Peter Wadhams founded AMEG and then he was forced out of Cambridge - a Sam Carana Arctic-news connection?

 https://1250now.org/library/ -- this is a "splinter group" formed out of AMEG and Sam Carana is listed as a supporter of the group yet Maria Carmen Solana's name is missing from the long list of supporters.... 

 https://groups.google.com/g/geoengineering/c/dKTwWNrNp2c?pli=1

Interesting tidbit below from Ken Caldeira of Stanford:
"I have repeatedly asked John Nissen to remove my name ..."
Google Groups
https://groups.google.com › geoengineering
"Jun 6, 2013 — I have repeatedly asked John Nissen to remove my name from AMEG website and he has not complied with my requests.....John,

I see I am listed on the page:   http://ameg.me/index.php/about-ameg 

While you are literally correct in saying that my advice was sought and obtained, listing my name is giving people the impression that I approve of AMEG statements."
So much for the "working group" hahaha
Ken Caldeira

Carnegie Institution for Science 
Dept of Global Ecology
260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA
John replies!
"Your request is rather baffling, since you have been extremely supportive of me, and have produced papers showing how SRM geoengineering could be used for cooling the Arctic - which is the basis of the hope from AMEG that something can be done to save the sea ice. " Wow....
And a third reply:
"At AMEG meetings there has never been  - any time - suggestion that there is a preference to geoengineering." Veli Albert Kallio
Veli Albert Kallio  Vice President at Sea Research Society and heading our Environmental Affairs Department. 
Jim Lee responds: "AMEG not only has a preference for geoengineering, but appears to endorse methane hydrate fracking as an alternative to a clathrate gun doom scenario."....

https://independent.academia.edu/VeliAlbertKallio 

Interesting research! https://www.facebook.com/john.scheve.2025

We have now an Extinction Level Event in the world oceans as uppermost ocean warming has reached such high levels due to:

1) increasing uppermost ocean stratification and mixed layer thinning as greenhouse gas concentrations continue rising

2) the increasing Earth Energy Imbalance acceleration

3) increasing cloud reduction rates accelerating in response to sea surface warming accelerating

4) polar sea ice losses accelerating

5) ocean eddies of the worlds’ major boundary currents increasingly growing in size and speed at the sea surface which adds even more heat to the system (image).

We have started runaway warming. Not anywhere near “Venus level” runaway warming of course but we are now on a path to + 2 degrees C of warming above the 1880-1920 average baseline by about 2030, + 3 C by about 2040 and probably sooner, and roughly + 8 C or higher by about 2100. Anything over about + 3 C leads to massive numbers of human deaths and our eventual virtual extinction.

We must immediately throw everything we have at the problem, the greatest challenge in human history. We must not only massively and rapidly reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. We must also forge and launch an all out immediate international effort to develop new methods and technologies and deploy them to massively and efficiently sequester greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Period the end or we are toast.

 Heat Index with humidity of 125 F in India!! 

 

 

 

Organic Spirulina Powder in five pound bulk - big savings: Chloroplast City!!!

 I just ordered five pounds of organic spirulina powder!! Why? Well I eat spirulina powder every night - it is excellent for eye health - and overall health. If I had bought the "normal" size of 4 ounce jars of spirulina organic powder it would cost $300 to get 5 pounds worth! Instead it cost $75 to buy five pounds worth as bulk (including shipping/tax cost)...

I saved my Now jars from my previous spirulina organic powder purchases so I can transfer to three jars the amount to use and store the rest. The stored spirulina will make the refrigerator more efficient in the summer as air loses cooling much faster than bulk mass.

 

 

 NOW was out of their "one pound" jar size of organic spirulina power but I have also saved their one pound size!! So I can transfer 20% of the five pounds to the one pound...

Wow how big will five pounds be? I just ordered three pounds of organic fair trade Equal-Exchange coffee and I transferred that into a second bag - so split it into two bags to store in the freezer.... and I have already used up a lot...

 I've been out of spirulina for two or three days and so I'm going through withdrawal. The chlorophyll is from nonlocal blue-green photosynthesis - the most efficient energy transfer on Earth!!

We could solve abrupt global warming if we promoted algae but instead the phytoplankton are being killed off....phytoplankton includes algae but some algae are not phytoplankton? Oh wait ALL algae are phytoplankton but some phytoplankton are not algae:

 Photosynthetic bacteria: Such as cyanobacteria (often referred to as blue-green algae), which are primitive but incredibly abundant... the primary group of phytoplankton that are not true algae are cyanobacteria

 Unlike true algae, which have membrane-bound nuclei (eukaryotes), cyanobacteria are primitive, single-celled organisms with no defined nucleus (prokaryotes).

