2010-09-28 - Anthony Marr's CARE-7 tour blog #29 - IL, WI

2010-09-28 - Anthony Marr's C ARE-7 tour blog #29 - IL, WI

This is the second last blog of Anthony Marr's CARE-7 tour (Compassion for Animals Road Expedition #7), and it is ending with a few bangs.



For one thing, the September 25 Madison WI event at the Goodman Community Center, organized by Lynn Pauly of Alliance For Animals, with well over 100 present, so much so that more tables and chairs had to be hauled in, and even so not enough, was one of the best attended on the tour, and, like so many other events on this tour, it was one of the best attended of all events organized by the host group ever.



The September 19 Chicago IL event was an exquisite affair at the near-legendary Karyn's on Green vegan restaurant, which served 4 delicious appetizers at 30 minute intervals before my speech.


[Karyn, >60, looks <40]
[Karyn and Anthony at one of her 3 vegan restaurants in Chicago - Karyn's Raw, Karyn's Cooked, and Karyn's on Green]

Other than my hosts Kris and Pat Konrady and other Chicago notables, it was attended by two terrific FB-friends from Milwaukee - Melissa ("Missy Vegan Oddity") and David ("Junk Food Vegan"), who, having heard my speech, have now arranged for me to speak in Milwaukee on October 2, Saturday, which the Konradys will also attend.


[Melissa, David, Kristin and friend]


[Anthony with Melissa and David]

More on the Madison event, following is the blog of my dear friend Amy Burns, in whose parents Betty's and Marvin's home I'm currently staying, and whose very endearing daughter Luciana is destined to be one of the future leaders of our movement.


[Les Blumreich, organizer of the Sept. 26 Beloit event, and Amy Burns (in red)]

Monday, September 27, 2010
by Amy Burns
on Anthony Marr

We’ve been keeping busy with our friend, Anthony Marr, who arrived last Thursday for a visit. He will be staying here in WI until Saturday, which gives us plenty of time to visit, though I have less time to blog.


[Luciana Burns-Dwyer]

Luciana has been anxiously waiting for this visit for many months and would prefer to have him all to herself. She’s not too thrilled to share his time or attention with others. She has allowed us some time to catch up with him, usually after she’s supposed to be in bed.



Saturday night was the Alliance for Animals’ annual vegan chili fest. It is normally a competition with everyone vying for the best chili title. Mark (*Mark Dwyer - Amy's husband) has won for three years. This year, rather than a competition, it was a chili of the champions dinner. Each previous award winning chili was there for our enjoyment. Mark brought both of his winners. I like them both, though I prefer his “lumpy fart chili” (he came up with that lovely title), because it’s a bit spicier than the “not on a first date” chili.



The event was very well attended. After filling the room, we had to seek additional chairs. Extra tables and chairs were added — as many as could be packed into the room, and we still ran out of seats. That’s awesome, both because it’s a fundraiser for AFA, and because there was a big crowd for Anthony’s talk.



Mark introduced Anthony as the speaker and gave a brief bio and well-earned, glowing praise. I got a fun shot of M giving the introduction, holding up A’s first book, while A was taking a picture of M. Anthony spoke for 1.5 hours, and could easily have continued, but for the time limitations of our room rental. The crowd was entranced for the most part, as his message is obviously true, dire, and frightening beyond belief! There were many, many comments after his talk about how much people enjoyed hearing his message.



I have heard much of the content of this talk before, though there was definitely some new information added. Still, hearing it again was not remotely boring. There aren’t many people who I can listen to talking for more than an hour (with me being forced to sit in one place and do nothing else!) without going stir crazy! As SHOULD any speaker who is confident in the accuracy and content of their message, he encourages his audience to research it themselves. There is no hiding behind a claimed ‘leader’ status and expecting the audience to just accept and swallow it whole. Over and over throughout his talk, he repeatedly tells the audience to verify for themselves, Google the terms and statistics, and otherwise do due diligence in verifying the veracity of everything he says. At this point in my life, I believe nothing without verifying it myself, my way, and with my own sources. I greatly appreciate the confidence in someone encouraging such behavior, rather than so many who expect you to just accept their (often self-proclaimed) authority and simply digest and absorb their ‘facts’.



