While I appreciate pm videos, they will be so much more useful and actively contribute to solutions if they go beyond talking heads into actually showing how to do what is merely theorized about in these interviews.
@oceanirons, I agree and we're trying to do more "showing" along with the "telling." For permaculture and related topics with more visuals on Peak Moment channel, see #68, "Bullock Brothers Homestead - A 25-Year Permaculture Project", #87 "How Much Food Can I Grow Around My House?", and #100 "Suburban Permaculture with Janet Barocco and Richard Heinberg". ~Janaia
It is interesting to see how 'people' are diverting the attention away from the real issue. I suggest everyone stops reading the discussion about global warming and google the work 'astroturfing' instead.
@1EarthWays, corporate interests like Exxon/Mobil have paid for a lot of misinformation about climate change in the past couple of decades. And formulated a lot of astroturn "grass roots" groups claiming it ain't so. But the factual information from the planet says otherwise. Ozone hole over the arctic, melting ice sheets in Canada, hottest years in record -- aren't politicking. They're observable facts.
Google, "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity" and have a read. Follow some links.
It's a dated warning, so what are we all waiting for?
There you'll notice many other issues beyond just global warming vis-a-vis fossil fuel, so I'd also advise that you refocus your attention away from this "triviality" and to some of those that, as you seem to suggest, need to change anyway.
Life is short, kiddo. Use your time wisely for the better good.
It is very difficult to have logical debates when people refuse to see the facts: Let's talk CO2, more CO2 was released when Mount St. Helens erupted than all the CO2 produced by every single automobile in the world since its invention. Anthropomorphic Global Warming is an invention of a few elites to funnel trillions into their own coffers, nothing more. Should we stop trying to live more in tune with the earth, of coarse not, but there’s sense & senselessness.
Example: "Global volcanic carbon dioxide emission estimates contain uncertainties and are variable, but there is virtually no doubt that volcanism adds far less carbon dioxide to the oceans and atmosphere than humans."
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Like the video, EXCEPT, temperatures are NOT rising & there is NO global warming!! 33,000+ scientists have contradicted Al "idiot" Gore & his handful of wacko pseudo-scientists & denounced "An Inconvenient Lie" fictional video. As for actual Climate Change, it's been happening for billions of years & will continue to happen. Now human disasters, like oil spills, will definitely harm all life, but you need to convey facts not myths!!
@cresidue, report just out from NASA scientist James Hansen that last year was the hottest on record. Oil companies have poured massive amounts into a very skillful mis-information blitz against global climate change. Of course climate changes over time -- but the accelerated rate of CARBON in the atmosphere is coincident with our burning fossil fuels.
Reduced glacial ice, reduced snowpack here in the Sierra, reduced arctic ice -- verifiable facts, not myths.
@peakmoment Sadly, you have been duped by Liberal propaganda. Carbon Dioxide is not a “dangerous gas” it makes all life on earth possible! You should also Google "Antarctic Ice Growing, Not Shrinking" there are hundreds of reports that completely contradict what you believe. There are 2 sides to EVERY debate, that's how the elites stay in power. Do we turn right or left, I prefer a more sensible path of down the logical middle. :)
@RiverMpls Why don't YOU "look it up"! 3,000+ were PhD Scientists & the other 30,000+/- were "experts" on or above the level your messiah Al Gore cherry picked for his Global Warming fable. It is truly amazing how ignorant people like you are!!
@cresidue hahaha only 3,000 of them had a PhD. Gore gave the facts from real climate scientists. You parrot some stupid petition who some of among the 30,000 "scientists" are zooligists. Next time I see an elephant, I'll ask the trainer his thoughts on global warming. hahahaha 10,000 of the scientists of your golden petition are engineers! hahahaha hahhaha I'm really laughing here. Thanks for the laughs. Enjoy your "summer".
@blueeggsitter It is important to study the high plains and understand climate, landform, water, soils, etc, and then mimic what you find. We can substitute high yielding plant cultivars that would do well based on the conditions that we observe in this particular landscape, that meet the climatic conditions for growth. We can also study the relationships that we find there and the natural succession of the plains, and then, plant accordingly.
Another great vid. I'm left wondering how permaculture can help those farming/living on the High Plains.. In perfect world the HP wouldn't have seen a plow, but that wasn't the reality and those living here do have their backs against the wall already. They may be too conservative for their own good, but they didn't create the events of the past 140 years or so that lead up to today's reality.
The high plains? Water catchment systems such as swales and ponds can be added to the landscape to slow water down. With good plant selection we increase overall biomass. An increase in biomass means holding even more water and an increase in organic waste material (leaves and sticks as humus) and a building up of the soil. Increase all these and you speed up plant growth further still. See Geoff Lawton’s video on YouTube – Greening the desert. -- Bill Wilson
@MidwestPermaculture The water catchment is in place now, but along with federal reservoirs to protect the Mississippi, that change the natural stream flow to the detriment to communities living down stream. IMO the High Plains shouldn't have been turned with the plow, and it's going to be hard to rectify that mistake without hardship to those who hadn't done a thing other than being born here. TNX for the response...
