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Does anyone know the Carbon Footprint of a Beehive?
« on: November 11, 2010, 06:11:11 pm »
I have to believe it is a negative quantity.  It is built from wood, nails and beeswax foundation.  Even if you start with a package or a nuc you have a workforce of 50,000, give or take, which spend everyday pollinating, creating more green, creating seeds.  All that green uses photosynthesis which eats CO2 and emits O2.  Does anyone know?   :roll:

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Re: Does anyone know the Carbon Footprint of a Beehive?
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2010, 06:20:53 pm »
Sounds like a good study/ (waste of money) government spending program.   Move over bovines, here comes the bees.

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Re: Does anyone know the Carbon Footprint of a Beehive?
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2010, 07:44:23 pm »
As beeks, would we receive carbon credits?   :-D

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Re: Does anyone know the Carbon Footprint of a Beehive?
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2010, 07:46:17 pm »
Or would we only get carbon credits when we got rid of the bees to cut out the carbon?

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Re: Does anyone know the Carbon Footprint of a Beehive?
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2010, 07:57:01 pm »
Are you factoring in all the shipping carbon for every new tool or isp control that is all the rage? 6-7 long distance deliveries per hobbyist sound about right.

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Re: Does anyone know the Carbon Footprint of a Beehive?
« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2010, 10:29:57 pm »
Why do you want to know?  If it is a positive number would you get rid of your bees?

How many clear cuts to provide a nation's worth of wooden ware each year.
Have you ever seen what a zinc mine or an iron mine do to the environment. you use nails right?
How about all the chemicals needed to make paint & glue.
There's lots of hives with plastics in them and that's oil of course.  Which would include transportation.
Plus much more.

I don't see how bees can sequester carbon.  Maybe they're carbon neutral helping to produce 30% more food on existing acreage but I don't know.  If you think your bees are killing the planet then give them to me.  I'll swear on Al Gore that no Planets will be harmed in the production of my honey!
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Re: Does anyone know the Carbon Footprint of a Beehive?
« Reply #6 on: November 11, 2010, 10:35:19 pm »
Hmmm, Al Gore and bees the possibilities are interesting.  :evil:
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Re: Does anyone know the Carbon Footprint of a Beehive?
« Reply #7 on: November 11, 2010, 10:47:11 pm »
David McLeod ,

I like the way you think...
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Re: Does anyone know the Carbon Footprint of a Beehive?
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Re: Does anyone know the Carbon Footprint of a Beehive?
« Reply #9 on: November 11, 2010, 10:59:44 pm »
They sequester carbon in the form on honey, but then you eat and process that and it reenters the system, not to mention the amount of carbon produced from driving trucks around maintaining the hives.  They pollinate seeds, but those only replace the vegetation that will die in the fall.  They die and rot in the ground releasing methane. It is a zero sum game.

We all live and die by carbon.

I think it is an unanswerable academic question at best, a trick to fool people out of money as carbon credits at worst.
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Re: Does anyone know the Carbon Footprint of a Beehive?
« Reply #10 on: November 12, 2010, 12:36:07 am »

Good grief.  Gore never said he invented the internet from a technical point of view.  He said he helped create it politically and he actually did.  And later he was the main force pushing to open the internet to commercial use, which resulted in an explosion of uses which most people (other than Gore) had not foreseen. This forum is one of those uses.

And I don't get the climate change denials.  We are making lots of carbon... the physics of how that warms the atmosphere is not complicated, and the atmosphere IS warming.  It rarely gets any more obvious in a complex system like global climate. 
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Re: Does anyone know the Carbon Footprint of a Beehive?
« Reply #11 on: November 12, 2010, 12:40:28 am »
Then can I have your hives too... :evil:
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Re: Does anyone know the Carbon Footprint of a Beehive?
« Reply #12 on: November 12, 2010, 01:22:52 am »
Then can I have your hives too... :evil:
Nah.  My bees reduce carbon emissions because I have to stay home to take care of them.  That's less gasoline burned.   :-D    And God knows what trouble I would get into if I didn't spend so much time on the bee forums.... on the internet....invented by Al Gore.  Soooo.... I guess Gore has indirectly reduced my carbon emissions.    :-P
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Re: Does anyone know the Carbon Footprint of a Beehive?
« Reply #13 on: November 12, 2010, 01:54:06 am »
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And I don't get the climate change denials.  We are making lots of carbon... the physics of how that warms the atmosphere is not complicated, and the atmosphere IS warming.  It rarely gets any more obvious in a complex system like global climate.  


good thing you weren't around at the end of the last ice age!  "oh nooooo, the ice is melting....put out your cook fires!"   :evil:

can someone tell me what the perfect temp for earth is?  i sure hope it's not the nasty cold summer we just had.  
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Re: Does anyone know the Carbon Footprint of a Beehive?
« Reply #14 on: November 12, 2010, 09:23:10 am »
Nah.  My bees reduce carbon emissions because I have to stay home to take care of them.