Even though I know Anthony well, and know him to be a man of great integrity, I still feel it necessary to do my own digging and checking. The beauty of it is, I have found that he is absolutely correct (to my dismay, given the dire implications), and he is not remotely offended by my need to validate. And along with Anthony, I urge you to do your own research and validation rather than just blindly accept my word on it. If everyone one in the U.S. did this — hell, if even a quarter of us did this on a regular basis — this would be an entirely different country!



Sunday was busy for Anthony! He wanted to go along to Luciana’s Bharatanatyam class on Sunday afternoon. He has, in the past, spent much time in India and had seen some performances in India. The music, movement, and costumes are so beautiful, once you’ve experienced that, you want to see more of it. It really is a fantastic art form! Meenakshi and the girls are working very hard this month to get ready for the big performance on the 23rd. They are spending twice as much time in class this month, and will have some additional practices the week before the event.



Anthony took quite a few pics of Luciana in her class, and many of them turned out beautifully (other than the fact that she had not gotten enough sleep Fri or Sat and looked somewhat like a little dead girl). All of the photos shown were taken by Anthony.



We got back in town with enough time for A to have a quick bit of lunch and then head to Beloit for his Sunday evening speaking engagement. He arrived back from that in time for a late dinner of tofurky roast with mashed potatoes and gravy.

Posted by VeganMom at 9/27/2010 06:57:00 PM


[Right seat: Allegrea and Anthony]

The event in Beloit WI took place in the Poetry Garden of Beloit College. I was driven there by my friend Allegrea and her mother Valerie. It was an intimate discussion around an outdoors table. As in many group discussions of late, a point of common consensus is that we need to build a national coalition of green tech advocates to lobby for a European-style green super grid in America.


[planned to be online by 2015]

And the groups and people I have given my lecture to are prime and primed for forming and joining this green tech coalition.



Thanks again to Catherine Garneau for initiating and scheduling these events.


Anthony Marr, Founder and President
Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE)
Global Anti-Hunting Coalition (GAHC)
Anthony-Marr@HOPE-CARE.org
www.HOPE-CARE.org
www.MySpace.com/AnthonyMarr
www.YouTube.com/AnthonyMarr
www.myspace.com/Anti-Hunting_Coalition
www.facebook.com/Anthony.Marr.001
www.facebook.com/Global_Anti-Hunting_Coalition
www.HomoSapiensSaveYourEarth.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com (search for “Anthony Marr Heal Our Planet Earth”)
www.ARConference.org
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WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW CAN KILL YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN!

WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW CAN KILL YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN - Hidden Heat and Arctic Ice Death Spiral


[The Europeans have a green masterplan, while America, quagmired in the black oil economy, has none.]


[China has taken the lead in green technology innovation, while "American ingenuity" has been stifled by the Big Oil lobby]

What almost no American knows is Latent Heat (Hidden Heat), and when Latent Heat becomes Sensible Heat, it can eventually cause the disintegration of human civilization and the extinction of up to 85% of all species on Earth, including our own.


[Big Oil has spent $250 million in waging its Global-Warming-Denial campaign, dumbing down Americans in a matter of life and death]

Let me give one quick example. Fill a pot with ice water, containing 1 kg (2.2 lb) of ice cubes. Stir it with a thermometer, and it will read 0C/32F. Now put the pot on a stove and turn on the heat.

Question: When will the water begin to warm up?

Answer: After all the ice has melted. It takes 80 calories of heat to melt one gram of ice WITHOUT RAISING THE WATER TEMPERATURE. It take 80,000 calories to melt the 1 kg of ice cubes without raising the water temperature by one degree. After the ice has all melted, on the other hand, the water temperature will rise rapidly to the boiling point.



This is a small scale demonstration of the real thing: the Arctic Ocean. As long as there is sea ice remaining in the Arctic Ocean left to melt, the water temperature will remain relatively cool. But once the sea ice is gone, its temperature will rise, and rise rapidly. It is estimated that the Arctic Ocean will be ice free in the summer some time within this coming decade.


