By John Stark
A California businessman’s experiments aimed at curbing global warming have touched off a storm of criticism after The Guardian reported he was responsible for the dumping of iron sulphate into the Pacific off Haida Gwaii island on the British Columbia coast.
According to the Guardian’s report, the chemical dumping performed in July 2012 did what entrepreneur Russ George wanted it to do: It stimulated the growth of carbon dioxide-absorbing plankton.
But environmentalists and international agencies are taking a dim view of this freelance experiment inside a sensitive ecosystem about 500 miles northwest of Bellingham.
The Guardian says George envisions using his ocean-fertilizing technique as a way of creating “carbon credits” that could be sold to polluting industries.
George’s efforts are part of what has been dubbed “geoengineering,” the attempt to counteract global climate change from greenhouse gas emissions by artificial means, rather than by curbing the problem emissions themselves. Among other things, would-be geoengineers are talking about discharging sun-screening chemicals into the upper atmosphere.
Some say this activity is already going on and threatens the earth. Check out these reports from GeoEngineeringwatch.org.
For those who prefer MSM, here is a Forbes Q&A with a Harvard geoengineering researcher.
Here’s a blog post from David Biello, an editor at Scientific American.
: Oct. 27-at 10 Am-3Pm.-Squalicum High School. If you want to
speak come one half hour early. Show your opposition in every way you can.
Mass opposition counts.
Perhaps the dumper can be fined or jailed for polluting our ocean water.
Prevention is the best policy and that is why it is so important to say a big no to the Gateway Pacific Terminal Project. Keep saying no until they go away.
There are many ways to do this.
Tell everyone that you know regardless of where they live to write their objections to this project. This project presents worldwide hazards and they have a right to be heard whether they live here, out of state or in another country.
Send mails to eisgatewaypacificwa(dot)gov
Or write to Randel Perry, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District,Care of: GPT/BNSF, Custer Spur EIS Co-Lead Agencies
1100 112th Avenue Northeast, Suite 400, Bellevue, Washington,98004
If you are in the area please come to the rally before the meeting on Oct. 27. The meeting starts at 10:00. It is at Squalicum High School. If you want to speak come one half hour early. Show your opposition in every way you can.
Mass opposition counts.
‘I had to move away for 20 years, and now my kids are having to move away, just to go to work for skilled jobs. We need these jobs here in Bellingham and Whatcom County.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb_KZgGzE_8&feature=em-share_video_user
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
The Forbes “expert” attempts to skirt the question “has the U.S. government ever conducted atmospheric geoengineering?“ with the flimsy answer that “such a program would have to involve thousands of people over decades” and get this “each knowing they were conspiring against their fellow citizens” so naturally “the idea that our government could keep such a secret is simply absurd”( !) ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!!! Plenty of examples of U.S. dastardly actions and secrets against the populace are cited in the literature. Also, let’s consider the source her: Forbes and Harvard. Draw your own conclusions.
Dear Afy
No jobs should be created that puts life on this planet in jeopardy. Jobs that threaten our food supply and pollute our land, water and air are not good jobs.
The proposed terminal presents many problems other than the burning of coal which is a worldwide number one pollutant.
The ships that will travel back and forth across the ocean if this terminal is built is a threat to all life forms that live in the ocean. Many are on the endangered species list. The building on the shore line and near also presents a problems to wild life as well as fish. This is a threat to our food sources as well as a treat to the loss of jobs and income to the people who depend on the fisheries for employment.
Few jobs are to be had on a passing train but these trains are a threat to our food supply as they pass through our farmland and destroy crops as well as pollute the water and air. They disturb the birds and bees that are necessary to food production not only near the tracks but for miles around.
Geoengineering is now mainstream?
Is geoengineering about global warming or weather modification?
Are chemtrails real?
Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025
A Research Paper Presented To Air Force 2025
by
Col Tamzy J. House
Lt Col James B. Near, Jr.
