My two somewhat humorous submissions for $25 million Virgin Earth Challenge.

[Dennis Tate]

I wrote the following back in 2007 but the proposal by Carl Cantrell and I for the twenty five million dollar Virgin Earth Challenge gives common ground for cooperation to Roman Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Latter day Saints, Charismatic Catholics and Christians of all denominations who are not totally in agreement with all of the ideas put forward by Mr. Al Gore in the film An Inconvenient Truth.  

I think that I will begin this with the second submission that I co-authored with New Mexico biologist and coach Mr. Carl Cantrell.....

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February 22, 2008

Sir Richard Branson
Virgin Earth Challenge


Dear Mr. Branson:
Dear Mr. Gore:
Dear Mr. Tickell:
Dear Mr. Lovelock:
Dear Mr. Hansen:
Dear Mr. Flannery:

I am extremely glad that you are all doing your best to attempt to find a method to save the earth from the many perils associated with global warming. I believe you will be tremendously encouraged by the theory presented by biologist Carl Cantrell who makes a convincing case that global cooling can be initiated simply by pumping vast quantities of fresh water into the worlds largest deserts.
 

http://hauns.com/~DCQu4E5g/globwarm.html
Global Warming II by Carl Cantrell

So how is our problem of continental drying causing global warming? It all has to do with vegetation and sunlight. When sun light hits a plant, it causes a process which we call photosynthesis where the energy from the sun light creates oxygen for us to breath, water for us to drink, and is stored as sugar for plants and animals to use. When the same sun light hits the soil, all of its energy turns into heat and is radiated back into the atmosphere, carried away by running surface water such as rain fall, is carried away to other areas by our winds, and diffuses down into the soil towards the earth's crust. All of this warms our planet increasing its average temperature.

Therefore, the less vegetation you have on the planet, the more sunlight is being turned into heat and the warmer the planet becomes. This is very critical because warmer and dryer winds dry out other land areas faster decreasing the vegetation on those land areas. Less humidity in the air also reflects less sun light back out into space so that more sun light strikes the earth and more heat is generated.

The truth is that you can do more to decrease global warming by just reducing the average temperature for the Sahara Desert by one or two degrees than if we humans completely quit using fossil fuels and returned to the cave.

So, how would you start working to resolve this problem? Easy, cool the deserts and get some vegetation growing on them as soon as possible. But the method is much more complex than that. You have to use the prevailing trade winds in relation to the deserts to get the best results as quickly as possible and it will be extremely expensive.

Then we build desalination plants along the coast near these water sheds and pipe water to the tops or ridges of the water sheds

This will do a number of things. First, it will increase the moisture in the desert soil so that it will develop water tables and water will begin to run in the streams. This water will increase the amount of vegetation in the area and decrease the amount of heat being generated by sun light cooling the watered area and all areas down wind of the watered area. As more available water evaporates, it will cool the air and reflect more sun light back out into space cooling the area even more. Cooler and more humid air will have less of a heating effect on areas down wind and will reflect more sun light back into space in those areas cooling areas we won't be watering yet. Cooler and more humid air will also have less of a warming effect on our seas and oceans.

Rain water running off of cooler soil will decrease the heating effect on our oceans and our planet crusts which will decrease catastrophic storm activities for other areas and seismic activity for the entire planet. Also, returning more ocean water to the surface and aquifers of our continents will lower the sea levels providing more usable land for us to farm and build on.

With cooler desert areas and increasing vegetation, less water will evaporate from our deserts increasing the amount of surface water even more and increasing the amount of vegetation and animal life by huge amounts because deserts currently take up more than 20% of our land surface. Populations will be able to spread out and there will be less competition for existing land areas.

This strategy has to be done in steps with the first step being to begin slowing the rate at which our global warming is increasing. We need to focus on that until we have brought it to a point to where the temperature is not increasing any more and is reasonably stable. While we are doing this, we need to come to a global consensus of just how cool we want to cool our planet down to. If we cool it down too much, we will begin to have devastatingly harsh winters in large populated areas and even cause an ice age to set in.

