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Meaningless...

In 2020 alone the Fed expanded the money 💰 supply by more than 20%.

In 2021 they expanded it by 40%.

In less than a decade they have created more money than all the years combined since the Fed was created.

Using money as a metric to imply severity is increasing is dishonest at the very least...

Try again...

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When you add energy to a system, chaos increases.

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7. Danger signs: a key Atlantic Ocean current system is near collapse
The climate over the past few thousand years has been unusually stable, helping bring about the rise of modern civilization. However, ice core studies reveal that the “normal” climate for Earth is one of frequent extreme jumps – like a light switch flicking on and off. So it is incorrect to think that global warming will lead to a slow and steady increase in temperature that humans can readily adapt to. Global warming could push the climate system past a threshold where a sudden, irreversible climate shift would occur.
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If the AMOC were to shut down, the Gulf Stream would no longer pump warm, tropical water to the North Atlantic. Average temperatures would cool in Europe and North America by three degrees Celsius (5°F) or more in just a few years – not enough to trigger a full-fledged ice age, but enough cooling to bring snows in June and killing frosts in July and August to New England and northern Europe, such as occurred in the famed 1816 “year without a summer”

AMOC is blocking the Beaufort Gyre.

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In the long term, loss of the ice shelf buttressing the Thwaites Glacier could lead to its rapid disintegration over a period of decades or centuries, resulting in the loss of the entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet, and an increase in global sea levels of about 10 feet.

Isn't Thwaites Glacier (at least the part in peril) 10/11ths underwater already? The part above water would have to be [tens of] thousands of feet high.

I don't think it's the Fed that's creating $95 for every $5 in fractional-banking reserve, like every bank, mortgage lender, payday lender, car title lender, etc., which issues consumer credit at interest.
When anyone walks out of a store with something or moves into a house they haven't actually paid for, they've just created inflation. Not the FED
The FED just prints fiat currency to cover demand created by Americans with loose credit.
If Christianity existed the the United States, there'd be no inflation.
Interest is 'usury'. Usury is an abomination punishable by eternal death.
' A lender nor a borrower be' Jesus of Nazareth.
Just sayin'.

I don't have that material with me. I believe that part of the grounding line IS submerged, which is part of the problem; as warm deep-water gyres melt the grounding line from below.
As the ice leaves, with no ice shelves left to buttress it in place, the crust will experience tectonic isostatic rebound, lifting the continent higher and higher as it loses the weight of the ice, in itself creating a positive feedback loop for sea level rise. Now-exposed, submerged ice will just float off the sunken bedrock.

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Originally Posted by redneck (Post 662400)

I concur.

Why not both?

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The FED just prints fiat currency to cover demand created by Americans with loose credit.

Similar to building freeways for the cars that will inevitably fill them up?

This is part of that last gasp of climate change in 2022 I had been talking about. And if the authoritarian enthusiasts are going back to the climate change dead horse then they know the plandemic also a dead horse.
If you are going to ride dead horses, my advice is chose your mount based on the smell.

This is no more off topic than the Federal Reserve:

www.manchester.ac.uk: Cosmic physics mimicked on table-top as graphene enables Schwinger effect

Achievement unlocked. Scientists can now create matter out of a vacuum. Between this and ecomodder.com: New Internal Combustion Engine Allegedly Produces Nearly Zero Harmful Emissions the future is so bright we will need mirror shades.

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Originally Posted by freebeard (Post 662416)

Why not both?

Similar to building freeways for the cars that will inevitably fill them up?

A) To Eisenhower, highways were a matter of national security.
B) National security is a matter of state.
C) No government can ignore matters of state.
D) Before WW-II, industry was already in the planning stage for a post-war economy.
E) As to credit for mindless consumer capitalism, that more an offering of an 'opiate' that everyone would take to, regardless of stripe.
F) Thomas Jefferson's 'frontier' had closed by 1900, and the government had to create a frontier of the mind to take its place. Hedonic adaptation took the place of physically moving away from society. Mad men were thus born. Design obsolescence. Want vs need. Credit vs thrift. 'Movin' on up!'

