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But I want to dissect them somewhat to see what's different about the 2 concepts. I think this will help to understand character better.
Some arts are pure Imagination:Music
A musician doesn't try to make his music sound like the real world. You don't buy a cd to listen to fake ducks, dogs, people walking around, talking, quacking, brushing teeth or taking a bath.
(Unless it's a comedy album).You can occasionally evoke real things (Flight Of The Bumblebees) but you aren't trying to literally imitate them.
Music is meant almost purely to pleasure your ears. The sounds and all the technical mathematical rules and structures used have as their final purpose abstract auditory pleasure.
Talented musicians can make you feel emotions and moods that nothing in the real world can.
How many times have you listened to a symphony and said "Wow! I understand what he is saying!"...but you can't put it into words.
Music is probably the most purely imaginative and abstract art. No one has been able to achieve in the visual arts what musicians have. Cartoons have come the closest.
Yeah, you can add lyrics and tell a story about life to go with the music, but if the music sucks, who will listen? (Jorge excepted.)
Here listen to this song. It's a real Jim Dandy. I defy you to concentrate on the lyrics.
The girls sings the same verse twice in a row and makes it mean 2 completely different things. 2 different emotional messages.
Then the guy comes in and scats it and creates a whole new feeling. Genius!
Dance is similar to music. When someone gets on stage and tap dances, they are aren't imitating the motions of anything in real life. They don't try to fool you by masquerading as reality. They are just making stuff up-or building on dances that were made up long ago and adding their own ideas to it.
Dance relies on beauty, skill and style to make art.
Some Arts are Pure Observation.Well, most people assume that all good art takes some imagination but I'm not yet sure of that. For now, I just want to make a point how some arts lean a lot more on observation than others.
Portrait Painting
A good portrait has to more than anything else, look like the subject. (Let's leave out Picasso and modern art for now.)
What makes one portrait artist better than another comes down to his skill in observation, and then his style.
I'm still trying to figure out what style actually is. Is it imagination? Maybe not. Let's wait for another post to think about it.
Landscape Painting
If you sit in front of a real scene, you have in mind that you want to paint something that resembles what
is in front of you.
You aren't going to just make something up. Hopefully.
Still Life
You have to see this painting in person. It's at the Getty. Your eyes will melt.
This is a combination of observation and imagination. A good caricature has to look like the subject, but that isn't enough. It has to be highly amusing and surprising and that takes leaps of imagination.
Here's a guy who has both observation and imagination in big dose. Watch him do celebrity impressions (observation) and then dance like a maniac (Abstract entertainment).
Realistic Characters (observation) VS Fantastic characters (Imagination)
These 2 artistic concepts relate directly to the creation of characters in stories and entertainment.
These are characters and stories that could physically happen in real life. Of course, real life doesn't have as many coincidences as fictional stories, but the characters are usually recognizable and have believable emotions and motivations.
Detective Story-Psychological crime drama
Soap Opera - bland realisticgeneral human types
The Honeymooners - a brilliant insightful caricature of real human nauture in conflict
Whoever came up with the first superhero must have had a wild imagination.
A human who wears colorful long underwear, is above the law, has fantastic powers and doesn't use them to satiate his lusts for women, money and power.
It's not only fantastic that he has super powers and dresses indecently, but his humanity is completely unrealistic. He has no normal human motivations.
Everything about Superman is preposterous. Not just the physics.
No one acts like real humans do in old superhero comics and they don't need to because that's not what kids bought them for. You wanna see them kick everyone's ass and do impossible things with as much primary color as you can stand.
I think classic Superheroes are a great American tradition. Mike Fontanelli collects all of them.
There is no logic in any Superhero comics. Superman puts glasses on and then no one recognizes him.
Nobody reacts to bizarre situations that happen in a realistic way.
Batman is even more preposterous than Superman. He merely has the long underwear. No powers.
No criminal has good enough aim to shoot him dead. The police let him take the law into his own hands. No one recognizes his voice or jaw when he is Bruce Wayne.
He has a bare legged teenaged sidekick. He risks the kid's life every day and is not arrested for it.
Superhero comics are completely opposed to common observation of not only the physical world, but of how humans actually are.
Look at the gripping emotion in this so human comic:Many comic artists draw as if they have never actually witnessed human expressions. Observational skills are not really needed for purely fantastic characters. Wild imagination is.
Peter Pan (mildly fantastic)Peter Pan is less imaginative than Superman - or less preposterous, depending on how you wanna frame it. He can fly, so that's a bit fantastic, but his personality is non existent. He's slightly mischevious, but that's not enough to call a "realistic" personality, nor an "Imaginative" personality.
Combinations Of Fantastic and Observed
Dick Tracy
Dick Tracy takes place in realistic cities, but the villains are fantastic caricatures and they are named after what kind of ugly they have.
