The
Beaufort Sea and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. 05/30/2017 The
Beaufort Sea Ice is breaking up. A large crack has developed from the
Beaufort Sea to the Lincoln Sea. When the Arctic Ice is no longer
attached to the shoreline, it technically becomes a large
disintegrating iceberg. Then it is free to move and its motion is
generally counterclockwise.
When it comes to the Arctic figures on sea ice extent do not really give the true picture. We end to look at volume or thickness. See how little old ice remains. In the case of Antarctica we do not know what the thickness of the ice is because it has never been measured. Antarctic research does not have a Peter Wadhams
Northern
hemisphere sea ice thickness on 24 May 2017 according to
the Arctic
Cap Nowcast/Forecast System (ACNFS), US Naval Research
Laboratory. The details of this modelling approach are
described here.
Ice thickness scale (m) is shown to the right
Arctic
sea ice - 05/30/2017
Daily
volume: 17,944 km³ (*record* low for the date) Δ
–436/day –2041/week, –3710/month, –1031/year, –878/5year
(–4.7%)
Daily
extent: 11,283,701 km² (6th lowest for the date) Δ
–65k/day –377k/week, –1391k/month, +803k/year, –231k/5year
(–2%)
2017 volume maximum 22,255 km³ on May 12th
(*lowest*) 2017 extent maximum 13,878,287 km² on March 6th
(*lowest*) 2017 extent minimum¹ 11,283,701 km² on May
30th ¹Preliminary max/min
Source: JAXA / Wipneus for May
30th 2017.
In
the comments people have been calculating when we MIGHT see a total ice melt
17,944
km³ losing 2041/week ~18 losing 2/week = 9 weeks from now. That's
one week into August in my book. (Daily losses of course suggest even
earlier in the summer.)
Using
the last couple of days for average, we get this math puzzle:
17,944
km³ – 515/day = 17944/515 = 35 days. I.e. July 4th @ Zero km³.
This is sea ice extent for Antactica. It's anyone's guess what the thickness is
Gaddafi
chased MI6-backed rebels straight to Manchester
Multiple
warring tribes and civil strife in the wake of NATO-backed regime
change in Libya provided fertile ground for the likes of the
Manchester bomber to imbibe their poisonous ideology and wreak havoc
on the West. In fact, the killer and his father were both involved in
an MI6-backed rebel army. RT America’s Manila Chan reports.
The
latest issue of the extremist group's English language propaganda
magazine Rumiyah suggests
several ways IS followers can take as many people as possible hostage
and slaughter them.
It
suggests posting fake ads for items for sale on auction websites to
trick people into meeting them at a certain location so they can pay
and collect the items, which IS suggests should be large and/or
expensive.
123RF.COM
The
magazine encourages IS followers to post fake adverts of items to
lure out victims and meet in person.
"Online
sales by way of buy and sell websites such as Craigslist, Gumtree,
eBay, the Loot, and others are an alternative means to luring one's
victims," an article titled Just Terror Tactics suggests.
"The
viewing and collecting of the item should be arranged to be at the
location where one seeks to carry out his operation. Upon the
target's arrival, one can then proceed to initiate his attack."
Gumtree
is urging users of its online classifieds to report anything
suspicious.
"The
safety of our community is our main priority and we urge anyone who
thinks they've come across anything suspicious or concerning to
report it to us," a spokesman said in a statement to AAP.
"We
encourage all users to visit our Help section for tips on how to have
a safe and successful experience and to be vigilant when using any
online marketplace."
The
article also suggests using online ads for fake jobs or properties
for rent as another way to lure people and details how to subdue and
restrain them before killing them.
Australian
terrorists including Lindt Cafe gunman Man Haron Monis, Victorian
police killer Numan Haider, and radicalised teen Farhad Khalil
Mohammad Jabar along with a string of others who have committed
atrocities in France and Britain and the United States are all
praised in the article for setting "heroic examples".
Supporters
of the extremist jihadist group are urged to take as many hostages as
possible in busy, enclosed locations such as nightclubs, cinemas and
shopping malls before killing them as quickly as possible, rather
than holding them for ransom.
The
article explains that it can be "very simple" to obtain
guns to use in their attacks and suggests raiding gun shops in order
to steal weapons and ammunition.
