Kānehūnāmoku*
Online event, Wednesday, May 25, 9 a.m.
Kānehūnāmoku
For many years, Dawn Yoshimura and Jan Becket visited a small section of the Waiʻanae coast from Kepuhi Point to Kaʻena Point. This exhibit contains their reflections on that place. It includes what are now known as the ahupuaʻa of Keaʻau, ʻŌhikilolo, Mākua, Keawaʻula and Kaʻena. In some Waiʻanae families, however, this land sections is known as Kānehūnāmoku, the hidden land of Kāne. Those families have long memories; the term predates the late 18th century conquest of Oʻahu by Kahekili of Maui and Kamehameha of Hawaiʻi Island. What a treasured gift that such knowledge remains.
Residents of Waiʻanae value this undeveloped section of the coast, using it as a destination for day trips to the beach at Mākua and Keawaʻula. They have expressed the desire that the land section from Kepuhi to Kaʻena remain as it is, undeveloped:
… there should be NO urban, suburban, resort, or golf course development, or any other type of commercial land development, or landfills, permitted or approved north of Kepuhi Point and north of Makaha Valley. There is strong community consensus that no highway be built around Ka’ena Point due to its environmental sensitivity and cultural status. There is general consensus among State and City agencies that these lands should be preserved and protected for open space, environmental preservation, and cultural and religious practices. — Sustainable Communities Plan, 2012
In learning from those families, in talking to other Waiʻanae residents and in visiting that area, Dawn and Jan have each responded to this unique place in these works. If there is an intent behind the exhibit, it is that others on Oʻahu visit the area with an awareness of its immense value, just as it is now. Oʻahu residents recognized the value of open space when they set aside the Kaʻiwi Coast, protecting it from proposed development. As the rest of the island slowly becomes urbanized, may there be a realization for the need of a similar protected space at the other end of the island. And if one is permitted to dream, the Natural Area Reserve at Kaʻena serves as an inspiring model for the regeneration of native plant and animal populations in all of Kānehūnāmoku.
This exhibit is sponsored by Koa ʻIke Marae, Waiʻanae.
ʻO māua nō me ka haʻahaʻa,
Dawn Yoshimura
Jan Becket
Statement by Koa ʻIke Marae
Our larger vision to to reestablish, as much as possible, the cultural landscape from Kepuhi Point to Pōhaku O Kauaʻi at Kaʻena Point, and thus, to permanently set aside that land, from mauka to makai, as a puʻuhonua – a place of healing and refuge for Hawaiian ʻohana, Hawaiian keiki, and others. In the short term, the more limited goal is to acquire the land of the former McCandless Ranch in Keaʻau and ʻOhikilolo.
A cultural landscape functions around pilina, the interconnections among people, among people and their environment, and among various natural elements of the environment: plants, insects, fishes, birds, rain, water flow and winds.
Driving past Keaʻau Beach Park, one sees little but a shoreline and pasture filled with kiawe, a tree brought in to feed cattle. We see in our minds a Native Hawaiian dryland forest reestablished, with stands of kou, wiliwili ʻiliahi and lama. We see an understory of plants original to that place, plants such as aʻaliʻi and ʻilima. On the kahakai side of the road, we see stands of milo and ground cover such as paʻuohiʻiaka. We see a carefully managed fishery that allows near-shore species to flourish. In the uplands of Kaulu, the watershed for a stream that is now dry, we see a native upland forest reestablished, so that water once again flows, and so that the birds of the uplands – such as ʻamakihi – return to their habitats. If this seems like an unreachable goal, think of the success of the Natural Area Reserve at Kaʻena, just down the road. Or think of the amazing success in replanting native plant colonies on Kahoʻolawe, aided by upland catchment systems. It can be done at ʻOhikilolo, and along that entire coast.
Kupuna Albert Silva, who until recently lived there, related that the name ʻOhikilolo (crazy crab) comes from periodic migrations of hundreds of crabs across the road, away from the beach. We hope to see the migration again one day.
A cultural landscape validates the cultural knowledge embedded in Native Hawaiian ʻohana (families), moʻolelo (oral literature) and ʻolelo (language). The work needed to re-create that landscape functions as pilina, to bring families closer together, to heal those caught in cycles of drugs and violence and to provide a safe environment where keiki can learn culture, ʻolelo and history. It can also function as a sustainable source of food, helping to promote healthy diets and traditional ways of life.
According to the ʻohana with ancestral ties to ʻOhikilolo, there was once a marae located there, a place where keiki were instructed and where cultural knowledge was preserved and passed on. Those families preserved the knowledge of that place, which still exists: a large rectangular enclosure now surrounded by grass and kiawe. A large part of our vision is to restore that marae, not just its stones, but to restore its traditional function.
- An alternate spelling is Kānehunamoku. Hūnā is the verb form: Moku o Kāne i hūnā ai (Land that Kāne hid) or Hūnā ʻia ka moku na Kāne (The land was hidden by Kāne). Huna is the participle form: Moku huna (Hidden land). In some local ʻōhana traditions, Kānehunamoku refers to the Northwest Hawaiian Islands.
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Four print-ready projects
Two of these projects are located in Hawaiʻi but touch on far broader environmental, indigenous and political issues. The third is in Great Britain and the fourth is in Paris. All projects come with a commitment to a traveling exhibit and full participation in marketing. At the bottom of each section is a link to additional images. My resumé is at the end.
page 1 — Kīpuka: The Edges of Things
page 2 — Kanu Kahoʻolawe: Healing the Past, Planting the Future
page 3 — Stone Circles: The Sacred Commons
page 4 — The Book of Paris
page 5 — Jan Becket Resumé
I. Kīpuka: The Edges of Things
Hawaiian pre-contact culture was a bronze-age culture without bronze, rooted in agriculture and stone. Like Greeks and Romans, though, Hawaiians are engineers, skilled in fitting stone on stone, expressing abstract thought through physical structures — of which many yet remain in bushes on the sides of roads, hidden behind real estate developments, on land often viewed as “worthless” unless covered with concrete and asphalt, generating income. The Hawaiian term wahi kūpuna (ancestral place) better describes them, replacing the sterile academic label, “archaeological site.”
