry in 2017. In the first five months of 2017, agribusiness had already killed 22 people — one short of its total for all of 2016. As it did in 2015, Latin America proved to be the most dangerous region in the world for those looking to defend the environment, accounting for 60 of last year’s 200 deaths. In terms of countries, South America’s Brazil is once again the deadliest nation for defenders. Forty-nine killings occurred in the country, mostly in the Amazon Rainforest. Cutting straight to the heart of this “culture of impunity” that the U.N.’s John Knox spoke of, environmental defenders often say their governments are unresponsive to their requests for aid and that the governments themselves have been corrupted into complicity. In The Ecologist last month, American writer Olesia Plokhii — who bore witness to the murder of Cambodian illegal logging activist Chut Wutty in 2012 — explained that even well-connected defenders don’t get a pass when it comes to the forward march of industry: “Wutty ran his own environmental organisation, had Western financial backers, the support of high-ranking Cambodian military officials, hundreds of local supporters who watched out for him and tools — multiple cell phones, a GPS tracker. He was still murdered. “Much less organised and prepared defenders, people who might be forced unexpectedly into protecting their lands due to evictions or enormous infrastructure developments, are up against the same violence.” Global Witness’ 2016 report also noted that a global clampdown on environmental protest — even in wealthy nations — is also gaining strength. As evidence, the group cited the campaign at Standing Rock, where environmental protesters tried and failed to prevent the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Creative Commons / Anti-Media / Report a typo
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 8/1/2017 11:55:12 PM
	EU Proposes Freezing Bank Accounts To Bailout Megabanks JULY 30, 2017 By Claire Bernish After nervous customers panicked and drained their accounts, ultimately causing the collapse of Spanish bank, Banco Popular, equally jittery European Union officials are debating the merits of freezing access — preventing anyone from withdrawing any money — at the first sign of a bank run. Proponents claim measures to halt a rush of withdrawals would prevent the downfall of floundering financial institutions at their most vulnerable point — in hopes of staving off a catastrophe at least as harrowing as that of 2008 — while detractors admonish the move might have precisely the opposite effect, with investors rushing to yank funds at the slightest indication of trouble. “The desire is to prevent a bank run, so that when a bank is in a critical situation it is not pushed over the edge,” ‘a person familiar with German government’s thinking’ told Reuters. “Giving supervisors the power to temporarily block bank accounts at ailing lenders is ‘a feasible option,’ a paper prepared by the Estonian presidency of the EU said, acknowledging that member states were divided on the issue,” Reuters reports. “EU countries which already allow a moratorium on bank payouts in insolvency procedures at national level, like Germany, support the measure, officials said.” A cursory autopsy of last month’s Banco Popular failure had economic officials scrambling to figure out how best to prevent a similar financial debacle; but the idea of cutting customers’ access to their own funds when conditions warrant, blasts apart a Pandora’s Box of potentialities — all, favoring the State and banking industry over individual customers. While officials contend cutting off account access would theoretically prevent a bank already in distress from going under, when scores of people withdraw money at once, the proposal toes a fraught but sacrosanct line blocking government overreach from private, individual finance. According to the Estonian paper perused by Reuters, an additional measure proposed the development of a mechanism whereby customers in such a situation could withdraw “at least a limited amount of funds.” “We strongly believe that this would incentivize depositors to run from a bank at an early stage,” Charlie Bannister of the banking lobby group, Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME), told Reuters, alluding to the possible whiplash effect described above. Envoys of the European Union originally discussed these withdrawal restrictions on July 13, with further talks set for September, but lawmakers would have to concur before any variant of the plan could be put in place. Continues Reuters: The plan, if agreed, would contrast with legislative proposals made by the European Commission in November that aimed to strengthen supervisors’ powers to suspend withdrawals, but excluded from the moratorium insured depositors, which under EU rules are those below 100,000 euros ($117,000). Under the plan discussed by EU states, pay-outs could be suspended for five working days and the block could be extended to a maximum of 20 days in exceptional circumstances, the Estonian document said. Existing EU rules allow a two-day suspension of some payouts by failing banks, but the moratorium does not include deposits. In fact, only just now have insured deposits debuted as a target for the withdrawal moratorium, as authorities previously felt such a move “may have a negative impact on market confidence.” Nevertheless, economic and banking troubles have hit several European nations in recent years, such as the Cyprus fiasco, as described by Bitcoinist, Back in 2013, Cyprus’ banking crisis was a hair’s breadth away from a total economic collapse. Cypriot banks were desperate for a bailout from the EU and IMF and many account holders feared that their deposits would vanish. This fear caused a classic bank run and people were rushing to banks and ATMs in order to withdraw as much money as they could. Inevitably, cash became scarce and the ATMs stopped working. Many saw Bitcoin as the last option to secure their funds. With severely curtailed faith in Western and central banking institutions, that European Union insiders would look first to penalize customers for a bank’s poor planning and management in the midst of a theoretical future crisis typifies the impetus for throngs of people riding the tumultuous cryptocurrency wave as far away from Big Banks as possible. Considering officials now hope to revoke access to bank accounts at perhaps the time customers would most need it, the marriage of State and finance obviates how insignificant the needs of the so-called little guy when the government sees only green. This article first appeared at The Free Thought Project. (activistpost.com)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 8/2/2017 1:00:17 AM