"This
method is applicable in most western countries such as the US,
Europe, the UK, Canada, Australia, and anywhere else the Crusaders
and mushrikin can be found," the article says.
IS
supporters are urged to exploit days when police and security forces
are pre-occupied with major events to carry out their attacks.
"After
killing those present one should keep a few of his victims alive as
hostages to be used as human shields against the anticipated response
of the kafir armed forces," the article says.
An
intimate portrait of a group of suicide bombers in Syria
An
intimate portrait of four very different suicide bombers working for
Al Nusra in Syria. From the Saudi who loves singing and fried chicken
to the 26-year- old British convert who is worried about his new
wife, this remarkable film embeds with an unlikely bunch of
‘martyrdom seekers’. As each waits for their turn to go on a
final mission, known by jihadists as 'Dugma', this film lays bare the
faith and doubt at the core of men who give their life for their
cause
UNITED
STATES NOW OPENLY PRO-TERRORIST REBRANDS ALQAEDA; BRITISH/U.S.
SUPPORTED TERRORISTS CRUSHED IN ALEPPO AND HOMS; 2000 ISIS RATS
KILLED IN ALEPPO; WESTERN MEDIA SILENT ABOUT THEIR DEFEAT IN SYRIA
AFTER YEARS OF SUPPORTING TERRORISTS
My
readers should read Vanessa’s article below, in the “News and
Comment” section, about how the U.S. engineered the rebranding of
Alqaeda and then, managed to remove the terrorist jihadist cannibals
from the list of groups which practice terrorism. It is unbelievable
that a country could be so obsessed with a goal such that the means
to get there could violate all the core principles which made that
same country great. Whew!
HOMS: Canthama
wrote a lot about this in yesterday’s post. It is true, the
Syrian Army has swiped away large concentrations of ISIS and
U.S.-controlled sociopaths from vast areas of the Eastern Syrian
Desert, freeing critically important natural resources and denying
ISIS any further involvement in producing fuel for trade with Turkey.
At Khunayfis,
all phosphate mines have been cleared of terrorists. The net
result is the liberation of close to 5,000 square kilometers of
land. AtAl-‘Ilyaaniyya,
which was liberated from the Fake Syrian Army (FSA), south
of Khunayfis,
the SAA has begun radiating out toward Al-Sukhna which
remains under ISIS control. Al-Sukhna is
a key jumping-off point for the Syrian Army if it chooses to encircle
Al-Raqqa City.
Also
liberated was the Abtar Mountains
and the Al-Sawwaana mines.
Throw on to that Al-Baarida,
Al-Busayri and Zaqaaqiyyaat Khaleel Mountain.
But,
even more impressive, was the Russian Air Force’s stunning
annihilation of a huge convoy of ISIS rats leaving Al-Raqqa in order
to further a plan drawn up by the United States to open highway
access from Al-Raqqa to Palmyra. The plan was not to destroy
more Roman ruins at the ancient city. No, all of this was a
part of the project to install a vassal state that would be
controlled by Kurd allies of the U.S. in order to prevent the
extension of the natural gas pipeline from Iran to Syria.
The
ISIS force departed Al-Raqqa on May 25, 2017 at approximately 3:00
a.m. local time. Russia had received a heads-up from SAA-MI
about both human intelligence reports and intercepted
communications between American, British and Jordanian terrorist
enablers in the MOK HQ near Al-Naseeb.
According to my sources, the U.S. promised to keep the SAAF at bay as
the large ISIS force moved south toward Palmyra. An agreement
was drawn up between the RuAF and the Syrian High Command to permit
only Russian aircraft to fly since Syrian aircraft could be shot down
by the Americans if they were interfering in some farfetched and
typically idiotic plan hatched in Jordan. With the aircraft
carrying Russian insignia, there was no conceivable way the U.S.
could interdict Moscow’s airpower.
That
left ISIS, on May 27, 2017, as an open target on the highway south
just before Qal’at
Jabal Jaabir.
Russian Sukhoi bombers unloaded thousands of tons of ordnance on a
densely packed convoy carrying not only rodents, but large quantities
of resupplies for besieged cannibals in areas, like Khunayfis,
soon to be liberated by the SAA. Aerial assessments and
intercepted calls by ISIS rodent officers told a story of utter
devastation and complete American/British failure. It is
estimated that over 120 ISIS rats were killed in the air raids.
