Become PART OF THE SOLUTION!

The beauty of being a GTO User... is that you don't feel guilty about the catastrophes happening all around the world. You can only feel sad about it and how helpless people are in the face of these super storms. Let's face it, we have not been experiencing these in the past. We are only becoming more resilient and adjust to the new norms. 
Reacting or Adoptive Action (RAA) to an event is a lowly evolved move nothing short of stupidity. Pre-emptive Preventive Action (PPA) is what I would call a highly evolved activity... nothing short of genius. 

RAA vs. PPA which one is better?

Here are some solutions under the RAA category:
1. Insurance
2. Carbon Cap and Credit
3. Building Disaster Proof Infrastructures and Mass Transport Systems

Examples of PPA:
1. Tree Planting and Environmentally Centered City Planning
2. Green Energy Utilization
3. Complete Abandonment of Coal Fire Power and lastly;
4. Using Green Technology on all existing internal combustion engines. (Ultra Low Emissions Solutions)

RAA tells us to accept and embrace the upcoming disasters as a force of nature, we can not do anything about it, we just have to deal with it. Hopefully, we would all survive and benefit from the RAA solutions after the storm has passed and completely surrender to the circumstances. Who benefits? - the Elites/ Oligarchs/ Big Corp. at the expense of the masses.

PPA tells us that we actually have the power in our hands to somehow prevent the storm to brew in the very first place. We are actually empowering all of humanity to stand true to the fact that they are the stewards of this earth. Who benefits? - Humanity, at the expense of Big Corp.

GTO - the green technology oil is a perfect example of a PPA solution. It empowers the people by liberating them from the Big Oil Change deception. It cuts at least 5 to 15 metric tonnes of Carbon Footprint per vehicle yearly. Potentially, it can cut Global Carbon Footprint by as much as 70%!

We need to be part of the solution. Not part of the problem.

The real picture is... for as long as your vehicle runs without GTO in it... then you are also part of the problem. 

Learn how... visit this linkl: http://gtoil.blogspot.com

Super Typhoon Sandy Shuts New York Down!

Supper typhoon Sandy: Airlines cancel flights, New York shuts down

Monday, October 29, 20120 Comments

Hurricane Sandy is due to hit the areas between Boston, New York, and Washington DC overnight Monday local time, with typhoon-strength gales, heavy rain, tidal flooding, and even snow forecast as the storm combines with an early winter weather system to make the whole Northeast a huge mess.

A massive area of the US East Coast will be affected by Hurricane Sandy, before and after it combines with a heavy winter storm.

Airlines -- including Qantas, which has issued a fee-free ticket change policy -- have cancelled flights, hotels are starting to book up with people evacuating from coastal areas and public transportation is shutting down.

Is your business trip is taking you to New York's John F Kennedy (JFK), LaGuardia (LGA) or Newark (EWR) airports, Washington DC's Dulles (IAD) or National (DCA), US Airways' hub at Philadelphia (PHL) or Boston Logan (BOS)? Then it's time to run through our smart traveller's checklist of things to do when you know flight disruptions are on the horizon.

Forecasters say you can expect gale force winds, rain, and tidal flooding leading to travel disruption and power outages, stretching for several days from Sunday 25 October through Sunday 4 November as the two storms collide and sit over the northeastern states.

Airlines cancel Monday & Tuesday flights, waive change fees

Sandy's damaging winds are a thousand miles (1609 km) wide -- that's the distance between Tasmania and Brisbane.

Airlines have cancelled flights and are moving their planes out of the way to avoid the "Frankenstorm" as Sandy collides with the winter weather system.

Those movements often throw off US flights even outside the northeast. Your flight from LA to San Francisco might be on a plane that was due in from New York, for example.

So make sure you've read through our advice on what you can do to minimise the disruption from flight cancellations and delays before travelling.

The usual airline policies waiving ticketing change fees -- even for the cheapest, non-refundable tickets -- are in place, and The Points Guy has a useful roundup of who's waiving what, and when.

But while the official line from the airlines is a "change fee waiver", mostly valid if you travel before within a week or so, you do have the right to a full refund if your flight has been cancelled and you've called the whole trip off.

Hotels, too, will book up quickly, so if you're likely to be stuck in the area it's best to snap up a refundable rate now. Consider asking for a room between the 3rd and 10th floors -- high enough to be out of any flooding risk, but low enough that you could walk up in the event of a power outage and no lifts.

You'll want to ensure that you can shelter in an enclosed windowless area like a bathroom if the windows should break in the wind, so try to avoid rooms with open-plan or glass-walled bathrooms. 

The large car rental firms are also likely to start shifting their stock of vehicles out of the way. Since rental cars are usually not prepaid, you might want to make a backup reservation or two with different rental companies -- for a four-wheel drive vehicle if you can, given the snow forecast.

