Ideas 19-2...Global Warming - Climate Change

HMG formerly declares that the Ministry of Survival (MOS) is hereby created.

Following the implementation of martial law, a twelve hour six day working week will be enforced. The restrictions imposed by the EU Working Time Directive will no longer apply.

Young people presently working in education and the nursing of the elderly, will be transferred to manufacturing (the elderly will be looked after by the elderly), as will all the unemployed, civil servants in the barycentre's and benefits agency, CSA, etc., plus 'volunteers'.

The MOS will be responsible for:

The creation of the evacuation fleet, its maintenance and crewing.

Due to the inevitable sequence of events, HMG will authorize the acquisition or construction of 400 x 250,000 tonne ships. Half will be used as people carriers, transporting 100,000 people at a time. The only furniture will be hammocks, with tables and chairs in the canteen. The other ships will transport homes and places of work, desalination plants, nuclear power stations, etc. All ship construction must be completed within three years.

The construction and installation of prefabricated harbours, similar to that used on D-Day 1944, Mulberry.

The dismantling, transportation and erection of utilities, factories, hospitals and other prefabricated buildings.

The dismantling, transportation and erection of dwellings.

The transportation of UKGB citizens, including feeding and health needs.

The MOD will be responsible for relocating all defence systems, including buildings. Twenty extra aircraft / commando carriers will be built for the task.

The National Trust will be responsible for relocating national treasures, using the world's merchant fleet.

The Department for the Environment will be responsible for the plugging of all oil and gas wells, and the dumping at sea, off the continental shelf, of all nuclear waste, since no other country will take it, and there is insufficient time to put it underground.

The relocation of Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace, Whitehall, Westminster, Tower of London, Tower Bridge, etc. have low priority, as it is not expected that the glacier will extend that far south. They will however, all have to be removed, for the sake of tradition, and also because it is extremely unlikely that UKGB citizens will want to return. Rising or falling sea levels however, may make the recovery of some of these buildings impossible.

Negotiations through the Foreign Office, in partnership with our Scandinavian allies, with prospective recipient nations regarding the acceptance of ethnic minorities, economic migrants, asylum seekers, those with long term medical needs, those of no economic worth (the elderly) and people with serious criminal records (30% of adult males have criminal records), will be on going.

Scientists worldwide now admit that the situation is worse than first thought, having realized that the plethora of jet vapour trails in the sky is resulting in global dimming, which has reduced solar energy to the surface by 10 to 30% in various parts of the planet, thereby reducing the full effect of greenhouse gases thus far. Meanwhile, as American scientists admit that the Earth is radiating out into space less heat than it is receiving, an indisputable indication of global warming, the price of petrol goes beyond 85p per litre. Bad news for motorists. Rising sea levels could produce a similar outcome, particularly as their increased weight is likely to generate earthquakes and resultant tsunamis, undersea landslides caused by melting methane hydrates. Maybe turbulent nature is the reason why homo sapiens have advanced appreciably during the last three millennia. The ultimate triumph of the will.

Recently, a report has been published about the ecology of the UK, titled 'State of Nature Report. This reports the state of 7000 species found in the UK. Compiled by 70 organisations, it states that one in seven species are facing extinction, with 41 per cent having experienced decline since 1970. Most people and organisations within the UK are environmentally aware, so this comes as a damning shock to us all. If we can't get it right, then who can? It's clear that we need consultants, but where are they going to come from; outer space?

Weather wise 2020 is now one of the top six warmest years since records began in 1850. The Siberian Arctic is now 5C above average. In answer to this obviously potentially disastrous state of affairs the companies ACWA Power, CWP Renewables, Envision, Iberdrola, Orsted, Snam and Yara have now joined forces to create the green hydrogen catapult, a fifty fold increase in hydrogen within six years, reducing the cost of the fuel to two dollars per kilogramme. Hydrogen's main use will be in road, rail and air based vehicles due to its high energy density, but it could also be created by sequestrating natural gas for space heating, rather than producing it from electrolysis. It remains to be seen whether it can compete with advanced photo-voltaics and ground or air sourced heat pumps.

In March 2023 Scientists at RMIT University, Australia announced the discovery of the cost effective production of hydrogen from sea water. Evidently it does not release carbon dioxide and chlorine in the process. Naturally occurring white hydrogen has also been extracted in Nebraska, USA, in 2019, by the company Natural Hydrogen Energy. Hydrogen is produced underground by the interaction of water with iron ore. It can be found at various purity all over the world, though often at a greater depth than natural gas.

I don't need to read the above reports on the ever declining biodiversity on this planet, because I well remember what it was like sixty years ago in my parent's garden. There was wildlife in plenty, insects galore. Today it's depressing to see so little of it in my garden, a garden based upon a brown field site where thanks to global warming, it's difficult enough to get the plants to bloom, never mind promote insect life. It's painfully obvious to me that for many species time has run out. Prolonging the loss of pollinating insects will ultimately have a serious impact on the world food situation. Coupled with fresh water loss and degrading soil, the effect upon the global economy will be dire. It appears that the only solution to saving biodiversity is to render extinct the species that is causing it. I'm certain that not even world war three could restore the balance. Apathy, incompetence, greed, over population, irresponsible product promotion, failure to switch to environmentally benign products and materials. The list of failures is endless, and it appears that it will go on and on. Only with the switch to intelligent, determined (preferably obsessive, compulsive) and honest technocrats in a WT will anything change for the better, whilst the eradication of capitalism is absolutely essential in order to eliminate the greed element that perpetuates the couldn't care less attitude amongst many people, towards responsible living. Will it happen? I don't think so. I believe the human race will ultimately destroy itself, simply because most humans are not selfless idealists, determined to create a utopia. It is a terrible epitaph to type, but true. Only global constitutional reform, a WT, plus the scrapping of capitalism, along with all the greed it promotes, can solve these problems. But who has the guts to do that, and hence blindly step into the unknown. I know that I am right, and I also know that most of you are wrong. You've had at least fifty years to solve this problem. Improvements have come along, too little, too late. It's time for a no nonsense breed of person to take over. One with a big stick. The alternative is a sparsely populated, high tech civilisation, living on a barren planet, with no wild life of any kind. Forbidden planet!

In October 2020 the British Prince William and naturalist Sir David Attenborough announced the creation of Earthshot, an award winning contest for scientists and engineers designed to encourage solutions to environmental problems. There will be fifty million pounds awarded in prizes in the ten years to 2030. That's five one million pound prizes per annum. Designed to motivate politicians, governments, businesses, communities, innovators, land owners, technologists and entrepreneurs. Only time will tell whether it succeeds. And how do you clean up the world's oceans, recycle the world's rubbish tips, reduce our human population, engage in global forestation, impose product controls on company research departments and stop brainless idiots from destroying our wildlife and heritage? Is one million pounds enough to motivate a politician? If present trends continue, the human race could end up being dominated by a dictator with an intense desire to rectify all of these problems, not with a big stick, but with weapons of mass destruction.