16 studies from 1998 to 2008 have concluded that the sun has shown a slight cooling trend, so it's not the sun that has caused recent warming. Even if is a 'natural' cycle (again, studies show that when the northern hemisphere experiences a natural warming trend, the southern show a cooling trend), we should mitigate our carbon emissions as far as possible. The problem is that many people don't like being told by government what to do and that its all a conspiracy.
Man made global warming is a sham. Climate change is constant and natural. Governments around the world have latched onto climate change because they see it as a way of taxing us. Look at who benefits from taxes on fuel and so on and the idiotic concept of carbon credits. Al Gore is a carbon credit billionaire now. No wonder he pushes it. We are being screwed by the elite. Our children and a lot of nice, naive people are being brainwashed to believe in this shit.
what i would like to know is this: as a gardener. what is the problem with rising temps? temps have been warmer in the past, and are not fueled by an increase in CO2 but followed by an increase in CO2. living in NYS i look forward to being able to grow things that i was previously unable to grow. shouldn't gardeners WANT warmer temps?
@smkymcnugget420 I live in MA, same weather as you.. climate change = loss of the wide temperate zone across US and = chaotic and great extremes in cold and heat. THAT is bad for farming and gardening. We will get much more deluge H2O events (BAD for ag), colder spring nights (bad for spring starts), hotter midsummer highs (= dryer and more H2O use as we have less and less)
@PhotoNika that seems alot like the natural ebb and flow out our living planet, and far from a catastrophe, none of the things you mentioned sound "bad" for gardening or plants, just inconvenient for people who have poorly planned their gardens. and your observations seem alot more like inferences than they do verifiable science. the fact of the matter is temps are increasing across the entire SOLAR SYSTEM because of the 850,000 mile wide ball of flaming hydrogen about 90 million miles from us.
@PhotoNika I've been gardening for the past 5 years in upstate NY, I am a vegetarian & can account for nearly 75% of the food I consume through gardening. I've been researching global warming for a long time know, & have the critical thinking skills necessary to know that its complete B/S I know alot of people would like to think humanity is evil because we are destroying our beautiful mother earth, but in the instance of Man made climate change, i'm sorry that's just not the case.
@smkymcnugget420 I have exactly zero interest in "debating" climate change and science with you. As a scientist, I delve into the this topic as I do all others, with critical thinking skills and attention to detail.
@PhotoNika yeah I realize that. unfortunately all the climate change believers act just a pretentious as you to. just because u put all your faith into the theory doesn't make it right. and writing off individuals with an opposing views just underscores the fact that you do not use reason, attention to detail or critical thinking. because if you did any research other than newspapers, new articles and other faux science and went straight for the data you'd have a different view on the subject.
@smkymcnugget420 what happens if you are wrong? what happens if we are wrong with our addiction to oil... look at we are doing to the earth.... what is all this destruction for? what are we accomplishing?... I agree There is 2 sides to every theory, story, and moment in time. I believe when it comes to the earth, the earth should be first before greed, capitalism. I think it'll come down to the choice of direction we choose as mindless consumers. buy buy buy!!!.
thats the thing im not a support of that crap either. i feel we should conserve and recycle and buy local and all that stuff... but right now we have little choice. we are DEPENDENT on oil. their are NO alternatives. using more than 5% wind destabilizes the grid, solar need huge amounts of land & we destory entire ecosystems with hydro. we need oil to provide cheap power to people so we CAN innovate & find a solution. what if YOUR wrong & we tax our industires out of america for nothing
While I appreciate pm videos, they will be so much more useful and actively contribute to solutions if they go beyond talking heads into actually showing how to do what is merely theorized about in these interviews.
oceanirons 1 month ago
@oceanirons, I agree and we're trying to do more "showing" along with the "telling." For permaculture and related topics with more visuals on Peak Moment channel, see #68, "Bullock Brothers Homestead - A 25-Year Permaculture Project", #87 "How Much Food Can I Grow Around My House?", and #100 "Suburban Permaculture with Janet Barocco and Richard Heinberg". ~Janaia
peakmoment 4 weeks ago
It is interesting to see how 'people' are diverting the attention away from the real issue. I suggest everyone stops reading the discussion about global warming and google the work 'astroturfing' instead.
1EarthWays 5 months ago
@1EarthWays, corporate interests like Exxon/Mobil have paid for a lot of misinformation about climate change in the past couple of decades. And formulated a lot of astroturn "grass roots" groups claiming it ain't so. But the factual information from the planet says otherwise. Ozone hole over the arctic, melting ice sheets in Canada, hottest years in record -- aren't politicking. They're observable facts.
peakmoment 5 months ago
@ cresidue :
Suggestion:
Google, "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity" and have a read. Follow some links.