Dick himself is a simple character, but many of the villains have weird psychoses and quirks. The strip is highly imaginative even thought it supposedly is serious and realistic.
Fantastic characters with preposterous or simplistic personalities generally belong in:
Horror Movies
Science Fiction
Kiddie Fare
Because of the interesting fantasy settings we suspend our disbelief at the craziness of the characters.
Simple personalities usually don't work in bland settings, and they sure don't work in bland stories that beg you care about them.
To truly care about a character, it has to have more depth than Dracula, Wonder Woman or any mdoern feature animation character.
If you cry in one of those fake pathos scenes you are being tricked by the staging and the music, not the dialogue, story or character's charisma. Unsure Directors work the audience like puppets using cheap filmic tricks. Now they even have the characters tell you to care about them!
Spiderman and Marvel comics in general
After the first few Superheroes had mined every imaginable power, they ceased to be very imaginative. They just became endless clones and a whole formulaic mindset took over the industry. Artists and writers unquestioningly churned out mindless unimaginative fantasy with personality less characters. Superheroes had become cliches, just as Disney cartoons did.
Then in 1960, Stan Lee did what every kid who ever read a superhero comic did-questioned the preposterous nature of it. He and Kirby and Ditko started making costumed Superheroes that had the same powers that had already existed for 20 years, but now they gave their characters more normal-or realistic emotions and motivations.
This actually made the stories seem even more fantastic, because you believed the characters were like us. It invited the fans into the stories. Stan Lee is a huge influence on me (and I'm sure a million other artists). I took this idea and applied it to comedy cartoons. Realistic shaded characters in crazy situations. I also invited the audience into the fantastic stories and events in the same way Lee did. I used his homespun marketing style and made the fans feel like they were in on the gags and everyon else wasn't.
In the 60s, what Lee did was a revolution. We were so used to seeing nobody ever act like humans in comics that all of a sudden seeing these fantastic characters act like us..they were greedy, horny, torn between good and bad. The mere shock of semi realistic personalities wearing brightly colored underwear in public was a great novelty and it breathed new life into comics for about 10 years.
Unfortunately this led to the utter ruination of comic books. Lesser men than Lee and Kirby came along in the 70s and put too much emphasis on the psychological problems of the superheroes. They also added current events, like war protests, the drug problem and homosexuality!!
The Hulk had a friend that was gay who die of AIDS! Holy crap! In a comic about a big green guy who goes around crushing everything in sight and saying things like "HULK SMASH!"
The underwear boys had become too serious and all the fun was gone.
Jerry Lewis syndrome.
This thinking leads to limbo art and limbo characters, characters who are neither fantastic nor realistic. They are simplistic cliches that beg to be compared to "real" fiction, like movies and novels. This is the kind of art that lesser talents with inferiority complexes make, or worse- executives.
To ME, and I know this an unpopular notion these days, is that you need to use observation, imagination or both and in heavy doses to make great art or entertainment.
At least if it's going to last.
Stay away from cliched blanded down versions of characters that have already been beaten to death a thousand times if you want to be remembered.


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The published agenda for the most recent Charleston County Joint Legislative Delegation meeting said very little. And in saying so little, it spoke volumes about why lawmakers need to commit to strengthening the state's Freedom of Information Act, in practice as well as by law.
The most informative thing about the agenda was the heading which gave the address and time of the meeting.
As for business to be handled, here's what the public was told:
• There will be a prayer.
• North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey will make a presentation on something.
• Unnamed committees will report on unnamed subjects.
• The public will be allowed to speak (about items that they didn't know were to be discussed?).
• Old and new business would be discussed.
• The delegation chairman, Rep. Chip Limehouse, R-Charleston, will say when the next meeting will be held.
• The meeting will be adjourned.
Anyone interested in the public's business would have no idea whether the delegation meeting was worth attending.
Unfortunately, such minimal advance information about the agendas for public meetings is the rule, not the exception. And some suggest that is precisely the point.
In the case of the legislative delegation, it is evidence that the lawmakers consider the Freedom of Information Act a nuisance rather than a guide for keeping the public informed.
They are able to do the public's business without being annoyed by public questions and comments.
And when they consider the FOIA, it is only to do the minimum it requires.
So it comes as good news that Rep. Bill Taylor, R-Aiken, is again pushing for legislation that would put needed teeth in the state's Freedom of Information law. Revisions would prevent public agencies, governments and school districts from charging excessive fees for information they provide as a result of FOI requests. And the law would require them to respond more quickly to such requests.
Last year, Taylor made a similar effort that also said public entities must post online or have available documents handed out in public meetings during the previous six months. His bill sailed through the House, but stalled in the Senate over a controversial amendment making legislators' memos and correspondence subject to FOI requests.
