http://www.ecobuddhism.org/wisdom/interviews/jmacy

"You learn to say “It looks bleak. Big deal, it looks bleak.” Our little minds think it must be over, but the very fact that we are seeing it is enlivening. And we know we can’t possibly see the whole thing, because we are just one part of a vast interdependent whole–one cell in a larger body. So we don’t take our own perceptions as the ultimate. This may be the last gasp of life on Earth, and what a great last gasp, if we realize we have fallen in love with each other. If you are really in the moment of experiencing our reality, you don’t say “Oh I won’t experience this because it’s not going to last forever!” You’ve got this moment. It’s true for now. We can have a reasoned concern about what is down the track, without necessarily getting hooked on something having to endure. "

""All of our tools were suggesting a hurricane, but not a strong hurricane," says Chris Landsea, the science and operations officer for the National Hurricane Center. And Matthew started out small. But over 24 hours, it grew in strength. "We had no clue that it was going to become Category 5, or a Category 4." 

http://www.phillytrib.com/ap/hurricane-chaos-lingers-in-water-logged-n-c/article_5cbbbe02-27a2-5c18-94fb-32a8ddbd3bbf.html

This article is concerned with civil unrest due to a lack of water and electricity in flooded North Carolina...yet, despite this catastrophe for the people of NC, and that this hurricane rapidly formed-unpredicably and abruptly- still is a minor news story and  minor mention in the Presidential debates. It is almost as if there are 2 realities now- this horrible facade of 'make American great again' and 'america is great' versus natural chaos in real time.

David Loy will be presenting a lecture near where I live tomorrow evening, so posting this which is of course fundamental to why I do this blog-the more we see nature as other and others of different races, gender etc as other, the more destruction is done to the Earth. Separation from nature, from our sense of and part in the sacred oneness  has led to the ecological collapse that is happening now..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CM7Q41T0F8

very, very serious...http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/sciencefair/2016/09/29/carbon-dioxide-levels-400-ppm-scripps-mauna-loa-global-warming/91279952/
still, love nature -every moment you can and seek only substantive relationships with people who value and can speak truth...much love to the world that visits my blog...

http://www.climatechangenews.com/2016/09/26/scientists-too-frightened-to-tell-truth-on-climate-impacts/

coming soon- wars between countries over 'land grabs' as they desperately try to get  water and other natural resources...we already know Monsanto has the ONLY patent to aluminum protected seeds...as geoengineering (massive spraying of toxins such as ALUMINUM, barium and coal are sprayed without public consent into the upper atmosphere to keep heat away from the planet, only in reality creating greater global warming). When will people wake up to the sociopathy practiced by their governments and begin to demand democracy and real respect for the Earth in this 11th hour?

http://www.inquisitr.com/3536632/earth-continues-to-lose-oxygen-and-scientists-are-stumped/

As early as the late 60s but certainly by the late 70s, Exxon and others who were part of the oil and gas boom of the 50s knew that fossil fuel pollution would eventually cause catastrophic weather events (they put the year at 2000 when they would begin) and then human extinction by 2030 (look at Exxon memo attached)...this article shows how the public is 'informed' about something horrifying happening but it presented as not man made, nor will it happen soon...the greenhouse carbon pollutants around the planet that already kill 5 million people a year from air pollution is man made.....

Clinton had a hand in the murders of  over 100 environmentalists in Honduras, on behalf of corporations that supported the military coup to have access to resources there- Americans, vote with your CONSCIENCE .."The moves comes also after the UN has reported that the killing of environmental activists has reached ‘epidemic levels’. A whopping 908 activists were assassinated in the past decade and the trend isn’t slowing down."

http://www.zmescience.com/ecology/international-criminal-court-environment-19062016/

unheard of hail in Samoa....who is to say it wasn't 'invented' by geoengineered weather...


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/19/samoa-hit-by-hail-storm-so-rare-residents-thought-it-was-a-hoax

Tuesday was the hottest day of the year in the UK oddly, then... abrupt catastrophic flooding so common now ( 2 weeks rain in a few hours), a train derailment due to flooding landslip (radio reporter on derailed train: ""It was the first time I've actually flown on a train; when we came off the tracks I assumed the brace position." and frightening lightning as well...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/16/uk-weather-train-derails-after-striking-landslip-as-flash-floodi/

Venus-planet of peace by Holst.....when does peace come? When the myth of progress ends....so close to Earth, so like the Earth...even though Mercury is closer to the Sun. Venus is shrouded by a layer of highly reflective clouds of sulfuric acid, preventing its surface from being seen. It may have had water oceans in the past, but these would have vaporized as the temperature rose due to a runaway greenhouse effect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1f8HjIkU3M