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Engineers from the University of Delaware developed a method for effectively capturing 99 percent of carbon dioxide from the air using an electrochemical system powered by hydrogen, a press statement reveals. Interesting Engineering reports:

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The new system, outlined in a new paper in the journal Nature Energy, was actually born out of a setback in another research project. The team behind the new technology was originally working on hydroxide exchange membrane (HEM) fuel cells, a more affordable and environmentally friendly alternative to traditional acid-based fuel cells. While working on that technology, the team was faced with a serious obstacle. HEM fuel cells, they found, are very sensitive to carbon dioxide in the air, making it hard for the batteries to function properly.
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Today, the team has a more compact system that is capable of filtering greater quantities of air. According to the researchers, their soda can-sized early prototype device is capable of filtering roughly 10 liters of air per minute and of removing about 98 percent of CO2... The team's prototype is designed to scrub CO2 out of a vehicle's exhaust, though it could also be used for a number of other applications, including aircraft, spacecraft, and submarines.

Satellite Images Show Biggest Methane Leaks Come From Russia and US (newscientist.com)
Posted by BeauHD on Friday February 04, 2022 @10:30PM from the super-emitting-events dept.

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About a tenth of the global oil and gas industry's methane emissions have been found to come from a group of "ultra-emitter" sites located mostly in Turkmenistan, Russia and the US. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that governments recently agreed to slash by 2030. While huge plumes of methane leaking from gas pipelines have been detected by satellites at individual sites, such as a gas well in Ohio and several pipelines in central Turkmenistan, little has been know about their extent globally.

Now, images captured by an instrument aboard a satellite have been run through an algorithm to automatically detect the biggest plumes of methane streaming from oil and gas facilities worldwide. These ultra-emitters were spotted pumping out more than 25 tons of methane an hour.

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Originally Posted by freebeard (Post 662827)

Two consecutive stories on SlashDot today:

New 'Game-Changing' Technology Removes 99% of CO2 From the Air (interestingengineering.com)
Posted by BeauHD on Saturday February 05, 2022 @02:00AM from the carbon-capture dept

Satellite Images Show Biggest Methane Leaks Come From Russia and US (newscientist.com)
Posted by BeauHD on Friday February 04, 2022 @10:30PM from the super-emitting-events dept.

And the hydrogen will be from methane ( natural gas ) and fracking, 21-times more potent a greenhouse gas than the carbon dioxide they're scrubbing.
Apollo-13 ( Lithium Hydroxide ) meets tailpipe?

A case of "the more we learn, we start to realize how little we actually know".
https://eos.org/opinions/quit-worryi...el-projections

science.slashdot.org: Study Finds Western Megadrought is the Worst in 1,200 Years (npr.org)
Posted by msmash on Monday February 14, 2022 @01:45PM from the closer-look dept

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The Western U.S. and Northern Mexico are experiencing their driest period in at least 1,200 years, according to the new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change. The last comparable -- though not as severe -- multi-decade megadrought occurred in the 1500s, when the West was still largely inhabited by American Indian tribes. [snip] They sampled data collected from live trees, dead trees and wood beams preserved at Native American archeological sites. The tree rings gave Williams an insight into drought events dating back to the year 800 AD, around the same time Charlemagne was being crowned Emperor of Rome. He identified four other megadroughts in that time period, the most notable being a 23-year drought that ended in the late 1500's. There were hopes during a wet 2019 that the current megadrought was following a similar pattern, Williams said. "And then from summer 2020 through all of 2021, it was just exceptionally dry across the West...indicating that this drought is nowhere near done."

Is it time for the domed-over cities yet?

Domed city won't help Reno, the water comes from 50 miles away.

I have a well that pumps 100gpm because the well driller said it was on the underground river.
Last solsr minimum it was so dry that in west Texas jack rabbits were dieing of thurst and they can survive with out drinking any liquid water.
And it's killed pear cactus here locally..

We don't have to go to Mars, we can just move to Aridzona.