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Message 1496277 - Posted: 27 Mar 2014, 21:01:36 UTC

Looking at the two Climate Change titles set up by ML1, you can deny it's happening, or provide a solution to the problem. So where do you post when it you accept it is very probable that man is the cause but the item you wish to bring to the attention of the Setizens is not a solution.

Well here it is and the this first link astounds me. It is within my lifetime that we have got used to this continental occupation happening in the south of England. Well now they are trying to do it north of Edinburgh, some sure strange is happening.

Pin-och noir or Sco-Vignon blanc?
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Message 1496394 - Posted: 28 Mar 2014, 0:31:51 UTC

Hummmmmm? LOL!
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Message 1496395 - Posted: 28 Mar 2014, 0:33:56 UTC - in response to Message 1496392.  
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Looking at the two Climate Change titles set up by ML1, you can deny it's happening, or provide a solution to the problem. So where do you post when it you accept it is very probable that man is the cause but the item you wish to bring to the attention of the Setizens is not a solution.

Well here it is and the this first link astounds me. It is within my lifetime that we have got used to this continental occupation happening in the south of England. Well now they are trying to do it north of Edinburgh, some sure strange is happening.

Pin-och noir or Sco-Vignon blanc?

They were growing abundant grapes for wine in Britain, during the years of 950 to 1250 AD. The Medieval Warm Period.

And?


... if it all goes pear-shaped at least we in Britain can get rat-arsed on local wine instead of imported stuff? (assuming Scotland doesn't become independent of course - which is a different thread of course :))
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Message 1496404 - Posted: 28 Mar 2014, 1:00:16 UTC - in response to Message 1496277.  

Looking at the two Climate Change titles set up by ML1, you can deny it's happening, or provide a solution to the problem. So where do you post when it you accept it is very probable that man is the cause but the item you wish to bring to the attention of the Setizens is not a solution.

Well here it is and the this first link astounds me. It is within my lifetime that we have got used to this continental occupation happening in the south of England. Well now they are trying to do it north of Edinburgh, some sure strange is happening.

Pin-och noir or Sco-Vignon blanc?


It's an excellent thread Winterknight thank you! :) And may I apologise for my earlier slovenly use of the Queen's english. It won't happen again here I promise :)
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Message 1496421 - Posted: 28 Mar 2014, 2:11:52 UTC

Scotish wine I never though of it but whiskey yes I have.
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Message 1496436 - Posted: 28 Mar 2014, 3:38:04 UTC

This is what I have been supporting for a long time. No matter what the cause of climate change, it is happening and probably can't be reversed short of cutting the human population in half. So instead of moaning and wailing about it, use it to our advantage. Some places that we populate now may become flooded but other places will become fertile and livable. Some places we live in now we would be better off moving away from anyway.. Some species, like the polar bear, may fade and become extinct but others will take advantage of the new climate. These changes aren't going to happen over night and we can adapt as we always have. Maybe a slightly warmer climate is better than another ice age. Over the long run the earth is not going to stay as it is now no matter what we do or don't do. It's how we deal with and adapt to the inevitable changes that matters.
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Message 1496476 - Posted: 28 Mar 2014, 7:02:19 UTC

I will say climate change is going on. As to what is causeing it is not for this thread. But we should be better stewards of our planet.
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Message 1496545 - Posted: 28 Mar 2014, 10:36:41 UTC - in response to Message 1496476.  
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I will say climate change is going on. As to what is causeing it is not for this thread. But we should be better stewards of our planet.


+1!
We should :)

The big picture of climate change, whether someone believes it is happening or not, is heavily reliant on averaging data worldwide. What's good about this thread is that it gives us an opportunity to look at the component parts which make up the big picture... like Winterknight's grape post (and also means I'm likely to stay on topic as opposed to other threads where I meander off it sort of a lot :)).

Increasingly warm weather, earlier springs and milder winters are occurring in many places now and are the perfect conditions for mosquitoes... And the girlies of this species pack more than one punch! Conservative estimates put malaria deaths at about one million annually, many under the age of two years of age, with nearly half the world's population now at risk from it. But that's just madam Anopheles who feeds mainly at night. Not all mosquitoes do.

Mosquitoes love fresh water, and absolutely adore still waters (and those don't have to run deep... even water in the inside of abandoned tyres is a playground to these ladies!). Drier weather and droughts you'd think would be a deterrent. Instead, by causing streams to stop flowing, mosquitoes are finding the perfect breeding spot in the standing water. Mosquitoes also mature and breed faster in the heat and it's those factors combined which have resulted in a huge increase in cases of West Nile Virus (WNV). Warm weather also decreases the virus’ incubation period, allowing the virus to spread rapidly and earlier springs and milder winters lengthens the breeding season of the mosquito – so compounding the problem.

