#outrigger canoe racing

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The master builder might look like one of those sowu or experts whose work is primarily secular and not religious. Canoe construction and house building are primarily technical skills, but here one again encounters the diffused nature of religion in preindustrial societies. In the belief of the Chuuk islands, the roong, or skill-knowledge, of building is bestowed by the spirits. Hence, the master builder must, as sowufanafan, perform certain religious rituals to build a good outrigger or house. The religious dimension was viewed as a cultural imperative, as Bollig saw when he included the sowufanafan in his list of "carriers of religion" (1927, 72)

In the case of canoe construction, the religious ritual was woven throughout the process. It began with the felling of the breadfruit tree. Here the servants of the breadfruit spirits, the sowuyotoomey, accompanied the chopping with a prayer and offering in hopes that the core of the tree would not be rotten. This is another good example of religious ritual that is not magic in the Frazer sense of manipulation. The sowuyotoomey begged and made offerings and repeated the prayer if the felled tree was indeed rotten.

Next, the trunk was rough-hewn, but when it was brought to a house for building the canoe, a sacred time began for the sowufanafan and his helpers. Knotted coconut leaves were put around the house as markers: No one could enter, especially not women. The sowufanafan and his workers stayed there day and night during an extended work period. They could leave after a time only if the sowufanafan declared and end to the taboos (pin). The success of the work depended on the ritual of the sowufanafan, such as the offerings of prayers to Enuunap and the observance of the prohibitions of the spirits. (pin enu). Those caught violating the taboos were sent away. The medicinal master (sowuyotoomey) cam every morning and afternoon to "caress" the canoe and the to sing. The master builder could also order a break, during which all taboos were lifted. At the launching of the finished canoe, the outrigger was adorned with coconut fronds and the master builder sang. According to Bollig, on some islands it was customary to launch the boat near a launching stone, a rock upon which a sea spirit lived. Offerings were thrown in the sea for this spirit. If the boat was a rowing canoe, it was then tested in a race. In the center of the boat t be tested was the breadfruit master, who again caressed the boat and called on the spirits. As the boat gained speed, both the breadfruit master's invocations and the rowing became wilder. On completion of the race, a feast was held to thank the spirits and the master builder. The taboos then lost their force.

In sum, the role of the master builder was both technical and religious. The presence of the breadfruit master was another indication that the building and launching was religious. The religious dimension of the canoe construction should not be classed with the obligatory blessings given to new ships in the Western world upon the completion. The Chuuk thinking was different: The critical time was during construction. There were many other "masters" (sowu) whose status and role was likewise a tandem of technical skills and religious observance.

Summoning the Powers Beyond: Traditional Religions in Micronesia, Dobbin, on the practices of the Chuuk people

[captawesomesauce]

Thoughts at 530pm..

Today was SUCH a good day.

Do you know how incredible it feels to be able to go out when it's in the low 70s, a nice breeze, and the water is just gorgeous?

We're just a couple of miles away from the waterfront.

There is so much to see and do here, and this time of year the weather is so nice and people are all at work and in school when we're free to roam.

I've been so spoiled my entire life because I knew I would always end up "home." Whenever I was in another state, or another country I never really got homesick until we were in Arizona. It was always fun to explore places, see new things, try new foods.. places had stuff that was exciting!

Arizona... didn't. It was either too damn hot (record number of over 100 days in a row!!!) or it was just.. half meh/half ick. Everything was just dirt and rock and - that's it. There was very little to explore, very little to see or do.

Let me explain why I love here - We have a VERY large green park with multiple lakes, model plane airfield, model boat lake, fishing, and ducks and a train area and a dog park and just so much to see and explore with so much life around.

Across the street is a nature reserve with multiple hiking trails (6 different paths in fact) and it has so much to see and do including so many cute turtles!

There's a small park just across the street which has a lot of grassy area to walk and it's shady and nice.

To the south is a lagoon, a real salt water lagoon with a beach and a bridge that goes across the middle of the water and the bridge goes down to a landing at water level so you can sit there and look at all the sea life and even go swimming. It even has a fake beach so you basically park the car, there's a small strip of sand, and then water! Easy peasy to set up and relax for the day!

Then we have mothers beach which is nearby and right on the inlet so you can watch all of the boats go by, or even rent outriggers, paddle boards, and canoes!

Then you have the actual ocean with so much to see and do along the water front.

You have naples canal which has so many beautiful homes and stuff to see and explore.

2nd street with all of the shops, bars, and restaurants is right there too!

We also have a japanese garden close by!

And that's just right NEAR me. That's not even talking about going to the aquarium, or the lighthouse, or shoreline village or the queen mary! Or going to seal beach! Or driving down PCH through HB and Newport and everything!

All day, every day, every week there are festivals, there are food festivals, music festivals, a whiskey tasting festival. There are air shows, and marathons, bike races, and even an indy car street race!

The entire time we were in AZ you know what there was? - I don't. We looked, we tried to explore... there... wasn't shit.

And all of these things are outdoors and away from people so we're still COVID safe. This doesn't even include all the cool arts & crafts fairs, the farmers markets and the swap meets/flea markers!

I love this place.

[edithlevy]

“Row, Row, Row” Color or B&W…your room your choice. Outrigger canoeing dates back to 1500 BCE when outrigger boats were used for transportation in the South Pacific and across the Indian Ocean. Today Outrigger canoe racing is a popular sport in Hawaii and French Polynesia. I'm not sure if it was a school team or professional team of rowers but everyday in the late afternoon / early evening this group would row back and forth past my resort. On this day I was waiting for them. DM for details or check out the New Releases in the link in bio. .. .. #frenchpolynesia #tahiti #tahitilife #outrigger #outriggercanoe #rowing #canoe #artistsoninstagram #artoftheday #fineartphotography #fineartphg #fineartphotographer #fineartphoto #fineartprints #corporateart #corporateartcollection #artforthehome #gallery_legit #artcollector #ig_myshot #fineartzone (at Tahiti) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjIUZJggxc6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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dreamed I entered a boat race in the Amazon jungle and it was terrible. you were constantly getting submerged and swallowing river mud. In one spot full of branches jutting from the ground the current started flowing rapidly backwards and almost sucked me back to the beginning.I had entered with my dad who made me get his outrigger canoe at one point and carry it, but the canoe and its float kept sinking to the bottom every other second and I had to swim under and pick them up. we all stopped at a shallower section where the guy leading the race (?) gave you the option to quit and head back to the beginning. After deliberating and being told there was still “25 miles” more of this I decided to go back, following two other guys.

to go back you had no choice but go into this cave on the bank where you jumped down a cliff onto a rock shelf twice, then threw yourself into a tiny tunnel full of rushing water that would apparently spit you back out at the entrance. in the tunnel I had to hold my breath the whole time cause you were submerged. I started mentally narrating about how I “became part of the rock cycle-“ and had an out of body experience imagining myself becoming sediment carried through the river.

