as of january this year 2009 in a recent meeting of the ipcc in holland it was determined that the old models of the ice melt rates no longer accurately applied toward prediction of sea level rise
because glacier movement and melting has increased the ipcc has stated that new and current models predict a one meter sealevel increase by the end of the century
meaning:
bangladesh alone will see about 15 million in displaced refugee population
china will see a devastated infrastructure
as china goes so go we/the rest of the world
opinion:
two times recently i anchored in the bahia de san lucas every other day huge cruise ships unload people to play jetskies para glide tow fish for soon tobe extinct fish catch and release maybe from huge pleasure yachts go snorkle and scuba go shopping and eating in a frenzy of activity unbelievable in intensity and scale of consumption and i wonder as the disney ship pulls in e passengers ever get a chance to hear about carbon in the atmosphere globalwarming or sealevel rise and the effect of such activity and the science of how this is connected and how consumption its culture is now a probl
science is a measuring device
art is a survival mechanism
the jewel of science
is that it exquisetly and ever more accurately through technology measures change
art identifies salient features of the systemic contextual landscape upon which a society is based and in which a society perceives itself
both identify anomolies in systems and patterns relative to societal interface with its environment
science in observation of the measurable physical world arrives at consensus through peer analysis and acceptance of theory
the nile delta
a bread basket flooding renewed each year
extended for millenia a lotus blossom
blooms into the mediterranean
stopped at the aswan dam
hydro electric dependency
now an east nile delta region high school student
inspired by the movie an inconvenient truth makes climate change presentations to his fellow students
now a west nile region man campaigns to equip all homes of his region with solar water heaters
as the delta erodes with sea level rise
removes inundates submerges
disappears
the nile delta
on this
amazon delta w/ 7meter sea level rise
miles sq inundation = forest destruction =
planet oxygen=planet methane
planet population depends
imagine u r a skipper of a small sail boat and that there is aboard a person to help youand one other person who is just along for the ride so to speak that is to say i. e.
donatello executed an equestrian statue of a warlord in the pose of an emperor as a statement of social truth circa 1450 ad
likewise was his his statue of mary magdelene an observation of social reality regarding the corruption of the church in the latter half of the fifteenth century
public art in literate society often cuts against status quo perceptions in order to promote social contextual awareness
the case could be made that all art be it a product of pre literate literate or post literate culture is about and oriented towards survival
feels alittle like a salmon swimming up river
or maybe like the pterapod argonaut that julia whitty in her book the fragile ocean tells of
well i mean talking i w/kenly aka the river mouth radio show today
the dimensions of the place have changed over the years from age 2 to 62
definitely a bigger sand box
alot more at stake perceptually speaking data wise
59 years of a very rich life experience shared
that our children and our childrens children should have what we have had
but they will have something different to be sure climate change is coming their way
i have been contacted to give a radio interview on a program called river mouth for lbl re my art work and our actions for some near future wednesday
this is an environmentally focused radio show so details to follow
i think the various extemporaneous speeches by city council members of santa barbara in approval of lbl action slated for september would be good to include