Most of the finalists websites are listed here, since it began in October 2021.

One not listed here is the Republic of Costa Rica for its forest regeneration, as I could not find the website.

The Earthshot short list for 2022 is as follows:

In May 2021 the Iranian government announced the banning of cryptocurrency mining for two months. This was because the practice was consuming 2GW of electricity per day resulting in power cuts. Iran mines 4.5% of cryptocurrencies, and the practice is likely to continue here and everywhere else, because capitalism comes before ecological responsibility. The PRC is the world's leader in cryptocurrency mining. Electricity consumption there is expected to peak in 2024 at an incredible 297 terawatt-hours. Until capitalism is abolished, the problem with our environment is likely to persist.

June 2021 saw a huge and intense heat wave across north-western United States, which lingered in the form of numerous forest fires in Washington, Oregon and California. The smoke drifted across the states, generating a health warning in New York city. In August 2021 the Dixie fire in California, which had been raging for 26 days, became the largest at 489,000 acres with ten thousand firemen fighting to contain it. In mid December 2021 numerous tornadoes struck the mid west powered by a 3C rise in temperature of the Gulf of Mexico. One tornado travelled 200 miles north-east behind a storm front into the state of Kentucky. Around one hundred people are thought to have been killed by tornadoes that day. It was unexpected since most tornadoes appear in the summer, not the winter.

A heat wave in Siberia saw large stretches of forest go up in flames. 1.5 million hectares of tundra forest in Yakutia region burned above the frozen perma frost. Western Europe proved not to be immune from this event, which appeared to encircle the globe. In mid July 2021 a huge down pore took place in south-west Germany. Two months of rain fell in just a few hours, creating landslides, sweeping away roads, bridges and homes. At least 182 lives were lost in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. It was caused by a loop in the jet stream, coupled with a heat wave. After fifty years of prevarication and self denial, for once politicians were saying it was due to global warming. Attempts are however being made to save the world's perma frost which currently covers one quarter of the Earth's land mass. Some of this perma frost is melting because the trees growing above it produce a micro climate and act as an insulator. This was not the case 15,000 years ago when wooly mammoths roamed the tundra. It is scientists like Professor George Church in the USA that are trying to bring them back from extinction. The mammoths can bring down the trees and thereby create grass lands. Perma frosts across the northern latitudes contain 1,600 million mega tonnes of carbon, twice what is in the atmosphere. 1400 mega tonnes can be found in Alaska, but the creation of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, when the frozen methane all goes up in flames, is not the only problem. The underground fires will ignite deposits of fossil fuels making the greenhouse effect far worse, and release deadly germs, such as bacillus anthracis, anthrax. The rejuvenation, in July 2023, of a new species of 46,000 year old nematode from Siberian perma frost, suggests that there are other more deadly germs just waiting to be released, that have no known antidote.

A flood in the city of Zhengzhou in Henan province was created by a years rain in three days. 200mm of this rain fell in just one hour, amounting to one third of its annual rainfall. 14 people drowned in a subway, 302 overall, with 50 missing. 9000 homes were destroyed. The army had to carry out a controlled explosion on a dam that was about to fail, whilst an aluminium plant blew up. Meteorologists called it a once in a thousand year event. Forest fires were to continue, later sweeping across Turkey, Greece, Sicily and Algeria. In Sicily the air temperature reached 48.8C, possibly a European record. Over the last 30 years the UK had become 0.9C hotter and 6% wetter. The year 2020 was the third warmest, fifth wettest and eighth sunniest, stated the UK State of Climate Report. One day we will witness these events, only they will not stop. They will only get worse. The human race will have triggered a runaway greenhouse event, with thousands of square kilometres of methane hydrates in flames, and no one having the vaguest idea about how to stop it. All eyes were now on COP 26, an environmental meeting of major nations, to be held in Glasgow, Scotland from October 31st to November 12th. Would the forces of reality now overcome the forces of capitalism, apathy and distrust. The event came and went with little confidence in the future.

The following year, 2022, was to see heat waves in the UK and much of the rest of Europe. Spain and France were suffering from prolonged draughts as depressions moved further north, hitting the British Isles more frequently with greater intensity due to a warmer North Atlantic Ocean. Repeated floods hit Australia as a biblical flood also hit Pakistan. Just how much heat had to be applied before the general public screamed in protest and demanded an ecologically friendly world technocracy?

October 29th, 2024...Flash floods along the east coast of Spain, including Malaga and Valencia, saw the deaths of about 300 people, many of them trapped in cars as they tried to escape. The rains were caused by rising sea temperature in the Mediterranean Sea, whilst the government warning came too late.

What are heat pumps? That's what many people are asking in the UK, since HMG appears to be determined to replace our gas powered combi-boilers with them in order to reduce the nation's greenhouse gas emissions....

Heat pumps are an expensive white elephant dreamed up by politicians whose motto is, 'spend, spend, spend', usually billions not millions. As for thousands, "your joking aren't ya?" I use to work at Serck Heat Transfer, a manufacturer of heat exchangers, as a draughtsman, so I know what a heat pump is. One of the first was installed in the Royal Festival Hall, London, which extracts heat from the adjacent River Thames.

It is not possible to fully insulate most homes in the UK because they are antiquated terraced housing whose heat passes out through the party wall whilst the neighbours are either away at work, or simply can't afford to switch on their heating. Then of course there is the problem of cowboy builders, like those that failed to install my loft insulation adequately. HMG will inevitably use them to install heat pumps, rather than spend time and money retraining gas fitters. There is also the problem of upgrading the electricity supply to most homes. Domestic electricity supply is limited to 100 Amps. This is OK for homes that supply electricity to one electric car charger (11 to 32A) and a heat pump (4 to 16A). My gas combi-boiler has a small 24kW output. In a heat pump, for every 1kW of electricity, 4kW is generated. A domestic heat pump is from 4 to 16 kW output. This is far less than my combi-boiler because it's assumed that the home is modern and well insulated, which most homes are not. However, if like my neighbour you have 3 cars, then you will exceed the 100A electricity supply limit. To upgrade the electricity supply could cost you almost £15,000 assuming your network supplier is prepared to upgrade at all. There is also the noise factor. A ground heat pump generates 42 decibels, whilst an air type produces 40 to 60 dB. This is important in the case of terraced housing. One of my neighbours has a noisy fridge freezer, and that's bad enough. Also, because the temperatures are much lower than that from a gas fired combi-boiler, the radiators have to be much larger in order to put out the same amount of heat.

Whether a heat pump costs £6,000 or £20,000 is irrelevant to most people, as they simply cannot afford to buy them, and would certainly never vote for any political party ever again that introduced them. So what are the alternatives?

