tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post6350025415254470471..comments2024-03-24T11:01:27.668-04:00Comments on Resource Insights: James Lovelock's strange bedfellowsKurt Cobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330759091950742285noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-80790985280101428582008-02-02T10:48:00.000-05:002008-02-02T10:48:00.000-05:00Sorry, the science adviser is John Marburger, not ...Sorry, the science adviser is John Marburger, not John Marburg. Google cares about that!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-25844905074138397022008-02-02T10:44:00.000-05:002008-02-02T10:44:00.000-05:00Thanks for the thoughtful article, Kurt. Funny th...Thanks for the thoughtful article, Kurt. Funny thing is, George Bush's science adviser, John Marburg, came out in late 2007 with a statement that global warming IS human-caused and could make the planet unlivable, his word. Surprising? Well, maybe not when within two weeks George Bush gave a major talk promoting what he calls "clean technologies such as nuclear and clean coal". And within two more weeks, the first nuclear power plant license application in 25 years was filed. Coincidence? I don't think those guys know the meaning of the words "spontaneous" and "coincidence".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-69394916562764130462008-01-13T04:08:00.000-05:002008-01-13T04:08:00.000-05:00''Many thanks, Danny, for your thoughtful images o...''Many thanks, Danny, for your thoughtful images of polar cities. It may well happen and soon.''<BR/><BR/>Kurt,<BR/><BR/>guess who sent that to me? email me and i will tell you. and then maybe you can blog on this polar cities idea? he is _______, well,.... guess who!<BR/><BR/>dannyDANIELBLOOMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05130493903696077379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-1707389583689440422007-09-30T00:06:00.000-04:002007-09-30T00:06:00.000-04:00Kurt, you wrote: "Lovelock, of course, thinks it's...Kurt, you wrote: "Lovelock, of course, thinks it's too late. Now, the only thing to do, he counsels, is to adapt. "<BR/><BR/>True. <BR/><BR/>So here's my take for adapting to the reality of it all.<BR/><BR/>CLIMATE CHANGE: Time For A Slightly Mad Idea?<BR/><BR/>Dan Bloom is not a scientist and he does not have a PhD in anything.<BR/>He's a 58 year old American journalist who has lived in Asia for the<BR/>past 15 years, working as as a copy editor at several English<BR/>language newspapers in Tokyo and Taipei, and now he has started a new side<BR/>career as a global warming blogger calling for -- are you ready for<BR/>this? -- polar cities to house survivors of cliamte change in the far<BR/>distant future.<BR/><BR/>Bloom, a graduate of Tufts University in Boston, says he is not a<BR/>> doomsayer, and that he is actually an optimist about life. But after<BR/>> studying global warming, both its actviists and its denialists, he<BR/>> says he came to the conclusion that the world needs to think seriously<BR/>> -- now -- about planning, designing, locating and building model polar<BR/>> cities. He has created a blog about this idea, and asked an artist to<BR/>> create some architecutal blueprints as well.<BR/>><BR/>> INTERVIEW FOLLOWSDANIELBLOOMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05130493903696077379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-89980292274113563082007-07-02T23:09:00.000-04:002007-07-02T23:09:00.000-04:00POLAR CITIES ENVISIONED TO SURVIVE GLOBAL WARMINGW...POLAR CITIES ENVISIONED TO SURVIVE GLOBAL WARMING<BR/><BR/>Webposted: July 1, 2007<BR/><BR/>Environmental activist Dan Bloom has come up with a solution to global<BR/>warming that apparently no one else is talking about: polar cities.<BR/>That's right, Bloom envisions future polar cities will house some 200<BR/>million survivors of global warming in the far distant future (perhaps<BR/>in the year 2500, he says on his blog), and he's lobbying on the<BR/>Internet for their planning, design and construction -- NOW!<BR/><BR/>"Sounds nutty, I know" the 58-year-old self-described "eco-dreamer"<BR/>says from his home in Asia, where he has been based since 1991. "But<BR/>global warming is for real, climate change is for real, and polar<BR/>cities just might be important if humankind is to survive the coming<BR/>'events', whatever they might be, in whatever form they take."<BR/><BR/>Bloom, a 1971 graduate of Tufts University in Boston, says he came up<BR/>with the idea of polar cities after reading a long interview with<BR/>British scientist James Lovelock, who has predicted that in the<BR/>future, the only survivors of global warming might be around 200<BR/>million people who migrate to the polar regions of the world.<BR/><BR/>"Lovelock pointed me in this direction," Bloom says. "Although he has<BR/>never spoken of polar cities per se, he has talked about the<BR/>possibility that the polar regions might be the only place where<BR/>humans can survive if a major cataclysmic event occurs as a direct<BR/>result of global warming, in the far distant future. I think we've got<BR/>about 30 generations of human beings to get ready for this."<BR/><BR/>Does Bloom, who has created a blog and video on YouTube, think that<BR/>polar cities are practicial?<BR/><BR/>""Practical, necessary, imperative," he says. "We need to start<BR/>thinking about them now, and maybe even designing and building them<BR/>now, while we still have time and transportation and fuel and<BR/>materials and perspective. Even if they never get built, the very idea<BR/>of polar cities should scare the pants off people who hear about the<BR/>concept and goad them into doing something concrete about global<BR/>warming. That's part of my agenda, too."<BR/><BR/>For more information: http://climatechange3000.blogspot.com<BR/>GOOGLE: "polar cities"<BR/>WIKIPEDIA: "polar cities"<BR/>BLOG SEARCH: "polar cities"DANIELBLOOMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05130493903696077379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-12263092756402238182007-06-29T08:13:00.000-04:002007-06-29T08:13:00.000-04:00This is a great initiative to develop sustainable ...This is a great initiative to develop sustainable energy. Technology buffs will be interested in how these turbines look like regular wind turbines. <BR/>With Peak Oil nearly upon us its time we all start working to develop this technology.<BR/> http://giftofireland.com/Siteblog/2007/06/29/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-being-built-off-ireland-2/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-57934378511346648972007-05-15T10:09:00.000-04:002007-05-15T10:09:00.000-04:00Even if Lovelock's right, at least many of the ada...Even if Lovelock's right, at least many of the adaption strategies he recommends <I>also</I> reduce GHG emissions. Unlike the denialists, whose primary adaption strategy seems to be "pursue business as usual".<BR/><BR/>Anther interesting contradiction in the denialist camp is the one where our knowledge of climate is far too imprecise to be certain the warming is either happening or anthropogenic, whilst simultaneously our knowledge is sufficiently accurate to design and implement massive geo-engineering schemes to avert the disaster that we can't be sure is going to happen. I love that one!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com