It's Climate Change I tell'ya!! IT'S CLIMATE CHANGE!!
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Remind me again why they're perpetrating this hoax? Is it because scientists want to raise your taxes, or because scientists want to take away your freedumb and make y'all slaves?
$$$$$? Wealth distribution, & the perpetual skim off the top? 10% for the Big Guy type stuff? Bureaucratic reshuffling of other peoples money into other peoples pockets but first comes out the vig, etc…
That’s what I see as a hell of a motivator to perpetrate pretty much anything that government can stick their fingers into.
If you want a Grant, the outcome has to be X & not Y. If the outcome is Y, then no Grant and ostracized, now go do your research but remember that “X” = $$$ & “Y” = unemployment and poverty, etc…
So. . . if True Dope wanted it that way, the speed of light would be 110 km/hr?
I never knew Canadian scientists were so easily corrupted.
I never knew Canadian scientists were so easily corrupted.
What makes you think this is exclusively a Canadian thing? People (scientists included) gotta eat & pay the bills & so on too. Those that speak out against the grain had best be wealthy enough to be independent from needing grants, retired, etc…
Dr Tim Bell, Dr Patrick Moore, etc…if they had to survive on grants would probably be advocating for the global warming/cooling/changy thing, but they aren’t so they aren’t.
To be fair, they both started out in the highly plausible camp.
To be fair, they both started off needing funding I’d also assume…until they didn’t need outside funding grants, etc…
Buck the system and potentially lose funding and tenure and standing in your field, be it Climate Science or archeology or anthropology or so on or so forth, etc…
Yup, until they need something from you that is proprietary. Then they come with cash and chapstick.
So everybody everywhere (except you, of course) is a paid-off liar?
OK, NOW I understand why y'all do your own research!
Mostly by watching videos made by equally ignorant people.
Speaking of which, are they paid-off liars too? Or did they inherit money or something?
Thanks. I'm finally beginning to understand how apparently-sane adults can genuinely believe obvious, arrant horseshit is Da Troof!
Let's try something. Pick something ridiculous and see if it tied to climate. Weird shit like "climate change causes hair loss"...
Off to google we go.....
I haven’t figured out how to be, time and energy wise, as of this point.
When I start advocating for carbon taxation, well…that’ll be the clue.
Some are, some aren’t. Everyone’s got an opinion, etc…
But why would they make the videos if they weren't getting paid, just like the scientists wouldn't issue opinions as ordered if they weren't getting paid?
Some seek the truth. Some seek a paycheque, some can combine both, & others sacrifice one for the other if they’re able, or when they’re able.
Panama prepares to evacuate first island in face of rising sea levels
Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Matias Delacroix And Juan Zamorano
Published Jun 01, 2024 • 4 minute read
Indigenous Gunas wait outside their new homes in Nuevo Carti, Guna Yala Comarca, on the Caribbean coast in mainland Panama, on May 29, 2024.
Indigenous Gunas wait outside their new homes in Nuevo Carti, Guna Yala Comarca, on the Caribbean coast in mainland Panama, on May 29, 2024.
GARDI SUGDUB, Panama — On a tiny island off Panama’s Caribbean coast, about 300 families are packing their belongings in preparation for a dramatic change. Generations of Gunas who have grown up on Gardi Sugdub in a life dedicated to the sea and tourism will trade that next week for the mainland’s solid ground.
They go voluntarily — sort of.
The Gunas of Gardi Sugdub are the first of 63 communities along Panama’s Caribbean and Pacific coasts that government officials and scientists expect to be forced to relocate by rising sea levels in the coming decades.
On a recent day, the island’s Indigenous residents rowed or sputtered off with outboard motors to fish. Children, some in uniforms and others in the colourful local textiles called “molas,” chattered as they hustled through the warren of narrow dirt streets on their way to school.
“We’re a little sad, because we’re going to leave behind the homes we’ve known all our lives, the relationship with the sea, where we fish, where we bathe and where the tourists come, but the sea is sinking the island little by little,” said Nadin Morales, 24, who prepared to move with her mother, uncle and boyfriend.
