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Extreme Weather in Canada: The Role of Climate Change
The blog post Extreme Weather in Canada: The Role of Climate Change explores the detrimental effects of climate change on Canada’s weather patterns, particularly focusing on extreme weather events. It begins with a primer on how climate affects weather, then delves into the correlation between climate change and increasing extreme weather occurrences. The post categorizes major types of extreme…
In the latest episode of State of Current Affairs, Lillian Cauldwell and Viki Esther Chang discuss the impact of Global Warming on islands, particularly Singapore. They highlight how rainwater, with no place to drain due to concrete and asphalt coverage, leads to flooding. Ms. Chang elaborates on the consequences of inadequate rainwater runoff systems and land management practices that hinder water accumulation. Additionally, Ms. Cauldwell provides insights into astronauts observing increasing greenery in Antarctica, contributing to glacier melt. The episode also covers Elon Musk's investment in AI-powered eyeglasses that allow wearers to access personal and financial information about others, potentially claiming kinship.
Global warming all over the world
Global warming refers to the long-term increase in Earth's average surface temperature due to human activities and the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. It is a pressing environmental issue that has garnered significant attention in recent decades. The primary cause of global warming is the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas, which release carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere. Deforestation, industrial processes, and agricultural practices also contribute to the emission of these gases.
The consequences of global warming are far-reaching and pose a significant threat to the planet and its inhabitants. One of the most apparent impacts is the rise in global temperatures. As greenhouse gases trap heat from the sun, the Earth's temperature gradually increases, leading to changes in weather patterns and climate extremes. Heatwaves, droughts, and intense storms become more frequent and severe, posing risks to agriculture, water resources, and human health.
All (well, some; noted here. I'm not a fast typist and Google Microfony doesn't like me. Or my vernacular. A tight, coloured, sabelaring and swearing one) the problems with agriculture, food shortages, climate change, global warming etc. etc.
The Truths Boere probably don't wanna hear or copy n paste this n add their name as contributor or originator of ideas or breakthroughs. Cool. Do it.
70% BIGGER YIELD WILL BE NEEDED GLOBALLY IF WE ARE TO EVADE STARVATION
Agriculture in Africa, the need for 70% more food output in 20yrs time, droughts and famines and how we can potentially control general rainfall on the African continent, genetic modification in crop seeds focusing on improved photosynthesis (maximizing crop yield, size, nutritional value and mitigating the loss of a crop in a particularly dry year through satellite imaging, which allows for crop saving actions to be implemented) and the worsening of our soil nutrient levels is all taking a turn for the better. However, we have to implement measures to be positively affected by them.
SPACE TECHNOLOGY CAN BE APPLIED TO AGRICULTURE AND WE CAN AVOID CALAMITIES
Advances in satellite tracking is also set to benefit farmers as it allows for swarms of insects and pests to be identified, watched and thwarted like the deadly malaria mosquito through RealTime public alerts, free widely available mosquito nets, repellents, citronella and lemongrass oil products, window screens and prophylactics for in case, cerebral (which is deadly) or just garden variety malaria is contracted.
INDOOR AGRICULTURAL CONCERNS SEEM TO BE THE BEST OPTION WITH ONLY ESTABLISHING THE GREENHOUSE THE ONLY REAL EXTRA EXPENSE IF ONE USES RENEWABLE ENERGY TO POWER UP.
Making use of soilless agriculture is a viable, space-saving option; in areas where soil has a limited constitiuency and available nutrients; in controlled warehouses. By utilizing this method, adding row upon row upon row with sometimes only 20cm spaces inbetween crop plants - growing crops vertically - we can put 10-50 x crop plants planted in m2 surface area; yielding 10 - 50 x bigger crops in the same square kilometres of land. Every drop of water is used and no fertilizers are necessary, which leave behind Nitrate (N2) crystals - 300 x more toxic than carbon dioxide. Little or no soil is used and the damage that rain water, carrying fertilizer toxins/mining by-products further afield is alleviated. Having compartmentalized crop plants also means that high levels of trace elements; found in mine dump gravel cannot not be carried along to agricultural sites. No more water and only 1% more nitrogen is needed for soilless crops and the crop yields up to 30% more in freight. Sunlight is a must to power for these indoor operations and I assume that the better the sunlight, the more solar energy can be absorbed by solar panels for powering automation devices and infrastructure, underground oxygen, nitrogen and water pipes, humidifiers, L.E.D. lights (pink is best) and temperature control and droid gadgets such as sensors, testers and gauges.
