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Why did Leo change his shirt? To get to the other Side

To complicate matters A forthcoming UN regulation will slash shipping industry pollution but may also speed up climate change. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610007/were-about-to-kill-a-massive-accidental-experiment-in-halting-global-warming/ MIT Technology Review We’re about to kill a massive, accidental experiment in reducing global warming A forthcoming UN regulation will slash shipping industry pollution but may also speed up climate change. by James Temple Jan 22, 2018 Studies have found that ships have a net cooling effect on the planet, despite belching out nearly a billion tons of carbon dioxide each year. That’s almost entirely because they also emit sulfur, which can scatter sunlight in the atmosphere and form or thicken clouds that reflect it away. In effect, the shipping industry has been carrying out an unintentional experiment in climate engineering for more than a century. Global mean temperatures could be as much as 0.25 ˚C lower than they would otherwise have been, based on the mean “forcing effect” calculated by a 2009 study that pulled together other findings (see “The Growing Case for Geoengineering”). For a world struggling to keep temperatures from rising more than 2 ˚C, that’s a big helping hand. And we’re about to take it away. In 2016, the UN’s International Maritime Organization announced that by 2020, international shipping vessels will have to significantly cut sulfur pollution. Specifically, ship owners must switch to fuels with no more than 0.5 percent sulfur content, down from the current 3.5 percent, or install exhaust cleaning systems that achieve the same reduction, Shell noted in a brochure for customers. There are very good reasons to cut sulfur: it contributes to both ozone depletion and acid rain, and it can cause or exacerbate respiratory problems. But as a 2009 paper in Environmental Science & Technology noted, limiting sulfur emissions is a double-edged sword. “Given these reductions, shipping will, relative to present-day impacts, impart a ‘double warming’ effect: one from [carbon dioxide], and one from the reduction of [sulfur dioxide],” wrote the authors. “Therefore, after some decades the net climate effect of shipping will shift from cooling to warming.” Sulfur pollution from coal burning has a similar effect. Some studies suggest that China’s surge in coal consumption over the last decade partly offset the recent global warming trend (though coal does have a strong net warming effect). It’s difficult to estimate how much the new rule could affect temperatures. We don’t know enough about cloud physics and the behavior of atmospheric particles, nor how diligently the shipping industry will comply with the new rule, says Robert Wood, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington. Another wrinkle is that ships emit other particles that can sometimes also stimulate cloud droplets to form, including black carbon, a major component of soot. Removing the sulfur from the fuel could alter the size and quantity of these particles, which could affect clouds as well, says Lynn Russell, a professor of atmospheric science at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “So we can’t really say exactly what the change will be,” says Russell, though she adds that the rule change is “likely” to produce a warming effect on balance. The upcoming change does offer a different way of thinking about intentional efforts to cool the climate, known as geoengineering, according to some proponents of research in this area. Rather than some radical experiment, deliberate geoengineering could instead be seen as a way of continuing to do what we’ve been doing inadvertently with ships, but in a safer way. Sulfur emissions cool the planet in two ways, directly and indirectly. The direct way is that when sulfur dioxide is further oxidized in the atmosphere, it can form particles that reflect sunlight back into space. This happens in large volcanic eruptions, which can release tens of millions of tons of sulfur dioxide. The indirect way is that sulfur particles can also act as nuclei around which cloud droplets form. Clouds, too, reflect more sunlight. You can see this in satellite images, which show lines of white clouds above the ocean along busy shipping lanes. Geoengineering researchers have explored both processes, but with less toxic particles, as potential ways to alter the climate (see “Scientists Consider Brighter Clouds to Preserve the Great Barrier Reef”). For instance, researchers with the Marine Cloud Brightening Project, centered at the University of Washington, have spent years studying the possibility of spraying tiny salt particles into the sky along coastlines to induce cloud droplets to form. The group has spent the last few years attempting to raise several million dollars to build the sort of sprayers that would be needed, in the hopes of carrying out small-scale field experiments somewhere along the Pacific coastline. Both Russell and Wood said the upcoming rule change could also offer a chance to conduct some basic climate science by observing the interactions between airborne particles and clouds. Those insights could make climate simulations more accurate—how clouds behave is one of the least understood parts of the system, Wood says—as well as informing the debate about whether and how to carry out geoengineering. But that all depends on whether scientists can get funding for such research, which will require more frequent satellite observations and surface sensors. Ideally, the research should start before the new rule goes into effect to ensure an accurate picture of how things change. “We’re approaching dangerous thresholds of temperature increases, so an additional bump of 0.1 or 0.2 degrees is something that we as a civilization should be watching really, really closely,” says Kelly Wanser, principal director with the Marine Cloud Brightening Project. Whether the money will be available is less clear. Certain nations have been increasing funding levels for climate research. But it’s become far more difficult to secure such grants in the United States under the Trump administration, which specifically sought to cut NASA programs that monitor clouds and airborne particles.