 Cynaobacteria, which used to be considered prokaryotic algae, lacks both a nucleus and complex membrane-bound organelles, namely chloroplasts and mitochondria.

 wait - how do they do photosynthesis without chloroplasts?! OK AI is wrong again!! "Even though cyanobacteria are photosynthetic and aquatic, the only relation that the group has to algae is the chloroplast." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytoplankton

Actually phytoplankton is a catch-all of diversity.... so anyway...

 

 I think I get a huge box of spirulina now?

 

 Wow!! I wonder what's in the box? 1 pound bags? Or one HUGE bag of five pounds? hahahaha.

Good thing I saved my NOW Spirulina containers...  Yeah I'm sure that box has FIVE of the below:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How the West Undevelops the World! Anthea Lawson

 https://substack.com/@anthealawson

How the west underdevelops the world

The consequences of aid cuts, especially sudden ones, are devastating for communities that are receiving help or medical care. The Lancet predicted that by 2030 the US’s aid cuts alone could result in 14 million deaths - a third of them children under five. Aid organisations and donor agencies are in turmoil trying to work out what to do.

Yet aid is not the whole story. As Global South scholars have shown, and activists have named for decades, the really big money moves in the other direction. The title of Walter Rodney’s 1972 work How Europe Underdeveloped Africa says it all. The poorest countries continue to lose much more to the rich world than they receive in aid, because the rules of the world economy are rigged in favour of richer countries.

The World Bank and IMF have been pushing a neoliberal agenda for decades. They have made loans conditional on spending cuts; privatisation and deregulation; and forcing markets open for foreign companies. Between 2016 and 2021 IMF loan conditions included public spending cuts of nearly $10 billion across just 15 countries, which could have paid for three million nurses, teachers and other frontline workers. This is debt used as an ideological lever.

Then there are the interest repayments on debt, which in 2024 amounted to $415 billion from low- and middle-income countries - next to $180 billion total global aid flows. Massive public pressure from Make Poverty History in 2005 led to G7 countries cancelling $77 billion of debt for 18 countries. But by 2023, after multiple price shocks, developing-country debts had quadrupled to $11.4 trillion, equivalent to 99% of their export earnings.

Currently 3.4 billion people – 40% of the world’s population – live in countries that spend more on interest payments (to rich-country banks) than on health or education, with women disproportionately affected. Governments have no space to cope with surging fuel prices caused by the US’s war on Iran or climate disruption, let alone to create better futures for their populations.

Unequal exchange and illicit financial flows

Another way of looking at South-to-North flows is what some political economists call ‘unequal exchange’. Because global power imbalances and border controls suppress the costs of resources and labour in the Global South, low-income countries have to sell more labour or natural resources to maintain a balance of trade.

By one estimate, high-income countries ‘appropriated’ commodities, labour and land worth more than $10 trillion in Northern prices from Global South countries in 2015 – enough to end extreme poverty 70 times over. Over the period 1990–2015, this appropriation outweighed total aid by a factor of 30 and provided a windfall for the Global North equivalent to more than a quarter of Northern GDP.

Then there’s tax avoidance, which harms rich countries too. Lower-income countries lose at least $46 billion a year in tax revenue to multinational corporations shifting their profits to tax havens, a process with spillover economic effects that multiply the loss by a factor of up to three. Other illicit financial flows include trade mis-invoicing by companies, outright tax evasion and corruption by elites – all of which deny tax revenue that could be spent on public services.

What these methods have in common is the use of tax havens – secrecy jurisdictions, as their opponents prefer to call them – which can hide company ownership. Many are connected to the UK, which oversees a ‘second empire‘ of secrecy jurisdictions to keep the money flowing towards London.

The Damascus Document of Qumran by Chris Albert Wells - the smoking gun of Christianity origins or Isis, the Goddess of Healing?

 https://www.academia.edu/s/5fa128e32f?source=ai_email

As 1QpHab [the Damascus Document of Qumran] previously, the text’s audacity raised hostility from rival Essenian factions, the tensions resulting once again in a change of paradigm from a heavenly actor to an earthly prophet scheduled for a trial.........

 The repeated antagonisms between community factions—celestial utopia versus the historical nucleus of the founder’s execution—concerned Essenian writers, not yet Jewish-Christians....Thomas as an early Jewish-Christian text subjected to the canonical gospels (as logia 13 mentioning Simon-Peter and Matthew seems to indicate), meaning that the Jesus of the Thomas wisdom sayings, be it a later edition of Thomas, is held to be the Jesus of the synoptics: a Jewish prophet. Inverting primacy, meaning the gospel’s reliance on Thomasine Jesus sayings has also able partisans[1]. Martijn Linssen, departing from Jewish-Jesus interactions[2] prospected a radically different approach where Is or Isus in the Coptic Thomas represented a different sacrality, a Greek/Coptic deity,[3] and not the Jewish prophet Jesus, unlikely to have been recorded under a divine name by supposed early Jewish-Christians. If originally unrelated to the biblical Jesus, how and when did the divine Coptic Isus and selected Coptic sayings reach the gospels?