Well there is hydrogen, which will have to be separated from natural gas (methane), with the carbon dioxide pumped back underground, known as sequestration. This assumes that suitable rocks are available underground to contain the gas. Needless to say it will be more expensive than natural gas. Then of course there are the maintenance costs, which for me already run at about one hundred pounds per annum, not including the cost of replacement of my combi-boiler at £1000 for natural gas, but probably more for hydrogen as it burns at a higher temperature (2045C v 1957C for methane). Should the nation switch to hydrogen then all gas appliances will probably have to be converted, just as it was when switching from town gas to natural gas decades ago. Since hydrogen is a lighter gas it can penetrate through steel pipes and pressure vessels. It also burns with an invisible flame and produces six times more nitrous oxide when burnt, making it more dangerous to use than natural gas. So what's the alternative?

Once upon a time, in the early eighties, I had a modern brick and breeze block constructed bungalow. The builder had fitted electric radiators, so I had fitted an off peak electricity meter for them. The radiators came on during the night and heated up the walls and concrete floor, radiating the heat out during the day. The system worked great. Unfortunately almost all suppliers in the UK no longer provide off peak electricity due to the replacement of large coal fired power stations with quick reacting gas fired plant, renewable energy, and the provision of peak demand pump storage at Dinorwic, etc. Fortunately Octopus Energy UK and Green Energy UK do provide off peak deals for electric car charging and storage radiator heating. Eventually the nation will be all electric, powered by photo-voltaics, hydro, mini hydro, tidal, wind, geothermal, nuclear fission and nuclear fusion....and maybe even plasma balls.

Research in Spain and South Korea in developing thin film photo-voltaics is concentrating upon an efficacy of 9%. I have 2.75 kW of PVA panels on my roof. It cost me £4,700 in February 2015. Although the output is only about half of that stated by the salesman, it's still better than leaving the money in the bank earning no interest. HMG's plan would require me to use this electricity to power a heat pump, which in my opinion is a con. Heat pumps operate in the reverse manner to that of a refrigerator. It takes masses of heat out of the air or ground and compresses the liquid to produce a relatively smaller amount at a higher temperature for space heating. They are as large as air conditioning systems. Imagine that lot on the walls of tower blocks of flats and offices, with cables and pipes strung everywhere. We'll look like a third world nation. And as for taking the heat out of the ground, imagine the effect it's going to have on your plants, particularly in the winter.

In October 2021 HMG announced that it would hand out a subsidy of £5,000 to 90,000 households in England and Wales over three years, starting in April 2022, to jump start this crazy policy, estimated to cost £3.9 billion. No gas combi boilers can be purchased after 2035. There is a nagging fear that once approved by parliament HMG won't be able to cancel this project any more than they could with HS2. This heat pump (heat exchanger) project will be introduced in 2022 with nuclear fusion possibly on line in 2025 to 2040. That's a gap of only 3 to 18 years, during which time the heat pumps will be built, installed, maintained and decommissioned, and at every stage there will be an adverse environmental effect, at the end of which just about all home owners will want cost effective electric central heating installed. With at least six companies working on nuclear fusion, all wanting their playboy mansion, you just know it won't take much longer than that. It is estimated that this heat pump project will cost HMG 200 million to one trillion pounds overall to add to our existing national debt that is increasing at the rate of £5,000 per second, amounting to £70,000 per person (2021). And that of course does not include corporate and personal debts. With HB11 expected to produce electricity just one quarter of that from a coal fired power station, everyone will switch to electricity the moment it's available. Does this heat pump project therefore make sense to you? HMG appears determined to drag us all down into the financial abyss that it's already in. It's time the British electorate woke up and at the very least wrote a letter of protest to their MP, and wrote again, until this project is dead in the water. I have already done so.

In April 2022 HMG came up with a new energy plan. It intends to build 8 nuclear fission power stations. There was no reference to advanced photo-voltaics, tidal barrage electricity generation, sea current generation nor mini hydro electric. HMG was sitting on its hands as the unbelieving working class groped into their pockets to find the funds to pay off their enormous energy bills. It would be 50GW of wind power soon and nuclear in about 15 years time, by which time fusion would be here to make these fission plants uneconomic. Even the energy companies were calling for more government intervention now.

Now when you look at all the new power sources listed above you realise that they all have one thing in common. They all produce electricity. The most dramatic method is that from HB11 nuclear fusion, that obtains electricity direct, without the need for steam turbines and whirling generators. Such an advance would revolutionize civilisation. The latest IPCC report on global warming states that immediate action must take place in order to prevent a rise in global temperature of more than 2C which would likely cause a runaway greenhouse event. Described as a 'code red for humanity', massive global action must be taken before 2030. HMG could install more renewable energy, or modular nuclear fission as proposed by Rolls Royce, were such a development not held up by legal appeals. Alternatively, a fleet of free floating tidal energy generators or the long awaited barrier could be placed in the Severn estuary. Unfortunately we have politicians around the world that cannot even admit that capitalism is finished due to AI, automation and resulting low wages, any more than they can admit that global warming is created by human activity. Global warming is not so much an ecological problem but a political one. The human race urgently needs the sort of rapid response to this problem that governments gave to the production of Covid-19 vaccines. Unfortunately there is too much distrust between governments. They would rather spend billions on weapon systems. They can see dictators and out of control societies. They can't see greenhouse gases, no matter how many speeches they hear and diagrams they see. What is worse, is that few of them have an understanding of hysteresis. This is a graph showing a loop indicating that to screw up the atmosphere can be done in a relatively short time period, but to get back to where you started takes considerably longer. We need a new order, a world-technocracy-now. Earth will take ten million years to recover. The human race will not. Don't you think it's time we had a new constitution based upon professionalism and vision, that is determined enough to create a science based civilisation? Deep down you know that these clowns must go.

In September 2021 it was noticed for the first time in recorded history, that it was actually raining in Greenland, whilst the number of weather events where the air temperature somewhere on Earth had reached at least 50C, had now doubled since the 1980s. Numerous indicators like these suggest that a runaway greenhouse event is about to commence. There are now twelve thousand coal fired power stations on this planet, mainly in the PRC, USA and India. In 2019 there were 70,000 fires in the Amazon basin, slowly turning it into a desert. This has caused droughts in the Sao Paulo area resulting in protests. Most of these fires are to clear land for the raising of cattle, of which there are now 1.5 billion worldwide. The methane produced by these animals is responsible for 15% of the carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. Four billion tonnes of crude oil is produced each year, resulting in more CO2. Since 1950 CO2 has risen from 310 to 405 ppm (parts per million). 38 billion tonnes of it were produced in 2017. There are now 444 working nuclear reactors in 2019. The sixth largest consumer of electricity is the internet, much of it used for the mining of cryptocurrencies, displaying pornography, or the playing of computer games. It has been proposed that orbiting powerstations supply electricity to orbital computer data centres. This would be a carbon zero approach, since the coldness of space could also be used to keep the electrical components cool. There are 37 large aquifers worldwide, all of which will last no more than another one hundred years, as governments fail to replace this inefficient system with energy and water saving hydroponics. The ecological problems facing the human race are huge, and they're not going to be solved by amateurs trying to appease their electorates.