Those wahi kūpuna that have survived a 200-year frenzy of land development exist in fragmented, isolated pieces. In Hawaiian language the term “kīpuka” refers to the island of forest left untouched by a surrounding lava flow as it splits into two rivers which later rejoin, heading downhill to the sea. Many of these images record cultural kīpuka, images of one landscape being surrounded, sometimes being submerged or sometimes re-emerging in the midst of another. We must assemble the previous forest in our minds. And once the bigger picture begins to emerge, even a little, we are better able to appreciate an aboriginal culture that expressed through stone structures, carefully placed in reference to the landscape, its place in the cosmos.
These structures are some of the few tangible, direct communications passed down from pre-contact times — aside from objects left in museums. They are not merely “archaeological sites” but spatial references to the natural environment that embody religion, philosophy, aesthetics and the natural sciences, treatises that suggest an entire non-western cosmology, connecting culture, land and sky. They are at the same time dissertations on the natural world, scriptures and works of art.
Borders interest me, the edges of things. I spent most of my life on a kind of border, an outlying periphery of American civilization in the middle of the Pacific. On an island it’s easy to notice demarcations between physical spaces: land and water, urban and rural, sky and earth. However, what draws me in particular are the visually elusive borders between contested landscapes occupied simultaneously by several cultures: places occupied by divergent views of the cosmos, views that do not comfortably share the same space, and yet which do share that space. This is a project, then, that examines juxtapositions.
I was born in Hawai‘i, but it took me decades to notice such spaces, where cultural borders overlap and sometimes collide. A few of these images, if they succeed at all, document overlapping world views, both referencing, both claiming the same landscape in their opposing perceptions of the universe and of our place in it. Once in a great while, it is possible to photograph these contested spaces in such a way that multiple, overlapping worlds crystallize in a visual way. Thus, the places themselves become metaphors for the changes that have happened here, the sober reality beneath the fantasy hula-hula façade of slick tourist promos that litter the streets of Waikīkī. In recording a wahi kūpuna (pre-contact site), one ends up, without even intending to do so, recording the effects of contact with the West over the past 230 years, the footprint of Western culture on a non-Western landscape. The camera always faces in two directions. (paragraphs excerpted from the essay “Apologia” at www.janbecket.net/wordpress)
Additional images from this series
CLIMATE CHANGE IN HAWAI’I AND THE PACIFIC – RESOURCES
- A Rising Tide
- The Blue Line Website
- Sea level by the end of the 21st century: A review (online paper by Dr. Charles Fletcher)
- Hawai‘i’s Changing Climate, Briefing Sheet, 2010 (pdf download)
- Climate Change and Regulatory Takings in Coastal Hawai‘i
- Living on the Shores of Hawaii: Natural Hazards, the Environment, and Our Communities (UH Press book)
- Climate Change in the Federated States of Micronesia (pdf download)
- Climate change to force 75 million Pacific Islanders from their homes
- Hawaii Climate Change – the 2014 SOEST report
- Climate Change: ‘The Single Greatest Threat To Our Existence’
- The Marshall Islands Are Disappearing
- Sea could claim 40,000 isle homes
- As seas rise, tropical Pacific islands face a perfect storm
- Sinking Islands, Floating Nation
- Sea Level Rise Could Displace 20,000 in Hawai’i: Report
- On Standby: When you leave the Marshall Islands, you buy a one-way ticket
- Hawaiian Island Swallowed Up By Rising Seas After Hurricane Walaka Reveals ‘What the Future Could Look Like’
- There’s ‘no place on the planet’ – not even Hawaii – to escape climate change, experts say
- The Hawaii fires are a dire omen of the climate crisis’s cost to Pacific peoples
- Why was there no water to fight the fire in Maui?
CLIMATE CHANGE: COMING TO A PLANET NEAR YOU
GENERAL RESOURCES ON CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUES
- Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet (NASA)
- Skeptical Science (forum with posted essays and comments)
- DeSmog: Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science (Climate disinformation database)
- Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (papers and articles)
- UK Guardian Climate Change page (current news and opinion)
- The Daily Climate (daily news digest – highly recommended)
- The big five mass extinctions (background info)
- End Times: Oreskes and Conway’s Collapse of Western Civilization (summary/review)
- The Collapse of Western Civilization, a novella by Naomi Orestes and Erik Conway, Columbia University Press, 2014.
- The Uninhabitable Earth (2019) Book Summary and Insights (w/ link to Amazon)
- New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States
- NOAA climate site – restored after being deleted by Trump
- Protecting Earth: If ‘Nature Needs Half,’ What Do People Need?
- The End of Nature / Bill McKibben / The New Yorker, 1989
- The big idea: can forests teach us to live better?