I woke up in my body again in a chamber with the two guys already there. In the center was an ancient clay figure (laying horizontally) mounted on a stand. It opened sideways like a sarcophagus, and each person saw a different “prize” inside. Mine was an egg with hatching birds in it. I told the guys and asked what to do with it, but when I looked back the birds were gone. One guy said to take the shell because it must be valuable. As I was picking up the fragments I noticed words printed on the shell that said “KADE” “ENERGY.” apparently in this world it was a reference (like the artist/title) to a music video for a popular edm song where birds hatched from an egg. I got the sense this guy thought the song was cringe. I burst out laughing and we left the cave.

Outside was a big beach. I was running around following one of the guys. There was a long staircase leading into the water with stickers on the steps showing I guess tourist information? I only remember the first one about a “starter course” the town/city had that gave you free swim trunks “discreetly” if you “didn’t want people to know” (???). We ran to a spirited away style train station where I almost got hit by my irl city’s public train as I was slipping around in the water.

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ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Robert is one of the most unique individuals in the world. A mere four days before his 66th birthday, Robert took on the SEALFIT’s Kokoro 50-Hour Challenge, originally created to train Special Operations Candidates. He was the oldest of the group by 25 years to finish, and at the same time became the oldest to ever complete the challenge, for which he was awarded the “Most Advanced Age Ever Award” by SEALFIT.

Some of Robert's many athletic accomplishment include:

Trained under legendary US Olympic swim coach Jon Urbanchek

Raced outrigger canoes from Long Beach to Catalina with the Dana Point Outrigger Club

Worked as a lifeguard in San Clemente, CA

Graduate of U.S. Air Force Special Operations School as Pararescueman, the Air Force equivalent of a Navy SEAL.

Attempted a winter ascent of Mt. McKinley in Alaska – blown off at 14,300’ in 80 mph winds (-100 degree wind chills)

Completed 12 lronman Triathlons

Completed “The 300 of Sparta” – A 238-mile endurance race across Greece May 2017 from Sparta to Thermopile in 8 days.

Sailed across the Atlantic from Spain to U.S. Virgin Islands

SEALFIT’s Kokoro: 50-hour Challenge - A Navy SEAL-style Hell Week

Survived raising five wonderful children

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Sunday 20th August

Take 2 of Motorised Canoe trip! Up again 0445 . This time the wind is not mad and no rain so🤞. Must say was a bit harder to get up this morning😁.

Have just got back and it was magic! Weather perfect. Where you go is to 4 separate islands but all in a protected area(by islands and reef). Area is used a lot for kite surfing as apparently international standard. We went at the peak of high tide and it is not deep at all as you can easily see the bottom. It is another picture perfect environment . The group was 20 and all couples except me. Big advantage was as the canoes are 2 person I got to go with Kylie one of the guides. So thankfully didn’t have to start the motors or steer. I just sat in the bow and my only job was to drop the anchor when told😁. So I was able to look around and enjoy the trip with no responsibilities 😁.

The canoes are motorised outrigger canoes. The motor looks a bit like a glorified lawn mower engine😂.We got a very quick introduction on how to start the motors and when, how to turn them off quickly and when and how to steer. Also what to do if we got in trouble. Kylie’s husband Ash comes with a motor boat and Kylie leads and he brings up the rear. Some of the men knew boats but some were pretty challenged as I was but by the end everyone was looking pretty confident. We only had trouble with one engine and that was my boat and as Kylie the driver not a drama. It is Ash’s job to fix the mechanical/motor issues as they arise on the hop so to speak.

The first trip in the canoes was the longest and most challenging as a bit of swell and chop so got soaking wet but was going to be anyway! They do loan you wet bags for your gear to protect them from getting wet. In the chop the canoes can take on water and they have a handy thing to bail water that gets in If needed. Some is ok but to much isn’t! You are told you will get wet in the canoes!.

Our first stop was an island that they had set up tables and there looked to be a bit of a structure on it though not sure what is for. Kylie put some food scraps out for the 1 remaining chook on the island and it also brings lots hermit crabs. We then were served cheeses,ham some salmon with sourdough bread, biscuits and dips. With that was choice cool drinks,beer or Champagne. Very civilised as we all stood on the beach and chatted. Ash then told us we were going to have a Hermit crab race. He drew a big circle and then another one just inside it and a small one in the middle. We all got ourselves a crab put them in the inner circle and we stood on the outer one. The first crab to reach the circle before the one we were standing on won. My crab came equal 3rd after a slow start. He came up from behind 🤣🤣.

We then went over to an island that has a colony of endangered skinks and did a count of what we saw in 3 designated areas. This is done for parks and wildlife to help keep tabs on them. Sort of citizen science. The next island we stopped and walked through a path across the island(about 10mins max) saw a huge frangipani tree the size of a coconut palm and popped out in an area that apparently at low tide you can walk from tiny island to the next on and there are lots! This area apparently is a big one for bird lovers as a type of bird that does get to Australia ones in migrations at certain time year. Sorry don’t remember all the specifics as not into birds😁.

This island is also the one the locals come and spend the day or camp (not legal but the locals ignore it😂) Johnny Clunies Ross who lives on West Island camps there a lot apparently 😁. Beautiful place if you have a little dingy to come across as a family even for the day which they do. Saw lots families enjoying it, cooking little gas fired burners I assume they bring themselves. Lots shade, very safe for kids, couple hammock s set up, pretty perfect! Ash also did a coconut husking demonstration and we tried the flesh of the ripe coconut and of one that was not fully mature so the white bit filled the whole nut and was soft rather than just the edges of the harder coconut meat. Some people tried to husk one themselves as we had the option. As the husk uses a star picket sticking about 30-40 cm out of the ground it is a bit risky but none got hurt trying.

We then went to the island from which we did snorkelling. I have developed a problem keeping my face down when snorkelling, partly due to be concerned I would end up off course and separated from my group and partly because my claustrophobia seems to kick in. So it was with some trepidation I decided to at least try. The idea was to snorkel around the island and pop out the other side directly opposite where our canoes were and walk to them. As it turns out the walk was about 2 mins😁. Kylie led us and Ash stood on a headland with a life buoy in case anyone got into trouble. Have to say pretty hard to do so given it is quite shallow and you can stand but have to be careful to stand on sand bits and not on the corals,but as you turn the headland there is a strong current. Fortunately it just pulls you to the sandbar near where we were to get out. However to see some really good bits you need to swim against it to get there and I am obviously not a strong enough swimmer as I couldn’t quite make it. However I bobbed up a few times when saw sand and then snorkelled so did see heaps. Saw lots fish with some swimming so close they would almost touch your goggles, Corals, sea cucumbers, reef sharks babies, and 4 turtles! It was well worth braving it even if I did pop up a few times😂😂.

We then helped put the canoes up and got driven home. It was a magic day and if tomorrow is the same weather my Turtle tour should be the same.🤞.

