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Large-scale die-offs could start by 2016

FIRE-EARTH Moderators believe that they have identified one of the MEGA TRIGGERS that could ultimately lead to mass die-offs: JPTRMT1 

The findings concur with EDRO Energy Models: Nature’s Warnings Exponentially Intensifying

EDRO models have previously identified another MEGA TRIGGER:  Nuking Earth for Lifestyle

EDRO have also calculated the the probabilities of the ‘End Game Scenarios’: Giga Trends

JPTRMT1 could potentially lead to a Global War.

Related Links

• JPTRMT1
• The First Wave of World’s Collapsing Cities
• Nature’s Warnings Exponentially Intensifying
• Nuking Earth for Lifestyle
• Giga Trends

How Indus River Drowned Pakistan

NO FOOD, NO CROPS (MONEY), NO SEED NEXT YEAR

Indus river carves a new path in Sindh Province

Pakistan Flooding Satellite Images

Download large image (7 MB, JPEG)  Image  acquired July 19, 2010

Download large image (9 MB, JPEG),. Image acquired August 11, 2010

Download large image (9 MB, JPEG). Image acquired September 7, 2010.  Click images to enlarge.

Above images, which span a 50-day period, were taken by MODIS on NASA’s Terra satellite on July 19, before lower Indus flooded, August 11, and September 7, when floodwater reached the Manchhar Lake.

“These images use a combination of infrared and visible light to increase the contrast between water and land. Water ranges in color from electric blue to navy. Vegetation appears bright green. Bare land ranges in color from pink-beige to brick red. Clouds appear pale blue-green.” Full caption available at Flooding in Pakistan.

Flooding has destroyed about 4 million hectares (10 million acres) of farmland in Pakistan, reports say.

Related Links

• Remember this Image! [Posted by edro on September 4, 2008]
• Collapse of Pakistan May Have Started
• 2010 Disaster Calendar [SEPTEMBER]

• 2010 Disaster Calendar [AUGUST]
• No Place to Go!
• Disease Outbreaks Threaten Pakistan Flood Victims

• Indus River Flooding
• 3.5m Pakistani children face waterborne diseases
• Intense rains affect 1 in 10 Pakistani

• Pakistan Floods Kill 1,000
• Between Hell and High Water
• Collapse Diary

• 2010 Disaster Calendar
• The First Wave of World’s Collapsing Cities
• Index of Human Impact on Nature (HIoN) March 2008
• Earth’s Human Induced Antiphase Nears Completion

Deadly Fire Consumes 300 Filipino Homes

Image of the Day:

Fire: A Major Mechanism of Collapse

An Early Dividend of Rising Global Temperatures

A deadly fire, which killed at least one person, consumed more than 300 homes in Navotas City, Philippines, Aug. 27, 2010.  (Xinhua/Rouelle Umali). Image may be subject to copyright. More images …

Argentina: Meanwhile, about 1,500 hectares of Calilegua National Park in northwestern were burnt out by a fire.

Italy: At least 3 dozen fires which have broken out in southern Italy since Saturday, are believed to have been caused by rising temperatures, reports say.

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• Satellite Images Capture about 150,000 Fires Burning in S. America
• A Heated Planet on Fire!

• Moscow Heat, Smog Claim Many Lives
• Moscow Chokes
• July the Month of Instantaneous Combustion
• Collapse Headlines 28 July 2010
• Moscow heat breaks 130-year record

• Severe Drought Grips Southern Russia
• World Sizzling in Hottest Year to Date
• U.S. Had 8th Warmest June, Wetter
• Earth: Wounded and Feverish
• Collapse Diary

• Kansas heat wave kills 2,000 cattle
• 2010 Disaster Calendar [JULY]
• 2010 Disasters

• Satellite images of wildfires

Murphy’s law has no time vector!

Nature Defaults on Hydroelectric Supply

Localize or face the consequences:
Brazil Power failure plunges its largest cities into darkness

The US, EU countries, China, Japan and other energy dinosaurs WILL experience similar disruptions…

Another Warning Shot Fired by Nature:
Your systems are too inflexible

Banking on the good side of nature. Itaipu Hydroelectric Dam. The world’s largest hydroelectric facility.  Credit: Itaipu Binacional.

