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Why So Many People Think Ellen DeGeneres Is A Bad Person
There's been a lot of talk recently about Ellen DeGeneres being less than nice as a person. Some people have even gone so far as to call her a bad person. Their argument has some good points.
May 29, 2020 | 10:00 p.m. CDT
Ellen's Mean Games
The Ellen DeGeneres Show is a wildly popular daytime talk show, in large part due to DeGeneres' zany antics. There are those, however, who don't view her pranks and jokes on the show as harmless fun. The comedian's habit of frightening people for a laugh and forcing audience members into embarrassing or uncomfortable situations as a joke doesn't sit well with these people. They believe that there's something mean about scaring people, even if it was an attempt at humor.
There was one segment on the show that caused concern for many. A few years back, Ellen DeGeneres featured a hidden camera segment on her show. The set up was, there was a table full of free swag for The Ellen DeGeneres Show, but there were also hidden cameras to make sure the audience members only took one each. When one audience member took more than her fair share, DeGeneres shamed her and made her sit in "Ellen Jail," a small jail cell that had been constructed for the set. DeGeneres' detractors claim this is evidence of the talk show host's mean nature.
"Clashes" With Celebrities
DeGeneres has also had some uncomfortable moments with her celebrity guests. Taylor Swift was a guest on DeGeneres' talk show in 2012. Before that, she'd made multiple appearances every year since 2008, and had even sang a song about the experiences she'd had, but after this appearance didn't return to the show until 2014. During the 2012 interview, DeGeneres poked fun at Swift about the pop star's multiple boyfriends over the years. Then she suggested they play a game where every time a guy Swift had dated in the past showed up on screen, they'd ring a bell.
Swift said several times that she didn't want to play the game and even told DeGeneres multiple times to "Stop it," while appearing to be on the verge of tears. Ellen DeGeneres laughed at this, but there are those who didn't take this as a laughing matter. It's unclear if Swift was joking with DeGeneres or sincerely upset about the jokes made by the talk show host, but there are people who find it unfunny and cruel.
The Mariah Carey Incident
Some people also claim that DeGeneres has a problem with wanting to out pregnant celebrities on her show. In 2008, the talk show host welcomed Mariah Carey onto her show and since the pop diva had recently married her now ex-husband Nick Cannon, the hot rumor at the time was that Carey was pregnant. After straight up asking Carey if she was expecting, DeGeneres employed a crafty trick to get Carey to admit that she was pregnant. She offered Carey a glass of champagne, which the songstress refused to even sip.
In 2010, when Carey and her then-husband Cannon announced the news that they were expecting, they also revealed that they'd suffered a miscarriage. The rumors of a pregnancy turned out to be true, but Carey had a miscarriage and lost the baby. She listed media nosiness as a reason why she was so hesitant to share too many details about this current pregnancy.
Her detractors took this as proof that DeGeneres' pushy behavior was part of the reason Carey's first pregnancy was such a traumatic, tragic experience. Despite those claims, Carey did return to The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2010, where DeGeneres prepared a similar "trap" for her to celebrate the announcement of her pregnancy.
Viral Rumors And Staff Complaints
Then there was the now infamous viral thread that made the rounds on Twitter that called for people to share true stories about mean things DeGeneres has done. While some of the stories were obviously fabricated, and many others were the sort that could never be verified, several accounts were from people using their real names and faces. Usually when people lie, they try not to expose their identity. Though it's almost a given that there were more false stories than true ones, there's a chance that some of the less than flattering stories about DeGeneres are true.
Many of the stories in the Twitter thread centered on how DeGeneres treated her staff. Though those rumors aren't worth repeating since there's no proof attached to them to verify that they're the real deal, there have been some recent developments that haters of Ellen DeGeneres use to prove her cold, calculating nature. After the coronavirus pandemic shut down production of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, much of the crew found themselves taking pay cuts.
Even more startling for these union workers, they discovered that DeGeneres had resumed filming her daytime talk show using a non-union, outside crew. The workers felt betrayed by the lack of clear communication surrounding their pay as well as the feeling that they were being replaced.
Hanging With George W. Bush
Of course, there are also those who take offense at DeGeneres over her politics. Though the talk show host doesn't publicly discuss her political leanings often, it's been surmised that she is liberal. While some people dislike DeGeneres for her left-wing politics, others don't like her because she still hangs out with right-wing figures, like former president George W. Bush.
After photos emerged of DeGeneres and Bush sitting together at a Dallas Cowboys football game, many people thought she'd betrayed her politics by associating with the controversial political figure. DeGeneres had a heartfelt monologue on her show defending the friendship she shared with the former Republican president.
While it's true that DeGeneres has had some awkward moments with both guests and audience members, it's important to remember that it's all in the name of entertainment and fun, for the most part. DeGeneres probably isn't playing jokes on her audience and guests, or asking tough questions, out of spite or malice. She's an entertainer and this is what entertainers do.
Though it's definitely possible that some of the rude encounters people claimed to have via that Twitter thread are true, so are countless other stories about DeGeneres' warmth and kindness. Is Ellen DeGeneres the nicest person in the world, or even in the entertainment industry? Probably not. But she's also probably not the meanest woman in Hollywood, or whatever ridiculous title people try to push on her. A fair critique is a fair critique, but it seems like some people just want to just want to sow division and ill-will.
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2017-2018 Transformative Experience
Racism, White Privilege, and Thomas Merton on Transformative Spirituality and Justice
Daniel P. Horan, Catholic Theological Union
Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology, Catholic Theological Union
Father Horan is a Franciscan friar of Holy Name Province (NY), assistant professor of systematic theology at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, and the author of several books including the award-winning The Franciscan Heart of Thomas Merton: A New Look at the Spiritual Influence on his Life, Thought, and Writing (2014). He is the author of more than 120 popular and scholarly articles and is a frequent lecturer and retreat director around the United States, Canada, and Europe.
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Daniel Horan explores the work of Trappist monk and mystic Thomas Merton who is best known for his writings on the spiritual life. But as has been well documented, Merton's own experience of ongoing conversion led to a transformative experience that is oftentimes called his "turning to the world" beyond that of the interior life of prayer in the late 1950s and continuing until his death in 1968. While Merton's writing and correspondence during this period of his life on themes related to non-violence and war, interreligious dialogue and ecumenism have garnered scholarly interest in recent decades, less attention has been paid to the monk's writings on structural racism and white supremacy, particularly as these realities are related to one's spirituality and life of faith. This lecture explores the distinctive contributions Merton makes to Christian spirituality from the perspective of his writings on structural racism and white supremacy in the United States.
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Q: Is there a way to disable IdleState? I am setting up a DotNetty server. My first handler is an IdleStateHandler .
Is there any way to disable this handler whan data is recieved, and then enable it after WriteAndFlushAsync?
public class TimeoutHandler :IdleStateHandler
{
    private bool enable = true;

    protected override void ChannelIdle(IChannelHandlerContext context, IdleStateEvent stateEvent)
    {
         base.ChannelIdle(context, stateEvent);
    }

    public override void ChannelRead(IChannelHandlerContext context, object message)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(IdleState.ReaderIdle);