Then we begin cooling the planet down to a point which will be most beneficial for all countries or the planet as a whole. We need to gradually bring the temperature down because there may be a lag effect in which the planet will continue cooling after we stop increasing our efforts to cool it off more. We may even want to stop cooling the planet once or twice before we reach our targeted temperatures to see if there is a lag effect


We need to start working on this as soon as possible because, if the planet reaches a point to where it is warming faster than our technology can possibly stop or reverse this warming trend, then our planet is lost and all life will cease to exist on this planet within a relatively short period of time. We will need to start with the largest and hottest deserts because cooling them will have the greatest benefit in the least time. (Global Warming II by biologist Carl Cantrell).

Mr. Cantrell has agreed to become an official co-applicant along with me in my submissions for your Virgin Earth award. My primary contribution will be to figure out a method to PAY for this project which as Mr. Cantrell has stated, will be extremely expensive.

In Anti-Armageddon Paradigm Shift Monetary Policy Theory The Introduction I stated that you Sir Richard, or perhaps the Roman Catholic Pontiff were two of the most logical choices to FINANCE this possible remedy for global warming. I shall attempt in a later writing to elaborate on a method whereby perhaps I may be able to finance this project myself through an organized barter and film production company that works in cooperation with several other film production cooperatives and/or companies. Here is a brief outline of how this could be done.

I work night shifts stocking the shelves at the ........ grocery store in Antigonish.


I plan to invite ...... to also become official co-applicants along with myself and Mr. Cantrell in our submissions. Their role that I will be proposing to them will be to sell me higher and higher amounts of damaged goods from their stores beginning of course with Antigonish. I plan to print up a barter currency unit similar to how a group of concerned citizens have printed the Calgary dollar:
http://calgarydollars.ca/

Next I plan to encourage various local church and other non-profit organizations to become involved in a reality and/or semi reality film series where organized barter is used as a tool to raise funds for worthy projects that they desire to accomplish.


"The peril of Mother Earth and our children will not be alleviated without enlisting our spiritual heritage in the struggle. "Fight the worst with the best," advises farmer/poet/prophet Wendell Berry. At a National Academy of Sciences conference
in 1986 exploring the mass extinction of plants and animals on our planet, Paul R. Ehrlich of Stanford University declared, "Scientific analysis points curiously, toward the need for a
quasi-religious transformation of contemporary cultures."
(Coming of The Cosmic Christ by Dr. Matthew Fox).
I completely agree with these comments quoted by Dr. Fox. It will be necessary to generate interest among and enlist the assistance of many of the deeply religious salt of the earth type of people in each nation if we are to succeed in preventing the destruction of Mother Earth.

I plan to get back to you soon with results from various groups as I submit this proposal to them. I also plan to make you an offer to purchase a significant share of a barter and film production company that I have had on my mind for several years now.

Thank you for considering our submission.

Kind regards.

Dennis Tate

 

 

[Dennis Tate]

I took a Roman Catholic course through St. Francis Xavier University in 2009 and you can see more about my  Virgin Earth Proposal here:

 

 

http://greendesertstoreducecarbon.blogspot.com/

 

I would love to submit this blog / homily for criticism and debate.... because I was actually being quite serious but..... I have to admit that within five to ten years after I write something, Messiah YESHUA - Jesus / Issa shows me errors..... kind of like flies in the ointment.... there in my "multitude of words" in which there is always at least some "sin."

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Friday, January 22, 2010

Is Pope Benedict XVI In The Best Position to Effectively Combat Climate Change?

Homily for January 17, 2010 by Dennis Tate. Assignment #2 for MNST 130 class at St. Francis Xavier University.

http://www.usccb.org/nab/readings/011710.shtml

Reading I Is 62:1-5
 

For Zion’s sake I will not be silent,for Jerusalem’s sake I will not be
quiet,until her vindication shines forth like the dawnand her victory like a
burning torch.

Nations shall behold your vindication,and all the kings your
glory;you shall be called by a new namepronounced by the mouth of the LORD.You
shall be a glorious crown in the hand of the LORD,a royal diadem held by your
God.No more shall people call you “Forsaken, “or your land “Desolate, “but you
shall be called “My Delight, “and your land “Espoused.”For the LORD delights in
you and makes your land his spouse. As a young man marries a virgin, your Builder
shall marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices in his brideso shall your God
rejoice in you.