WNV was first identified in Uganda in 1937 and was considered a minor risk to humans. In 1994 an outbreak in Algeria caused WNV-encephalitis (swelling of the brain) in many who were infected. The first outbreak outside Africa occurred in Romania in 1996 and presented a high number of cases of neuroinvasive disease. WNV is now global – and also causes WNV-meningitis (inflammation of the meninges surrounding the brain); WNV-meningoencephalitis (inflammation of both the brain and the meninges); WNV-poliomyelitis (spinal cord inflammation resulting in flaccid paralysis); and a new strain of the virus was found in Italy in 2012.

Not everyone infected with the disease gets as severely ill – but recovery – even for those who don't suffer the afore-mentioned problems can take well over a year. The first case occurred in New York in 1999 and WNV killed 286 people in the United States in 2012. The elderly, men over 50, the young and those with immunity disorders or high blood pressure are most susceptible. There is no vaccine.

:(

So now I've spread some sunshine around :) I do hope everyone has a lovely weekend!
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Message 1496619 - Posted: 28 Mar 2014, 13:55:13 UTC - in response to Message 1496545.  

Malaria was virtually wiped out in the more civilized, Western world by a conscious effort and program to spray with DDT. DDT is now banned; so now what do we do--we send mosquito nets to Africa to surround where people sleep. Sort of like treating the symptoms rather than the root cause. It's a fool's errand. So I say choose your poison and thereby choose your outcome.
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Message 1496647 - Posted: 28 Mar 2014, 15:09:09 UTC

The spread of WNV is not due to global warming. It is due to the highly increased mobility of man. The mosquitos hitch a ride on our transportation network and/or carriers of the disease move from the places where it started to the rest of the world.
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Message 1496696 - Posted: 28 Mar 2014, 17:02:55 UTC - in response to Message 1496619.  
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Malaria was virtually wiped out in the more civilized, Western world by a conscious effort and program to spray with DDT. DDT is now banned; so now what do we do--we send mosquito nets to Africa to surround where people sleep. Sort of like treating the symptoms rather than the root cause. It's a fool's errand. So I say choose your poison and thereby choose your outcome.

And... Despite what the DDT manufacturers claimed for boosting their profits, DDT turned out to be very long lasting badly harmful to an awful lot more in the environment than just the one little sucker...

Indeed, that scenario is rather reminiscent of the present day growing debacle of the flagrantly widespread overuse of neonicotinoids 'pesticides' that look to be giving an awful lot more than just supposed 'pests' a bad time... There are better ways to farm other than by big funded agribusiness-chemicals promoted monocultures...

Indeed, choose your poison. Or, there are far better and more intelligent and more beneficial ways...


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Message 1496719 - Posted: 28 Mar 2014, 17:41:33 UTC

Id rather eat. There seems to be a market for eating. Reckon you can try to stop that market. Luck with that...
Must not conflict resolve by suggesting that someone should go sit on an ice pick...
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Message 1497003 - Posted: 29 Mar 2014, 6:07:33 UTC
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The spread of WNV is not due to global warming. It is due to the highly increased mobility of man. The mosquitos hitch a ride on our transportation network and/or carriers of the disease move from the places where it started to the rest of the world.


Hi Bob! :)
You're absolutely correct with regards the spread of WNV, and many other diseases too for that matter, and other non native insects. (We had a black widow spider from southern Africa arrive in the Uk in bunches of grapes). I think where the concern lies is that these imported species are thriving in their new homes and where drought and warmer temperatures are affecting the flow of water in rivers and streams... are multiplying at an alarming rate. Also WNV is not just carried by one species of mosquito, but can infect them all. Birds (some species die within days, others become carriers) and humans were the first to be infected, followed by alligators, crocodiles, amphibians, and horses, and in 2007, an autopsy on a dead killer whale revealed that it had died from WNV.

The Asian tiger mosquito is now widespread in the US, and in Florida has been found in all 67 of it's counties (so keep drinking that Scotch Clyde :)) They prefer stagnant water lying in man made containers (such as tyres, cans etc) for breeding and and are an agressive daytime blood feeder.


Malaria was virtually wiped out in the more civilized, Western world by a conscious effort and program to spray with DDT. DDT is now banned; so now what do we do--we send mosquito nets to Africa to surround where people sleep. Sort of like treating the symptoms rather than the root cause. It's a fool's errand. So I say choose your poison and thereby choose your outcome.


Hi William :)
You're right. And there has recently been some rather disturbing calls for DDT to be unbanned. The ends will probably not justify the means and I doubt whether any right-minded body would do so. One of the unforeseen consequences of DDT was the effect it had on egg-laying species that either buried their eggs or incubated their young. Egg shells simply stopped being strong enough to support the weight of the parent bird or covering soil and were crushed. The domino effect within the food chain for birds of prey, and snakes proved calamitous, not just on their population, but on crop yield... as mice, locusts and rats dramatically increased in numbers with the rapid decimation of their natural predators.