It's a dated warning, so what are we all waiting for?
There you'll notice many other issues beyond just global warming vis-a-vis fossil fuel, so I'd also advise that you refocus your attention away from this "triviality" and to some of those that, as you seem to suggest, need to change anyway.
Life is short, kiddo. Use your time wisely for the better good.
Glomerol 1 year ago
It is very difficult to have logical debates when people refuse to see the facts: Let's talk CO2, more CO2 was released when Mount St. Helens erupted than all the CO2 produced by every single automobile in the world since its invention. Anthropomorphic Global Warming is an invention of a few elites to funnel trillions into their own coffers, nothing more. Should we stop trying to live more in tune with the earth, of coarse not, but there’s sense & senselessness.
cresidue 1 year ago
@cresidue:
Get your facts straight and cross-check them too.
Example: "Global volcanic carbon dioxide emission estimates contain uncertainties and are variable, but there is virtually no doubt that volcanism adds far less carbon dioxide to the oceans and atmosphere than humans."
Glomerol 1 year ago
@Glomerol “There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
cresidue 1 year ago
@cresidue :
Which is why you need to get your facts straight and cross check them.
Glomerol 1 year ago
@Glomerol Oh shut up already you ignorant moron. I have no facts to check because they are 100% verified, just like your super low IQ.
cresidue 1 year ago
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Like the video, EXCEPT, temperatures are NOT rising & there is NO global warming!! 33,000+ scientists have contradicted Al "idiot" Gore & his handful of wacko pseudo-scientists & denounced "An Inconvenient Lie" fictional video. As for actual Climate Change, it's been happening for billions of years & will continue to happen. Now human disasters, like oil spills, will definitely harm all life, but you need to convey facts not myths!!
cresidue 1 year ago
@cresidue, report just out from NASA scientist James Hansen that last year was the hottest on record. Oil companies have poured massive amounts into a very skillful mis-information blitz against global climate change. Of course climate changes over time -- but the accelerated rate of CARBON in the atmosphere is coincident with our burning fossil fuels.
Reduced glacial ice, reduced snowpack here in the Sierra, reduced arctic ice -- verifiable facts, not myths.
peakmoment 1 year ago 6
@peakmoment Sadly, you have been duped by Liberal propaganda. Carbon Dioxide is not a “dangerous gas” it makes all life on earth possible! You should also Google "Antarctic Ice Growing, Not Shrinking" there are hundreds of reports that completely contradict what you believe. There are 2 sides to EVERY debate, that's how the elites stay in power. Do we turn right or left, I prefer a more sensible path of down the logical middle. :)
cresidue 1 year ago
@cresidue Those were not 33,000 scientists of meteorology or climatology that contradicted Gore. Look it up.
RiverMpls 1 year ago
@RiverMpls Why don't YOU "look it up"! 3,000+ were PhD Scientists & the other 30,000+/- were "experts" on or above the level your messiah Al Gore cherry picked for his Global Warming fable. It is truly amazing how ignorant people like you are!!
cresidue 1 year ago
@cresidue hahaha only 3,000 of them had a PhD. Gore gave the facts from real climate scientists. You parrot some stupid petition who some of among the 30,000 "scientists" are zooligists. Next time I see an elephant, I'll ask the trainer his thoughts on global warming. hahahaha 10,000 of the scientists of your golden petition are engineers! hahahaha hahhaha I'm really laughing here. Thanks for the laughs. Enjoy your "summer".
RiverMpls 1 year ago
@blueeggsitter It is important to study the high plains and understand climate, landform, water, soils, etc, and then mimic what you find. We can substitute high yielding plant cultivars that would do well based on the conditions that we observe in this particular landscape, that meet the climatic conditions for growth. We can also study the relationships that we find there and the natural succession of the plains, and then, plant accordingly.
PermacultureProject 1 year ago
@PermacultureProject I agree where do you live and have you any favorit plants that you have discovered. I live in zone 5
succulentserenity 1 year ago
Another great vid. I'm left wondering how permaculture can help those farming/living on the High Plains.. In perfect world the HP wouldn't have seen a plow, but that wasn't the reality and those living here do have their backs against the wall already. They may be too conservative for their own good, but they didn't create the events of the past 140 years or so that lead up to today's reality.
