Do you mean this, Europe map 220BC.PNG where there's a narrow strip on the south Mediterranean coast labeled Carthage? That stripe is insignificant compared to the whole of the Sahara Desert.
The 2004 paper was cited by 33 other papers, so if it was wrong it could adversely effect a lot of scientific work. They need to explain they were wrong, and hopefully explain why they were wrong. We generally assume the published scientist were ethical, intelligent and competent,so when they make a mistake, it's not unreasonable to suspect that other ethical, intelligent and competent scientists might make the same mistake; that's why disclosure is so important. One of my instructors, Chis Russel, told us something I'll always remember in a sophomore Organic Chemistry class, she said "Document everything in your lab-book, even your mistakes; often your mistakes are more important scientifically".
Sensational headlines sell newspaper, get TV viewers to stay up late to see the News, get research grants or inspire the general public to make direct contributions; besides there wern't too many lies told. What has happened is the truth was said in such a way that you heard something that wasn't said. For example saying that human activity has pushed an over-specialized sub-species that was dying out without regard to what we were doing to go extinct a decade sooner than it would have otherwise is as alarming as saying we are wiping out their habitat.
Actually it's not about agricultural production but total plant production, and the implication is that the planet's plants can't keep up with human CO2 production. An other study have reported a slightly less than 7% increase in Net production and almost half the increase occured in tropical rain-forrests, curiously the paper was co-author by Dr Running as well.
Well, "primary production increase" => google.com = about 134,000,000 results (0.27 seconds)
The results surprised Steven Running of the University of Montana and Ramakrishna Nemani of NASA, scientists involved in analyzing the NASA satellite data. They found that over a period of almost two decades, the Earth as a whole became more bountiful by a whopping 6.2%. About 25% of the Earth’s vegetated landmass — almost 110 million square kilometres — enjoyed significant increases and only 7% showed significant declines. When the satellite data zooms in, it finds that each square metre of land, on average, now produces almost 500 grams of greenery per year. Surprise: Earths’ Biosphere is Booming, Satellite Data Suggests CO2 the Cause
or if you want original sources
Recent climatic changes have enhanced plant growth in northern mid-latitudes and high latitudes. However, a comprehensive analysis of the impact of global climatic changes on vegetation productivity has not before been expressed in the context of variable limiting factors to plant growth. We present a global investigation of vegetation responses to climatic changes by analyzing 18 years (1982 to 1999) of both climatic data and satellite observations of vegetation activity. Our results indicate that global changes in climate have eased several critical climatic constraints to plant growth, such that net primary production increased 6% (3.4 petagrams of carbon over 18 years) globally. The largest increase was in tropical ecosystems. Amazon rain forests accounted for 42% of the global increase in net primary production, owing mainly to decreased cloud cover and the resulting increase in solar radiation. Climate-Driven Increases in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production from 1982 to 1999
Oh who wrote that paper? " Ramakrishna R. Nemani1,*,, Charles D. Keeling2, Hirofumi Hashimoto1,3, William M. Jolly1, Stephen C. Piper2 Compton J. Tucker4, Ranga B. Myneni5, Steven W. Running1 Yes, I suspect your BS meter is running true. There seems to be a discontinuity between what Dr. Running said in 2003 about primary production and what he's saying in 2012.
The Muslim world needs to examine their own society, and come to a resolution concerning their own behavior.
The Islamic philospher Kahlil Gibran in the book "The Prophet" said the same thing in different words, but human nature is human nature and it's much easier to jihad flesh and blood infadels than it is to jihad your internal demons.
I think you'll find that your saharan agricultural area was more properly called the Nile River valley. One of the reasons Egypt was a military super-power back then was because of the quality of the crops grown in the Nile river flood plain, which was due the the extreme fretility because of the anual flooding of the Nile
Ice expands when it freezes, when it melts in a pool of liquid water, the level of the water doesn't change; so the ice above the water line is irrelavent. Technically ice in saltwater actually reduce the water level slightly as it melts.
The Sahara is a desert because it's in the desert belt, the same latitude band is a desert all around the world, both north and south. This is caused by Hadley Cells, which are an integral part of the planet's heat pump. In the Equatorial band, Solar Equatorial band that is, warmed air rises, the wind increases the evaporation of sea water, the water vapor being lighter than air provides positive feedback increasing the upward circulation and lifting vast amounts of heat in the form of water vapor above the CO2 saturation point where it condenses and falls out as rain. The dry air moves pole-ward and descends over the horse-latitudes at about 30 degrees north and south, causing the desert band. This feedback does cause the desert band to expand a bit but causes tremendous amounts of cooling for the planet providing negative feedback to the heating.
Except that Antarctic sea-ice is about as much above average as Arctic sea-ice is below average, they tend to run counter-cycle to each other; net change is probably nill.
Those researchers are total wankers anyways, if your going to do a two year study, why in the world wouldn't you have populations that ate roundup-ready feed w/o roundup in it, regular feed w/ roundup as well as roundup-ready w/ roundup and regular feed W/O roundup?
