tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post3252825224137771483..comments2023-12-23T05:14:34.273-05:00Comments on Wit's End: "Reduce Anthropogenic Emissions of CO2, Immediately!"Gail Zawackihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-75918341947662701322010-10-01T00:50:56.497-04:002010-10-01T00:50:56.497-04:00Thanks, Gail.Thanks, Gail.Tommy Krenshawhttp://freedomguerrilla.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-52293259215332940492010-09-30T11:35:48.066-04:002010-09-30T11:35:48.066-04:00It is raining so hard! More moisture more rain.It is raining so hard! More moisture more rain.Highschoolernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-25375696611403281512010-09-30T10:51:02.940-04:002010-09-30T10:51:02.940-04:00You can watch the video here:
http://blumetimes.b...You can watch the video here:<br /><br />http://blumetimes.blogspot.com/2010/09/vermont-guide-to-global-living.htmlGail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-87368033771362679592010-09-30T10:49:44.687-04:002010-09-30T10:49:44.687-04:00Good morning Highschooler.
Maybe this will give y...Good morning Highschooler.<br /><br />Maybe this will give you a bit of cheer! Check for your state if you think maybe getting involved in TT will be useful for you?<br /><br />https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1AoOPuXwM0LxXwa2b3oVEi866x_AkXRspKl_u__xkAwY&hl=en&pli=1#Gail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-76430360148267935142010-09-30T09:40:15.764-04:002010-09-30T09:40:15.764-04:00http://www.businessinsider.com/iraq-plans-to-annou...http://www.businessinsider.com/iraq-plans-to-announce-massive-increase-in-oil-reserves-on-monday-2010-9<br />Curses! More oil and peak oil farther away-->lower prices for longer-->we burn oil longer--->6+ degrees C of warming. >:( The oil cos are burning our future! Chances are my cause of death will be heatstroke, starvation, or death by hypercane. >:( I would hate to be them on judgement day. They will go through far more than 6 degrees of warming!<br />I just hope we can stop this catastrophe before its to late. If it isnt already... :(Highschoolernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-67509787448091848022010-09-29T20:13:52.496-04:002010-09-29T20:13:52.496-04:00Hey Tommy...
Over the past 30 years I have plante...Hey Tommy...<br /><br />Over the past 30 years I have planted hundreds of young trees, from 1-year seedlings to 5-year saplings - plus a few more mature, but usually I go for quantity at lower cost rather than invest in older ones, since I've been on a tight budget.<br /><br />Because of this I always watched their progress closely, since it's not just money but significant physical effort to plant, and mulch, and prune and water and when necessary to spray for insects. I didn't plant any trees last year, 2009, because by then I was convinced none would survive.<br /><br />This past growing season, I didn't even plant annuals and let my perennial gardens go to hell - I quit weeding. There's no point! I'm afraid, to answer your question in a rather blunt and depressing, but honest way. (check out this thread, from backyard gardeners all over the US, to see what's really happening this growing season: http://www.earthboppin.net/cgi-bin/talkrec.cgi?submit=lt&baseurl=http://www.earthboppin.net/talkshop/enviro&msg_num=2885)<br /><br />I did buy bulk non-GMO vegetable seeds though. I can't predict how collapse will transpire or on what timetable, but if it happens to involve a sudden and near-total shutdown of industrial society, and transport slows considerably along with coal burning, it's possible the atmosphere will clear rather quickly of ozone, and vegetation will become viable (still treacherous from heating, acid rain, and soil nutrient depletion - but at least tenable).<br /><br />So stockpiling seeds for the longish term (and freeze-dried food for the short term) isn't a bad investment. (along with other gear - water purification etc)<br /><br />Of course this won't stop the inexorable march of climate change from CO2, which is going to heat much of the planet to uninhabitable temperatures...but that will take a bit more time and who knows? Perhaps someone will figure out a way to sequester carbon before the entire race of humans goes extinct.<br /><br />That vine - I think I know it. Don't worry about invasives - they have to photosynthesize too.<br /><br />You ask what you can put down that is hearty and efficient.<br /><br />If it's not too presumptuous of me, I would suggest the most productive focus of your energy would be to continue to scream from the rooftops, one way or another, that we will not survive if we do not radically alter our ways.<br /><br />There was a sign at Copenhagen - "System Change NOT Climate Change"<br /><br />We need a system change, a paradigm change of expectations about the role of humans in the greater ecosystem. Even just thinking about this question is revolutionary...but there is some very profound philosophizing to be found, that this would actually produce a beneficial result compared to our consumer-obsessed, individualist, fetishist, greedily self-destructive, current culture.<br /><br />That's what I recommend. Thank you for visiting witsend!Gail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-52563795286539154282010-09-29T19:43:05.706-04:002010-09-29T19:43:05.706-04:00Loved the youtube Anon!!!Loved the youtube Anon!!!Gail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-5778500282513097032010-09-29T19:28:16.746-04:002010-09-29T19:28:16.746-04:00Here's some hope(!) for the future generation ...Here's some hope(!) for the future generation from an 11 year old, home schooled young man, he can speak for me anytime:<br />from Grist:<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7Id9caYw-Y&feature=player_embeddedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-3544293162895062032010-09-29T14:28:55.575-04:002010-09-29T14:28:55.575-04:00Gail,
