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  Don't tell me Greenpeace does not create art:

   

  http://www.flickr.com:80/photos/greenpeaceusa09/

  On Four years after my pleading essay, climate art is hot posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago 12 Responses

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  That is the first time I've heard a comment from an actual beekeeper who professed to know anything and I've talked to a few on the net and in person. About time too. Bob, thank you for correcting us about the bee situation. Too bad it took you or someone with your knowledge to show up and say something. On the other hand I have a lot of first person experience with trying to get the media to pay attention to subjects they'd rather not know about. However, I still stand by what I said with respect to what is going on in the natural world with respect to chemicals. It is true though that we do have peaks and crashes in all wildlife populations such as the seven year rabbit cycle that has such an impact on wolf and lynx populations. You may recall that in 2005, the Monarch population crashed and as much as 1/5 of the total was lost. It has rebounded but I have no idea whether there was a full recovery. Probably not due to one of your points - habitat loss. I wasn't aware of the factory farming of bees but when you stop to think about it, nearly every species that can be adapted to commercial gain including quite a number of species including butterflies is now being factory farmed. Once the pressure is on to produce maximum numbers in space that seems to shrink, that always generates disease within the ranks. As for this site editing, correcting or changing in any way an erroneous post, don't hold your breath. Once the post is up, virtually no host including this one ever goes back to fix anything. So as much as they say they want to help solve issues, they do tend to perpetuate more than their share of wrong information. For myself, when I find I've made an error, I go back in and fix it or post a correction in an additional post. You would think that would only be good manners but most people post and forget about it. Again thank you Bud.On Ask Umbra's video advice on bees, honey, and hugs posted 3 months ago 5 Responses

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  Biodiversivist, I am not surprised you couldn't find any studies linking Natural Gas emissions to Global Warming, Climate Change or Chemical Winter. I have spent five years looking for them.

  The reason you can't find them is because they're not there. Intentionally. Governments around the world protect the Natural Gas industry like no other and sequester information that would portray the industry in a negative light or refuse to allow the studies that would show such damaging data to be done at all. The same thing to a lesser degree occurs with respect to aviation fuel. To the point where most of the public thinks that Natural Gas burns completely clean and there are no emissions at all and aviation fuel emissions are like inhaling the scent of a rose.

  If you were to talk to a Ministry of Health official here in Canada about the effects of Natural Gas emissions from normal home heating, you would not get a single syllable of information. I've tried it at the federal and provincial level.

  On that basis I'm in the process of having members of our government charged with Criminal Code offences. At present it doesn't look like I'll succeed. The Code allows for my actions to be successful and there is no reason why these people can't be charged with an impressive array of crimes. But there  are other undefined mechanisms in place to prevent such prosecutions from happening. Since I've now journeyed through the entire process of Canadian Law and taken the Criminal process as far as a private citizen can, I now know exactly how governments, especially Canadian governments go about committing major crimes with impunity. (The Natual Gas situation is very deep in it.)

  Having done that I'm writing a book about it titled 'A PERFECT SETUP - How Canadian Governments Abetted by our Police Forces Commit Major Crimes and Get Away With Them'.

  What I found was the process by which our governments and thus elected officials, civil servants, agents and sub-contractors can commit crimes entirely outside the Rule of Law. In Canada the Rule of Law states that no man or woman can commit an act outside the Rule of Law. Well, that is far from true and my research revealed exactly how it's done. So in my book I'm going to describe using real cases who did what to whom as well as what the consequences are for the victims.

  This process is operative in every country in the world and it exists in plain sight. The reason it's gone undectable for so long is because the mechanism can only be discovered and explored in a country where you know you are safe from bureaucratic retaliation and even then would only be discovered by someone who has followed the system down every rat hole until the ends of each and every rat hole was identified and confirmed in writing officially by a government official. I did that. It took four years full time. That is not to say I did nothing else all those years. It means I was actively either working on it or thinking about how to proceed to the next level and so on. In some cases, I had to develop new science my self in order to support my cases. So the work was quite varied. 

  The points made by MARYS are all aspects, elements and consequences of the phenomenon known as CHEMICAL WINTER.

  All of the forcasts about Natural Gas usage and its ability to last for a given length of time based on current levels of use fail to take into account massive population growth globally.

  However there is no shortage of Natural Gas now or in the future. Natural Gas pricing is all based on fraud too. I explored gas pricing with a gas company executive and when you cut all the BS out of the equation, Natural Gas is wildly over-priced and kept that way by speculators.