        NewIdleStateEvent(IdleState.ReaderIdle, false);

        base.ChannelRead(context, message);
    }

    public override Task WriteAsync(IChannelHandlerContext context, object message)
    {
        return context.WriteAndFlushAsync(message as IByteBuffer);
    }

    public TimeoutHandler(int readerIdleTimeSeconds, int writerIdleTimeSeconds, int allIdleTimeSeconds) : base(readerIdleTimeSeconds, writerIdleTimeSeconds, allIdleTimeSeconds)
    {

    }

    public TimeoutHandler(TimeSpan readerIdleTime, TimeSpan writerIdleTime, TimeSpan allIdleTime) : base(readerIdleTime, writerIdleTime, allIdleTime)
    {
    }

    public TimeoutHandler(bool observeOutput, TimeSpan readerIdleTime, TimeSpan writerIdleTime, TimeSpan allIdleTime) : base(observeOutput, readerIdleTime, writerIdleTime, allIdleTime)
    {
    }
}

A: The handler will do that for you. If you're inheriting from IdleStateHandler all you really need to do is implement one or more of its constructors and override ChannelIdle. Here is a simple example which will close the connection after a specified period of inactivity; it will automatically reset itself when there is activity:
public class TimeoutHandler : IdleStateHandler
{
    ///
    /// Initializes a new instance firing <see cref="T:DotNetty.Handlers.Timeout.IdleStateEvent" />s.
    ///
    /// <param name="readerIdleTimeSeconds">
    ///     an <see cref="T:DotNetty.Handlers.Timeout.IdleStateEvent" /> whose state is <see cref="F:DotNetty.Handlers.Timeout.IdleState.ReaderIdle" />
    ///     will be triggered when no read was performed for the specified
    ///     period of time.  Specify 0 to disable.
    /// </param>
    /// <param name="writerIdleTimeSeconds">
    ///     an <see cref="T:DotNetty.Handlers.Timeout.IdleStateEvent" /> whose state is <see cref="F:DotNetty.Handlers.Timeout.IdleState.WriterIdle" />
    ///     will be triggered when no write was performed for the specified
    ///     period of time.  Specify 0 to disable.
    /// </param>
    /// <param name="allIdleTimeSeconds">
    ///     an <see cref="T:DotNetty.Handlers.Timeout.IdleStateEvent" /> whose state is <see cref="F:DotNetty.Handlers.Timeout.IdleState.AllIdle" />
    ///     will be triggered when neither read nor write was performed for
    ///     the specified period of time.  Specify 0 to disable.
    /// </param>
    public TimeoutHandler(int readerIdleTimeSeconds, int writerIdleTimeSeconds, int allIdleTimeSeconds) : base(readerIdleTimeSeconds, writerIdleTimeSeconds, allIdleTimeSeconds)
    {
    }

    protected override void ChannelIdle(IChannelHandlerContext context, IdleStateEvent stateEvent)
    {
        context.CloseAsync();
    }
}

To add it to the pipeline with an inactivity period of 60 seconds (for any type of inactivity):
pipeline.AddLast(name: "idle-handler", new
   TimeoutHandler(readerIdleTimeSeconds: 60, writerIdleTimeSeconds: 60, allIdleTimeSeconds: 60));

It is worth looking at the source code for DotNetty's IdleStateHandler (given the lack of documentation). You will see for example that in WriteAsync upon completion of the write task it resets the lastWriteTime.

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I've written before about how the far left is home to those whose god is government. It is the agency that brings hope or dispels it; the institution through which deliverance is achieved or denied. It brings ultimate power, and power is everything. To lose control of it then, is nothing short of apocalyptic. It demands riots, protests, weeping, gnashing of teeth, and a vocal, unrelenting anger. This is precisely what the country has seen of the left since 2016.


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TORONTO – Oil prices that reached a five-year low on Friday are starting to take a bite out of profits at TD Bank (TSX:TD) and raising concerns for the rest of the country's top lenders.
Canada's biggest banks earn up to 20 per cent of their revenues through providing investment and corporate banking services, with oil and gas companies an important part of that client base.
But with oil prices slipping — they have tumbled roughly 35 per cent to under $70 a barrel from their mid-summer highs due to a strong U.S. dollar, low demand and a glut of global supply — TD Bank says it will have to look beyond the oilpatch to make up its investment banking revenue.
"With the current activity going on in oil pricing, it certainly is impacting activity levels in the business," Bob Dorrance, the head of TD's wholesale banking division, told investors during a conference call earlier this week after the bank reported its fourth quarter results.
Scotiabank was the last of Canada's five big banks to report its quarterly earnings this week, wrapping up a series of conference calls that were peppered with talk about falling oil prices.
The energy sector, a major weight on the Toronto Stock Exchange, has taken a beating on the markets and taken other stocks, including those with indirect exposure to companies that produce crude, down with it.
While all of the country's top lenders reported substantial profits during the quarter, Canaccord Genuity analyst Gabriel Deschaine noted that lacklustre performance on the stock markets caused many of the banks to report weaker than expected revenues from their brokerage businesses.
Scotia Capital analyst Sumit Malhotra says roughly 30 per cent of the underwriting fees — fees from administering new issues on the stock markets — earned by Canada's six top banks this year came from the energy sector.
A drop in commodity prices could make resource companies less likely to make a public offering on the market, said Malhotra, pointing to Teine Energy as an example. The Canadian oil and gas producer had been planning an initial public offering but a Bloomberg News report in October said the company delayed the debut due to the decline in oil prices.
"While we do not want to be too alarmist in this regard, it should be clear that the capital markets operations of the banks have played a key role in driving revenue and earnings growth for the Canadian banking sector in 2014, and any sustained period of weakness in the energy sector would be detrimental to activity levels going forward," Malhotra wrote in a note to clients.
The plummeting oil prices have also caused some concerns about whether oilpatch companies will default on their loans and create financial burdens for the banks.
The big banks say they are regularly performing stress tests on their loan portfolios to see how they will fare in a continued low oil price environment. So far they say there is no cause for concern, even if oil drops down to $60 a barrel and stays that way for up to two years.
"With oil prices, it's always about how long it goes on for," RBC's chief risk officer Mark Hughes told investors during the bank's fourth quarter conference call on Wednesday.
Nonetheless, chief risk officers at all of the big banks say they are keeping tabs on the situation.
"If oil prices remain depressed, there will be some strain on some of these loans," BMO's chief risk officer Surjit Rajpal told investors during a conference call about the bank's fourth quarter results Tuesday.
Malhotra notes that oil and gas related loans make up only about six per cent of the banks' combined business loan portfolios, and only two per cent of their entire combined loan book.
"Though an extended period of weakness in energy prices would clearly impact credit quality trends, in our view the size of the portfolio is not large enough to materially weigh on either credit or growth trends," Malhotra said.
However, there is another way that slumping oil prices could reduce the quality of the banks' loan books.
But if plunging prices leave workers unemployed, that may leave them unable to make their mortgage payments, said Werner. That, in turn, would hurt the banks.