- ‘What Really Keeps Me Up at Night’: A Climate Scientist’s Call to Action
STUDIES AND ARTICLES ON CLIMATE CHANGE OVER THE PAST 20 YEARS
CLIMATE CHANGE 2023
- Scientists deliver ‘final warning’ on climate crisis: act now or it’s too late
- Arctic ice has seen an ‘irreversible’ thinning since 2007, study says
- Melting Antarctic ice predicted to cause rapid slowdown of deep ocean current by 2050
- ‘Headed off the charts’: world’s ocean surface temperature hits record high
- Ice sheets can collapse at 600 metres a day, far faster than feared, study finds
- New Research Sparks Concerns That Ocean Circulation Will Collapse
- Crisis? What Crisis? Media Failing to Convey the Urgency of the Climate Emergency
- Chris Hedges: Requiem for Our Species
- ‘It’s absolutely guaranteed’: the best and worst case scenarios for sea level rise
- Ecological tipping points could occur much sooner than expected, study finds
- Collapse 2.0
- Parts of the world have already grown too hot for human survival
- The planet just sizzled through the hottest summer on record
- Earth ‘well outside safe operating space for humanity’, scientists find
- Antarctic sea-ice at ‘mind-blowing’ low alarms experts
CLIMATE CHANGE 2022
- Scientists Fear Soaring Methane Levels Show Climate Feedback Loop Has Arrived
- Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability: The Full IPCC Report
- IPCC issues ‘bleakest warning yet’ on impacts of climate breakdown
- New data reveals extraordinary global heating in the Arctic
- ʻUnknown Territory’: Antarctic Glaciers Melting at Rate Unprecedented in 5,500 Years: Study
- Chris Hedges: The Dawn of the Apocalypse
- Scientists Say ‘Catastrophic’ Climate Scenarios—Including Human Extinction—Demand Further Study
- Greenhouse Gases, Sea Levels, and Ocean Heat All Hit New Highs in 2021: NOAA
- ‘We’re going to pay in a big way’: a shocking new book on the climate crisis
- Major sea-level rise caused by melting of Greenland ice cap is ‘now inevitable’
- Melting of Greenland Ice Sheet Poised to Trigger Almost a Foot of Sea-Level Rise: Study
- World close to ‘irreversible’ climate breakdown, warn major studies
- Single Billionaire Produces a Million Times More Emissions Than Average Person: Oxfam
- ‘Deeply Depressing’ Study Shows Planet-Warming Emissions Continue to Rise
- Arctic Warming Nearly Four Times Faster Than Earth as a Whole, Study Finds
CLIMATE CHANGE 2021
- Chomsky and Pollin: A Global Green New Deal Is the Only Way to Avert Disaster
- With Dire Assessment, Scientists Warn Humanity in Denial of Looming ‘Collapse of Civilization as We Know It’
- Poet Amanda Gorman’s ‘Earthrise’ climate change video
- Climate crisis: world is at its hottest for at least 12,000 years – study
- The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth’s Ancient Rock Record
- The New Environmentalism Must Demand Systemic Change
- Your Diet is Cooking the Planet
- Climate scientists, what keeps you up at night?
- Carbon dioxide in atmosphere has spiked to record-setting new level
- Despite Pandemic Shutdowns, CO2 Now at Levels Unseen in 3.6 Million Years
- Extreme Heat Risks May Be Widely Underestimated and Sometimes Left Out of Major Climate Reports
- Scientist Who Spent Year at ‘Epicenter’ of Climate Crisis Warns World May Already Have Hit Arctic ‘Tipping Point’
- Restore land the size of China to meet climate and nature goals, UN says
- The media is still mostly failing to convey the urgency of the climate crisis
- Big Oil Is Trying to Make Climate Change Your Problem to Solve. Don’t Let Them
- Terrifying UN Draft Climate Report Urges Total Transformation of Our Way of Life
- This Is Only the Beginning: It’s About to Get Much Harder
- MIT Predicted in 1972 That Society Will Collapse This Century. New Research Shows We’re on Schedule.
- Researchers Fear Gulf Stream System Could Catastrophically Collapse
- It’s Grim
- Major climate changes inevitable and irreversible – IPCC’s starkest warning yet
- New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States
- Climate Change Is the Symptom, Capitalism Is the Problem (opinion)
- The Climate Disaster is Here
- What Big Oil Knew About Climate Change, Starting in 1959
- Big Oil’s New Strategy: Profit Today, Fight Again Tomorrow
- Crucial Antarctic ice shelf could fail within five years, scientists say
- The Year in Climate
- It’s now or never: Scientists warn time of reckoning has come for the planet
- Within Decade, Planet’s Natural World Facing Largest Mass Extinction Event Since Dinosaurs
CLIMATE CHANGE 2020
- In Australia’s Nightmare, a Vision of the Planet’s Terrifying Future
- ‘The Saddest Thing Is That This Won’t Be Breaking News’: Concentration of CO2 Hits Record High of 416 ppm
- CLIMATE CONFESSION: I WAS WRONG
- Unchecked Global Warming Could Collapse Whole Ecosystems, Maybe Within 10 Years
- A Life of Heat ‘Near Unlivable’ for More Than 3 Billion People in Just Decades, Climate Report Warns
- The heat we fear may already be here
- Now is the Time to Practice Beauty
- ‘Extinction Is a Political Choice,’ Scientist Says After Study Warns of Threat to Civilization From Humans Destroying Wildlife
- Jane Goodall Warns Humanity Will Be ‘Finished’ After Covid-19 Without Ending ‘Absolute Disrespect for Animals and the Environment’
- Climate crisis: alarm at record-breaking heatwave in Siberia
- Theoretical Physicists Say 90% Chance of Societal Collapse Within Several Decades
- Humanity on Track to Soon Hit 1.5ºC Paris Accord Limit as Atmospheric CO2 Nears Level Not Seen in 15 Million Years
- Going, Going … Gone: Greenland’s Melting Ice Sheet Passed a Point of No Return in the Early 2000s
- Scientists have backed away from the worst-case climate scenario — and the best one too
- A 1988 Climate Warning Was Mostly Right
- The Imminent Collapse of the “Doomsday Glacier”
- ‘Our Final Warning’ Offers a Preview of Hothouse Earth
- Climate Apocalypse Now
- Cooperate on climate or ‘we will be doomed’: UN chief
- Earth barreling toward ‘Hothouse’ state not seen in 50 million years, epic new climate record shows
- New Global Report Warns Nearly 40% of Plants at Risk of Extinction
- Greenland ice sheet on course to lose ice at fastest rate in 12,000 years, study finds
- This is my message to the western world – your civilisation is killing life on Earth
- Climate Change Will Make Parts of the U.S. Uninhabitable. Americans Are Still Moving There.