ROBOTICS IN AGRICULTURE
Current A.I. agriculture innovations include a GummiArm for soft picking; fruits such as grapes etc. as well as an insecticide/pesticide "spietkop" that comes in the form of a drone that identifies specific pests on specific crop plants and only emits the pesticide for that particular parasite on that particular plant; saving poison and sparing costs and the negative environmental effects on crop plants, other necessary insects and soil.
L.E.D. LIGHTS ARE ESSENTIAL FOR INDOOR GROWING WITH RED THE OPTIMAL COLOUR
Another innovation is the UV lights; in indoor food growing operations; which have taken the place of UV rays neccessary for photosynthes. These lights can also be useful in winter and in areas with little sun; or during a rainy season; on crop sites which rotate crop plants between the sun and indoor UV lights; closing off the crop aerially, when necessary.
TREFOIL AND THE NEED FOR GROUNDCOVER
The voracity of trefoil as a general groundcover in Africa still has to be asserted but if studies are anything to go by; natural groundcover, lost due to a myriad of factors, can be planted anywhere as grazing for all kinds of livestock. Not only does it grow really easily but in grazing animals, it aids in digestion, kills various internal and external parasites, reduces bloating as well as being a favourite amongst livestock; akin to catnip. It will also greatly reduce the methane farts emitted from cows.
WE NEED TO CATCH MORE RAIN AND STORE IT MORE INTELLIGENTLY
Water and the catching, storage and treatment of water must take priority and stored water needs to be impervious to sunlight lest a booming of bacteria were to be kickstarted. Tbe idea of the open air reservoir or dam also needs to be rethought as water is where the deadly malaria mlosquito lays it eggs, amongst other insects like dragonflies etc. A mesh cover would allow water in but keep insects, eggs and hatchlings out. Malaria kills impoverished human beings therefore allowing insects to breed and then go and attack a poor, unsuspecting public cannot be tolerated; even when promotion of bio-diversity and support of the insect world is cited. Also, stored water needs to be kept at temperatures lower than 25°C, which cannot be guaranteed above ground. All non-municipal water sources need to be taken a sample from and a lab needs to become available for testing of water and a analytical report and chemical treatment pack sent in return. Many people and animals as well as crops use potable water sources that could have any amount of parasites, bacteria and other dangers that could develop into something deadly.
SUSTAINENCE FARMING FARMERS NEED TO BE COUNSELED INTO CASH CROP FARMING AND GIVEN ACCESS TO MARKETS
The owners and farm hands of sustainence farmers also have to be counselled, financed and mentored into getting a report of soil analytics which will deduce the kinds of crops that would be the most prosperous on that particular site; taking into account local rainfall, available water, naturally occurring enemies of a particular crop as well as the soil composition, type of soil, implements, machines and manpower available. Ready finance or lack thereof also plays a role. By choosing a more suited, cash crop and belonging to a larger network; pickers, transporters, refrigerators, refiners, packagers, distributors, warehouses and retailers can be sourced; getting the best combined supplier/service provider deal for sustainence farmers, who instead will benefit from cash crops.