Awwwww.  I already had an apiary spot picked out too.  Over by the outdoor wood stove.  Well if you have to pick your car over your bees let me know OK. Thanks.  :-D
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Re: Does anyone know the Carbon Footprint of a Beehive?
« Reply #15 on: November 12, 2010, 09:47:20 am »
We are making lots of carbon...

Check the science....we're not making any carbon.  :roll:
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Re: Does anyone know the Carbon Footprint of a Beehive?
« Reply #16 on: November 12, 2010, 11:14:34 am »
We are making lots of carbon...

Check the science....we're not making any carbon.  :roll:

What?  You've stopped exhaling?  :-D
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Re: Does anyone know the Carbon Footprint of a Beehive?
« Reply #17 on: November 12, 2010, 11:27:23 am »
We are making lots of carbon...

Check the science....we're not making any carbon.  :roll:


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Carbon footprint is based upon how much carbon we are releasing from fossil fuels, carbon stored in the ground "millions" of years ago. Bees themselves are carbon neutral. Plastics, transportation, etc, not so much. Tough to quantify though!

I always tell my students (I teach Bio) that using paper and wood helps reduce our carbon footprint because it encourages the planting and harvest of fast growing tree species and helps remove carbon from the atmosphere...  :-D

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Re: Does anyone know the Carbon Footprint of a Beehive?
« Reply #18 on: November 12, 2010, 11:35:28 am »
Bee's have 6 feet !

Does that mean they have 6 carbon foots ?     ;)

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Re: Does anyone know the Carbon Footprint of a Beehive?
« Reply #19 on: November 12, 2010, 12:13:43 pm »
We are making lots of carbon...

Check the science....we're not making any carbon.  :roll:

What?  You've stopped exhaling?  :-D

We're not MAKING carbon, we're taking the carbon from Glucose and releasing it as Carbon Dioxide as a waste product of cellular respiration.

First law of Thermodynamics: Matter can be neither created nor destroyed.

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Re: Does anyone know the Carbon Footprint of a Beehive?
« Reply #20 on: November 12, 2010, 01:16:41 pm »
We're not MAKING carbon, we're taking the carbon from Glucose and releasing it as Carbon Dioxide as a waste product of cellular respiration.

First law of Thermodynamics: Matter can be neither created nor destroyed.
Actually..... the First Law of Thermodynamics is that ENERGY can't be created or destroyed, but I understand what you mean.  Unfortunately, I assumed this was obvious and that I could substitute "carbon" for "carbon dioxide" without losing anyone.  Humans make, release, liberate, cause to be emitted.... huge quantities of carbon dioxide.  Since carbon dioxide absorbs infrared radiation and thus warms the atmosphere, it would be very surprising if our emissions did not cause some warming.  

Add to this the fact that the global surface temperatures ARE in fact rising and you have reason for concern.  Add to that the fact that we will eventually run out of fossil fuel (and that it will get very expensive long before we run totally out) and you have a reason to begin moving to renewable sources of energy.  Add to that the fact that most of our fossil fuel comes from unstable and hostile parts of the planet and you have reason to move as quickly as possible to wind and solar for environmental, economic, and national security benefits.
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Re: Does anyone know the Carbon Footprint of a Beehive?
« Reply #21 on: November 12, 2010, 03:03:18 pm »
I just found it.   The carbon footprint of the average (2 deep lang) bee hive is 42.

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Re: Does anyone know the Carbon Footprint of a Beehive?
« Reply #22 on: November 12, 2010, 03:09:36 pm »
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Add to this the fact that the global surface temperatures ARE in fact rising and you have reason for concern.  Add to that the fact that we will eventually run out of fossil fuel (and that it will get very expensive long before we run totally out) and you have a reason to begin moving to renewable sources of energy.  Add to that the fact that most of our fossil fuel comes from unstable and hostile parts of the planet and you have reason to move as quickly as possible to wind and solar for environmental, economic, and national security benefits.
 