- New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States
- Three Major Threats to Life: A Note from Noam Chomsky & Vijay Prashad
CLIMATE CHANGE 2019
- With US ‘Drilling Towards Disaster,’ Report Warns Anything Less Than Urgent Green New Deal Will Be ‘Too Little, Too Late’
- Could a Green New Deal Save Civilization?
- The World Will End in Fire
- In Facing Mass Extinction We Must Allow Ourselves to Grieve (Dahr Jamail)
- Seven facts you need to know about the Arctic methane timebomb
- Are We Headed Toward the Worst-Case Climate Change Scenario?
- Why insect populations are plummeting—and why it matters
- Time to Panic
- Today’s Earth looks a lot like it did 115,000 years ago. All we’re missing is massive sea level rise.
- We’re Living in the Warmest Decade Since Record-Keeping Began (Dahr Jamail)
- Rethink Activism in the Face of Catastrophic Biological Collapse (Dahr Jamail)
- ‘A World Without Clouds. Think About That a Minute’: New Study Details Possibility of Devastating Climate Feedback Loop
- Our Five Biggest Delusions About Climate Change
- Last time CO2 levels were this high, there were trees at the South Pole
- Saying Goodbye to Planet Earth
- Only rebellion will prevent an ecological apocalypse (opinion)
- ‘Coming Mass Extinction’ Caused by Human Destruction Could Wipe Out 1 Million Species, Warns UN Draft Report
- Humans Are Speeding Extinction and Altering the Natural World at an ‘Unprecedented’ Pace
- Fox News Is Desperately Trying to Convince Us Climate Science Isn’t Real
- What Would It Mean to Deeply Accept That We’re in Planetary Crisis? (Dahr Jamail)
- After Years of Abuse, the Earth Has Sent Its Bill Collectors (opinion)
- New Report Warns Planet May Be Warming Twice as Fast as Expected
- Climate Change Threatens Societal Collapse Within Decades: Report
- ‘Completely Terrifying’: Study Warns Carbon-Saturated Oceans Headed Toward Tipping Point That Could Unleash Mass Extinction Event
- Heatwave: Think It’s Hot in Europe? The Human Body Is Already Close to Thermal Limits Elsewhere
- Lost Cities and Climate Change
- The end times are here, and I am at Target (opinion)
- Tipping Point: UN Biodiversity Chief Warns Burning of Amazon Could Lead to ‘Cascading Collapse of Natural Systems’
- The Misogyny of Climate Deniers
- What If We Stopped Pretending?
- Scientists’ Advice to People Living in Coastal Areas? Move. (Dahr Jamail)
- Yes, the Climate Crisis May Wipe out Six Billion People
- Saving the Planet Means Overthrowing the Ruling Elites
- Citing ‘Moral Duty to Take Radical Action,’ Over 700 Scientists Endorse Mass Civil Disobedience to Fight Climate Crisis
- World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency
- How to Save the Planet and Ourselves
- ‘Existential Threat to Civilization’: Planetary Tipping Points Make Climate Bets Too Dangerous, Scientists Warn
- 7 Numbers Show How Dire Climate Change Got This Decade
CLIMATE CHANGE 2018
- 2017 Was the Hottest Year on Record Without an El Niño, Thanks to Global Warming
- In 2017, The Oceans Were by Far the Hottest Ever Recorded
- Earth Will Start Becoming a Desert by 2050 if Global Warming Isn’t Stopped, Study Says
- Is There A Ticking Time Bomb Under the Arctic?
- Commentary: What Will It Really Tale to Avoid Collapse?
- Concern Over climate Change Linked to Depression, Anxiety: Study
- Opinion: As Climate Changes, We Need the Arts More Than Ever
- Study: “Amplified Warming” Has Ended the Era of Stable Climate (Dahr Jamail)
- Seas to rise about a meter even if climate goals are met – study
- As urgency mounts, worry among climate scientists gets personal
- Arctic warming: Scientists alarmed by ‘crazy’ temperature rises
- Scientists have detected an acceleration in sea level rise
- Climate change is a disaster foretold, just like the First World War
- The government is nearly done with a major report on climate change. Trump isn’t going to like it
- Burning coal may have caused Earth’s worst mass extinction
- Climate goes viral
- Paul Ehrlich: ‘Collapse of civilization is near certainty within decades’
- World may hit 2 degrees of warming in 10-15 years thanks to fracking, says Cornell scientist
- Earth Day and the Hockey Stick
- Fulfilling ‘Feedback Loop’ Fears, New Study Shows Melting Ice Could Spell Disaster Faster Than Previously Thought
- Chaco Canyon, Chaco Earth
- The Coming Collapse
- Humans Less Than 1% of Life on Earth, But Have Destroyed Half of Its Plants, More Than 80% of All Mammals
- An Extreme Climate Forces Extreme Measures as Worst-Case Predictions Are Realized (Dahr Jamail)
- As Glacier-Fed Rivers Disappear, One-Sixth of Global Population Is at Risk
- A Just Dystopia: Climate Activism Must Include Planning for the Worst-Case Scenario
- After Decades of Losing Ice, Antarctica Is Now Hemorrhaging It
- Earth Will Survive. We May Not.
