Green Mission News – March 2017

What’s Warming the World?

NASA’s Model

Researchers who study the Earth’s climate create models to test their assumptions about the causes and trajectory of global warming. Around the world there are 28 or so research groups in more than a dozen countries who have written 61 climate models. Each takes a slightly different approach to the elements of the climate system, such as ice, oceans, or atmospheric

After opening, scroll down to see total temp changes correlated to natural and anthropocentric causes.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-world/

Subsidizing Waste How Inefficient US Farm Policy Costs Taxpayers, Businesses, and Farmers Billions (2016)

http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2016/08/Subsidizing-Waste-full-report.pdf

DELHI, INDIA HAS BANNED ALL (disposable) PLASTIC.

http://news.janegoodall.org/2017/03/06/delhi-india-banned-plastic-yes-plastic/

The New Plastics Economy: Thriving in a Plastic World

http://www.triplepundit.com/special/resource-use-sealed-air/new-plastics-economy-thriving-plastic-world/

Solar has become America’s fastest-growing, nonpartisan energy source

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/energy-environment/324334-solar

Love Local Food? Here’s a Promising Way to Protect the Local Land that Grows It

http://blog.ucsusa.org/andrea-basche/love-local-food

Small-Scale Farming Could Restore America’s Rural Towns

Although many people in these struggling regions voted for the new president, his cynical answers will not bring them prosperity. But I saw what could.

http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/small-scale-farming

Will the FDA’s Picture of “Health” Match Ours?

http://blog.ucsusa.org/genna-reed/will-the-fdas-picture-of-health-match-ours

How to Securely Share Information About Scientific Integrity Abuses

http://www.ucsusa.org/center-science-democracy/promoting-scientific-integrity

Climate Change, Resilience, and the Future of Food

http://blog.ucsusa.org/science-blogger/climate-change-resilience-and-the-future-of-food

The reduction in perennial Arctic sea ice from 1984 to 2016

https://i.imgur.com/rY8FrFi.gifv

Before the Flood – Sea Level Rise

https://www.beforetheflood.com/explore/the-crisis/sea-level-rise/

Costs of integrating renewables into the grid

https://www.carbonbrief.org/in-depth-whole-system-costs-renewables

How computers are recycled

https://i.imgur.com/Qq1L87M.gifv

Court-rules-against-Monsanto

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2017/01/27/court-rules-against-monsanto/

94-Year-Old Inventor of Lithium-Ion Batteries Develops Safer, More Efficient Glass Battery

http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/glass-battery-technology/

UN experts denounce ‘myth’ pesticides are necessary to feed the world

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/07/myth-pesticides-are-necessary-to-feed-the-world

Strawberries remain at top of pesticide list, report says – CNN.com

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/08/health/dirty-dozen-2017/

How Nature Makes Us Healthier and Happier

Over 100 studies have shown that being in nature—or even watching it in videos—benefits our brains, bodies, feelings, thought processes, and social interactions.

http://www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/what-happens-when-we-reconnect-with-nature

Soil Organic Carbon report from UN FAO

http://www.fao.org/3/a-i6937e.pdf

“A study performed by K. E. Clemmensen et al. explains that, as far as adding carbon to soil, plant material might not even be the half of it, literally…Using 14C bomb-carbon modeling, we show that 50 to 70% of stored carbon in a chronosequence of boreal forested islands derives from roots and root-associated microorganisms…454 pyrosequencing of molecular barcodes, in conjunction with stable isotope analyses, highlights root-associated fungi as important regulators of ecosystem carbon dynamics.”

K. E. Clemmensen et al. “Roots and Associated Fungi Drive Long-Term Carbon Sequestration in Boreal Forest” Science 29 March 2013: 339 (6127), 1615-1618.

https://www.regenerative.com/uncategorized/want-soil-add-mycorrhizae