Once upon a time, only about 650 million years ago, our Earth was a snowball. What was the aftermath #greenhouse#climate triggering deglaciation and the ocean's role in it?
We addressed this intriguing scientific question via a set of #EarthSystemModel experiments in the new Nature Communication paper "Moderate greenhouse climate and rapid carbonate formation after Marinoan snowball Earth" led by Lennart Ramme within his PhD project.
The tomato plants stayed inside due to the return of freezing weather and are now overdue for replanting in the greenhouse.
Made shashlik. It was super tasty due to the apple wood from a previous pruning. Makes a big difference in flavour, although it's trickier to use than charcoal.
The coastal region after Antalya was not only full of operating hotels and resorts, but also many empty and completely rundown facilities. The same situation existed with plantations and greenhouses, on one side there were many new, modern ones, and on the other side dilapidated nostalgic glass greenhouses... - and a stranded submarine?! - 😂
It's been predicted for decades, but idiots didn't care. Arctic #permafrost is now melting so fast that it's releasing more #greenhouse gases than it sinks. Even if we limited #warming to 1.5, a metric we've already surpassed, this melting would continue.
💧 the #seawater#greenhouse is a really cool idea, literally. It's a way of using evaporating seawater to cool and humidify crops 🌱, which can drastically reduce the amount of fresh #water needed to support the #crop in a desert #climate.
As #climatechange and #freshwater scarcity increasingly challenges crop survival over the coming decades, carbon neutral seawater greenhouses will become much more common.
Made my semi-annual trip to the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden. It's pretty early in the season so there's not much going on outside, but the conservatory is always worth a look.
1/4 #gardening #houseplants #botany #greenhouse #rhododendron
Many rhododendrons are tropical and won't survive outdoors even in the mild #PNW climate. Like this Rhododendron rugosum from Borneo. Gorgeous leaves. Flowers are nice too.
2/4 #gardening#houseplants#botany#greenhouse#rhododendron
Rhododendron Soecies Botanical Garden thread part 3. Lots of other cool plants in the greenhouse too. That Begonia looks deadly. The plant with the purple flowers is a Prumulina I think (there was no tag).
RSBG is in Federal Way, #Washington, between #Seattle and #Tacoma. Stop in if you can, it makes a great stop on a road trip. April and May are the best months to visit.
3/4 #PNW#gardening#houseplants#botany#greenhouse#rhododendron
Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden part 4. My haul. They have a plant store onsite. I have a membership, which allows me priority online ordering at a discount and it's so worth it. Buying memberships and plants helps fund the garden and its conservation work.
4/4 Http://rhodygarden.org
Best thing to do on a deceptively cold sad bright still-winter day: #greenhouse tour!
#Baltimore's Rawlings Conservatory Palm House in Druid Hill Park is the second oldest structure of its kind in the country, only outdone by San Francisco's.
In Dec of 2022 #Mnogin#Greenhouse were placed at Jocko Point, waiting for the final set up. 4 structures, each about size of a trailer on a big rig. Inside, walls are lined with shelves. Tubes send water to the #plants & special lights mimic sun above.
Harney’s original vision was to produce locally to strengthen #FoodSupply within community, a model that could be implemented in other #FirstNations, esp up North, where fresh #vegetables can be cost prohibitive.
I have some personal news to share. We're moving! As some of you already know, we have been working on a formerly abandoned homestead site, completely off-grid, with a small log cabin in the woods, for years now, trying to make it livable again. We are finally at the point where we can make this happen in the coming months. We are tentatively planning this for the summer.
For the first time in my life, really, I will no longer be an active chemist. The push and pull of going back into the office, where I am not needed, has reached a boiling point for me. I am resigning from the company I helped start and build and moving onto the next thing in my life as a forest farmer, dad and homeschool parent. Wish me luck. I've done one thing for the last 30+ years and now I'm going cold turkey away from it, to something pretty much the opposite.
I think I will be posting some about our successes and failures with the new adventure. Don't expect any pictures of us or anything. I have never found a picture of myself on the internet and there's not one of either of my boys. We're pretty private people, but, hopefully there'll be lots of nature photos along our trails and pictures of our soon-to-be plant based foods.
This year I am hoping to get some good information from the brilliant minds of Mastodon about a lot of things, including:
#Greenhouse gardening. We have an ~800 sq ft, completely empty greenhouse. It has a large built in fan on one end, but no power. We have some solar panels on a hillside near it that are decades old, but still functional, that we are planning on repurposing to power the greenhouse along with the EcoFlow solar generators that we previously used to power the cabin before getting our permanent power up and running. Depending on how power hungry the motor is, we may need to add onto that. We'll see! I honestly don't know how many hours a day we'll need use the fans, for instance.
It's a blank slate, though. Zone 7b under the latest USDA map. Concrete floor. Otherwise completely empty. We have lots of thoughts about how best to use it, both to feed the family and have some left over. In the short term we would like to can and jar excess food, but we have plans to donate to the local community in the long term.
We have a year-round running spring at an appropriate elevation above it, but it would be quite the chore to collect and get that water to the greenhouse. We also have a year-round creek below it that we could conceivably pump water up from. We also have two boys who may end up running a lot of water around manually in the short term.
#HomeAssistant - I want our #Victron equipment to talk to our HomeKit in the end. While I don't intend to expand our HomeAssistant usage dramatically beyond that, I know that's how these things start and next thing you know you have 100 devices. It would be pretty cool to have greenhouse monitoring equipment as well.
Do I start a setup with something simple like the HomeAssistant Yellow if I don't want to spend a ton of time on this part of the plan?
It might be possible to get this to communicate to our new Rheem heat pump hot water heater, too, but that's the extent of our current HomeAssistant thoughts.
#ForestFarming - We have some endangered native plants, as well as some cash crops growing both natively and intentionally planted in the forest as some test plots. Think ramps, ginseng, etc. but we are forest farming noobs.
We also have some test mushrooms going in log plugs that we intend to expand as we learn what works and what doesn't.
#LIDAR and #GIS - The state we are moving to has pretty decent LIDAR data of our property. I've played around with it quite a bit and made some fun maps. I was even able to find some hidden old logging roads that haven't been used in 100 years. I don't even know what I don't know in this area, but I'm planning to keep playing with it for data for the forest farming, running water from springs, etc.
I'm sure I'll add to this in a thread as we go and more things come up. It's all, honestly, terrifying and exhilarating at the same time at the moment, particularly for our boys who will be leaving the only home they've ever known this summer.
Also, wish me luck on my first ever public toot, I believe. I block and mute a lot of people anyway, so at least I know where those buttons are up front :)
“#Saudi Aramco Abruptly Drops Plans to Expand #Oil Production - “The decision probably reflects a view that the world does not need as much Saudi oil as was previously expected,” said Neil Beveridge, an analyst at Bernstein, a research firm.
...the timing of the press release begs the question whether the #Saudis see just a way to increase market share as a major competitor is having second thoughts and reducing climate-unfriendly #LNG exports.
#Hanwha plans to build the industry's first emission-free #gas carrier, expanding its decarbonization efforts into #shipping and addressing 3% of global #greenhouse gas emissions.