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They advertise for kids and any age group . The website actually says you have to be able to get in and out of a canoes and moderate fitness.However we had an obese man and his elderly father who uses a walking stick turn up. They ended up not coming when they realised that some physical stuff was needed. They were offered a ride with Ash in the boat but the elderly man would not have been able to get into it. You have to be able to at the very least get into the canoes backside first, no step ins, obviously you have to be able to get out and sling an anchor, walk in water and on a track that whilst flat is strewn with dead coconut fronds and fallen coconut trees you have to step over. You don’t have to snorkel so that is fine. They also provide snorkelling gear if you don’t have it and they have a few reef shoes and Crocs you can use assuming they fit😁.

Although told to bring bathers(in fact you need to wear them as no place to change and anyway you get wet as soon as you head out on the first leg😂.) some people just wore shorts and top or those Kathmandu long travel trousers. I assume because they didn’t intend to snorkel they assumed they wouldn’t need bathers😏.

I would definitely recommend this tour, well worth it.

We were also told that Cocos is suffering with affects climate change. The seas are rising, sea temps increasing and tides changing. There has also been a loss of their sea grass due to the dredging done to created and build the Ferry Jetty which took years longer than predicted . This is what killed off the sea grass and with it the food for Green Turtles who have had to compete with the other type for the centre of corals.Plus loss of some fish.

Also there is the work on the runway that is being done by RAAF and apparently they expect to have a RAAF base here in a few years. So this little idyllic island will change.☹️

A few photos of the motorised canoe trip. Don’t do it justice ! I used the canoe again next day when did the Turtle Tour again with Kylie working the motor 😁. Also couple of the crab race😁

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262 of 2023

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Prompt 4: Baleful

Sahxa pushed the rudder hard, her feet against the gunwale as she put everything into it. The nose of the small craft crested the top of the wave for a moment, then turned, the whole outrigger canoe pivoting for a moment before the momentum started the nose back down the face of the wave. She barely caught herself as the rudder suddenly broke into free air, quickly she straightened it out as the canoe picked up speed. Hair whipping back, she grinned, looking between the troughs of the waves and at the baleful storm that was pushing the waves, then all she could see was the wave face flashing by. Three times the length of the canoe spread before her as the craft plummeted downward, skipping across the wave. She had to struggle, feet spread and braced, arms wrapped around the rudder, holding it straight. She spotted the point of the wave where it curved back out, she leaned into the rudder slightly, the speeding craft was no longer plummeting straight down, but gently beginning to curve, a little more effort, a little more lean, a little more curve. She grinned when she saw the outrigger starting to lift from the face of the wave. The spray as the body of the canoe started to carve into the wave a little more with each passing second. The rudder became a little easier to turn, and she had to hold it steady as the craft began cutting across the face more than it was falling. She looked up, above her, the crest of the wave had truly formed, towering so far above it, she couldn’t see the sky anymore. Shifting quickly around the rudder, planting her butt on the gunwale, pressing the opposite wall of the hull with her feet, she leaned until her back was brushing along the arm of the outrigger, laid out over the water with the outrigger pontoon hovering in the air, the falling crest of the wave crashing just beyond the suspended part of the boat. A quick look up, and she was glad she had collapsed the sail, and the top half of the mast, for surely the falling crest of the wave would have hit it, and toppled the boat into kindling. Looking back ahead, Sahxa held fast to the rudder, holding it with the barest hint of angle now, fighting to keep the wave from tearing it from her hand. She could see the mouth of the tube ahead, she adjusted, a little more angle, the boat crept up the face of the wave slightly, and picked up more speed, now, it was a race. The howling of the wave crashing in a tube over her brought an even bigger grin to her face as her boat shot out of the cavern in a huge spray of roaring water. She angled the rudder, the boat obeying her command and climbing the face again, then she changed it, now she was sliding back down the face, the pontoon finally settling back onto the surface of the wave, she kept it at just the barest edge of the white water, riding this wave as far and as long as she could to try and stay ahead of the storm behind her...

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Lately paddling has been life.

Just finished one solid practice with my girls. After pigging out on ice cream for the past 3 days I thought I’d feel a lot worse then I do. But I’ve been tanking water in high hopes of eliminating that ice-screaming pain.

We’re right in the middle of long distance season, smashing our goal of 32 miles of smiles just to qualify for Na Wahine O Kekai. Na wahine is just 10 more miles of open ocean. A 42 mile race from Moloka’i to Oahu.

We’ve all been accountable for each other on this journey, making sure our diets are clean, our work outs are sweaty and our minds are in check. Constructively critiquing each other to find that perfect blend. Making sure that when we get out of the boat we know we pushed our 110%. Leaving all our negative energy with the waves.

Today’s practice we busted out the unlimited. A carbon fiber boat  that feels weightless in the ocean. With our crew locked in we flew and I knew that everyone in that boat, on that last run, had their minds set on that one most important race (also on passing the badass 50′s after dropping our paddle, losing the lead). We have an 8 mile race this weekend, 17+ mile escorted practice the following weekend then Queen Lili’uo the weekend after. 2 weeks break. Then the big one. We’re almost there.

Pau

[annarellix]

Unconquerable Sun by Kate Eliott (The Sun Chronicles #1)

My Review (4,5*): This is the first book I read by Kate Eliott and I can say I thoroughly enjoyed. The blurb talks about “Gender Swapped Alexander the Great on interstellar scale” and I couldn’t resist as Alexander the Great is one of my favorite historical character. To be honest I found hard to match Alexander with Sun as I wasn’t able to match fictional characters with the historical one. On the other side I think it’s an excellent and gripping story that kept me hooked even if I’m not a big fan of military sci-fi It’s a bit slow at the beginning but it’s also the part where the author introduce us to a very complex and fascinating world. The world building is amongst the strong point of this book: fascinating civilisations and different races, political intrigues and very sophisticated technologies. Even if there’s a Far East flavour they are original and fresh. Kate Eliott is an excellent storyteller and she delivers a story that is action packed, gripping and fast paced after the first part. I didn’t find easy to warm up to Sun but we see her grow and show her cunning and her strategical abilities during the book. Her companions are fascinating, I loved Persephone and Zizou. All the characters are well thought and interesting. Even if it’s a sci-fi story some aspects reflect those of our society and there’s plenty of social commentary. I liked how the author use the reality show as a mean of propaganda and as a part of the plot. I’m very curious to read the next books in this series because I think it’s going to be very interesting. It’s the first book I read by Kate Eliott and won’t surely be the last. I strongly recommend it as it’s highly entertaining and gripping. Many thanks to Head of Zeus and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine

Book Description: It has been eight centuries since the beacon system failed, sundering the heavens as it collapsed. Without beacons the void between stars is navigable only by the slow crawl of knnu driven argosies. Rising from the ashes of the collapse, cultures have fought, system-by-system, for control of the few remaining beacons. The Republic of Chaonia is one such polity. Surrounded by the Yele League and the vast Phene Empire, they have had to fight for their existence. After decades of conflict, Queen-Marshal Eirene has brought the Yele to heel, binding them into subservience. Now it is time to deal with the Empire. Princess Sun, daughter and heir to the queen-marshal, has come of age. In her first command, she has driven a Phene garrison from the beacons of Na Iri. Growing up in the shadow of her mother has been no easy task. The queen-marshal, having built Chaonia into a magnificent republic against impossible odds, is both revered and feared. While Sun may imagine that her victorious command will bring further opportunity to prove herself, it will in fact place her on the wrong side of court politics. There are those who would like to see Sun removed as heir, or better yet, dead. To survive, while the battle between empires ignites all around her, the princess must rely on her wits and companions: her biggest rival, her secret lover, and a dangerous prisoner of war.

