Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

Probably. I've read too much on it to even guess. Some say if the Gulf Stream 
slows enough or stops then the upper Atlantic seaboard and northern Europe go 
into a new Ice Age. At any rate they say climate changes can ruin world 
agricultural production. It appears much of Africa and Australia may be 
heading into disastrous long term drought, but monsoons and other storms may 
get worse in other parts of the world. Some wise guy said fine if the frozen 
north thaws out, we'll just farm it! Except the frozen tundra's methane 
evaporating would be twenty times the greenhouse gas of CO2. I don't know and 
maybe it's better I don't.

In any case we have more urgent reasons to localize and relearn how to 
provide the necessities of life, starting with making food from dirt instead 
of petroleum.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 1/10/2010 at 4:31 PM yarrow@sfo.com wrote:

>On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 07:41:13 -0800 (PST), Debbie Mcdonald
><belynor@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> It is not mild here now, SOMETHING happened:O. ...
>
>As I understand it, one of the main effects of global warming is more
>extreme weather for everyone.
>
>Several years ago I was on a gardening forum where someone who had been
>keeping records of what to plant when for decades said that in the past few
>years, spring stopped being predictable.
>
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