Sadly all too many.
I often hear people, not just the religious with their paper thin understanding, but educated rational people who superficially accept the notion of evolution, but who have never spent anytime really absorbing what Earth’s pageant of evolution has been all about, dismissing the need to learn anything about it.
Its all led to a general apathy that I can’t for the life of me comprehend. Especially considering what an amazingly beautiful, complex, mysterious and absolutely relevant story it is.
This general apathy terrifies me, and compels me to share some of the building blocks that have shaped my own developing basic understanding.
I have a head-start since I’ve been fascinated by this Creation I was born into since my earliest days. The wonder of it, and the things I’ve
learned makes me want to share some of my experience and perspectives during what time remains for my own, oh so splendid, journey on this wonderful planet.
Tragically, people who never pondered the reality, (that all we have today is the direct product of four and a half billion years of evolution, unfolding one magnificent day after another),
lack the foundation to understand what we are doing to our planet and life support system these days. It explains why we have so many profoundly ignorant, self-deluded and
disconnected politicians and ‘masters of the universe’ these days.
When I toss out a concept such as, our “Global Heat and Moisture Distribution Engine,” it’s blank faces all around. Why? I’m fearing listeners have no fundamental conception for the intricate interconnections between our evolving Earth, oceans and land masses. Without that awareness, of course they’ll never get it. After all, our atmosphere is the direct product of a fantastic evolutionary process that married geology and biology and took billions of years to unfold.
Without understanding how it got here, there’s no way one can comprehend what we have,…
and what we are doing to “it”,…
that is, the only life and economy support system we have.
____________________________________________
January 6, 2016
{1} Our Global Heat and Moisture Distribution Engine
http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2016/01/earths-heat-moisture-engine.html
January 9, 2016
{2} Co-evolution of Minerals and Life | Dr Robert Hazen
http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2016/01/2-coevolution-of-minerals-and-life.html
January 14, 2016
{3} Evolution of Carbon and our biosphere - Professor Hazen focuses on the element Carbon
http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2016/01/3-evolution-carbon-biosphere-hazen.html
January 23, 2016
{4} Evolution-Considering Deep Time and a Couple Big Breaks
http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2016/01/4-evolution-deeptime-moon-geomagnetic.html
February 6, 2016
{5a} The Most Beautiful Graph on Earth - A. Hessler
http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2016/02/most-beautiful-graph-on-earth.html
February 7, 2016
{5b} Earth's Earliest Climate - By Angela Hessler
http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2016/02/earths-earliest-climate-by-hessler.html
February 14, 2016
{6} Evolution of Earth's Atmosphere - easy version
http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2016/02/6-evolution-earths-atmosphere-easy.html
February 18, 2016
{7} Our Global Heat and Moisture Distribution Engine, visualized
http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2016/02/7-global-heat-moisture-distribution.html
February 19, 2016
{8} Atmospheric Insulation Explained - appreciating our climate engine
http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2016/02/8-atmospheric-insulation-explained.html
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December 17, 2105
Reflecting on our failure to appreciate the weather.
http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2015/12/our-failure-to-appreciate-our-weather.html
March 13, 2015
Memories, an appreciation of science
http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2015/03/an-appreciation-of-science.html
{Mikie, this one's for you. Since you so thorough misunderstand me, I figured this might help. Although then again, I fear your 'misunderstanding' is simply a reflection of the Republican tactic of building their own straw men to burn up, and to hell with objective reality.}
Sadly all too many.
I often hear people, not just the religious with their paper thin understanding, but educated rational people who superficially accept the notion of evolution, but who have never spent anytime really absorbing what Earth's pageant of evolution has been all about, dismissing the need to learn anything about it.
Its all led to a general apathy that I can't for the life of me comprehend. Especially considering what an amazingly beautiful, complex, mysterious and absolutely relevant story it is.
This general apathy terrifies me, and compels me to share some of the building blocks that have shaped my own developing basic understanding.
I have a head-start since I've been fascinated by this Creation I was born into since my earliest days. The wonder of it, and the things I've
learned makes me want to share some of my experience and perspectives during what time remains for my own, oh so splendid, journey on this wonderful planet.
Tragically, people who never pondered the reality, (that all we have today is the direct product of four and a half billion years of evolution, unfolding one magnificent day after another),
lack the foundation to understand what we are doing to our planet and life support system these days. It explains why we have so many profoundly ignorant, self-deluded and
disconnected politicians and 'masters of the universe' these days.
When I toss out a concept such as, our "Global Heat and Moisture Distribution Engine," it's blank faces all around. Why? I'm fearing listeners have no fundamental conception for the intricate interconnections between our evolving Earth, oceans and land masses. Without that awareness, of course they'll never get it.
After all, our atmosphere is the direct product of a fantastic evolutionary process that married geology and biology and took billions of years to unfold.
Without understanding how it got here, there's no way one can comprehend what we have,...
and what we are doing to "it",...
that is, the only life and economy support system we have.
____________________________________________
January 6, 2016
{1} Our Global Heat and Moisture Distribution Engine
http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2016/01/earths-heat-moisture-engine.html
January 9, 2016
{2} Co-evolution of Minerals and Life | Dr Robert Hazen
http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2016/01/2-coevolution-of-minerals-and-life.html
January 14, 2016
{3} Evolution of Carbon and our biosphere - Professor Hazen focuses on the element Carbon
http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2016/01/3-evolution-carbon-biosphere-hazen.html
January 23, 2016
{4} Evolution-Considering Deep Time and a Couple Big Breaks
http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2016/01/4-evolution-deeptime-moon-geomagnetic.html
February 6, 2016
{5a} The Most Beautiful Graph on Earth - A. Hessler
http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2016/02/most-beautiful-graph-on-earth.html
February 7, 2016
{5b} Earth's Earliest Climate - By Angela Hessler
http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2016/02/earths-earliest-climate-by-hessler.html
February 14, 2016
{6} Evolution of Earth's Atmosphere - easy version
http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2016/02/6-evolution-earths-atmosphere-easy.html
February 18, 2016
{7} Our Global Heat and Moisture Distribution Engine, visualized
http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2016/02/7-global-heat-moisture-distribution.html
February 19, 2016
{8} Atmospheric Insulation Explained - appreciating our climate engine
http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2016/02/8-atmospheric-insulation-explained.html
_____________________________________________________
December 17, 2105
Reflecting on our failure to appreciate the weather.
http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2015/12/our-failure-to-appreciate-our-weather.html
March 13, 2015
Memories, an appreciation of science
http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2015/03/an-appreciation-of-science.html
{Mikie, this one's for you. Since you so thorough misunderstand me, I figured this might help. Although then again, I fear your 'misunderstanding' is simply a reflection of the Republican tactic of building their own straw men to burn up, and to hell with objective reality.}
Objective reality? Isn't that an alternative fact?
Objective reality? Isn't that an alternative fact?
That's what they are trying to shove down my throat, but I don't buy it.
Sea level rise will have it's impacts, no matter how many words the jerks throw at it.