	BRIEFLY Stuff that matters ACT NOW Walter Two dire studies show the world is on the brink of locking in dangerous levels of climate change. In separate reports published Monday, researchers found that only a short window of opportunity remains to prevent widespread, irreversible planetary-scale impacts. The two studies reveal that factoring in current emissions, as well as a wide range of future trends, we may have already locked in a temperature rise surpassing the universally agreed-upon global warming target of 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius — which the 2015 Paris accord sought to set as an upper limit. If all the world’s human-derived sources of greenhouse gases stopped today (which obviously will not happen), by 2100 global temperatures would stabilize somewhere between a temp slightly cooler than the current average and about 2.3 degrees higher than preindustrial levels, according to the first study. That report found a 13 percent chance that the hard-won target of 1.5 degrees favored by small island states was already lost. The second study simulated 100,000 potential future versions of our civilization out to 2100. In only about 1,000 of them, or around 1 percent, did human society move quickly enough to avert a temperature rise of greater than 1.5 degrees. “We’re closer to the margin than we think,” said Adrian Raftery, lead author of the simulation study. All the more reason to do whatever it takes to change our culture now. Eric Holthaus 1 day ago (GRIST)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 8/2/2017 1:20:50 AM
	The Resonance Of The Earth’s Geomagnetic Field Has Quadrupled In The Last 24 Hours Posted on 2017/07/31 By Luke Miller Truth Theory There has been a spike in the power of the earth’s geomagnetic field affecting the schumann’s resonance: reaching a 15 month high. According to a real time graph from Heart Math there has been a spike in the earth’s geomagnetic field, the data only goes back 1 year, but I managed to find data going back to April 2016, meaning it could actually go back further than 15 months. The Spike The spike was recorded by the Global Coherence Monitoring System from the Heart Math institute: The Global Coherence Monitoring System has been in operation since 2015 and uses state-of-the-art sensing technology to detect changes in the earth’s magnetic field. They have 6 systems based in Boulder Creek, California. Hofuf, Saudi Arabia Alberta, Canada Baisogala, Lithuania Northland Region of New Zealand Kwazulu Natal, South Africa Going back for the 15 months I have data for the there have been Schumann Resonances Power lows of 15 and highs of around 360. With the field for the most part sitting between 80 and 200 dependant on the location. In the last 10 days it reached a high of 538.83 in Alberta, Canada and then continued to fluctuate in the successive days, reaching a peak yesterday of 1006.6. Peaks have also been reached in California, Lithuania and New Zealand over this period. What Caused The Spike? It is hard to say for certain what has caused this spike, but the geomagnetic field can be influenced by solar activity, the moon’s rotations and interplanetary activity. What Is The Geomagnetic Field? The Earth’s geomagnetic field is the magnetic field surrounding the planet that extends from the Earth’s core to outer space, where it comes into contact with solarwinds which are a stream of charged particles emanating from the Sun’s rays. The geomagnetic field has 2 poles (north and south) which are different from geographic poles and can shift as much as 55 kilometers every year. The geomagnetic field is vital for our survival and protects the earth’s atmosphere from otherwise catastrophic solar activity which would destroy the earth’s ozone layer. Many species of animals detect the Earth’s magnetic field and it is used for navigation when migrating. It has also been shown that cows and deer align themselves to the earth’s magnetic field when grazing. The Difference Between The Geomagnetic Field And The Schumann Resonance There has been a lot of confusion in recent times (myself being included in this confusion) with the Geomagnetic activity and that of the Schumann’s resonance. The Schumann’s resonance does not fluctuate much, but has 8 different frequencies ranging from 0.5Hz to 45Hz. However the geomagnetic field does fluctuate, this video from Rajie Kablie and Rollin Mccraty of HeartMath clears up some of the misconceptions: What Does This Flare Mean? The flare is an indication of recent strong solar activity; a recent study called Synchronization of Human Autonomic Nervous System Rhythms with Geomagnetic Activity in Human Subjects showed “Human regulatory systems are designed to adapt to daily and seasonal climatic and geomagnetic variations; however, sharp changes in solar and geomagnetic activity and geomagnetic storms can stress these regulatory systems, resulting in alterations in melatonin/serotonin balance, blood pressure, immune system, reproductive, cardiac, and neurological processes.” From the heartmath website: When the earth’s magnetic field environment is disturbed it can cause sleep disturbance, mental confusion, unusual lack of energy or a feeling of being on edge or overwhelmed for no apparent reason. They are also investigating if changes in the earth’s magnetic fields happen before natural catastrophes such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and human initiated events such as- riots, social unrest and terror attacks. Solar activity has not only had negative affects of society, but has also been associated with collective growth and development such as architectural, artistic and scientific breakthroughs, as well as positive social change. It has also been hypothesized that there may be a link between both human consciousness and the geomagnetic field: meaning the frequency that we emit, could well affect the geomagnetic field, as much as it affects us. Relationship To The Heart From all of our organs, it is the heart that generates the largest electromagnetic rhythm. C reating a field that is approximately 100 times stronger than that of the brain. With the right equipment the heart’s electromagnetic field can be detected several feet from the body. During quiet magnetic periods, Schumann resonance power (SRP) “appears to play an important role in synchronizing people’s slow wave heart rhythms. The potential importance of these rhythms is currently unknown, but (eventually it) may be important to better understand human health and well-being.” This is a big moment and only time will tell the affect it has on us collectively, but an understanding of an event can often help you to avert disaster. So stay conscious of your actions! Please share this article! You can also listen to a harmonic 3 minute clip of the Schumann resonance in the audio below: Written by: Luke Miller I am Luke Miller a poet, writer and deep thinker! Everything I do is centred around the rebalance of the power structure to one that is harmonious, loving and benefits humanity in its entirety. We are entering a new age of love and I am here to encourage others to be a part of it! (Rev)olution R(evol)ution R(evolution) Revolut(ion) R(evolve)ut(ion) (truththeory.com)
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