[Massive melting of land glaciers worldwide, including the 2000 in the Himalayas, which feed 8 major Asian rivers, which in turn feed 3 billion people in China, India and SE Asia]

The resulting sudden rise in Arctic Ocean temperature will cause a 2-stage devastation:


[Due to global warming, there is 5% more water in the atmosphere than previously, but the warmer air can hold 20% more water before saturation, thus leading to a progressive decline in the global relative humidity]

1. the global Millennium Drought, which will cause severe food shortages in diverse places, including even homeland America, and massive famine in the driest of densely populated regions, and



2. the detonation of the Methane Time Bomb, leading to Runaway Global Heating, which can raise the global temperature by some 15C/24F, causing the mass extinction of up to 85% of all species on Earth within 2 centuries, as it once did 251 million years ago in the End-Permian Mass Extinction cause indeed by global heating.

For more details, please watch the two video below, the first a 30-minute interview of Anthony Marr by WGCH radio:

Anthony Marr on WGCH radio, Greenwich CT, Aug 2, 2010 from Anthony Marr on Vimeo.

And the second, a 70-minute speech by Anthony Marr on the subject:


[Anthony Marr's lecture at the Round Hill Community Church Center, Greenwich, CT, on August 5, 2010 - in HD-video

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http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52896

Arctic Ice in Death Spiral
By Stephen Leahy


UXBRIDGE, Canada, Sep 20, 2010 (IPS) - The carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels have melted the Arctic sea ice to its lowest volume since before the rise of human civilisation, dangerously upsetting the energy balance of the entire planet, climate scientists are reporting.

"The Arctic sea ice has reached its four lowest summer extents (area covered) in the last four years," said Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in the U.S. city of Boulder, Colorado.

The volume - extent and thickness - of ice left in the Arctic likely reached the lowest ever level this month, Serreze told IPS.

"I stand by my previous statements that the Arctic summer sea ice cover is in a death spiral. It's not going to recover," he said.

There can be no recovery because tremendous amounts of extra heat are added every summer to the region as more than 2.5 million square kilometres of the Arctic Ocean have been opened up to the heat of the 24-hour summer sun. A warmer Arctic Ocean not only takes much longer to re-freeze, it emits huge volumes of additional heat energy into the atmosphere, disrupting the weather patterns of the northern hemisphere, scientists have now confirmed.

"The exceptional cold and snowy winter of 2009-2010 in Europe, eastern Asia and eastern North America is connected to unique physical processes in the Arctic," James Overland of the NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in the United States told IPS in Oslo, Norway last June in an exclusive interview. ' Paradoxically, a warmer Arctic means "future cold and snowy winters will be the rule rather than the exception" in these regions, Overland told IPS.

There is growing evidence of widespread impacts from a warmer Arctic, agreed Serreze. "Trapping all that additional heat has to have impacts and those will grow in the future," he said.

One local impact underway is a rapid warming of the coastal regions of the Arctic, where average temperatures are now three to five degrees C warmer than they were 30 years ago. If the global average temperature increases from the present 0.8 C to two degrees C, as seems likely, the entire Arctic region will warm at least four to six degrees and possibly eight degrees due to a series of processes and feedbacks called Arctic amplification.

A similar feverish rise in our body temperatures would put us in hospital if it didn't kill us outright.

"I hate to say it but I think we are committed to a four- to six-degree warmer Arctic," Serreze said.

If the Arctic becomes six degrees warmer, then half of the world's permafrost will likely thaw, probably to a depth of a few metres, releasing most of the carbon and methane accumulated there over thousands of years, said Vladimir Romanovsky of the University of Alaska in Fairbanks and a world expert on permafrost.

Methane is a global warming gas approximately 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide (CO2).

That would be catastrophic for human civilisation, experts agree. The permafrost region spans 13 million square kilometres of the land in Alaska, Canada, Siberia and parts of Europe and contains at least twice as much carbon as is currently present in the atmosphere – 1,672 gigatonnes of carbon, according a paper published in Nature in 2009. That's three times more carbon than all of the worlds' forests contain.