The Author: Kate Elliott has been writing stories since she was nine years old, which has led her to believe that writing, like breathing, keeps her alive. Writing science fiction and fantasy, her particular focus is immersive world building and centering women in epic stories of adventure, amid transformative cultural change. Kate was born in Iowa, raised in Oregon and now lives in Hawaii, where she paddles outrigger canoes and spoils her schnauzer.

www.kateelliott.com

For more information please contact: Lauren Tavella · laurentavella@headofzeus.com Head of Zeus, 5-8 Hardwick Street, London, EC1R 4RG ∙ www.headofzeus.com ∙ @HoZ_Books

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Ahoy Mateys!

I am brand new to this platform. I just signed up because I recently started following a Youtube Channel called Photo Assignments. That group started about 3 years ago and I am just starting out today. In the introduction of the Photography Assignments Channel, Ted Forbes (The Art of Photography) suggested that we sign up for a Tumblr account. So being a good student, I decided to follow his lead.

I am a sailor and I enjoy taking photos. My wife Jojo paddles Hawaiian outrigger canoes and our dog Lulu is starting her own blog and that is why you’re going to be witness to a mish-mash of all kinds of stuff in this Tumblr blog. I also author a few other blogs, so I will be treating this space as my laboratory, testing ground and/or staging area until I am comfortable enough with the platform to actually publish a blog with it.

I’ll give you a little background about my photography. I have been taking pictures since I was 5 or 6 years old. I remember my very first camera, a Kodak Brownie that my father gave me. I would shoot black and white photos while traveling with the family every summer throughout my childhood. From then on I recall going through a series of Kodak Pocket Instamatic cameras that took those super easy-to-use 110 film cartridges. It wasn’t until I got into High School when I would own my first 35mm SLR Camera (again a gift from my parents).

That 1st SLR was the infamous Pentax K-1000. Boy, that camera sure did make me feel like a grown-up. I was so stoked to have finally made it to the big leagues that I started taking my photography to the next level. I even set up my own personal photo lab in one of the bathrooms of the house. Truth be told, that was just way too much work and pretty expensive for a kid in high school. I think I dabbled in the darkroom for only a few months because it was so much easier to just drop off those film canisters to the photo store and wait a week to have the images professionally developed. That darkroom stuff was fun for a while, but way too much work.

In college, I managed to destroy a Canon AE-1 which I loaned to a friend to take on a hiking trip. When I got the camera back, it was all sticky and completely ruined. Apparently, there was a leaky fruit punch container in the same backpack that he was carrying my camera around in. I learned early on not to loan gear to friends, unless it was something I could afford to lose. Luckily for me though, that little hiking faux pas was my chance to upgrade my AE-1 to the AE-1 Program which came out that same year (1981). I never got to thank my friend because I guess I was still a bit angry about having to spend $700 that I didn’t have to replace my camera (I think I had to work an entire summer for that single purchase). I would hang on to that new AE-1 Program for over 15 years. To be perfectly honest, I may still have it in storage somewhere, but I’m thinking it may have gotten sold at one of our last moving sales.

Fast forward to the digital age of photography. Those original DSLRs were frankly too damn expensive for a hobbyist. I would have to wait. In the meantime, I must’ve owned at least a half-dozen point-and-shoots. I can recall owning Olympus, Fujifilm, Canon, Panasonic and Sony gear. None of these were really serious cameras. They were handy dandy gear that could be tossed into Jojo’s purse or my backpack (these were before the advent of the phone cameras widely used by most folks today). I think I started buying these bad boys from the time that 1.3MP was the most typical resolution. Today, my iPhone’s camera is almost 10 times as sharp as those early digital cameras.

A fairly long time had passed since I owned a “real” camera and I had never before owned a Nikon. So, in early 2015 (February), I was lucky enough to win all 4 quarters of the Superbowl pool and ended up $400 richer than I was pre-game. I decided to get myself an entry-level DSLR. I went to Costco and saw that the Nikon D3300 Kit was priced at $499.99. That’s $100 over budget, so I decided to wait. One day I was shopping at Sam’s Club and noticed that they had an open box of that same kit and the price was right at $400. Voila! I was able to get into a DSLR at no cost to me (so you could say I lucked into it).

In the summer of 2015 I was asked to chair the Transpac Honolulu Photography Committee. For those who don’t know, the Transpac is a Trans-Pacific Yacht Race from Los Angeles to Honolulu which is held every other year. At that time, I was on the Waikiki Yacht Club’s Board of Directors serving as the Rear Commodore for Power and was very involved with all things WYC. I took over the committee and have been chairing it ever since. One thing that serving in this capacity brought to my attention was how much I needed to improve as a photographer. I was surrounded by professionals and I was merely taking snapshots whilst they were capturing some of the most exciting images imaginable. Action shots of racing yachts from the water, from the sky, you name it and they were capturing it. It made me feel amateurish, mainly because I was.

This year, I’ve decided to up my game. I purchased a second hand Nikon D5500 on Craigslist and decided I would start improving myself as a shooter. I took a lot of Transpac photos again this summer and I decided I wanted to shoot my wife’s Na Wahine O Ke Kai Outrigger Canoe Race from Molokai to Waikiki (41 miles). The first time she did the race was 2014 and I didn’t have the gear. She skipped a few years, and when she did the race again in 2018, I was the Commodore of the Yacht Club and I was away on the Mainland at a function hosted at St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco, so I missed the women’s Molokai race last year. This year, I wanted to capture the event in photographs, mostly for her to show what a truly challenging accomplishment the race is. I took a lot of shots this year and you may be able to find some of that work if you search SmugMug and Facebook. I still want to improve my skills which is why I’ve decided to start these Photo Assignments on Youtube.

I know that this was a really long post for my first Tumblr post, but I wanted to introduce myself by letting you know a little bit of my background and more importantly, why I am here. I’m not sure where I’ll be taking this, but at least I have posted something of a brief history along with what I hope to achieve with this social media space. Wish me luck. It is my intention to share without reservation, so I hope you all enjoy seeing my process from day one... Aloha!

