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Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2019 8:13 am
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Sadly, I’m watching the Amazon Rainforest burning. São Paulo looks like night during day with smoke from afar.

We speak of the BC and California historical fires amongst others. All are of concern; however, there is one area, that has an even more direct impact on all of us, in brief, Brazil. The fighting of the same is difficult to say the least. From climate control, to research such as medical drugs, and the inclusion of rare and desired Amazon flora and fauna, and we humans on a global scale are posed to suffer for now and in the future. 73,000+ Brazilian fires this year to date! So much for rain there and elsewhere. :roll:
Sending hopeful thoughts to Brazilians, and hats off to fire fighters and first responders everywhere.

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Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2019 10:05 am
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I’m watching more about the terrible fires in Brazil. It is now being reported that the bulk of those fires are man made. Many are set deliberately and those are not produced from climate change. (Consider that fires and other events may be climate related, but that’s not necessarily a change). **Farmers burning off land, abusive logging practice, political and corporation involvements, and people with other interests or ignorance are to blame. Sound familiar? Increased, but not much of a change, right? Yet, in more than a century, we didn’t see that coming?

**Seems to me that the larger authoritative climate change arguments and proposed solutions are coming from the same parties who were responsible in the first place. They also involve activism because it’s good self serving business planning. Unfortunately, this can divide activists into the professional status, and the amateur, and I’ll leave it at that.

Interesting. Let’s hope climate change activists and researchers look at cause and effect accordingly. Let’s hope they identify this Brazilian event and similar reports as being a problem for climate change, and not created as a by-product of climate change. It is what it is except when it isn’t.

I agree that global temperatures have changed; but, we also need to hear the whole balanced story, not just a chapter lifted from a book that has an important beginning, middle, and ending. So far the stories haven’t ended well as we are finding done all too often for expediency today. Fat chance of getting the whole story, however. It’s a hard sell. That would make news, and we know how balanced that is.

True, abuse can and has caused climate change; but, also true is you may live in a typical fire zone, flood zone, earthquake zone, snow area, tornado alley, or hurricane alley. No two events are ever the same and nor are the frequencies. Living under a volcano doesn’t guarantee it won’t erupt or that it will or that another volcano won’t develop. Activity increases and decreases and may even stop. It depends where, when, and by whom the report is observed and/or made if it is at all.

No activism will prevent Mother Nature’s change of Yellowstone. It can stop a high rise or fracking. A quickly proposed unproven answer or fix without equal scrutiny is not much of an answer IMHO. This can open creation or support of other undesirable issues. Worse is that it can be, and usually is, a revolving door of this or that never coming to a good solid solution, and there is a cost to pay. Sort of like putting good money into bad. Waffling is no answer, but doing it right the first time is possible.

Scrubbers in chimneys are turned on and off at will, and there is question of whether scrubbers are or aren’t making matters worse (questions like this should apply to all proposed environmental solutions, but they are seldom introduced). Government inspection looks good when inspected and not when observation is ignored or unavailable (prior announcements of inspection have, at times, proven to be counter productive). Costly anti-pollutant cars with catalytic converters and related mechanics and electronics have shown to be less effective and less rewarding than promoted. Where did the “Fool Me Once” attitude go? How about the energy company practices and policies? What about the plastics? The recycling? Add your own. Throw in a bike and talk about rubber, plastic, and metal. Yep! That’s environmental too. It’s not only how much you use. It’s how it gets there and where it ends up. That methane horse (less carbon footprint than a car, no comparison to a cow, and more environmental than producing a bike) is looking a little better, huh? What’s that? The government won’t allow horses? Once you show them the scientific facts that they are more environmental I’m sure they’ll jump on board. :lol:
Shipping in northern waters has increased tremendously, and is increasing even more, and I haven't heard much talk that ship motion has or hasn’t altered icebergs. Try stirring your ice cube.

The sun is getting hotter, so much so that scientists believe the earth will be uninhabitable in the very distant future. Right now the earth is getting hotter faster than Ol’ Sol because of human interference. Did you know it is a fact that the moon is moving away from the earth 1inch each year? Saw that on TV last night. Enough to affect the earth? The tides? I dunno. Perhaps.

