Another post from Misha to the Sustainable Agriculture Network Discussion Group (SANET). Has anyone read the fossil-fuels section in "Stormy Weather"?
>Howdy, all-- > >Those of you who prefer science to wishful thinking and corporate >propaganda on the matter of human-induced climate change will >appreciate these resources. > >First, and best: > >/Climate Change and the Global Harvest: Potential Impacts of the >Greenhouse Effect on Agriculture/. Cynthia Rosenzweig, Daniel >Hillel. Oxford U. P., 1998. >ISBN 0-19-508889-1. > >Cynthia is with the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies at >Columbia U. She is an ag scientist (all three degrees). > >See these research links for more on GISS's work on climate change, >climate forcings, paleoclimate, and more: >http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/ > >Second, I have found this collection very useful: > >/Global Climate Change and Agricultural Production/. Fakhri Bazzaz, >Wim Sombroek. Rome, FAO, 1996. Cloth ISBN 0-471-95763-1. Paper ISBN >0-471-96927-3. > >See particularly information on changing hydrological cycles, >regional vulnerability, and the combined effects of changing CO2, >temperature, UV-B radiation, and ozone on crop growth. > >Third, A nice popular guide--praised by Jim Hansen of NASA/Giss, >David Suzuki, and Rev. Sally Bingham (Episcopal Power and Light)--is: > >/Stormy Weather: 101 Solutions to Global Climate Change/. Guy >Dauncey, Patrick Mazza. 2001. ISBN 0-86571-421-5 > >My favorite sections are "Moving toward a world without fossil >fuels," and the solutions that highlight the fossil-fuel- and >transport-intensive industrial/global food system. > >Fourth, here in the Pacific Northwest, we have > >Climate Solutions >http://www.climatesolutions.org/ > >Climate Solutions publications on-line >http://www.climatesolutions.org/staging/pages/pubs.html > >CS's Energy Outreach Center is right here in lovely downtown >Olympia. "The purpose of the Center is to acquaint you with some of >the major considerations when building, buying, or remodeling a home >while having minimum impact on the environment. The energy-saving >materials and ideas not only save energy, therefore saving money, >they also help to save the planet from pollution, wasteful use of >non-renewable resources, and ultimately, dangerous climate changes." > > >WARNING! Using these resources will remove the potential for smug >ignorance or comforting ourselves with fairy tales. Like how it >doesn't make any difference to the atmosphere's chemistry, when >humans take huge reserves of carbon, locked deep within the earth >since long before we ever evolved, and transfer them into the >atmosphere in a tick of geological time. > >These resources also convert whistling in the dark into singing in a >new key, so only those with a truly musical soul should use them. > >:^) > >peace >mish > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Michele Gale-Sinex > >Home office: 360-459-5683 >Home office fax: Same as above, phone first for enabling >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >The Earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are >killing it have names and addresses. -Utah Philips Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