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Buskers by Tony Via Flickr: Day 33: Pape’ete, Tahiti, French Polynesia: Tahitian cultures included an oral tradition that involved the mythology of gods, such as 'Oro and beliefs, as well as ancient traditions such as tattooing and navigation. The annual Heivā I Tahiti Festival in July is a celebration of traditional culture, dance, music and sports including a long distance race between the islands of French Polynesia, in modern outrigger canoes (va'a).

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Just Another Week Here in Paris

I’m back! In my sports and culture class on Monday, we went to Jardin du Luxembourg—a large garden in the Latin Quarter that houses the senate. We walked around, talking about the connection between native sports and local identities, before trying our hand at a traditional French sport, pétanque. 

Pétanque is like Bocce, really. You play on a pit of dust, sand, gravel, and rocks, and break up into two teams. Our professor explained that it’s a game you can play with as few as two people, and at any age. One person starts by throwing a small ball, called the cochonnet (little pig). Then, the teams try to throw their metal balls as close to the cochonnet as they can. You don’t alternate turns, but instead, the team that does not have the closest ball to the center will keep on throwing until they either get one closer than the other team’s closest, or run out of their three balls. The strategy comes in when you realize that what’s on the field is indeed movable, including the cochonnet! There’s also strategy in that the more arced and with spin you throw the ball, the less it will move once hitting the ground, but it’s harder to aim when you do that. It also doesn’t help that an aspect of the game is that the ground isn’t necessarily flat. Here’s some pictures from our time playing!

Nothing much else went on that day. On Tuesday, I went with a friend to the Arts et Métiers Museum, which is a museum that holds historical scientific objects. It was a super cool place, especially for the engineers on the trip! The museum was split into many different sections, first was scientific instruments, such as microscopes, Lavoisier’s set-up for demonstrating the conservation of matter in chemical reactions, weights and measures, a particle accelerator, and lots of clocks. There were also communications tools, such as typewriters, moveable type, radios, and telegrams; there were models of bridges and buildings’ domes around Paris, along with a section on just “mechanics” that was filled with all sorts of wacky setups of gears and bearings. What was most exciting for my friend and I was the “power” section though, because it was filled with engines! We’ve spent many, many classes of thermodynamics studying engines, and the cycles that we studied—Diesel, Lenioir, and Ericsson just to name a few—were all represented in the museum…

That night, about half our thermo class went out for dinner together in China Town, and we ate under the aegis of a 100-point space invader! 

Top left: my friend and I excited to see engines. Top right: me holding my exercise about the Lenoir Cycle in front of a Lenoir engine. Bottom: (after) dinner in Chinatown, the 100 point space invader in the top left corner

Wednesday morning was a bit of a bust. I tried to finish off a museum that I had started a few days before, but the section I wanted to see was closed again :( After my first class, I headed to the library to work on a presentation that I had the next day for Sports and Culture. The idea was to read one of the required or supplementary articles on the syllabus, and then present about it. One of the articles that stood out to me (of course, as a naval architecture major) was about Polynesian outriggers. French Polynesia—made of the famous islands of Bora Bora and Tahiti, among others—is still very much a part of France proper, in a similar way as to how Guam is a part of the US. In fact, the 2024 Paris Olympics are hosting the surfing events in Tahiti—nearly 10,000 miles away! But there is a sport there called Va’a, or pirogue in French, which is the tradition of racing these outrigger canoes between islands. And yes, that means in the terrifyingly deep blue ocean between those islands. That’s what this article was about. Actually, the article on the syllabus I had trouble finding online, so I found a similar one that was in French. I worked my way through the 15-page document, and I feel like the challenge of reading in a different language actually made me more able to retain info than otherwise! It was a really interesting topic, and I really enjoyed learning all about this tradition. What I found super intriguing was that there’s this Frenchman, Yves Haupert, who, after coming to French Polynesia for a journalism project, quickly fell in love with Pirogue. He’s considered the first non-Polynesian to be able to take on the difficult task of the Hawaiki Nui Va’a (the pirogue competition since the early ‘90s), and he did it for five years in a row. The Tahitian people quickly welcomed him into their society and he’s still there to this day.

Wednesday night was spent by the Eiffel Tower. Usually our Eiffel Tower Picnics and Light Show Watch Parties have about five people, but we went all out this week. At its height, we had over twenty friends sitting on the Champ de Mars enjoying a selection of French breads, charcuteries, wines, and cheeses. It was a lot of fun!

Thursday wasn’t anything too special. I went to the Jewish Quarter and had lunch in the courtyard of the National Archives (very close to the school), I did try escargots for the first time (and they were quite good!), and after dinner, I went rock climbing with some friends to end out the day. That’s about all I have for now, so I suppose, à plus! (Later!)

Escargots

Rock Climbing!

Ian Rosenberg

Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering

IPE Paris

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100 Failed Climate Change Predictions Made In The Past 150 Years

Climate Change activists and politicians who cry 'Believe Us Because We're Smart and You're Not' have been declaring that the sky is falling for over 150 years.

