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Genetic Corn To The Seed Vault

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 7:10:26 PM
   In regards to my last post on genetic corn and how nobody likes it anymore, you can always buy stock in Norway's seed vault and invest in organic, non-genetically altered seeds.
 
 
 
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Germany Claimes Monsanto Corn Is Bad For Environment

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 11:15:50 AM
   Just when you thought it was safe to eat genetically modified corn, turns out it is bad for the environment.
 
Under the new regulations, the cultivation of MON 810, a GM corn produced by the American biotech giant Monsanto, will be prohibited in Germany, as will the sale of its seed. Aigner told reporters Tuesday she had legitimate reasons to believe that MON 810 posed "a danger to the environment," a position which she said the Environment Ministry also supported. In taking the step, Aigner is taking advantage of a clause in EU.
 
   What I really like is the picture attached with the article...
 
Greenpeace activists take a sample from a Monsanto test site near Borken in North Rhine-Westphalia: The GM crop MON 810 has been banned in Germany.
 
   These two are Greenpeace activistst taking samples of the corn. First off, what kind of testing are they qualified to do? And second, are they trying to scare people with the bio suits?
 
   After reading the article, you will notice that there is no explanation as to why they believe the corn is bad for the environment.
 
   The article also notes that France has banned the modified corn although France's food watchdog agency declaered it safe back in February. So is it bad or not?
 
   All I could find on the subject was this paper written back in 2000. It has a balanced view on both sides of the arguement. The real problem with this arguement is that it is beiong played out by the government and the environmentalists. It seems the "greeneies" are upset more because it is geneticlly modified, another words, it's not organic. The good it has done to feed the world seems to be lost on them.
    But really, who knows who's right in this deal. It may turn out that the pollen from these plants will kill all insect life on the planet. But if we don't feed the nations with it, we will have even more hungry peole in this world. Which side do you pick?
 
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Michelle O Plants Her First Seed...Literally

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Thursday, April 09, 2009 7:44:51 PM
   A few weeks back I brought you a story on Michelle Obama's vegetable garden. Well she is gett'n it on! And she is not afraid to get dirty!
 
Close up of the shoes...
 
Michelle Obama
 
Are those the new Versace velcro runners?
 
 
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Spains Tourism Could Dry Up

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Thursday, April 09, 2009 7:34:04 PM
 
I like what one of the responders to the story wrote...from Spain mind you.

Does the European commission report state that spain has had one of the most snowy winters in the last years?
If I remember well from my school days, snow fills up resevoirs more than rainfall does. Just take a look back in history, changes in the climate are constant. Globel warming = nonsense.

narobe, Madrid, Spain
 
   Don't worry, that can be explained by global warming as well. At least that is the case in California.
 
“The glaciers on Mount Shasta in California are growing because of global warming, experts say. ”

” ‘When people look at glaciers around the world, the majority of them are shrinking,’ said Slawek Tulaczyk, a University of California, Santa Cruz, professor who studied the glaciers.”

“But the seven glaciers on Shasta, part of the Cascade mountains in northern California, ’seem to be benefiting from the warming ocean,’ he said.
 
   The "experts" in Europe are so far behind the "experts" here in the states. Man...we are always having to save the europeans.
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Polluting To Cool Things Down

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Thursday, April 09, 2009 7:21:37 PM
   Just in case you thought that maybe Obama's sceince advisor had yet made a fool statement like so many others on his team, ended yesterday with this mind warping piece of brilliance.
 
WASHINGTON (AP) - The president's new science adviser said Wednesday that global warming is so dire, the Obama administration is discussing radical technologies to cool Earth's air.
John Holdren told The Associated Press in his first interview since being confirmed last month that the idea of geoengineering the climate is being discussed. One such extreme option includes shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun's rays. Holdren said such an experimental measure would only be used as a last resort.
 
"It's got to be looked at," he said. "We don't have the luxury of taking any approach off the table."
 
   So, we pollute the air to cool the Earth? Actually, that makes perfect sense. It kind of reminds me of the Obama administrations view on fixing the economy; do exactly what got us into trouble (spend money we don't have) attempting to stimulate it.
 
 Two negatives make a positive, right?
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The Court Rules In Favor Of Common Sense

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Saturday, April 04, 2009 7:18:57 PM
   File this in the Duuhhh section of environmental law.
 
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Wednesday that the government can weigh costs against benefits in deciding whether to order power plants to undertake environmental improvements that would protect fish.

The high court decision overruled the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York. The appeals court said the Clean Water Act does not allow cost to be used when deciding what technology would best minimize environmental impacts.

But Scalia said even the appeals court and environmentalists "concede that some form of cost-benefit analysis is permitted."
 
   You think?
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A Different Look At CO2

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Saturday, April 04, 2009 7:09:56 PM
   Here is an interesting article concerning CO2 and some new studies conducted using the particle.
 

The commonly known solid-state form of carbon dioxide is the so called “dry ice”, which is a molecular crystal and has many important applications, e.g. food production and storage, artificial fog in theatre and artificial rainfall, etc.

Even more interesting, as the pressure increases and temperature varies, the intra- and inter-molecular interactions of carbon dioxide change dramatically and this results in different crystal structures in polymeric dense phases with interesting physical properties, such as “super-hardness”. Thus carbon dioxide has become an extremely hot topic in science in the last decade.
 
   After all the negative press, who would have thought CO2 could be a good thing?
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