Living Outside The Box
The reason to do all this is about working to pioneer new methods to save the world - one ocean plankton bloom, one forest, not one discovery at a time. All at once.
This blog and my lifes work is dedicated to my 3 children and 2 grandchildren and yours too...and to mysteries of nature some discovered most not.
Ocean life taking charge!
If you know any good fish puns let minnow.
Things I now believe in, Mermaids. Things I no longer believe in, Dynamite fishing.
If you know any good fish puns let minnow. The best time to plant a tree is 40 years ago, the second best time is now.
Now that's bark that barks, we need more natural forest art like this
#8 Long Muddler, best fly ever for Western small water Rainbows and Browns.
One of our Old Massett forestry techs measuring a Sitka Spruce a few years back. This tree is now spared, along with a hundred thousand friends, from the saw forever! It only took ten years of effort .
When the salmon are in the river a few feet away and you look up WOW, but where a hat!
Imagine having to cross the river here to get to work on another forest restoration and preservation project.
Walking distance to work.
World Wildlife Fund Support
6 SEPTEMBER 2012 WWF BLOG
For folks who haven’t been following this conversation, geo-engineering is an umbrella term for a wide range of approaches to reversing some of the impacts of climate change, usually involving some kind of pro-active scientific intervention or manipulation of the environment. These approaches fall into two main camps – solar radiation management (shortened to SRM) and carbon dioxide management (shortened to CDM).
The other set of geo-engineering approaches are concerned with drawing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, and so are called ‘carbon dioxide management’ or CDM approaches.
These options include: dumping iron filings in the oceans to encourage phytoplankton and algae to grow and photosynthesise.
Sadly, in this imperfect world, the atmosphere has been interfered with since the industrial revolution. We’ve been digging up every bit of fossilised carbon fuel we can find and burning it, releasing its carbon back into the atmosphere.
So any approach that would allow us to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere without massive environmental side-effects would be extremely useful to know about, allowing us to add some ‘credits’ to the global carbon budget. This wouldn’t be enough to make a huge difference, and certainly it doesn’t offer an alternative to the global mitigation effort, but it might buy us a bit more time and compensate a little for some of our tardiness over the past few years.
So alongside our main efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through smarter use of sustainable energy and through reducing and reversing deforestation, WWF is cautiously supporting research into geo-engineering approaches in order to find out what is possible. Read more ….