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It's getting hot in here - that's according to Columbia University which just released a new study citing evidence that CO2 levels in the atmosphere have hit a 2.1 million year high. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601072&sid=aG5p2kBin538
Just so we're clear, that's about the onset of the last glacial age. Wooly mammoths. Earth covered in ice. Yellowstone was a volcano. Lasted about 2 million years.
No I'm not a NIMBY I'm saying that not in anyone's neighborhood. Clean Coal is a stupid concept. I live 3 blocks from the trains that come and go 57 times a day. My electornic devices attract the dust which is black, spider cobwebs look like black lace. Sometimes I end up with a fine black powder in my water that makes it a gray color. Clean coal is dirty at least most of the time. The coal and oil industry is just trying to make coal more palitable to people. That is easy to do when you don't live by it. Then add insult to injury by sequestering CO2 in a seismically active area. Wyoming is so open and beautiful. You see hawks, deer, elk, racoons, eagles etc. You sometimes come up over a hill to a view that litterally takes you breath away. Endless prairie and rolling hills. More openess than you can see anywhere. Mountains where you can go and not see another soul (human that is) for days on end. But this is not going to be if we keep the culture of clean coal alive. Our beautiful mountains and hills are being torn down by the millions of tons a day. We often say as we see another train, "there goes Wyoming leaving Wyoming." Now they want to bring back the waste they make from taking our state apart. They are going to sequester the CO2 here, thus allowing the cycle to continue until Wyomiong is a flat ugly, animal free zone with with the danger of a seizmic burp that will release tons of CO2 into the air and finish the climate off. Write the President Elect, write your congress and senators and tell them no to CO2 sequestering.
For decades, the green movement has misplaced its focus on a question of failed policy: "when will government agencies step in and force companies to be more green?" This question of policy misses the boat. Yes, government incentives are important, but many corporations are voluntarily driving change simply because it makes great business sense.
JohnsonDiversey, one of the largest cleaning products companies in the world, recently proved the point by announcing their latest in a series of major green initiatives -- certification through the World Wildlife Fund's Climate Savers program. At a cost of $19 million, this mega-corporation will be able to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 8%, saving 89,000 tons of CO2 equivalents Read More »
JohnsonDiversey, one of the largest cleaning products companies in the world, recently proved the point by announcing their latest in a series of major green initiatives -- certification through the World Wildlife Fund's Climate Savers program. At a cost of $19 million, this mega-corporation will be able to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 8%, saving 89,000 tons of CO2 equivalents Read More »
Other than CO2 there are other "greenhouse" gases present in our atmosphere that constitute the "greenhouse effect" preventing the earth from becoming an orbiting ball of ice. To be intellectually honest, I must ask some very important questions about such a grave en devour. We are talking about altering the mean atmospheric temperature (if this is possible). It is imparitive to ask just what is the overall reduction of CO2 and/or sequestration that may be possible, and what are the quantifiable parameters before an appreciable effect is attained? Just as it is suspected there is a tipping point to increase the temperature, what is the tipping point that would bring about a devastating cooling effect?
Call To Action: The toxic energy companies keep nature's hemp plant illegal. No wonder we have problems with the environment. If anyone has any ideas to share about how to make hemp, a solution to global warming, legal, please share.
There is a report in the news that says the polar ice caps might melt this year. We know how to solve this problem, but refuse to do it so far.
The problem is we have too much CO2 in the atmosphere. The solution is to dramatically reduce the excess CO2 by both removing the excess and not replacing it. Growing hemp and shifting to hemp biofuel and other clean energies like solar, wind, magnetic and hydro, accomplishes both tasks.
Richard M. Davis of the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org recommends that we immediately institute the old HEMP FOR VICTORY program and grow hemp on a large, international scale, to remove the cause of global warming, excess CO2, regardless of its source. Many family farmers who lost their land over the last 20 years and would be more than happy to relocate to grow hemp. Hemp is a strong plant that can grow up to 4 crops a year in the right climate or indoors.
Hemp pulls excess CO2 from the air as it grows, is a biomass champion at producing electricity without pollution, and can restore burnt and otherwise damaged soil using its up to six foot deep root system that aerates soil. Hemp is 4 times more efficient than corn as biofuel and can serve as both energy and a food source. Since hemp is wind pollinated, it makes a great backup food source in case the bees don't return.
For more information on how hemp can help us solve our problems please visit the USA Hemp Museum, a private museum with a virtual wing, Richard M. Davis, founder, curator and author of HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION www.hempmuseum.org. Read More »
There is a report in the news that says the polar ice caps might melt this year. We know how to solve this problem, but refuse to do it so far.
The problem is we have too much CO2 in the atmosphere. The solution is to dramatically reduce the excess CO2 by both removing the excess and not replacing it. Growing hemp and shifting to hemp biofuel and other clean energies like solar, wind, magnetic and hydro, accomplishes both tasks.