October 2021 saw natural gas prices skyrocket, due to restrictions of supply to Europe from Russia. There appears to be no short term solution, since coal and oil fired powerstations have been scrapped and nuclear fission plant takes too long to build. Nuclear fusion is at least ten to thirty years away, whilst there does not appear to be any more existing gas wells that can be turned on, nor any new ones that can be created within a reasonable time scale. This incident shows just how fragile the world's energy supply is during this transitional period towards a zero carbon clean energy environment. On January 3rd, 2022 I learned from Bloomberg that there were 30 LNG carriers crossing the Atlantic Ocean to Europe over Christmas. As a result the bulk price of gas collapsed to twice its level last March. Was this due to my gas tweet on Twitter a few days earlier? Actually it had collapsed a couple of days earlier but I hadn't noticed.

Meanwhile Insulate Britain protesters defied four court injunctions to block the A40, linking the M25 London orbital motorway with the M40 motorway in west London. Insulate Britain's homes appeared to be the only thing HMG could do to reduce families energy bills, but HMG did nothing on the subject. What was the point of fitting heat pumps to homes if they were not well insulated first? And of course there needed to be a means of supplying fresh air to homes via a heat recovery system, and a means of keeping temperatures down during ever more frequent heat waves. And who wants their neat housing estate festooned with these expensive monstrosities, that are likely to get stolen?

In the run up to the COP-26 environment summit in Glasgow in November 2021, there were almost daily warnings issued on global warming. UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) Emissions Gap report stated that the world was on course for a 2.7C rise, not 1.5C, in global warming. The UN framework convention on climate change aims to finalize the rules relating to the Paris accord. The aims are to achieve net zero by 2050, adapt to protect communities and natural habitats, mobilize finance to the tune of $100 billion per annum, and to work together to deliver according to the Paris agreement. The COP series of meetings began in 1995 to solve the problem of global warming, and yet since the industrial revolution starting in 1750, carbon dioxide levels have increased 149%, methane by 262%, and nitrous oxide by 123%. Oceans have become more acidic due to their absorption of CO2. It now has the lowest ph level in 26,000 years with sea levels rising 4.4mm per annum in the last 8 years with the rate increasing due to melting of glaciers, and the Antarctic and Greenland ice caps. With Russia, PRC and India stating that a solution by 2050 is not possible, it has caused the UK prime minister Boris Johnson and Prince Charles to call this 'one minute to midnight' 'at the last chance saloon'. Whilst forty nations pledged to phase out coal by 2050, Russia, India, PRC, USA and Australia decided not to, the first three countries being the largest consumers, whilst Australia is the largest producer of coal.

With the leaders of Russia and the PRC staying away from COP26, and the US President Joe Biden turning up in at least a twenty vehicle convoy, after being seen in a one hundred vehicle convoy the day before at the G20 meeting in Rome, things do not look great, especially as the rest of them turned up in about 400 aircraft. There were 20,000 to 25,000 delegates and visitors from 193 nations, with 503 lobbying for the fossil fuel industries. As for the initial introduction, the walls were bare, when they should have depicted photos of people dying in weather related disasters. I didn't see any stands shown on BBC news relating to zero carbon technology, nor hundreds of civil servants from around the world trained in ecology by the UN. Were any? And where are the UN sponsored movies on global warming? Repeat after repeat of The Day After Tomorrow is wearing a bit thin. The whole setup looked amateurish to me. And when it comes to global problems like this, you can guarantee that there is one solution they will definitely not be discussing, that of a new global professional government, a world technocracy. The protests were well organized and supported, but I got the strong feeling that what was really needed was a global take up of alternatives to plastic, wood, cement, a vegan or vegetarian lifestyle for all, population control and HB11. The latter would kill off the oil and gas industry, along with dams, turbines, alternators and the national grid. Nature will retake the countryside. When will it happen?

In November 2021 Nineteen UK energy companies ceased trading due to the rising cost of natural gas that had now settled at 200p/therm, whilst there were rumours that HMG had secured assurances from Qatar that we would get natural gas from them no matter how much money the PRC was prepared to pay for LNG. At COP26 20 countries agreed to stop fossil fuel projects abroad by 2023. Back in the UK the nation's supermarkets, Tesco, Sainsbury, Waitrose, Co-Op and Marks & Spencer agreed to reduce their packaging, deforestation, food waste, and carbon dioxide emissions by half by 2030, to be monitored by the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature). It was also announced that a course similar to the Duke of Edinburgh's award would be set up covering the environment and climate change, in model curriculum science, by 2023 in the UK.

As if pollution on land, lakes, rivers and in the air wasn't bad enough, big business has now decided to reshape the ocean floor by mining for nickel, cobalt, manganese, copper and other precious metals on the ocean floor in the form of polymetallic nodules the size of tennis balls, deposits of sulphur from hydrothermal vents, and 100mm crust found around the base of seamounts. Mid ocean ridges, where tectonic plates are created, is largely a desolate volcanic region. However in the 1970s, where hot water rises from the ocean floor, rocky chimneys or vents were discovered, around which various life forms were found which live off the sulphides emitted from the vents. Pompeii worms, named after the high seawater temperatures they are found in, exist in large numbers and form the base of the food chain. They live off the bacteria that consume the sulphides. Crabs, mussels and shrimps prey the area in large numbers. The vents last just a few decades, causing these life forms to adopt a nomadic existence. Another anomaly found in 1990 on the sea floor in the Caribbean Sea, are cold soups. These are depressions in eroded limestone, with methane up welling present, that create a lethal gaseous zone of dense water for marine species to swim into. The depressions are surrounded by mussels and bright red worms.

In 2024 rare earth deposits were found near Koruna, northern Sweden and at Fen Carbonatite Complex, owned by Rare Earths Norway in an attempt to remove dependence on sources in China due to the war in Ukraine. Additionally deposits of nickel and cobalt nodules have been found off the coast of Japan. It remains to be seen how the rare earth mining industry shapes up in the near future.

On August 3rd, 2022 it was announced that PFAS chemicals could be found in rain worldwide in dangerous amounts. These chemicals are used in fire fighting foam, non-stick pans and water repellant clothing.