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[1]        Detlev Koepke “The Jesus of the Gospel of Thomas” (Metanoia 2021) considers the sayings as Jesus’ original teachings that spread to the gospels.

[2]        Martijn Linssen. “Absolute Thomasine Priority” Academia.edu 2019

[3]        The Copts kept the name IC or IHC sacred, an overlined nomen sacrum. IS or Isus may be related to IaSo the Greek goddess of healing. However, as Copts, therefore Egyptians, the name could be related to  Isis, the goddess of revival. (Personal note from Linssen)...........

 Replacing Yahweh’s envoy Yeshua by Isus the sacred and divine Son of the Father, Marcion could start introducing divine Hellenistic mysticism[1] into a Palestinian matrix. Marcion’s decision, turning away from the Jewish Pontus community, was possibly influenced by Hadrian’s imperial decree imposing Greco-Roman culture at the expense of Judaism after suppressing the traumatic Bar Kokhba revolt in 136 CE. Yeshua eliminated, recording selected Coptic sayings known to Marcion via Ephesian Gnostics and Valentinius increased the wisdom and authority of the divine Son Isus.

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[1]        A. Harnack, Marcion the Gospel of the Alien God, p.82:  Marcion declares Jesus Christ is “the Son of the Father, by nature God” closely replicating the Gnostic’s “God’s Word that is His Son Isus”

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 As non-Jewish wisdom, it would be very unlikely that the sayings were initially connected to the biblical Jesus—a Jewish prophet—implying that the Greek name Iesus (Ἰησοῦς) was conceived later than when Marcion incorporated Isus

 fascinating....

 Chris Albert Wells is a university teacher and professor of surgery who currently lives on the French Riviera.

 Celsus, a Roman philosopher and observer of early gospels wrote around 175 CE soon after Marcion’s days. As a privileged observer, he stands as a contemporaneous and extra-biblical witness. His arguments survive in Origen’s Contra Celsum written c. 248 CE.[1] In Contra Celsum 2.27 we learn that the attempted gospels were revised in their first written forms three, four or many times, remodeled to refute objections. Celsus does not refer to four Gospels as a collection and knows of no individual canonical evangelist’s name.

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[1]        Eusebius (Hist. eccl. 6.36.2)

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  neither Jesus nor Yeshua are recorded in the early gospels where the overlined nomen sacrum Isus survives in its primitive form. The Coptic/Gnostic IC or IHC still appears in Greek—IΣ or IHΣ—within the fourth century Christian Codex Siniaticus and Vaticanus and the fifth century codices, Alexandrinus, Ephraemi and Bezae

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 The biblical Jesus reached prominence later than Hippolytus (170-235) Origen (185-254 CE) and Cyril of Jerusalem (315-387) for whom the ‘wisdom sayings’ [Sermon on the Mount] were heretical.

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 Iesous was initially connected to the biblical Joshua giving the new name a renown Scriptural antecedent. The connection is publicized in Justin’s Dialogues that mentions nineteen times the prophet whose name was changed, “Jesus (Joshua)”, and in Adv.Marc. Book 3 ch. XVI[1]. Justin and Tertullian already equating Jesus (unrecorded in early Christian codices) with Joshua implies later redactors defending new policies. Neither connect Jesus/Joshua to the wisdom sayings but to the Creator’s Christ and Scripture implying a broader commitment: securing the counter-reform.

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[1]        The earliest Dialogue manuscript dates to the 14^th century. Works of Tertullian come from medieval manuscripts, none older than the late 8^th century.

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Thomas personified the unwanted twin/alternative Hellenistic mystery sayings derisively labeled “The ‘Gospel’ according to Thomas.” These are the sayings, the twin teachings, that the early Syriac church and church fathers condemned as heresies, meaning non-Jewish teachings.

Rome astutely converted the disputed sayings into early Jewish-Christian wisdom by enlisting Thomas within the synoptics’ twelve[1] thus eclipsing the heretical Syriac Thomas. In a disputed text, (Eusebius HE 1.13.1-22) Edessa is connected to the synoptic gospels via Jesus sending the apostles Thomas and Thaddaeus to Syria[2].

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[1]        The evangelists were not known before the later second century. John becoming the favorite disciple and gospel writer is also necessarily, as Thomas, a later updating.

[2]        Walter Bauer “Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity” (Ch.1, Edessa) considers “the story designed to establish apostolic origins to obscure Edessan Christianity’s heretical roots.” Bauer had incorrectly generalized the Christian map according to early Western pro-Judaism under Rome’s influence and Eastern Marcionite predominance.

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