  The problem everyone seems to overlook is this: the planet has vast lakes underground composed of various oils and gases. As a species, we are intent on extracting these thoroughly anti-life chemicals from where they are safely sequestered and coating the planet with them as fast as we can. Burning them merely transforms them, it doesn't make them disappear. So no matter how you slice it, burning any kind of gas, oil or coal is the imposition of a death sentence on nearly everything on the planet in slow motion.

  Nothing can inhale, eat, drink or otherwise ingest these chemicals and live in a healthy manner or have their genes survive intact.

  On Should greens ally with natural gas against coal? posted 3 months ago 16 Responses

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  While I understand that Natural Gas looks like a great transitional step from coal to something cleaner, there are other factors to consider.

  Natural Gas emissions are more than Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas problems. Natural Gas is a major player in the CHEMICAL WINTER situation. The chemicals that go up a chimney as a result of burning natural gas are almost identical to those of second hand smoke and they cause the same problems and more in the environment.

  This is a partial list of  chemicals found in Natural Gas emissions:

  Benzo-a-Pyrene

  Benzene

  Toluene

  Carbon Monoxide

  Soot

  Formaldehyde

  Radon Gas

  Radon Daughters

  PCBs

  DIOXINS

  FURANS

  Dust

  Rust

  Olefins

  Waxes

  Tars

  Oxides

  Sulfuric Acid

  Mercaptans

  Particulates

  Oils

   

   

  The emissions from Natural Gas from individual furnaces are low. But when they are considered in their entirety - the hundreds of millions all operating at once for most of our winters around the world, those emissions have to be considered a major cause of our climate problem, never mind the heat created.

  These are not all of the emissions either. Then once those chemicals combine in the atmosphere with other chemicals such as aviation fuel exhaust, ocean liner and freighter exhaust, industry exhaust all going non-stop every day we have a minestroni soup of the most lethal chemicals ever to exist on earth - and everything is inhaling, drinking and eating it. All of those chemicals are carcinogenic. None of them are food, not even the waxes. Some of the names for items listed like soot, oils, particulates and benzene are actually umbrella terms for thousands of chemicals that together are called that.

  Then there is the problem of installing the pipelines. Has anyone ever heard of installing a pipeline in an environmentally sensitive manner? I can assure you there is no such thing.

  Once pipelines have been installed, they have a "shelf life" or designed obsolescence. A couple of years ago I talked to a local Canadian Natural Gas official about what plans they have for when the pipes and valves in communities all start to fail at once as mass produced things always do. The response was that there is no plan. They have not begun to think about it.

  When Natural Gas pipelines leak, the potential for catastophic explosions is high. When explosions do occur, they can take out entire city blocks. That's just from one leak, not multiple leaks. At some point Natural Gas infrastructure is going to start failing just like sewer pipes do. Water leaks don't kill but Natural Gas can be pretty deadly. Imagine what will happen when entire communities start to go. Actually may already be starting to fail here.

  Admittedly, on new installation, that won't happen for decades. But there are plenty of existing communities served by Natural Gas and at some point the infrastructure is going to fail.

  That's probably why some Canadians are putting themselves in harms way blowing up gas pipelines: to prevent pipeline infestations.

  Coal is a bigger problem right now than Natural Gas will ever be. But Natural Gas can only be considered as a very temporary, exceptionally expensive bandaid treatment, not a happy solution. It's the sort of temporary solution that becomes permanent and nearly impossible to get rid of.

  Did you know that Natural Gas companies cannot be prosecuted if you die from inadvertently ingesting the product when you are using it as intended? Blocking installation of a Natural Gas pipeline is nearly impossible.

  The solution to climate change is going to have to an engineered solution that does not require burning anything. That means better insulation for every building requiring heat so that body heat cannot escape. Then there is Geothermal. The trouble is, existing buildings are difficult to design solutions for and sometimes there isn't space to do it. A complete rethink on exterior architecture that incoroporates cellular construction trapping air as a buffer between interior and exterior air masses. Something like Styrofoam. Instead of building up, we need to build down. There are lots of options but no magic fix.

  Tall buildings are also part of the climate change picture as are decapitating mountains for coal. Each of them changes wind patterns near the ground. Every surface change on the earth has an effect on the rest of the air mass. If you put a dye into water you can see how it moves and mixes. No area of the volume is uneffected. The same goes for the entire planet.

  On Should greens ally with natural gas against coal? posted 3 months ago 16 Responses

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  I think this following comment should be passed along to the Senate:

  Bees and other insects were doing just fine thank you until solvents were added to fossil fuels in the early 1970's to get the lead out of fuels.

   

  Lead was identified as having a long history of creating systemic and lethal health problems. It had to go.