So... more people not contracting malaria... :) but with less food to feed themselves on. :(

Hi ML1 :)
You mentioned neocotinoids (neuro-acting pesticide similar to nicotine). I watched the horrific and lingering death of a snail that had the misfortune to get a dose of that poison :( but I know many out there only see them as pests so I won't elaborate on that point.

Yet neonicotinoids are potentially as bad if not worse than DDT in their effects with regards future food production. They have been linked to suppressing the natural immunity of bees to virusses - and causing a collapse of bee numbers where they have been used. One third of every bite we eat is dependant on pollination by bees. They are the experts in this field. Their body shape, their hairiness, their movements whilst exploring each flower and sipping its nectar are evolutionary perfection in motion. Studies have been done into whether hand pollination by humans could replace bees. Crop yield crashed to almost non-existant in every instant. Okay we may get better at that - but I suspect that if/when neocotinoids are banned, we're just going to create another poison. After all, the chemical company that produces it will rush out for it's patent and then make a lot of money from it - and it'll be cheaper than training, then paying hundreds of thousands of human "bees" to do a job that nature did for us for free :(

We have not exterminated a single insect species we've had in our gunsights with any of our poisons. Instead we are rapidly becoming experts in causing collateral damage to the ones we most need, whilst providing our targets with the opportunity to develop immunity against our planets deadliest inhabitant - ourselves.


Id rather eat. There seems to be a market for eating. Reckon you can try to stop that market. Luck with that...


Hi ID :)
How you doing?
We'd all rather eat... :) but food prices are rising. :( One disturbing little statistic I came across is that 1 farmer is committing suicide every 12 hours in India - each after watching their crops fail and/or their animals starve to death :(

A lot of aggressively marketed "faith" has been put in GM crops to "feed the poor". What it has done without a doubt is feed the greed of Monsanto (one of the most unethical corporations that have ever graced this planet) and it's shareholders.

In a post I made in another thread about deforestation, you mentioned corn ID. I have yet to reply to that, but will, I promise :) In the meantime, this is what GM corn does when it's fed to lab rats...



70% of females, and fifty% of males die prematurely, most from cancer. Is this how we see our poor?
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Message 1497009 - Posted: 29 Mar 2014, 6:17:15 UTC

My position about accepting and dealing with global warming does not include a belief that we should continue as before regarding the health of our planet. We should continue to make every effort to curb our impact on nature and be good stewards of our planet's environment. But if we are to continue to feed, house and clothe the ever increasing human population of the planet the overall impact of mankind will continue to increase. The way I see it the planet can only support so much biomass and as humanity grows something else has to go.
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Message 1497015 - Posted: 29 Mar 2014, 6:25:30 UTC - in response to Message 1497009.  
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My position about accepting and dealing with global warming does not include a belief that we should continue as before regarding the health of our planet. We should continue to make every effort to curb our impact on nature and be good stewards of our planet's environment. But if we are to continue to feed, house and clothe the ever increasing human population of the planet the overall impact of mankind will continue to increase. The way I see it the planet can only support so much biomass and as humanity grows something else has to go.


I know you don't think we should be continuing as we have done in the past. :) And you're absolutely right. Increasing longevity, better disease prevention and treatment, increasing birthrates, etc... they're on an upward trend. But getting the balance right is not something we're very good at at all... yet.
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Message 1497049 - Posted: 29 Mar 2014, 7:52:27 UTC - in response to Message 1496545.  

I will say climate change is going on. As to what is causeing it is not for this thread. But we should be better stewards of our planet.


+1!
We should :)

The big picture of climate change, whether someone believes it is happening or not, is heavily reliant on averaging data worldwide. What's good about this thread is that it gives us an opportunity to look at the component parts which make up the big picture... like Winterknight's grape post (and also means I'm likely to stay on topic as opposed to other threads where I meander off it sort of a lot :)).

Increasingly warm weather, earlier springs and milder winters are occurring in many places now and are the perfect conditions for mosquitoes... And the girlies of this species pack more than one punch! Conservative estimates put malaria deaths at about one million annually, many under the age of two years of age, with nearly half the world's population now at risk from it. But that's just madam Anopheles who feeds mainly at night. Not all mosquitoes do.

Mosquitoes love fresh water, and absolutely adore still waters (and those don't have to run deep... even water in the inside of abandoned tyres is a playground to these ladies!). Drier weather and droughts you'd think would be a deterrent. Instead, by causing streams to stop flowing, mosquitoes are finding the perfect breeding spot in the standing water. Mosquitoes also mature and breed faster in the heat and it's those factors combined which have resulted in a huge increase in cases of West Nile Virus (WNV). Warm weather also decreases the virus’ incubation period, allowing the virus to spread rapidly and earlier springs and milder winters lengthens the breeding season of the mosquito – so compounding the problem.