An official with Panama’s ministry of housing said that some people have decided to stay on the island until it’s no longer safe, without revealing a specific number. Authorities won’t force them to leave, the official said on condition of anonymity to discuss the issue.
Gardi Sugdub is one of about 50 populated islands in the archipelago of the Guna Yala territory. It is only about 366 metres long and 137 metres wide. From above, it’s roughly a prickly oval surrounded by dozens of short docks where residents tie up their boats.
Every year, especially when the strong winds whip up the sea in November and December, water fills the streets and enters the homes. Climate change isn’t only leading to a rise in sea levels, but it’s also warming oceans and thereby powering stronger storms.
The Gunas have tried to reinforce the island’s edge with rocks, pilings and coral, but seawater keeps coming.
“Lately, I’ve seen that climate change has had a major impact,” Morales said. “Now the tide comes to a level it didn’t before, and the heat is unbearable.”
The Guna’s autonomous government decided two decades ago that they needed to think about leaving the island, but at that time it was because the island was getting too crowded. The effects of climate change accelerated that thinking, said Evelio Lopez, a 61-year-old teacher on the island.
He plans to move with relatives to the new site on the mainland that the government developed at a cost of $12 million. The concrete houses sit on a grid of paved streets carved out of the lush tropical jungle just over two kilometres from the port, where an eight-minute boat ride carries them to Gardi Sugdub.
Leaving the island is “a great challenge, because more than 200 years of our culture is from the sea, so leaving this island means a lot of things,” Lopez said. “Leaving the sea, the economic activities that we have there on the island, and now we’re going to be on solid ground, in the forest. We’re going to see what the result is in the long run.”
Steven Paton, director of the Smithsonian Institution’s physical monitoring program in Panama, said that the upcoming move “is a direct consequence of climate change through the increase in sea level.”
“The islands on average are only a half-metre above sea level, and as that level rises, sooner or later the Gunas are going to have to abandon all of the islands almost surely by the end of the century or earlier.”
“All of the world’s coasts are being affected by this at different speeds,” Paton said.
Residents of a small coastal community in Mexico moved inland last year after storms continued to take away their homes. Governments are being forced to take action, from the Italian lagoon city of Venice to the coastal communities of New Zealand.
A recent study by Panama’s Environmental Ministry’s Climate Change directorate, with support from universities in Panama and Spain, estimated that by 2050, Panama would lose about 2.01% of its coastal territory to increases in sea levels.
Panama estimates that it will cost about $1.2 billion to relocate the 38,000 or so inhabitants who will face rising sea levels in the short- and medium-term, said Ligia Castro, climate change director for the Environmental Ministry.
On Gardi Sugdub, women who make the elaborately embroidered molas worn by Guna women hang them outside their homes when finished, trying to catch the eye of visiting tourists.
The island and others along the coast have benefitted for years from year-round tourism.
Braucilio de la Ossa, the deputy secretary of Carti, the port facing Gardi Sugdub, said that he planned to move with his wife, daughter, sister-in-law and mother-in-law. Some of his wife’s relatives will stay on the island.
He said the biggest challenge for those moving would be the lifestyle change of moving from the sea inland even though the distance is relatively small.
“Now that they will be in the forest their way of living will be different,” he said.
— Juan Zamorano reported from Panama City.
torontosun.com
Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Matias Delacroix And Juan Zamorano
Published Jun 01, 2024 • 4 minute read
Indigenous Gunas wait outside their new homes in Nuevo Carti, Guna Yala Comarca, on the Caribbean coast in mainland Panama, on May 29, 2024.
Indigenous Gunas wait outside their new homes in Nuevo Carti, Guna Yala Comarca, on the Caribbean coast in mainland Panama, on May 29, 2024.
GARDI SUGDUB, Panama — On a tiny island off Panama’s Caribbean coast, about 300 families are packing their belongings in preparation for a dramatic change. Generations of Gunas who have grown up on Gardi Sugdub in a life dedicated to the sea and tourism will trade that next week for the mainland’s solid ground.
They go voluntarily — sort of.
The Gunas of Gardi Sugdub are the first of 63 communities along Panama’s Caribbean and Pacific coasts that government officials and scientists expect to be forced to relocate by rising sea levels in the coming decades.