That's worth discussion, but should be dealt with separately, so as not to threaten Taylor's bill.
It would be reassuring if all public agencies and officials readily and willingly provided public information in a timely, affordable fashion.
But that isn't the case.
Taylor's reform measure might not change the minds and hearts of public officials, but it would make it easier for the public to get information it has the right to know.
As for the local delegation, it can start doing a better job of keeping the public informed by providing more than the most perfunctory list of items they plan to consider when they publish their agendas.


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As a result of the recent tragedy in Newtown, Conn., the administration is reviewing ways to curb such violence.
A major focus of this review has been on gun control. It is instructive to note that during the period from 1990 to 2010 the violent crime rate in the U.S. as reported by the FBI decreased by nearly 50 percent, while at the same time the number of weapons sold, background checks performed and concealed carry permits issued by states have all increased significantly.
Does increased legal gun availability lead to increased violent crime? The statistics say no, and possibly, it may have contributed to the decline. The violent crime rate for legal gun owners? Essentially zero.
For those who believe additional gun regulations are needed, several questions need to be honestly addressed before further restrictions are considered.
First, how will any new regulations assist in disarming criminals? Obviously, the problem is not with legal gun owners. Second, how will they prevent those with criminal intent from illegally obtaining weapons?
Third, how will the security of lawful citizens be preserved by reducing or eliminating gun availability? It is a fact that violent crime increases in countries which have banned or severely restricted civilian access to firearms (Australia and the United Kingdom, among others).
Fourth, since the vast majority of mass murders have been committed by mentally unstable individuals, will medical records for such persons become readily available as part of any background check process?
Fifth, will the wealthy and influential be allowed armed protection, either personally or by protective service, if severe restrictions are considered? If so, the restriction of firearms to citizens of lesser means then becomes a deadly discrimination, by denial of self defense to some while permitting it to others.
This time let's have an honest discussion, while ensuring that the legal rights granted by the Constitution are preserved, and historical facts are not ignored.
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The Sleuth Kit (TSK) is a collection of UNIX-based command line tools that allow you to investigate a computer. The current focus of the tools is the file and volume systems and TSK supports FAT, Ext2/3, NTFS, UFS1, and UFS2 file systems.
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My apologies for the complete lack of posts in recent weeks, but things have been absolutely cray-cray.
Here is a very quick rundown of my last couple of weeks:
I spent a weekend prepping like a crazy person for a job interview. I bought some new shoes and a new shirt for the interview. I surpassed the 100,000 page views threshold here on the blog! I survived the full-day, marathon-like job interview. I had a couple of super-packed days of work. I had the worst steak and cheese sub of all-time. I tried and failed, three times, to buy a gift card. Grace and I flew back for my best friend's wedding in the Midwest. I got to hang out with The Boys a whole bunch. It was awesome. I danced a lot. I hurt my ankle (it still hurts). I ate Taco John's. I proposed to Grace…she said yes! We flew back across the country and spent an awesome night telling friends and family about the engagement. I had another week of super-packed days of work and chaotic student training. My work computer basically decided to die the death. Our bathroom tiles got replaced. I took a work-related field trip to western Massachusetts that saw me spend six hours on the road to check out another library's sound masking system. The very next day was another packed day of work and then I got to drive back across the state for a camping trip/birthday weekend. I found out that they make cheeseburger-flavored Pringles. I ate a can of cheeseburger-flavored Pringles. I found out that I'm awful at camping. I got soaked all the way down to my long underwear. Grace and I spent the night in a Prius like sardines when our tent leaked. I also found out that I might be claustrophobic. I had a peanut butter and jelly milkshake, it was awesome. We drove back across the state yet again. I wore plastic bags on my feet because my shoes were soaked from the night before. I found out my grandma had a heart-attack and things are not looking good. My mom and I cried together over the phone. It felt awful and it felt good, if that makes any sense. I got beat in my fantasy baseball playoffs. I vacuumed the living room and Honey stood her ground in the face of the treacherous vacuum of doom. I watched the season premiere of "New Girl" and I loved it. I spent a couple more days fighting with my computer at work and watched the IT folks tell me it was fine and I just needed to run some virus and file clean-up scans. I found out I got the job. I did a happy dance. I got a new baseball glove. I did another happy dance. I got Captain Shushalot banished from the Libraries for good. I had a few beers to celebrate. I got hit with some truth bombs that made me question whether or not I can do this new job. I went home and found out they're pulling my grandma off of the life-support machines she's been on. I went to bed. I woke up. I got a Pumpkin Spice Latte. I came into work. My computer crapped out completely and is now a large paperweight. I started cleaning out my cubicle in preparation for my move to a real(ish) office. I wrote this blog post.
…so that's what I've been up to the past couple of weeks.