If one looks at the graph on the SciTech Daily website '66 million years of Earth's climate', you see that there was a stable period 14 to 34 million years ago, when the global mean temperature was 4C above 1961 to 1990 levels. The temperature hockey stick which you see in most graphs is placed on the right for comparison. This implies that the tripping point for a runaway greenhouse event lies above this horizontal line at 4C. In the 14 million years since, temperatures have been falling, which implies that methane gas deposits have been rising consistently. This suggests that when temperatures rise above 4C there is likely to be an irreversible temperature rise above the tolerance of human beings, which stands at 35C. Humans can however withstand a temperature of 28C at 50% humidity for prolonged periods. Unfortunately, once the tripping point is reached, frozen methane deposits in permafrost and on the edge of continental shelves, will boil off with no hope of stopping it. This hothouse could last 10 to 100 million years, depending upon methane reserves, etc. Without technologies for air conditioning and food production in biomes or underground, the human population on this planet will collapse. Whilst it could be possible to counter this trend by placing a space mirror at Legrange 1, there is nothing to suggest at the moment, that the necessary intergovernment cooperation would be forth coming.

In September, 2022 it was announced that more than 1700 environmental activists had been killed in the last decade whilst protesting about mining, illegal logging and oil drilling. It was now expected that global air temperature would rise 3C to 5C this century, resulting in a sea level rise of 6 feet by the year 2100. Analysis of sea coral over the last 20,000 years, by Rutgers University, shows that sea levels rose 20m in 500 years. Sea level rise in the twenty-first century is expected to be in the region of 15 to 20 feet. The worst global warming was 50 million years ago when sea levels rose an additional 230 feet, when CO2 levels increased 3 fold, causing polar ice caps to completely melt.

Owing to HMG totalling screwing up the UK's energy industry, I reluctantly decided to upgrade my existing photo-voltaic system, which consisted of 11 panels on the roof amounting to 2.75kW installed 8 years ago. Whilst looking at the performance figures I realised that I should have installed a battery at that time, since my array can produce 8kWh in summer and hopefully 4kWh in winter per day. I live on my own and consume only 1kWh per day. That would leave 3kWh for the electric fire in the lounge in the evening. That may sound tough but I remember living in a B&B in Birmingham in 1972 for at least 6 cold months when there was no central heating, no electric blanket nor hot water bottle and no house insulation. Since I could live on that 3kWh for space heating, weekly shower and monthly washing machine duty, it made me ask the question,'why hadn't I fitted a battery between the panels and inverter when they were first installed? No doubt many PV owners are asking themselves the same question. At the time I did it simply to make money, and no other reason. Now, HMG could offer PV owners a subsidised upgrade. That would reduce the load on power stations and gas installations. It would no doubt also improve the health of many, both physically and psychologically.

I then decided to fit an additional 1.2kW panels on the front wall of my house and get a lithium-iron battery. A battery that would store one days production (7kWh) would cost me about £3,000, and last 20 years. This is based upon what a 4 person family would need, should I choose to sell the property. The vertical PV panels on the front wall were for winter time, since my roof slopes at 68 degrees off vertical, whilst the ideal angle would be 22 degrees off vertical.

A few weeks later I realised that my plan to go off grid had failed. I contacted a number of PV installers, but they were not interested because the contract, just 3 panels, was not large enough. I eventually found out belatedly that you cannot connect new panels to old ones due to a mismatch in voltages. Also I would need to replace my inverter with a hybrid inverter, that would include a battery controller and at least 4 batteries, each costing about £500. Unfortunately the industry had run out of batteries and was now awaiting a delivery from the PRC expected in November. I now felt apprehensive as I had already given notice to SSE. My accounts would close on October 10th, so I quickly wrote to them cancelling the cancellation. Would they? I had also cancelled their standing orders with my bank, and I didn't know how to reverse that. So why hadn't HMG, electricity suppliers and the PV industry warned me before the photo-voltaics was fitted?

If global mean temperature is directly linked to the amount of greenhouse gases CO2 (carbon dioxide) and CH4 (methane) in the Earth's atmosphere, then according to the above chart, the human race and just about all land dwelling creatures are doomed, unless these two gases can be reduced to normal levels immediately. How do we do that when it won't be before 2035 that nuclear fusion by laser ignition can go into mass production. Sustained nuclear fusion within a Tokamak will probably take a similar amount of time. Even when it's viable, there is no guarantee that governments will allow their fossil fueled power stations to be converted or replaced. CO2 and CH4 levels have gone stratospheric. It will take 150 years for these amounts to get back to normal by natural means, during which time atmospheric temperatures will increase. As that happens, a tripping point will inevitably be reached, resulting in methane deposits in the tundra regions and on the world's continental shelves to boil off. Nothing can be done to stop it. The hysteresis forces of nature are likely to outweigh any forces that the human race can mount against it. The boil off may last centuries. It all depends upon how much vegetable matter has been stored by nature over the millennia, since the end of the last ice age 12,000 years ago, and possibly beyond that. The Arctic ice cap will disappear by 2050, resulting in an ever warmer climate for Greenland, whose ice cap is already melting, and will inevitably collapse over a period of about one century, creating a huge number of icebergs. This will cause problems for shipping from icebergs, with container and oil terminals handicapped due to sea level rise. Off-shore wind farms could be toppled.

At this point, civilisation as we know it will start to collapse. These icebergs will initially drift towards the Greenland-Iceland-Faroes-Orkney-Pentland gaps, ultimately blocking them. The icebergs will fill the north Atlantic Ocean, freeze drying the south-westerly winds that blow over northern Europe. This will cause temperatures to oscilate wildly, making farming impossible. The icebergs will create a physical barrier, stopping the gulf stream. The north Atlantic drift will be no more. An ice sheet will then form making road and rail communication impossible inland. Evacuation to the south will be dependent upon large scale desalination, due to water shortages in countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea. It is likely that civilisation will collapse due to constant high temperatures in excess of 30C. This mini ice age will last 100 years, during which sea levels will rise due to the melting of Antarctica. Coasting habitats will be flooded, whilst a substantial number of species will become extinct, unless organisations provide underground refuges. The entire human species may have to live underground for centuries, employing hydroponic techniques to grow food, until temperatures have reached acceptable levels. It may well be that humans will have to be bioengineered to withstand high temperatures. It may take nature five to ten million years to return the Earth's ecosystem to how it is today, unless the human race provides massive assistance. Unless a world technocracy is created, all this sacrifice will have been for nothing.

In mid 2023 it was announced that ships using the Panama canal would be restricted for 36 to 32 per day, with a restriction on the maximum draught of the vessel, due to a drought in the region. The warning came too late for many shipping companies, as by September 2023 there were 100 ships at both ends of the Panama Canal waiting for permission to enter. With the emergence of El Nino in the Pacific Ocean the situation is likely to get worse. Mid 2023 also saw record atmospheric temperatures in USA, PRC and the Mediterranean Sea region of Europe and north Africa. At the same time there was also serious conjecture as to when the north Atlantic drift (an extension of the gulf stream from the Caribbean Sea) would cease functioning, due to melt waters cooling it from the Arctic and Greenland. The average ocean temperature on planet Earth had now risen to a record 20.96C. That's roughly a rise of 0.3C per decade. it's now known that photosynthesis ceases in some plants and trees at a temperature of 46.7C, and in some parts of the world heat waves already reach that. 96% of animals on the planet are either human beings, their pets or farm animals. Environmentally acceptable alternatives for meat, wood, cement and the like, are long overdue, but these decisions are held up because governments will not abandon capitalism. And as for population control; this is not going to correct itself, since many large families are large for religious reasons.