Keep an eye on the local weather forecast for where you're heading, stock up your hotel room with an emergency kit, and good luck -- it sounds like you'll need it.

Where to get reliable information

Expect the usual breathless reporting -- standing-on-the-beach, buffeted-by-wind in raingear -- from the US major networks ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN.

For less sensationalised information, turn to local government information pages -- NYC.gov for New York, DC.gov for Washington DC, or a quick web search for "official (city name) website" should turn up the page you need.

Weather Underground is a useful, in-depth and independent weather site that's a handy counterpoint to the Weather Channel's Weather.com.

If power and/or your Internet connection goes down, as is likely, be prepared with a windup or battery-powered radio and the radio frequencies of your local news radio station. Again, search for "(city name) news radio" and write down the frequency. Note that these are often on "AM" radio, but some FM music stations will switch from entertainment to information and rebroadcast news stations in emergencies like this.

According to ausbt.com.au

Is it too late already?

It May Be Too Late to Stop Global Warming

Smoke and flames billow from petroleum wells at an oil refinery, May 5, 2010, in Lanzhou, China's Gansu province. The heavy smoke was caused by a technology adjustment and it may lead to air pollution, a manager with the oil refinery said. (ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images)

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COLUMN by LEE DYE

Oct. 26, 2012

Here's a dark secret about the earth's changing climate that many scientists believe, but few seem eager to discuss: It's too late to stop global warming.

Greenhouse gasses pumped into the planet's atmosphere will continue to grow even if the industrialized nations cut their emissions down to the bone. Furthermore, the severe measures that would have to be taken to make those reductions stand about the same chance as that proverbial snowball in hell.

Two scientists who believe we are on the wrong track argue in the current issue of the journal Nature Climate Change that global warming is inevitable and it's time to switch our focus from trying to stop it to figuring out how we are going to deal with its consequences.

"At present, governments' attempts to limit greenhouse-gas emissions through carbon cap-and-trade schemes and to promote renewable and sustainable energy sources are probably too late to arrest the inevitable trend of global warming," Jasper Knight of Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Stephan Harrison of the University of Exeter in England argue in their study. Those efforts, they continue, "have little relationship to the real world."

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What is clear, they contend, is a profound lack of understanding about how we are going to deal with the loss of huge land areas, including some entire island nations, and massive migrations as humans flee areas no longer suitable for sustaining life, the inundation of coastal properties around the world, and so on ... and on ... and on.

That doesn't mean nations should stop trying to reduce their carbon emissions, because any reduction could lessen the consequences. But the cold fact is no matter what Europe and the United States and other "developed" nations do, it's not going to curb global climate change, according to one scientist who was once highly skeptical of the entire issue of global warming.

"Call me a converted skeptic," physicist Richard A. Muller says in an op-ed piece published in the New York Times last July.

Muller's latest book, "Energy for Future Presidents," attempts to poke holes in nearly everything we've been told about energy and climate change, except the fact that "humans are almost entirely the cause" of global warming.

Those of us who live in the "developed" world initiated it. Those who live in the "developing" world will sustain it as they strive for a standard of living equal to ours.

"As far as global warming is concerned, the developed world is becoming irrelevant," Muller insists in his book. We could set an example by curbing our emissions, and thus claim in the future that "it wasn't our fault," but about the only thing that could stop it would be a complete economic collapse in China and the rest of the world's developing countries.

As they race forward, their industrial growth -- and their greenhouse gas emissions -- will outpace any efforts by the West to reduce their carbon footprints, Muller contends.

"China has been installing a new gigawatt of coal power each week," he says in his Times piece, and each plant pumps an additional ton of gases into the atmosphere "every second."

"By the time you read this, China's yearly greenhouse gas emissions will be double those of the United States, perhaps higher," he contends. And that's not likely to change.

"China is fighting poverty, malnutrition, hunger, poor health, inadequate education and limited opportunity. If you were the president of China, would you endanger progress to avoid a few degrees of temperature change?" he asks.

Muller suggests a better course for the West to take than condemning China for trying to be like the rest of us. Instead, we should encourage China to switch from coal to natural gas for its power plants, which would cut those emissions in half.

"Coal," he writes, "is the filthiest fuel we have."

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Meanwhile, the West waits for a silver bullet, possibly a geo-engineering solution that would make global warming go away by reflecting sunlight back into space, or fertilizing the oceans so they could absorb more carbon dioxide, or something we haven't even heard about. Don't expect it anytime soon.

It would take a bold, and perhaps foolish, nation to take over the complex systems that control the planet's weather patterns. That's sort of what we did beginning with the Industrial Revolution. Now we have to live with it.

So maybe Knight and Harrison are right. It's time to pay more attention to how we are going to handle changes to our planet that seem inevitable.

We can fight global warming and try to mitigate the consequences, but it isn't going to go away.

This work is the opinion of the columnist and in no way reflects the opinion of ABC News.