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The Autumn 2001-Winter 2002 Floods
This
is the first issue in the ‘Carbonomics Countries Series’ - a series of
works providing a Carbonomics analysis of countries’ Carbon status. This
first issue explores britain’s Carbon status. The hope is that, eventually,
Carbon audits could be carried out for each country around the world -
although the mundi club would like to make it plain, here and now, we
won’t be devoting the rest of our lives to such a task. This work has been a long
time in coming. Tf2 ‘Ban Cars’ published july 1992 included a section entitled,
‘A Hypothetical Analysis of England’s Carbon Status’. It speculated on the nature
of the country’s current Carbon status and its likely Carbon budget - suggesting
that if all countries around the world agreed to balance their historical Carbon
accounts in order to combat global burning then britain would need to implement
a fundamental geophysiological revolution requiring substantial areas of the
country to be designated as Wilderness areas and climate Forests i.e. Forests
used solely for the purpose of stabilizing the climate. In effect, this work
was mapped out in 1992 and it has taken nearly nine years for us to find the
time to write up these conclusions. Over the years a number
of notes and quotes have been collected on britain’s Carbon status but, because
of the lack of time to write up these notes, they have just been left in the
computer gathering dust. However, an article in the september-october issue
of ‘renew’ quoted the latest figures for britain’s Carbon emissions and its
Carbon absorption showing the country absorbs a mere 1.4% of its Carbon emissions
... “rising to 1.7% in 2010”!! This statement of britain’s Carbon status rekindled
enough exasperation to warrant writing an article drawing attention to this
truly appalling state of affairs and, secondly, condemning greens trying to
combat global burning for their pathetic fixation on reducing Carbon emissions. It is more than likely that
an elaboration of this article would have been delayed for another few years,
because of the lack of time to pull the arguments together. But then, by sheer
good fortune, in autumn 2000 the floods hit britain and what seemed like proof
of the validity of these arguments covered large parts of the country. Before
these floods, there was no point in producing yet another devastatingly logical
piece of work denouncing england’s appalling 7% Forest cover (or the uk’s similarly
appalling 10% Forest cover) nor highlighting the country’s gross unsustainability
because it would have been ridiculed by both the andi pandi ghandi green movement
and any Earth rapist who might have had the misfortune to come across it. But
when proof lies over large areas of the country, the credibility of such a work
is that much more difficult to dismiss, so publishing this work suddenly acquired
a degree of urgency it had not previously possessed. The floods exposed britain’s
gross unsustainability but they also exposed how both greens and Earth rapists
are living in a big capitalist dome of delusion. They are so far removed from
the geophysiological facts of life as to be living in noddy land. And right
on cue, after weeks of floods around the country, brutish greens turn up at
the global climate conference in the hague denouncing the american government
for wanting to include Forests in climate negotiations! If floods on their own
doorsteps can’t convince these green ideologists of the importance of Forests
in combating global burning then nothing will. The green movement is at the
end of the ideological line with their current, one-sided, tactics over global
burning. They’ve achieved virtually nothing over the last ten years - they haven’t
even managed to persuade the government to implement a glass recycling scheme.
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They’re so terrified of mentioning the Earth’s life support system that it’s
the Earth rapists who have been left with responsibility for promoting green
issues. Greens will still be demanding reductions in fossil fuels when icebergs
start bouncing off the white cliffs of dover. They’re promoting a green ideology
which is so one-sided and unrealistic it bears all the hallmarks of a dogma
little different from those being belched out by free marketeers and socialists.
It’s also geocidal. This work is divided into
four sections. The first highlights some of the geophysiological facts of life.
It provides the planetary context for the analysis of britain’s share of the
Earth’s life sustaining processes. The second section provides a sketch of britain’s
current Carbon status. Even the most superficial analysis of what this country
has done to the Earth’s life sustaining processes reveals a truly appalling
level of devastation. The third section is an analysis of the autumn 2000 floods
in britain pointing out the reasons for the floods, the causes of the floods,
and the likely consequences of the floods. These floods are proof of the country’s
geophysiological devastation. The final section explores the country’s historical
Carbon status and speculates about what the country’s historical Carbon budget
might be if oomans around the world suddenly decided they needed to combat global
burning. This analysis provides some estimates, albeit very provisional, of
britain’s gross unsustainability. This is the first time that waffly concepts
such sustainability have been given some scientific rigour. The hope is that
this work will provide a model for the compilation of Carbonomics’ reports for
other countries. The theoretical basis of this work can be found in Carbonomics
issue no.1. For those who know little about this theory the following section
provides a quick summary.