Look, he was looking a little too Anton Levey-ish in the black White garb is more guru/gura-ish it balances out the bald/goatee thing, less predictable

Mayor de Blasio disses Mike Bloomberg’s presidential ambitions By Shant Shahrigian New York Daily News | Nov 11, 2019 Mayor de Blasio said Monday there’s “no way” his predecessor Mike Bloomberg should be the Democratic presidential nominee. “This is a Democratic Party today that’s getting more progressive, that wants to address the concerns of working people, that does not accept the status quo," de Blasio told reporters alongside the Veterans Day Parade in Midtown. “There’s no way in the world we should nominate a billionaire who epitomizes the status quo.” Hizzoner praised Bloomberg, who began taking serious steps to enter the race last week, for Bloomberg’s action on issues like climate change and gun control. But de Blasio, who put an end to his humiliating presidential run in September, slammed Bloomberg for allegedly falling short of areas de Blasio himself has prioritized. “I think when he was mayor he had no understanding of the inequality crisis,” de Blasio said. “I think he was absolutely tone deaf to what working people were going through in this city and there’s a number of other areas where he had a chance to do something and he just did not make it a priority.” Still, de Blasio said a Bloomberg vs. President Trump contest would be a no-brainer. “Would he be better than Donald trump? Of course,” de Blasio said. “Should he be the democratic nominee? No.”

The easiest home meal is pasta. If you boil the pasta for 10 minutes when it's done you can put on cold tomato sauce right from the refrigerator on top of it and mix it in. The pasta so hot anyway after it's strained that mixing in the sauce heats it up and cools off the sauce perfectly. Alternatively for protein, cook the sauce in a separate pot and put in a handful of frozen peas or some other protein n small pieces and cook while the pasta is cooking. The whole thing takes about 15 minutes. Needs black pepper and optionally grated cheese or fine chopped basil leaves

To what extent are people doing that due to feeling it in combination of acting like that because screaming. Insane movements are the norm in those sessions? Also when it gets to that point where people are doing that how much of the technique have they done to get to that point what is the duration. There are sets of the power breathing how many breathes in each set and how many sets and how long in between? You said WHM (power breaths especially) is easy to integrate in daily life. Holotropic breathwork not so much. Is Holotropic breathwork not so much only because of the group situation is not as convenient?

any examples?

could the change of shirt have triggered the awakening instead of the reverse?

yes but he didn't have a nuclear war button

For decades, sewage sludge has been dumped into the ocean as a means of recycling the water used and so that people did not have to find a way to store it safely. Sewage sludge is defined as “a mixture of water, inorganic, and organic solids removed from municipal wastewater by physical, biological, and/or chemical treatment and it and liquid effluent are the two products resulting from municipal wastewater treatment”. The Ocean Dumping Ban, signed into law in 1988, prohibited ocean dumping after December 31, 1991. Dumping is currently banned in the United States, Sweden, Switzerland, and many other countries

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This video is enlightening the general public as to how polluting large ships are. Most people are completely unaware of it so massive kudos to this video and a full container of salt. The other points are secondary and you have said nothing explaining why you think some other points are shallow

That could be taken into account and the result would be the people staying at home using their cars and every other polluting thing they are doing at home is much less than what these cruise ships, in constant motion are doing. Instead of a future of stability that is conducive to things like mediation and contemplation we are facing a future in which millions of people will be thrust into survival mode Personally I think these ships should be banned. The world is now entering possibly irreversible environmental crisis that could result in mass starvation. If you have any children they may die before their time. Ecosystems and the atmosphere are delicate integrated systems that have evolved over millions of years. We don't know enough about them to manage and predict how our massive alterations to the environment will effect not just warming but a number of other environmental threats as well. Ships, especially those out in international waters, commonly burn bunker fuel — the dirtiest form of fuel. The emissions billowing out of their smoke stacks include high levels of nitrogen and sulphur oxides (NOx and SOx), which are linked to asthma, lung cancer and heart disease. "With current limitations on technology, it seems that electrification will be limited to small craft undertaking short, ferry-type voyages," ---Peter Hinchliffe, secretary general, International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), Here is a shipping industry article written by a ship captain discussing the details on fuel options to attempt to meet IMO standards in 2020 (IMO) the International Maritime Organization – is the United Nations specialized agency with responsibility for the safety and security of shipping and the prevention of marine and atmospheric pollution by ships. https://www.myseatime.com/blog/detail/imo-2020-sox-sulphur-limits IMO 2020 Sulphur limits: All you need to know Written by Capt Rajeev Jassal on December 9, 2018

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/putin-calls-worldwide-moral-rules-20853674 Putin calls for worldwide 'moral rules' to control AI-powered killer robots Russian President says we shouldn't be developing technology "for the sake of technology" _________________________________________________ sounds like some world standard might be needed to try to keep A.I. in check inc case it decided to kill people

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This topic is not about the philosophical concept of morality it is about rules. .They are talking about creating a worldwide standard that would attempt to program A.I. with program limitations, rules that would try to prevent it from being destructive to living things

That is not the theory, The theory is that the subconscious mind is primitive and is what is driving strong urges so if the conscious mind gives a commend over and over again the subconscious will eventually conform due to the repetition - it becomes automatic like muscle memory

Eating right is complicated. See if you can do twos days out of the week all plant based

@Surfingthe wave a nice one

@Mada first line is 4 I realized mine was as well and changed it

I don't know if this is part of your book or the book's theme itself. It's sounds like a provocative title for a book Objections to Spirituality or Objections to Spirituality?

Did you dedicate a week or mor and repeat the same affirmation over and over for 5 minutes minimum each day?

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