Life Cycle of a Planet

Because there was a full and abundant plant life in these areas prior to the start of the ice age that we are still technically in, that seems to has started, around 2.5 million years ago. The planet would not have gone from a warm, plant-filled with adequate carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to a cold icebound planet in a short period. It would have been much more likely a small start and stop process, which would have cooled the northern and southern areas the quickest, locking in of whatever carbon was in the soils at the time, because the bacteria that had been most responsible for the break-down of the carbon in the now cool soils, would not have been as efficient as today's bacteria, which is now used to being active at lower temperatures as compared to when the soils were generally warmer, one would think that that adaptation would have not come into play until needed! The longer that an area has been frozen and then lightly thaws over and over cause the soils in the permafro...

 Are we the devil, who wantonly cares nothing about the planet, but only of what we can take from it? Or are we the only possible savior of an otherwise doomed ecological system that will finally run out of carbon in a form that plant life can use? Looking at the planet from an outsider's point of view, a good case could be made for either one. They would see plastic pollution in the oceans of the planet, killing all types of sea life, they would see over-harvesting of sea life. they would see many things that would tell them that we are not careful with all of the resources the planet has. But if they looked deeper and looked at life on this planet, the first thing that would jump out at them is how little carbon dioxide that there is in the atmosphere, only .04 of a percent, the gas Argon is .94 of a percent that is 23 times as much of the rare gas Argon, then the life-giving gas of Carbon Dioxide. How could plant life survive on such a low amount? The easy answer is evolution, i...

Mankind is the most advanced species on the planet, most species that exist do not try or attempt to try and change their environment, some plant species can alter the soils so that they are more likely to benefit their own species, Many pine trees do this by making the soils more acidic then other plants can tolerate. Many animals make burrows and den's so that their young have a better chance of survival and for protection from other animals. In my view, beavers do the most to change their environment, not just to improve their young's survival but they dam rivers and streams so that wet and dry years have less of an effect on them. Even many species of ants, keep other insects so that they may have a continuing supply of food. Only mankind completely changes the environment that surrounds them, and without fire, we could not survive. Even if it is an electric fire! I am not a philosopher, I work with my mind and hands I do not ask why I am here. I build to make life easier f...

What if there is another way to repair some of the climate change causation in a different way? That I have been hesitant to talk about, the reason being that, if it shows to have a positive effect on cloud formation and also rain production downstream of where it occurs. Many people will want to jump on such an opportunity! Since it can only be done over very large bodies of water such as an ocean which if any government would want to do, there would be little other nations could do to stop them since the vast majority of the oceans of the planet are not governed by treaties, once outside the standard 12-mile limit that most counties agree are there's. The idea started with lake effect snows, from around the Great Lakes in the USA, and Canada. If you would take this idea of somehow increasing the amount of water that is evaporated above a large body of water, by introducing miles of fountains of water over certain areas of oceans when winds are moving in the right direction that w...

     This one is both very easy and extremely tricky to answer! The straightforward approach is to tell you that if you would find enough land to plant that many trees you would have to either make sure that the area that you are using has enough rainfall for the trees to grow, otherwise someone will have to bring water to them. It does not have animals that like to eat trees such as beavers, deer, rabbits, and other animals such as porcupines. Then you have to wait 30 years for them to get big enough to store the necessary carbon! Plus they do little in adding to plant respiration, in places that this need is greatest! But yes they can be a help in such places that have had forests before, replanting the tropical rain forests would be the best place for them! The real negatives would be in thinking that by planting these trillion trees would solve global warming and it would not because you have not repaired enough of the temperature regulating abilities of the planet. T...

Into another word, if you do not read what you have written very closely. In my last post, I missed spelled "about," and they changed it to "above," Grammarly, they are very good, it is only my own fault that I did not reread my post closely enough! ( but it does make a person feel good to blame someone or something else, whoever wants to be wrong about anything?) But the facts are that mankind is wrong many times before it finally gets it right, and we still can not get rid of wars. Had Germany stopped after taking over Poland, it had pulled itself out of one of the worst periods of depression by building up its war machine, and could have taken back it's standing of being the powerhouse of Europe, Many Countries in Europe would have been grateful to have Germany as an Allie, instead, we all know what happened to end up with the slaughter of 6 million people of the Jewish faith. Even to this day, that war is being played out in the Middle East. We should never ...

     Why something is happening, is the number one reason, most of the time! This is one of the times that why something is happening, is not as important as how they repair it! While I am stating that Carbon sequestration over the total life span of the planet, has brought the planet to the point that we are now at! Where over 25% of the land surface of the planet has not enough access to both carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the necessary rainfall to keep plant life in abundance over those surfaces. However, now that mankind has added around 150 parts per million of the life-giving gas, carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere, we are also the only species on the planet that can make use of it by adding water to these arid and semi-arid areas of the planet. which will bring back some of the ability of the planet for temperature-regulation. Any other way of removing this new carbon dioxide, perhaps by planting 1 trillion trees, or making giant machines to suck the car...