I'd hoped to post more, but my usual "blogging time" has been curtailed greatly due to travel, student training, and my horrible computer.
As you can see there was lots of good news in there and a nice dollop of shitty news as well.
I'm hoping to play catch-up on many of these items, but between my grandma's health issues and starting my new job at the library, the next couple of weeks don't appear to be slowing down any, so it may, unfortunately, be delayed further.
Rest assured, I'm hoping to get writing again as soon as possible, hopefully I can get one of the pre-written ones pulled off the computer and posted in the near future. You can always Follow Me on Twitter if you absolutely cannot stand the thought of waiting any longer for more of my brain droppings.
In the interim please don't go leaving me for a prettier, more frequently-updated blog!


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We have zero years to solve our addiction to hydrocarbon energy.
How many times have we heard: We have a decade, or we have three years, or we have until 2020? In the 1980s, ecologists used to say, "We have to solve this by 2000", which is now a decade behind us. We don't have 10 years or 3 years, or any years. We are already far behind any sort of timeline that might have kept Earth's temperature from rising +2°C from the pre-industrial era. We are now gambling our progeny's future with runaway heating that could ravage human agriculture, devastate the remaining forests, increase extinctions, and flood every coastal city on Earth.
Global heating
In the late 19th century, when Swedish chemist Svente Arrhenius predicted the impact of CO2, he warned that the radiation absorption would add "heat" to Earth's atmosphere. In the 1970s, when ecologists learned from scientists about the risk of human carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions, we spoke of "global heating." The phrase "global warming" became popular in the 1980s, although "heating" is the correct scientific term. Then, in 2003, the petroleum industry public relations machine came up with "climate change" to convince the public that the impact was natural and non-urgent.
It is time we return to the physically precise term, "global heating," because that is what we are doing: We are heating Earth's atmosphere, land, and oceans, and simultaneously turning the entire Earth ecosystem acidic. We should avoid the ambiguous euphemism "climate change" and speak clearly: "Global heating."
Among modern society's greatest villains, stand the little band of industry-funded "dissenters" – paid-off marginal scientists and mercenary ecology imposters – who spin a mythology that global heating is normal "climate change," not real, or that it is caused by some force other than human carbon-dioxide. Geoscientists James L. Powell documented 13,950 peer-reviewed, scientific climate articles from the last 20 years and found that 99.83 % of these articles accept the unambiguous data that confirms global heating caused by human carbon effluents. The impostors perpetrate crimes against humanity and all of nature by denying these facts.
Sun vs. carbon
Recently, another "dissenter" has claimed that global heating is caused by changes in solar radiance. This claim defies the actual data, which remains clear as a bell. Heating and cooling result from what energy scientists call "forcings," direct heat, dissipation of heat, insulation that retains heat, and so forth.
Annually, NASA's Dr. James Hanson and others publish updates on the well-documented forcings that impact global temperature. The latest summary of these forcings is contained in a paper by Dr. Andrew Glikson at Australian National University: "No Alternative to atmospheric CO2 draw-down: A geological perspective."
Heat, or energy transference, is typically measured in watts, about ¼ of a calorie of energy transferred in one second. Global heating forcings are measured in watts per square-meter (Watt/m2) of Earth's surface. Glikson's paper documents the actual forcings – both cooling and heating – that have impacted Earth's temperature over recent centuries. Here is the summary:
Change in Radiative forcings, 1800 to Present:
1. Heating:
Solar irradiance: Compared to pre-industrial solar energy, the sun's energy output has fluctuated between zero and + 0.3 Watt/m2 over the last two centuries, yielding a slight heating effect that could account for about 5% (or less) of the observed temperature increase.
Human Greenhouse gases: The heat forcing from human carbon and other gases has risen from approximately zero in 1800 to + 3.1 Watt/m2 today, rising annually, and which accounts for about 95% (or more) of Earth's temperature increase over the last two hundred years.
2. Cooling:
Volcanoes have had an intermittent cooling effect, by releasing aerosols, particles of ash and sulfur-dioxide that scatter and absorb sunlight. The cooling impact – most recently from the El Chicon and Pinatubo eruptions in 1982 and 1991 – is localized, intermittent, and short lived. On average, volcanoes have had a slight cooling effect.
Human aerosols rise from burning tropical forests, coal and oil, and now exceed the impact of volcanic aerosols. The effect has reached about -1.6 Watt/m2, a cooling, which has mitigated the impact of heating from human greenhouse gases.
Determining the Net Forcing is a simple matter of adding and subtracting. The effects of volcanoes, solar fluctuations, and human land use changes, net out to virtually zero. Human greenhouse gases and human aerosols are the only energy forcings that have serious temperature impact, and the math is simple enough for grade-school children:
+ 3.1 Watt/m2 heating from human greenhouse gases
– 1.6 Watt/m2 cooling from human aerosols
+ 1.5 Watt/m2 net heating.