A Carbon spiral analysis can be used to assess
the geophysiological status of any individual, industry, country, or even
the Earth itself. It can also be used to formulate policies on the local,
regional, national and global levels. At the local level it could be used
in a planning enquiry to determine whether a particular construction project
would keep within the locality’s Carbon budget and should be given the
go-ahead. On the national level it could be used to determine a country's
environmental policies. On the global level, it could determine the policies
to prevent the planet from lapsing into a geophysiological disaster. A
Carbon spiral analysis could ensure that all countries around the world
live within their geophysiological means rather than continuing to act
irresponsibly by dumping huge amounts of Carbon into the atmosphere whilst
ravaging larger and larger areas of their life sustaining processes. And,
most importantly of all, it could be used to create and maintain a sustainable
planet. A Carbonomics analysis provides the mathematical basis for a scientific
definition of sustainability. There is no other green theory which makes
such claims. If, like the mundi club,
you are a realist who believes that oomans are too stupid, deluded, greedy,
vile, and barbaric, to avoid a geophysiological calamity then Carbonomics could
also afford lots of fun by measuring oomans’ ‘progress’ towards oblivion. Oomans
have produced some incredible scientific, technological, and cultural, works
which deserve immortality but these are insignificant in comparison to their
greed, ignorance, and cowardice, which is driving them into oblivion. This is
especially likely when those who should oppose such destructiveness tend to
be a blithering bunch of narrow-minded, ignorant, snotty nosed, bigots. Oomans
are currently acting like eco-nazis carrying out the sixth biggest, mass extermination
of Biodiversity ever witnessed in the planet’s four billion year history. At
the day of judgment, i.e. at the moment of oblivion, when oomans can no longer
survive on Earth, they will realize they are, by nature, eco-nazis and that
they justly deserve their fate. If the screams of all the Animals that oomans
have maimed, mutilated, and murdered, during their short span on Earth could
be collected together and beamed into space the din could be heard on the other
side of the universe. This would provide an all too clear warning of the barbarism
that space travellers would find should they wander into the solar system. Oomano-imperialists delude
themselves about their ‘star trek’ future claiming, nobly, they want to meet
new life forms on other planets in order to learn new ways of living, acquire
masses of scientific knowledge to push back the frontiers of knowledge, and
increase the pace of technological advances. Allegedly, these meetings will
also offer oomans the chance to parade their achievements and provide another
step in the direction of human perfection. In reality, of course, the real purpose
of space exploration can be seen in the slaughter and extermination of all the
‘aliens’ who once used to live on Earth and the vast numbers of concentration
camps spread around the over-industrialized world. The contrast between oomans’
respect for the civilizations of aliens from other solar systems/galaxies and
their contempt for the ‘aliens’ who once lived on Earth could hardly be greater.
Quite how oomans are going to convince alien space travellers of their good
will, civility, and peacefulness, when the Earth is covered in the blood of
oomans’ victims is difficult to appreciate. Aliens visiting the Earth are going
to take one look at the carnage oomans are inflicting on the Earth’s Biodiversity
and then launch a pre-emptive strike to eradicate these monstrosities before
these bipeds start treating everyone else around the universe in the same way
as they’ve treated the Earth’s own Wildlife. And, quite possibly, this attack
might taken oomans by surprise because they have no sense of embarrassment,
shame or guilt, about what they have done and not the slightest inkling that
visiting aliens would find such slaughter utterly repulsive or repugnant. The
fantasies of the ‘star trek’ loonies are so steeped in the mire of their own
barbarism they can hardly appreciate the perspective of civilized ways of thinking.