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Q: Merge objects to one array after find I have a function wherein I find specific date with array of dates in a calendar. But I still need it to be inside an array. How can I merge them? Here's the scenario
This is the data I get after submitting a form. This is after consoling employeeLeaves in my code below.

const getEmployeeLeave = value => {
let employeeLeaves = [...isEmployeeLeave];

const calendarDates = value.toString();
const formatCalendarDates = moment(calendarDates).format('YYYY-MM-DD');

console.log(employeeLeaves);

return (
  employeeLeaves.find(item => item.startDate == formatCalendarDates) || []
);

};
After that code is executed, I get the return from another function
 const dateCellRender = value => {
   let employeeListLeave = getEmployeeLeave(value);
 };

I got 2 objects returned but not in array. How can I merge them into one array so I can map them and render it like listing inside the calendar.

It should be like this in the mockup

A: Array.prototype.find will return the first item in the array that matches your test. If you need to find multiple matches, you should rather use Array.prototype.filter. That will return an array of all item that matches your test. cf. here for more details on the filter method


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Stephon Marbury Statue Unveiled in China, Dennis Rodman on Hand to Make Dedication (Photos)
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Stephon Marbury never seemed destined for much more than mockery stateside, but his fortunes have changed since heading overseas.
Marbury has been a star in China, where he led the Beijing Ducks to the Chinese Basketball Association title in March.
In honor of Marbury's role in the championship, the three-time all-star in the Chinese league has been given a bronze statue in his likeness.
The work was unveiled yesterday, and Marbury took to Twitter to show photos of the event and thank fans and God.
Dennis Rodman was also on hand for the dedication of the statue.
Check out photos from the event below.
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Gênero e Número (GN) and Reporters without Borders (RSF) launch unprecedented research that reveals the perception of women journalists and LGBT+ journalists about the effects of disinformation and online violence in their professional practice and personal life. The data, available in an online report, show that these phenomena contributed to the expansion of hostility and mistrust against the press, operating directly and indirectly as mechanisms of censorship and silencing.
For 93% of women journalists, disinformation is a very serious phenomenon, and 55% believe that disinformation has a daily impact on their professional routines. 86% of respondents also believe that online violence against the press is an effect directly related to disinformation. From these data, which are part of the research "The impact of disinformation and political violence on the internet against women journalists, communicators and LGBT+", launched Tuesday April 26, it is obviously GN and RSF mission to focus on this issue. It was urgent to investigate how misinformation and violence against press professionals in Brazil have had an impact on daily work.
8 out of 10 journalists said they had changed their behavior on social networks in recent years to protect themselves from attacks, more than 50% said that the proliferation of attacks on the networks against the press had impacted their professional routine, and 15% reported having developed some type of mental health problem as a result of the attacks suffered. A quarter of journalists who have been targets by internet violence say they had to close their social media accounts, even temporarily, to protect themselves. It is more than a warning: it is a proof that journalists have been frequently attacked, threatened and disqualified. In person and in digital environments.
The survey, carried out through an online questionnaire between August 9 and September 6, 2021, gathers data on the population of journalists from all regions of Brazil, more specifically the group that has some digital equipment with internet access. The data collection had 237 participants and was structured around three axes : Disinformation, Online Violence, and Protection and Platforms.
"The impact of disinformation and online violence on the work of journalists in Brazil is brutal. We have seen this at Gênero e Número when following the political and communication context, especially what happens in an online environment", evaluates Giulliana Bianconi, co-director of Gênero e Número.
"The data we have structured and analyzed show something important: women and LGBT+ journalists have changed habits and ways of doing their work in an attempt to reduce exposure. The perception of insecurity is high, and for most respondents, the Bolsonaro government has intensified the phenomenon of disinformation in Brazil, affecting the work routine, health and personal life of journalists", analyzes the data director of GN and responsible for research methodology, Natalia Leão.
Half of the journalists who have responded to the survey said they had already suffered some type of violence due to the exercise of their profession, and 8 out of 10 said they had already witnessed a situation of this sort with some other colleague. For two-thirds of those who witnessed violence against colleagues or acquaintances, there is a perception that a first episode of violence results in further attacks.
Hostile words, attacks on work : institutionalization of violence
Among the most common types of violence, content with swearing or hostile words appears in first place (35%), followed by attacks on work (34%) and disqualification of the work performed (33%). The third most frequent group of violations are misogynistic attacks or attacks with a sexual connotation (19%), in which the aggression is directly at the female journalist, with the aim of intimidating, disqualifying and damaging her reputation. Threats to professional and personal reputation, physical integrity and misuse of images or photos also appear as recurring crimes against journalists, in smaller numbers. Other acts of aggression include doxxing, spoofing or attacks due to gender identity or sexual orientation, racism, and threats to family members.
Politicians, including the President of the Republic, ministers, governors, mayors, deputies, senators and councilors, represent 8% of cases of aggression reported by journalists who are victims of online violence in the survey. Although it seems small, this percentage reflects studies that point to a scenario of institutionalization of violence against journalists in Brazil, in which hostility against the press is perpetrated from the top of the federal executive power and is reproduced by society.
In general, the effects of online violence on professional routine materialize in other forms of violations, impacting the right to express themselves and develop their professional skills. 14% of journalists who reported having suffered some type of attack started to avoid producing content on certain subjects, and 7% reported that they had stopped covering a topic or editorial temporarily.
Another type of impact observed is the invisibility of the reporter's identity itself. In order to protect themselves, 6% of journalists exposed to online violence admitted to avoidi giving credit or signing content with their own name. 8% of journalists began to be afraid or weary to turn to some sources of information, and 3% reported that sources refused to grant interviews. In these cases, there is a double restriction on the work of the press as a way to avoid consequences of the attacks suffered: on the one hand, journalists do not contact thier sources to protect themselves - which may also mean they stop asking relevant questions for society to avoid being attacked again - , on the other hand, in order not to be the target of attacks or retaliation against journalists, sources stop providing information to the press.
Among people who reported experiencing online violence, 45% recognized the impacts of it on their personal lives. Most reported two or more effects on their routine outside of work. Almost a quarter (24%) perceived being more insecure or anxious since the episode of violence experienced. This type of impact is directly linked to the individual's emotional well-being and also their right to freedom of expression.
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American football players are getting bigger every year. Never was this more painfully obvious than on New Year's Day when Jadeveon Clowney, defensive end for the University of South Carolina, brutally tackled a running back from the University of Michigan during the Outback Bowl, causing a fumble and changing the momentum of the game.
Like many, I googled Clowney to find that he is 6'6" tall and 256 pounds - at 19 years old. I just don't remember beasts like him existing when I was that age.
A recent study from the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research proves some truth in my suspicion. Researchers studied body measurements from college and professional football players over the last seventy years. They examined height, weight, and body composition, and grouped the results by position played on the field.
The conclusion - American football players are much heavier than seventy years ago, and they're getting heavier every year. Both at the college and professional levels, all players show a trend towards increasing size. Lineman are growing most quickly and skill positions are growing most slowly, but they're all growing. In fact, the average lineman from 2011 outweighs his counterpart from 1942 by over forty pounds.
You might be wondering if football programs are simply recruiting taller players. After all, taller players generally weigh more than shorter ones. Nope. Players are generally about the same height as seventy years ago.
What about body composition? Well, skill positions are getting slightly leaner and everybody else is getting fatter - especially linemen. Modern linemen average about 18% body fat. The leanest players on the field are skill positions at about 9% body fat. In general, almost every player on the field today is carrying about 2-3% more body fat than his 1942 counterpart.
What could be the reasons behind this significant change? The widespread adoption of strength and conditioning programs is probably the largest factor. The National Strength and Conditioning Association was founded in 1978. This marked the widespread beginning of the professional strength and conditioning coach. Now every serious football program in America employs a strength and conditioning coach. Training philosophy has also changed. In the 1940s most football training was skill specific. Very little time was devoted to general strength training. Off-season training periods were also shorter.
One thing is certain: all of these factors are producing bigger, stronger, meaner football players than ever before. The athleticism we see from these men is astounding. So say a little prayer for every 19 year-old quarterback who has to start a play knowing that 6'6" 256 lb Jadeveon Clowney is hunting him like the Predator in a southeast Asian jungle.
1. Anthony R. Anzell, et al. Changes in Height, Body Weight, and Body Composition in American Football Players from 1942 to 2011. Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research.27(2):277-284, February 2013. doi: 10.1519/JSC.0b013e31827f4c08
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Среднегодовой расход воды — 1,2 м³/с (37,79 гм³/год). В зимние (декабрь-январь) и летние (май-начало июля) периоды на реке возникают наводнения, связанные с интенсивными дождями. Во время одного из них, в 1921 году, расход воды достигал 660 м³/с.

