The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
This story sounds too good to be true, and usually that means it is bogus. But the quality of the people involved, for all the extraordinary claims, suggests it is true, and the implications for agriculture are profoundly good news. I am struck also by the resemblance this story bears to homeopathy's view of water.
| Wave Goodbye to Global Warming, GM and Pesticides |
| Independent (Eire) |
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This story was sent to me by several people, two of whom live in the Texas towns described here where water, as a result of Fracking, has become a very real issue.
Texas Is Fracked: More Than 30 Towns Will be Out of Water Due to Fracking
JO BORRÁS – Gas2
More than 30 towns in West Texas will soon be out of water as a direct result of diverting their underground water supplies for use in hydraulic fracking. Largely unregulated fracking, it should be said. Largely unregulated fracking that is definitely putting arsenic into the ground it happens to be drying out. Before you start acting horrified, though, consider: this is exactly what Texas’ mental-midget teabillies voted for.
Despite the vast consensus of climate scientists, the highly publicized destructive effects of fracking on water supplies, fracking’s seismic impact, and the evidence of their own senses, the mentally deficient residents of Texas keep electing politicians who believe climate change is a myth, and who think the best course of action to address Texas’ crippling drought is several days of organized prayer. Really.
Maybe Rick Perry and the idiots that voted him back into office will be able to pray in some new drinking water while the non-stupid people of Texas pray for a governor with a triple-digit IQ. While you’re waiting to see how that works out for the citizens of West Texas, take some time to watch this interview with Antonia Juhasz, an oil and energy analyst, author, and journalist.
Fair warning, though: if you live in Texas, you probably won’t enjoy it.
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Fracking Blamed for Over 100 Earthquakes in Ohio
LINDSAY ABRAMS, Assistant Editor – Salon
Huh?
2013-08-26 Pakistan, Afghanistan mull over power project on Kunar River
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Afghanistan are moving towards joint management of common rivers starting with construction of a 1,500MW hydropower project on Kunar River — a major tributary of Kabul River contributing almost 13 million acres feet (MAF) annually to Pakistan.
2013-08-21 Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan hold trilateral meeting on water, energy
DUSHANBE (NNI): Officials of water and energy sector from Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan held a trilateral meeting on the sidelines of an international conference on water cooperation on Wednesday.
During the meeting, Alireza Daemi, director of Water Catchment Department of the Iranian Energy Ministry and water and energy ministers of Afghanistan and Tajikistan emphasized the necessity of cooperation in implementing joint energy projects.
The construction process of Tajikistans Sangtoudeh-II power plant which will be completed by yearend with joint investment of Iran and Tajikistan was also discussed.
This is how aggressive, life destructive, and single-mindedly focused on profit Fracking is. When it comes to people or money, as this report explains, the carbon industry is very clear on its priority — profit first.
A Texan Tragedy: Ample Oil, No Water
SUZANNE GOLDENBERG – The Guardian (U.K.)
Note that I get many, perhaps even most of these reports from non-U.S., or non-corporate internet sources. (The one exception, in this case, is 60 Minutes.) Ask yourself: Why isn't this a story and Donald Trump's latest pronouncements are?
BARNHART, TEXAS — Beverly McGuire saw the warning signs before the town well went dry: sand in the toilet bowl, the sputter of air in the tap, a pump working overtime to no effect. But it still did not prepare her for the night last month when she turned on the tap and discovered the tiny town where she had made her home for 35 years was out of water.
“The day that we ran out of water I turned on my faucet and nothing was there and at that moment I knew the whole of Barnhart was down the tubes,” she said, blinking back tears. “I went: ‘dear God help us. That was the first thought that came to mind.”
Across the south-west, residents of small communities like Barnhart are confronting the reality that something as basic as running water, as unthinking as turning on a tap, can no longer be taken for granted.
Three years of drought, decades of overuse and now the oil industry's outsize demands on water for fracking are running down reservoirs and underground aquifers. And climate change is making things worse.
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Phi Beta Iota: We think very highly of Wolfram Alfa and its creator Stephen Wolfram. Below is the beginning of a conversation about what it would take to lower sea levels and keep them constant so Singapore among other countries, need not worry, at the same time that we leverage solar power to desalinate water and create hydrogen energy.
WE ASKED:
What is the volume of sea water that would have to be desalinated and withdrawn for aquifer replenishment, deforestation, de-desertification, and general land use, to keep sea level at a constant? Discussion: the intersection of solar energy and water purification, desalination, and splitting to produce hydrogen power and oxygen is now reaching a tipping point. We are very close to a price point where it makes sense to actually lower the ocean and restock our clean water, doing this on a world wide basis, a Manhattan Project to create 1000 massive water desalination and power plants world wide.
WOLFRAM ALFA RESPONDED:
Continue reading “Wolfram|Alpha on Calculations Related to Lowering Sea Level”
Yesterday I saw an article that indicated Yemen’s capitol, Sana’a, could be out of water in a decade. There were some shocking statistics in that article and in the ReliefWeb article that provided the above map.
40% of Yemen’s water is used to cultivate qat, which is labeled as a narcotic, but it’s effect is similar to that of milder amphetamines. Fully 75% of all Yemeni men use this drug, which is both legal in the eyes of the government and accepted under the laws of Islam. The drug is commonly used there, as well as in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia.
Here is what climate change and the melting of the Arctic looks like from Malaysia. It is a very sensible assessment, of a depth one rarely sees in the Western media.
Polar Politics and the Melting Arctic
JOSEPH CHINYONG LIOW, professor of comparative and international politics – The Malay Mail (Malaysia)
Singapore’s recent accession to the Arctic Council as an observer has, understandably, raised eyebrows, given how it is more familiar with monsoons than frost. That said, there is good reason why this city-state at the Equator is casting its eyes so far northwards.