Which Climate Change politician said "Planet Earth is sending out distress signals. They carry ominous messages. They tell us that the world is about to grow warmer, warmer than at any time in recorded history and that the warmth will bring catastrophe." Al Gore? Barack Obama? Some moronic UN Official? The Answer is George J. Mitchell. Many will ask "Who in the hell is George Mitchell? Mitchell was the former Democrat Senator from Main who served 15 years in the U.S. Senate, between 1980 and 1995.  The quote above is from his 1991 book, World on Fire: Saving an Endangered Earth. It just goes to show you that we aren't the first generation to be lectured about how we don't care about saving the planet. And we certainly won't be the first, nor the last to hear "If we don't act now, it'll be too late." (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); 100 Failed Climate Change Predictions 1865 -  Stanley Jevons (one of the most recognized 19th century economists) predicted that England would run out of coal by 1900, and that England’s factories would grind to a standstill. 1885 - the US Geological Survey announced that there was “little or no chance” of oil being discovered in California. 1890 - Is our climate changing? The succession of temperate summers and open winters through several years, culminating last winter in the almost total failure of the ice crop throughout the valley of the Hudson, makes the question pertinent. The older inhabitants tell us that the Winters are not as cold now as when they were young, and we have all observed a marked diminution of the average cold even in this last decade. - New York Times June 23, 1890 1891 - it said the same thing about Kansas and Texas. (See Osterfeld, David. Prosperity Versus Planning : How Government Stifles Economic Growth. New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.) 1895 - The question is again being discussed whether recent and long-continued observations do not point to the advent of a second glacial period, when the countries now basking in the fostering warmth of a tropical sun will ultimately give way to the perennial frost and snow of the polar regions - New York Times - February 24, 1895 1912 - “Fifth ice age is on the way…..Human race will have to fight for its existence against cold.” – Los Angles Times October 23, 1912 1922 - The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot. Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts, which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds. - Washington Post 11/2/1922 1922 - The Associated Press reported that coastal cities would be uninhabitable in a few years due to “a radical change in climate conditions” 1923 - Scientist says Arctic ice will wipe out Canada, Professor Gregory of Yale University stated that “another world ice-epoch is due.” He warned that North America would disappear as far south as the Great Lakes, and huge parts of Asia and Europe would be “wiped out.” – Chicago Tribune August 9, 1923 1933 - America in longest warm spell since 1776; temperature line records a 25 year rise - New York Times 3/27/1933 1939 - The US Department of the Interior said that American oil supplies would last only another 13 years. 1939 - More than eighteen years of observing the fluctuations of Arctic weather conditions in the fifty-eight Soviet scientific stations in the Far North....lead Russian meteorologists to a forecast of warmer winters and hotter summers for the North and South Poles. They believe that the earth is entering a new cycle of warmer weather. 1944 -  Federal government review predicted that by now the US would have exhausted its reserves of 21 of 41 commodities it examined. Among them were tin, nickel, zinc, lead and manganese. 1947 - A mysterious warming of the climate is slowly manifesting itself in the Arctic, engendering a "serious international problem," - New York Times - May 30, 1947 1949 - The Secretary of the Interior announced that the end of US oil was in sight. 1954 - Greenland's polar climate has moderated so consistently that communities of hunters have evolved into fishing villages. Sea mammals, vanishing from the west coast, have been replaced by codfish and other fish species in the area's southern waters. - New York Times August 29, 1954 1961- After a week of discussions on the causes of climate change, an assembly of specialists from several continents seems to have reached unanimous agreement on only one point: it is getting colder. - New York Times - January 30, 1961 1962 - Like an outrigger canoe riding before a huge comber, the earth with its inhabitants is caught on the downslope of an immense climatic wave that is plunging us toward another Ice Age. - Los Angeles Times December 23, 1962 1968 - A comparison of climatic data for the eastern United States from the 1830's and 1840's with the currently valid climatic normals indicates a distinctly cooler and, in some areas, wetter climate in the first half of the last century. The recently appearing trend to cooler conditions noticed here and elsewhere could be indicative of a return to the climatic character of those earlier years. - Monthly Weather review Feb. 1968 1969 - Col. Bernt Balchen, polar explorer and flier, is circulating a paper among polar specialists proposing that the Arctic pack ice is thinning and that the ocean at the North Pole may become an open sea within a decade or two. – New York Times - February 20, 1969 1970 - Get a good grip on your long johns, cold weather haters--the worst may be yet to come. That's the long-long-range weather forecast being given out by "climatologists." the people who study very long-term world weather trends…. Washington Post January 11, 1970 1970 - Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years (1985 - 2000) unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.” 1970 - The day after the first Earth Day, the New York Times editorial page warned, “Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.” 1970 - It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” declared Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for Earth Day, in the Spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness. 1970 - Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor, wrote “Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.” 1970 -  Life reported, “Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….” 1970 - Ecologist Kenneth Watt told Time that, “At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.” 1970 - Barry Commoner predicted that decaying organic pollutants would use up all of the oxygen in America’s rivers, causing freshwater fish to suffocate. 1970 - Ecologist Kenneth Watt declared, “By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, `I am very sorry, there isn't any.'” 1970 - Harrison Brown, a scientist at the National Academy of Sciences, published a chart in Scientific American that looked at metal reserves and estimated the humanity would totally run out of copper shortly after 2000. Lead, zinc, tin, gold, and silver would be gone before 1990. 1970 - Sen. Gaylord Nelson wrote in Look that, “Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years (1995), somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.” 1970 - Kenneth Watt warned about a pending Ice Age in a speech. “The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years,” he claimed. “If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.” 1971 - “In the next 50 years fine dust that humans discharge into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuel will screen out so much of the sun's rays that the Earth's average temperature could fall by six degrees. Sustained emissions over five to 10 years, could be sufficient to trigger an ice age." – Washington Post - July 9, 1971 1971 - New Ice Age Coming---It's Already Getting Colder. Some midsummer day, perhaps not too far in the future, a hard, killing frost will sweep down on the wheat fields of Saskatchewan, the Dakotas and the Russian steppes…..Los Angles Times Oct 24, 1971 1972 - "Arctic specialist Bernt Balchen says a general warming trend over the North Pole is melting the polar ice cap and may produce an ice-free Arctic Ocean by the year 2000." Christian Science Monitor 1974 - "There is very important climatic change (Global Cooling) going on right now, and it’s not merely something of academic interest. It is something that, if it continues, will affect the whole human occupation of the earth – like a billion people starving. The effects are already showing up in a rather drastic way.” – Fortune Magazine February 1974 1974 - A number of climatologists, whose job it is to keep an eye on long-term weather changes, have lately been predicting “the facts of the present climate change are such that the most optimistic experts would assign near certainty to major crop failure in a decade,” If policy makers do not account for this oncoming doom, “mass deaths by starvation and probably in anarchy and violence” will result. New York Times - December 29, 1974 1975 - A RECENT flurry of papers has provided further evidence for the belief that the Earth is cooling. There now seems little doubt that changes over the past few years are more than a minor statistical fluctuation – Nature - March 6, 1975 1975- Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the cooling trend. But they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century. – The Cooling World Newsweek, April 28, 1975 1976: The late Stephen Schneider who went on to become one of the world’s leading Global Warming alarmists claimed A cooling trend has set in – perhaps one akin to the Little Ice Age. 1976- This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000. -- Lowell Ponte "The Cooling", 1976 1978 - An international team of specialists has concluded from eight indexes of climate that there is no end in sight to the cooling trend of the last 30 years, at least in the Northern Hemisphere. - New York Times - January 5, 1978 1978 - The Brutal Buffalo (NY) winter might be common all over the United States. Climate experts believe the next Ice Age is on its way. According to recent evidence, it could come sooner than anyone expected. - In Search of - "The Coming Ice Age" 1978 1980 - Evidence has been presented and discussed to show a cooling trend over the Northern Hemisphere since around 1940, amounting to over 0.5°C - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society - November 1980 1986 - A global warming trend could bring heat waves, dust-dry farmland and disease, the experts said... Under this scenario, the resort town of Ocean City, Md., will lose 39 feet of shoreline by 2000 and a total of 85 feet within the next 25 years - San Jose Mercury News - June 11, 1986 1988 -  Philip Shabecoff, “Global Warming Has Begun.” “If the current pace of the buildup of these gases continues, the effect is likely to be a warming of 3 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit the year 2025 to 2050…. The rise in global temperature is predicted to … caus sea levels to rise by one to four feet by the middle of the next century.” 1988 - Greenhouse Effect Culprit May Be Family Car; New Ice Age by 1995? We may be less than seven years away, and our climate may continue to deteriorate rapidly until life on earth becomes all but unsupportable.... New York Times - Larry Ephron , Director of the Institute for a Future - July 15, 1988 1988 -  The West Side Highway will be under water. And there will be tape across the windows across the street because of high winds. And the same birds won’t be there. The trees in the median strip will change. There will be more police cars. Why? Well, you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up... James Hansen testimony before Congress in June 1988 1989 - “Using computer models, researchers concluded that global warming would raise average annual temperatures nationwide two degrees by 2010.” Associated Press, May 15, 1989. 1989 - Associated Press: “UN Official Predicts Disaster, Says Greenhouse Effect Could Wipe Some Nations Off Map.” The director of the UN Environment Program (UNEP) claimed “entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if global warming is not reversed by the year 2000.” 1989 - "Using computer models, researchers concluded that global warming would raise average annual temperatures nationwide two degrees by 2010." Associated Press 1989 - 'New York will probably be like Florida 15 years from now,' - St. Louis Post-Dispatch Sept. 17, 1989 1989- Some predictions for the next decade (1990's) are not difficult to make... Americans may see the '80s migration to the Sun Belt reverse as a global warming trend rekindles interest in cooler climates. - Dallas Morning News December 5th 1989 1990 " 1995, the greenhouse effect would be desolating the heartlands of North America and Eurasia with horrific drought, causing crop failures and food riots. Michael Oppenheimer,  "Dead Heat," St. Martin's Press, 1990. 1990 The Platte River of Nebraska would be dry, while a continent-wide black blizzard of prairie topsoil will stop traffic on interstates, strip paint from houses and shut down computers." Michael Oppenheimer,  "Dead Heat," St. Martin's Press, 1990. 