So how much heat is this? Consider a typical 1500-watt space heater that can be used to heat a room. Earth's surface area is 510 trillion square-meters. Multiply this by 1.5, and we see the net heat forcing is about 765 trillion watts. This is the equivalent of placing 500 billion such electric space heaters across Earth's surface, land and sea, 30 meters apart, running 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.
This is the global net forcing that has resulted from human industrial activity, from the build-up of CO2 in the atmosphere. The net impact of fluctuating solar radiance remains trivial regarding the temperature increase from these gases since 1800.
No confusion. No controversy. No hidden data. And none of this is particularly complex science. Svente Arrhenius roughly predicted these results over a century ago. James Lovelock estimated similar results in the 1960s. The denialists huff and puff like 16th century church patriarchs, who refused to accept that Earth orbited the Sun.
Unfortunately, our dilemma is even more complex. The heating creates feedback mechanisms that cause more heating. Since 1800, atmospheric CO2 concentration has risen from approximately 280ppm (parts per million) to approximately 400ppm, but since the extra heat is melting the permafrost and releasing methane (CH4), and since methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas, climate scientists must calculate the "carbon-dioxide-equivalent" (CO2-e) that includes the methane impact.
In fact, scientists must consider all the amplifying feedbacks caused by warming, including at least:
1. Methane release from melting permafrost
2. Albedo loss, changes in Earth's reflective properties from ice melt
3. Vegetation loss from droughts and deforestation
4. Fires, increasing due to heating, and
5. Warmer water that sequesters less CO2
Using the more appropriate CO2-e figure, since 1800, atmospheric CO2–e concentration has risen from 280ppm to 470ppm, a 68% increase in the heat-trapping capacity of these gases in Earth's atmosphere. The build-up of these gases, however, has not been linear, but rather exponential. This means that not only are the gases accumulating, but the rate of accumulation is increasing. We're not just speeding down the highway toward a cliff, we are accelerating, as we see by looking at the annual greenhouse gas increases over the last millennium:
1000 -1750: 279 to 275 ppm (– 4 ppm) . . . . . . . . . . ~ 0.0 ppm / year
1750-1850: 275 to 285.5 ppm (+10.5 ppm) . . . . . . + 0.1 ppm / year
1850-1950: 285.5 to 313 ppm (+ 27.5 ppm) . . . . . . + 0.3 ppm / year
1950-2012: 313 to 470 ppm (CO2-e, +157 ppm) . . + 2.5 ppm / year
Thus, we see, that most of the change has occurred since 1950, and since these changes have unleashed feedback mechanisms, the increase in greenhouse effect will likely continue even if we reduce fossil fuel use. According to the 2012 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) projections – without urgent, worldwide policy changes – the greenhouse gas accumulation rate will more than triple to + 8 ppm / year by 2100.
These data have led climate scientists to re-examine the temperature increases expected over this century. Past projections have been conservative and have tended to be linear, but since the gas build-up is non-linear, exponential; and since observed temperature increases, ice melts, methane releases, and so forth also appear exponential; projected temperature rise has been adjusted upwards in recent studies.
Runaway global heating
A comprehensive study of future temperature increase, the MIT Integrated Global Systems Model (A.P. Sokolov, P.H. Stone, et. al., American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate, 2009) doubled the earlier 2003 estimates.
The MIT group ran 400 variations of the model, changing certain input parameters, including variations in physical conditions, human activity, economic policy, and so forth. The projections indicate a median probability by 2100 of CO2 concentration reaching 550 ppm and a median probability of Earth heating by 5.2 degrees Celsius (°C), with a 90% probability range of 3.5 to 7.4 °C, compared to the 2003 estimates of 2.4°C.
The lower bound, or minimum projected heating, is now + 2.4°C by 2100, with a "very small probability" it will be this low, and only with drastic, immediate, global policy changes that reduce our reliance on oil and gas.
So there you have it: The United Nations goal of restricting Earth's heat increase to + 2°C by 2100, has already failed. A century of science and two decades of "climate meetings" have failed. The world's governments and corporations have failed. As we exceed the + 2°C threshold, we risk runaway heating as the feedback mechanisms kick in. As we approach the median probability of Earth heating by +5.2 °C, we almost certainly activate runaway heating.
To global heating, we can add the greatest species collapse in 65 million years. Earth has undergone changes of this magnitude before, and will endure, but human culture has not. Throughout the Holocene, the last 12 millennia, humanity developed agriculture, urban life, and industrial technology in a relatively stable climate. In the last 200 years, we have destabilized Earth's climate; flooded our lands, air and water with toxins; turned the oceans acidic; and obliterated millions of species. Our progeny now face an uncertain and troubling future.
