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The Bulletin: June 5-11, 2025
The Bulletin: June 5-11, 2025
This past week’s articles of interest…
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In the Sightlines of Empire: The Gift and Curse of Thermal Optics
The Superfood That Replaces Every Toxic Oil in Your Kitchen
Why Analysts Misjudge Oil’s Future | Art Berman
CO2 is Good For You – by Ugo Bardi – Living Earth
‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
India-Pakistan conflict over water reflects a region increasingly vulnerable to climate change
The Untold Story Of How Water and Plants Already Cool Our Climate
U.S. and Global Money Supply Surges to Record Highs
Trust, Dirt, and Firelight: Shared Answers for a Collapsing World
A GPS Blackout Would Shut Down the World | WIRED
Dark Irony: 75th Anniversary Edition Of Orwell’s 1984 Comes With Trigger Warnings – modernity
The Ratchet Effect: Easy To Spend More, Spending Less Triggers Collapse
Short Bursts Of Movement Ignite Calorie Burn
WHERE TO DIG: Forging a Collapse-Aware Grower Community in the City, Suburb, or Country.
India Central Bank Shocks With Biggest Rate Cut Since Covid As Growth, Inflation Stall | ZeroHedge
Our Atmosphere’s Growing Thirst Is a Hidden Cause of Worsening Droughts : ScienceAlert
The Cultural Consequences of Inflation | Mises Institute
Five Things to Know if Martial Law is Declared and How to Prepare
Small Modular Hallucinations – The Honest Sorcerer
The Real Energy Crisis No One’s Talking About
The Carbon Capture Mirage: Why We’re Betting on a Fantasy
The End of the Fiat Currency Experiment, in Seven Charts
Collapse Revisited: How do we Stand in Terms of Existential Risks?
War Is Peace, Gas Is Now “Clean Energy”
Get To Work – by Rachel Donald – Planet: Critical
UK: Mainstream Beliefs Meet the Terror Watchlist
Democracy Is the Ideal Distraction – Doug Casey’s International Man
Capitalism Doesn’t Want You To Survive What’s Coming – George Tsakraklides
Energy and debt – by Gunnar Rundgren
New study shows huge groundwater losses along Colorado River | Grist
What Should / Can / Could / Will We Do?
The New World Order’s Endgame – OffGuardian
Secret Document: Is Germany’s Bundeswehr Preparing to Wage War on Russia? – Global Research
Test Case for Martial Law? What Trump Might Really Be Doing In Los Angeles.
AMOC decline linked to increased dry season rainfall in parts of the Amazon rainforest
Scientific Publishing: Enough is Enough – by Seemay Chou
Could AI Decide to Kill All Humans to Save the Planet?
WE ARE BEING AMUSED AND ABUSED TO DEATH – The Burning Platform
How Power Turns Chaos Into Currency
European Union Unveils International Strategy Pushing Digital ID Systems and Online Censorship
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The Bulletin: February 13-19, 2025
The Bulletin: February 13-19, 2025
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What Will Energy Dominance Be Used For? – by Arthur Berman
Thirsty For Solutions, Water Scarcity Grips Iraq
Humans will Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
The Double Bind of Collapse | how to save the world
Ecological Collapse Supersedes Financial Collapse
The Crisis Report – 101 – by Richard Crim
We Are the Stewards of Our Future – by Nate Hagens
On Human (Over)Population – by Andrea P
Shell’s Flawed Report: The 2025 Energy Security Scenarios
Earthconomics 101: There Is a Killer on the Loose – George Tsakraklides
The War for Mineral Non-Resources – by Ugo Bardi
Are We Doomed? – Biocentric with Max Wilbert
The Tug of War Between Forests and Oceans
The Psychology of Collapse: A Deep Dive in Human Misbehavior
From the Archives: The Epic Failure Of Modern Experts
The Shape of Things to Come – The Honest Sorcerer
Plant Once, Harvest Forever: 15 Perennial Veggies for Endless Abundance – Garden Beds
Humans Are The Only Animal That Willingly Destroys Their Own Home
How America will collapse (by 2025) | Salon.com
AMOC Collapse: The Looming Climate Catastrophe & Global Consequences
The West Faces Uranium Shortage Amid Competition From China and Russia
Money as an Agent of Death – George Tsakraklides
The Story You’ve Been Told About Recycling Is a Lie
Prepping isn’t just for preppers anymore—it’s time to get a go-bag | Popular Science
The Bulletin: October 31-November 6, 2024
The Bulletin: October 31-November 6, 2024
They Are Scrubbing the Internet Right Now
EU Warns “Citizens” To Prepare For A Nuclear Disaster | SHTF Plan
Our Nation Is about to Reap the Whirlwind of All Lies we’ve Told
They’re doing what they’re accusing us of doing – American Thinker
Death toll from Spain floods passes 200 as rescue teams search for missing
World War III has already begun, JP Morgan boss says
TV documentary on collapse readiness
Europe’s Gas Crisis Isn’t Over Despite Full Storage
The Collapse of Complex Societies – Professor Joseph Tainter
The Empire of Lies – by Ugo Bardi – The Seneca Effect
War. War Never Changes. – The Honest Sorcerer
DDoS Attack Cripples Archive.org: The Next Information War Front?