WNV was first identified in Uganda in 1937 and was considered a minor risk to humans. In 1994 an outbreak in Algeria caused WNV-encephalitis (swelling of the brain) in many who were infected. The first outbreak outside Africa occurred in Romania in 1996 and presented a high number of cases of neuroinvasive disease. WNV is now global – and also causes WNV-meningitis (inflammation of the meninges surrounding the brain); WNV-meningoencephalitis (inflammation of both the brain and the meninges); WNV-poliomyelitis (spinal cord inflammation resulting in flaccid paralysis); and a new strain of the virus was found in Italy in 2012.

Not everyone infected with the disease gets as severely ill – but recovery – even for those who don't suffer the afore-mentioned problems can take well over a year. The first case occurred in New York in 1999 and WNV killed 286 people in the United States in 2012. The elderly, men over 50, the young and those with immunity disorders or high blood pressure are most susceptible. There is no vaccine.

:(

So now I've spread some sunshine around :) I do hope everyone has a lovely weekend!

As I live in New York state the county I live in has had cases of West Nile Virus. And yes some people have died. But we also have another mosiquitoe borne diasease that can kill. Eastern Equine Encephalitus (sp) And thats native to the US.
I dont know if WNV is invasive or due to global warming. Its here and it wont go away.

But when the mosquitoes come out we go in.
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Message 1498484 - Posted: 2 Apr 2014, 6:43:48 UTC

I'm sticking this here as an illustration of what happens when it gets out of control, maybe it aught to be in the science board, but I thought here might be better.

Methane-spewing microbe blamed in Earth's worst mass extinction
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Message 1498496 - Posted: 2 Apr 2014, 7:24:23 UTC - in response to Message 1498484.  
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I'm sticking this here as an illustration of what happens when it gets out of control, maybe it aught to be in the science board, but I thought here might be better.

Methane-spewing microbe blamed in Earth's worst mass extinction


Interesting.


Methanosarcina is still found today in places like oil wells, trash dumps and the guts of animals like cows.


The other day, I saw an article about a plan by Obama and his Administration to reduce methane emissions from dairy cow herds in the US by 25% by the year 2020.

Let me try to find the link...

http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/28/white-house-looks-to-regulate-cow-flatulence-as-part-of-climate-agenda/

“Statistics vary regarding how much methane the average dairy cow expels. Some experts say 100 liters to 200 liters a day… while others say it’s up to 500 liters… a day. In any case, that’s a lot of methane, an amount comparable to the pollution produced by a car in a day.”


A link in TFA for the Government website on the subject.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/28/fact-sheet-climate-action-plan-strategy-cut-methane-emissions


Agriculture: In June, in partnership with the dairy industry, the USDA, EPA and DOE will jointly release a “Biogas Roadmap” outlining voluntary strategies to accelerate adoption of methane digesters and other cost-effective technologies to reduce U.S. dairy sector greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2020.


Apocalypse Cow ?!?!??!

The methane is produced by microbes in the cow's guts as these microbes break down the cellulose in grass, etc. Higher animals can't digest it directly, but these microbes can.

So, either you are going to have to keep your cows inside a sealed building at all times, and filter the methane out of the inside air. A potentially explosive situtation, not to mention cruel to the cow...

Or, you are going to have to feed the cow something without cellulose in it... The cow's natural diet is cellulose-based... Cruel and unhealthy for the cow...

Or, to achieve the 25% reduction in methane emissions, you are going to have to reduce the size of the herd by 25%. Any idea what that will do to milk prices?
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Message 1498499 - Posted: 2 Apr 2014, 7:44:27 UTC - in response to Message 1498496.  

UK gov is trying to do similar things, New diets for cows could cut climate emissions.
Agriculture contributes about nine per cent of all UK greenhouse gas emissions and half of this comes from sheep, cows and goats. Recent figures show that farming accounts for 41 per cent of the UK’s overall methane emissions.


There are reports out there that suggest feeding ruminants things like turmeric and garlic could also reduce the methane output.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/curry-spices-for-cows-and-sheep-could-cut-methane-emissions-2029761.html
and an old one
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/6288012.stm
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Message 1498574 - Posted: 2 Apr 2014, 14:22:13 UTC

Methane leaking from coal mines, oil and gas wells, and natural gas storage tanks, pipelines, and processing plants are the source of 25% of the US's total methane emissions.

The focus on cows is probably going to be necessary because even if we stopped mining fossil fuels today, we've opened those pandora's boxes :(

Let's just hope we don't start feeding cows cows, like we did in Britain in the eighties :/
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