Over 500 are reported wounded or missing. Of the 39
pickups traveling in the convoy, 32 were confirmed destroyed.
All pickups were armed with 23mm cannons.
It
is highly unlikely that ISIS will cooperate again with such imbeciles
such as those degenerates in Jordan. It has also become
quite obvious that James “Mad Dog” Mattis is a pathological liar
when he states that his war against ISIS is one of “annihilation”.
While
all this is going on in Eastern Homs, the Syrian Army has racked
up startlingly formidable victories in Aleppo. As of this
morning the following towns, villages and sites have been
liberated: Al-Saalihiyya,
Al-Shuhadaa`, Al-Battooshiyya, Jibaab Al-Mas’oodiyyda, Khazraaf,
Al-Far’iyya, Musareeha, Al-Mazza, First Tishreen Farms, Al-Waasit,
East Al-Sukkariyya, Bandooqa, Maskana Train Station, Al-Hameediyya,
Dawr Ahmad Yaaseen, Al-Qaahira, Al-Boo-Maani’, Khaan Al-Shi’r,
Khirbat Al-Sawda, Al-Himraawi, Maskana Cattle Market.
This
operation has stalled a few times, but, continued with forward
momentum as of 4 days ago with ISIS fortifications pulverized by the
SAA. At the end of the day, the SAA has killed over 2000
ISIS rodents, and destroyed the following:
115
Toyota pickup trucks with 23m cannons
7
tanks
6
automobiles used to transport terrorist leaders
4
heavy cannons
1
main command-control center
14
separate communications sites
5
booby-trapped vehicles
The
Syrian Army has confirmed the deaths of these terrorist leaders:
Abu
Ayyoob Al-Sheeshaani (Chechen pederast)
Abu
Ismaa’eel Al-Juwaymi (Saudi rodent pimple and legal “scholar” for
the “Hatteen” group. Hatteen is where Saladdin crushed
the Crusaders on the Golan Heights after his sister was raped
and killed.)
Abu
Ya’qoob Al-Turkestaani (Turkman catamite)
Abu
Ya’qoob Al-Uzbeki (Uzbeki bottom feeding carp and leader of Dibs
‘Afnaan area.)
Mahmoud
Ismaa’eel Kawchak (Turk hemorrhoid and leader of Al-Mushrifa area.)
Ahmad
Al-‘Uthmaan (Mufti for ISIS in Maskana)
‘Abdul-Rahmaan
Miqnaass (a/k/a Abi Sa’eed Al-Sa’oodi. He is said to be
related to the House of Sa’ood. Not anymore)
Some
300 fire hydrants have been broken or vandalized across France as
people try to beat the summer’s record high temperatures.
As
temperatures topped 35 degrees across the Paris region of
Île-de-France, numerous roadways flooded after hydrants were
transformed into geysers, BFMTV reported.
In
Plaine Saint-Denis neighborhood in the Paris suburbs, fire hydrants
were left open for much of Sunday night and Monday morning
“This
lasts for more than a week now,” said
one Plaine Saint-Denis resident. “A
group of young people come with a wrench and open fire hydrants.”
“For
them it's funny, there's water coming out, they're cooling off,
except that …. It’s still vandalism,” another
added.
Average
temperatures across the region hit 22.3 degrees Celsius, according to
La Chaine Meteo. A previous record average of 21.9 degrees Celsius
was set in 1922.
Paris
firefighters were forced to remind the public that fire hydrants are
used to extinguish fire, not for recreational purposes.
“Refreshing
with the hydrants [is] a bad idea! Fire hydrants are for the safety
of everyone and are reserved for firefighters!”Paris
firefighters said in a statement.
In
Lyon, violence erupted on the streets after firefighters clashed with
a group who had been asked to stop their activities. A number of
projectiles were thrown at emergency services, local media reported.
The
Great Barrier Reef – a canary in the coal mine for global warming –
can no longer be saved in its present form partly because of the
“extraordinary rapidity” of climate change, experts have
conceded.
Instead,
action should be taken to maintain the World
Heritage Site's
'ecological function' as its ecological health declines, they
reportedly recommended.
Like
coral across the world, the reef has been severely damaged by the
warming of the oceans with up to 95 per cent of areas surveyed in
2016 found to have been bleached.
