tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post4451923446722960687..comments2023-12-23T05:14:34.273-05:00Comments on Wit's End: Home MoviesGail Zawackihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-17897350733639434112010-08-18T21:35:58.755-04:002010-08-18T21:35:58.755-04:00Hi Lee! Thanks for commenting. As to your questi...Hi Lee! Thanks for commenting. As to your question, I think it is both.<br /><br />1. I personally believe there is definitely an acceleration in damage. I have planted hundreds of trees and monitored them carefully because it's a lot of work to dig holes and haul hoses around; and even young seedlings add up to a significant financial investment. I didn't see ANY symptoms on foliage until the summer of 2008. And then it quickly became universal - on trees. Conifers started turning yellow shedding needles in the fall. Since then the leaf damage has become more widespread, more extensive, and includes annual plants.<br /><br />2. Because leaves of annuals are affected, more people are noticing because they have them in their gardens; also, the scares surrounding the oil spill in the Gulf and the use of corexit have people looking for effects, and realizing what they are seeing isn't normal. It's possible that corexit and/or oil are damaging ecosystems far beyond the Gulf- but that can't explain the damage before the spill, or in places like California and Seattle, where there are identical symptoms of exposure to atmospheric toxins.<br /><br />Please feel free to ask more questions - and check the next post I am almost finished with, tonight or tomorrow - new scientific studies about forest decline are available.<br /><br />GailGail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-58767424766252271992010-08-18T21:13:36.176-04:002010-08-18T21:13:36.176-04:00Although tree and foliar damage have been evident ...Although tree and foliar damage have been evident for decades, it seems that the effects of ozone and other pollution have become more pronounced in recent years. Do your investigations show an actual acceleration of damage or just that some perceptual threshold has been crossed where people are starting to take notice? Your blog and others can certainly take credit for increasing the general awareness.<br /><br />Lee RustRobohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14154882729666285365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-75278738535465183042010-08-18T19:06:07.492-04:002010-08-18T19:06:07.492-04:00You can do that? cool! This I feel is important an...You can do that? cool! This I feel is important and I hope people pay attention.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-40788617742576476532010-08-18T16:14:57.218-04:002010-08-18T16:14:57.218-04:00Hi anon, and thank you! I tracked back on sitemet...Hi anon, and thank you! I tracked back on sitemeter which keeps a record of where visits originate - that is how I found your website.<br /><br />I keep trying to get people to pay attention to this before it is too late - but there is much resistance.<br /><br />I appreciate you putting up the link!Gail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-89213319321557860272010-08-18T15:43:00.728-04:002010-08-18T15:43:00.728-04:00Wow. I found this blog a few weeks ago and I decid...Wow. I found this blog a few weeks ago and I decided to post the link on that website to get it attention that it needs. On that exact same thread!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com