Wind turbines used to absorb a power surplus?

Nothing should be culled. We don't have more rights than them.

Samoans always ndid blimp out even when they were eating each other.

And deregulation is preceded by intense lobbying by whatever industry is being regulated with the theme of "We won't do all those stupid things that led to the last blowup and got us regulated.", stated with their fingers crossed. The mean time to disaster seems to be decreasing.

I'm not a fan of government regulation and would like to see government drowned in a tea cup. Philosophically that makes me an anarchist. Then reality kicks in. For the most part individuals and corporations make very bad choices.

When I was in a rehab facility attached to a nursing home I was asked if I had any problem with dogs since they had one that visited periodically. I never met the dog; it may have been more for the long term residents.

I had a cat living with me last year who would follow me to the mailbox. He'd make side trips to investigate things of interest but would catch up eventually.

"Leguminous green manures such as clover and vetch contain nitrogen-fixing symbiotic bacteria in root nodules that fix atmospheric nitrogen in a form that plants can use. This performs the vital function of fertilization."

And what, exactly is your point?

Crop rotation to fix nitrogen (usually using alfalfa) has been widely practiced for a hundred years.

Note, however, that the crops (alfalfa and clover) are not directly used to feed humans, and thus aren't as profitable for the modern industrial farms (the family farm is gone) as crops such as corn (animal feeds, corn starch, corn sugers and alcohol). A modern farm that tried using crop rotation instead of anhydrous would quickly be bankrupt.

That was a comment on my claim that bacteria is not needed for fixing nitrogen with green manure crops.

But other green manure crops do not have that, most obviously with alfalfa. We actually used cannabis as a green manure crop at one time.

Its all perfectly feasible and it was done back in the 1950s

you have been fed a line of bullshit, and not only have you swallowed it, you have learnt to enjoy it.

It does, and it is used. consistent monoculture encourages competitive organisms.

Unlike you, I live in someone elses farm. I have had wheat, barley, broad beans, oil seed rape. All depending on the EU grant this year and what pests were in the fields

Rod speed is so ignorant he doesn't even know how much

It's very characteristic of stupid people.

Warm is only good up to a point. There are large and growing desert areas in Africa, which also has one of the worlds highest population growth rates.

Andy

That seems to be US only. The big impacts are likely to be in poorer countries.

Andy

Probably like mine. I give them a reading every month, and they seem to believe it. Haven't seen their reader in years.

Andy

Actually there is evidence the Sahel is in fact shrinking. as is the Sahara inside it

I've had my smart meters manually read three times in the 5 months since they were installed! Why?

When the species outgrows the carrying capacity it will die back. Unless dogooders send food, that is.

When they trade it for guns to kill each other instead of starving. There's a certain *directness* about Africa one grows to love.