   

  Solvents were added to our fuels without much in the way of research to determine what if any health risks there were.

   

  Since then every form of cancer and other forms of degenerative disease has on a per capita basis; that is incidents per thousands or millions of a given population, skyrocketed. Science has confirmed the link between the chemicals and what can only be called environmental injuries, not diseases.

   

  What is not generally known is that this same phenomenon is also being inflicted on every living species on the earth. Few people are keeping score for them unless by accident or because the species, like honey bees are commercially significant.

   

  Despite popular assumption, most species on the planet are not monitored for their health. Species are studied at the whim of the individual scientists and the cash he or she can raise to support a fundable hypothesis. Charles Darwin is still the very last word on earth worms. No one has really bothered about them since his time.

   

  Chemical proliferation in air, water and soil means that every living thing on the planet is ingesting and accumulating chemicals that humans have formulated, produced and released into the environment that have never existed during the entire history of the planet. Therefore, no living thing on earth has evolved to co-exist with never mind attempt to live with these fearfully lethal chemicals in them. To make matters worse, thousands of completely new, (untested for safety) chemicals are being manufactured and emitted into the environment every day and once loose in the environment, they recombine into other chemicals that are thus completely unknown to science. Therefore their effects are equally unknown.

   

  What is known is that we are turning our atmosphere, water and soils into chemical stews that are quickly becoming anti-life supporting.

   

  No one is talking about the impacts these rogue chemicals are having on anything. That’s because no one knows anything at all about them except that every one of them will kill you once they reach a certain concentration. Right now these chemicals are the vampires in the climate issue.

   

  The theory governments around the world use to justify their country’s chemical emissions is this: chemicals released into the atmosphere are neutralized within the span of three days. They degrade on contact with water or microbes in water, soil or on plants.

   

  However, the theory never took into account the accumulation factor and that aspect of the situation has never been communicated to the public. A single application of a chemical can take 3 days to dissipate. But we emit on a continual basis. We emit so much that eco-systems of every description worldwide are being or have been overwhelmed and areas that have become dead zones in air, water and soil are expanding rapidly. These dead zones vary in size from controlled cesspools to areas comprising thousands of square miles.

   

  Not all chemicals degrade in three days. Some persist for years, decades or thousands of years. They are the chemical equivalent of nuclear fallout. They act on living bodies in much the same way: they attempt to transform living tissue and solids into liquid – a puddle in other words. These puddles are known as tumors when we have them in us.

   

  While we as people have medical infrastructure to find new ways to defeat the effects of the chemical onslaught, the rest of the living biosphere does not have the same luxury.  

   

  As a consequence, the immune systems of living organisms, right down to the DNA level are being compromised and genetic integrity is eroding.

   

  Without genetic integrity, we have no assurance that future generations can follow without major and disastrous alterations in their physical makeup that preclude their ability to live a normal life or a life at all.

   

  What oil, coal and chemical companies steadfastly ignore is that humanity cannot exist on this planet after we have killed everything else. Even the ocean is in big trouble now and that is the engine that provides most of the oxygen on Planet Earth.

   

  In the early eighties, the damage solvents in gasoline were doing at street level started to become known. Solvent levels were cut (but not eliminated as needed to happen). The solvent production migrated into aviation fuel. Instead of the solvents being mainly sprayed as part of land based vehicular exhaust emissions, land transportation took a back seat to aircraft. By 1989 Texaco became the last major oil refinery to switch its aviation fuel production to include lethal solvents including benzenes.

   

  Since then, the aviation sector has been spraying the entire planet with industrial grade pesticides which coat every surface of everything. What did you think the active ingredient in pesticides was? Well now you know – crude oil byproducts. So if we already know this stuff is killing us – and we do, then you can begin to comprehend the devastating effects these toxins are having on organisms much smaller than we are.

   

  Since the molecular structures of the chemicals are so tiny, they penetrate skin and easily pass straight into the blood stream. Not just yours, everything. So washing your fruit has only a nominal effect. The solvents are deep in your food and everything else’s food. There is no escape unless we make a paradigm shift in the way we as a species live.

   

   

  Aviation of course is not the only culprit. Industry around the world is every bit as irresponsible – especially the oil, chemical, coal and pharmaceutical sectors. They are intentionally and systematically destroying every life system on the globe.

   

  This phenomenon is known as CHEMICAL WINTER. It is the fist in the glove of Climate Change and Global Warming that no one wants to talk about.

   

  Until this aspect of our climate problems is formally acknowledged around the world, there is no possibility that we will see any sort of mitigation with respect to long term environmental degradation.

   

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