"Permafrost thawing has been observed consistently across the entire region since the 1980s," Romanovsky said in an interview.

A Canadian study in 2009 documented that the southernmost permafrost limit had retreated 130 kilometres over the past 50 years in Quebec’s James Bay region. At the northern edge, for the first time in a decade, the heat from the Arctic Ocean pushed far inland this summer, Romanovsky said.

There are no good estimates of how much CO2 and methane is being released by the thawing permafrost or by the undersea permafrost that acts as a cap over unknown quantities of methane hydrates (a type of frozen methane) along the Arctic Ocean shelf, he said.

"Methane is always there anywhere you drill through the permafrost," Romanovsky noted.

Last spring , Romanovsky's colleagues reported that an estimated eight million tonnes of methane emissions are bubbling to the surface from the shallow East Siberian Arctic shelf every year in what were the first-ever measurements taken there. If just one percent of the Arctic undersea methane reaches the atmosphere, it could quadruple the amount of methane currently in the atmosphere.

Abrupt releases of large amounts of CO2 and methane are certainly possible on a scale of decades, he said. The present relatively slow thaw of the permafrost could rapidly accelerate in a few decades, releasing huge amounts of global warming gases.

Another permafrost expert, Ted Schuur of the University of Florida, has come to the same conclusion. "In a matter of decades we could lose much of the permafrost," Shuur told IPS.

Those losses are more likely to come rapidly and upfront, he says. In other words, much of the permafrost thaw would happen at the beginning of a massive 50-year meltdown because of rapid feedbacks.

Emissions of CO2 and methane from thawing permafrost are not yet factored into the global climate models and it will be several years before this can be done reasonably well, Shuur said.

"Current mitigation targets are only based on anthropogenic (human) emissions," he explained.

Present pledges by governments to reduce emissions will still result in a global average temperature increase of 3.5 to 3.9 C by 2100, according to the latest analysis. That would result in an Arctic that's 10 to 16 degrees C warmer, releasing most of the permafrost carbon and methane and unknown quantities of methane hydrates.

This why some climate scientists are calling for a rapid phaseout of fossil fuels, recommending that fossil fuel emissions peak by 2015 and decline three per cent per year. But even then there's still a 50-percent probability of exceeding two degrees C current studies show. If the emissions peak is delayed until 2025, then global temperatures will rise to three degrees C, the Arctic will be eight to 10 degrees warmer and the world will lose most its permafrost.

Meanwhile, a new generation of low-cost, thin-film solar roof and outside wall coverings being made today has the potential to eliminate burning coal and oil to generate electricity, energy experts believe – if governments have the political will to fully embrace green technologies.

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Anthony Marr, Founder and President
Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE)
Global Anti-Hunting Coalition (GAHC)
Anthony-Marr@HOPE-CARE.org
www.HOPE-CARE.org
www.MySpace.com/AnthonyMarr
www.YouTube.com/AnthonyMarr
www.myspace.com/Anti-Hunting_Coalition
www.facebook.com/Anthony.Marr.001
www.facebook.com/Global_Anti-Hunting_Coalition
www.HomoSapiensSaveYourEarth.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com (search for “Anthony Marr Heal Our Planet Earth”)
www.ARConference.org

2010-09-17 - Anthony Marr's CARE-7 tour blog #28 - PA, OH

In this my 40-states-in-7-months Compassion for Animals Road Expedition #7 (CARE-7), I've been on the road for 5.5 months (since April 1, 2010), but it doesn't mean that things have slowed down. In fact, the last week was the busiest ever - with 7 events in 8 days, plus 4 10-hour drives and 2 shorter ones in between.



My schedule was as follows:

Sept 5, Sunday – Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA - meeting with local activists,

Sept 6, Monday – Swarthmore College, meeting with ecology professor in the afternoon, and delivering a speech in the evening,

Sept 7, Tuesday – Columbus OH – lecture at the Grandview Heights Public Library, hosted by Corey Roscoe, Mercy for Animals,

Sept 8, Wednesday – Cleveland OH – lecture at the Beachwood Library, hosted by Jennifer Kaden, Cleveland Animal Rights Alliance,

Sept 9, Thursday – Cleveland OH – lecture at the Pilgrim Congregation Church, hosted by Dr. Steve Kaufman, the Christian Vegetarian Society,

Sept 11, Saturday – Troy (near Dayton) OH – lecture hosted by Myshell Haller at the AHOWAN Spiritual Sanctuary,

Sept 12, Sunday – Cincinnati OH – lecture at Devou Park, hosted by Mary Ann Lederer, Earthsave & the new group Vegan Earth.