Still it is comforting to think that when these galaxy trotting, livestock trogs
get to the pearly gates and find that god is the sum total of all the Animals
that have lived on Earth, their days of evil will come back to haunt them. Eco-nazis are amongst the
most pathologically deluded livestock on Earth. They deny the depletion of the
stratospheric ozone layer, global burning, bse, etc, because there is no scientific
evidence. And yet, without the slightest shred of scientific evidence, they
believe in delusions about monotheistic gods, a star trek future, and the sustainability
of the fivefold expansion of cars, kids, Cattle, capital, and carnage. Sustainability
is perverted into a belief in constant economic growth. The sooner this garbage
is off the planet, the greater the chance that some life-form on Earth might
survive the looming global burning disaster and manage to keep the Earth alive.
But it is more likely that the eco-nazis will cause so much damage before they
go, as adolf did at the end of the second world war, that the momentum of destruction
will eventually push the Earth’s life support system into oblivion so that it
ends up as a boilingly hot, dead planet - the same condition it would have been
in before life managed to cool the Earth. Ooman history is the story of lebensraum,
“Man stalks across the landscape and deserts follow in his footsteps.”
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“Throughout history human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression;
colonize - destroy - move on.”
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Today, however, there is virtually nothing left for oomans to desecrate so their
fate is not difficult to predict. It is hoped this work will show quantitatively:
• that oomans are committing
geocide;
• that oomans’ destruction
of the Earth’s life support system will prove they are eco-nazis by nature;
• that oomans will come
to see themselves as the struttingly stupid, vulgar, vile, evil, eco-nazis that
they are;
• and that these eco-nazis
will no longer delude themselves about what they are and what their responsibilities
were for their own destruction.
It is imperative that people
appreciate that geocide could have been avoided but that they were too evil
to take evasive action and that what happened was a result of their decisions,
or decisions they failed to make. It is impossible to persuade them to live
sustainably but it is vital they should be aware of their guilt for what they
have done before the planet’s life support system collapses. However, it has
to be suspected that oomans’ capacity for denialism and delusions is so great
they are almost certain to blame their fate on Wildlife - anything but themselves.
The prime cause of the spread of bse was that so many people denied it’s existence.
Even when people were dying of the disease, there were those who continued to
deny it existed, let alone that it was fatal, let alone that it could cause
an epidemic around the world. Benjamin netanayau is interviewed by david frost
(bbc1 february 2001) and blames defenceless palestinian children for being shot
by the israeli army snipers using high powered rifles. “Lovely to talk to you
benjamin” says our snivelling, cretinous, game show host. If people keep denying
the truth then eventually they’ll pay the price.
1. The Geophysiological Facts of Life.The following are some of the main
geophysiological facts of life that oomans around the planet ought to
appreciate in order to stabilize the climate. 1.1: Area of the Earth.
According to michael allaby the Earth’s
finite dimensions are as follows:-
"Of its surface area, 149,000,000 km2 (29.22%) is land,
15,600,000 km2 (29.22%) glaciers and ice sheets, and
361,000,000 km2 (29.22%) oceans and seas." 1.2: Oomans’ and the Carbon Spiral.
Oomans are Planetary Beings.
Oomans are planetary citizens
of one planet. National borders are important solely for preventing swarms
of oomans from damaging the Earth’s life support system. They will need
to be abolished after the creation of a sustainable planet. Quantity of Carbon currently Residing in the Atmosphere.
The quantity of Carbon in the atmosphere has
increased significantly since the start of the industrial revolution, "The
atmospheric load of CO2 is now over 765 billion tonnes of carbon (GtC),
an increase of around 175gtC over pre-industrial levels." Current Concentration of Atmospheric Carbon.
"By 1997 CO2 concentration was over 360 ppmv, about 30%
above the pre-industrial level of 280 ppmv which is believed to have prevailed
for the past several thousand years, and is growing at around 1.5 ppmv/yr." Quantity of Carbon dumped into the Earth’s Atmosphere.
The quantity of Carbon dumped into the atmosphere is far greater
than the 175gtC increase in the concentration of Carbon highlighted above, "To
date, approximately 320 billion tonnes (measured as the carbon content only)
of CO2 have been released into the atmosphere .." In other words, about
half of the Carbon dumped into the atmosphere over the last century or so is
still there. Quantity of Carbon dumped into the Atmosphere as a result of the Decimation
of the Earth’s Photosynthetic Capacity.
