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[Lake-Effect]

Originally Posted by Reefmagnet

...Thanks yet again to misguided eco warriors who lacked the iq to understand the reasons for said management.

I suppose the nasty ole eco-warriors are responsible for all the clear-cutting, insufficient replanting, hot prolonged droughts... and even all the recent rain in BC.

[Gadagirl]

Originally Posted by newhaul

That and poor forestry management over the last few decades.

Ahh! Yes! We neglected to rake the Forrests! It has nothing to do with the climate what so ever!

But alas, funds were never adequately provided to "rake the forrest" so zero action to mitigation. No matter what you believed the cause was/is.

All of that aside, there is a lot to be learned from indigenous peoples on how to mitigate fire spread and some locals are taking that knowledge into account now. So there is really a smidgen of truth in that statement but it was not acted upon. Only a talking point in defense of "It is a natural event". If they were serious about mitigation they would have dumped money towards that cause. But no, they did nothing but offer words.

[GordMay]

Record wildfires are harming our health

With wildfires increasing in frequency, size and intensity around the world, there is fresh urgency for researchers trying to understand the health effects of smoke exposure. They are investigating why wildfire smoke is more harmful to humans than other forms of pollution; its short-term and long-term effects; who is most vulnerable; and how best to keep people safe and healthy in smoke plumes that can stretch for thousands of kilometres.

Much more ➥ https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03496-1

[Reefmagnet]

Originally Posted by Lake-Effect

I suppose the nasty ole eco-warriors are responsible for all the clear-cutting, insufficient replanting, hot prolonged droughts... and even all the recent rain in BC.

The pre eco warrior indigenous peoples knew the importance of managing forests to prevent fires. Other issues are irrelevant in this context.

[Reefmagnet]

Originally Posted by Gadagirl

Ahh! Yes! We neglected to rake the Forrests! It has nothing to do with the climate what so ever!



But alas, funds were never adequately provided to "rake the forrest" so zero action to mitigation. No matter what you believed the cause was/is.



All of that aside, there is a lot to be learned from indigenous peoples on how to mitigate fire spread and some locals are taking that knowledge into account now. So there is really a smidgen of truth in that statement but it was not acted upon. Only a talking point in defense of "It is a natural event". If they were serious about mitigation they would have dumped money towards that cause. But no, they did nothing but offer words.

Oops, should have read further along.

What she said.

[CatNewBee]

3 new studies about parts of the spike proteine from C19 and Vaccines explained.
Link to the documents below the video.

https://youtu.be/2u3AYK808pw

[Lake-Effect]

Originally Posted by Reefmagnet

The pre eco warrior indigenous peoples knew the importance of managing forests to prevent fires. Other issues are irrelevant in this context.

Pre-conquest, there was a natural fire cycle that the indigenous peoples had learned to live with. And also where to reside, and where not to. Or are you going to tell us that indigenous peoples groomed every acre of forest?

And of course post-colonization, there were no problems caused by logging, or the roads, railroads, electricity transmission, clearing for farming, increased recreational uses...no. Any fire problems? Must be eco-warriors.

Boy, your faux-conservationist pose didn't hang together very long, did it? You're no more a conservationist than I'm Amelia Erhart.

[GordMay]

Originally Posted by Reefmagnet

The pre eco warrior indigenous peoples knew the importance of managing forests to prevent fires ...

What specific strategies did sparsely populated, pre-industrial indigenous people employ, to manage forests to prevent fires?

[newhaul]

Originally Posted by GordMay

What specific strategies did sparsely populated, pre-industrial indigenous people employ, to manage forests to prevent fires?

Where do you suppose they found the fuel for their cooking and heating fires?

[Reefmagnet]

Originally Posted by GordMay

What specific strategies did sparsely populated, pre-industrial indigenous people employ, to manage forests to prevent fires?

This explains it at a primary school level...



https://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/Learn/...ent-Using-Fire


"Prior to colonisation, Aboriginal people would have set fires in the woodland now situated at the Australian Botanic Gardens Mount Annan to burn through prickly shrubs and dry grass, and to flush out kangaroos or wallabies in order to hunt them. After the fire, it’s easier to walk through the woodland, with shrubby obstacles removed. Later, after some rain, grasses re-sprout, attracting kangaroos and wallabies to graze on the new growth and congregate in the burnt area. Fire made hunting easier and prevented bushfires from becoming the problem that they are in modern times. "

[Reefmagnet]

Originally Posted by Lake-Effect

Pre-conquest, there was a natural fire cycle that the indigenous peoples had learned to live with. And also where to reside, and where not to. Or are you going to tell us that indigenous peoples groomed every acre of forest?

And of course post-colonization, there were no problems caused by logging, or the roads, railroads, electricity transmission, clearing for farming, increased recreational uses...no. Any fire problems? Must be eco-warriors.

Boy, your faux-conservationist pose didn't hang together very long, did it? You're no more a conservationist than I'm Amelia Erhart.

"Pre conquest". That's a new one. Did you think that up yourself?

[Reefmagnet]

Originally Posted by newhaul

Where do you suppose they found the fuel for their cooking and heating fires?

I've always had a theory that humans descended from the trees and evolved to manage their environment with fire. Aside from language, playing with fire is the only other distinctly human trait common to all civilisations. This was supposed to be our niche in the ecological mire. Until, of course we evolved into who we are today.

[Lake-Effect]

Originally Posted by Reefmagnet

"Pre conquest". That's a new one. Did you think that up yourself?

Yeah, I keep forgetting that indigenous peoples just scootched over a bit to make room for foreign settlers and it's been peaceful, mutually-beneficial coexistence ever since.

[insert your Spongebob rainbow graphic here]

Except that the natives have stopped raking the whole forest, doing controlled burns, etc.

[GordMay]

Finally, the study [1] we've all been waiting for!

How to give great hugs

Researchers have tried to study what makes one hug better than another, in experimental and real-world settings, and found that hugs that last five or ten seconds are rated as more pleasurable than a single-second squeeze. And a ‘crisscross’ style, in which each hugger places one arm over the other hugger’s shoulder is the preferred form of hugging, especially in men.

More about:
“How to hug, according to science” ~ by David Shultz
➥ https://www.science.org/content/arti...ording-science

[1] “The influence of duration, arm crossing style, gender, and emotional closeness on hugging behaviour” ~ by Anna L.Dueren et al
➥ https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...18?via%3Dihub#!

[GordMay]

Plankton evolution follows Earth’s orbit

Although the Earth's orbit around the Sun is not a perfect circle today, at times it has been even more elliptical - making the seasons more eccentric - and a new study [1] has found this has impacted biological evolution.

Researchers [1] analysed fossils of coccolithophores that lived in the Pleistocene period (from 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago) alongside deviations in the circularity of Earth’s annual orbit, which cycles approximately every 100,000 and 400,000 years. They found that the diversity of plankton species increased during periods of high eccentricity of Earth’s orbit, when the seasons vary more in equatorial regions. Because the calcium carbonate skeletons of phytoplankton make a significant contribution to our planet’s carbon cycle, such a link between orbital climate change, and phytoplankton evolution, could be an intrinsic beat that underscores the Earth system.

More about ➥ https://news.sky.com/story/amp/varia...finds-12483760

[1] “Cyclic evolution of phytoplankton forced by changes in tropical seasonality” ~ by Luc Beaufort et al
➥ https://www.nature.com/articles/s415...ia3-I-d4oS4%3D