The night before last I was awoken by military jets flying at supersonic speed over the city I live in  (Easthampton) at 4:30am....it was a military drill to 'protect our freedoms' I was to read the following day-and the passivity and compliance of people I live around toward it...this planet of endless  thug assault on the senses, wars, mass shootings is seeing a response from nature about the true control of the planet ...in this case North Korea...

http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-north-korea-flooding-20160915-snap-story.html

we were given a beautiful planet to steward....feeding wild birds everyday is one of the ways I bear articles like this....the rise of ghost forests due to manmade sea  rise.

http://www.climatecentral.org/news/ghost-forests-appear-as-rising-tides-kill-trees-20701

FINALLY, it is beginning to reach the general public...

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/12/protect-integrity-climate-science-geophysical-society-urged-drop-exxon

Interesting interactive on climate change hot spots as well as some incredible photo examples at bottom of  their page link...http://www.spiegel.de/international/tomorrow/climate-change-the-true-global-warming-hot-spots-a-1111342.html

Blessings to the Standing Rock Indian Reservation for their courage and integrity and will against the  sociopaths of industry  set on killing and harming anyone now who defends the ecology and sacred Mother Earth. Burial sites bull dozed and dogs set on them-how grotesquely inhumane and vile...

 In Honduras, over 100 environmentalists have been murdered by the 2009 military coup on behalf of corporate America, orchestrated by then Secretary Hillary Clinton despite pleas to her to reinstate the ousted President , such activists as Berta Caceres who was murdered last year...climate scientists are also on hit lists as revealed by  a climate denier  in DISCOVER magazine...


http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/imageo/2016/08/08/prominent-global-warming-doubter-says-there-was-a-hit-list-targeting-climate-scientists/#.V9ByXxQ-DNM
these are dark days when a massive world wide war against nature, control of the weather, and insane recreations of the beginning of the universe  (CERN)  focused goals by the truly mentally and morally sick in positions of power and might. As I have also noted in past posts, Exxon and others, who made billions and billions from the oil and gas boom of the 1950s and 60s and on, are fighting to keep the general masses from knowing that they are responsible for the catastrophic climate changes across the world now , which they have known would happen since the late 60s and memo smoking guns appear from the late 70s and early 80s such as this one...the 5.6  Fracking earthquake in Oklahoma a few days ago, which affected 7 other states as well-all foreseeable btw- is also indicative of the full blown assault against nature underway. Last year Oklahoma had 6,000 earthquakes. It is more than obvious the incredible danger Fracking has to igniting catastrophic earthquakes. http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/03/earthquake-rattles-oklahoma-amid-warnings-inherent-fracking-risks

the always ahead of her time, the environmentalist Petulia Clark from 1970...'our environment and our contempt for that environment'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv1YYUcc9xc

One touch of nature makes us all kin.    William Shakespeare

There really is a smoking gun-90 to be exact...the fossil fuel industry knew and kept hidden that their massive pollution would create catastrophic weather events by around 2000 and human extinction by 2030....if we're lucky, because right now science cannot keep up with the earth changes.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/just-90-companies-are-blame-most-climate-change-carbon-accountant-says

I had mentioned places my mother had lived in her life that have experienced catastrophic weather events THIS YEAR ( Liverpool, England where she grew up, Corpus Christi, Texas, where she lived for 30 years)-just one woman....now another place she lived-my father as an air force member was stationed in Colorado Springs, Colorado when I was a child...yesterday they had abrupt flooding and hail...

and here reposting the pics from earlier this summer of Liverpool....

and corpus christi

370 deer killed by a lightning strike in Norway last Friday...lightning strikes this year have killed groups of people and animals.. the media separates and downplays these stories this year-here the article mentions deer have died there before from lightning strikes just not as many-but leave no statistics on what is 'normal' deer kill from lighting...I could find absolutely no statistics on the net of what a 'normal' death toll of deer from a  lightning strike is....

http://www.newsday.com/news/world/norway-lightning-strike-kills-more-than-300-deer-1.12237845

Moving account of  a mass funeral for some of those who died in Italy...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37198040

the 6,2 earthquake in Italy....I have kept track of places my mother live that have experienced catastrophic weather events-her family was from the Italian area (Arno was her maiden name-my grandmother, her mother was full Maltese), then my mother grew up in Liverpool England  (which had abrupt catastrophic flooding earlier this Spring/Summer) and she lived for 30 years in Corpus Christi Texas USA which had catastrophic flooding on the highway area downtown (the last two have pics in my blog somewhere already posted). That is one woman...blessing to Italy and all the beautiful people there who look like my mom and the recovery and well being of it s people in central Italy...I have been traveling around a bit-pardon the breaks in the blog at times...