As if global warming wasn't bad enough, there will soon be a shortage of phosphorus, which forms a major part of fertilizer. It is not recyclable, although it could be recovered from human urine. Phosphate mining could last for 80 years, after which there are organic alternatives.

Please, also read section 8 in the introduction, on the subject of global warming, including alternatives to concrete and plastic. Also 28...Zero Carbon Requires Drastic Change In Lifestyle

This global disaster is primarily caused by the failure of politicians to realise that the problem is fundamentally caused by rising levels of CO2 and methane, not air temperature. The failure of governments to extract these gases from the atmosphere, now, and stop creating more by shutting down major construction projects, like the wall in Saudi Arabia, and the global economy, clearly shows that our leaders are not intelligent and authoritative enough to solve this problem. Extracting CO2 and CH4 from the atmosphere will require huge amounts of cheap energy to power CCS (Carbon Capture & Storage) facilities, but that is no more available than is global cooperation on other matters.

Forty countries have agreed to reduce their carbon emissions to net zero by 2050. It remains to be seen whether they achieve that aim, and whether it comes soon enough. So just how many new and converted power stations would you need to produce the existing levels of electricity without producing any more greenhouse gases. I asked Bing AI:

Copilot: To reduce greenhouse gas levels to those seen in 1900 within 10 years, we need to take significant and concerted actions. Let’s break it down:

Current Emissions: Global greenhouse gas emissions have increased significantly since 1900 due to industrialization, population growth, and fossil fuel use. In 1900, emissions were much lower compared to today.

Challenges: Achieving such a drastic reduction in a decade is extremely challenging. We need to consider not only power stations but also other sectors like transportation, industry, and agriculture.

Power Stations: Let’s focus on power stations. To estimate the number of 1.6 GW power stations needed, we'll use some assumptions: Assume that all power stations are zero-emission (e.g., nuclear, renewables). We'll calculate based on direct CO2 emissions avoided per 1 GW of installed capacity.

Emission Reduction: According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), 1 GW of installed capacity can avoid approximately 2.5 million metric tons of CO2 emissions annually 1. To reach 1900 emission levels, we need to reduce emissions by a significant amount.

Estimation: Let’s calculate: 1900 global CO2 emissions: Not precisely available, but significantly lower than today. 2020 global CO2 emissions: Approximately 37 billion metric tons 2.

Reduction needed: 37 billion - X = 1900 emissions (where X is the emissions from the new power stations). Math: Let’s solve for X:

X = 37 billion - 1900 emissions

X = 37 billion - (1900 emissions)

X ≈ 37 billion metric tons

Power Stations Needed:

Each 1.6 GW power station avoids 2.5 million metric tons of CO2 emissions annually.

Number of power stations needed:

37 billion / (2.5 million) = 14,800 power stations.

Reality Check: Building and deploying 14,800 power stations in 10 years is unrealistic due to infrastructure, funding, and environmental considerations. We must also address emissions from other sectors.

Holistic Approach: Achieving 1900 levels requires a holistic approach: Energy efficiency. Renewable energy adoption. Carbon capture and storage. Behavioral changes. Policy support.

Conclusion: While the specific number of power stations is challenging to achieve, we must work collectively to reduce emissions across all sectors and transition to a sustainable future. Remember, this is a simplified estimation. Real-world efforts involve complex interactions and trade-offs. Let’s continue our journey toward a greener planet! 🌍🌱

Learn more: 1...iea.org 2...weforum.org 3...gov.uk 4...brookings.edu 5...news.un.org 6...gov.uk

1.6 GW is the output of one nuclear fission reactor at Sizewell C in the UK, which is very large compared to other reactors. The net output of electricity from ITER Tokamak is projected to be 200MW, but in reality will output only heat as it is experimental. It's clear that we need a production line of reactors made from relatively small components. The laser ignition HB11 fusion reactor currently being designed by HB11 Energy in Australia may fit this requirement. Whether a flat pack Tokamak design can materialize in the near future remains to be seen. This calculation does not consider the extraction and sequestration of greenhouse gases currently in the atmosphere. So I asked Bing AI:

Copilot: The total amount of greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere is typically measured in carbon dioxide-equivalents (CO₂e). This metric combines the effects of various greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide (CO₂), methane (CH₄), nitrous oxide (N₂O), and smaller trace gases like hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and sulfur hexafluoride (SF₆).

As of recent data, the total global greenhouse gas emissions in 2018 amounted to approximately 6,677 million metric tons of CO₂ equivalent 1. To put this into perspective, each part per million (ppm) of CO₂ in the atmosphere represents roughly 2.13 gigatonnes of carbon or 7.82 gigatonnes of CO₂2.

In other words, the Earth’s atmosphere contains an immense quantity of greenhouse gases, and their impact on our climate is a critical concern. Efforts to reduce emissions and mitigate climate change are essential for the well-being of our planet. 🌍🌿

Learn more: 1...19january2021snapshot.epa.gov 2...en.wikipedia.org 3...ourworldindata.org 4...oee.nrcan.gc.ca 5...epa.gov

6,677 million metric tons represents 267 nuclear power stations over 10 years. Do we have the necessary raw materials to make the super conductors and lenses? It is likely that the reactors would be much smaller, and hence more needed, probably by a factor of 4. It would probably take nature 150 years to reduce this to 1900 levels otherwise. But do we have 10 years, plus of course all the prevaricating from governments in the mean time? They are fighting terrorists and amongst themselves instead of fighting to reduce greenhouse gas levels. And how long will it take for the technology to go into mass production? There is a likelihood that a methane boil-off from the tundra regions and from the edge of the world's continental shelves, will precede such an outcome. There is no way that the human race can stop this boil-off by conventional means.

Should the Greenland ice cap collapse and trigger a mini ice age across northern Europe, it could stop most, if not all, of the boil-off. Failing that, it will probably be necessary to nuke Greenland with hundreds of atomic bombs, say one per month. Northern Europe would be a right off, but then the entire human civilisation would be written off if governments did nothing. There is of course the nuclear fall-out to consider. The northern hemisphere could well become uninhabitable, with the detonation of say 1000 nuclear warheads over time. There is an alternative, but again it requires politicians to press the nuclear button. They could target supervolcanoes to cool down the entire northern hemisphere. Yellowstone, Canary Islands, Bay of Naples (Phlegraean Fields), Santorini, etc. Chapter 20 lists 33 sites, some of which maybe extinct, whilst others are in the southern hemisphere and may therefore not be relevant. It is unlikely that nuclear fusion technology will be available in time. A global effort should therefore be made to build huge PVAs (photo-voltaic arrays), geo-thermal power stations and wind farms to power CCS (carbon capture & Storage) facilities. Focusing in on a national effort is not good enough. Trading in carbon credits only lengthens the process and distracts from the overbearing seriousness of the situation.