- Earth’s Carbon Concentrations Soar to Levels Not Seen in 800,000 Years
- Global Temperature Projections Could Double as the World Burns
- A ‘Hothouse’ Future for Humanity: Scientists Behind Terrifying Climate Analysis Hope They Are Wrong
- The Best Medicine for My Climate Grief (Dahr Jamail)
- Saying Goodbye to Planet Earth
- Sixth Mass Extinction Ushers In Record-Breaking Wildfires and Heat (Dahr Jamail)
- Brace for Impact, as the Climate “End Game” Has Arrived (Dahr Jamail)
- New Climate Debate: How to Adapt to the End of the World
- Trump administration sees a 7-degree rise in global temperatures by 2100
- ‘Tipping points’ could exacerbate climate crisis, scientists fear
- ‘Hyperalarming’ study shows massive insect loss
- Gloomy 1970s predictions about Earth’s fate still hold true
- Only 60 Years of Farming Left If Soil Degradation Continues
- Eco Crises: Doom & Gloom, Truth & Consequences
- How the Loss of Native American Languages Affects Our Understanding of Nature
- ‘We Have Less Time Than We Thought’: Alarming New Study Shows Oceans Have Retained Far More Heat Than Previously Believed
- New UN Report Warns of Impending Catastrophe as World Warms, Glaciers Melt (Dahr Jamail)
- Warnings of ‘Destructive and Irreversible Impacts’ as Greenhouse Gases Hit Highest Levels in 3-5 Million Years
- Killing Plants Is the Fastest Way to End the World (Dahr Jamail)
- ‘Off the Charts’: New Study Shows Greenland Ice Sheet Likely Hasn’t Melted This Fast for More Than 7,000 Years
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accelerate Like a ‘Speeding Freight Train’ in 2018
- In the Face of Extinction, We Have a Moral Obligation (Dahr Jamail)
- ‘An Indication of What’s Coming’: Melting at North and South Poles Worse Than Previously Thought
- Biological Annihilation: A Planet in Loss Mode
- After 30 Years Studying Climate, Scientist Declares: “I’ve Never Been as Worried as I Am Today”
- Ten Grim Climate Scenarios If Global Temperatures Rise Above 1.5 Degrees Celsius
- Ten Ways 2018 Brought Us Closer to Climate Apocalypse (Dahr Jamail)
CLIMATE CHANGE 2017
- It’s been 25 years since world’s prominent scientists released ‘warning to humanity’
- “Unprecedented” Polar Melting Unfolds as Climate Disruption Denial Goes Wild (Dahr Jamail)
- Antarctic past points to sea level threat
- 2014 Was Hottest Year Ever Recorded. Then It Was 2015. Now It’s 2016.
- Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich
- Sea Level Rise Estimate Grows Alarmingly Higher in Latest Federal Report
- How the World Passed a Carbon Threshold and Why It Matters
- Something is very, very wrong with the Arctic climate
- A rapidly warming Arctic could loose a methane climate bomb resulting in extinction in nine years
- Learning to See in the Dark Amid Catastrophe: An Interview With Deep Ecologist Joanna Macy (Dahr Jamail)
- At the Vatican, a call to avoid ‘biological extinction’
- Shell’s 1991 warning: climate changing ‘at faster rate than at any time since end of ice age’
- New Evidence Confirms Risk That Mideast May Become Uninhabitable
- Scientists sound the alarm: CO2 levels race past point of no return
- State of the Warming Climate in 2016: ʻTruly Uncharted Territory’
- Climate Change is on Pace to Kill an Ice Age Remnant
- Release of Arctic Methane “May Be Apocalyptic,” Study Warns
- Dead Sea warns of unprecedented drought
- I am an Arctic researcher. Donald Trump is deleting my citations
- Drylands will suffer if world reaches 2º C
- Assessing Global Climate Change in May 2017
- A third of the world now faces deadly heatwaves as result of climate change
- How climate scepticism turned into something more dangerous
- Remember the Population Bomb? It’s Still Ticking
- OMG measurements of Greenland give us a glimpse of future sea rise
- The Uninhabitable Earth
- Read the Draft of the Climate Change Report
- Scientists Fear Trump Will Dismiss Blunt Climate Report
- The Nightmare Scenario for Florida’s Coastal Homeowners
- Heat Waves Creeping Toward a Deadly Heat-Humidity Threshold
- Why Climate “Alarmists” Should Not Be Ignored
- Scripps says climate change may represent “existential” threat to humanity
- This is how your world could end
- Welcome to the New World of Wildfires (Dahr Jamail)
- Climate Disruption Could Pose “Existential Threat” by 2050 (Dahr Jamail)
- Earth May Be Close to “Threashold of Catastrophe”
- Warming Soils Could Trigger Potentially Unstoppable Climate Feedback Loop: Study
- Our Summer of Fire and the Fires to Come
- Insectageddon: farming is more catastrophic than climate breakdown
- Scientists Warn of “Ecological Armageddon” Amid Waves of Heat and Climate Refugees (Dahr Jamail)
- The three-degree world: the cities that will be drowned by global warming
- Massive Government Report Says Climate Is Warming And Humans Are The Cause
- This hypnotizing animation shows the incredible trend of global warming
- Thousands of scientists issue bleak ‘second notice’ to humanity
- “Apocalyptic” Melting Transpires in Antarctica as Earth Wraps Up a Scorching Year (Dahr Jamail)
- We may be in for far higher amounts of sea level rise than ever thought before
- Global warming may be more severe than expected by 2100: study
- How Big Oil Lost Control of its Climate Misinformation Machine
CLIMATE CHANGE 2016
- Biodiversity Loss and the Doomsday Clock: An Invisible Disaster Almost No One is Talking About
- Sea level is now rising at fastest rate in nearly 3,000 years
- Climate Disruption’s New Record: Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach Highest Point in 15 Million Years (Dahr Jamail)
- Welcome to the climate emergency: you’re about 20 years late
- Confirmed: Southern hemisphere CO2 level rises above symbolic 400 ppm milestone
- Antarctica’s CO2 Level Tops 400 PPM for First Time in Perhaps 4 Million Years
- Biblical Flooding, Crocodiles in the Arctic and Warning Signs on North America’s Highest Mountain (Dahr Jamail)
- What is the World? Who are We? What are We Going to do About It? (sermon)
- Alaskans Witness Collapsing Mountains, Shattered Lives (Dahr Jamail)
- Are We Looking at a Mass Extinction Event?