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Начинается из родника Фуэнте-де-ла-Силья неподалёку от Фонфрии в комарке Хилока. Протекая на северо-запад вблизи Лагеруэла и Вильядоса, она расширяется около Вильярреаль-де-Уэрва, где в неё впадает Арройо-де-Вильялпандо. Затем она течёт на северо-восток мимо Майнара, Серверуэла, Вистабелья-де-Уэрва, Тососа (бывший Альканьис-де-ла-Уэрва), Вильянуэва-де-Уэрва, Муэля, Куарте-де-Уэрва, Кадрете и Мария-де-Уэрва, впадая в Сарагосе в Эбро на высоте 187 метров над уровнем моря.

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Here's what happening. Logos is opened up to the Home page with all the information laid out. Without opening anything up, let's say I have a browser opened up and that is what I am looking at. Here's what happens. I click on the icon for the browser (or any other program) bringing that program up into full view.
Then clicking on the Logos icon brings up Logos but without the Home Page showing or should I say, it's blank. Clicking on the Home page brings back all the information, so I click on another icon and bring that program up. Then clicking on Logos, the information is gone again in the Home Page, like just totally blank. And I do not have it set for a blank layout. Any idea as to what cause this and how to fix that?
Any idea as to what cause this and how to fix that?
My guess - and it's all it is - is that it is some sort of video display issue.
Try checking you have the latest video drivers installed.
This happens to me as well. If I have the home page open, and then clik away to another program, when I click back to Logos the home page disappears and I have to click the home page button to reopen it.
I've got the latest drivers for this machine plus, being a 5 year old laptop, ASUS is not bothering any more with drivers. Nothing has changed on their site for close to 4 years for updates for this unit.
The fact that you Kiyah are finding the same issue says something is awry. I've seen this happen with Logos 8 in spells. In other words, it will do it at time and other times no. It's not enough to topple one over the edge but it's still scary.
I feel like I didn't noticed this until Logos 8.1. Are you running 8.0 or 8.1? Did you notice it with the latest update or is that just my imagination?
Honestly Kiyah, I'm not sure but it seems it began early on with Logos 8. But I wouldn't stake my supper on it. I should add, when I first click on the Logos icon, whatever is on the Homepage is there and then disappears a split second after.
Further edit - I found shutting down Logos and restarting it fixed the problem. But when using Logos and closing down for instance, a Dictionary or a Word Search and bringing it back to the Home page, the problem will manifest itself again.
From where I'm sitting, this is a glitch in the software that should be looked at by Logos.