In the mid-morning of September 3, Friday, I bade Ted and Carol farewell, and drove 7 hours from Rochester NY to Swarthmore PA. When approaching the campus of Swarthmore College, I called my host Ethan Bogdan, a sophomore in environmental studies, who, lacking the exact address of his dormitory, waited for me at the intersection of Harvard and Yale, and pointed out to me the tree-shaded parking lot where my Green Hornet was to stay until Tuesday morning before leaving for Columbus, Ohio. As if to prove the adage that “nothing ever works exactly according to plan”, however, she had to stay in Swarthmore until Friday.



Since blowing the front left tire at high speed on July 19 from Pittsburgh PA to New Jersey, I've felt a little abnormality in her steering. Since the time of my arrival in Swarthmore was about 4:30pm, I took her to an auto service place near campus for a check up. The mechanics put her up on a hoist, and found that her lower control arm bushing had come loose, and advised me in no uncertain terms that to drive her at high speed was to court disaster, where her front wheel could suddenly seize up, causing me to lose control of the car as well as wrecking the transmission. Unfortunately, it was closing time, and the beginning of the Labor Day long weekend, and nothing could be done until Tuesday. They did point my way to the local branch of the Pep Boys chain, which stayed open throughout the weekend. There they told me that, yes, they would stay open, but since the parts department of the Mazda dealers would be closed, again, nothing could be done until Tuesday soonest. The problem was that my next engagement was at 6:30 pm on Tuesday in Columbus, Ohio, a good 10 hours' drive from Swarthmore, and there was no way I could get the Green Hornet fixed before driving and making the event on time.

My initial thought was to cancel the engagement, but upon further deliberation, considering the work that Corey Roscoe had put into organizing the event, I decided to drop the Green Hornet off to Pep Boys at 7:30am on Tuesday, take a taxi to the Philadelphia airport 20 minutes away to get a rental car, from where I would drive to Columbus, aiming to arrive by about 5pm. Immediately after the event, I would drive 2 hours to Cleveland for the night, do the two events there, then right after the second Cleveland event on Thursday evening, drive 9 hours overnight back to the Philadelphia airport to drop off the rental car by 8am Friday morning, take a taxi back to Pep Boys to pick up the Green Hornet, catch a nap or two at Ethan's dorm room at Swarthmore, then drive 11 hours to Dayton OH the following day for the lecture in Troy, followed by a 2 hours drive to Cincinnati same evening for the next day's lecture, then relax after the strenuous week. So the plan went, and this time it did unfold exactly as planned.


1. Sept 5, Sunday – Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA - meeting with local activists:


[Clock tower on Swarthmore College Campus]


[Dead oak tree as art on Swarthmore campus]


[Ethan Bogdan (right) coordinating discussion on non-lethal deer management on Swarthmore campus, focusing on Anthony Marr's Deer Auto-Assembler (DAA) method of immuno-contraception (IC) vaccine delivery to supplant the current solution of culling]


6. Sept 6, Monday – Swarthmore College, meeting with ecology professor in the afternoon, and delivering a speech in the evening:


[Exclosure in the Crumwoods on campus for studying the effects of animals on plants]


[Ecology professor explaining to Ethan Bogdan and Anthony Marr the effects of invasive species in the Crumwoods]


[Posters on Anthony Marr's lecture - designed, produced, distributed and posted by Ethan Bogdan]


[Campus pavement announcement 1 - by Ethan Bogdan]


[Campus pavement announcement 2 - by Ethan Bogdan]


[Campus pavement announcement 3 - by Ethan Bogdan]


[Students and professors entering the lecture hall]