- Climate Change is Here and Now, Dire NOAA Report Warns
- Arctic Sea Ice Breaks May Record . . . By A Lot
- The atmosphere has hit a grim milestone — and scientists say we’ll never go back ‘within our lifetimes’
- WMO: Global Warming Happening Faster Than Predicted
- Is the Oil Industry Dying?
- The Anthropocene epoch: scientists declare dawn of human-influenced age
- Global warming could kill off ‘good bacteria’, exposing an ‘Achilles’ heel’ in the ecosystem
- Planet at its hottest in 115,000 years thanks to climate change, experts say
- Climate change may be escalating so fast it could be ‘game over’, scientists warn
- For the First Time in Human Existence, CO2 Rates Break Records Two Years in a Row (Dahr Jamail)
- Latest Climate Report: “The Arctic is Unraveling” (Dahr Jamail)
- Vanishing: The Extinction Crisis is Far Worse Than You Think (CNN)
CLIMATE CHANGE 2015
- The Methane Monster Roars (Dahr Jamail)
- Ocean Life Faces Broad Extinction
- Mourning our planet: Climate scientists share their grieving process (Dahr Jamail)
- Ancient climate records ‘back predictions’
- Climate change is violence (opinion)
- Scientists: Human Activity has Pushed Earth Beyond Four of Nine ‘Planetary Boundaries’
- Bigger than Science, Bigger than Religion (opinion)
- The oceans may be lulling us into a false sense of climate security
- Donʻt look away now (opinion)
- Rate of Climate Change to Soar by 2020s
- Earth has exceeded four of the nine limits for hospitable life, scientists claims
- The Arctic climate threat that nobody’s even talking about yet
- There All Along: “Exceptional” Slowdown of the Gulf Stream From Greenland Melt
- Experts Warn of “Cataclysmic” Changes as Planetary Temperatures Rise (Dahr Jamail)
- Read Pope Francis’s full document on Climate Change
- 10 key excerpts from Pope Francisʻs encyclical on the environment
- Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction (Guardian discussion / summary)
- Sixth Great Mass Extinction Event Begins (Dahr Jamail)
- When the End of Human Civilization Is Your Day Job
- Startups have figured out how to remove carbon from the air
- Sea Levels Could Rise At Least 20 Feet
- Why the Earth’s past has scientists so worried about sea level rise
- Climate Seer James Hansen Issues His Direst Forecast Yet
- The New Climate “Normal”: Abrupt Sea Level Rise and Predictions of Civilization Collapse (Dahr Jamail)
- Islamic Declaration Blasts Short-Sighted Capitalism, Demands Action on Climate
- Record El Niño Puts the ‘Icing’ on Global Warming Cake
- How humans are driving the sixth mass extinction
- Scientists Discover 41 Global Warming ‘Tipping Points’ That Could Trigger Natural Disasters
- Climate Change and “Everything Else,” Including Capitalism
- Climate Change Planted the Seeds for Syrian Uprising: Analyst
- Trying to follow what is going on in Syria and why? This comic will get you there in 5 minutes (Hint: the root cause is climate change).
- Scientists say Greenland just opened up a major new ‘floodgate’ of ice into the ocean.
- World’s climate about to enter ‘uncharted territory’ as it passes 1C of warming
- COP21: Too Little, Too Late? Temperature, CO2 Thresholds Breached as Climate Disruption Intensifies (Dahr Jamail)
- Corporate funding and ideological polarization about climate change
- Global warming disaster could suffocate life on planet Earth, research shows
- Academics-for-Hire Agree Not to Disclose Fossil Fuel Funding
- Chinese Glacier’s Retreat Signals Trouble for Asian Water Supply
- Climate Change 2015: The Latest Science
CLIMATE CHANGE 2014
- ‘Worst’ of Climate Change Predictions Are Most Likely: New Study
- The Ocean is Broken
- Antarctic Glacier’s ‘Irreversible’ Melting Threatens ‘Considerable Increase’ to Sea Level Rise
- Vicious Global Warming Feedback Loop Worse Than Feared
- Climatologist Who Predicted California Drought 10 Years Ago Says it May Soon be ʻEven More Dire’
- Mass Scallop Die Off a ‘Red Flag’ for the World’s Oceans
- Abrupt Climate Change: No Bioperturbation
- Climate Scientists: Weʻre Alarmed. Hereʻs Why You Should Be, Too.
- The Legacy That We Are Leaving: The Extinction of Species
- The Vanishing Arctic Ice Cap
- Five Key Takaways from the Frightening IPCC Climate Change Report
- Dear Humanity, Time Is Running Out
- Call Climate Change What It Is: Violence (opinion)
- Evidence of Acceleration of Anthropogenic Climate Disruption on All Fronts
- Intergovernmental Climate Report Leaves Hopes Hanging on Fantasy Technology (opinion)
- The Change Within: The Obstacles We Face Are Not Just External (opinion)
- It’s the End of the World as We Know It (Paul Kingsnorth profile)
- Humanityʻs Destruction of Earthʻs Climate in 90 Seconds (video)
- ‘Weʻre Screwed’: US Climate Report Says Era of ‘Normal’ Over
- “Devastating” effects of Climate Change Increasing
- We’re Effectively Taking a Sledgehammer to the Climate
- “Peak Water,” Methane Blowholes and Ice-Free Arctic Cruises: The Climate Crisis Deepens
- World’s Largest Ice Sheets Melting at Fastest Rates in Recorded History
- ‘Severe… Pervasive… Irreversible”: IPCC’s Devastating Climate Change Conclusions
- Why Peak Oil Refuses to Die
- From Pine Beetles to Disappearing Glaciers, NASA Scientists Tell of “Dramatic” Planetary Changes
- Sea Change: The Ecological Disaster That Nobody Sees
- Leo DiCaprio: ʻThe Argument Is Over. Climate Change is Happening Nowʻ
- Planet on the Brink: Human Activity Killing the Planetʻs Life-Supporting Systems
- As Casualties Mount, Scientists Say Global Warming Has Been “Hugely Underestimated”
- IPCC: rapid carbon emission cuts vital to stop severe impact of climate change
- Some climate change impacts unavoidable: World Bank
CLIMATE CHANGE 2013
- The World Economic Forum report — summary and link to report
- The Myth of Human Progress (opinion)
- How High Could the Tide Go?