This is the kind of perversity of message coming out of the American media these days-the 'positives' of global warming when they are not ignoring the subject entirely or downplaying it, as they did with the flooding in Louisiana (which I mentioned in previous blog entires). Whales are not 'loving' global warming-how sick. Reminds me of the McDonald's ad- 'I'm loving' it'-to sell nutritionally poor food.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/theres-at-least-one-creature-on-earth-thats-loving-global-warming/2016/08/22/331cc880-43aa-11e6-8856-f26de2537a9d_story.html

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. Rachel Carson

It is such an important human-wildlife interaction, such an ancient interaction.. It's often the only experience people have with wildlife in urban areas.

'If you stop bird feeding you have an extinction of experience. People lose out on this, one of their only interactions with wildlife.'

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/is-there-anything-wrong-with-feeding-birds/7750616

engage with nature-worship it...a bird at my feeder and a bowl of water above it!...they seem more precious now that I see so much damage to the environment and their lives...

Since the fossil fuel industries are responsible for the catastrophic weather events now plaguing the world, its media is trivializing and downplaying catastrophies...and the media is beginning to be questioned and critiqued about it-that is something.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/08/18/media/louisiana-flooding-media-coverage/

"

Between August 8 and August 14, Louisiana was battered by roughly 6.9 trillion gallons of rain. As the flooding there continues, 40,000 homes have been damaged; 13 people are dead. And some observers are wondering when the national media is going to truly take notice."

We are all one-I will keep saying that-one race on earth and whatever happens to one happens to all...the massive hail storm in France  on Wednesday severely damaged wine crops...we have seen filed of all sorts  around the world damaged from flooding and other catastrophic weather events this year

http://www.decanter.com/wine-news/languedoc-hail-damage-326464/

and in Louisiana in the US 40,000 homes were  severely water damaged ....

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/19/490605862/catastrophic-floods-in-louisiana-have-caused-massive-housing-crisis

exceptional man, David Phung, saves a woman who would certainly have drowned with her dog-and also saves her dog...amidst the catastrophic flooding in Louisiana....

https://weather.com/news/weather/video/woman-dog-pulled-from-car-in-louisiana-flood

 we could never experience a flower as such as this butterfly, never know the simplicity of greedless purpose...

what we have done to the earth is being reflected back at us-the heat, the droughts, the floods, the massive pollutants that define 'civilization'....

I will write a post a little later on horrific lightning events around the work, including 5 people struck  yesterday in NY...the latest catastrophic fold event-Louisiana....what if catastrophic weather events occurred and the nobody seemed to notice? or care if it did not happen to them-that is what it feels like day after day as I see too many occurrences to even keep track...wherever you live, blessings from a woman roasting on the east coast of the US (100 here in western Massachusetts-absolutely unheard of)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3738485/Three-dead-torrential-rain-continues-pound-Louisiana.html

"Temperatures in Kuwait and Iraq startled observers. On July 22, the mercury climbed to 129 degrees in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. A day earlier, it reached 129.2 in Mitribah, Kuwait. If confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization, the two temperatures would be the hottest ever recorded in the Eastern Hemisphere."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/an-epic-middle-east-heat-wave-could-be-global-warmings-hellish-curtain-raiser/2016/08/09/c8c717d4-5992-11e6-8b48-0cb344221131_story.html
 and where global warming meets senseless wars....

"Tens of thousands of Iraqis displaced by battles between government forces and Islamic State militants have endured the heat in tents and other makeshift shelters. Humanitarian organizations have been unable to reach all of them because of budget constraints, restrictions by Iraq’s government and risks associated with operating in war zones. A lot of these people are probably dying, but it’s hard to know,” said an official at an aid organization who was not authorized to discuss the issue publicly and so spoke on the condition of anonymity."

so many have said love the earth in so many different ways-writers, singers, and here from the Russian film Solaris (1972)...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJdQU_5E_Ao

Where I live in western Massachusetts, we are experiencing a severe drought- we do not get drought here, which in a longer term will likely affect fall foliage this year,  and local crops throughout the eastern states....no mention of global warming whatsoever in this article...clearly with drought throughout the US and wildfires raging, some thoughtfulness as to why might be considered.