Richard M. Davis of the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org recommends that we immediately institute the old HEMP FOR VICTORY program and grow hemp on a large, international scale, to remove the cause of global warming, excess CO2, regardless of its source. Many family farmers who lost their land over the last 20 years and would be more than happy to relocate to grow hemp. Hemp is a strong plant that can grow up to 4 crops a year in the right climate or indoors.
Hemp pulls excess CO2 from the air as it grows, is a biomass champion at producing electricity without pollution, and can restore burnt and otherwise damaged soil using its up to six foot deep root system that aerates soil. Hemp is 4 times more efficient than corn as biofuel and can serve as both energy and a food source. Since hemp is wind pollinated, it makes a great backup food source in case the bees don't return.
For more information on how hemp can help us solve our problems please visit the USA Hemp Museum, a private museum with a virtual wing, Richard M. Davis, founder, curator and author of HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION www.hempmuseum.org. Read More »
Al Gore is right. We can solve the problem of global warming.
Hemp can remove the excess CO2 we have in the atmosphere that is at cause for a big part of global warming. We still need to address methane, but hemp can have a powerful impact on removing the excess CO2.
This article is an echo from a great page we found on the We Can Solve It site, with a few thoughts added. The USA Hemp Museum has added a group there called HEMP FOR VICTORY to begin an international conversation on how to use hemp to solve the problem of global warming. Please come by and share what you know.
We've made nature illegal and wonder why we have a problem with the environment. The world has lost it's mind and the planet is telling us it's time to restore sanity.
Hemp is a sane choice to quickly solve the problem of global warming.
Simply stated, when the problem is too much CO2 in the atmosphere, the solution is to remove the excess CO2 to safe levels.
Hemp is a biomass champion that breathes in the excess CO2 as it grows and creates products that improve the quality of life.
In this forum there will be a lot of conversation of using hemp to scrub the air of excess CO2 as it grows. A question may arise about why this is important, with hemp being illegal and all. Why should we change the law to save ourselves?
The Problem as defined on another page on the site We Can Solve It:
"The concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is now 380 parts-per-million (ppm), 100 ppm higher than at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. But we can look back even further. By drilling into the deepest glacial ice we can measure CO2 deep into time. And this ice library shows more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than at any time in last 650,000 years.
"HEMP TO THE RESCUE - WITH A LOT OF HELP FROM HER FRIENDS
The Solution:
We're talking problem solving at the level of cause and effect.
The way to solve the excess CO2 portion of the global warming problem is to restore CO2 to safe levels with wide spread hemp growth, internationally, to remove the excess from the atmosphere.
Let the United Nations coordinate the wide scale growing. In addition to each nation participating, both the UN and nations can receive reasonable by the standards of the public, tax income from the new markets to sustain themselves. We anticipate the hemp trade boom will be a substantially needed boost to the world's economy.
Independently earned funding for the UN should help build the organization's independence in deciding the highest good for all concerned. Toxic energy should be illegal, unnecessary toxic activities stopped now. Shift to hemp biofuel and other non toxic, clean and/or free energy sources like hydro, wind, magnetic, solar, etc. to empower our world and enhance our environment.
For more information on the subject "What Is Global Warming?" visit WECANSOLVEIT.ORG
Thanks to whoever wrote that article. Here's an except:
"What is global warming?
The science behind global warming is often portrayed as enormously complex, but some of it is quite simple. It begins with a ray of light, shot through space from the staggering inferno of our sun. That sunbeam delivers energy to earth, giving us light and warmth and life. As some of this energy radiates back toward space as heat, a portion is absorbed by a delicate balance of heat-trapping (or "greenhouse") gases in the atmosphere that create an insulating layer. Without the temperature control of this greenhouse effect, the Earth's average surface temperature would be 0°F (-18°C), a temperature so low that the Earth would be frozen and could not sustain human life as we know it. The most abundant of the greenhouse gases is water vapor. In addition, there are other powerful greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, and nitrous oxide.
Each of these is a natural part of the never-ending cycle of life, death, and decomposition on Earth. But since the onset of the Industrial Revolution humans have been pumping out more and more of these and other greenhouse gases. Scientists are clear: human activities are contributing to global warming by adding large amounts of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere. Our fossil fuel use is the main source of these gases. Every time we drive a car, use electricity from coal-fired power plants, or heat our homes with oil or natural gas, we release carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases into the air.
The second most important addition of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere is related to deforestation, mainly in the tropics, as well as other land-use changes.
The concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is now 380 parts-per-million (ppm), 100 ppm higher than at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. But we can look back even further. By drilling into the deepest glacial ice we can measure CO2 deep into time. And this ice library shows more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than at any time in last 650,000 years.
As a result of the build up of gases, the temperature is beginning to rise. Adults today have already felt the average global temperature rise more than a full degree Fahrenheit (0.8°C) during our lifetimes. We expect another degree F by 2020 due to past emissions. Based on modeling by an international body of experts studying the climate crisis, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the temperature could increase by more than 7°F (4°C) by the end of the century in the absence of meaningful efforts to rein in global warming pollution. What happens when the global temperature rises?