To be fair why not allow fundamentalist Muslims to release their Jihad videos to Youtube translated into english for American audiences? Freespeech right?
I for one would like to see into the mindset of the fundamentalist jihadists, turn the lights on. if they're cockroaches they'll scatter.
As it is the only reason 95% of the protesters even knows ot exists is because some firebrand islamic clerics scream hate from thier pulpits; those people are usually more worried about their next meal than what's on some obscure youtube channel.
I've seen it, my neices were 10 times the film makers when they were in 8th grade, the subject matter was taking every vile prejudice about muslims and the religion and stringing them together. The acting makes cheesey pornos look like like Oscar material. Because Im retired military and have undergone special training to make me resistant to torture, I was able to watch the entire movie trailer, but it is not a feat for the faint of heart or those of delicate constitutions. If you take blood thinners you should especially avoid this trailer as it will make your eyes bleed. After considering all of these caveats, your still sure you want to watch the trailer, you might want to stare at goatsex for a while to build up our tollerance.
I went to youtube and watched the whole movie trailor, which is not a feat for the faint of heart. This movie if viewed in it's entirety not only easily displaces Battlefield Earth it also bumps up The Profit on my personal list of worst movies. Anyone taking blood thinners should avoid this movie and it's trailer because it will make your eyes bleed.
The problem with these studies is not all organics are the same, An Organic farmer that is in it for the long haul realises that organic farming is unsustainable without aggressive soil conservation and fertility enhancement technics, while the "smash and grab" organic farmer just wants the additional profits and uses as many industrial ag technics as he can get a way with. On the other hand the traditional farmers are using many more agressive soil conservation and fertility enhancement technics, than ever before. What I'm seeing in the real world around me is that farmers are much more frugal in fertilizer and insecticide application than ever before, low-till and no-till farming. Basicaly the average family farmers is farming more like the organic farmers, so to me it's not surprising that there is little difference between organic and traditional farmed produce.
Which is why every restuarnt has a sign saying "Employees must wash their hands before returning to work" in the restrooms, and as long as every clown taking a dump while eating there did as well before opening the door, it works.
They may be the same species, but they are not the same geneticaly, the coat colors are different and charecteristic of domesticated animals. They've been selectively bred to produce meat and large litters of piglets. The meat of even ferral domestic pig has a different taste and texture than wild boars and sows do. In Michigan you can hunt ferral domesticated hogs with any hunting license and durring any hunting season, not so with wild boar.
My understanding was all pork in the US was hard frozen which kills the parasites, between that and not feeding hogs uncooked garbage the problem is extremely rare. Also Brining and or smoking wipes out the parasites, so real man-food like Bacon, Ham, and BBQ are all OK too.
Neurocysticercosis “primarily exists in marginalized populations, Hispanic immigrants,” Wilkins adds.
Neurocysticercosis is caused by a dead calcified tapeworm in the brain, but most tapeworms aren't dead or in the brain; tapeworm infections in the US are uncommon, neurocysticercosis is quite rare.
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Do you mean this, Europe map 220BC.PNG where there's a narrow strip on the south Mediterranean coast labeled Carthage? That stripe is insignificant compared to the whole of the Sahara Desert.
The 2004 paper was cited by 33 other papers, so if it was wrong it could adversely effect a lot of scientific work. They need to explain they were wrong, and hopefully explain why they were wrong. We generally assume the published scientist were ethical, intelligent and competent,so when they make a mistake, it's not unreasonable to suspect that other ethical, intelligent and competent scientists might make the same mistake; that's why disclosure is so important. One of my instructors, Chis Russel, told us something I'll always remember in a sophomore Organic Chemistry class, she said "Document everything in your lab-book, even your mistakes; often your mistakes are more important scientifically".
Sensational headlines sell newspaper, get TV viewers to stay up late to see the News, get research grants or inspire the general public to make direct contributions; besides there wern't too many lies told. What has happened is the truth was said in such a way that you heard something that wasn't said. For example saying that human activity has pushed an over-specialized sub-species that was dying out without regard to what we were doing to go extinct a decade sooner than it would have otherwise is as alarming as saying we are wiping out their habitat.
Actually it's not about agricultural production but total plant production, and the implication is that the planet's plants can't keep up with human CO2 production. An other study have reported a slightly less than 7% increase in Net production and almost half the increase occured in tropical rain-forrests, curiously the paper was co-author by Dr Running as well.
Well, "primary production increase" => google.com = about 134,000,000 results (0.27 seconds)
or if you want original sources
Oh who wrote that paper? " Ramakrishna R. Nemani1,*,, Charles D. Keeling2, Hirofumi Hashimoto1,3, William M. Jolly1, Stephen C. Piper2 Compton J. Tucker4, Ranga B. Myneni5, Steven W. Running1
Yes, I suspect your BS meter is running true. There seems to be a discontinuity between what Dr. Running said in 2003 about primary production and what he's saying in 2012.
The Muslim world needs to examine their own society, and come to a resolution concerning their own behavior.
The Islamic philospher Kahlil Gibran in the book "The Prophet" said the same thing in different words, but human nature is human nature and it's much easier to jihad flesh and blood infadels than it is to jihad your internal demons.