 


assuming the temp has gone up, and that is debatable, why do we need to be concerned.  it has happened before.  it has been colder before.
how do you know that we are running out of fossil fuel?
importing as much oil as we do, is a problem.  it is a national security risk if nothing else.  i think we should drill more and faster.  we can have our own  :-)  maybe we could even export!

i have no problem with other forms of energy, but i do object to the government mandating it, paying for it, and forcing it on us.  when the market can support it, it will be created.  the free market will cause systems to be developed which are cost effective and efficient.  the government won't.
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Re: Does anyone know the Carbon Footprint of a Beehive?
« Reply #23 on: November 12, 2010, 03:52:15 pm »
I know a lot of folks who dont want to believe X-or Y due a lot of the "consider the source" stuff - not necessarily an unreasonable caution. having said that there is bound to be flak based soley on who posted the video to You Tube - I actually don't care - it's a video of a reasonable source himself.  ...And then of course come the refutations based in (????) over who owns his soul for not toeing the line. etc. etc. etc. - anyway - If I found the right video (I know it's the right guy) He backs his argument with solid science - I know a "conservative" position argued with science - might as well be a monkey writing Shakespere - cuz you know they's somefin fishy about that.'
 This is part one of 4 so if you want to see the whole thing use the link instead of the window.
John Coleman slams global warming (1 of 4)

EDIT: 20 minutes elapsed - this is the video I was looking for when I posted the above.
John Coleman Debunks the Myth of Global Warming
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Re: Does anyone know the Carbon Footprint of a Beehive?
« Reply #24 on: November 12, 2010, 06:26:26 pm »
 :-D OMG, HOW DARE YOU BRING THAT KIND OF GARBAGE HERE! DON'T YOU KNOW MAN MADE CLIMATE CHANGE IS AN ACCEPTED FACT! THERE IS NO ROOM FOR THE TRUTH IN THIS DEBATE! ROFLMAO  :-D

Seriously dude you must be some kind of sick twisted pervert to believe the truth (or at least that's what I'm told when I try to expose the frauds out there).
I say we gather up all the global warming whackjobs and assign them the task of gathering data. Issue them a ruler and deposit them on a convenient deserted island and tell them to measure the tides. LOL

Sorry for the yelling but I just had to play the fool on this.
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« Reply #25 on: November 12, 2010, 07:39:50 pm »

  the free market will cause systems to be developed which are cost effective and efficient.  the government won't.
Markets are only as good as the information they have.  When they have full access to accurate info, they are the most efficient way to allocate resources to advance a particular goal.  But markets are not able to decide on goals.  That is the role of government. 

There is currently no mechanism to provide global warming info to the energy markets.  Oil drillers are not responsible for the effects of burning their product.  There is no feedback mechanism that lets the market incorporate the cost of global warming.  If the price of every barrel of oil reflected the risk that global warming was for real, gas would be more expensive and the market could asymptotically approach the effective solution you mention.  But since there is no feedback, oil markets will continue as is until the government intervenes or the temperature of the earth rises to the point that rig workers die from the heat.

Are you getting my point?  What will make the market respond to global warming if it is real?   
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« Reply #26 on: November 12, 2010, 08:34:34 pm »
Actually, there are lots of environmental engineers working on and acheiving solutions to remove the CO2 that isnt already filtered out (because there's big bucks in it) one such guy has (developed? - bred?) a fast growing algae that sits in water and had the CO2 rich exhaust bubbled through the water solution - Plant+H2O plus photosynthesis - he gets an algae that absorbs (?) of the CO2 turning it into an edible (horrid) protein rich green slime.
While I find the fear of CO2 to be sort of anti-science I think there are/will be plenty of very educated, well trained people who can develop exceptional solutions to the problems -imaginary though they are.
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« Reply #27 on: November 12, 2010, 08:42:23 pm »
Isn't amazing what Govt. Grant Money can do ??

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« Reply #28 on: November 12, 2010, 08:45:28 pm »
yup, probably a grant to solve a problem that may not actually exist - government symbiosis at it's finest. Although Enviro engineers are pretty well paid by private (sector) companies to solve problems for bigger companies.
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Re: Does anyone know the Carbon Footprint of a Beehive?
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Markets are only as good as the information they have.  When they have full access to accurate info, they are the most efficient way to allocate resources to advance a particular goal.  But markets are not able to decide on goals.  That is the role of government. 

government may set a goal.  that's fine.  where govt oversteps is when they manipulate markets to achieve the goal and when they shove regulation down our throats to achieve the goal.  the stupid light bulb thing would be one fine example. 