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Why waste resources cutting it down and hauling it away. Just let the tree die naturally lay where it falls. This makes for a more diverse resilient natural ecosystem in addition to sequestering CO2.
A large-scale scientific test involving a material called biochar is being conducted on forestry land in hills above Loch Ness.
Biochar is a charcoal-like by-product of the wood processing industry.
Millions of tonnes are generated every year and it is mainly sold as a mulch for horticulture.
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Turning forests into grasslands temporarily releases carbon due to the smaller biomass pool. Absolutely correct. This is why we do NOT recommend cutting forests to make grasslands. Instead we need to turn cornfields and degraded land into grasslands. That way we don't go two steps backwards to move three steps forward.
All that carbon returns to the atmosphere as CO2 and CH4.
Last edited by Red Baron Farms; 8th February 2019 at 04:39 PM.
Absolutely correct. Biochar is a good significant help, and if combined with methods used to enhance the LCP, even sequesters more than both alone. This because biochar actually creates habitat beneficial to mycorrhizal fungi. So it is carbon itself, and then it helps AMF increase the LCP, and then finally the glomalin produced acts like a soil glue locking the biochar in place well into deep geological time if left undisturbed.
Last edited by Red Baron Farms; 8th February 2019 at 04:41 PM.
OK, I'll be the straight man and assume you're not trolling.
Because wood which falls naturally will, in most cases rot. It will eventually be converted entirely to CO2. And part of the transition process will be via methane, which is (as I'm sure you know) a much more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2, but which has the saving grace of oxidizing to CO2 in 7 years or so.
Naturally falling wood will only sequester carbon if it occurs in wet environments where it is protected from the air. Or, of course, extremely dry environments - but these don't produce much wood, for obvious reasons.
Not to mention wood is a resource itself. Therefore cutting and hauling away wood is not wasting a resource, it is using a renewable resource. Just so long as you don't take too much and always replant, this model might not be a solution to AGW but it doesn't cause AGW either.
It's only when these renewable resources are improperly managed that they become a cause of AGW. And be sure that plowing them up and spraying them with herbicides every year to grow more corn and soy than every human being on the planet could possibly ever eat certainly is no way to manage a grassland or forest.
Because wood which falls naturally will, in most cases rot.
It will do that anyway.
Turning forests into grasslands temporarily releases carbon due to the smaller biomass pool. .
If it were only temporary the deforestation over the last 5000 years or so would have increased the amount of grassland and increased the amount of sequestered CO2. The exact opposite has happened, changing forests to grasslands and resulted in a massive reduction in sequestered CO2 over 1000+ year time scales. Conversely periods of reforestation have sequestered CO2.
Not true at all. The soil carbon pool is much larger than all the atmospheric and biomass carbon combined. Even in their highly degraded states due to poor agricultural practices, soils still contain much more carbon. If you study the soils, you find that the soil carbon is concentrated under what was historically grasslands and/or savanna/open woodland. This has been well established by soil scientists for over 100 years. Mollic epipedon What they didn't know was causation to explain the correlation. It was a mystery because it is very counter-intuitive how a smaller decomposing biomass could account for vastly more soil carbon.
So what changed this time?
It is agriculture that has changed this dynamic. Now when a forest gets removed, it often is prevented from regrowing by the plow and/or herbicides. Furthermore, vast areas of grasslands are also plowed and/or sprayed with herbicide.
The natural succession along with the ecosystem function of soil creation and carbon sequestration has been destroyed by these practices. So you lose both biomass and soil carbon and the ill effects of this are far more permanent.
And the big breakthrough in 1995 was that we finally have discovered the causation that explains the 100 year old mystery of why grasslands' soils contain vastly more sequestered soil carbon than forests' soils. More than all the biomass on the planet and atmospheric carbon combined! And that new discovery was Dr Sarah Wright's discovery of Glomalin, (Little Known Glomalin, a Key Protein in Soils) and several other scientists including Dr Christine Jones and Dr Kristine A. Nichols in the field discovery of what has been termed the liquid carbon biochemical pathway for carbon in the soil of which glomalin is only one link of a long chain.
Keep in mind those last two have done field trials that are now being used by early adapters in agriculture already! That information is now decades old, meaning there are ordinary farmers that have successfully used this science to improve their land management for decades already. So it is not only repeatable by soil scientists, it is repeatable by laymen in the field without scientific training.
This is not some mythical hocus pocus, and it is time the rest of the AGW climate scientists peered beyond their closed silos and saw what's out there and currently available to help reverse AGW.
Some have. But this biggest problem is the same merchants of doubt campaign that obfuscates the science of climate change and fuels denialism is also at work vigorously obfuscating the soils science for agricultural change as a mitigation strategy.
Too often I see very obvious flaws in studies designed to minimize the perceived potential of this new paradigm. But that might be obvious to me because it is well within my silo, but it often is not nearly so obvious to a climate scientist whose silo is physics.
For example. You look at a study and find that NPK fertilizers or biocides are used, then you know they haven't studied this new paradigm at all, but rather are studying the carbon sequestration potential of the old paradigm. That's well known, modeled by the Roth C model for climate scientists, and at least 2 orders of magnitude smaller than the liquid carbon pathway. Usually even a net loss! But with certain improvements can be a fairly tiny net gain. Still, no improvement can compare it to the LCP.
You would be well in your rights to ask why this is so obvious to me. That's because of the research done on the glomalin producing arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and inorganic chemical fertilizers.
You can see the plant AMF symbiosis trades carbon for phosphorus (and other nutrients too). This is what drives the LCP pumping vast quantities of carbon deep in the A and B horizons of the soil profile, rather that the Roth C which models the decay of biomass at the surface O horizon in the soil profile.
But there is more to it. Because once you add NPK fertilizers to the soil, this symbiosis becomes superfluous, and instead parasitic. Its a feedback mechanism.
But we can turn it back on again too!
As long as we use NPK fertilizers to supply plant nutrition, then we have shut down the LCP and instead sequester carbon 2 orders of magnitude slower! But if we instead use this new paradigm to supply plant nutrition, we activate the LCP and soil carbon rises on average rate of 5-20 tonnes CO2e /ha/yr!
Last edited by Red Baron Farms; 10th February 2019 at 02:56 AM.
I wish I had time to really understand the information in the links you have posted, but I truly appreciate you posting it. It's fascinating stuff, and it gives me hope that scientists are working on real solutions.
The question is whether our political processes will be able to take in the scientific information, and turn that into large scale action on the level that it needs to be effective.
I believe we can yes. Although that discussion is for the politics forum. And thanks for the kind words.
Yes it is true and I've already shown it to be true. Your entire premise is wrong.
Forests sequester more carbon than grasslands when they change to grasslands it warms the climate as has happened over the last century, when forests re-grow it cools the planet as happened during the "Little Ice Age".
You did not even try to compare that to lost soil carbon. Even in its currently highly degraded state the soil carbon pool at 3 meters is between 1500 Pg C and 2300 Pg C depending on the researchers estimates. Of the 52 million square kilometers of dry grassland soils worldwide, 35 million square kilometers are degraded by 70% or more due to poor agricultural practices! That soil carbon pool used to be so very much larger by far. It is even worse for the more wet tallgrass biomes which are basically completely gone and their soils rapidly degrading and 30 and 50 % of the previous soil carbon is lost.
