Forum / Hendecasyllabic strophe + news you might likely not have heard or seen
-
strannikovJan 31, 07:56pmThe Darwinian Conceit misled us all:
evolution’s no “theory of survival”—
evolution’s our theory of extinction.
We’ve not survived to become intelligent—
our proto-intelligence persists, somewhat.
We have never become “rational creatures”—
we have mistaken “capacity” for “trait”:
we are capable of reason, that alone,
while we underestimate our known talents
and habituations for stupidity
and for endlessly repeating our follies.If doubts persist, examine NASA models of elevation and topography (derived from databases using NASA radar topography), groundwater recharge (NASA's GLDAS, which analyzes mean Variable Infiltration Capacity), seawater density (annual mean outputs), and consequent sea level rise projections (assembled by NASA's Sea Level Change team [Hamlington, et al., 2024]) using satellite altimetry data.
The resulting models suggest that, by 2100 (2100, not 2200), approximately 77% of coastal watersheds globally will have experienced significant saltwater intrusions and encroachments. --which suggests that global rice production literally will have begun to sink within the next seventy-five years.
--and not only does it begin to appear that rice cultivation and production will begin to collapse by the end of our present century: because organic chemistry is organic chemistry, rice that does manage to grow and be harvested across interim decades will begin steadily to acquire more and more arsenic content as arsenic natural to soils in major river deltas where rice is grown is displaced from soil by saltwater intrusions and encroachments and goes straight up into rice stalks (arsenic absorption in rice-growing regions is already occurring).
Public intellectuals and unelected media discourse managers deserve much more credit for concealing these data and what they clearly suggest than we (collectively) have had the wit to accord them.
-
strannikovJan 31, 09:20pm
Link to Hamlington, et al., Oct. 2024:
-
strannikovFeb 01, 10:31pm
The JPL team led by Kyra Banks published its report "Climate-Induced Saltwater Intrusion by 2100" in November 2024:
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-dod-study-saltwater-to-widely-taint-coastal-groundwater-by-2100/
-
strannikovFeb 02, 12:42am
Apologies: Kyra Adams, JPL.
-
You must log in to reply to this thread.