Man can not only can adapt, but does. Some live in a rain forest while others live in a desert and still others live in a frigid tundra. They’re chilling in deserts and sweating up north. Life is not always a beach. I’m guessing man will adapt on Mars, and that other planets will evolve and survive with climate change. Me? I like Mother Earth, thank you. She needs help.

It’s not the climate quick fixes we need to flog. IMHO. The immediate problem is us, and how we make sense of these concerns and the solutions. It’s about reviewing the book from front to back and everything in between. A slick cover sells it, but let’s look for a story that isn’t disappointing throughout.

If anything, Brazil will have opened up dialogue. Let’s hope Brazil’s fires have a quick death, and that the lessons learned are beneficial to everyone.

Good luck with the next quick fix. I won’t be here to see the last page of the story. :wink:
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Post subject: Re: What are you watching?
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2019 10:56 am
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Thank you, FSB, for your well-thought-out and insightful post.

There are so many factors and factions involved that it's hard for me to fully grasp the entire picture. There are many different ideas as to causes and solutions. Government, big business and its lobbyists, scientists, good intentioned people, scientists with opposing views, and of course the media.

I hope the fires in Brazil die out soon, too. I do understand the importance of the rain forests. I don't know how much our efforts at recycling are helping when I read about all the plastic that ends up in the ocean. I received an email this morning which read that our waste management company no longer wants us to put plastics in our recycle bin. They want only paper products for recycling and everything else should go in the trash. Is that a sign of something? Maybe so.

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Post subject: Re: What are you watching?
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2019 5:12 pm
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Marky Forrest wrote:
Thank you, FSB, for your well-thought-out and insightful post.

There are so many factors and factions involved that it's hard for me to fully grasp the entire picture. There are many different ideas as to causes and solutions. Government, big business and its lobbyists, scientists, good intentioned people, scientists with opposing views, and of course the media.

I hope the fires in Brazil die out soon, too. I do understand the importance of the rain forests. I don't know how much our efforts at recycling are helping when I read about all the plastic that ends up in the ocean. I received an email this morning which read that our waste management company no longer wants us to put plastics in our recycle bin. They want only paper products for recycling and everything else should go in the trash. Is that a sign of something? Maybe so.
Thank you, Marky. I really tend to go on, but not to the point that I could. I’m a baaaaad boy. :roll:
I’m pretty passionate about Mother Earth. I probably mentioned elsewhere here that I passed on signing my acceptance to work in oceanography only because of my personal relationship. My acceptance from Hydrographics came two years later than my application, and life had changed. I’ve since rubbed shoulders with (excuse the name dropping here) Cousteaus doing Mercury (Minimata) tests here, Ballard on the coast anxious to talk of his adventures to anyone interested, Goodall that can mesmerize you with her experience, Green Peace of yesteryear and the more radical one of today and the Sierra Club (both included members amongst my work associates). My own personal experience and disgust of the Carmanah Valley on my Vancouver Island home with it’s illegal clear cutting of ancient growth (1000 year old) red cedar trees and Canada’s tallest (400 year old) 314 foot Sitka spruce to the ground making what looks like a moonscape gave me reason to be PO’d. Add in the Orcas (killer whales) protection, and being the outdoors
kid who used to drink water at river side but no more, and you’ll see I do have a feeling for activists; but, I know that all activism is not sound or warranted amongst the priorities. It depends on the motivation and the motivator and the knowledge and the follow through and the benefits and the consequences for my liking. YMMV

Some of my comments are tongue in cheek, and I know the older you get and the more information you gather the more you can weigh your choices, I just find so much hypocrisy, and ‘me too’ being led down the garden path without looking at what lies ahead or behind. :wink:
I think you may have something there, Marky. Big talk about recycling but no facilities? Here in Canada we are oil rich with few refineries and so we transport our oil, get it refined, and buy it back. Plastics can last around 500 years and you’d think they would recycle it all. This city does a lot, but it is limited. I’ve never heard of that no plastic recycling though. We can’t exchange or return plastic bottles, but we can recycle them. Plastic bags have recently been dropped by mainstream grocers, we’re seeing more glass bottles from those who said glass was hard to get because of this or that? I’ve heard horror stories about waste management on land and sea. That waste management change doesn’t surprise me, Marky. Sucks, huh?

I’ll be surprised to see that no plastic rule last, Marky.

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Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2019 5:21 pm
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