 
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There is currently no mechanism to provide global warming info to the energy markets.


that might be because there is no accurate info?  the books have been cooked.  why should we trust manipulated data?



the markets respond to the desires and needs of the consumer.  if the consumer desires and better light bulb and the market can provide one at a competitive price, the consumer will buy it.  if the consumer need a small car because of gas rationing (the 70's) and the market can provide what the consumer want....we have Honda's and Toyota's all over the place. 

when the rig drillers drop in the heat, someone will develop a comfortable cooling suit, i'm sure.

you still have not answered my question.  IF there is global warming, why is it a bad thing?  what would be the perfect temp for the earth?  why has the planet survived massive shifts in temp and weather before and survived. 
and how about this?  if this is all caused by nasty man, maybe it's good thing if a few die off?  maybe it's the planets way of shedding a parasite.

Someone really ought to tell them that the world of Ayn Rand?s novel was not meant to be aspirational.

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« Reply #30 on: November 12, 2010, 09:15:26 pm »
I remember back years ago when I was in school, the big talk was the next Ice age coming that was over due........

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« Reply #31 on: November 12, 2010, 09:22:53 pm »
And the way to survive a nuc blast was to "Duck and cover".

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« Reply #32 on: November 12, 2010, 09:28:58 pm »
 :-D

Potassium iodide is in my bomb shelter right now.

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« Reply #33 on: November 12, 2010, 09:45:13 pm »
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Have you calculated that bees gather surplus carbohydrate.

But resiously bee colony  have so much feet that i cannot calculate it.

Is it better to calculate a carbon wing print because bees like to fly. 230 flaps in second.

Yes, carbon flaps....
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« Reply #34 on: November 12, 2010, 10:10:00 pm »
finski   :-D

hey, i even remember the duck and cover song.  who says you can't learn from repetition?
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« Reply #35 on: November 12, 2010, 10:50:21 pm »
Please, you guys, you're wasting a perfectly good crisis!!! :-D
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that might be because there is no accurate info?  the books have been cooked.  why should we trust manipulated data?
I'm speaking of information in the sense of economic theory.  Let's assume for the moment that man-made carbon dioxide is causing terrible global temperature increases that are melting the ice caps, destroying species, and leading to the fall of civilization.  By what economic mechanism will the energy market respond to these changes?  Environmental damage is an externalized cost that is invisible to the free market.  That's why I say that goals have to be set by government, which is not interested only in profit.  For example, the most market friendly way government can set a goal for converting to alternative energy is to tax gasoline and coal.  Then the market has a way to measure the need to move to alternatives.  The information is provided by the differential savings by using the non-taxed energy.
 
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you still have not answered my question.  IF there is global warming, why is it a bad thing?  what would be the perfect temp for the earth?  why has the planet survived massive shifts in temp and weather before and survived.  
and how about this?  if this is all caused by nasty man, maybe it's good thing if a few die off?  maybe it's the planets way of shedding a parasite.
Oh, it may not be bad in the very long run (millions of years)  but it is foolish to conduct the experiment on the only planet we have.  There are feedback mechanisms that keep the earth in a range suitable for complex lifeforms.  If we push the earth out of that range, it will eventually come back into range and some new species will rise to dominance. (ooh, maybe some descendants of the honey bee!)  The earth will be just fine, but human civilization will not.  And many of these changes will occur in your lifetime, and certainly in the lifetime of your children.  Oil is going to run out anyway, so making the switch to carbon neutral energy a few decades early seems a small price to pay for not destroying civilization.  