EDUCATION AND COHESION IN THE SECTOR
By hosting yearly conferences and workshops for all agricultural workers from landowners to farm foremen to cattle herders to crop planters and pickers, but most especially those handling machinery, drones, automation systems and the software programs and devices associated with them, we can expose the whole agricultural world in Africa to new INNOVATIONS, make them available for everyone at reasonable bulk purchase prices by negotiating deals that apply to all agricultural concerns, lone farm owners as well as the unregistered, individual sustainence farmers. A sliding scale would obviously apply; making turning out a good yield a commonplace for sustainence farmers and small holding growers. Also, taking into account that growing concerns produce large quantities of export freight and also need to be kept afloat in hard times especially during droughts, political and social unrest, strikes and a crash in market prices, a suffering currency, as well as conflict in the region, we need to create a system to implement for the next crucial 20yrs to ensure our much-needed 70% increase in yield.
WELL EDUCATED AFRICAN NATIONALS SITTING IN REFUGEE CAMPS IN S.A. ARE AN UNDER-UTILIZED RESOURCE
In Africa we have a severely under-utilized and under-employed, well-qualified (with multiple degrees/diplomas/certificates and trade levels) Black, African encumbants who could be employed to correct many businesses that have top management's positions filled by well-experienced but under-qualified Whites. By reaching out to the Shanduka Black Empowerment, Incubatorship and Mentorship Programme, we can potentially hook up qualified encumbants to audit or guide top management in roles within corporations or companies that are imperative to the African continent transforming into a stronger, 1st World one. I am not suggesting people be fired or even criticised - white school leavers who managed to work their way up management positions having a natural talent for business and having grown up without funds for secondary education completion, let alone tertiary education. This is not their fault and we applaud their success and what better way to bring white and black and different African tribes and nations together? Where agriculture or power supply/municipal amenities supply is concerned, Africa and it's leaders are well within their rights to ask for a certain amount of transparency and cohesion within companies (potentially with Shaduka waiting list encumbants) that are essential service providers/produce-growers. It is time to pull together and stop being defensive. We need to deal with the problems at hand and those looming on the horizon, in a generation's time, rather than stick our heads in the sand and try to pretend it's all going to go away.
Needs of the crop plant:
The crop plant's leaves need carbon dioxide, above ground, for photosynthesis.
However, many growers do not know that oxygen is needed below ground by the roots of the plant, for the leaves to be supported by the roots oxygen intake. The only way to increase oxygen below the ground is:
a) VermiCompost which is compost that is mixed with the humble earthworm. This worm species function and presence is what elevates underground oxygen levels.
b) for indoor, soilless growing, oxygen pipes that feed plants with constant oxygen are necessary.
I read and read and reread many articles and realised a few things:
1. We need to rethink agriculture, from the very beginning. We have habits and rituals and beliefs that are contrary to science and the results of studies and yet, we continue with these bio-averse habits and I'm not referring to traditional African beliefs.
2. What a crop plant needs above ground and below ground is a very different set of componants.
3. We need to remove as much paving, pavements, tar roads and other materials that cause an increase in soil and atmosphere temperatures. Obviously, we use tar, bricks, concrete and asphalt for their durability, strength and ability to hold heavy weights passing and not crack, break or give in to those heavy weights. However, we need to decide what is more of a priority and decide how we can employ future renovations to lessen this effect on global temperatures caused by that heat-emanating block of hot stuff next to soil which takes a bake as a result. Elevating highways, putting an organic grout into smaller blocks of stone, concrete etc. and even coming up with new, sustainable and strong building materials that are not such high heat conductives. Cutting up block into smaller pieces as well a ensuring that we have healthy oxygenated soil beneath can also work. Blowing up large rock formations that are not held in any regard by indigenous people will also help to lower desert-like temperatures. Then, GROUNDCOVER, GROUNDCOVER, GROUNDCOVER!!!
4. We need all businesses and households to have serviced, VermiBins into which all organic food waste will be thrown. Berlin in employees will service Bins until a reasonable amount has become VermiCompost and remove that Compost. VermiCompost will then be transported after soil acidity and composition has been gauged and treated to conform to standards decided upon as compost that has not had time to dry out is so acidic burns the roots of plants and is more harmful than anything. VermiCompost will be transported to most needy sites and mixed into agricultural grounds, which will replace chemical fertilizers (which leave behind Nitrate crystals that are another heat conductor underground and are 300 times more toxic than carbon dioxide) and will bring oxygen and life back into the dead soils of food-growing areas on our continent.