Graves, Jonathan & Reavey, Duncan.
Of the 320gtCO2 released
into the atmosphere .. "120gt by land use changes and 200gt by fossil fuel
burning." Ian D Whyte.
"Between 1860 and 1980
deforestation and other land use changes added between 80 and 150gt of Carbon
to the atmosphere, about a third of the total Carbon dioxide released by human
activities." Greenpeace.
"Since the industrial
revolution about 850 billion tonnes of CO2 have been emitted due to combustion
of fossil fuels, oil, coal and natural gas. An additional 370 billion
tonnes have been added through changes in land use and deforestation." Basic Measurements about Atmospheric Carbon.
Krause, bach & koomey
point out that .. "a one ppm change in atmospheric CO2 concentrations is roughly
equivalent to 3.85 billion tons of carbon release, assuming a 55% retention
factor." 1mtC every year is equivalent
to about 4mtCO2, "Every ton of Carbon released through burning results
in 3.7 tons of Carbon dioxide." Scientists’ Inability to Balance
the Carbon Spiral.
More research needs to be done to quantify the
Earth’s Carbon spiral, "There remains at this time a significant gap in
climatologists' and geophysicists' ability to balance the global carbon
cycle budget. The discrepancy between model requirements (climate models
treat the biosphere as neutral!!!) and land-use based estimates has led
to speculation about additional carbon sinks not presently accounted for." Comparing Anthropogenic
and Natural Carbon Emissions.
"CO2 is a radiatively active trace gas. Some
96% of the CO2 is released by natural sources. The ocean and the biosphere
are the main sinks. The remaining 4% stem from anthropogenic sources,
mostly fossil fuel burning and land use conversion (i.e. deforestation
and soil degradation)." 1.3: Forests play the Critical Role in Stabilizing the Earth’s Carbon Spiral.
1.3.1: Forests as Carbon Stores.
Forests help to stabilize the climate by extracting vast amounts of Carbon
from the atmosphere and then storing it in a number of ways:- 1.3.1.1: Carbon Stored in Trunks 1.3.1.2: Carbon Stored in Soils.
Marland suggests, "A hectare of Sycamore Trees in the u.s. soaks up from
the atmosphere about 7.5 tonnes of Carbon per year, says marland. Of that, up
to 5 tonnes may end up in soils rather than the Trees themselves. He calculates
that, at that rate, we could absorb 5 billion tonnes of Carbon each year by
planting 7 million square kilometres ..." 1.3.1.3: Carbon Stored in Animals. 1.3.1.4: Conclusions.
It has been argued that, "Forest growth is measured in terms of net primary
productivity of plant matter (tons of biomass/ha-yr). The carbon portion of
this biomass is about 50%. Including soil storage, a 60% share is a good ball-park
figure." This is inadequate. Carbon storage should also include all the Animals
who live in Forests as well as all the Carbon that has been pumped through the
soil which is either being stored underground or is on its way to the oceans.
This would boost the total amount of Carbon stored by Forests. 1.3.2: Ooman-Free Forests Store the most Carbon.
Ooman-free Forests are better Carbon
stores than recreational natural Forests. It is a rule of thumb that the
more oomans who use, or have access to, Forests the greater the disruption
of the habitats’ Carbon spiral and the greater the release of Carbon into
the atmosphere. Ooman-free Forests are also better Carbon stores than
Tree plantations. 1.3.3: The Earth’s Critical Forests for Carbon Stores - Tropical or Temperate?
"The percentage of the biospheric carbon stored in terrestrial ecosystems outside
tropical forests is about 320-360 btC, or about 60-75% of the global stock.
These figures illustrate the critical influence of forest maintenance in the
industrialized regions on global climate stabilization." 1.4: The Pharming Industry is the most Geophysiologically
Destructive Industry on Earth.
1.4.1: Deforestation
Vast areas of Forest have been razed since the end of the last ice age, "Nearly
half of the planet’s forest has already been destroyed and the rate
of loss is still alarmingly high." Most Forests have been obliterated
by pharmers to make way for crops or pastureland. In the past it was
organic pharmers. Since the second world war it has been industrialized
pharmers and, in the future, greens hope that organic pharming will
regain its historic role. 1.4.2: The Suppression of Photosynthesis.
