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New SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for PLANET EARTH AND HUMANITY: This blog site derives from the original version of Planet Earth & Humanity, but will be more WE than ME. The coverage will remain similar, but perhaps these postings will seem to come from a parallel universe, or maybe even Purgatory. But truth and reality will prevail, with dashes of whimsy and levity to help make your day.

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RADIO GARDEN

RADIO GARDEN is a fascinating link. You might need to activate the page, by clicking on it. Then click on any green dot to hear a radio from that location. In that lower-left box, click on EXPLORE or SEARCH to open up a whole new world of choices. Find San Francisco, for example, and you can click your way to 89 different stations from that area, or New York City for 202 stations. There is a feature where you click on the heart symbol to save that station and form your own list of favorites. There is a London station (under Weird Stations, find Birdsong Radio) that only plays a bird singing, or one from Switzerland (also under Weird Stations for Ambi Nature Radio) that plays ambient nature to put you to sleep. You'll bookmark this page and play with it for the rest of your life.

MOST POPULAR POSTS

For the longest time, the day when the most visitors (3,356) clicked on this blog site was 27February2010 on THE CHILE EARTHQUAKE. Why? Probably because this posting was linked to my Huffington Post article of that day reporting on HAWAII TSUNAMI. Natural disasters tend to increase readership. However, on 6March2017 THE WONDERS OF ALCOHOL drew 6498. Further, too, on 6June2017, the one-month tally of visitors was 70,219, or 2340/day. However, on 18December2018 a record 27,775 people read that posting. On 22April2019, after 13,000 and 19,000 pings the previous days, a second all-time high of 27,318 was reached. The daily average has been about 500/day.

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WE MUST TAKE ACTION ON GLOBAL WARMING NOW!

Last year surpassed 2014 as the warmest year on record since the mid to late 19th century. Global sea level also rose to a new high, 2.75 inches higher than in 1993, when record-keeping began. Tropical cyclones were 25% higher than the average. The Arctic is melting, severely. There has of course been an active disinformation effort to discredit climate change, partially funded by fossil fuel companies and some conservative groups. If you click on the following, you can access a layman's guide to the global warming debate or a science controversy guide. For balance, read a skeptic's guide and the wisdom (?) of Senator Inhofe. You might also find interest in how to talk to a climate skeptic. The bottom line is that we just can't take a chance, for even if our climate stabilizes, the worst that could happen with a carbon tax is our economy being temporarily discombobulated. If we don't take action with a 5 cent/pound carbon dioxide tax (or something similar), we could well face total economic, political and life collapse!

WHAT IS THE PRICE OF OIL?

CALCULATE THE CURRENT VALUE OF MONEY

Measuring Worth - Relative Value of US Dollars ....One ballpark estimate of what it cost the U.S. for World War II was $288 billion (in 1940 dollars). If you had inserted 1940 / 288 / 2016 into those boxes, the equivalent value today would be $4,870 billion, or close to $5 trillion.

CONSUMER PRICE INDEX and INFLATION RATE

The CPI is based on 1984 at 100. Thus, 241 means a 241% inflation since 1984. There are various ways to look at this, but one is to subtract 100 from 241, getting 141, so the effective inflation today, nearly a third of a century later, is 141% higher. Another comparison is that the CPI in 1916 was 10.9, and is at 240.853 today, a hundred years later. Thus, the average commodity that sold for a buck then, today goes for $22.

ALL-TIME NUMBERS

HIGH -- NYMEX Petroleum: $147 (12July2008) - Brent Spot Crude: $147 (12July2008) -- LOW (2011 dollars) -- Petroleum: $16.44/barrel (1998) (note: just before the first Energy Crisis - in 1973 it was $3.60/bbl, or $21.44/bbl - in 2011 dollars) --- Price of Gold: $1918/toz (peak for 22Aug11) $2358/toz (21January1980--inflation adjusted to 2009) However, Gold Investing News says the highest price of gold is $2067/ounce, on 7August2020. Sometimes differences come from whether the ounce is avoirdupois (28.349 gram equivalent) or troy (31.1 gram equivalent). --- 30-year mortgage rate: -- lowest 2.65% (7Jan2021) - --highest 18.5% (1981) --- Dow Jones Industrial Average All-Time High: - 36,800 (4Jan22)

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About Me

WHERE ARE WE? WHERE WILL WE GO?: I am Director Emeritus of the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute at the University of Hawaii and co-founder of the Pacific International Center for High Technology Research. I have published three SIMPLE SOLUTION books and have written more than 100 articles for the HUFFINGTON POST. I am working with an enlightened team to pioneer the BLUE REVOLUTION (http://bluerevolutionhawaii.blogspot.com/), beginning with the development of the Pacific International Ocean Station.

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