I think you'll find that your saharan agricultural area was more properly called the Nile River valley. One of the reasons Egypt was a military super-power back then was because of the quality of the crops grown in the Nile river flood plain, which was due the the extreme fretility because of the anual flooding of the Nile
Ice expands when it freezes, when it melts in a pool of liquid water, the level of the water doesn't change; so the ice above the water line is irrelavent. Technically ice in saltwater actually reduce the water level slightly as it melts.
$2000.00 in fuel, that's not even round-off error in the price of shipped goods
The Sahara is a desert because it's in the desert belt, the same latitude band is a desert all around the world, both north and south. This is caused by Hadley Cells, which are an integral part of the planet's heat pump. In the Equatorial band, Solar Equatorial band that is, warmed air rises, the wind increases the evaporation of sea water, the water vapor being lighter than air provides positive feedback increasing the upward circulation and lifting vast amounts of heat in the form of water vapor above the CO2 saturation point where it condenses and falls out as rain. The dry air moves pole-ward and descends over the horse-latitudes at about 30 degrees north and south, causing the desert band. This feedback does cause the desert band to expand a bit but causes tremendous amounts of cooling for the planet providing negative feedback to the heating.
Except that Antarctic sea-ice is about as much above average as Arctic sea-ice is below average, they tend to run counter-cycle to each other; net change is probably nill.
Woosh, that joke sail over your head.
So, how much testing do they perform on their own product. I suppose they do not even know how their own "dogfood" tastes.
Are you kidding, the bitch killed and ate her own pups! How do you test for the software equivalent of zombie Apocalypse?
Those researchers are total wankers anyways, if your going to do a two year study, why in the world wouldn't you have populations that ate roundup-ready feed w/o roundup in it, regular feed w/ roundup as well as roundup-ready w/ roundup and regular feed W/O roundup?
To be fair why not allow fundamentalist Muslims to release their Jihad videos to Youtube translated into english for American audiences? Freespeech right?
I for one would like to see into the mindset of the fundamentalist jihadists, turn the lights on. if they're cockroaches they'll scatter.
As it is the only reason 95% of the protesters even knows ot exists is because some firebrand islamic clerics scream hate from thier pulpits; those people are usually more worried about their next meal than what's on some obscure youtube channel.
I've seen it, my neices were 10 times the film makers when they were in 8th grade, the subject matter was taking every vile prejudice about muslims and the religion and stringing them together. The acting makes cheesey pornos look like like Oscar material. Because Im retired military and have undergone special training to make me resistant to torture, I was able to watch the entire movie trailer, but it is not a feat for the faint of heart or those of delicate constitutions. If you take blood thinners you should especially avoid this trailer as it will make your eyes bleed. After considering all of these caveats, your still sure you want to watch the trailer, you might want to stare at goatsex for a while to build up our tollerance.
I went to youtube and watched the whole movie trailor, which is not a feat for the faint of heart. This movie if viewed in it's entirety not only easily displaces Battlefield Earth it also bumps up The Profit on my personal list of worst movies. Anyone taking blood thinners should avoid this movie and it's trailer because it will make your eyes bleed.
It would help if major religions would say "Go forth and multiply, check, done" too.
The problem with these studies is not all organics are the same, An Organic farmer that is in it for the long haul realises that organic farming is unsustainable without aggressive soil conservation and fertility enhancement technics, while the "smash and grab" organic farmer just wants the additional profits and uses as many industrial ag technics as he can get a way with. On the other hand the traditional farmers are using many more agressive soil conservation and fertility enhancement technics, than ever before. What I'm seeing in the real world around me is that farmers are much more frugal in fertilizer and insecticide application than ever before, low-till and no-till farming. Basicaly the average family farmers is farming more like the organic farmers, so to me it's not surprising that there is little difference between organic and traditional farmed produce.
Nothing beats the taste of Beef from a farmer that gets a little misty eyed when he sends his cattle off to slaughter.
Which is why every restuarnt has a sign saying "Employees must wash their hands before returning to work" in the restrooms, and as long as every clown taking a dump while eating there did as well before opening the door, it works.
They may be the same species, but they are not the same geneticaly, the coat colors are different and charecteristic of domesticated animals. They've been selectively bred to produce meat and large litters of piglets. The meat of even ferral domestic pig has a different taste and texture than wild boars and sows do. In Michigan you can hunt ferral domesticated hogs with any hunting license and durring any hunting season, not so with wild boar.
My understanding was all pork in the US was hard frozen which kills the parasites, between that and not feeding hogs uncooked garbage the problem is extremely rare. Also Brining and or smoking wipes out the parasites, so real man-food like Bacon, Ham, and BBQ are all OK too.
Neurocysticercosis “primarily exists in marginalized populations, Hispanic immigrants,” Wilkins adds.
Neurocysticercosis is caused by a dead calcified tapeworm in the brain, but most tapeworms aren't dead or in the brain; tapeworm infections in the US are uncommon, neurocysticercosis is quite rare.