Surviving Global Climate Change? You won't like the answer!
Surviving global climate change is trivial. Fragmenting into small isolated breeding populations is the key to species surviving global climate change. The dinosaurs survived a dramatic environmental change, we call them birds. In fact, we survived that same change 62,500,000 years ago.
Yes, I know, our species is about 250,000 years old. So, clearly the roots of what became us predates the emergence of our species · · · unless you think · · · no ! · · · none of you are of that crowd ? · · · right ‽
Unfortunately for us (with respect to surviving any major global climate change) the Racists™ were wrong, we are all genetically linked as one identifiable species. If one "subgroup" suffers all "subgroup"s suffer, there is not one damn subspecies (maybe that should read subhuman ‽) group among us to carry on should an environment shift drive us to extinction. We should have taken the advise of the Racists™ and not allowed all that mixing, then maybe genetic drift could have had a chance, to give us a chance.
So sorry, we have nothing to offer · · · except · · · it is hardly worth mentioning · · · because who will listen · · ·
Every honest scientist (I did say honest, didn't I.) knows that we have to shut down the "fossil fuel raping of Mother Earth" industry · · · right now. That is the first step. Any questions? (and a hint: The biosphere is a non-linear dynamical system. This is true in spite of our stupid childish models we insist upon using.)
I almost forgot: Stop subsidizing the cattle and mega-farming industry as well · · · yea · · · that too · · · see you on the other side · · ·
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You are the first person
the role of animal agriculture, particularly cattle, as a major contributor to green house gas problem. I think the EPA downplays or just outright lies about the numbers.
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage
The EPA downplays the amount of radiation you inhale.
If you don't monitor it you do not have to report it.
I am not the first person to say this but, I may be the first person you have heard saying this.
Edit: thanks for the back up /user/duckpin
I can't find my last inside radon report.
One gift of the Marcellus shale. My house is force-ventilated 20 minutes per hour, but the radon level is slightly above recommended. And the water level!!!!! I don't hold my breath in the bathroom. I called the State (NY) about it and was essentially told not to worry. Hey, I smoked for >30 years, something will get me and they will blame cigarettes no matter what. I think last internal average was 8 pCi/L. I think of it as dino dust.
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This is a bit High ?
8 pCi/L is 8000 pCi/m³ which is double the EPA recommended trigger level. At or above 4000 pCi/m³ level of radon, the EPA recommends you take corrective measures to reduce your exposure to radon gas.
Please note they are talking about the activity of short lived isotopes in your house's air. Outside the concentration is of the order 400 pCi/m³ on dust as measured here a couple of years ago. "Here" is at my collection site in Kearney Nebraska.
What idiot told you not to worry. I would . . .
The solution is to vent below the slabs and basement
with the outside air, which I believe to be the problem. The basement has no floor drain; husband/architect/designer was cognizant of that. Basement sits on Shale, Styrofoam sheets intervening. I have adjusted to living in a hot zone. If I get more radon testkits I would put one outside to finish the experiment. Superinsulated passive solar house built in the early 1980's. So insulation still meets building code as does ventilation. What to do? Fracking Marcellus was not enough? But that is where the hot fracking waste comes from.
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Agree totally - if it's not measured, it can't be a threat.
We have an ongoing atomic disaster in Japan and it's hard to find information on the amount and types of radioactivity being released into both the sea and the atmosphere. I would guess that the ocean currents concentrate the radioactivity in some cases and dilute it in others. I don't know what it would take to get an accurate set of readings but public pressure is lacking because the public can't become informed.
The AEC downplayed the radiation from all the atomic bombs the USA dropped on itself in the 40s, 50s and 60s (atmospheric testing otherwise know as) but living downwind, St George Utah experienced a significant epidemic of childhood leukemia.
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
Yesl First person in here.
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage
Not true actually. Several of us have pointed out that in the
contiguous 48 states, cattle contribute 1/3 of the methane released into the atmosphere. The federal government encourages the raising of cattle on public land by leasing the land to those who raise cattle at less than the price of the taxes owed if the land were in private hands. When Jim Baca was head of the BLM, he tried to let the market set the price of grazing lands and Bill Clinton fired him.
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
A funny thing happened in human evolution recently
Neanderthal DNA exists in our genome.
It's been twenty years and finally are the evolutionary biologists accepting the implications of that.
They are not a separate species. They never were. Opens up questions about H. erectus & H. habilis too.
It's funny, when I was a geneticist we were so smug about stating how race & gender were political constructs. All the while ignoring the political constructs of human species we had created. It's good to see it being fixed.
My lectures start with the split to Donkey versus Horse.
Their last viable offspring was not too long ago. Then the Neanderthal "question". Of course that was before the most recent data so the conversation was a bit speculative. I had a friend that was quite adamant that the biologists were jerks for marginalizing part of our heritage. He died a bit too early to be able to gloat. My favorite of course is the split that lead to us and the chimpanzees.
I studied under Paul Sharp when he was still at Trinity
Remember him bringing the just published Stoneking & Cann mitochondrial eve paper, threw down in disgust "They didn't even bother to read our instructions! You can't use our software to root a tree." Followed by some choice Scottish expletives.
Why fear species death?
We all die. Why care about the end of Homo sapiens? Clearly we are not good patrons of the planet Earth. Let another species take a shot.
The Earth will abide.
If you don't know what you want, you deserve what you get.
I have no fear, myself, it is an interesting exercise, only.
What I find absolutely fascinating: The range of people (particularly the few biologists that are poorly educated but yet hold a PhD) that are unable to understand how this all works.
I can't wait for green beef.
Mmmmmmmmm. Vat-grown meat.
That is kind of what I feel about tofu.
It IS made in vats, after all. And is chock full of hormone/disruptors. Estrogens, anti-estrogens, who cares? Last several words all have red squigglies. Including squiggly.
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Soy.
Who would've guessed that it wasn't good for you?
If you have ever grown mammalian cells, in a lab for instance,
all cell culture media (most, anyway) use fetal calf or calf serum on the order of 10% by volume. Making cells happy by cannibalizing some dead calf's serum. The next time you need a biologic, even insulin, most is made in yeast in a defined medium, still containing animal products, but, well.
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