Bleaching
is not always fatal but a study last year found the “largest
die-off of corals ever recorded”
with about 67 per cent of shallow water coral found dead in a survey
of a 700km stretch.
In a
recent communique,
the expert panel said they were “united in their concern about the
seriousness of the impacts facing the Reef and concluded that coral
bleaching since early 2016 has changed the Reef fundamentally”.
“There
is great concern about the future of the Reef, and the communities
and businesses that depend on it, but hope still remains for
maintaining ecological function over the coming decades,” it said.
“Members
agreed that, in our lifetime and on our watch, substantial areas of
the Great Barrier Reef and the surrounding ecosystems are
experiencing major long-term damage which may be irreversible unless
action is taken now.
“The
planet has changed in a way that science informs us is unprecedented
in human history. While that in itself may be cause for action, the
extraordinary rapidity of the change we now observe makes action even
more urgent.”
It
recommended that reducing greenhouse gas emissions “must be central
to the response”.
“This
needs to be coupled with increased efforts to improve the resilience
of the coral and other ecosystems that form the Great Barrier Reef.
The focus of efforts should be on managing the Reef to maintain the
benefits that the Reef provides,” it added.
While
the committee's communique did not expressly give up hope that the
reef could be saved in its current form, the
Guardianreported that
two experts on the committee, speaking anonymously, revealed they had
recommended introducing the goal of maintaining "ecological
function" at a recent meeting.
And
the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority explained what
that would mean.
“The
concept of ‘maintaining ecological function’ refers to the
balance of ecological processes necessary for the reef ecosystem as a
whole to persist, but perhaps in a different form, noting the
composition and structure may differ from what is currently seen
today,” the authority said.
Professor
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, who sits on the expert panel, told the newspaper
they were trying to manage reefs in a “rapidly changing world”.
“So
managing to restore the reefs of the past – the way they were prior
to the big insults of the 80s, 90s and 2000s ... maybe we need to be
looking at this in a different sense,” he said.
“What
are the key ecological functions? Essentially, what roles do they
play that are important to humans?”
I
delivered a short presentation to a group of International
Environmental Law students in Brisbane, Australia on 28 May 2017. My
presentation was delivered electronically from western Belize. The
resulting video was recorded and edited by Pauline Schneider with my
thanks. The 20-minute video is embedded below, and is followed by a
transcript of my presentation (from which I deviated occasionally).
I’ve added a few embedded links in this written version.
What
would you do if you had 10 years to live? How would you act? How
would you live?
What
if it was 4 years?
What
if it was 14 months?
What
if it was 4 months?
Would
you live more fully every day? Every moment?
Would
you prioritize your work differently? Or your relationships?
What
is important to you? Who is important to you? Are you acting NOW as
if these things and these beings are important?
I’ll
talk primarily about 5 topics today: (1) habitat for human animals,
(2) Civilization as a heat engine, (3) the Catch-22 of terminating
civilization, (4) the Sixth Mass Extinction on Earth, and (5) how we
respond to a terminal diagnosis.
First
up: What is habitat? According
to the first definition in my Merriam-Webster online dictionary,
habitat is “the place or environment where a plant or animal
naturally or normally lives and grows.”
I’m
professor emeritus of conservation biology, and I largely agree with
this simplistic definition. Habitat is one of the three pillars of
conservation biology, along with speciation and extinction.
Speciation is the process of how, when, and with what ancestors a
species comes into existence. For example, our favorite species, Homo
sapiens,
came into being about 200,000 years ago, is descended from earlier
members of the genus Homo —
all of which are now extinct — and is currently represented by some
7.5 billion specimens. Some of these specimens were clever enough to
choose their parents and their date and place of birth in a manner
that allowed them to seek degrees in law at a certain university in
Australia.
Extinction
is the process by which a species meets its demise. So far, more than
99% of the species to appear on Earth have gone extinct. Based on
substantial evidence, our own species is headed into the abyss of
extinction far sooner than most people realize.
According
to James Hansen, the godfather of climate science, we’ve had humans
on the planet up to about 2 degrees Celsius above the 1750 baseline,
when the planetary temperature was about 13.5 C. Hansen reported this
conclusion in a legal brief filed on August 12, 2015. I suspect 2 C
above the 1750 baseline is the maximum temperature at which we will
have habitat for humans on Earth. We’re currently at least 1.6
degrees above the 1750 baseline. No species persists long without
habitat, not even the clever ones.