But that's not the whole story because the depth of soil carbon is shallowest in forests. This means that a much higher % of carbon stored there will recycle to the atmosphere as it decays. It is stored, not sequestered into the long carbon cycle. Thus it is a temporary fix that helps, but it is not a solution. It essentially saturates far too quickly to be a solution.
Meanwhile grassland and savanna soils (and shrublands with grass understories) sequester their carbon much deeper in the soil profile and over geological time frames. It truly is sequestered into the long carbon cycle. Over geological time frames a high % of this carbon becomes mineral carbon in the soil rather than returning as CO2 in the atmosphere.
Biomass and soil carbon are apples and oranges.
Last edited by Red Baron Farms; 10th February 2019 at 06:06 PM.
Wrong, Red Baron Farms. I am refusing to accept your unsupported assertion "If we cut all emissions 100% tomorrow, both fossil fuel and cement (your condition) then CO2 levels will stabilize at current levels (the paper's condition).".
The reason is the same that I do not accept my own guess that this is correct. You do not supply any scientific sources. I do not know of any scientific sources.
I have stated a couple times that there are many ways to stabilize atmospheric levels at roughly current levels. Lowering emissions is just a reliable way to do that.
The paper is Evolution of global temperature over the past two million years by Carolyn W. Snyder (Nature 13 October 2016). What Snyder says is that the past Earth system sensitivity of 9 degrees Celsius over millennium timescales suggests the current greenhouse gas levels may cause a total of 5 degrees Celsius over the next few millennia.
Snyder emphasized that this is not a exact prediction or a forecast in the article.
She and other climate scientists think this is an interesting starting point for future work.
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The simplest way to approximate the time it will take to reabsorb the anthropogenic flux is to calculate how long it would take for the atmosphere to revert to pre-industrial levels of 280 ppm (300 ppm might actually be better) if humans could cut all emissions 100% immediately. If the current net flux to sink of around 4 gigatons of carbon per year remained constant over time, it would take about 50 years for the atmosphere to return to 280 ppm. That's just simple back of the envelope math. However, there is no reason to think that these sinks would remain constant as emissions decrease.
In fact the carbon cycle is a self adjusting complex system. The only reason the cycle has such a high rate dissolving in the oceans and what little of the terrestrial biosphere still functioning as a sink, has everything to do with the high rate of emissions. As soon as that flux ceases, the rate on the other side of the carbon cycle will begin to reduce and ultimately stabilize, all else equal.
Now some papers like the one cited make claims warming will continue for thousands of years. I have also seen estimates somewhat but not much smaller.
So we can approach this problem in a number of different ways. We can use models of carbon sink behavior based on the best knowledge of the physics of ocean carbon absorption and the biosphere so called CO2 fertilization effect. We can also use records of changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide during glacial periods in the distant past to estimate the time it takes for perturbations to settle out. Like she did actually.
Using a combination of various methods, researchers have estimated that about 50% of the net AGW CO2 pulse would be absorbed in the first 50 years, and about 70% in the first 100 years +/-. Absorption by sinks slows dramatically after that, with an additional 10 % +/- or so being removed after 300 years +/- and the remaining 20% lasting tens if not hundreds of thousands of years before being removed. That means ultimately the mean lifetime of the pulse attributable to anthropogenic emissions is around 30,000 to 35,000 years.
Here is the twofold problem though. Assuming the 50% CO2 pulse did get absorbed and put us at 335 ppm CO2, it is still high enough to continue warming. That warming is going to release vast amounts of methane and CO2 from the permafrost melting and many other ecosystems losing carbon too. Not to mention the continuing albedo changes. These are called reinforcing feedbacks. So although the Anthropogenic Fossil Fuel flux gradually gets reabsorbed over tens of thousands of years, the actual atmospheric CO2 levels are not likely to fall nearly so fast. The actual warming certainly not. Therefore a time scale for CO2 warming potential out as far as 300 to 500 years is entirely conservative and reasonable (See IPCC 4th Assessment Report Section 2.10) and the claim made in the source I provided well within the realm of possible if not likely.
UNLESS we work hard at restoring the ecosystem function of carbon sequestration over vast areas of the planet with agriculture and better land management! Then we have a chance to actually solve an otherwise intransigent problem. Only this last part is my claim. All the rest I was taught and is well known standard core curriculum basic climate science 101.
I have no problem with skeptical criticism of my claim. But I have a big problem with a fundamental lack of knowledge regarding what is already accepted and well founded knowledge about AGW to begin with. That's why the ridicule, scorn and insults from me.
I do occasionally make exceptional claims, and it is fair to ask for exceptional evidence regarding those claims. But I do not have time to teach you basic climate science 101. Go take the damn courses yourself. Learn what the models really say yourself. Then we can intelligently discuss my own claims that need an educated skeptical eye to cut down to size!
PS BTW I also had a problem understanding all this above myself! My initial attempts at developing a AGW reversal strategy were completely flawed because I originally assumed the above 4 gigatons sink would indeed continue as roughly constant and all I had to do was offset the net rather than the gross emissions INCLUDING feedbacks!
Last edited by Red Baron Farms; 11th February 2019 at 10:41 PM.
This 2005 paper states that the level of CO2 will decrease naturally without the need of carbon sequestration. The decrease will be slow.
In the "If we cut all emissions 100% tomorrow" scenario we discussed these authors say that about 50% of the net AGW CO2 pulse would be absorbed in the first 50 years. That is the level of CO2 decreasing in this unlikely scenery making the Snyder paper suggestion about current greenhouse gas levels moot.
Another unsourced speculation: What does the literature say about the amount of warming with a 335 ppm CO2 level, Red Baron Farms?
Your climate courses should have told you that it is increasing CO2 that increases global temperatures. If CO2 stops increasing then there still some warming as the atmosphere comes to equilibrium. You and I already know that. The question is how long does this take?
More "ridicule, scorn and insults" from an assumption that you are the only person in this thread who has learned about climate science. FYI, I have a post graduate degree in physics and have learned about climate science. I do not claim to be an climate expert since the degree was many years ago and in solid state physics.
Models are not exactly speculation RC. They may not be the same as evidence, but they are skillful.
However the exact level of radiative imbalance at 335 ppm is dependent on the sensitivity. That number we keep getting closer to, but it is still not completely known due to the other feedbacks.
One thing we do know though, even if the CO2 dropped to 335 rapidly due to zero emissions, it is still higher than historical highs going back a very long time.
As you can see by the graph, even the peak CO2 levels from the warmer periods are almost always under 300 ppm.
So 335 ppm is likely going to still have us melting even more Glaciers and polar ice for a while. How much is open for some debate though.
Not at the same rate.
If the rate at which stored wood rots is lower than the rate at which new trees grow, then you will continuously sequester more carbon.
The amount decay is proportional to how much you store. Store twice as much and you get twice as much decay.
I wrote that you stated an unsourced speculation and obviously you are not a climate model !
Another unsourced speculation: What does the literature say about the amount of warming with a 335 ppm CO2 level, Red Baron Farms?.
That 2005 paper that you cited does have a model of a CO2 pulse that shows that the level of CO2 will decrease naturally without the need of carbon sequestration. The decrease will be slow. The paper does suggest that a constant CO2 level scenario is not realistic because as you wrote 50% of the net AGW CO2 pulse would be absorbed in the first 50 years.