On a recent day, the island’s Indigenous residents rowed or sputtered off with outboard motors to fish. Children, some in uniforms and others in the colourful local textiles called “molas,” chattered as they hustled through the warren of narrow dirt streets on their way to school.
“We’re a little sad, because we’re going to leave behind the homes we’ve known all our lives, the relationship with the sea, where we fish, where we bathe and where the tourists come, but the sea is sinking the island little by little,” said Nadin Morales, 24, who prepared to move with her mother, uncle and boyfriend.
An official with Panama’s ministry of housing said that some people have decided to stay on the island until it’s no longer safe, without revealing a specific number. Authorities won’t force them to leave, the official said on condition of anonymity to discuss the issue.
Gardi Sugdub is one of about 50 populated islands in the archipelago of the Guna Yala territory. It is only about 366 metres long and 137 metres wide. From above, it’s roughly a prickly oval surrounded by dozens of short docks where residents tie up their boats.
Every year, especially when the strong winds whip up the sea in November and December, water fills the streets and enters the homes. Climate change isn’t only leading to a rise in sea levels, but it’s also warming oceans and thereby powering stronger storms.
The Gunas have tried to reinforce the island’s edge with rocks, pilings and coral, but seawater keeps coming.
“Lately, I’ve seen that climate change has had a major impact,” Morales said. “Now the tide comes to a level it didn’t before, and the heat is unbearable.”
The Guna’s autonomous government decided two decades ago that they needed to think about leaving the island, but at that time it was because the island was getting too crowded. The effects of climate change accelerated that thinking, said Evelio Lopez, a 61-year-old teacher on the island.
He plans to move with relatives to the new site on the mainland that the government developed at a cost of $12 million. The concrete houses sit on a grid of paved streets carved out of the lush tropical jungle just over two kilometres from the port, where an eight-minute boat ride carries them to Gardi Sugdub.
Leaving the island is “a great challenge, because more than 200 years of our culture is from the sea, so leaving this island means a lot of things,” Lopez said. “Leaving the sea, the economic activities that we have there on the island, and now we’re going to be on solid ground, in the forest. We’re going to see what the result is in the long run.”
Steven Paton, director of the Smithsonian Institution’s physical monitoring program in Panama, said that the upcoming move “is a direct consequence of climate change through the increase in sea level.”
“The islands on average are only a half-metre above sea level, and as that level rises, sooner or later the Gunas are going to have to abandon all of the islands almost surely by the end of the century or earlier.”
“All of the world’s coasts are being affected by this at different speeds,” Paton said.
Residents of a small coastal community in Mexico moved inland last year after storms continued to take away their homes. Governments are being forced to take action, from the Italian lagoon city of Venice to the coastal communities of New Zealand.
A recent study by Panama’s Environmental Ministry’s Climate Change directorate, with support from universities in Panama and Spain, estimated that by 2050, Panama would lose about 2.01% of its coastal territory to increases in sea levels.
Panama estimates that it will cost about $1.2 billion to relocate the 38,000 or so inhabitants who will face rising sea levels in the short- and medium-term, said Ligia Castro, climate change director for the Environmental Ministry.
On Gardi Sugdub, women who make the elaborately embroidered molas worn by Guna women hang them outside their homes when finished, trying to catch the eye of visiting tourists.
The island and others along the coast have benefitted for years from year-round tourism.
Braucilio de la Ossa, the deputy secretary of Carti, the port facing Gardi Sugdub, said that he planned to move with his wife, daughter, sister-in-law and mother-in-law. Some of his wife’s relatives will stay on the island.
He said the biggest challenge for those moving would be the lifestyle change of moving from the sea inland even though the distance is relatively small.
“Now that they will be in the forest their way of living will be different,” he said.
— Juan Zamorano reported from Panama City.
Panama prepares to evacuate first island in face of rising sea levels
On a tiny island off Panama's Caribbean coast, about 300 families are packing their belongings in preparation for a dramatic change.
Scientists are on a quest for drought-resistant wheat, agriculture’s ’Holy Grail’
Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Amanda Stephenson
Published Jun 02, 2024 • 4 minute read
CALGARY — Plant biologist Marcus Samuel has been working for more than a decade to improve the climate resilience of crops.