- Worst Drought in 1,000 Years Could Begin in Eight Years
- US Security Establishment Increasingly Worried About Climate Change
- Study: Global Warming Doubles Risk of “Katrina-Magnitude” Events
- New Research Shows Global Warming Speeding Up
- Summer Ice Melt on Antarctic Peninsula is now Nonlinear, Fastest in Over 1000 years
- The West Antarctic Ice Sheet Initiative: Marine Ice-Sheet Instability and Sea Level
- World is Unprepared as Climate Change Starvation ‘Disaster’ Lies Ahead: Report
- Climate change: how a warming world is a threat to our food supplies
- 400 PPM Atmospheric CO2 Levels Soon To Be Surpassed, Scientists Report
- Climate Change’s ‘Evil Twin’: Ocean Acidification
- Wall Street Journalʻs Idiocracy: CO2 is What Plants Crave
- In ‘March Toward Disaster,’ World Hits 400 PPM Milestone
- Goodbye, Miami
- People get ready: latest report from WMO (link to original report, and video summary)
- Climate change is happening too quickly for species to adapt
- Sea Level Rise ‘Locking In’ Quickly, Cities Threatened
- Climate Change is Happening Faster Than You Think
- Rising CO2 ‘Could devastate seas’
- Top Climate Scientist: Today’s Leaders Will ‘Determine the Fate of Humanity’
- IPCC climate report: human impact is ʻunequivocal’
- Last Hours of Humanity: Warming the World to Extinction (opinion)
- Last Hours of Humanity: Warming the World to Extinction (video)
- The Climate Change Era Is Already Upon Us
- How Science Is Telling Us All To Revolt
- Record-breaking Greenhouse Gas Levels in Atmosphere: ‘Time is Not On Our Side
- Sleepwalking to Extinction (opinion)
- Humanity Wholly Unprepared for Abrupt Climate Impacts, Warns Report
- Considering Extinction: Are We Falling Off the Climate Precipice?
- Millions in Dark Money Funding Climate Change Denial: Report
CLIMATE CHANGE 2012
- Temperatures–Not Acid–Could Cook Coral to Death
- Documents Reveal Plans, Funders and Goals of ‘Climate Denial’ Machine
- Civilisation faces ‘perfect storm of ecological and social problems’
- There Will Be Fire: The ‘Carbon Bomb’ ‘Waiting to Be Ignited’
- ‘Unprecedented Rapidity of CO2’ Causing Worst Ocean Acidification in 300 Million Years
- On the Brink: Planet Near Irreversible Point of Global Warming
- New climate threat as methane rises from cracks in arctic ice
- Cloudsʻ Effect on Climate Change is the last Bastion for Dissenters
- Are We in the Midst of a Sixth Mass Extinction?
- ʻFaster Than We Thoughtʻ: An Epitaph for Planet Earth (Opinion)
- Environmental collapse now a serious threat: scientists
- The Arctic Ice Crisis
- Global Warmingʻs Terrifying New Math (opinion)
- Beneath Melting Antarctica, Powerful Greenhouse Gas Lurks
- We are Writing the Epilogue to the World we Knew (opinion)
- The PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) report: 6 degrees centigrade
- The World Bank report: catastrophe coming
- New York Times: What Could Disappear
- Sea levels rising 60% faster than projected
CLIMATE CHANGE 2011
- A World Centered on Sea Ice Is Changing Swiftly at the Poles
- Data Shows All of Earth’s Systems in Rapid Decline
- Report sees sharper sea rise from Arctic melt
- Rising seas threaten 180 US cities by 2100: study
- World’s sixth mass extinction may be underway — study
- UN: Only Green Technology Can Avert ‘Planetary Catastrophe’
- Record Arctic Ice Melt Threatens Global Security
- Coral Reefs ʻWill be Gone by End of Century’
- Peak Oil – on the German army report
- Greenhouse gasses rise by record amount
- Northwest Oyster Die-offs Show Ocean Acidification Has Arrived
- Vast methane ʻplumesʻ seen in Arctic ocean as sea ice retreats
- As Permafrost Thaws, Scientists Study the Risks
- Cool dudes: The denial of climate change among conservative white males in the United States
CLIMATE CHANGE 2010
- As Glaciers Melt, Scientists Seek Data on Rising Seas
- How High Will Seas Rise? Get Ready for Seven Feet
- Is the End in Sight for The World’s Coral Reefs?
- Methane levels may see ‘runaway’ rise, scientists warn
- World’s glaciers continue to melt at historic rates
- An Ominous Warning on the Effects of Ocean Acidification
CLIMATE CHANGE 2009
- ‘We have only four years left to act on climate change – America has to lead’
- Billions Face Food Shortages, Study Warns
- Global temperatures will rise 6C by end of century, say scientists
- Perfect Storm by 2030
- Scientists to issue stark warning over dramatic new sea level figures
- Scientists: Pace of Climate Change Exceeds Estimates
- Met office warns of catastrophic global warming in our lifetimes
CLIMATE CHANGE 2008
- Antarctic Ice Loss Escalating
- Enjoy Life While You Can (opinion)
- Genetically Unique Plants Matter Most in Current Mass Extinction
- Government Reports Warn Planners on Sea-Rise Threat to U.S. Coasts
- Melting Arctic Ocean raises threat of ‘methane time bomb’
- The methane time bomb
- The World at 350 (opinion)
- Too late for the world’s reefs?
