Don't forget the possibility of a solar event that has been named after Carrington. In that case the major part of "electronically controlled" goes down. That includes the grid, telecoms, banking, hospitals. So in order to prevent chaos / anarchy or worse, a country needs an emergency system for communication, anyway. In the region here that would be an AM or FM (narrow band) network in the 2-4 MHz band) operating with NVIS: very low power needed for 100% coverage of a large enough area.
True, hence no surprise that its thorium nuclear reactor prototype is a success and that the RF developed clean nuclear power. Also, what might be great for Latin America, Asia and Africa: a mobile NPP that can deliver 240,000 m^3 of water / day: the Akademik Lomonosov. Greening the desert = sucking tons of CO2 from the air. And that has been know for quite a while. So, how come rich countries ignored that?
https://web.archive.org/web/20150620153426/http://news.stanford.edu/pr/2008/pr-manvleaf-010709.html
On the topic of reforesting the land, you're 100% preaching to the choir. I've always advocated this as a powerful mitigator of climate change. Unfortunately, the trend is going in the other direction, which IMO portends potential disaster.
The article is very interesting. It's not surprising. And I red a while ago that Uncle Sam was going to offer countries money to stop equatorial deforestation, but you can predict where that went. It was estimated that the payments were much less than the projected long term cost of climate change.
It was noted that the air in Chinese cities was a lot cleaner during the quarantines.
The article is very interesting. It's not surprising. And I red a while ago that Uncle Sam was going to offer countries money to stop equatorial deforestation, but you can predict where that went. It was estimated that the payments were much less than the projected long term cost of climate change.
It was noted that the air in Chinese cities was a lot cleaner during the quarantines.
The air here was never so clean in 30 years yet the farmers here are the culprit according environmental clubs. In reality it are of course the airplanes but clever tricks are used to measure below/above certain heights etc. so the airlines are at the same level as before Covid.
Tree health no longer is what it was: nowadays many trees are rotting from the inside, see pics. If that happens in a rural region without pollution by industry and traffic, something is seriously wrong not just here.
Uncle Sam runs one racket after another.
That might even be bad news because of the feedbacks involved: what the press ignored was a rise in temperature. This because the pollution (aerosol) actually works as kind of geo-engineering to reflect sunlight. More on climate feedbacks: http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/feedbacks.html
Those clubs are probably reffering to the poor quality of soil and herbicides that doesn't allow some wild polinating insects to live and frankly without polination there's no agriculture, natural forestation and we'll probably die hungry instead of suffocating...It's a general trend of blaming the wrong people for the wrong quotes...Science is very precise...the politics "you don't like to make" isn't...
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Oh, that's ugly.
Lumber sure isn't what it used to be. Besides being expensive it's poor quality. Most of the available old growth timber is gone I guess. 2x4s are very noticeably lighter than they used to be. And most furniture is made of very fake wood nowadays. I saw a bedroom set that was made of real wood (like everything was in the old days) and it was over $10,000 for 5 pieces of furniture. It's basically the same thing I bought 20 years ago for less than $2000.
Lumber sure isn't what it used to be. Besides being expensive it's poor quality. Most of the available old growth timber is gone I guess. 2x4s are very noticeably lighter than they used to be. And most furniture is made of very fake wood nowadays. I saw a bedroom set that was made of real wood (like everything was in the old days) and it was over $10,000 for 5 pieces of furniture. It's basically the same thing I bought 20 years ago for less than $2000.
Search the Internet and buy used.
Nobody has brought up the need to purchase massive amounts of supersonic lead... I wonder... do they exhibit odd or even harmonics as they break out from the open end of the metal launching tube?
Here, furniture from hardwood still is available but expensive and controlled. However it no longer is safe to plant trees without first evaluating the risk of damage to infrastructure when it suddenly hits the ground / roof / people in traffic. I'm not aware of any study to find the cause, which isn't the use of herbicides either.
I don't know about Germany, but the problem here in the Netherlands is that many nature areas are in decline because of the nitrogen compounds that get deposited on them (and have got deposited on them for decades). Blackberries and nettles grow everywhere because they like nitrogen compounds, many other wild plants don't, and birds have difficulty getting enough calcium in their bodies and eggshells.
The main cause is that we have way too many farm animals per square kilometre. Traffic (including airplanes) also contributes, but airplanes at most 1.1 % when you take everything into account independent of the height ( https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stikstofcrisis ).
Interesting.Never heard of that. It reminded me of a famous military medicine man who said a while ago that the large number of cancer cases must be linked to too many nitrates in our food cause nitrogen is the base of growing fast anything in nature.Too much or too scarce nitrogen in our food both should have a link to cancer.
Please take that issue in NL with a grain of salt as it is very political. One of the underlying reasons to have less farmers is to build houses on their land.
It sells a lot better when people think it is in their or the environments interest. It sells so good that farmers are even labelled as ecoterrorists and are told by clueless puppets that they should leave their country and continue their farm elsewhere!
It sells a lot better when people think it is in their or the environments interest. It sells so good that farmers are even labelled as ecoterrorists and are told by clueless puppets that they should leave their country and continue their farm elsewhere!
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Green religion, woke, blm … in the end often (but not always) about money gained by a few and given to them by many that think they have achieved something. A pity really.
Actually, the government was forced to do something about it by legal procedures, particularly those of a small organization called Mobilisation for the Environment. If it had been up to the government, they would have continued using creative accounting and techical measures that don't work well to "solve" the issue and keep the number of farm animals as is.
That's the euphemism for "profit above all else and over dead bodies". Which is the only conclusion after doing the numbers. Just 1 example for info, forbidden for discussion: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44739.htm
That small organization's agenda resembles the global WEF agenda too much to ignore. Hence it might be instructive to watch this video on the issue:
https://sovren.media/video/this-is-the-biggest-reason-the-wef-will-fail-1931.html
I think that the shortage of electronic components is the least problem that awaits us.
Food could soon be the biggest problem, all because of climate change.
My father, brother and I arranged a small olive grove on the island of Prvić in the Adriatic Sea, some 25 trees that produced enough extra virgin olive oil for four households, and we could sell the surplus at a good price. In Mediterranean cuisine, olive oil is an essential ingredient and we really used it.
However, for the last ten years, the crop has been bad because there is no rain, but even with that, we still had enough oil for our consumption.
This year the situation is so bad that my father was in tears when we recently entered the olive grove. The olives dried up so much in about fifteen days that we didn't even pick them, we left everything on the trees. The leaves on the trees also dry out, even on trees that are over 100 years old.
Food could soon be the biggest problem, all because of climate change.
My father, brother and I arranged a small olive grove on the island of Prvić in the Adriatic Sea, some 25 trees that produced enough extra virgin olive oil for four households, and we could sell the surplus at a good price. In Mediterranean cuisine, olive oil is an essential ingredient and we really used it.
However, for the last ten years, the crop has been bad because there is no rain, but even with that, we still had enough oil for our consumption.
This year the situation is so bad that my father was in tears when we recently entered the olive grove. The olives dried up so much in about fifteen days that we didn't even pick them, we left everything on the trees. The leaves on the trees also dry out, even on trees that are over 100 years old.
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