[Anthony Marr with Ethan Bogdan and Alison Ryland who plan to start an on campus animal rights and environmental student group]


3. Sept 7, Tuesday – Columbus OH – lecture at the Grandview Heights Public Library, hosted by Corey Roscoe, Mercy for Animals:


[Corey Roscoe introing Anthony Marr 1]


[Corey Roscoe introing Anthony Marr 2]


[Anthony Marr (extreme right) speaking on Latent Heat and Runaway Global Heating]


[Anthony Marr with Ritchie Laymon]


[Anthony Marr with Lisa Orenchuck]


4. Sept 8, Wednesday – Cleveland OH – lecture at the Beachwood Library, hosted by Jennifer Kaden, Cleveland Animal Rights Alliance:


[Jennifer Kaden calling audience to order]


[Jennifer introing Anthony Marr]


[Jennifer Kaden on front row right]


5. Sept 9, Thursday – Cleveland OH – lecture at the Pilgrim Congregation Church, hosted by Dr. Steve Kaufman, the Christian Vegetarian Society:






[Anthony Marr with Lane Ferrante, Director of the Ohio League of Humane Voters (LOHV-OH), and Dr. Steve Kaufman]


6. Sept 11, Saturday – Troy (near Dayton) OH – lecture hosted by Myshell Haller at the AHOWAN Spiritual Sanctuary:


[Anthony Marr, rain man to Troy (which hadn't seen a drop of rain until 5 minutes before his arrival)]


[Myshell Haller on left]


[Great Trojans 1]


[Great Trojans 2]


[World's first Chinese guy on a Harley - with orbs!]


[From Blue Ninja to Blue Harley]

Feedback from Myshell Haller: "Anthony, thank you so much for your visit to Troy Ohio and the speech you gave. I especially like and received a lot of comments on the more positive view of what we can do on an individual level in order to help bring about a shift in the overall "doom & gloom". Thank you for educating us that we as pieces of the Whole are on the right track toward the Greater Shift into the Golden Age. My only regret was that you were unable to stay longer and experience the incredible drumming circle. We got a lot of positive energy moving. Again, you are priceless to the Mission and the strength of your will is definitely The Source moving through you. Humanity is grateful for your drive, courage, and perseverance. Namaste."


[Drum circle 1]


[Drum circle 2]


7. Sept 12, Sunday – Cincinnati OH – lecture at the Devou Park, hosted by Mary Ann Lederer, Earthsave & the new Vegan Earth:


[Deveou Park pavilion]


[John Mooter, previous leader of the 70s jazz band Blue Tater; Anthony Marr's gracious lodging host; Anthony's Yamaha keyboard on right]


[Nick Dalzell Osh, member of Anthony Marr's Global Anti-Hunting Coalition, who drove 250 miles from Kentucky to attend this event]


[Anthony Marr and new Cincinnati friends]


[Anthony Marr with Megan and her daughter, manager of the Supreme Master Ching Hai's Loving Hut vegan restaurant in Cincinnati]


[John performing inaugural ceremony for the new group Vegan Earth (previously Earthsave) 1]


[John performing inaugural ceremony for the new group Vegan Earth (previously Earthsave) 2]


[John performing inaugural ceremony for the new group Vegan Earth (previously Earthsave) 3]


[John performing inaugural ceremony for the new group Vegan Earth (previously Earthsave) 4]


[Nick speaking as Anthony's guest]


[Anothny's and Nick's captive audience]












[Claudia Mooter, one of the world's most considerate women, Anthony and John]


[Cincinnati sunset, through the lens of Anthony's camera]




Anthony Marr, Founder and President
Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE)
Global Anti-Hunting Coalition (GAHC)
Anthony-Marr@HOPE-CARE.org
www.HOPE-CARE.org
www.MySpace.com/AnthonyMarr
www.YouTube.com/AnthonyMarr
www.myspace.com/Anti-Hunting_Coalition
www.facebook.com/Anthony.Marr.001
www.facebook.com/Global_Anti-Hunting_Coalition
www.HomoSapiensSaveYourEarth.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com (search for “Anthony Marr Heal Our Planet Earth”)
www.ARConference.org
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