"It is very important
that we get a better perspective of the climate cycles on our planet.
Study of paleoclimatology indicates that the world’s wind
patterns and ocean currents could change to a mode characteristic
of glacliation in as short a period as twenty years. When such a
mode change occurs, the shortening of the crop growing seasons in
the temperate zones could cause major crop failures and worldwide
starvation. It is correct that it would be many thousands of years
before we would see glaciers coming down into the United States
and Europe; however half of us would die in the first twenty years
due to crop failures and destabilization of government institutions.
I rate catastrophic climate
change leading to glaciation as having a 75% probability of occuring
in the next fifteen years. During the same period, I rate the greenhouse
warming effect as having a 25% probability of pushing the climate
toward some new equilibrium point different from the twenty—two
cycles we have had in the last two mill ion years. I cannot prove
we are currently going into the next glacial period. However I would
regret not taking action to prevent worldwide starvation where I
feel that there is a 75% probability of it occuring."
from the Policy Statement
of FBWIII's Computer Social Impact Research Institute
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| 1958-10-12 |
SEPR 2 |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1960-03-16 |
Information Retrieval Problems in the Distant Future |
VIEW |
(memorandum)
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| 1969-10-09 |
Workshop Outline on Cybernetic Aspects of Social and Technical Processes that Endanger the Ecological Balance |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1981-09-27 |
Notes on Energy & Environment |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1983-03-28 |
Major World Problems Classified by Grade and Time to Go Critical |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1983-05-01 |
Communication Theory in the Cause of Man, Volume 4, Number 2 |
VIEW |
CTCM
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| 1983-05-01 |
Using the Philosophy of GST to Integrate the Data of Carbon-Dioxide Buildup Impact on Glaciation |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1983-06-15 |
First Planetary Congress - Ecology Workshop Session |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1983-12-08 |
Ecological Diagrams |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1984-03-18 |
General Systems View of Agriculture, Climate, and Glaciation |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1984-07-23 |
Specifications for Developing a Computer Simulation of Carbon Dioxide, Climate, and Glaciation |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1985-09-22 |
The Gaia Hypothesis, Glaciation, and Climate Cycles: How Can Humankind Develop a Shared Coevolutionary Relationship with the Biosphere? |
VIEW |
Is the Earth A Living Organism?
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| 1985-11-05 |
Decision Analysis and Computer Simulation Applied to Federal Policy Issues: A Case Study of Climate Change |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1986-02-21 |
Quality of Life Action |
VIEW |
CO2 & Climate
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| 1986-02-26 |
Values in Decision Making on World Problems |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1986-02-26 |
A Hypothesis on Geophysical Cycles, Techno-Sociological Evolution and World Peace |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1986-03-14 |
Earth Regeneration Program |
VIEW |
CO2 & Climate
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| 1986-05-01 |
Applying Systems Theory to the Problem of World Peace: A Case Study of Glacial Cycles and Climate Change |
VIEW |
CO2 & Climate
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| 1986-05-04 |
Philadelphia, Climate, and Interdependence |
VIEW |
CO2 & Climate
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| 1986-09-01 |
Carbon Dioxide & Climate |
VIEW |
CO2 & Climate
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| 1986-10-02 |
Use of GST to Search for the Second Danger Line (Geophysical) in the Evolution of Civilization and its relationship to the First Danger Line (Nuclear Winter) |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1986-10-24 |
Climactic Changes: The Greenhouse Effect vs.a New Ice Age |
VIEW |
CO2 & Climate
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| 1987-01-30 |
C02 Reduction and Climate Stabilization |
VIEW |
CO2 & Climate
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| 1987-04-15 |
Climate is Changing Rapidly |
VIEW |
CO2 & Climate
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| 1987-06-01 |
Philosophy of Testing Hypotheses and Matrix of Climate Theories vs. Evidence |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1987-06-01 |
The Development of Co-Evolution with the Biosphere into Philosophical, Scientific, Engineering, Educational, Decision, and Action Components |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1987-09-23 |
Soil Sustainability |
VIEW |
CO2 & Climate
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| 1987-09-26 |
Do Fourth World Groups Have to Know Whether the World is Flat or Round? |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1987-10-23 |
To the United States Media: Please inform the public growing climate emergency |
VIEW |
CO2 & Climate
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| 1987-11-19 |
Press Release: AFL-CIO Action on Climate, Food, and Jobs; Cloud cover and Cooling in Higher Latitudes |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1988-01-14 |
Stabilization of Climate, Session F6 |