1990 - Giant sand dunes may turn Plains to desert - The giant sand dunes discovered in NASA satellite photos are expected to re- emerge over the next 20 to 50 years, depending on how fast average temperatures rise from the suspected "greenhouse effect," scientists believe. -Denver Post April 18, 1990 1990 - ''I think we're in trouble. When you realize how little time we have left - we are now given not 10 years to save the rainforests, but in many cases five years. Madagascar will largely be gone in five years unless something happens. And nothing is happening.'' - ABC - The Miracle Planet April 22, 1990 1990 - The planet could face an "ecological and agricultural catastrophe" by the next decade if global warming trends continue - Carl Sagan - Buffalo News Oct. 15, 1990 1993 - Most of the great environmental struggles will be either won or lost in the 1990s and by the next century it will be too late. -- Thomas E. Lovejoy, Smithsonian Institution “Real Goods Alternative Energy Sourcebook,” Seventh Edition: February 1993 1995 - the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - Based on the findings of three working groups, the IPCC says that the earth’s temperature could rise by between 33 and 38 F by the year 2010 1996 - Today (in 1996) 25 million environmental refugees roam the globe, more than those pushed out for political, economic, or religious reasons. By 2010, this number will grow tenfold to 200 million. - The Heat is On -The High Stakes Battle Over Earth’s Threatened Climate - Ross Gelbspan - 1996 1997 - It appears that El Ninos are going to become more frequent, and they're going to become more intense and in a few years, or a decade or so, we'll go into a permanent El Nino. You'll have an El Nino, that instead of lasting 18 months, lasts 18 years," he said. - BBC November 7, 1997 1997 - One of the world's leading climate experts warned of an underestimated threat posed by the buildup of greenhouse gases ' an abrupt collapse of the ocean's prevailing circulation system that could send temperatures across Europe plummeting in a span of 10 years. If that system shut down today, winter temperatures in the North Atlantic region would fall by 20 or more degrees Fahrenheit within 10 years said Wallace S. Broecker, Newberry Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University's - Science Magazine Dec 1, 1997 1999 - Scientists are warning that some of the Himalayan glaciers could vanish within ten years because of global warming. - The Birmingham Post (England) July 26, 1999 1999 - A report last week claimed that within a decade, the disease (Malaria) will be common again on the Spanish coast. - The Guardian September 11, 1999 2000- the Independent March 20th, 2000. According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”.Britain Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past “Children just aren't going to know what snow is” 2001 - A 2001 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted that “(m)ilder winter temperatures will decrease heavy snowstorms” but increase the number of ice storms. 2001 - THE Arctic ice cap is melting at a rate that could allow routine commercial shipping through the far north in a decade and open up new fisheries...But in 10 years' time, the North-West Passage could be open to ordinary shipping for a month each summer. Peter Wadhams of the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge said "Within a decade we can expect regular summer trade there," he predicts. New Scientist Feb. 27, 2001 . 2001 - In ten years time, most of the low-lying atolls surrounding Tuvalu's nine islands in the South Pacific Ocean will be submerged under water as global warming rises sea levels, CNN Mar 29, 2001. 2001 - (1) global warming will cause milder winters and (2) global warming will cause a decline in heavy snowstorm events. IPCC 2001 Third Assessment Report. 2002 - In the North Atlantic, an increasing amount of fresh water, perhaps coming from melting ice in the Arctic, has been accumulating and lowering the salinity of the ocean for the past 30 years...that would cause an abrupt drop in average winter temperatures of about 5 degrees Fahrenheit over much of the United States and 10 degrees in the Northeast. This change could happen within a decade and persist for hundreds of years. - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Sep 6, 2002. 2004 - Without urgent measures to rapidly reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, the possibility of limiting the temperature rise below a dangerous level will have disappeared within a decade. Report commissioned by Greenpeace and written by Jean-Pascal van Ypersele and Philippe Marbaix, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. July 2004. 2005 - The UN Environment Program (UNEP) warned that imminent sea-level rises, increased hurricanes, and desertification caused by Global Warming would lead to massive population disruptions. Especially at risk were regions such as the Caribbean and low-lying Pacific islands, along with coastal areas. The 2005 UNEP predictions claimed that, by 2010, some 50 million “climate refugees” would be fleeing those areas. 2005 - A task force of senior politicians, business leaders and academics from around the world claimed In as little as 10 years, or even less, their report indicates, the point of no return with global warming may have been reached. - Michael McCarthy - Environment Editor UK Independent - 1/24/05 2005 - Environmental refugees to top 50 million in 5 years --and may grow exponentially as the world experiences the effects of climate change and other phenomena," says UNU-EHS Director Janos Bogardi. - United Nations University news release - October 11, 2005 2006- NASA scientist James Hansen claimed the world has a 10-year window of opportunity to take decisive action on global warming and avert catastrophe. NBC news . 2006 -  A few more decades of ungoverned fossil-fuel use and we burn up, to put it bluntly - "The End of Nature" Bill McKibben 2006 - Al Gore claims Mount Kilimanjaro Africa’s tallest peak will be snow-free ‘within the decade. 2006 - Summer sea ice will decline as CO2 rises; 2007 marked the beginning of a ‘death spiral’ for Polar bears as CO2 levels rise. 1995 Polar bear population was around 25,000 instead of a "death spiral" their population was estimated to be about 31,000 in 2015 2006 - NOAA announced its predictions for the 2006 hurricane season, saying it expects an "above normal" year with 13-16 named storms. Of these storms, the agency says it expects four to be hurricanes of category 3 or above, double the yearly average of prior seasons in recorded history. The 2006 Atlantic hurricane season was the least active since 1997 as well as the first season since 2001 in which no hurricanes made landfall in the United States 2007- Professor Wieslaw Maslowski  “Our projection of 2013 for the removal of Arctic ice in summer is not accounting for the last two minima, in 2005 and 2007, So given that fact, you can argue that may be our projection of 2013 is already too conservative.” 2007 - IPCC AR4 predicts that by 2020, between 75 and 250 million of people are projected to be exposed to increased water stress due to climate change. In some countries, yields from rain-fed agriculture could be reduced by up to 50%. 2007 - Rajendra Pachauri, the former head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in 2007 that if “there’s no action before 2012, that’s too late.” 2007 -NASA climate scientist Jay Zwally - Climate models show the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012, much faster than previous predictions. - National Geographic  Dec. 12, 2007 2007 - "The mid-winter temperatures are now around 10.8 degrees Fahrenheit higher than they were 50 years ago." If the trend continues, Bill Fraser, an ecologist with the Polar Oceans Research Group in Sheridan, Montana. predicts that Adélie penguins will be extinct within five to ten years. National Geographic Dec. 28, 2007 2007 - Dr. Felix Landerer of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, published a study predicting that Global warming will make Earth spin faster. 2008 - THE vast Arctic sea ice that spreads across the North Pole could disappear during the summer within five years (2012-13), leading ice and snow scientists are warning. 2008 -Arctic warming has become so dramatic that the North Pole may melt this summer (2008), David Barber, of the University of Manitoba, told National Geographic News aboard the C.C.G.S. Amundsen, a Canadian research icebreaker. - National Geographic News June 20, 2008 2008 Al Gore on 13 December 2008: “The entire north polar ice cap will be gone in 5 years” 2008 - ABC News predicted that NYC would be under water by June 2015. 2008 - The Telegraph, Climate change will force refugees to move to Antarctica by 2030, researchers have predicted. 2009 - The former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown predicted that if they didn’t solve the climate change “impasse” they found themselves in within 50 days, the world was pretty much doomed. 2009 - Prince Charles said, without revealing how he had “calculated” climate change threatens to engulf us all, ”we only have 96 months left to save the world. 2009- A Pennsylvania state government “Student and Teacher Guide” reads: “Some estimates of the oil reserves suggest that by the year 2015 we will have used all of our accessible oil supply.” 2009 - The world has less than five years to get carbon emissions under control or runaway climate change will become inevitable, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has warned.  - Oct 19, 2009 2010 - Dr. Morris Bender, from NOAA, and coauthors predict that “the U.S. Southeast and the Bahamas will be pounded by more very intense hurricanes in the coming decades due to global warming.” After 40 years of so-called global warming no increase in hurricanes has been detected, in fact, a very unusual 11-year drought in strong hurricane US landfalls took place from 2005-2016. 2012 - “It could even be this year or next year but not later than 2015 there won’t be any ice in the Arctic in the summer, which he calls “the Arctic death spiral”. - David Vaughan Glaciologist & IPCC scientist - Financial Times Magazine Aug 8, 2012 2013 - For the record—I do not think that any sea ice will survive this summer. An event unprecedented in human history is today, this very moment, transpiring in the Arctic Ocean….” - Paul Beckwith Sierra Club – March 23, 2013 2014 - France’s foreign minister said that we only have 500 days to stop “climate chaos.” This ABC 2007 video showing what it will look like in 2015... Jackasses! (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); None of the 100 failed predictions above are from the king of Bullshit predictions, Paul R. Ehrlich, because he would have taken up half the list by himself Ehrlich became the poster child for the loony toon climate activist when he published his book The Population Bomb, written with his wife Anne Ehrlich in 1968. Here are some of Paul R. Ehrlich's more notable failed climate change predictions he made in his book as well as other publications. In a 1969 essay titled “Eco-Catastrophe! "Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born,” “Air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.” Ehrlich sketched a scenario in which 200,000 Americans would die in 1973 during “smog disasters” in New York and Los Angeles. Warned in the May 1970 issue of Audubon that DDT and other chlorinated hydrocarbons “may have substantially reduced the life expectancy of people born since 1945.” Ehrlich warned that Americans born since 1946…would have a life expectancy of only 49 years, and he predicted that if current patterns continued this expectancy would reach 42 years by 1980, when it might level out. (Note: According to the most recent CDC report, life expectancy in the US is 78.8 years). Confidently declared in the April 1970 issue of Mademoiselle. “The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.” 1970 Earth Day issue of The Progressive, assuring readers that between 1980 and 1989, some 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would perish in the “Great Die-Off.” In 1975, predicted that “since more than nine-tenths of the original tropical rainforests will be removed in most areas within the next 30 years or so, it is expected that half of the organisms in these areas will vanish with it.” “By the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people … If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.” Paul Ehrlich, Speech at British Institute For Biology, September 1971. “By… some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.” 1970 - The First Earth Day “In ten years (1980) all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.”  Ehrlich admitted that while most of his predictions never came true he added 'they will eventually, just give it some time'... Wait, What? Ehrlich also tried to say while he was wrong, he was also right because '600 million people were very hungry'. Seriously, he actually said this in his defense. Click Here To See What Would The Earth Would Look Like If All The Ice On The Planet Actually Did Melt? Read the full article