- Too Late? Why scientists say we should expect the worst
- Global Meltdown: the tipping points identified
- The Vanity Fair article: While Washington Slept
CLIMATE CHANGE 2007
- Many glaciers will disappear by middle of century and add to rising sea levels, expert warns
- Too Late to Avoid Global Warming
CLIMATE CHANGE 2006
- How close is runaway climate change?
- On the flight path to global meltdown
- Running on empty
- Running on empty
- The denial industry
CLIMATE CHANGE 2005
- The end of oil is closer than you think
- Two-thirds of world’s resources ‘used up’
- Warming hits ‘tipping point’
- With eyes wide shut (opinion)
CLIMATE CHANGE 2004
- Apocalypse soon
- The death of species
- This parched earth
- Touching the void: As the human population explodes, other species are running out of food and space
CLIMATE CHANGE 2003
- A long way from home
- Bottom of the barrel: the world is running out of oil
- Extinction looms for deep-sea fish species
- Fall in fish stocks hits crisis point
- Goodbye cruel world
- Human race is killing planet, says Meacher
- Melting glaciers spell water crisis
- Road to ruin (opinion)
- The dead sea cells: the industrialised greed that brought an end to the harvest of the deep
CLIMATE CHANGE 2002
CLIMATE CHANGE 2001
- Coral reefs ‘face total destruction within 50 years’
- The world in 2050
- Warming could be worst in 10,000 years
PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT LINKS
- This is my message to the western world – your civilisation is killing life on Earth
- Enjoy Life While You Can (James Lovelock, 2008)
- Normal Is the Problem
- What if We Stopped Pretending?
- The Best Medicine for My Climate Grief
- The Dark Mountain Project manifesto
- The Wretched of Mother Earth: The Handbook for Living, Dying and Nonviolent Revolution in the Midst of Climate Change Catastrophe
- How To Face the Ecocide
- MIT Predicted in 1972 That Society Will Collapse This Century. New Research Shows We’re on Schedule.
- Collapse 2.0
UN Letter on Hawaiian Sovereignty
Hoʻolana ʻia koʻu hale ma ke kahawai
CONTACT ZONE 2018, Waikīkī
Contact Hawaiʻi is a yearly juried art exhibit organized by the Puʻuhonua Society: www.contacthawaii.com. April 6-30, 2018 at various locations throughout Waikīkī, Kakaako and at the Academy of Art School, Linekona.
My four Kīpuka images at Saks 5th Avenue:
Iniikawai Heiau, Kahaluʻu, Hawaiʻi Island
Kualiʻiliʻi Heiau, Kahaluʻu, Hawaiʻi Island
left: Kapuanoni Heiau, Kahaluʻu, Hawaiʻi Island
right: The residence of Lonoikamakahiki, Kahaluʻu, Hawaiʻi Island
Accompanying text (excerpted from my much longer essay Apologia) and additional images:
Jan Becke Book
2742 Terrace Drive
Our house is not (yet) listed for sale but it will be! This is just advance notice to help you plan, in case you will be looking in our area several months from now. Our intent is to list in September.
This is a 3 bedroom 2 bath home of 1,149 sq. ft. on a 4,500 sq. ft. lot. It was built in 1926 with redwood double wall construction. (The redwood was probably first-growth.) The driveway is also used by the house behind ours and consequently is assessed at a lower tax rate than the rest of the property.
We acquired the house in 1998 from the estate of a parent and have made many, many upgrades since then. Many of them are listed below. Note that all major work has been permitted.
What if you want to purchase our house right now? That would be great, but terms at this point are rigid and will only suit a limited number of potential buyers. We cannot vacate until October and we must receive $1.1 million – after realtor commissions and any other major costs are deducted. After the house is listed, of course, terms will become much more flexible.
Major Upgrades and Improvements
Kitchen Remodel – 2012
Marble counters, Bosch Dishwasher, solid hardwooood floor, Kraft Maid cabinets. Note: The existing GE Profile gas stove and GE Profile refrigerator (2000) are working well.
Master Bathroom – 2000
Ceramic tile on floor and lower walls, Sunrise Specialty retro claw foot tub and fixtures, Pedistal sink with Sunrise Specialty faucet.
Floors – 2013, 2018
Refinished solid hardwood floors (Australian Boxwood), New hardwood floor in kitchen (referenced above), New hardwood floor in front bedroom. Note: About half of the floors have already been refinished and the kitchen floor installed. Two bedrooms remain to be completed this summer, as well as the installation of the hardwood floor in the front bedroom.
Appliances
Rheem tankless gas water heater (2015), Fujitsu split AC (two units 2010; one unit 2017), LG washer / dryer (2017), New quiet ceiling fans (2018 – to be completed), Whole-house Whirlpool self-flushing water filter (2012)
Garage – 2008
New roof, new concrete pad, shop workroom (approximately 8X15 ft.)
Electrical and Plumbing
Exterior wiring and main panel upgraded to current code (2010), Interior wiring upgraded from knob and tube to romex (2010), All galvanized water intake pipes replaced with copper pipes (2005)
Roof and Security System
Copper gutters (1999), New roof (2007), Ikaika security doors (all 3 house doors, 2006, 2012), Security lights (2016), Exeter Storm Shield security window grills (On 4 rear windows, 2005), DVR wired security cameras (8 cams, 2013)
Other House Upgrades
Marvin Tilt-PAC custom window kits and Marvin sliders in all windows (1999, 2007, 2017), Hurricane roof clips and tie-down cables at all corners (1998), New front stairs and porch (2017), ADU (Accessory Dwelling Unit) status for the rear bedroom (2018 – in progress). Note: The rear bedroom has a separate entrance and bathroom.
Garden
6-zone irrigation system (1998, upgrades in 2012 and 2014), Cut basalt pavers along driveway (2016), Cedar / Redwood rear fence (2017), Raised planter beds (2017) Note: Many of the garden plants are endemic or Polynesian.