As an ecologist in the 1970s, I believed that humanity would respond to the ecological imperative as it responded to the social imperative; that we would develop an ecological society just as we developed ideas of democracy, civil rights, and women's rights. Perhaps our natural optimism bias and good intentions led us to believe circumstances would improve, but the data shows us something quite the opposite. It now appears that our optimism was misplaced. The ecology movement may have one last chance, but the stakes are now much higher, and our actions – to succeed – will have to be similarly more rigorous.
Rex Weyler was a director of the original Greenpeace Foundation, the editor of the organisation's first newsletter, and a co-founder of Greenpeace International in 1979.
Deep Green is Rex's column, reflecting on the roots of activism, environmentalism, and Greenpeace's past, present, and future. The opinions here are his own.
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Well this one from the master himself sure knocked my socks off, ...staggering and sobering information. Always an amazing read from Rex, ...this one...
Well this one from the master himself sure knocked my socks off, ...staggering and sobering information. Always an amazing read from Rex, ...this one needs to be seen and read by every person, corporation, and government. Bravo to all your hard work and research, and to all those who support you. This article is of such great value it must be shared. Bless you Rex, ...James Hanson, those at MIT, and your great warriors at Greenpeace
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talking about watts...thank you Rex
No matter if African or European...we are all the same.
The basic idea of the 2000 Watt ...
talking about watts...thank you Rex
No matter if African or European...we are all the same.
The basic idea of the 2000 Watt society assumes each single one of us has the same amount of energy available: 17 500 kilowatt-hours which makes 2000watt on a permanent basis.
All this is not about energy-saving lightbulbs.
It is a question of MOBILITY.
For those of you who believe having to work in Amsterdam and having to see your South African Asian daughter at least twice a year...feel free to use the ECo2 calculator to realize what this means to your energy-footprint.
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Well, I see no arguments with the concepts of your post, Rex. Perhaps due then are somethings positive that we might do:
Recent research...
Well, I see no arguments with the concepts of your post, Rex. Perhaps due then are somethings positive that we might do:
Recent research has brought data that indicates organic [ biological ] agriculture, practiced worldwide, could sequester nearly 40% of current CO2 emissions.
Biological Farmers of Australia Media Release, 4 December 2009
add that small scale, hands on agriculture consistently produces 2 to 10 times as much per acre, so with these methods about 2 to 10 times less soil would need to be farmed.
"Large farmers tend to plant monocultures because they are the simplest to manage with heavy machinery. Small farmers on the other hand, especially in the Third World, are much more likely to plant crop mixtures -- intercropping -- where the empty niche space that would otherwise produce weeds instead is occupied by other crops. They also tend to combine or rotate crops and livestock, with manure serving to replenish soil fertility.
Such integrated farming systems produce far more per unit area than do monocultures. Though the yield per unit area of one crop —corn, for example —may be lower on a small farm than on a large monoculture, the total output per unit area, often composed of more than a dozen crops and various animal products, can be far, far higher. Therefore, if we are to compare small and large farms we should use total output, rather than yield. Total output is the sum of everything a small farmer produces: various grains, fruits, vegetables, fodder, animal products, etc. While yield almost always biases the results toward larger farms, total output allows us to see the true productivity advantage of small farms.
More local, small scale farms can also mean less transportation of both harvests and workers, so less CO2 emissions from transportation.
Add these three together and I would agree that "The ecology movement may have one last chance, but the stakes are now much higher, and our actions – to succeed – will have to be similarly more rigorous." The potential greenhouse gas reduction of this kind of reformed agriculture is significant, but we have to stop quibbling about details if it stops us from doing.
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Great article - thanks.
I wasn't aware that the term climate change came from the petroleum industry. I've always been under the...
Great article - thanks.
I wasn't aware that the term climate change came from the petroleum industry. I've always been under the impression that because the impacts of global heating are varied, and do not always result in local temperature increase (and can instead result in increased extreme weather events, changes in weather patterns, etc.), that the term 'climate change' is used to acknowledge a range of potential impacts beyond local warming.
Anyways, just a thought. Really enjoyed the post - keep up the good work.
7 January, 2013 at 17:19
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I agree with Kate that I believed the term Climate change was just the correct term since the impact varies around the world. Also since the term Glob...
I agree with Kate that I believed the term Climate change was just the correct term since the impact varies around the world. Also since the term Global warming was being made fun of every time an area had cooler temps. I hear it a lot if the area has more snow or more cold weather that it proves global warming is not real.
What we call it can make a difference in some people who just don't know all the facts.
7 January, 2013 at 18:41
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Climate Change vs. Global Heating
Kate and Siobhra make a good point about the varied effects of CO2 around the world. Nevertheless, the ...