 If it is your religious devotion to free markets that pushes you to such extreme views, I would point out that free markets will be an early casualty of the disruption of historic climate patterns.  Better to use those markets to make the necessary changes.
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Re: Does anyone know the Carbon Footprint of a Beehive?
« Reply #37 on: November 13, 2010, 01:14:43 am »
The topic of global warming whenever discussed makes me think of something I will get to shortly.
odd the manmade warming proponents would approach the topic almost exactly after the fashion a door to door bible thumper would operate down here.
"well even if you're an athiest, wouldn't it be better to come to my church ($), just in case you are wrong?" with:
"well even if you're an athiest 'denier', wouldn't it be better to come to my church 'accept the mandates'($), just in case you are wrong?"
I'm not going into the basic science that makes this suspicious to me.
Anyway, the mention of "religion" kind of reminded me of some people between 600 and 300 BC, who had some very interesting thoughts.
Democritus, Anaxamander, and Anaxagoras - are the top of that list - remember we're talking at and over 23 centuries ago. Democritus thought very deeply on the properties of matter - so deeply that he figured 'there must be something so so tiny that still holds the properties of the element that it is - he even called it an Atom (well over 23 centuries ago). Anaximander - was having a hard think one day and considered that nature adapts and changes - even theorizing that man's ancestors slithered out of the muck an impossibly long time ago - this was 240 decades before Charlie Darwin.  Anaxagoras by some reasoning decided that the Earth was a ball of some kind  and it circled around the sun, and that maybe the moon circled around the Earth.
These guys were convicted of "Impiety" (before christianity) and their theories were suppressed and obscured. Meanwhile Pythagoras was thinking about geometry and his thinktank decided that the doedecahedron was much too dangerous for the general public to run around knowing (this is how some academics perceive themselves, as being smart enough to contain thoughts that would [melt the brains of normal people?]) Pythagoras also got cozy with the ruling bodies and produced decent enough work to be accepted as a darn good authority (Pythagorean work was a "peer review" type society, pythagoras was one man - the pythagoreans were kind of a gemoetry club with way too much pull) - If im not mistaken, the impious heretics who thought up evolution, planetary movement, and the most rudimentary atomic theory were convicted of their heresy in sight of the pythagorean group. (taken from Carl Seagan's "Cosmos" - with other knowledge from courses)
    My point in that long history babble is that when politicians ally with religions (Earth "worship"/reverence) - very ugly things begin to happen, Objectivity begins to fall by the wayside, and anyone who disagrees with the popular opinion is branded 'impious' albeit today only sentenced to watch everyone else fail to be objective (often a pretty sound punishment).
          Approaching science with a religious/psuedo-religious flavor has already set us back well over 2000 years; Approaching Global Warming in the same fashion, by dismissing opposing evidence as being something allied with nefarious forces - impious - could damage us further, as it has to our production, manufacturing, and probably competitive innovation.
         Of course I'm not saying  "burn everything, kill the great lakes again" but I am saying, Are you for real?
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Re: Does anyone know the Carbon Footprint of a Beehive?
« Reply #38 on: November 13, 2010, 01:38:00 am »
well, lets see what we have to back your global warming:  improperly peer reviewed theory papers.  a conspiracy to keep same from proper peer review and a conspiracy to demonzie dissenters.  a movie that was rubbish, but caused the church of global warming to pleasure themselves. upside down hockey sticks?  improperly placed temp sensors as basis for above papers and theories.  UN climate panel that has "made some mistakes" and who's members are abandoning ship, failure to examine other probable causes like solar activity and ocean currents, seas are not rising, (maybe obama did that) ....and last, but certainly not least, a plan to enact global taxes and regulations to combat the (manufactured) crisis.

and the last i think, is the real goal.

 a few more greenhouse gasses and maybe my garden will grow next year!  

have you considered the cascade effect of raising taxes on carbon fuels?  we already have inflation.  it's bound to get worse.  we may never get our backsides out of this ditch, so what the heck...lets just pile on some more!

Someone really ought to tell them that the world of Ayn Rand?s novel was not meant to be aspirational.

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« Reply #39 on: November 13, 2010, 01:44:25 am »
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Approaching science with a religious fervor has already set us back well over 2000 years

gave us neat stuff like smart phones.....but....there again is that whole profit thing....

seriously though, science builds on science.  when an idea is before it's time, it rarely can stand alone.  it gets pitched into the sorting basket until the foundations catch up with it.
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« Reply #40 on: November 13, 2010, 03:13:33 am »
Sorry kathy, I modified that sentence, it looked awkward. they were before their time, about as out of place as Leonardo - even more - but Leonardo's works weren't suppressed and obscured. I have to wonder how many people used his doodles as launchpads for real works.
 
(anyway, someone else answered the carbon footprint of bees, I imagine it's negative)
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« Reply #41 on: November 13, 2010, 10:23:50 am »
Actually, many of DaVinci's works were suppressed and even destroyed by The Church.

I don't know how to take your looking at Nature in a religious way right now, but riddle me this...

