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Now available: The Native Persimmon (centennial edition)
Dan Boone wrote:I would dispute that the video is coming from "a position that is neutral on the topic." It took about three minutes of viewing for me to determine that it was (in my opinion) a compilation of the standard climate change denialist tropes. (Of course that doesn't make them wrong, it just makes them standard.) The video's narrator uses what strike me as cheap rhetorical tricks delivered in a calm even tone. For instance, in one fast sentence he says the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is "melting underneath due to a massive volcano system directly under the melt." That's simply not true -- the leading researcher documenting the melting of that ice field says that the heat from vulcanism contributes to "a few millimeters" of the hundreds of meters of annual melt being observed.
I wholeheartedly agree that we should all be making decisions based on the best information available to us. Sadly, this video is not (in my opinion of course) a source for that, and my assessment is that the deceptiveness I found in it was probably deliberate, given how fast and easy it was for me to Google up the truth behind what struck me as an unlikely claim.
Dan Boone wrote:I forgot to add what was to have been my main point in the last post. I am designing (to the limited extent that my haphazard ways could be called "design") my plant systems to include as many plants as possible that thrive in hotter, colder, wetter, and dryer conditions than currently obtain here. I consider this a way of hedging my bets against all that is not known about climate change. Whatever happens, I want plant systems in place and already established that can feed me under the new conditions. Obviously the established native food trees already here (on my property, that's primarily persimmons, pecans, plums, and oaks) along with many others I'm planting because they are suitable to my current biome will continue to do fine if "global weirding" doesn't happen at all. (I consider that a low-probability outcome given the atmospheric carbon numbers ... but I could, of course, be wrong.)
Nick Kitchener wrote:They have discovered that the geothermal heating is twice what they originally thought, which should translate to roughly twice the melting rate...
Nick Kitchener wrote:Anyway, the thrust of the video basically shows that you can't trust either side of this topic, and both sides are ignoring some potentially significant factors. That's the key message it's supposed to deliver IMHO.
Pecan Media: food forestry and forest garden ebooks
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Nick Kitchener wrote:=Since the beans pump everything they have into their fruit before dying, it seems to me that either you can plant beans to add nitrogen to your garden, or produce a harvest, but you can't have both at the same time.
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God of procrastination https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1EoT9sedqY
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Satamax Antone wrote: But the culprit to me is polution, not global warming or change.
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Satamax Antone wrote:
Would you think a warmer Earth would be bad?
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People who believe this nonsense should not read this blog for they must also be a deep-rooted Marxist who believes all the BS of governments. If you buy into that, you might as well buy into everything they say. Only an idiot can possibly think we have the capacity to alter the universe or how it functions.
If you have a basement, you can grow your own food without land, which may be the next hot trend.
Satamax Antone wrote:
Would you think a warmer Earth would be bad?
Pecan Media: food forestry and forest garden ebooks
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Satamax Antone wrote:All arguments asside.
Would you think a warmer Earth would be bad?
Ross Raven wrote:
I could do this all day. Just play wackamole on each climate crock...and that may have to happen. Wack each and every one.
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Ross Raven wrote:Methane being 72 times the greenhouse gas of CO2. Hint= All life on earth ends.
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Gilbert Fritz wrote:some of the claims of future trends have been debunked with the passing of time.
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