Responsorial Psalm Ps 96:1-2, 2-3, 7-8, 9-10(3)
 

Proclaim his marvelous deeds to all the nations.Sing to the LORD a new song;sing
to the LORD, all you lands.Sing to the LORD; bless his name.Proclaim his
marvelous deeds to all the nations.Announce his salvation, day after day.

Tell
his glory among the nations; among all peoples, his wondrous deeds.Proclaim his
marvelous deeds to all the nations.Give to the LORD, you families of
nations,give to the LORD glory and praise;give to the LORD the glory due his
name!

Proclaim his marvelous deeds to all the nations.Worship the LORD in holy
attire.Tremble before him, all the earth;Say among the nations: The LORD is
king.He governs the peoples with equity.Proclaim his marvelous deeds to all the
nations.

Reading II 1 Cor 12:4-11
Brothers and sisters:There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit; there are different forms of service but the same Lord;there are different workings but the same God who produces all of them in everyone.

To each individual the manifestation of the Spiritis given for some benefit.To one is given through the Spirit the expression of wisdom; to another, the expression of knowledge according to the same Spirit; to another, faith by the same Spirit; to another, gifts of healing by the one Spirit; to another, mighty deeds;to another, prophecy; to another, discernment of spirits; to another, varieties of tongues; to another, interpretation of tongues.But one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing them individually to each person as he wishes.

Gospel Jn 2:1-11
There was a wedding at Cana in Galilee,and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding. When the wine ran short,the mother of Jesus said to him,“They have no wine.”And Jesus said to her,“Woman, how does your concern affect me?My hour has not yet come.”His mother said to the servers,“Do whatever he tells you.”Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washings, each holding twenty to thirty gallons.

Jesus told them,“Fill the jars with water.”So they filled them to the brim.Then he told them,“Draw some out now and take it to the headwaiter.”So they took it. And when the headwaiter tasted the water that had become wine, without knowing where it came from— although the servers who had drawn the water knew —,the headwaiter called the bridegroom and said to him,“Everyone serves good wine first,and then when people have drunk freely, an inferior one; but you have kept the good wine until now.”

Jesus did this as the beginning of his signs at Cana in Galileeand so revealed his glory,
and his disciples began to believe in him.

The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
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We have often heard the modern proverb: "It's the economy stupid."

I regard that the two most intelligent statements regarding the productive
capability of humanity are found in the written Word of God.

The LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them. (Genesis 11:6 NASB)

In my own provincial level campaign as an independent back in 2006 I attempted to
deal with the astonishing productive capability of humanity in this way:

http://www.bankingsystemflaws.blogspot.com/

 

When well trained workers have high quality technology to work with then the
total of all wages and benefits paid out to employees is only a fraction of the
retail value of the products they produce. As a result of this fact the only way
to move products out of warehouses is to extend higher and higher levels of
credit. One problem with an abundance of red ink is that compound interest on
all this government, business and personal debt over a period of decades will
grow to astronomical levels. At this time there is approximately TEN TIMES as
much debt in Canada as there is money.

Wise old King Solomon made a brilliant assertion regarding the power inherent in money.

 

"Men prepare a meal for enjoyment, and wine makes life merry, and money is the
answer to everything."

(Ecclesiastes 10:19 NASB)

Although I took two years of Business Administration at St. Francis Xavier University a couple of decades ago, I feel that I had minimal comprehension of the big picture economically until 1994 when I was introduced to Social Credit Economic Theory by a group of Catholic Patriots who have published The Michael Journal. I was fascinated by their ideas but my experience seven years later of teaching English in Quito, Ecuador for over a year where I saw real poverty with my own eyes has caused me to become almost obsessed with a desire to educate people to the astonishing productive capability we humans actually have. I would like to think that I have been bitten by the same bug that dropped on Dr. Coady and gave me a little radioactive nip!

I Dennis Tate, am extremely interested in conversion to Catholicism but my motives are NOT entirely altruistic. In my area Dr. Moses Coady, Fr. Jimmy Thompkins with their friends and followers initiated the Antigonish Movement which has transformed not only the local economy here in rural Nova Scotia, but has grown to influence projects in one hundred and twenty nations.

Edited November 15, 2021 by Dennis Tate
to add a relevant comment.... and grammar