bristlecone pine is going extinct?? Unbelie...Gail,<br />bristlecone pine is going extinct?? Unbelievable yet believable.<br /><br />I graduated from Univ of MT school of Forestry many moons ago, and so many of the predictions of my professors are manifesting more and more rapidly.<br /><br />I will admit that I don't really know what to do. I cannot force somebody not to drive a car or buy something worthless. I can't break down entire systems. <br /><br />Do you plant trees? I'm noticing a lot of the same botanical dieoff that you highlight, but don't know a practical "I can do it now" strategy that could spread out and actually do anything meaningful. Maybe we're asking too much? I've come to realize that a lot of conservation has to do with what you DON'T do.<br /><br />I know enough to understand that trees are not forests, but we're heading toward wasteland. <br /><br />I am noticing an invader (mile-a-minute vine or kudzu?) all over the place lately around me -- especially creeping just north of the city from Riverdale onward. I'm not nearly as proficient at northeastern forestry especially because there are so many non-natives, but this thing is laying down a carpet fast.<br /><br />What's hearty and efficient that I could put down up here? What do you think?Tommy Krenshawhttp://freedomguerrilla.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-38206502670698464552010-09-29T12:12:27.040-04:002010-09-29T12:12:27.040-04:00http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/pubs/air/naaqo-onq...http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/pubs/air/naaqo-onqaa/ground_level_ozone_tropospherique/summary-sommaire/vegetation-effects-effets-eng.phpHighschoolernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-42970737963356979942010-09-29T11:28:25.181-04:002010-09-29T11:28:25.181-04:00Well I guess I have my work cut out for me today.....Well I guess I have my work cut out for me today...thanks you for the links! It's amazing what you can find on the intertubes.Gail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-34023575551778510862010-09-29T11:19:31.303-04:002010-09-29T11:19:31.303-04:00This ones really good!
http://www.eoearth.org/arti...This ones really good!<br />http://www.eoearth.org/article/Impact_of_ozone_on_health_and_vegetationHighschoolernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-65176319690286580362010-09-29T11:11:10.442-04:002010-09-29T11:11:10.442-04:00http://www.weather.gov/aq/sectors/southplains.php#...http://www.weather.gov/aq/sectors/southplains.php#tabs Look you can see where the pollutants are coming from.Highschoolernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-49683595966583808002010-09-29T11:07:23.622-04:002010-09-29T11:07:23.622-04:00Whenever I look at the air quality maps it is almo...Whenever I look at the air quality maps it is almost always above 30 PPB. Even at night it doesn't always get that low. I will continue to try and find links for you to add to the Basic premise section whenever I have the time.Highschoolernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-39411265647590017872010-09-29T11:03:54.965-04:002010-09-29T11:03:54.965-04:00http://archive.greenpeace.org/ozone/radiant/1rad.h...http://archive.greenpeace.org/ozone/radiant/1rad.html<br />http://essay.studyarea.com/Old_Essay/science/ozone.html<br />http://www.belleville.k12.wi.us/bhs/health/environment/nitrogen_oxide.htm<br />http://www.studyworld.com/basementpapers/sec_papers/Ozone.html<br />http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.33.010802.150434?journalCode=ecolsys.1Highschoolernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-28946516675785597172010-09-29T10:56:34.750-04:002010-09-29T10:56:34.750-04:00I think 30 ppb is probably the highest level that ...I think 30 ppb is probably the highest level that would be safe. Great experiment! Make sure to date it so you do it on the same date next year, as many samples as possible to rule out random data.<br /><br />I will look into the UV-B aspect more, excelllent link! One reason I have discounted it as a primary part of the problem is that leaves under the canopy in the shade on the same tree look the same as those exposed to sun. But maybe those are visual changes on the surface from internal effects of exposure. Interesting question!Gail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-72454639610614105742010-09-29T10:48:29.057-04:002010-09-29T10:48:29.057-04:00http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/world_av...http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/world_avoided.html<br />http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/ozone/docs/UNEP98/UNEP98p22.html<br />Take some time to look at the 2nd one. A UN report about uv-b damage to terrestrial ecosystems.<br />"In sexually reproducing populations of an annual desert plant, effects of UV-B irradiation on growth and allocation of biomass appeared to accumulate as subsequent generations were exposed to UV-B irradiation (Musil, 1996). Furthermore, after four generations of UV-B irradiation, the effects persisted in a fifth generation that was not exposed to UV-B treatment (Musil et al., 1998). If this phenomenon is common, it could amplify the effects of UV-B radiation changes. This is somewhat analogous to apparent accumulated effects of UV-B irradiation over several growing seasons in long-lived woody plants discussed later."Highschoolernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-65858738279676327992010-09-29T10:38:40.609-04:002010-09-29T10:38:40.609-04:00I am doing a leaf strength test in science. I did ...I am doing a leaf strength test in science. I did beech leaves in the sun and in the shade. The leaves in the sun took 63 pennies to rip. The leaves from the shade took 68 pennies to rip. Come next summer I will repeat this experiment on as many trees and variables as I can. Sorry I cant do any more now, Im very busy with school. And the leaves are all falling off and dying which would make the data less useful. This is only one experiment but if I get the same results for many species next year it would support the idea that UV-B is harming the plants. My personal guess is its a combination of o3, UV,and who knows what else. Perhaps all those untested chemicals on the market are overloading the system? When you wrote "Heat Advisory" I could actually feel that it was harder to breathe. And in my area o3 was "only" around 80 PPB. Thats the "healthy" level set by the EPA. Should be 30 PPB.Highschoolernoreply@blogger.com