Pharmers cut/burn down Forests and replace them with Grasses either for pastureland
or for crops, many of which are fed to Animals for consumption by northern
consumers. These Grasses contribute far less to Carbon storage than
Forests. Pharmers exploiting the land prevent Forests from regrowing.
1.4.3: Soil Erosion
Pharming has led to massive soil erosion
around the world. 1.4.4: Concluding Remark
It has been argued that, "The greatest change in the terrestrial
biospheric carbon reservoir occurs through human agricultural activity.
This activity can be broadly defined as the transformation of forests
into non-forests for pasture or crop production purposes." However, most
greens do not believe that pharming is the most geophysiologically destructive
industry on Earth. The damage that has been done has been caused not by
the need for food but by the greed for luxuries such as cadaver flesh.
In other words not by poverty but by over-consumption. 1.5: Considerations in Balancing Anthropogenic
Carbon Emissions and Photosynthesis.
1.5.1: Photosynthetic Productivity in different Parts of the World.
.. "trees grow much more slowly in temperate than in tropical regions.
Whereas growing trees in tropical zones can fix as much as 10 tonnes
of carbon per hectare per year (tC/ha/y), deciduous trees on temperate
lowlands will only fix around 2-3 tonnes of carbon per hectare per year.
Conifers in temperate lowlands sequester about 5tC/ha/y." 1.5.2: Calculations about the amount of Land Required to Absorb Carbon.
Various estimates have been
made about the scale of Reforestation needed to combat global burning. Dysen and Marland.
They estimate the Earth
is one continent short of the quota needed to maintain climatic stability, "Dysen
and Marland have calculated that .. to absorb the 20,000 million tons of CO2
currently emitted every year into the atmosphere, an area of 7 million square
kilometres (roughly the size of Australia) would have to be planted." Erickson, Jon.
He assumes that, "The replanting
of 100 million trees would remove about 18 million tons of CO2 from the atmosphere
each year." He then argues that, "It would take a Forest covering nearly 3 million
square miles, or approximately the size of australia, to fully restore the Earth's
Carbon dioxide balance." - although he doesn’t indicate what he means by ‘restoring
the Earth's Carbon dioxide balance’. Easterbrook, Gregg.
Easterbrook points out that
Tree plantations absorb Carbon at the rate of 3,500 pounds of CO2 per acre annually
- virtually the same amount emitted by the average car, "This suggests
that to establish a proper carbon balance with the atmosphere, each automobile
in the world would require its own acre of young forest: a stark way of stating
the greenhouse control challenge." Pearce, Fred.
"It takes one hectare
of forest land to absorb five tonnes of carbon a year." Bossel, Hartmut.
Bossel is a green who dismisses
Reforestation to combat global burning, "Brilliant idea (planting Trees
to soak up Carbon emissions), it seems, until someone does the calculations
and points out that a young, growing Forest with an area of about 150 kilometres
by 150 kilometres would be required to take up the CO2 emissions of a city of
1 million people." (150 kilometres by 150 kilometres = 22,500 square kilometres). Marland, Gregg.
Marland’s view runs counter
to bossel’s, "A hectare of Sycamore Trees in the u.s. soaks up from the
atmosphere about 7.5 tonnes of Carbon per year, says marland. Of that, up to
5 tonnes may end up in soils rather than the Trees themselves. He calculates
that, at that rate, we could absorb 5 billion tonnes of Carbon each year by
planting 7 million square kilometres ..." 1.5.3: The Scale of Reforestation required to Balance Countries’ Carbon Status.
Pearce argues, "Densely
populated countries, such as Germany and the Netherlands, could not grow enough
trees to absorb all their present CO2 emissions, even if every existing hectare
was set aside for the purpose. Yet the countries with the worst records of CO2
pollution, such as the United States, Canada and parts of eastern Europe, do
have the land. The United States, despite being responsible for more than one-fifth
of the world’s CO2 emissions, could absorb every last tonne if one-third of
its land were forested for carbon sequestration."
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