At his research greenhouse at the University of Calgary, he uses cutting-edge gene editing techniques to produce hardier varieties of plants able to withstand temperature fluctuations, floods and frosts.
But while he has worked on canola, peas and other crops, perhaps the most elusive and exciting part of his work is the quest for drought-resistant wheat.
“It is definitely the Holy Grail. I think this has been one of the hardest things to crack,” Samuel said.
Samuel is just one of many scientists in Canada and around the world pursuing the development of a drought-resistant wheat strain.
It would be one of the biggest victories in agricultural research, if achieved.
Wheat is the most widely grown cereal grain, occupying 17 per cent of the total cultivated land in the world, according to the International Development Research Centre, a federal Crown corporation. It is a staple food for 35 per cent of the world’s population, and provides more calories and protein in the world’s diet than any other crop.
Yet wheat is a “thirstier” plant than other staple crops like maize, rice and soy, making it more vulnerable to water shortages. The Washington, D.C.-based World Resources Institute estimates that by 2040, nearly three-quarters of global wheat production will be under threat due to drought and climate change-induced water supply stress.
Santosh Kumar, a wheat breeder working on drought resistance for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Brandon, Man., said he sometimes feels like he is racing against time.
“When our world population is projected to be doubled by 2050, we need to feed people,” Kumar said.
“If we don’t grow enough wheat, there will be food shortages.”
While no wheat is ever going to survive in zero-water conditions, scientists have found that wheat plants with certain traits — such as longer, deeper roots — have a better chance of surviving in low-water conditions.
It’s possible, using traditional plant breeding methods, to isolate plants with these desirable traits and cross them with other selected plants to create new, more drought-resistant varieties.
Gains have been made — the wheat Canadian farmers plant today is tougher and hardier than the wheat of 100 years ago. But the process remains painstakingly slow, requiring years of field trials.
And truly drought-tolerant wheat remains elusive, even as the need for it becomes more urgentdue to climate change. Canada, for example, saw its total wheat production decline almost 40 per cent year-over-year in 2021 due to extreme heat and drought on the prairies.
Drought walloped Canadian wheat production again last year, when farmers saw yields decline 12 per cent from 2022 levels, according to Statistics Canada.
One reason why science has yet to crack the problem is the sheer complexity of the wheat plant itself. The wheat genome is huge, containing five times more DNA than the human genome. Hunting for better wheat traits is infinitely more difficult than working with a crop that has a simpler genetic profile.
“It’s like doing a puzzle of 50 pieces versus 10,000 pieces,” Kumar said.
International scientists finally fully mapped the wheat genome in 2018, a breakthrough that has led to recent advancements using genetic research. The most dramatic of these was a 2020 announcement that Argentinian scientists had developed the first genetically engineered wheat, which incorporates a drought-resistant gene from the sunflower plant.
The Argentinian wheat has not been approved for growing or eating in Canada, and many markets around the world remain hostile to genetically engineered crops. But gene editing is less controversial than full-scale genetic modification, and it’s in this realm where Canadian scientists — such as the U of C’s Samuel — are making strides.
Unlike full-scale genetic modification, gene editing does not involve splicing genetic material from different species together. Instead, it’s a precision method that allows scientists to make small, targeted changes to DNA sequences.
In 2021, the Canadian government relaxed its rules around gene-edited crops, saying seeds that have been produced using the technology are safe and do not require special assessments by Health Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
Ellen Sparry, president of the industry group Seeds Canada, said that decision was a milestone that should speed up the quest for drought-resistant wheat.
But she said a promising strain discovered in a research lab tomorrow would still require several years of testing and regulatory work before it could end up in farmers’ hands.
She added that’s why it’s vital that scientists receive the public and private funding they need to work as quickly as possible, so that agriculture’s Holy Grail can be discovered before the climate crisis takes a heavier toll.
“It’s not a question of ‘Can we do it?’ It’s a question of how fast we can do it in order to face the challenges we’re facing,” Sparry said.
torontosun.com
Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Amanda Stephenson
Published Jun 02, 2024 • 4 minute read
CALGARY — Plant biologist Marcus Samuel has been working for more than a decade to improve the climate resilience of crops.