We have been modeling climate for some decades now using emission scenarios that are more practical than going to zero emissions tomorrow. The current IPCC scenarios are the Representative Concentration Pathways. The pathways are emissions rising up to various dates and then declining.
Did you even read your source? Do you know what it means? The only model shown there with a reduction in greenhouse gasses at all is RCP 2.5, and to get that minimal reduction after reaching 450 ppm requires an unspecified future technology like CCS to reach net negative emissions. Meanwhile all attempts so far at showing this possible have failed.
That's the primary reason for articles claiming we are "locked in" to the highest temps in millions of years. Even the best scenario models using not yet developed future tech still isn't enough.
But I have proposed a fundamental change in the way we do agriculture that is based on technologies already developed and having undergone case studies of real farmers in the field. Case studies that show we are not really locked in anyway and the RCP2.5 really isn't the best case scenario after all.
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the first nuclear test was conducted on July 2, 1966, code named Aldebaran, when a plutonium fission bomb was exploded in the lagoon... the explosion sucked all the water from the lagoon, "raining dead fish and mollusks down on the atoll", and that it spread contamination across the Pacific as far as Peru and New Zealand.... Smaller blasts were detonated on the northern end of the atoll, designated as Denise. Three nuclear devices were detonated on barges, three were air dropped from bombers, and the rest were suspended from helium filled balloons. A total of 41 atmospheric nuclear tests were conducted at Mururoa between 1966 and 1974.
France initially denied responsibility, but two French agents were captured by New Zealand Police and charged with arson, conspiracy to commit arson, willful damage, and murder. As the truth came out, the scandal resulted in the resignation of the French Defence Minister Charles Hernu.
Several political figures, including then New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange, have referred to the bombing as an act of terrorism or state-sponsored terrorism.
In 2016, following a discovery at Flamanville Nuclear Power Plant, about 400 large steel forgings manufactured by Le Creusot Forge since 1965 have been found to have carbon-content irregularities that weakened the steel... In December 2016 the Wall Street Journal characterised the problem as a "decades long coverup of manufacturing problems", with Areva executives acknowledging that Le Creusot had been falsifying documents.
France's nuclear reactors comprise 90 per cent of EDFs capacity and so they are used in load-following mode and some reactors close at weekends because there is no market for the electricity. This means that the capacity factor is low by world standards, usually in the high seventies as a percentage, which is not an ideal economic situation for nuclear plants... During periods of high demand EDF has been routinely "forced into the relatively expensive spot and short-term power markets because it lacks adequate peak load generating capacity"
In 2008, nuclear power accounted for 16% of final energy consumption in France. As is common in all industrialized nations, fossil fuels still dominate energy consumption, particularly in the transportation and heating sectors.
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A big step would be to stop incentivising harmful or wasteful behavior.
for starters, let's stop paying people to build in places that will sink into the sea in a decade or two.
You are quoting the section in my post about emissions, not CO2 levels. Representative Concentration Pathways.
My post is slightly wrong - 3 of the 4 pathways are emissions rising up to various dates and then declining.
You are correct. RCP 2.5 has the level of CO2 reducing before 2100. RCP 4.5 has the level of CO2 flat before 2100. The other two have the level of CO2 rising before 2100.
There is no "requires an unspecified future technology like CCS" in RCP.
Each RCP could result from different combinations of economic, technological, demographic, policy, and institutional futures. For example, the second-to-lowest RCP could be considered as a moderate mitigation scenario. However, it is also consistent with a baseline scenario that assumes a global development that focuses on technological improvements and a shift to service industries but does not aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as a goal in itself (similar to the B1 scenario of the SRES scenarios).
What does the literature say about the amount of warming with a 335 ppm CO2 level, Red Baron Farms?
But I have proposed a fundamental change in the way we do agriculture that is based on technologies already developed and having undergone case studies of real farmers in the field.
You have not proposed anything in this thread or provided evidence of those technologies, Red Baron Farms. You have speculated that somehow farming practices can be changed to give physically significant carbon sequestration. You have not cited any literature on changes in farming practices. In other thread(s), you have promoted a debated farming methodology for grazing grass land so that may be where "case studies" comes from. They basically come to the amazing conclusion that ranchers who work harder at monitoring their ranches, improve their ranches!
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You just don't know what you are talking about RC because you are trying to google warrior it. I wish you had taken my advice and actually taken a climate course on all this. With your physics and math background it would have made your discussion so much more interesting.
Here is a different explanation. It's in pretty simple form. Have a look.
What on earth is an RCP?
Go look at the best case scenario.
"Oil use declines but use of other fossil fuel increases and is offset by capture and storage of carbon dioxide. Biofuel use is high. Renewable energy (eg solar & wind) increases but remains low."
That is corn ethanol as biofuel being burned to produce energy in CCS (carbon dioxide capture and storage) with the idea that if biofuels is carbon neutral then CCS will make it carbon negative. Exactly what I described to you.
1) I should not need to be arguing over bull manure with you. This is common knowledge to anyone who understands the models. They were standardized precisely for this reason! You are better than this.
2) all this does is distract and obfuscate from what is the important discussion, can the LCP sequester carbon more efficiently than the biofuel / CCS model in RCP 2.6?
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Carbon capture and storage (CCS) (or carbon capture and sequestration or carbon control and sequestration) is the process of capturing waste carbon dioxide (CO2) from large point sources, such as biomass or fossil fuel power plants, transporting it to a storage site, and depositing it where it will not enter the atmosphere, normally an underground geological formation.
Increasing the carbon content of soil, etc. comes under the wider context of carbon sequestration: "Modification of agricultural practices is a recognized method of carbon sequestration as soil can act as an effective carbon sink offsetting as much as 20% of 2010 carbon dioxide emissions annually".
Wait .... This is your disliked "google warrior" so has to be wrong !
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It is also exactly what I said, unproven technology. There are no biomass fueled CCS power plants in existence. I am glad you took the time to understand the literature well enough to prove to yourself what I said was accurate. See? I told you this discussion would be more interesting if you did your homework. And no it wasn't any insult, it was a statement of fact that you were ignorant about what was being discussed. Happy you fixed that at least a bit.
Close. If you include it in a wider context like that which includes industrialized agriculture that isn't very good at sequestering carbon, then sure, those numbers are roughly accurate, but with still a very large degree of uncertainty and scientific error. My position was always that it would require a CHANGE of agricultural systems in order to be a much larger significant sink. But even turning a roughly 15% source into a 20% sink yields 35% net change, which really helps reduce the pressure to completely eliminate all fossil fuel use. Instead we could get the same results just lowering fossil fuel use very roughly 65% +/-. This is important because it's that last bit that costs a fortune because of the issues with base load.
The last reference is a relatively good article that will take me some time to properly study to see how accurate it is or not. I will get back to you on this one after I do that. For now I remain neutral till I study it better.
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This is a false demonstrably illogical statement. Land that has mismanaged grazing neither proves nor disproves properly managed grazing. It's ridiculous to claim there is no doubt that even using Holistic management would result in the same outcome as mismanaged grazing. It's so ridiculous a statement I shouldn't even need to refute it. But I can easily.