Just about every county has a policy of allowing outside workers in, both for low paying menial work, and for needed higher educated people. But they also come with lots of hoops to jump through and for short periods of time. What would be needed now for replanting the planet and moving every river and stream would entail a lot of negotiations at the highest levels of both governmental and private institutions! With some worldwide agency that could coordinate, the necessary, manpower, funding, equipment, and the overall logistics of many different parts of the operation over the whole planet. Many of the countries will be concerned about radial groups coming in with the workforce, plus the religious extreme elements, Hopefully, with most of the places that will be needing workers being far away from major population areas, security while necessary, may not be overly hard to maintain. If we can keep profit out of the equation for the ruling parties, and focus on benefits down the line f...

Have you ever notice, that to get a really beautiful lawn that you need to fertilize it every year and that is, even if you mulch the grass as you cut it every week. Why is that, if you do not remove any of the organic material from the lawn? Shouldn't the lawn actually get better looking every year with the increase of carbon availability from each generation growth of more and more organic matter? There is so much that does not add up in plant life. When a farmer removes 300 hundred bushels of corn from each acre, he does not have to replace the 300 times 56 pounds per bushels or 16,800 pounds of organic matter because that comes from the air and sun's energy, normally he just has to add around 150 lbs of nitrogen to each acre, to get the next crop going, and if the crop is soybeans you do not even have to add nitrogen because there are bacteria that work in a symbiotic relationship with the soybeans so that in return for living on the soybean roots and receiving food from th...

I have been trying since August of last year, with only limited success 4,700 hits on my blogsite. But no one has really responded. Yes, they read my post (at least I hope that they are reading what they down-load) but no one even comments that I must be out of my mind to believe in what I am writing, nothing! What I am writing about is not Rocket science, or how to make a perpetual motion machine (maybe that would generate some comments) It is a simple observation, of what a planet that has some type of life on it must go through as that life uses up material for that very life, granted we see it every time we throw something away or use something up that we have to replace on a continuing basis such as the need to fill up the gas tank in our cars. In nature, this is harder to see, normally a plant grows, reproduces, dies, and new plants come up, we see this as a perfect cycle of life, and the parent plant does not just reproduce one to replace itself but may produce hundreds of new p...

Where would mankind be with-out computers? Now when applying for many jobs, what computer skills do you have is one of the first questions, perhaps in another 30 years, (or less) that question will no longer be relevant because all computers will do what you ask by just speaking to them. Remember "Star Trek" from the 6O,s? What needs to be done for repairing this planet, will be just as large of a change in the economies of the world, in a much better way for the common person. The "camps", "towns", and the "farming and aquaculture communities" will all be run by individuals and families, so what each produces will be their's to sell, and the prices that they get for their products will not be set by the buyers, but will be set by the communities that produce them. Supply-side economic only work when you do not have to sell to just a handful of buyers. This will be because the producers will be selling finished products, "not beef on the...

65,000,000,000, gigatonnes to 100,000,000,000 gigatonnes By the way a gigatonne is 1,000,000,000 tons this is the best guess that scientists have come up with on how much limestone there is on the planet that was once life! Now that is a range of 65 billion and 100 billion gigatonnes, that is a big range but trying to figure out how much of a certain type of rock is on such a big planet that does need some educated guesswork! The fact is most of that rock is under the oceans. So will we ever run out of limestone to make the concrete that much of our world is made of? NO! So how did we end up with so much limestone on this planet? Was it just here as our planet formed out of the dust of creation? NO! Have you ever looked at a large piece of limestone? Taken a hammer to it and broke it open? If you ever would have you would see the pattern of leaves, seashells, twigs, maybe even the fossilized bones of a fish or prehistoric animal. This is because limestone is made up of past life that w...

When I first started school, in a small town where there where 28 students in K-8th we were taught about past life on the planet. Dinosaurs were always a big hit, and then oil, coal, I remember a film about dinosaurs in animation and as they died their bodies would turn into oil, and an oil well would pump the oil out of the ground and cars would drive up fill up with oil and gas, and away they would go, running on millions of years old dead dinosaurs. Well, I am pretty sure most of us now know that was not quite correct! But it did explain how oil, gas, coal, peat, shale, are all past life. And we have been digging, pumping, drilling, for this past life as fast as we can, to fuel our lives. Just a very small fraction of past life was made into these convenient forms of fuel. Most past life has always been recycled millions and maybe billions of times into new life and still being recycled today, but every year a tiny, tiny, tiny amount is removed from being recycled! A tiny amount end...