This threat has the capability to wipe out most life on this planet. Even if humans survive, what kind of a world will we inherit? Major construction projects should be stopped now. The global economy must be scaled back. It's time politicians had vision, to see beyond the thermometer, to realise that even after the greenhouse gas levels have fallen, the hysteresis effect will ensure that it will take many years for our oceans and atmosphere to cool down to safe levels. We all live on just one pale blue dot. There is no planet B.

Global warming isn't the only threat to the human race from its environment. The pollution of air, land and sea, caused by natural and man made disasters, company greed, irresponsible management, wars, over population and migration outstripping a government's ability to manage affairs, etc., have all conspired to lower the quality of life for people in many nations. As AI encroaches further into the global economy, people will get poorer, particularly in the third world, where matters will only get worse.

For pollution in space read Ideas> chapter 16 Space Research> page 6> lines 7 to 17.

January 7th, 2025...Fires started at a number of locations around the USA's second largest city, Los Angeles, the city of angels. With a population of 4 million people spread over miles of scrub covered hillside, consisting of woody shrubs with thick leathery leaves, known as chaparral, it was a place frequented by brush fires. The suburbs stretched for miles because in the distant past, big business bought up the tram system, then shut it down, forcing everyone to buy cars. Eventually thousands of Tesla EVs. Fanned by 100mph Santa Anna winds, which can swiftly change direction, the fires quickly spread, transmitted by millions of burning embers. The embers set fire to hedges and shrubs in gardens, which then ignited homes, mainly wooden framed single storey low pitched bungalows. The homes set fire to neighbouring homes, each one valued at around $1.5 million. L.A. had an abundance of the most expensive real estate in the country, costing tens of millions each, many owned by music and movie celebrities or their offspring. One irreplaceable target was the Getty Villa, a Roman villa style classical art and archaeological museum set up by the 'all the money in the world' billionaire Jean Paul Getty, where his body resides. It survived the Pacific Palisades fire ...only just...this time. With flames and fire tornadoes racing across the length of a football pitch in seconds, there was nothing the fire service could do to contain them. The opportunity to do that had come and gone, with politicians failing to learn from the Bel Air fire in 1961 which saw 484 homes destroyed, Paradise community fire in 2018 which saw 18,804 structures destroyed and 85 deaths, Lahaina, Hawaii in 2023 which saw 102 dead and 2207 structures destroyed.

From 2020 to 2022 as a result of all the brush fires recently in California, the insurance industry refused to insure incidents created by global warming, namely large fires, floods, hurricanes and earthquakes. The insurance sector appeared to be siding with the oil industry, by investing an estimated $536 billion in the US fossil fuel industry. L.A.'s growth was based upon thousands of lucrative, long term, crude oil wells, plus the entertainment's industry, space research and the sea port. Earthquakes are of course caused by fracking. The insurance sector was now concentrating upon creating wealth, not taking on risk. For many clients, it was insurance in name only. Some home owners had their insurance policies cancelled just four months prior to the L.A. fire of 2025. Of course if your home was fireproof, then you would not be so dependent upon insurance. For timber framed homes, the walls should have a stucco cement exterior, whilst underneath the cladding should be gypsum. The roof should be flat or shallow sloping, covered in zinc with gypsum underneath. On flat roofs in less hot areas, these are covered in plant life, namely water loving succulents. Windows should not face sources of fire such as neighbouring buildings. They should also be double glazed, with either glazing that reflects radiant heat, or protected by automatically closing stainless steel shutters. It is advisable to also install an automatic internal and external sprinkler system connected to your swimming pool. Also do not plant trees and shrubs within ten metres of your home. Keep a fire pump, fire fighter clothing and hose handy, to soak your garden plants, sheds, fences, facade, etc. Keep your valuables, including legal documents in a strong room, which has a steel door and door frame, set into reinforced concrete walls, with no vents and windows. Replace wooden out houses, garages, car ports and fences with similar made from steel or concrete material. For pitched roofs, seal up vents along the ridge and eaves. Also have your home monitored remotely by a security company. The chances are that when disaster strikes, you'll not be at home to tackle it. And always have a back-up plan, bag of essential items, and evacuation route that isn't going to be jammed with exiting traffic. A motor bike or bicycle? For those blessed with extensive wild gardens, control the chaparral with jackrabbits, goats and deer. Usually the simplest solution is the best. If you're building a home from scratch, do it with lightweight materials, which don't crush you to death during an earthquake. And remember to keep your carbon footprint low.

By January 13th, 2025 there were thousands of fire fighters employed vainly trying to contain at least five large fires surrounding L.A., with many shipped in from other fire services, including some from Canada and Mexico. Due to the steep terrain, many fires could only be accessed from the air. Water bombs, many marked with pink dyes, to help pilots on their successive runs at the same target, were dropped by airliners, sea planes, helicopters, including Chinooks, but even a direct hit on a house, would not put out all of the flames. Water pressure became a problem, as the water consumed from tanks exceeded the refill rate. Blame was put on the local authorities fire service budget cut, but the fact is that no steps taken could have prevented this disaster, or could it? Would the community have been prepared to pay for the construction of community swimming pools designed to supply water to fire engines, pay higher energy prices to enable power lines to be buried, pay for CCTV to detect fires as they start, and deploy fire fighting drones automatically? Would they have been willing to pay for seeding of the clouds, to generate rain? It had not rained substantially since September. Would they have been willing to have their villas coated in unattractive fire proof paint, and agreed the removal of their favourite hedges and shrubs? Having a high water content, with high or few branches, the palms and monkey puzzle trees could stay. Would they have been willing to hand in their guns, so that deer could wander freely amongst their estates and surrounding hillsides unmolested, to eat up the brush, which the community would then rake up and dispose of on a regular basis? All these ideas would have to be enshrined by regulations and monitored over the years, at what cost? Would these political decisions have been implemented by an AI advised technocracy?