westkan 1 year ago
The high plains? Water catchment systems such as swales and ponds can be added to the landscape to slow water down. With good plant selection we increase overall biomass. An increase in biomass means holding even more water and an increase in organic waste material (leaves and sticks as humus) and a building up of the soil. Increase all these and you speed up plant growth further still. See Geoff Lawton’s video on YouTube – Greening the desert. -- Bill Wilson
MidwestPermaculture 1 year ago
@MidwestPermaculture The water catchment is in place now, but along with federal reservoirs to protect the Mississippi, that change the natural stream flow to the detriment to communities living down stream. IMO the High Plains shouldn't have been turned with the plow, and it's going to be hard to rectify that mistake without hardship to those who hadn't done a thing other than being born here. TNX for the response...
westkan 1 year ago
16 studies from 1998 to 2008 have concluded that the sun has shown a slight cooling trend, so it's not the sun that has caused recent warming. Even if is a 'natural' cycle (again, studies show that when the northern hemisphere experiences a natural warming trend, the southern show a cooling trend), we should mitigate our carbon emissions as far as possible. The problem is that many people don't like being told by government what to do and that its all a conspiracy.
ecraftsmen 1 year ago
Man made global warming is a sham. Climate change is constant and natural. Governments around the world have latched onto climate change because they see it as a way of taxing us. Look at who benefits from taxes on fuel and so on and the idiotic concept of carbon credits. Al Gore is a carbon credit billionaire now. No wonder he pushes it. We are being screwed by the elite. Our children and a lot of nice, naive people are being brainwashed to believe in this shit.
Pwecko 1 year ago
Great Video.
selbstversuchen 1 year ago
what i would like to know is this: as a gardener. what is the problem with rising temps? temps have been warmer in the past, and are not fueled by an increase in CO2 but followed by an increase in CO2. living in NYS i look forward to being able to grow things that i was previously unable to grow. shouldn't gardeners WANT warmer temps?
smkymcnugget420 1 year ago
@smkymcnugget420 I live in MA, same weather as you.. climate change = loss of the wide temperate zone across US and = chaotic and great extremes in cold and heat. THAT is bad for farming and gardening. We will get much more deluge H2O events (BAD for ag), colder spring nights (bad for spring starts), hotter midsummer highs (= dryer and more H2O use as we have less and less)
PhotoNika 1 year ago
@PhotoNika that seems alot like the natural ebb and flow out our living planet, and far from a catastrophe, none of the things you mentioned sound "bad" for gardening or plants, just inconvenient for people who have poorly planned their gardens. and your observations seem alot more like inferences than they do verifiable science. the fact of the matter is temps are increasing across the entire SOLAR SYSTEM because of the 850,000 mile wide ball of flaming hydrogen about 90 million miles from us.
smkymcnugget420 1 year ago
@smkymcnugget420 and you garden how much? and where exactly? How many years of experience do you have growing food?
PhotoNika 1 year ago
@PhotoNika I've been gardening for the past 5 years in upstate NY, I am a vegetarian & can account for nearly 75% of the food I consume through gardening. I've been researching global warming for a long time know, & have the critical thinking skills necessary to know that its complete B/S I know alot of people would like to think humanity is evil because we are destroying our beautiful mother earth, but in the instance of Man made climate change, i'm sorry that's just not the case.
smkymcnugget420 1 year ago
@smkymcnugget420 I have exactly zero interest in "debating" climate change and science with you. As a scientist, I delve into the this topic as I do all others, with critical thinking skills and attention to detail.
PhotoNika 1 year ago
@PhotoNika yeah I realize that. unfortunately all the climate change believers act just a pretentious as you to. just because u put all your faith into the theory doesn't make it right. and writing off individuals with an opposing views just underscores the fact that you do not use reason, attention to detail or critical thinking. because if you did any research other than newspapers, new articles and other faux science and went straight for the data you'd have a different view on the subject.
smkymcnugget420 1 year ago
@smkymcnugget420 what happens if you are wrong? what happens if we are wrong with our addiction to oil... look at we are doing to the earth.... what is all this destruction for? what are we accomplishing?... I agree There is 2 sides to every theory, story, and moment in time. I believe when it comes to the earth, the earth should be first before greed, capitalism. I think it'll come down to the choice of direction we choose as mindless consumers. buy buy buy!!!.
Offgridhippie 1 year ago
thats the thing im not a support of that crap either. i feel we should conserve and recycle and buy local and all that stuff... but right now we have little choice. we are DEPENDENT on oil. their are NO alternatives. using more than 5% wind destabilizes the grid, solar need huge amounts of land & we destory entire ecosystems with hydro. we need oil to provide cheap power to people so we CAN innovate & find a solution. what if YOUR wrong & we tax our industires out of america for nothing
smkymcnugget420 1 year ago
wonderful'
thank you
earthbowl 1 year ago
i took waynes class in DFW in summer of 2009, it was great. me and some friends from the class visited dayempur farm that summer.
Tidnull 1 year ago
nice discussion...
Kia kaha, Aroha..
kiwirobin 1 year ago
good points.
Uriel1816 1 year ago