LTC William B. Shields (USA)
Maj Ronald J. Celentano
Maj David M. Husband
Maj Ann E. Mercer
Maj James E. Pugh
August 1996
Executive Summary
In 2025, US aerospace forces can “own the weather” by capitalizing on emerging technologies and focusing development of those technologies to war-fighting applications. Such a capability offers the war fighter tools to shape the battlespace in ways never before possible. It provides opportunities to impact operations across the full spectrum of conflict and is pertinent to all possible futures.
The purpose of this paper is to outline a strategy for the use of a future weather-modification system to achieve military objectives rather than to provide a detailed technical road map. A high-risk, high-reward endeavor, weather-modification offers a dilemma not unlike the splitting of the atom.
While some segments of society will always be reluctant to examine controversial issues such as weather-modification, the tremendous military capabilities that could result from this field are ignored at our own peril. From enhancing friendly operations or disrupting those of the enemy via small-scale tailoring of natural weather patterns to complete dominance of global communications and counterspace control, weather-modification offers the war fighter a wide-range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary.
chttp://csat.au.af.mil/2025/volume3/vol3ch15.pdf
Good link Camille and it even makes your link more valid that global warming is being used as a cover to promote another agenda if there is really no real global warming;
“Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals Met Office report quietly released… and here is the chart to prove it
The figures reveal that from the beginning of 1997 until August 2012 there was no discernible rise in aggregate global temperatures
This means that the ‘pause’ in global warming has now lasted for about the same time as the previous period when temperatures rose, 1980 to 1996…..
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217286/Global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago-reveals-Met-Office-report-quietly-released–chart-prove-it.html#ixzz29TWPHHJo
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
If current trends continue, one half of all species of life on Earth will be extinct in 100 years. (E.O. Wilson, The Future of Life, p. 102)
One quarter of all mammal species face extinction in 30 years.
The Carbon Trap, is my 2012 ecopolitical thriller that describes mankind’s attempts to control CO2 going awry and threatening all life on earth. The ultimate genetically modified CO2 sequestering life-form will be phytoplankton. Don’t doubt governments are funding such research. Done wrong, it can change the ‘export production’ equation to a resulting disaster. Typically only one percent of phytoplankton detritus doesn’t get recycled, though blooms of this type increase that rate because predators don’t have time to increase their numbers to an unexpected bloom. Double the rate, and CO2 starts dropping. Make it ten percent, and soon CO2 levels will drop to what I refer to as the ‘yellow zone’, where life suffers from CO2 starvation.
I had to move away several times to get a newspaper job. I wound up here. My dad moved away to get jobs, twice. Americans move away.
AFY, I don’t know how you interpreted the paper as evidence that global warming does not exist; aerial spraying contributes to global warming but is not the cause of it.
Only a fool would deny the existence of global warming, and your link has nothing whatsoever to do with the report I’ve posted.
But then again taking another person’s comment and spinning it to suit your own agenda has sadly become your style.
A little more from the previous link:
“…The most depressing feature of this debate is that anyone who questions the alarmist, doomsday scenario will automatically be labelled a climate change ‘denier’, and accused of jeopardising the future of humanity.
So let’s be clear. Yes: global warming is real, and some of it at least has been caused by the CO2 emitted by fossil fuels. But the evidence is beginning to suggest that it may be happening much slower than the catastrophists have claimed – a conclusion with enormous policy implications.”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217286/Global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago-reveals-Met-Office-report-quietly-released–chart-prove-it.html#ixzz29UlNu1rr
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
Let’s try to tie all the dots together;
No one can denied that there is climate change, it has been forever more in the history of the world and climate change means that there is both global cooling and warming. This latest information from The Daily mail shows the plateau we have currently been going thru where global warming has flat lined, it appears historically there have been both plateau’s of warming and cooling when it comes to climate change.
