Zcientists pushing GMO trees to fight global warming (LOLOLOLOL!!!)

10/01/2010

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Watch documentary below after reading that shit!!!!

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FROM PHYSORG

Genetically altered trees, plants could help counter global warming October 1, 2010

Forests of genetically altered trees and other plants could sequester several billion tons of carbon from the atmosphere each year and so help ameliorate global warming, according to estimates published in the October issue of BioScience.

The study, by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, outlines a variety of strategies for augmenting the processes that plants use to sequester carbon dioxide from the air and convert it into long-lived forms of carbon, first in vegetation and ultimately in soil.

Besides increasing the efficiency of plants' absorption of light, researchers might be able to genetically alter plants so they send more carbon into their roots--where some may be converted into soil carbon and remain out of circulation for centuries. Other possibilities include altering plants so that they can better withstand the stresses of growing on marginal land, and so that they yield improved bioenergy and food crops. Such innovations might, in combination, boost substantially the amount of carbon that vegetation naturally extracts from air, according to the authors' estimates.

The researchers stress that the use of genetically engineered plants for carbon sequestration is only one of many policy initiatives and technical tools that might boost the carbon sequestration already occurring in natural vegetation and crops.


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Genetically engineered trees (documentary)

09/25/2010

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Organic RFID coming to a remaining forest near you

08/13/2010

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FROM Fronho

In the future, wood-based radio tags will optimize logistics processes in the forestry. These RFID transponders consist of paper and lignin, an integral part of plants. Thus, they do not disrupt the processing of logs and still make it possible to capture entire truckloads of timber

 Forest hikers are most familiar with the colorful markings on tree trunks waiting along trails to be hauled away. Only insiders know how to interpret them though. »In principle, each forester or forest owner has his or her own marking system,« observes Mike Wäsche from the Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF in Magdeburg. Together with colleagues from the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration IZM, the Thuringian State Forestry, Hunting and Fishing Agency and other forestry partners the business information specialist intends to replace these markings with standardized transponders, i.e. radio tags. At the same time, they intend to establish a logistics standard based on RFIOD for the exchange of data between forest owners, logging and hauling operations and commercial end users.

While the ELDAT standard for ELectronic DATa exchange of sales information has been employed in forestry since, it incorporates logistics processes ionly rudimentarily. In addition, there are gaps in the IT infrastructure: »So far only the major players have implemented information technologies,« regrets Wäsche. However, everyone involved could profi t from integrated electronic data exchange in conjunction with RFID – even small and medium-sized operations that are primarily responsible for logging and transport: Data such as the origin, quality, quantity and destination of logs would only have to be recorded once. Moreover timber can be allocated rapidly and reliably, which expedites invoicing and facilitates transportation control.

High-grade logs for furniture or parquetry is already frequently marked with numbered tags or radio tags. However, the partners in the project »Intelligent Wood - RFID in Timber Logistics« desire a more practicable solution that is suited for marking all types of wood – even the over 13 million cubic meters of industrial timber produced in Germany each year. Industrial wood is defi bered and processed into pulp, paper or composite wood panels. »Since the profi t margins in this sector are slight, the RFID transponders used may not cost much nor disrupt further processing of the wood,« the project manager Wäsche points out. Hence, the team at IZM has developed a new wood-based transponder: With the exception of its antenna, the tag consists of paper and lignin. Large quantities of the resin-like polymer are yielded when cellulose is extracted from wood. »The transponder‘s fraction of metal ist far below the typical levels of impurities in and around wood,« explains Christine Kallmayer, group manager at IZM. To keep costs down, only a numeric code is stored on the radio tag. All other information is stored in the individual actors‘ management and accounting systems. Tags are read when a vehicle drives by: When making a delivery to a mill, the truck and its cargo pass through a reader gate. All delivered logs are captured in bulk while still on the vehicle. Theoretically, one to two RFID transponders per truckload suffi ce to uniquely identify everything. If a load of timber originates from multiple suppliers, at least every twentieth or thirtieth log must be marked – depending on the size of the individual loads – to alloate it reliably. Although the project will run until early 2011, the IFF is already giving thought to inquiries from the chemical industry. The same principle could be applied to capture and track metal drums fi lled with hazardous liquids.



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Protected forests burn more say retards running show

06/11/2010

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THE PINE BEETLE IS CURRENTLY DEFORESTING CANADA

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THE PINE HUMAN IS STILL WINNING!!!!

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Protected forests burn more

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Here is a paradox for those trying to save the rainforests. Reducing the rate of deforestation often makes the number of forest fires go up. Yes, up.

The finding came from a study of satellite images of Amazonia by Luiz Aragão of the University of Exeter, UK, and Yosio Shimabukuro at the National Institute of Space Research in São Paulo, Brazil (Science, vol 328, p 1275). Pristine forests and farmed areas are largely fire-free. But fires proliferate in half-destroyed forests, where traditional farmers practice slash-and-burn farming in clearings.

This is just the kind of forest that appears to have benefited from recent Brazilian efforts to reduce the rate of forest loss in the Amazon. The study found that 59 per cent of forest areas where deforestation rates dropped between 2000 and 2007 have more fires than they did before. This is more than a statistical quirk, say the authors.

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Afterthoughts...
Nature indeed will adapt to whatever circumstances and abuse we put it through, its humans we are trying to save, and what conservatives do is overlook the fact that they ARE nature, libs tend to just want to SAVE nature and not humans, there is an in between. The goal is to get off the planet before it burns up. Thats it, thats all. Thats thepuzzle. 

Thanks to shorter winters the pine beetles have devoured the trees in the west, which makes for an unnatural amount of fires, which makes for lack of water in the soil, which makes for more heat, erosion, and the cycle continues until we are sweltering in piss hot 50 degree heat. Indeed fires cant spread as far if there is a clearcut between two stands, BUT THERE AINT NO FOREST THERE NEITHER!!! Thats what they overlook in this article. Selective cutting and not clear-cutting like we do here, is a good way around this, although its far more expensive, and what rich cunthead really wants to heli a tree 5 miles for Walmart flyers and the Chinese furniture when you can take 50 hectares as long as you replace it with fake trees and pesticides to make sure nothing else survives. These mothersuckers are braindead scum, the foresters out there are halfwits and 90% of the environmentalists are serving the agenda of the elites by chasing fkn ghosts like global warming YAY lets die for the rich!!! 
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