A
synthetic paper written by Oliver Tickell and published in
the Guardian on
August 11, 2008 concluded via headline, “On a planet 4C hotter, all
we can prepare for is extinction.” That 4 C number seems a tad high
to me. The paper goes on to explain that humans will persist up to 6
C above the 1750 baseline, thus about 19.5 C. I doubt there will be a
tree on the planet, or much other complex life, with a rapid rise to
17.5 C. But we don’t know, because we’ve never experienced Earth
with humans at anywhere close to 4 C above baseline, much less at 6 C
above baseline, about 19.5 C.
Onto
Item Two, Civilization as a heat engine. Tim
Garrett is a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of
Utah. He has been studying the thermodynamics of civilization for
several years, and wrote the signature paper on the topic in 2007. In
that and subsequent papers, Garrett concluded that civilization
itself is a heat engine. His initial paper on the topic was submitted
in 2007, rejected by ten journals, and finally accepted for
publication in the prestigious journal Climatic
Change in
2009 by a courageous editor during his final months on Earth. The
paper was ultimately printed in February 2011. The initial paper is
supported by subsequent papers that point out that the heat engine of
civilization can be stopped only when civilization collapses.
Civilization
is a tricky subject, so I’ll clarify what it means, from Garrett’s
perspective. Civilization refers to the set of living arrangements
into which most of us were born and to which we’ve all become
accustomed. Collapse of civilization means no fuel at the filling
stations, no food at the grocery stores, and no water pouring out the
municipal taps. This civilization — industrial civilization — is
like all previous versions of civilization in that it depends upon
the production, storage, and distribution of grains at considerable
scale. Without storing food, there is no means by which humans can go
into human-population overshoot.
Civilizations
first arose a few thousand years ago in more half-a-dozen places
around the globe. No civilization came into being for the first 2.8
million years of the genus Homo,
or for the first roughly 200,000 years of the species Homo
sapiens,
and suddenly civilizations were popping up like trolls on YouTube.
People within these early civilizations discovered grains such as
maize and wheat, thus enabling humans to survive through the droughts
and other environmental inconveniences. Large-scale production and
storage of grains also allowed control of the local food supply,
hence control of the people. Thus did the sociopaths
assume control.
Why
did several civilizations arise essentially simultaneously a few
thousand years ago? Apparently to the answer to this question is
found within the global-average temperature of the planet. Coming out
of the last Ice Age, the global-average planetary temperature rose
from 12 degrees Celsius to about 13.5 degrees C. More importantly,
planetary temperature stabilized at that point. This relatively cool
and stable temperature allowed grains to be grown in sufficient
quantities to allow development of cities. The word “city” shares
the same root as civilization, Civitas,
and the building of cities is the very definition of civilization.
After all, cities allow human-population overshoot, initially locally
and ultimately globally, because they depend upon surrounding areas
for the delivery of clean air, potable water, healthy food, and the
wood, bricks, and mortar by which structures are created.
Not
only is civilization a heat engine, even if the civilization is
powered by “renewable” energy, but each civilization trashes the
planet to provide conveniences for city-dwellers. Consider, for
example, the 200 or so species being driven to extinction every day,
the fouling of the air, the pollution of the waters, the utter
destruction of the soil, and the many other undesirable outcomes of
this version of civilization.
Global
dimming is the Catch-22 of human extinction, our item three.
Civilization is a heat engine that is in the process of killing all
life on Earth. Turning off civilization destroys most complex life on
the planet, even faster than keeping it running. Allow me to explain,
albeit briefly.
As
we all know, industrial civilization puts into the atmosphere
greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and a few others.
These greenhouse gases serve as “blankets” that hold the heat
provided by the sun close to Earth. As it turns out, industrial
activity also produces particulates that serve as an “umbrella”
and protect the planet from incoming sunlight. These particulates are
cooling the planet to the tune of about 3 degrees Celsius. Industrial
activity constantly puts these particulates into the atmosphere, most
notably by burning coal high in sulfur. The particulates constantly
fall out, very rapidly. If we suddenly stop burning coal and other
fossil fuels, the global-average temperature of Earth heats to more
than 4.5 C above baseline in a few days.
The
slow rise in planetary temperature to date has destroyed habitat for
myriad species including, in many places, humans.