Deserts are the second biggest land area only behind farmable lands that is between 37% and 40% of the surface lands of the planet. The remaining amount of between 30% and 38% is split between all other lands, from the tropical rain forest and other forests, mountains, arable land that are not acceptable for farming for many reasons, and all other types of lands such as cities and towns. With so much desert's on the planet, that because of their very nature, causes extreme temperature fluctuations in very short time frames. Why do not scientists see this, why do they think that deserts are to be expected, on a planet that they believe has enough carbon dioxide in the atmosphere? Only by seeing past what is, and seeing what should be, can we truly solve the most pressing issue of the life of all carbon-based species on this planet. We only need to look at the oceans of the planet, is there 25% of the oceans that have almost no life in them, yes there are areas on the oceans that hav...

The first mounds of ice were started back in 2013 when they realized that the higher glaciers were not melting until, too late for spring planting, so by making these ice mounds lower down the valley they would melt sooner and spring planting would have the necessary irrigation water when needed. very smart! From having just one in 2013 to, 29 this last winter and many times much more water is being stored as ice. This is being done locally with only simple plumbing required. I never realized that this was being done, when I started talking about rebuilding glaciers so that people who relied upon glaciers for both drinking and farming downstream, I did not think about the timing of glaciers melting as being of importance, it just goes to show me how little I know sometimes! But installing dams downstream of glaciers would, of course, solve both problems more dependably, but for localized needs, this seems to work well with much less cost upfront. Most of what I put forth as to how to r...

     We are the only species on the planet that has the ability to remediate the problems that have resulted from "carbon sequestration"! Why you ask, now that mankind has added around 150 parts per million of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will that not allow plant life to once again act as both a regulator of that very carbon dioxide and as a stabilizer of the planet temperature to prevent extremes by the plant's respiration which increases cloud cover planet-wide? No, because over the last 2.5 million years, plant life has been pushed out of around 25% of the surface of the planet. This removal of plant life in these areas, which are now called deserts and semi-arid lands, caused a planet-wide rainfall pattern change. That can not be overcome, by the simple addition of new carbon dioxide into the atmosphere! Only by adding water, and that can only be done by redirecting the great rivers of the planet into these arid and semi-arid areas, and replanting the lands in a ...

And if so in what way?  Dan 

Because mankind has started to increase carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by using and burning both fossil fuels and by making concrete from limestone deposits, both of these endeavors releases carbon dioxide back into the planet's atmosphere, where it helps in warming the planet. That in itself would not be an issue if there was enough plant life still on the planet to make use of this newly released carbon. But around 25% of the planet is now considered arid or semi-arid, meaning that these areas cannot support the necessary plant life because of the lack of water. Without the water being available from nature as natural rainfall, mankind needs to make up the difference using the great rivers of the planet as we have done in many places already. Only by reducing the areas of arid and semi-arid places on the planet can we change these areas from being the heat sinks that they are during the day, and change them into crop-producing areas that also increases the plant respiration, wh...

A true leader is one that is intelligent, willing to listen to both sides or more of an issue, does not surround themselves with people that are not willing to say no to an issue because they think that it will angry them, and when a bad or wrong decision is made, they will not look for someone to blame but will say that they made a mistake, and do their best to repair any damage! At one time or another in life, everyone messes up, how we repair or run away from those mistakes shows a person's true character, not just some persona to put in front of a t.v. crowd, knowing full well that someone in every crowd has their own agenda to make no matter what you may say! Sadly this may very well mean that if they hold an elected position, a truly great leader will only be a one-term elected person. How to get the planet's people behind the one and the only, correct way to repair the planet, without a true leader behind the plan, this is going to let everyone with any type of personal ...

Employment, access to food and clean water, access to Medical care, housing, these are what most people on this planet required to live a life with minimal contact with their governments. If a government can either supply or have other supply these 4 things then normally the citizens will be content enough not to create conflict that is not easily settled. I am not trying to minimalize all of the other needs that people have, but if they have those 4 things in acceptable quality, then it has to be something of great need that would cause people to protest against that government. Right now that very problem can be found with racial inequality in American! Life is always unjust in some ways, not just hate and bigotry, but just the fact that someone is not like you may cause strife, That is when the people in charge, of those people that have issues with others, need to send a clear message that while they may not be able to control how there people think and act, but they will make thos...