VIEW |
C02 & Climate
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| 1988-01-28 |
Analysis and Planning for CO2 Reduction and Climate Stabilization (abstract) |
VIEW |
C02 & Climate
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| 1988-02-25 |
Climate Stabilization, the Central Focus of Regional Planning |
VIEW |
C02 & Climate
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| 1988-03-03 |
The GAIA Hypothesis and Nine Threats to the Survival of Civilization |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1988-07-02 |
Geophysical Processes, Climate Cycles, and Nutrition |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1988-12-06 |
What Signal are We Looking for in Connection with the Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Warming Effect? |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1989-04-01 |
A Convergence of Individual Consciousness, Social Consciousness, and Geophysical Consciousness with the Scattered Fragements of Modern Science, To Solve our Ecological Problems |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1989-05-05 |
Paper to WILPF suggesting Adding Geophysical Consciousness |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1989-11-12 |
A Philosophical Perspective on How Our Human Civilization could Synchronize the Modificiation fo the Natural Glacial Cycle with Conversion to a Partnership Social Order to Co-evolve with the Biosphere and Reach a New Level of Peace And Justice |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1990-06-14 |
Commentary on Unitarian Womanquest Conference 1990 |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1990-07-09 |
Engineering Philosophy of Combining Top-down and Bottom-up Systems Analyses of Climate Change |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1990-07-18 |
Emergency Climate Stabilization and the Earth Regeneration Act of 1990 |
VIEW |
Earth Regeneration Society
|
| 1990-10-14 |
Handbook for a Shareable Strategy of Coevolution with the Biosphere |
VIEW |
CSIRI
|
| 1991-01-01 |
A Call for Action |
VIEW |
Remineralize the Earth
|
| 1991-03-08 |
Remineralize the Earth to Reduce Carbon Dioxide |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1991-03-21 |
Hierarchy of Ice Eras |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
|
| 1991-04-08 |
What Bioethics Questions does the Rising Level of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide pose for Human Civilization? |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
|
| 1991-05-18 |
A Proposal to Replace the 6000 year Patriarchal Sociological System with the Partnership Way to obtain Worldwide Peace and Freedom in Twenty Years Through the Use of Cybernetic Systems Concepts |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
|
| 1991-06-01 |
Synopsis of Hamaker Thesis on the Soil Nutrition Theory of Glacial Cycles Involving Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide as a Signal in the Present 2.5 Million Year Ice Epoch |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1992-01-02 |
Geo-Social-Individual Activating Systems Theory |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1992-07-10 |
Climate Cycles and the Development of Civilization |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1992-08-23 |
Cube of Perspectives on Deep Ecology |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1992-10-01 |
Whose World to Lose |
VIEW |
Whose World to Lose
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| 1993-01-01 |
A Visionary View of Whole Systems Practice by and for the People in the Year 2020 AD |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1993-02-28 |
Reviving the 1941 MIT Radiation Laboratory "Zeitgeist" to Attack Starvation and Climate Change |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1993-02-28 |
Understanding of Glacial Cycles as A Prerequesite to Understanding Climate Change |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1993-07-18 |
The A Not-Equal A Completeness Principle |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1993-10-31 |
General Systems Analysis of Basic Nuclear Energy Sources in our Solar System and the Chain of Processes they Trigger to Support Life on Planet Earth |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1993-10-31 |
General Systems Analysis of Communication with the Godhead |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1993-11-01 |
Progress Report on Evaluation of Hamaker Thesis on Glacial Cycles, CO2, & Soil Nutrition |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1994-05-23 |
Proposal for Increasing the Food Production and Economic Self-Sufficiency of Cuba by Soil Remineralization and Other Natural Supplements from Local Sources |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1994-06-16 |
Database Stucture, Part II, for Testing Block Simulation of Glaciation Cycle and Climate Change Problem |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1995-03-05 |
A Quasi-Completeness Test for Analysis of the Rise and Fall of Civiliization |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1995-07-07 |
Role of Geophysical Cycles in Triggering Human Violence |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 1995-11-19 |
Plan for Helping People Move to the next Step in Civilization |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 2000-01-01 |
Progress Report on a Global Simulation of a Slice of the Global Climate System |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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| 2001-02-14 |
A Start of a Proto-Encyclopedia of Systems Theory Concepts Needed for Relating Climate Cycles to the Survival of Human Civilization |
VIEW |
(manuscript)
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