I Get More Puzzled.

[John]

Is it my age or training??? Pray tell me, plants need CO2, do they not??? Now when levels of CO2 rise and lets go along with the global warming nonsense, temps rise and so more rain too in certain areas. What do plants and trees do??? That's right, GROW, and grow at an accelerated rates, that has been proven over and over again in labs.

Now another thing puzzles me, if they "store" CO2 from power stations in the ground, how do they stop it migrating through cracks faults and fissures back into the atmosphere??? Have they some magicians who pass spells on the earth??

After all, methane, oil and God only knows what gasses have been leaking from thousands of feet below the surface for thousands of years, even water from very deep aquifers has managed to find cracks faults and fissures to leak out of the earth as springs.

Just sounds like another government smoke and mirrors idea to me...But then I'm only a well read dumb electrician.

[colly0410]

Same sort of thing was discussed in New Scientist a while ago, they speculated that the extra plant growth could bring down the CO2 levels & even overshoot & cause another ice age. They did admit they didn't know the timescale though. Nature seems to have a habit of evening things out... Eventually...

[John]

Jun 23, 2015 11:28:18 GMT -5 colly0410 said:

Same sort of thing was discussed in New Scientist a while ago, they speculated that the extra plant growth could bring down the CO2 levels & even overshoot & cause another ice age. They did admit they didn't know the timescale though. Nature seems to have a habit of evening things out... Eventually...

It's a never ending battle to keep my fields clear of scrub, mostly wild cherry trees, sweet sumac, oak saplings, black walnut saplings and other trees.
Oaks grow from acorn to four feet plus in the first year here!! I've a few acres under wood.

I can't recall his name now, but a scientist carried out experiments to check on plant growth at various CO2 levels in a bell jar in controlled experiments, and just a few one hundredth of a thousand percent caused the "day of the Triffids"...LOL Plants just took off our of control.

Again, how can anyone store a gas in the ground?? It's bound to leak upwards and escape. Seems like the usual political con trick.

[tygwyn]

Your understocked is the reason the scrub is taking over,
Get some Beef on the praire.

[John]

Jun 23, 2015 13:18:03 GMT -5 tygwyn said:

Your understocked is the reason the scrub is taking over,
Get some Beef on the praire.

This is mountain country Jim, Prairie is way to the north west of me. I live in the oldest mountain range on the north American continent..."The Ozarks".

Too much trouble at my age raising livestock, so I just "brush hog" it twice a year.

[tygwyn]

Jun 23, 2015 13:25:16 GMT -5 John said:

Jun 23, 2015 13:18:03 GMT -5 tygwyn said:

Your understocked is the reason the scrub is taking over,
Get some Beef on the praire.

This is mountain country Jim, Prairie is way to the north west of me. I live in the oldest mountain range on the north American continent..."The Ozarks".

Too much trouble at my age raising livestock, so I just "brush hog" it twice a year.

Getting some beef on the prairie is just a term John,lol.
But that is the main reason of scrub creeping in,i see it around here ,when some people purchase smallholdings wanting the Good Life and don`t farm the land,it reverts back to scrub.

I know where the Ozarks are roughly in Missouri,Shepherd of the Hills 1941

[John]

Jun 24, 2015 3:48:20 GMT -5 tygwyn said:

Jun 23, 2015 13:25:16 GMT -5 John said:

This is mountain country Jim, Prairie is way to the north west of me. I live in the oldest mountain range on the north American continent..."The Ozarks".

Too much trouble at my age raising livestock, so I just "brush hog" it twice a year.

Getting some beef on the prairie is just a term John,lol.
But that is the main reason of scrub creeping in,i see it around here ,when some people purchase smallholdings wanting the Good Life and don`t farm the land,it reverts back to scrub.

I know where the Ozarks are roughly in Missouri,Shepherd of the Hills 1941

Roughly, the Ozarks are from the Mississippi valley in the east to the Kansas border in the west, and from almost central Missouri, in the north, to about half way down in Arkansas.

My neighbours run a lot of cattle on their lands, but cows don't usually bother with oak, sumac etc. So even they have to resort to brush hogging once a year. Climate here is spring summer and autumn, pretty good rainfall with high temps so almost tropical, short bitter winters.

[John]

I'm not sure if I've seen that film Jim, watched many Wayne movies though over the years. Branson is due west of me, about 90 minutes drive at the most.

[tygwyn]

Jun 24, 2015 11:51:50 GMT -5 John said:

I'm not sure if I've seen that film Jim, watched many Wayne movies though over the years. Branson is due west of me, about 90 minutes drive at the most.

Here you are,not a bad film,

[John]

Jun 24, 2015 16:24:12 GMT -5 tygwyn said:

Jun 24, 2015 11:51:50 GMT -5 John said:

I'm not sure if I've seen that film Jim, watched many Wayne movies though over the years. Branson is due west of me, about 90 minutes drive at the most.

Here you are,not a bad film,

I'll check it out on one of the movie/tv server sites later Jim, I'd sooner watch that sort of thing on the big TV in the living room than a computer monitor. I use a set top box that receives streaming video off the internet.