News — jmblog

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/magazine/beyond-the-bitcoin-bubble.html?smid=fb-share

Not having FB, Google, and Amazon, and governments own our data.

https://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2018/01/this-is-not-drill.html

https://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2018/01/nuclear-war-defining-issue-of-our-time.html

Here is where to comment. http://www.sportshootingpartners.org/commentform. Here is an article about shooting: http://www.dailycamera.com/science_columnists/ci_31556286/recreational-shooting-colorado-wilderness-areas. Given the reckless acts of some shooters, I oppose recreational shooting in the national forests. Map alternative 4 would prevent recreational shooting in national forests. Lead is spread into the ecosystem. Trees are blasted down. Bullets go near hikers, students, cars, homes and school buses.

"Clearing Forests May Transform Local and Global Climate" "The 'biotic pump' theory argues that natural forests act as a “pump” that draws moisture inland. condensation, rather than temperature differential, is a primary driver of weather...." "Here's a snapshot of the concept: The concentration of trees in wooded areas means a high rate of transpiration. This moist air cools as it ascends and the water vapor condenses, producing a partial vacuum. This creates an air pressure gradient, whereby the forest canopy sucks in moist air from the ocean. According to Gorshkov and Makarieva, forests don't merely grow in wet areas, they create and perpetuate the conditions in which they grow. Without forest cover—specifically mature, natural forest to ensure sufficient biomass and resilience—moisture is no longer pulled in, the physicists say. Rain becomes erratic and ultimately stalls."

Doug Peacock writes about the need to save bears and wild places. He coauthored a letter to delay the hunting of grizzly bears. He shot a brief film about a young bear playing with ice on a spring pond, pushing the ice chunks down, then watching them pop back up. He is pushing to get the Monkey Wrench GAng made as a spur to get people to do something to protect wild creatures and places. http://www.wyodaily.com/story/2017/12/16/news/haydukes-final-fist-in-the-wilderness/6085.html

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will consider allowing the bee-killing pesticide thiamethoxam to be sprayed on the most widely grown crops in the U.S. The application, if approved, would allow the highly toxic pesticide to be sprayed directly on 165 million acres of wheat, barley, corn, sorghum, alfalfa, rice and potato." https://www.ecowatch.com/syngenta-neonicotinoids-2518688773.html