That brings us to the cause of these fires in L.A. which consumed 35,000 acres, at least 15,000 structures in six days, and resulted in 27 deaths. Were they accidental, or was it arson? Was it God's wrath for supporting the genocide of the Palestinian people, or Putin's wrath for their support for Ukraine? No matter what the political, legal and insurance decisions are, one thing is certain. These fires will happen again and again. Will anyone be ready? And let's not forget all those families who have been made homeless. Six years after the Paradise fire in 2018, only one third of the population has returned. This is clearly not acceptable for L.A. because of its importance to the Californian economy. Since private enterprise won't build the homes fast enough, at an affordable price, the local authority will have to do it. It will be necessary to 3D print fire proof homes, fit for the twenty-first century. That will require 30 3D printing machines working night and day to construct the 15,000 homes in just 2 years. Any time period more than that would have a detrimental impact on the local economy. They would be adobe style, with steerable photo-voltaics on the flat roof. This is the minimum acceptable, costing around $100,000, not including land, furniture and PVAs. That's $1.2 billion in total. It's not what I promote on my website, which are biomes.

For biomes, go to
https://www.world-technocracy-now.earth/Ideas_28-1...Zero_Carbon_Requires_Change_In_Lifestyle.php
which are far more complicated and expensive homes, designed to combat social problems, global warming and welfare dependency. I promote an off-grid biome for an extended family of about 8 people. They would live in a switchable privacy glass house, inside a geodesic dome, in which to grow food, produce artificial meats and cook meals in the mealie maestro. Humans would live inside the dome, whilst animals would have a free range outside. There would be a 5m wide shallow moat around the biome for wildlife to drink from, and serve as a barrier to fires. Wouldn't it be better to import biomes from China, than have their automotive industry decimate ours? When the PRC retails home made EVs costing less than $10,000 in China, surely it makes economic sense to mass produce millions of biomes there for export instead? An alternative product from China that almost everyone will want, are nuclear fusion power stations. I can't see import tariffs being imposed on them.

These fires may have long term repercussions for everyone. Last December 4th in New York city, Luigi Mangione is believed to have shot dead insurance CEO Brian Thompson. As anger mounts towards the insurance sector, his trial outcome is not a foregone conclusion. But this may pale into insignificance when people realise the full cost of supporting Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people. Speculation as to the cause of the L.A. fires is rife. Some think it was caused by litter, namely broken bottles acting as a magnifying glass, or a spent cigarette end, or overhead power cables arcing to earth via trees. But there maybe a far more ominous cause. Some blame it on the cities numerous down and outs, high on meths, setting fire to the US establishment. But it could also be caused by Russian agents. The United States is at war with Russia in the Ukraine. As the USG send billions of weapons and ammunition to Israel, it is generating a huge backlash amongst government officials in Washington DC. Many have resigned in protest, whilst others may have become Russian agents. This is not far fetched. In WWII hundreds of government officials spied for Russia because of USG's failure to stop the holocaust of Jews and Slavs in Nazi concentration camps. Whilst their radio messages were detected, and years later deciphered, the identities of many were never ascertained. It was only with the Berlin airlift that many ceased supporting the USSR. One of those to quit in 1948, was the British nuclear scientist Klaus Fuchs. This danger was well known to the CIA, so why did they go ahead with this abominable plan to crush Palestine. Are some employees of the CIA double agents, working for Russia? There are many housing estates in the USA composed mainly of timber framed structures. Many have gone up in flames in recent years. It doesn't take much to start a fire, combined with drought and high winds. Just a match box and chemical timer, dropped by an insignificant drone. If the GRU didn't start the L.A. fires, you can be certain that they are now thinking about it. And of course the problem doesn't stop there. Support for this genocide from the French and British governments is also likely to back fire. Warehouses have gone up in flames, airlines downed, F-35 in the Med, undersea cables and pipes severed, whilst even a disused British military satellite has been mysteriously moved. Where does it end? The L.A. fires will generate distrust amongst NATO members, and could well prove catastrophic on the battlefield, as stolen military secrets are enacted upon. Of course what you are reading here never happened, and only the redacted truth will become known in fifty to one hundred years time. No doubt Hollywood will get its revenge, when the establishment refuses to rebuild in an acceptable time scale, by making a movie of this betrayal. 'World Technocracy Now'

However, Hollywood or rather the lack of it, could well prove the death knell for L.A. No doubt many wild fire survivors work in the local film industry, many on a contract basis. Living in a norovirus infected evacuation shelter is not practical if you want a healthy good night's sleep, ready for work the next day. You probably rented the property that went up in flames, and now don't even have a plot to place a mobile home on. Your car probably went up in flames also, whilst even a second hand automobile or RV (Recreational Vehicle) is now prohibitively expensive. Fire zones were then declared hazardous zones due to lithium ion batteries, etc. With rents now at about $10,000 per month, that leaves tents on the pavement, amongst all those down and outs you ignored on your commute, or how about a more solid investment within the hollow concrete supports of the overhead rapid transit system. The alternative is to return to your roots, at your parent's or in-law's home, and admit that your career is over. Such a scenario could well prove to be the catalyst that will destroy L.A. Movies could end up being created by a combination of AI, CGI (Computer Generated Imagery), cheap digital cameras and virtual actors, supervised by humans located all over the world. And all because the local authority has no appreciation of the importance of time. Telling home owners to rebuild when their insurance is invalid, whilst they are simply too old to get a job, is clearly an admission of incompetence. The local authority must clean up, 3D print homes and offer cut price mortgages and jobs to the home owner and family, probably in land & disaster management with the California Conservation Corp, or to implement a new set of building regulations. There were over 75,000 people homeless in Los Angeles county in 2024. 76,175 bridges need replacing and 221,800 repaired in the USA. 42 of 1,540 dams in California need repairing. The job opportunities are there, but the state's budget deficit prohibits hiring without raising taxes, something that Americans detest. Whilst the average home in L.A. can cost $1 million, the average worker only earns $90,000 per annum in 2024. The American dream is not cheap. Seeing a forest of excavators building a Covid-19 pandemic hospital in the PRC in a matter of days, is the sort of lightening response that is needed, if L.A.'s economy is to be saved. When the heavy rains and soil erosion sweep across these charred lands, blocking rivers and polluting reservoirs, will the local authority still display the usual lethargy, incompetence and corruption that one sees in a democratic capitalist system prevail. Generally speaking US citizens are obese drug addicts ruled over by an elderly senile system overdue for change. Something has to give.

As for the global insurance industry, it should be shut down, and the funds handed over to local authorities to manage in disaster relief and reconstruction, as clearly they do not believe in risk management. One only has to go to a price comparison web site as an ex-offender, and see the hundreds of insurance companies that are not prepared to insure you or your home, and home contents, even though your crime may have nothing to do with money or fraud. The way insurance companies all acted together in removing insurance cover, without adequate notice and alternatives, suggests a cartel, which is illegal. Whilst local government may blame the oil industry for the global warming which resulted in these fires, the fact is that local government was more to blame because it failed to manage the plant life in the area. They should have removed the highly inflammable chaparral, replacing it with hardy but edible grass, which would be kept under control by animals such as deer, and a resurrected mammoth or two. And of course, the people of California will have to be disarmed.