You Can Not Save Yourself From Tomorrow, For Tomorrow Arrived Yesterday

All of these pictures are real and all of these pictures are a metaphor and all of these pictures are a prediction and forecast for all of our lives.  It isn't dooms day, unless you are where it is.

For example here is an out of control fire on the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado.  The fire is a direct result of Global Warming and Climate Change, yet nobody reporting the fire has balls enough to say that.  Indeed in most of America they don't even know the fire is burning. Lady and Gents, ain't no reason why this can't be Denver itself.

 
This one happens to be in Brazil but it is a perfect display of rising salt water into a city.  On 12 inches of salt water and the whole infrastructure is completely gone.  Now imagine a 20 foot rise in the Great Salt Lake from increased rain.  No?  Well maybe not.

This fire is at Ruidoso NM this month.  Home, Ranches, roads, trees,...
Here's the rub, It won't be coming back.  Seriously, those trees can not grow there any more.

Now this little island is from last summer.  I'll just build my own dike and save my home (this time).  Did you know that his precious black bottom land is now under several feet of sand?

 Here we go from Southern California this month.  Parking lot along the Pacific Coast Highway.  Right up the hill behind these cars are homes and homes and homes.....  California has finally come to the realization that the change is so great they can not save all of the stuff along the coast.  They are going to let the sea have it all.  Hell, as though they could beat the pacific Ocean anyway.

Another little hopeful island, I'm safe for now.

Colorado Fire again.  Them pines are dead or dying.  Perfect fuel for a catastrophe. Pine beetles size of a rice grain caused this.  Or, rather the warm winter let the pine beetle cause this.  Do you know these idiots plan to rebuild and re-plant this area?  Pipe dreams.

Water water everywhere, but not on mine.

Whoops that view is flooding in on me.

My levee is leaking some.  If the electricity doesn't go out the pumps can hold it back.

Ah shit the electricity went off.

That saltwater city again.

We can build our levees against water and even fire.  But they can't save us the next time or the next or the next because everything that is will not be no more.  It will be something else.  What/when/how is all guess work.  The systems involved are to large and too many to model a reliable predictive schedule.  But here they are and we have or shortly will begin to have to deal with them.  I was a State Geographer For Research for the State of Oklahoma for four and a half years once upon a time (under a Democrat Governor).  I talked about all this back then 20 years ago or so.  But then we were thinking maybe 2060 or 2150 for the first true effect.  Wrong!  Boy were we wrong.  No body paid me any no-never-mind back then and sure as shit they wouldn't now. (The current State Geographer has a smaller audience than even I had.)

But ladies and gentlemen, (all three or four of you) readers of my blog, no matter where you are in America don't make any long term plans base on anything climate will change, and that kidoes is everything.

Senator Inhofe Uses Family to Mock Climate Change

Inhofe family builds "igloo" in Washington to mock Al Gore climate change concerns.
Then the Senator post pictures on his facebook page.
At least this got more coverage than his "speeches" in Copenhagen.

He of course knows nothing about why the all-time record snow occurred. Pacific current warming?, ENSO?, El Nino? What's that?

Makes me so proud to be an Oklahoman.

" NO CLIMATE CHANGE IN OUR TIME! " : Duh and Double Duh!

Climate Change Seen as Threat to U.S. Security

"The National Intelligence Council, which produces government-wide intelligence analyses, finished the first assessment of the national security implications of climate change just last year.

It concluded that climate change by itself would have significant geopolitical impacts around the world and would contribute to a host of problems, including poverty, environmental degradation and the weakening of national governments.

The assessment warned that the storms, droughts and food shortages that might result from a warming planet in coming decades would create numerous relief emergencies."

SOURCE

"In coming decades...." Dumb shits, it is here now and has been for years.

It is 1972 and the scene is a Pizza Hut in Southern California adjacent to a State University six geographers, three of whom are Nam vets, are eating pizza and drinking 7 Up-wine coolers by the pitcher every Friday afternoon. Climate change, global warming, snow blitz, population shifts, dust-bowls, and California's stupidity of a half ass-ed water plan and anti-gravity building codes where fire and water have to be was the weekly seminar. Were we prescient? super smart? wise? Hell no, we were educated and used to hard calls in an insane political climate.

Thing was, we were looking 50 years down the line and nobody gave a damn. What we wanted were good paying jobs, a comfortable life with lots of love and affection, and not to go back to war-ever. Well 50 years wasn't long enough. What we thought we saw in 50 years started up a decade ago and is still going on at increasing speed.

"The changing global climate will pose profound strategic challenges to the United States in coming decades, raising the prospect of military intervention to deal with the effects of violent storms, drought, mass migration and pandemics, military and intelligence analysts say. The conflict in southern Sudan, which has killed and displaced tens of thousands of people, is partly a result of drought in Darfur. "

"Such climate-induced crises could topple governments, feed terrorist movements or destabilize entire regions, say the analysts, experts at the Pentagon and intelligence agencies who for the first time are taking a serious look at the national security implications of climate change."

OK, let's go back to that wine induced wisdom from Pizza Hut 34 years ago and ask just one strategic question generated there. Just one question: Say Senator Inhofe of Oklahoma, what you going to do when a super failure of the Antarctic land-bound-ice-sheet floods every Naval facility America has with between 2o to 30 feet of water in a month or less time? Forget New York, L.A. etc. just tell us about the Naval bases? What no plan? Ain't going to happen you say? Did I hear you say, "No climate change in our time!"