After The Storms, The Toxic Secrets Left Behind
How to…Rig Your Rigged Elections – OffGuardian
Escobar: The Roadblocks Ahead For The Sovereign Harmonious Multi-Nodal World | ZeroHedge
Rising hunger predicted across 16 global hotspots – The Watchers
Rainwater samples reveals it’s literally raining ‘forever chemicals’ in Miami
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: The Limits of Government
Record Number Of Americans Plagued By Drought Amid Crop Damage Fears | ZeroHedge
Game Of Chess: US Prepares Next Move With More B-52s, Warships To Middle East | ZeroHedge
Our Fragile Infrastructure: Lessons From Hurricane Helene – Global Research
Global water supply faces unprecedented stress | Climate & Capitalism
Open comment post: the AMOC shutdown and the future of agriculture
It’s time to move on to pastures new from my Saying NO… book, as I mentioned in my last post. Seems like an opportune moment to try an ‘open comment’ post to signal the change of direction, an idea I trailed at the start of the year.
What I think emerged from that discussion was for me to suggest a broad topic and perhaps a few talking points from it and then to see where things went in the discussion. Kind of like a normal post! Back then, Ruben wrote “ I would love to hear your thoughts on AMOC shutdown, drought, more frequent extreme weather, and other growing challenges for agriculture. That might be a good topic for an open post.” Indeed I believe it would be, so let’s go with that.
In case this is unfamiliar, the ‘AMOC’ is the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the major current system in the Atlantic Ocean, involving the northward flow of warm water and the southward flow of colder water which helps moderate the climate of both colder high-latitude countries and warmer low-latitude ones. Studies have suggested that present human-caused climate change could result in the shutdown of the AMOC, the consequences for both colder and warmer countries within this Atlantic system being, not to overstate the case … very bad.
A recent study that models AMOC shutdown has put the heebie-jeebies up a lot of people, including me – see Prof Stefan Rahmstorf’s summary here. Seems like we could be on course for an AMOC shutdown tipping point within the next seventy years with 95 percent confidence…
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Will AMOC Kill Us All?
Draft script:
You’ve probably heard a lot about the AMOC, which is short for the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current. Based on my awkward pronunciation of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current, you can understand why I prefer the acronym, AMOC. With this video, I will provide an overview of the AMOC, including how it threatens to rapidly cool a significant portion of Earth. I will then explain why I’m skeptical of this outcome.
CNN published an article on 26 July 2023 titled A crucial system of ocean currents is heading for a collapse that ‘would affect every person on the planet.’ The first two paragraphs follow:
“A vital system of ocean currents could collapse within a few decades if the world continues to pump out planet-heating pollution, scientists are warning – an event that would be catastrophic for global weather and ‘affect every person on the planet.’”
“A new study published Tuesday in the journal Nature found that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current – of which the Gulf Stream in a part – could collapse around the middle of the century, or even as early as 2025.”
The paper was published in Nature Communications, not Nature. But I digress.
It is no exaggeration to claim that the AMOC is critical to the continued retention of habitat for life on Earth. It is a complex tangle of currents that, among other things, works like a giant conveyor belt that transports warm water from the tropics toward the North Atlantic. At this point, the water cools and becomes saltier. It therefore sinks deep into the ocean before spreading south. Importantly, the AMOC contributes to the regulation of global weather patterns. Its collapse would trigger extreme winters and rising sea levels in western Europe and the northeastern United States. Further from home, a collapsed AMOC would shift the timing and magnitude of the tropical monsoon.
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