Help TKAG Stop Fracking

Help TKAG Stop Fracking.

This is a film from some friends of mine in the Karoo. This is a portion of South Africa. It is a beautiful place, which still contains wild lands and native people in some of it. They have seen the effects of Fracking. They are standing up. Shell Oil is the purveyor this time. WE need to stand with them and learn from them. I cannot be sure if there is a safe way to conduct this practice of Fracking.

I do know that the Oil Companies are determined to buffalo their way through without finding out. If they bully us into submission, they will do whatever they please, as the bill that has protected them so far says they don't have to test, report or take responsibility for the damages caused by the practice of Fracking. Bush and Cheney hid this free pass into other legislation. This is called Halliburton's bill. Look it up.

The Oil and gas companies who use this process(and it is nearly all of them) are pumping millions of gallons of Diesel fuel, hydraulic fluid and whatever they like, into the ground.  Support the protectors of the Karoo. Stop Fracking here, until it is proven what it will take for this practice to be safe...Jeff Darling 

A Few words from the leader of the "Save the Karoo"movement: my friend, Louise Maartens Venter:

This is something all South Africans should see. Please act against fracking now before it's

too late. It's about our health, our water, our landscape, our people, our economic 

upliftment, our future and our children's heritage. Shell and others want to start with 24 wells. Gas is NOT a renewable or sustainable source of energy, it is NOT more ozone friendly. Please don't believe the propaganda. Read up and decide for yourself.

Not Just Polar Bears- Endangered species abound

The day gets closer and closer. Global warming is a reality. Someone told me recently, God said He would not wipe out man with another flood, and that is how we know it is not real. I tell you- Global warming is not about a flood.It is about animals that cannot reproduce, that cannot feed their young, that cannot adapt anywhere near as quickly as we can corrupt. Man is the destroyer: of a million acres a week in each great Rain Forest, of the ice caps at the north an south poles, of the air we breathe. And those who "Forge Her Beauty Into Power" will do anything to keep us in their stranglehold.

The tortoise changes the sex of its offspring if the ambient temperature is 4 degrees over normal. What will they do if they can only produce females? The Salmon, such a wonder of nature(just ask the Bear) is helpless to decline without the cold stream water. Ocean dwellers have a little more chance to move and avoid the excess warmth. What about those who feed on them? The Puffin for example, cannot fly miles further offshore to gather the fish they eat and bring them home to the chicks.

Corals are going faster yet. 10 years ago 2% were endangered now there are 30% of coral endangered as the oceans change faster every year. 

The freak weather associated with the climate changes continue to hold some of our most precious species hostage. Imagine a day without the Monarch Butterfly. Just recently 80% were wiped out by colder than normal storms, and the rain is predicted again this year. It isn't always the big change that causes the most impact. Bighorn Sheep, Pica, Snowy Owls are just some of the animals that need to move higher or further North, but what if they can't even find it? It is past time to act. Act, before it is too late.

The Wilderness Society

Mummified Trees Could Take Climate Scientists Back to the Future

Update of World Earthquake activity

For those tracking Japan Earthquake Aftershocks

And now tonight's story...
Mummified Trees Could Take Climate Scientists Back to the Future

It is clear that Joel Barker has found what is essentially fresh forest that is millions of years old. The trees and leaves were kept fresh by being sealed off from Oxygen immediately. The boon this has provided is amazing. Scientists will be able to extract data for a long time, and it will be interesting to seewhat else they find.

When in Quttinirpaaq National Park in the Canadian Arctic, Ohio State University Earth scientist Joel Barker initially spotted some pieces of dead trees scattered on the barren ground near a glacier. Immediately, he knew he had found something akin to a looking glass peering into the Arctic's ecological past.

Due to previous cores and recent discoveries,Barker's team can place the age of the discovery to between 2-12 million years ago. 

Also because of the state of the trees and leaves(yes leaves) being so pristine, scientists are going to be able to extrapolate much information from them that would be relevant to what we need to know about the effects of Global Warming on similar species.

Due to the fact of having found only about five different species, Barker has stated that it is pretty clear "Probably living at the most northern extent of its range, this forest was probably living at the edge, just hanging on, just barely staying alive," said Barker."

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The landscape of Quttinirpaaq National Park is dominated by glaciers and sparse high-arctic tundra vegetation.

Credit: Joel Barker, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University

The mummified trees have very narrow growth rings, indicating a very harsh environment during their lifetime.

Credit: Joel Barker, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University

Researchers have found mummified leaves in the sediment of the mummified forest deposit at the Quttinirpaaq National Park.

Credit: Joel Barker, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University

Common Sense to End Climate Change-Stop Climate Denial

Please Help Me Find Common Sense Solutions!

The purpose of this showing of a NSF (National Science Foundation ) instructional piece on climate change is to educate. I am not here to tell you anything I do not find very good reason to believe. We need to begin to see the truth of each other, instead of letting others tell us why we should hate.

 I had someone tell me the other day that people refuse to believe Climate Change is real because God promised He would never again end the Earth in Flood. This could be very true and still have nothing to do with it. If something were going to end life on Earth due to Climate Change, it would not be the flooding.  The flooding is a bad thing, but certainly would not end life on Earth.  If, later, the change got worse and reached a point of always feeding itself in a loop that made it worse and worse, the final result would be Oceans boiling away and heat causing our demise. My question is: Why on Earth, for the sake of our children and their children, would we let it get that far when we can make sensible changes and get things better every year?  Why in the name of all that is Holy wouldn't we do that?  Let's do that...Jeff Darling

The Story of Stuff- With a Science Perspective

We have allowed a bunch of Corporations with a very vested interest to take over our country. They did this with a plan and a purpose; to get filthy rich to the point where the money could no longer even mean anything. Annie Leonard is going to explain the plan.

 What I want you to get is that this is not a conspiracy theory, it is not self-aggrandizing from tree-huggers. This is how come we all notice that our lives are so different and lacking in purpose.It is why we cannot get off the merry-go-round. It is why we ruin the forest, the people of the third world countries, our jobs and everything we ever held dear. It is a crazy train out of control. America can't be the bad guy, serving our selfish fat asses. But you know what? We are.

 We got snookered by a bunch of people who would do anything to be in charge. I am quite certain these were the kids who got their butts whooped on the way home from school. They are in Charge. We are on a spinning top and we need to remember who we are.

 It has gotten so that people flock to churches because they are so afraid of these changes. STOP THESE CHANGES. GET OFF THE FERRIS WHEEL.Go back to church 'cause you like it, not to be sure you are on the right side.

 It is time we demand more from our leaders. I knew something was funny when somehow, the Tea Party and the environmentalists were really on the same page. We all want the same thing. The Billionaires do not. They are not out to help us. This is the beginning of saying no to this and taking our lives and our country back. Join Me. ..Jeff Darling

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By now a lot of you have seen 'The Story of Stuff, by Annie Leonard and the Story of Stuff Project. I firmly congratulate and appreciate the vision Annie Leonard and a handful of others show when they make these things to get through to us. Thank you...Jeff Darling

Update-Japan

NASA Has view of Affected area of Japan

The ESA has overhead photos of the before and After of the earthquake.

Before                           After

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