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#sharealoha Koa is teaming up with Kauai Resilience , he explains the run from the previous bits …just a little bit more this morning with @kealafoundation @uncle_hoffy run This the Moku Run Down (Ive done it in my 20s, you can do it, you gotta train-i started at 12. Ive been training (to eat) for 2024 challenge 😅 See previous map for distance.) Napali Kona District @thewestkauai of the island… * #halaleadistrict #NSkauai drive to Ke’e Beach end -Paddle one man canoe or new version ololo boards, around the #Napalidistrict to Polihale Beach . * #konadistrict Polihale landing , cross-country run to Kekaha “the marker”. *Rest the Night at the Mana-Kekaha * Kekaha Town cross-country run to Waimea Town up #WaimeaMenehune Challenger training site Panini steep climb Panini to #kokee. If you want yo know how we do our Waimea School Teams can endure the Kapaa Warriors…this is the run…we use this also for athletic scholarship , a short cut for Napali paddling as youth we train in outrigger canoe races because its just as fun together. My foster parents and uncles aunties puka panty clubs habe done this for years? And we slways encourage kids directly to the club so if in the future they can join these races or long over night camping meetings of island issues. This is a hanabada pastime of mine between hula, also of most of us kanaka. We love to feast but we also need to learn self-discipline until we are given or choose a coach or gaurdian. Join the waa crew or waterman crew for training so you can join in the year festivities. #hemokuhewaahewaahemoku But today we do it for our kids, to help our hui in the resilience against heavy drugs and alcoholic use. #ryderstrong #talkstory #kauaikeiki #drugandalcoholawareness #codependencyrecovery #suicideprevention #yearofthelimu #hooponopono #sewhawaiileilimu #homeofthemakaainana #kauai (at Kauai) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb-_WGmFDPu/?utm_medium=tumblr