What scientists have observed, with mankind's addition of around 150 parts per million of new carbon dioxide into the planet's atmosphere, has caused everything that they are saying, more extreme weather, warmer worldwide temperatures, melting of ice around the planet, raising sea and ocean levels, more flooding and more droughts! This is exactly what a scientist is supposed to do, see a problem, diagnose the cause, and find a solution! With a majority of them agreeing on how to go forward to solve the problem.  Since the solution that is necessary for repairing the planet's temperature-regulating ability is replanting all of the arid and semi-arid areas of the planet, it also does exactly what the vast majority of scientists seem to agree on the best way to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide is by it being removed from the atmosphere, and back into the planet's carbon cycle. Then we throw in, glacier replenishment where necessary, plus increasing how much freshwater ice...

When someone wants to donate time, money, or knowledge, to a particular cause, it is very difficult to do so, there are too many different organizations that are supposed to help each cause. Which ones do the best, and that is even if they are not simply scams. Even doing your homework, does not mean that what you finally decide will not change with each new management that comes along. Or simply someone inside an organization will start to divert money to themselves, or worst yet the sitting board members will feel that only by paying top money can they retain high profile "people" so that they can compete with grants writers from other fields of "non-profit's". You have to begin to worry when the presidents of non-profits are making 6 and 7 figure salaries! Yes, each and every action that such non-profit makes claims for, have some truth in it, good grant writers can and do bring in more money then they are paid, but is that the point of a non-profit? Or is it...

     If mankind could suddenly take all of the estimated fossil fuels out of the ground and somehow put it all in the atmosphere it would increase the atmospheric content of the carbon dioxide by 5 times. from 400 parts per million to 2,400 parts per million. Right now it is estimated that there are 800 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and that there are around 4,000 gigatonnes of all the different types of fossil fuel left, so the atmosphere of the planet would go from having less than .04 of a percent of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to having around .24 percent of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere! This new number of .24 % is still much lower than when the dinosaurs roamed the planet. Why then does adding just .015 % make such a difference in Climate Change. There was much, much, more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere when the dinosaurs were here and there is no reason to think that the temperature was much different than now for the highs, and it was no...

I am amazed that so many of my post has almost the exact number of hits, and then all of a sudden the number of hits will double for one post, or drop to almost nothing for another post, what does that mean? Does it simply mean that people are really interested in some and not others, but how do they know if they do not open up the link? When I say that I am computer illiterate, I really am. Anyway I see connections that I can follow, but it seems that most people feel that you can simply compartmentalize, one problem from another, an example is, how does desert formation and the loss of the planet's ability to regulate temperature come together? To me, one must affect the other, there is no way that they can be independent systems. I only see that every system on this planet must affect in some degree every other system of the planet, some systems have seemingly little to do with others, but we are just now understanding how even the larger systems interact, so how can we even beg...

This question is so very hard to answer, yes we have lost so many great minds to war, famine, disease, accidents, but if there was no real strife, would there be a reason to advance. When Europeans came across what we now call The America's it has been estimated that the population may have been not far off from what there was in Europe at the time! but the level of what many people see as progress was not. Europe was very much in the mood for conquest, and wealth-building, along with exploration, and simply leaving a part of the old world that was filled with problems caused by beliefs in what station everyone was to occupy due to birth, and religious Dogma. While the people that lived in The America's, we have almost no knowledge of, minimal writing, very little infrastructure, tools that were way behind most places in the rest of the planet. Was all of Europe "advances" due to wars and conquest that was so prevalent at the time and still is to this day, do wars beg...

Because sooner or later, some necessary ingredient for life will start to run short! I would think that on Planet Mars it was an atmosphere, which due to the lower gravity of the smaller planet, was lost many millions of years ago, while on the Planet Venus, it was the lack of planetary rotation. I do believe that with time life could have adapted to a planet that was slowly lengthening its days and nights, because of evolution, plants seem to be able to adapt to almost any slow change, but to be able to start life with such profound extremes, that may simply be too much to ask of even life, which as we know can live by adaptation almost anywhere as long as it can start in a somewhat stable environment. As of now, there is almost no proof that some type of life has ever existed on either Venus or Mars. But if you believe in Uniformitarianism which to me says that if it could happen anywhere, it could, therefore, happen everywhere, why not life where ever possible! But then the other si...

I really do not see that, what I see is life doing what it can with what is available! Since what is available is ever so slowly constantly changing, we see it as not changing at all. But this is and has never been true, not only is life, changing, but it is changing in ways that can be readily seen if we look at time frames that are much longer than a single human life span. Why do human beings do this? It really is a very common human trait, we see it all the time with religious extremists! Every time that we see another denomination of some religion come into being, be it Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hinduism, or any other faith. It is because someone has decided that what they see is not quite right for their time, because they are sure that the end is near. And many people want to think that they are here on this planet for a reason and that they truly are living in the end days, and not simply living as an endless cog of birth, continuation of the species, and death! Yes, their anc...