The gradual rise in global-average temperature since the beginning of
the Industrial Revolution is proceeding 10,000 times faster than
vertebrates can adapt, according to the stunningly conservative
refereed journal literature. Abrupt climate change has recently
begun. An abrupt global-average rise in temperature resulting from
the loss of global dimming taking Earth to more than 4.5 C above the
1750 baseline, with the vast majority of the temperature rise
occurring within a few months, surely will destroy habitat for our
species and many others far faster than expected. It’s difficult
for me to imagine much multicellular life on our only home with a
rapid rise from the current temperature to a much warmer temperature
in a matter of decades, much less months.
We
are in the midst of the Sixth Mass Extinction on Earth. This is item
four. The
current rate of extinction of species, along with the current rise in
planetary temperature, is unprecedented in planetary history. The
ultra-conservative refereed journal literature caught up to the Sixth
Mass Extinction on June 19, 2015 with a paper in Science
Advances.
Coincident with release of the paper, lead author Gerardo Cellabos
concluded via interview, “life would take many millions of years to
recover, and our species itself would likely disappear early on.”
Indeed, a United Nations report issued during August 2010
conservatively estimated the extinction rate of 150-200 species each
day. Nearly five years later, the journal literature caught up to the
ongoing genocide.
The
worst of the previous five Mass Extinction Events occurred about
252.2 million years ago. The Great Dying was characterized by a
global-average rise in temperature from Ice Age — 12 degrees C —
to hothouse and beyond: 23 C. This is the warmest temperature
experienced by Earth during the last 2 billion years. It has happened
once. According
my own conservative analysis from August 1, 2016 analysis on my blog,
guymcpherson.com, we are headed for a similar temperature by
mid-2026.
That’s in less than a decade. I simply added the primary
contributors to global heating to come up with this result.
We’re
headed for an ice-free Arctic, as predicted by the United States
Naval Postgraduate School. This event last happened some 3 million
years ago, before our genus appeared on Earth. In 2013, the School
predicted an ice-free Arctic in 2016, plus or minus three years.
We’ve dodged four bullets so far, and it appears our luck is about
to run out. An ice-free Arctic, which appears imminent this summer,
seems likely to trigger the 50-Gt burst of methane from the
relatively shallow sea floor of the Arctic Ocean described by field
researcher Natalia Shakhova and colleagues at the European
Geophysical Union meeting in 2008 as “highly possible for abrupt
release at any time.” Such as event would raise global-average
temperature beyond the temperature experienced by humans in the past,
and almost certainly would cause the demise of civilization as a
result of our inability to produce and store grains at large scale,
thereby adding another 3 C or so to global-average temperature.Thus
could Earth reach 19.C C, about 6 C above the 1750 baseline of 13.5
C, by next summer.
That’s in 14 months.
People
in bunkers might survive a few years. They’ll be dehydrated,
hungry, lonely, and living within a bleak world nearly devoid of
other complex life. Their survival will be a day-to-day proposition,
with every day more tenuous than the day before, much as it is today
for non-human species.
Or
perhaps civilization will reach its overdue end as a result of the
demise of the petro-dollar this September, consistent with the kinds
of events that have occurred historically during past Septembers. I’m
not predicting this outcome. And
I’m not ruling it out. If it
occurs, we can expect an abrupt global-average rise in temperature
well beyond the temperature at which Earth has harbored anything
resembling humans. Most people dwelling in cities will die within a
few days as a result of dehydration or starvation. October 1 is 120
days way.
Finally,
then, as item five, I’d like to consider how we act.
I strongly suspect we are the final humans on Earth. In light of this
knowledge, will you live more fully every day? Every moment?
Will
you prioritize your work differently? Or your relationships?
What
is important to you? Who is important to you? Are you acting NOW as
if these things and these beings are important?
Are
you passionately pursuing a life of excellence? Or are you stuck on
the treadmill onto which you were born? Do you reinforce the jail
cell into which you were born with bars comprised of societal
expectations? Are you pursuing a life of your own choosing, or are
the cultural shackles strong enough to control your every action?
To
summarize, I have three essential messages:
Remain
calm, as nothing is under control.
Pursue
excellence, even within a culture of mediocrity.
Pursue
love, contrary to the messages we receive every day from this
culture.