Climate Change vs. Global Heating
Kate and Siobhra make a good point about the varied effects of CO2 around the world. Nevertheless, the term "climate change" was introduced by U.S. public relations mercenary, Frank Luntz, hired by the oil industry to help soften the blow of global heating.
Luntz had previously invented similar slogans for pharmaceutical companies, fast food chains, and the U.S. Republican Party. Luntz advised the fossil fuel industry that the term "global warming … connotes catastrophic consequences," and he taught spokespersons to say "climate change," which presented "less of an emotional challenge." He tutored them to call oil drilling "energy exploration," to exploit common scientific dialogue as "uncertainty," and to "portray the scientific community as divided."
Luntz's "climate change" was then repeated by climate denialists S. Fred Singer, Frederick Seitz, and industry front groups Heartland Institute and Competitive Enterprise Institute. Singer had previously worked in tobacco industry campaigns to help conceal the health effects of cigarettes.
It is true that as the atmosphere and oceans heat up, atmospheric conditions may result in some regions experiencing a cooling effect. And we still have winters, and some winters are colder than others. However, the fact remains that CO2 in the atmosphere is heating the Earth, land, sea, and air, and turning the ecosystems acidic.
It may be appropriate in certain situations to discuss varied "climate changes" from CO2 and global heating, but it may also be helpful to expect to be mocked for speaking the truth. If the denialists trot out some particularly cold winter or some region that experienced a brief cooling, that provides a perfect opportunity to explain in depth how CO2, methane, and the other climate feedbacks work. I would still encourage us to use the scientifically accurate "global heating" and when using "climate change" to explain what is causing this and that the net effect is heating and acid in the environment.
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And listenin's remarks (above) regarding local scale organic agriculture are important. These are sorts of changes we can make in our global cultu...
And listenin's remarks (above) regarding local scale organic agriculture are important. These are sorts of changes we can make in our global culture to reduce oil consumption. rw.
8 January, 2013 at 22:22
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Or as Bob Hunter warned us years ago using an even stronger term, confronting Thermageddon better become a lot more successful pretty quickly.
9 January, 2013 at 0:52
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Appreciate your sharing, Rex.
I've felt frustrated by our attempts to convince governments, corporations and communities to change our lifes...
Appreciate your sharing, Rex.
I've felt frustrated by our attempts to convince governments, corporations and communities to change our lifestyles through petitioning, threatening, begging and challenging and I believe that there's another approach that's well within reach of the average citizen.
When we grow our food without chemicals and close to where we live, we're reducing the carbon inputs and emissions associated with our food supply by about 70%. At the heart of everything we do is the need to feed ourselves, and so changes in the food system are immensely important and I'd say pivotal. I've written to Bill McKibben, Naomi Klein, Amy Goodman and others urging them to encourage their constituencies to follow them in growing a small victory-style garden. Gardening leads to community, to saving money, reducing our carbon footprint, a reduction in feelings of alienation and it puts healthy food into the hands of everyone irrespective of how much money they earn. It creates employment and subverts the destructive civilisation that's causing the planet to combust.
This is my response to the problems that you've described and I'm curious to hear what readers think and feel.
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Good job well done!
Thank you, Rex, for this wonderful and important essay. It lays out the case more clearly than any previous attempt ...
Good job well done!
Thank you, Rex, for this wonderful and important essay. It lays out the case more clearly than any previous attempt with which I am familiar.
Especially noteworthy is the discussion of methane, an aspect of the climate crisis that is too frequently overlooked. Thank you for presenting that info so well.
As awareness of the problem spreads and increases in sophistication, perhaps a greater number of people will find a reason to do more, bigger, and faster than has been done to date.
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For those who hoped Harper's debut might be an excuse for the team to finally let Teddy win, the fourth-inning festivities were yet another cause for disappointment.
The presidents ran left for the third time this season, moving the finish line to the third base side. Teddy had an early lead, but may have been slowed by his bulging belly, which seemed to drop lower and lower as the race progressed.
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Landis Gores House
The Landis Gores house, built in 1948 in New Canaan, Connecticut, is a large single-story, flat-roofed house that possesses stylistic attributes of both the International style and the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. The 4,000 square foot house is 130 feet in length, excluding the added garage, and is divided into three main sections. This tripartite sectioning of the house breaks up the flat roofline by creating varied horizontal levels and receding or advancing walls. The house is surrounded by low masonry walls that open up in the rear to a seating area and pool.
At the south end of the house is a bedroom wing with only a single row of clerestory openings on the west elevation, lighting a corridor inside. The bedrooms have floor-to-ceiling windows on the rear (east) elevation facing a cascade of stone terraces and pool. In the bedrooms the ceiling height is nine feet. As with the windows, the doors on the corridor side of the room also rise to the full ceiling height. In the bedrooms and the dining area, deep projections in the glass wall accommodate narrow doors at their corners.