One does not have to deify the world or nature in order to respect it.  There have been many instances of corporate and "me first" "consumerists" who have not only not shown respect for the world, but exploit it with little to no regard at all.

scientifically, humans supposedly "understand" that there is a a larger ecology that is ideally balanced with predators, scavengers, parasites, etc... who each rely on the others existence for their own continued existence.  Many people totally disregard that though with their idea that they are a 'dominant' species so the rest of the world must bend to their whim and if the rest of the world doesn't like it or it isn't "good" for them, too bad.

Whether humans want to admit it or not, we are a part of that larger ecology as well as the micro ecologies for various geographical areas all over the world.

Resources may be abundant, but they are not infinite.  Supposedly, we "know" that too, and again, many of us totally disregard it for personal profit.

Personally, I think this man made weather change story is pretty much BS.  I  think it's an excuse for some folks who are trying to find yet another way to consumerize the worlds resources by taking advantage of a growing "green" attitude by many others.

As topixqui,  I do see the world in a "religious" way so to speak.  As something incredible and perpetually wondrous that was made by the same Creator which made everything else. 

This is one of the reasons I work with honey bees as a matter of fact.  because the bees have such a beneficial relationship to the growing things on this world.  Growing plants that take in Carbon-dioxide and emit oxygen  in exchange.

growing things that with some respect and care on our part (as opposed to just using it once then chopping it down so no one else can use it) which provide food and resources for us not just once, but over and over again with some respect and conservation on our part.

bees that make honey and propolis from what they get from those growing things they pollinate and help to grow and reproduce.  Like honey and propolis and wax.  Things that we have found to be effective as medicines and food and materials for our soaps and candles and medicines.  And the bees can make these things not just once, but over and over again with some respect and conservation on our part.

My position is that by taking a respectful position of the world and exercising some self control and thinking not only of myself and what I want, but the needs of other people and other living things, the resources that are available will last much longer.

I don't need to have the religious views that  I do have to use conservation, self control and respect for the world.  Science and other tools help shape our greater understanding of how things work.  How we use those tools, as weapons or as implements, is up to us.


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« Reply #42 on: November 13, 2010, 10:51:34 am »
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My position is that by taking a respectful position of the world and exercising some self control and thinking not only of myself and what I want, but the needs of other people and other living things, the resources that are available will last much longer.

I don't need to have the religious views that  I do have to use conservation, self control and respect for the world.  Science and other tools help shape our greater understanding of how things work.  How we use those tools, as weapons or as implements, is up to us.

there you go. 

this often ends up being a left vs right argument.  the left loves the earth.  the right wants to trash it.  most people on the left who embrace this government enforced green crap don't have any idea where it came from.  it is straight out of Marx.  his reasoning was the same as the UNs or even our own current gov't.  control of people and resources.  Marx had another reason.  he was very much against modernization of industry.  why?  it took away jobs and gave them to machines.  sound familiar?

if you want to go for all this stuff, that's fine.  don't be played.  we are better than that.
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Re: Does anyone know the Carbon Footprint of a Beehive?
« Reply #43 on: November 13, 2010, 11:47:14 am »
i think we should drill more and faster.  we can have our own  :-)  maybe we could even export!

We already DO export some of our oil - 1.8 million barrels a day.  Google "US export of oil" and you will come up with several articles on it.

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« Reply #44 on: November 13, 2010, 12:00:43 pm »
In my opinion, the whole global warming/carbon footprint meme is just another scheme to implement more taxes and funnel money upwards.

The manipulators at the top of the pyramid like to take genuine concerns people have, play on their fears and come up with a way to profit from it.  I am not talking government here - they are just the puppets of the corporations and international bankers.


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« Reply #45 on: November 13, 2010, 01:00:07 pm »
people do have genuine concerns.  they are played by those above.  it is not corporations and bankers who play them.  it is the true believers in "the new world order".  it is governments and quasi-governments, like the UN.  in order for their vision to be fulfilled, the individual, the corporation, and the banking system must be redesigned.  we are unfortunate to have a leader and his supporters who fully embrace the idea of re-ordering the world.  it will be done through controlling regulations, taxes to reform behavior, and complicit groups like unions.  people will be convinced that all is done for the good of the earth, the poor people, etc.  the Soros types depend on all of us being well meaning, but uneducated pawns.

and the sad thing is that they have been very open about what they want.  i never thought they'd be anything more than crazy people blowing hot air.  i see that i was wrong.
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