Remember the first time you heard the so-called Murphy’s Law?

“Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.”

Murphy’s law has no time vector! It doesn’t tell you when things WILL go wrong, and  it’s often quoted after things have already gone wrong. It does not incorporate the ‘observer effect.’ Nature is more organized than “Murphy” would have lead you to believe. Now hear this.

FEWW Amendment to Murphy’s Law:
If more things can go wrong they will go wrong about now!

… in the world’s major cities, hydroelectric dams, nuclear power plants, oil rigs, production and processing facilities, powerlines …

A name for this?
Blog Moderators call this phenomenon Secondary Interlude to Human-Induced Planetary Antiphase.

Previous Examples in recent times?
Repeated flooding in Manila, Philippines.

Examples to watch for in the Near future?
Watch out for disintegration or collapse of Cities, large-scale structures, bridges, tunnels, power plants… , e.g., collapse of China’s Three Gorges Dam in the next two to three years.

Other Examples?
More examples would be posted after the Moderators have evaluated the structures, geographical regions  and physical locations.

Causes?
Earthquakes, Storms, Snowstorms, Extreme Rain Events (ERE), Drought and Deluge, Fatigue … Antiphase and all other human-induced and human-enhanced factors.

See also entry at

Major Blackout Plunges Brazil into Darkness

Related Links:

• The First Wave of the World’s Collapsing Cities
• The Fate of Energy Dinosaurs
• State of the World

• Failing Ecosystems
• Point of NO return
• Human Impact on Nature
• Is a Future Possible?
• Can Humans Enter the Next Phase of the Future?

• Emerging Scenarios
• Giga Trends
• Nuking Earth for Lifestyle

Northern India’s Groundwater is Rapidly Depleting

India’s aquifer depletion poses serious threats in  potable water supplies, farming and food production.

A new study by a team of hydrologists, led by NASA’s Matt Rodell,  says Northern India’s water level is plunging because water is being pumped and consumed faster than the aquifers can be recharged naturally. Their research — published in the August 20 issue of Nature — uses data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE).

The map shows groundwater changes in India during 2002-08, with losses in red and gains in blue, based on GRACE satellite observations. The estimated rate of depletion of groundwater in northwestern India is 4.0 centimeters of water per year, equivalent to a water table decline of 33 centimeters per year. Increases in groundwater in southern India are due to recent above-average rainfall, whereas rain in northwestern India was close to normal during the study period. Credit: I. Velicogna/UC Irvine. Source: NASA Earth Science News.

“If measures are not taken to ensure sustainable groundwater usage, consequences for the 114 million residents of the region may include a collapse of agricultural output and severe shortages of potable water,” said Rodell.

For more details, see original entry: India faces severe water, farming, food crisis

Related Links:

• India faces severe water, farming, food crisis

• Iraq Faces Environmental Catastrophe
• 2009: A Year of More and Less
• One Step Away From Collapse
• Desertification: A Most Powerful Mechanism of Collapse
• The Collapse Engine Revving UP!
• Cyprus Collapse May Be Imminent!
• Land Erosion Rates Accelarate
• Can Humans Enter the Next Phase of the Future?
• Drought and Deluge
• Drying Aquifers, Sinking Cities
• Virtual Water Content
• Water
• The First Wave of the World’s Collapsing Cities

• State of the World
• Failing Ecosystems

One Step for Life; 6,400 Leaps to Extinction

For every single step taken to restore ecosystems services, humans take 6,400 giant leaps in the opposite direction, destroying the planet’s ability to maintain life, ensuring extinction. —EDRO

As 99.98 percent of human effort goes to destroying Earth’s life support services, the planet experiences anthropogenic antiphase!

Original Entry:

• Earth’s Human Induced Antiphase Nears Completion

Related Links:

• Index of Human Impact on Nature
• Nuking Earth for Lifestyle
• Early “Dividends” of Climate Change
• 500 Weather-Related Disasters A Year [and counting]
• Is a Future Possible?
• The Death of Homo Sapiens Sapiens (Part 1)
• Food Crisis
• The Land of Plenty [of hungry people]
• Failing Ecosystems
• A Most Powerful Mechanism of Collapse
• First Wave of World’s Collapsing Cities