Most of the rest of that section has nothing to do with Holistic planned grazing and only describes yet again demonstrably mismanaged grazing. We can agree that overgrazing and undergrazing both result in desertification and the release of carbon rather than the sequestration of carbon. Ironically the main reason for the term "holistic" comes from a series of management techniques designed to prevent these sorts of mistakes from happening by closely monitoring and proactive adaptation. Holistic management provides a management framework that dramatically helps prevent these negative results from happening. Simply proving that the land can easily be mismanaged really is not a rebuttal of Savory at all. It's more a critique of the status quo Savory is trying to change.
Methane is my pet peeve here. I have already discussed this in some detail here. Most of the issue is Natural gas leaks and clathrates,(fossil methane) not cows at all. But I would agree that removing the livestock from grazing and instead using feedlots to fatten them also has cause some of the problem.
See upland oxic soils is the only biome on the planet that is a net sink for methane primarily due to the action of methanotrophs. Part of maintaining a healthy population of methanotrophs is indeed proper animal impact.
Biotic oxidation is accomplished by methanotrophs which are bacteria that eat methane as their only source of carbon and energy, which is then incorporated into organic compounds via the serine pathway or the ribulose monophosphate pathway. Of all the natural methane sources and sinks, the biotic oxidation is the most responsive to variation in human activities. It can be improved by proper management of upland oxic soils by proper grassland/savanna/open woodland management in agriculture. Essentially the healthy grassland soils are an overall net sink for methane, while closed canopy forests, wetlands, and degraded soils are generally not.
This is a demonstrably false statement actually. In fact Savory won the Buckminster Fuller award for proving the breakthrough in rather dramatic fashion. Not to mention repeatability on every continent and the aforementioned 10's of millions of acres already showing dramatic improvement. So this part of the conclusion actually borders on an outright lie.
Actually methane emissions mean nothing. this is as false as the merchant of doubt argument regarding CO2 emissions from animals. see argument # 34 for more information. When calculating these, of which methane is but a small part, the entire biological cycle must be considered, not just emissions. Thus it is the net that matters, not gross emissions like when we deal with fossil fuels including fossil methane.
Alone no. Of course not. The thing that mitigates AGW is increasing our depleted biological systems, and livestock can indeed be a tool for doing that, as Savory so amazingly proved on many millions of acres across the globe. Mismanaged livestock are part of the problem now. Not nearly as big a part as the plow and agrochemicals, but a part yes. Especially when the plow and agrochemicals are used to raise grains for cows and sheep, which is ridiculous mismanagement even worse than mismanaged grazing. So we can easily start there and stop this wasteful use of land to grow excess grains. That will free up so much land we indeed might need to increase either livestock or wild herbivores just to keep it all pruned properly. To avoid it going to desert like so much is already doing now. However, that is determined later by how much arable land we can take out of production and rest. Got the horse before the cart on that one.
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The tiny biomass part of CCS seems still under development. There are 4 biomass projects that were under development as of ~2010 which was 9 years ago.
My point was that this is carbon capture and storage and CCS does not include carbon sequestration through changes in farming practices.
Carbon sequestration through changes in farming practices will use scientifically tested and trusted changes in agricultural systems, e.g. no-till farming. It will not use dubious, disputed, copyrighted! systems. such as Savory's holistic grazing.
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Through photosynthesis, the cover crops pulled CO2 from the air, sank roots deep into the earth, and towered over the land. The results were unusual—and highly controversial. Johnson reported a net annual increase of almost 11 metric tons of soil carbon per hectare on his cropland.
Johnson asserts that if his approach were used across agriculture internationally, the entire world's carbon output from 2016 could be stored on just 22 percent of the globe's arable land.
The answer is that one microbiologist has an opinion that they can. David Johnson has a field trial with intriguing results but no actually published data to back his opinion up.
As with all of Johnson's work to date, this result has appeared only in the form of reports and other "grey literature." Harold van Es, professor of soil and water management at Cornell University's School of Integrative Plant Science, is one of Johnson's severest critics.
Call it what it is, a case study. In case you didn't know, case studies run by PhD scientists actually are evidence. It's called "grey" literature and is very common in agriculture where there is no reason to publish in a peer reviewed science journal when the real peers are actually farmers who will never read those journals anyway.
Never the less, there are journal articles which I have already presented. This just happens to be the next level down, "in the field", sorts of evidence. And of course some scientists have their nose all disjointed. No scientist want to believe he could be THAT wrong and proven so by an ignorant farmer working with a microbiologist! We all know biology isn't a real science , and agriculture isn't science at all!
Call it what it is, a case study. In case you didn't know, case studies run by PhD scientists actually are evidence.
I did not say that it was not evidence - it is not peer reviewed evidence. that any PhD scientist would publish n a peer reviewed journal. Those case studies run by PhD scientists are published in peer reviewed journal mainly because those PhD scientists are confident that their results will withstand the analysis of their peers.
The peers for PhD scientists are other PhD scientists..
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And you on the other hand have consistently dismissed both sorts of evidence.
Never the less, there are journal articles which I have already presented.
You have cited some irrelevant journal articles, Red Baron Farms.
Some papers about mycorrhizal symbioses (fungi/plant symbols) that do not address global warming.
That papers on soil science exist does not show that soil carbon sequestration can be a significant global warming mitigation strategy.
Some still unsupported assertions about LCP and the Roth C model.
Can Soil Microbes Slow Climate Change? - David Johnson's personal opinion disputed by other soil scientists.
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I certainly dismiss "grey" literature for the reason that it is not peer reviewed: The peers for PhD scientists are other PhD scientists.
It is a lie that I have dismissed peer reviewed papers. I have dismissed your misinterpretations of them by looking at what they actually state.
This is peer reviewed evidence and you dismissed it.
You are not the only one either, others dismissed it too. Same argument as you just gave too! ie .. That papers on soil science exist does not show that soil carbon sequestration can be a significant global warming mitigation strategy.
So he wrote a white paper on that very issue to make the link crystal clear. No way to ignore it.
People complained that wasn't peer reviewed and dismissed it too. You did yourself on another thread. So he wrote another paper with plenty of corroborating evidence and co-authors and had this one peer reviewed and instead of leaving it to people to actually think, now even people who couldn't add two and two before have it explained plainly.
And exactly like Teague, the same denialist strategy was used. Dismissed as not relevant. That was thousands of years ago and couldn't possibly be relevant in modern times.
There it is spelled out for people incapable of adding two and two by themselves. The great part about this is that it is a completely different independent line of evidence from a different field of science, and each line of evidence reinforces the other.
Both of them have hit the lecture series too, just in case people still want to try and misrepresent them. In those lectures they both say it plainly.
Sceince is not done by YouTube video. A couple of scientists repeating their opinions in lectures does not make those opinions valid science.
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