Sunday, November 30, 2014

                 THE  ANTHROPOCENE ? IT'S  GREEK  TO  ME


 SITS ATOP  THE THEOGENE,  TITANOCENE AND  CLASSICAL ERAS
AND POSTMODERN GEOLOGISTS DIGGING FURTHER INTO
 THE  SEMIOTIC COLUMN  
HAVE UNEARTHED A BOOK OF CAUTIONARY FABLES ABOUT 
THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE BASED ON LUCIAN'S 

 THAT PROVES THE  CLIMATE  WARS  ANTEDATE  THE  FALL OF TROY:  


THE  FRONTISPIECE OF  DE BELLO CLIMATICO, SHOWING  THE EARLIEST KNOWN  GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL,  PROJECTING PANTHEOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE  FROM 101 TO 1 BC,
FROM CAM- I RUNS ON  THE ANTIKYTHERA  MACHINE 


 It begins with a paean praising the
 Interpantheonic Panel ON Climate  Change 
Whose President, Zeus, Father of Gods and men ,
  wisely  commissioned Hephaestus to build the 
Antikythera  2-D Analog Cosmos Model
to  help  the  Gods  evaluate the threat of
Hellenic  warming from thunderbolt doubling 
at the end of The Titanocene Era.
and tells  of how foam-footed Aphrodite 
struck far-seeing Icarus, systems  programmer
  of the Gods with  love for  Phoebe, 
 muse of  solar  radiation  management,



and how he threw the brazen computing engine overboard
near Antikythera to placate  earth-shaking  Poseidon
after the God threatened to inundate Olympus
if  the  IPCC  mandated  ambrosia rationing.

De Bello Climatico  ends on a tragic note, with the
extinction  of  the  entire  Greek  Pantheon, and its replacement by an assortment of New Age ' monotheistic ' religions, like the dread and bloody ISIS cult,  which explains the work's  Aesopian  moral :