http://wwlp.com/2016/08/08/western-massachusetts-drought-is-worse-than-you-think/
 and , as always, it is not just a single place affected, which the media presents- the following article on NY being affected and as I have seen in media articles on flooding across the world the worn out meaningless phrase " “Right now, it’s probably a once-in-a-generation drought.” Minimalizing global warming.
http://weather.buffalonews.com/2016/08/08/western-new-yorkers-battle-once-in-a-generation-drought/
and Maine http://www.sunjournal.com/news/lewiston-auburn/0001/11/30/maine-seeing-drought-dry-conditions/1973156
California struggles with drought killed treeshttps://www.hcn.org/issues/48.13/california-plans-to-log-its-drought-killed-trees, along with their massive wildfires...
Drought affects the health of trees such as Douglas Firs in the west, but of course crops are affected as well -article concerning drought affects in New Hampshire http://www.unionleader.com/Drought-hitting-NH-farmers-wallets
South Dakota which is also experiencing severe drought, sees this as an opportunity to hunt more elk, sell more licenses...http://www.dailyprogress.com/drought-in-south-dakota-means-more-cow-elk-hunting-licenses/article_5b760849-9e5b-599c-96b8-e87e955d740c.html
wildfires continue to be out of control in the west and the warm winter has accelerated wildfires this year  http://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-fire-idUSKCN10J2I3, also Wyoming http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming-wildfires-put-strain-on-wildlife/article_b372e71f-d200-52d2-b367-5c0091de6c12.html
7 states affected by wildfires this summer http://www.cbsnews.com/news/from-california-to-nevada-wildfires-burn-in-seven-western-states/

  and (here in the northeast where we don't get  drought related wildfires, that is a concern), which is occurring in Maine's dry forests http://bangordailynews.com/2016/08/08/news/penobscot/maine-forest-rangers-battling-three-wildfires/

worldwide, there are massive wildfires now in Portugal http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/portugal-wildfires-hospital-hundreds-homes-evacuated-madeira-n626176

The filthy nuclear waste and war that defines human history ultimately.. ' Camp Century is an example of  mankind's unceasing struggle to conquer his environment"-with the Greenland glacier's melt-the result of man's pollution of earth's atmosphere- his destruction of the deep earth 6,ooo  feet deep is also revealed and 70 years later a danger to humans as the nuclear waste and human waste is exposed to air...my father was stationed in Greenland in the early 50's during the Korean war, before this camp was built..

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/05/488872411/melting-ice-in-greenland-could-expose-serious-pollutants-from-buried-army-base

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ujx_pND9wg
Denmark film on Camp Century-the century war and corporations began in earnest to kill the Earth under the degenerate illusion of progress.

http://www.isuma.tv/inuit-knowledge-and-climate-change

This is a very interesting documentary on how the Inuits are observing climate change....what I have said many times here is echoed in this documentary-that we are one race on earth and what happens to any of us happens to all..and that because we are separate cultures, countries, and the intention by the media and corporations also keeps us separate, the common experiences all people are going through now is being kept separate, rather than a clear indication that the earth is warming rapidly  due to massive air pollution (the Inuits say the earth cannot breath and so is overheating) and the consequences of that are what we are seeing- abrupt and catastrophic flooding and other weather events like out of control wildfires, rapid ice glacier melt, overheated waters affecting animals ability to adapt quickly enough, sea rise, and a profound disconnect from the natural environment, which the Iniuts say is also within us-the earth overheats, we overheat, the animals overheat....

What happened this weekend in historic Ellicott City, Maryland is so minor to the deaths and massive flooding throughout India and China in the last few months, so much death and misery to humans and animals-in China, the pigs who drowned who could not be removed from rising flood waters and recently in Assam India- the deaths of  13 rare rhinos....

There have been so many incidents of catastrophic flooding, wildfires, hail...occurring now AND LITTLE MEDIA ATTENTION. Simply had to post this...the unbelievable flooding captured in Ellicott City, Maryland....what it captures is all the deadly combinations-people observing  unusual flooding, continuing to drive in it and then the shock that vehicles are being swept away-the video was taken by a customer in a restaurant and the reactions of the customers capture the horror of what unfolds...abrupt catastrophic climate change. 2 deaths there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-shmNbxAqs

written for the first Earth Day in 1970, byTom Paxton, when it was absolutely necessary to seriously cut fossil fuel emissions, which did not happen and has not since....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msKYLHwqvW4

Peace to everyone on the planet earth who believes in it, and respects the sanctity of nature...we are all in this together....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRlagfSvOso

It will be both-ecological and economic destruction...even the exploiters who see climate change as a business opportunity ( as I have posted in previous articles on west Virginia's tragic flooding and Miami Beaches sea rise events...and no doubt a lot of others I am missing) won't be in their filthy business for long. Even the greedy businesses who are peddling solar panels (polluting chemicals in their manufacturing) and wind turbines (killing flying birds and their electronic vibrations interfering with animal communications underwater) will see an end to the quick sale soon enough...it is almost beyond me the pathology of most humans now. I know there are others who for years have tried to genuinely fight the destruction of habitats and fresh water resources and keep food non GMO...but all in all the intent of most people on earth is a thoughtless or intentional overuse and disinterest in the natural world, as businesses have slide into profit over all else, even human existence....

I somehow missed this major catastrophic weather events in parts of Spain almost a week a go...probably because here in the States, it has became a blood bath of mass murders- already 274 this year- (whole other topic, whole other blog).  In  Maluenda, Paracuellos, and Miedes Spain, 100% apple and pear crop loss- 100 percent due to sudden hail wind and flooding ...due to heavy rainfall last month there are concerns about the barley crops in France and Germany but the results are not in yet as conditions this month and next will determine that...

http://www.freshplaza.com/article/160474/Spain-Hail-caused-total-losses-in-apple-and-pear-in-Aragon

   

On the global warming heatwave that killed about 70,000 people in Europe in 2003  "Under business-as-usual carbon emissions scenarios, one-day heat waves that now happen once every 20 years will happen every year...In London, the likelihood of a summer as scorching as 2003 has shifted from a 1-in-10-year event to a 1-in-3-year event. In Paris, such soaring temperatures had moved from a 1-in-92-year event to a 1-in-30-year event."

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07072016/climate-change-blame-deadliness-2003-heat-wave-new-study-paris-london

The origin of  this man made abrupt and catastrophic climate change being experienced around the world is greed...plain and simple- and a good direct example of late is what has happened with flooding in China this last week where 32 million have been affected and 180 people have died. Wuhan, one of the cities affected, is suffering now from the effects of urban development without concern for environmental consequences: "From 1949 to 2015, the number of the lakes in Wuhan’s urban areas dropped from 127 to 40 because they were filled for construction, which effectively makes it harder for the city to absorb flood water."

http://qz.com/725468/chinas-devastating-floods-can-be-traced-back-to-corruption-and-overbuilding/

below a pig farmer cries as it is clear the pigs seen in this photo will not be rescued

above, flooding in Wuhan.

the story so typical these days, abrupt flooding; drivers 'taken by surprise'- yesterday it was Minneapolis, Minnesota..."“There wasn’t any water and then all of a sudden there was, just came out of the sky,” said one driver, stuck in the water."
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2016/07/05/mpls-floods/

catastrophic rain events round the world continue as China is hit with 18 inches of rain in 4 continuous days of rainfall-- 180 dead, 1.5 MILLION evacuated......https://weather.com/news/weather/news/china-pakistan-heavy-rain-floods

also abrupt flooding in Pakistan, 33 dead-so sudden, again quite common now across the world, people cannot react ""Sixteen of the dead were offering prayers in the mosque when it was swept away by the flood".  Monsoon season is expected to bring floods, what is unusual is that they have come earlier this year....

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/07/dozens-dead-flash-floods-sweep-pakistan-160703061450868.html

The pattern of abrupt rain, in this case 5.5 inches in less than 2 hours, in Vineland, New Jersey last night.

How often are we seeing this around the world now?...today, it was Tucson, AZ under water...

and then, there is this glacier melt flooding today in Juneau, Alaska-the video on the top of the page of this link is shocking...

https://www.wunderground.com/news/mendenhall-glacier-river-flood-alaska-july2016

above, the Mendenhall Glacier melt -3 feet of flooding resulted..

Don't believe anything you read-do the research and know for yourself what the truth really is. Ignorance keeps people enslaved to illusions of reality, presented by people who are not concerned about your welfare. As things begin to collapse ecologically and economically, you will be fed lies to keep the public passive and compliant. if you can think outside the box, you will do better to anticipate and cope with what has happened and what is happening.  As one can see in Miami Beach and now West Virginia, there are always those who will steal the last dollar before homes go under water or will come up with schemes to cheat people in pain, who have lost everything in an extreme weather event...be smart, be a step ahead of their lack of compassion. case in point-profiting off of climate change:

http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-06-27/how-one-virginia-city-re-framing-sea-level-rise-opportunity