For a global system that is delicately balanced, the rise in temperatures will pose serious threats: Rising sea levels, leading to more coastal erosion, flooding during storms, and permanent inundation Increased drought and increased incidence of wildfires Severe stress on many forests, wetlands, alpine regions, and other natural ecosystems Impacts on human health as mosquitoes and other disease-carrying insects and rodents spread diseases over larger geographical regions Disruption of agriculture in some parts of the world due to increased temperature, water stress, and sea-level rise in low-lying areas such as Bangladesh or the Mississippi River delta.
Other projected impacts include increased intensity of hurricanes; the long-term destabilization of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets, leading to much greater sea level rise; the acidification of the world's oceans; and a vastly increased rate of species extinction. Wonders such as the Great Barrier Reef and the Amazon could collapse under the weight of just a few more degrees. And hundreds of millions of people may be forced from their homelands as the climate shifts, creating increased political and economic instability. "
For more information on hemp please visit the USA Hemp Museum, Richard M. Davis, founder, curator whose idea to use the old Hemp For Victory program is a smart solution echoed by many. Read More »
Hemp, an effective solution tool for global warming, is illegal.
Does the environmental community have the fortitude to say the truth that hemp can help solve the problem of global warming? I think we do, once folks have the facts.
Richard M. Davis holds a Masters Degree in biology from California State University at Los Angeles and attended the School of Public Health at UCLA for four years under a US Public Health Service Fellowship. Davis is a hempster since the sixties and has collected thousands of hemp related items and articles.
Davis is the founder and curator of the USA Hemp Museum, a massive private museum with a virtual wing located at www.hempmuseum.org .
Davis has agreed to make available an ebook copy of his heroic book HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION to activists in an effort to save the earth from destruction, regardless of the cause.
Man made or not, there is too much CO2 in the air and we must lower it now. Hemp is a tool we can use.
Davis' ebook is posted for the month of May '08:
http://www.hempmuseum.org/H4V/H4VAGWS.pdf
In this work Davis proposes we use the successful World War II HEMP FOR VICTORY program to solve the problem of global warming.
If only 10-20% of unused federal land (plus areas where fires have destroyed many trees) were seeded for hemp, the environmental, economic (post harvest business/products/jobs), medical and social benefits would be massive.
In this book he's compiled the information most focused on how hemp removes the excess CO2 from the atmosphere as it grows, burns clean as biofuel, and requires no toxic chemicals to grow. You'll see hemp art and activists like the late, great Peter McWilliams. Learn about Presidents Jefferson and Washington as hemp growers. When you finish this book (if not before) you'll understand we have the tools, hemp and human will, to save ourselves.
If you're already a hemp environmentalist, this book is an easy case to pass on for why we should be using hemp now to help solve the problem of global warming both as a plant that breathes in excess CO2 and as clean burning biofuel working in concert with other clean and/or free energies like solar, wind, hydro, magnetic, etc.
We just need the courage to use them instead of toxic energy. The shift could be that simple. Outlaw toxic and replace with clean.
So, back to the original statement. Hemp, an effective solution tool for global warming is illegal. Now what?
HEMP FOR VICTORY Read More »
Does the environmental community have the fortitude to say the truth that hemp can help solve the problem of global warming? I think we do, once folks have the facts.
Richard M. Davis holds a Masters Degree in biology from California State University at Los Angeles and attended the School of Public Health at UCLA for four years under a US Public Health Service Fellowship. Davis is a hempster since the sixties and has collected thousands of hemp related items and articles.
Davis is the founder and curator of the USA Hemp Museum, a massive private museum with a virtual wing located at www.hempmuseum.org .
Davis has agreed to make available an ebook copy of his heroic book HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION to activists in an effort to save the earth from destruction, regardless of the cause.
Man made or not, there is too much CO2 in the air and we must lower it now. Hemp is a tool we can use.
Davis' ebook is posted for the month of May '08:
http://www.hempmuseum.org/H4V/H4VAGWS.pdf
In this work Davis proposes we use the successful World War II HEMP FOR VICTORY program to solve the problem of global warming.
If only 10-20% of unused federal land (plus areas where fires have destroyed many trees) were seeded for hemp, the environmental, economic (post harvest business/products/jobs), medical and social benefits would be massive.
In this book he's compiled the information most focused on how hemp removes the excess CO2 from the atmosphere as it grows, burns clean as biofuel, and requires no toxic chemicals to grow. You'll see hemp art and activists like the late, great Peter McWilliams. Learn about Presidents Jefferson and Washington as hemp growers. When you finish this book (if not before) you'll understand we have the tools, hemp and human will, to save ourselves.
If you're already a hemp environmentalist, this book is an easy case to pass on for why we should be using hemp now to help solve the problem of global warming both as a plant that breathes in excess CO2 and as clean burning biofuel working in concert with other clean and/or free energies like solar, wind, hydro, magnetic, etc.
We just need the courage to use them instead of toxic energy. The shift could be that simple. Outlaw toxic and replace with clean.
So, back to the original statement. Hemp, an effective solution tool for global warming is illegal. Now what?
HEMP FOR VICTORY Read More »
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