At his research greenhouse at the University of Calgary, he uses cutting-edge gene editing techniques to produce hardier varieties of plants able to withstand temperature fluctuations, floods and frosts.
But while he has worked on canola, peas and other crops, perhaps the most elusive and exciting part of his work is the quest for drought-resistant wheat.
“It is definitely the Holy Grail. I think this has been one of the hardest things to crack,” Samuel said.
Samuel is just one of many scientists in Canada and around the world pursuing the development of a drought-resistant wheat strain.
It would be one of the biggest victories in agricultural research, if achieved.
Wheat is the most widely grown cereal grain, occupying 17 per cent of the total cultivated land in the world, according to the International Development Research Centre, a federal Crown corporation. It is a staple food for 35 per cent of the world’s population, and provides more calories and protein in the world’s diet than any other crop.
Yet wheat is a “thirstier” plant than other staple crops like maize, rice and soy, making it more vulnerable to water shortages. The Washington, D.C.-based World Resources Institute estimates that by 2040, nearly three-quarters of global wheat production will be under threat due to drought and climate change-induced water supply stress.
Santosh Kumar, a wheat breeder working on drought resistance for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Brandon, Man., said he sometimes feels like he is racing against time.
“When our world population is projected to be doubled by 2050, we need to feed people,” Kumar said.
“If we don’t grow enough wheat, there will be food shortages.”
While no wheat is ever going to survive in zero-water conditions, scientists have found that wheat plants with certain traits — such as longer, deeper roots — have a better chance of surviving in low-water conditions.
It’s possible, using traditional plant breeding methods, to isolate plants with these desirable traits and cross them with other selected plants to create new, more drought-resistant varieties.
Gains have been made — the wheat Canadian farmers plant today is tougher and hardier than the wheat of 100 years ago. But the process remains painstakingly slow, requiring years of field trials.
And truly drought-tolerant wheat remains elusive, even as the need for it becomes more urgentdue to climate change. Canada, for example, saw its total wheat production decline almost 40 per cent year-over-year in 2021 due to extreme heat and drought on the prairies.
Drought walloped Canadian wheat production again last year, when farmers saw yields decline 12 per cent from 2022 levels, according to Statistics Canada.
One reason why science has yet to crack the problem is the sheer complexity of the wheat plant itself. The wheat genome is huge, containing five times more DNA than the human genome. Hunting for better wheat traits is infinitely more difficult than working with a crop that has a simpler genetic profile.
“It’s like doing a puzzle of 50 pieces versus 10,000 pieces,” Kumar said.
International scientists finally fully mapped the wheat genome in 2018, a breakthrough that has led to recent advancements using genetic research. The most dramatic of these was a 2020 announcement that Argentinian scientists had developed the first genetically engineered wheat, which incorporates a drought-resistant gene from the sunflower plant.
The Argentinian wheat has not been approved for growing or eating in Canada, and many markets around the world remain hostile to genetically engineered crops. But gene editing is less controversial than full-scale genetic modification, and it’s in this realm where Canadian scientists — such as the U of C’s Samuel — are making strides.
Unlike full-scale genetic modification, gene editing does not involve splicing genetic material from different species together. Instead, it’s a precision method that allows scientists to make small, targeted changes to DNA sequences.
In 2021, the Canadian government relaxed its rules around gene-edited crops, saying seeds that have been produced using the technology are safe and do not require special assessments by Health Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
Ellen Sparry, president of the industry group Seeds Canada, said that decision was a milestone that should speed up the quest for drought-resistant wheat.
But she said a promising strain discovered in a research lab tomorrow would still require several years of testing and regulatory work before it could end up in farmers’ hands.
She added that’s why it’s vital that scientists receive the public and private funding they need to work as quickly as possible, so that agriculture’s Holy Grail can be discovered before the climate crisis takes a heavier toll.
“It’s not a question of ‘Can we do it?’ It’s a question of how fast we can do it in order to face the challenges we’re facing,” Sparry said.
Scientists are on a quest for drought-resistant wheat, agriculture’s ’Holy Grail’
"When our world population is projected to be doubled by 2050, we need to feed people," Kumar said.