5. Trefoil needs to be planted along all highways and rural roads as this fast-growing groundcovering lucerne is a favourite amongst grazing cattle. It also fights parasites, internally and externally and is therefore a medicinal feed for livestock. Trefoil also reduces bloating and aids in digestion. This bloating is as a result of the wrong plants being grazed with waxy leaves like bushes. These plants are grazed because there is mo groundcover to graze. As these wrong leaves are digested, they give off methane, which is released into the atmosphere as cow farts, which due to the methane content is a large contributor to Global Warming.
6. Farmers or food growers tend to only allow a particular crop in the crop field. They also use pesticides/insecticides that tend to kill ALL Insects, even the helpful ones that assist with pollination because YES! even crop plant need the pollinating symbiotic relationship with insects. Evolution's adaptations of plants, Insects, birds and animals depend on the relationship a crop plant has with other plants, Insects and birds and even small animals to adapt and therefore survive and thrive. For example, if another plant is present and its leaves are taking up space in the path of the sun's rays and the crop plant is not soaking in enough sun, it will adapt by growing longer, more splayed leaves that grow higher up on the crop plant. Or when a certain small animal chews up the crop plant's fruits, the crop plant may adapt by growing thorns or another deterrent or the crop plant may fruit higher up on the stalk making it impossible for said small animal to eat the fruits of the crop plant. Either way, competition in nature is good as it causes adaptations. As for insecticides/pesticides, researchers at a UK University are working on a drone that identifies a specific parasite on a specific plant and sprays only that plant with that particular insecticide. I think the only reason crop plants have survived with no insects around, is because dark workers who touch one plant, get pollen stuck between the ridges of their fingerprints and then pass it on to the next plant.
With COP 27 host Egypt and 16 other natural gas-exporting governments pledging to plug the fossil energy source as “the perfect solution” to climate change and energy security, critics warned of a “dash for gas” in Africa—a prophecy taking shape this week in Sharm el-Sheikh, where some African countries said exploiting fossil reserves will help lift people out of poverty.
“As the cleanest hydrocarbon [fossil] fuel, natural gas is seen as the perfect solution that strikes the right balance and will continue to play a key role in the future energy mix,” said Egypt’s petroleum minister, Tarek el-Molla, speaking in Cairo at a Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) meeting, weeks before climate talks began in Sharm el-Sheikh.
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GECF members agreed that COP 27 and next year’s COP 28 in United Arab Emirates present “a great opportunity to make a case for gas in the energy transition,” reports Climate Home News, citing an official summary of the meeting.
Natural gas is widely claimed to have lower emissions than other fossil fuel sources like coal, but the International Energy Agency (IEA) says the world cannot afford to increase the use of any fossils—including gas—if there is to be any hope of limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, as outlined in the Paris Agreement.
The Liberal government is aiming to cut emissions 40 to 45 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, and targeting net-zero emissions by 2050.
Canada’s Liberal government is aiming to cut emissions 40 to 45 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, and targeting net-zero emissions by 2050. To achieve this, policymakers need to enforce a sharp reduction in pollution from the oil and gas sector, responsible for 27 per cent of the country’s emissions.
“Alberta will not accept any plan from the federal government that seeks to interfere in our constitutionally protected ability to develop our resources,” the provincial government said in a joint statement from its Energy and Environment ministers.
Wake UP: Awareness of Climate Change
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Photo by Francesco Ungaro on Pexels.com According to a new study published in the journal Energy and Environment, despite a high degree of awareness about climate change and its consequences, people are often hesitant to take action to change their behavior. To avoid the worst effects of climate change, nations agreed in 2015 to keep it “far below 2°C.” However, current national targets must be…
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