So the real debate it seems is the one about how extreme things are and how extreme they will become, and how much it is cause by man’s use of carbon fuels.
But separate from that; this article that john has posted and the link that Camille has posted IMHO (of course I can be wrong) demonstrates how(is) things like (profit & greed & war & etc) can take advantage of the fears we as a society have about climate change therefore it is very important that we recognize that.
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
Thanks for making that point, John. I moved 8 times for my husband’s career. That argument irritates me no end.
If Pederson Construction (AFY) and the rest of the building trades actually cared about jobs, they’d be talking about restoring manufacturing in America, not exporting our natural resources with massive subsidies from our government so we can import finished goods.
“….U.S. manufacturing employment has dropped by one-third over the past decade. Contrary to popular belief, these jobs have not moved overseas. They have been automated. Manufacturers have become more productive and can now produce the same amount of goods with fewer workers. Technology has eliminated many unskilled manufacturing jobs, while creating some new highly skilled positions.
These same factors have eliminated manufacturing jobs in countries around the world, including China. Despite the short-term pain of job losses, automation of rote work benefits workers and consumers. Automation of rote tasks on the assembly line reduces the drudgery of work and improves worker safety. Increased productivity has also made manufactured goods more affordable for American families.
Attempting to bring back the jobs lost to automation by restricting foreign trade will fail. Congress should abandon this approach and instead promote job creation by creating a better business climate.”
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/10/technology-explains-drop-in-manufacturing-jobs
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
This “local jobs” argument is used by both sides in debates over whether some kind of business should be allowed here. Opponents of Gateway Pacific, for example, often argue that it will not hire “local people.” I suspect that if GPT ever does get to the hiring stage, they will hire the people they want to hire, just like my boss and your boss. If my employers had insisted on hiring local people over the past 40 years, that would have ruled me out.
john are you saying you put some local reporter on unemployment?
How do you sleep at night?
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
AFY/Pederson, don’t be absurd. Try to buy any consumer good not manufactured in China much less actually manufactured in the US. Are you really trying to argue that manufacturing jobs here weren’t outsourced? Heritage Foundation? Really? Do you have any idea the population to whom you are addressing these absurd libertarian-funded arguments?
“…Increasing the number of jobs in the economy by expanding trade — both exports and imports — is a good bet. Historically, there has been a strong relationship between economic growth, trade (both exports and imports, individually and combined), and job creation in the United States. In the quarter century between 1983 and 2007, as real GDP more than doubled and the real value of U.S. trade increased five-fold, the U.S. economy created 46 million net new jobs, or 1.84 million net new jobs per year. In 22 of those 25 years,….
Despite the “Made in America” orientation of today’s hearing, it is important to note that trade in products that are made in America, or partially-made in America, or designed in America but produced abroad, or entirely designed and produced abroad from components manufactured abroad supports U.S. jobs up and down the supply chain through various channels. Both exports and imports support U.S. jobs…..
Manufacturing job loss has very little to do with trade and a lot to do with changes in technology that lead to productivity gains and changes in consumer tastes. China has also experienced a decline in manufacturing jobs — in fact, many more jobs have been lost in China’s manufacturing sector — for the same reasons. According to a 2004 study published by the Conference Board, China lost 15 million manufacturing jobs between 1995 and 2002, a period during which 2 million U.S. manufacturing jobs were lost.
The fact of the matter is that, with the exception of cyclical contractions during noted economic recessions, the U.S. manufacturing has been thriving in the global economy. Whether U.S. manufacturing will continue to thrive and even become a reliable job creator in the years ahead depends to some extent on the public policies adopted and eschewed….
http://www.cato.org/publications/congressional-testimony/made-america-increasing-jobs-through-exports-trade
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
How many American boys will never get out of AAA because of Ichiro and Felix Hernandez?
You could say Russell Wilson is denying a Huskie but then agin Jake would be denying a Volunteer, don’t ya know!
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!