The center of the house contains the living/dining and foyer areas. The foyer, linking the bedrooms and the main living area, is composed of a cantilevered roof with large skylights and an entry of three wide glass doors, resulting in a pergola effect. The floor of the foyer continues the bluestone pavement that surrounds the house, and a small fieldstone goldfish pool sits—a low extension of the massive central fireplace structure—in the middle. The living/dining area forms one large room, 32' x 37', and is divided into distinct activity areas through the use of furniture, cabinets, and shelving, much of it built in. The living area has 11-foot ceilings and floor-to-ceiling glass on both elevations. This room opens to the dining room and then kitchen on the north, and a small library alcove on the south. A massive 13' wide fieldstone fireplace also occupies the southern portion of the room. Off of the kitchen, a playroom extends out toward the terraces and pool and another room and garage (later additions) comprise the northern third of the structure.
The Gores house is a single-story frame house with a concrete foundation and a flat asphalt roof. Where the house's walls are not made of glass or stone, they are covered in a grey-stained vertical siding of narrow tongue-in groove cypress boards or are of plaster finishing. Cypress paneling is also used on the main interiors spaces, along with plaster painted white. A very significant Gores detail are the ¾" recessed margins created with Cypress strips that are used to separate plaster wall sections and at the wall to ceiling junture. The floors are constructed of oak and contain a radiant heating system. The central part of the house, in the kitchen/living/foyer area, is surrounded by bluestone flagging pavement (see floor plan, Figure 0.01).
In its immediate surrounding, the house sits on a platform defined by mortared fieldstone walls that are low in the front but higher in the rear where the site slopes downward toward a wooded ravine. The house has its long axis oriented north-south and is parallel to the ridge along which Cross Ridge Road runs. It occupies a large wooded lot in a residential neighborhood of similar lots with widely spaced homes. In a broader context, the Gores House is an exemplary example of the array of Modern architecture exhibited throughout the town of New Canaan.
The house was constructed by expertly trained master craftsmen who were adept at adapting their skills to the specific finish details of the Modern design. The integration of plate glass in panes very large for the time period was probably the most challenging technical aspect of the construction.
Although Gores' architectural education was at the Harvard Graduate School of Design where many the faculty were Bauhaus émigrés and most of his close colleagues were steeped in a more orthodox Modern movement ideology, the legacy of the Gores house on Cross Ridge Road is most notably determined by its general popularity and the ideas it infused into home design in the US. The house is an example of principles European Modernism transplanted to the American suburbs, but it tempers more orthodox principles with traditional American materials and organic forms like those favored by Frank Lloyd Wright. Like Wright's work, the house emphasizes the permanence of a home rather than the industrial, "machine for living" philosophy advocated by the European Modernists. Although considered avant-garde when it was built, the house was more palatable to the general public than the text book "glass boxes" and was highly influential in the development of suburban ranch-style and contemporary homes both in the custom-built and prefabricated markets.
The house is an essay on both the principles of Modernism and 'Wrightian' architecture, and as such also represents a philosophical divide between Gores and his "Harvard Five" colleagues. The choice of materials reflects a blending of aesthetics, incorporating both the liberal use of large plate glass, a result of Modernist influences, and the use of Wrightian natural materials, particularly fieldstone and wood. The house maintains a Modern open plan, but forms a Wrightian connection to its site, running parallel to a dramatic ridge overlooking a ravine and blurring the boundary between indoors and out. Nowhere is the mix of aesthetics more evident than in the entrance foyer where a cantilevered roof, skylights, stone, and glass take their stylistic cues from two separate aesthetics and establish a sense of the outdoors inside.
During the mid-20th century, New Canaan was a laboratory for Modern movement architecture and design. The arrival of the "Harvard Five" (Landis Gores, Phillip Johnson, Marcel Breuer, Eliot Noyes, and John Johansen) to the then-rural area and subsequent design of their own homes in the town was the beginning of New Canaan's role as a showcase of Modern Movement architecture. The Gores House, as one of the first Modern houses in the area, was a central work in this showcase, and was one of the original six houses on the first Modern house tour, organized by the "Harvard Five" in May 1949. This tour and the tours that followed brought the idea of a Modern house to the general public and along with coverage in the US shelter magazines helped trigger the mid-century trend that deviated from the traditional styles of home design across the country.
The Gores House is one of only a few Modern Movement houses on the National Register of Historic Places. It epitomizes the transfer of architectural ideas from the more narrowly defined, European-derived Modern movement to the practical needs and ideals of the American family home at one of the most optimistic moments in US history. This was the intent of Landis Gores in his own words, saw an opportunity, "An opportunity for harmonious combination of traditional life pattern with a fresh and novel enclosing mechanism; a house, a happy house…full of light and flexibility as well as grace and even dignity."