[Terrapreta] A New Theory of Climate Change

[lou gold]

Hello David,

I just want to say thank you for your lifetime of good works and send my
best wishes and prayers to the upcoming Onondaga Lake Peace Festival.

The traditional voices of your region are powerful. My own passion for
forests was triggered by hearing a speech by Oren Lyons in the early 1980's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oren_Lyons

Many blessings to all,

lou




On 9/3/07, David Yarrow <dyarrow at nycap.rr.com> wrote:
>
>  hi jeff,
>
> i hate to be critical, but first of all, you don't know who you're writing
> to.  and second, your thinking is simplistic and narrow.
>
> my intellect, my intuition and my emotion are well connected and highly
> disciplined.  i excelled in math and science from an early age; i took
> graduate physics while a freshman in college, and had my own office in the
> university computer center writing software to automate the university
> library.  however, i am a spiritual man -- a naturalist and healer who
> serves the mother.  and i am a soul who has been through the doorway of
> death and despair, and agreed to return a badly damaged body on an extra
> mission because this earth is in a state of emergency brought on by human
> violence, greed, materialism, and metaphysical schitzophrenia.
>
> in 1975, i read a paper self published by missouri engineer describing the
> steady increase in CO2 detected since CO2 measurements began in 1890 or so.
> the paper speculated freely and loosely about the implications of this
> steadily inceasing increase on climate, weather and plate tectonics.  i had
> ots of questions about the speculations, but the graph was lividly clear.
> it was obvious sometime near the end of the century the curve would become
> more vertical than horizontal.  in electronic circuit design, once this
> "knee of the curve" is reached, it is a short time before the resistors
> overheat and the semiconductor crystals melt.
>
> in 1976, i read "limits to growth" by james & donella meadows, MIT systems
> dynamics experts who developed the first computer model for global economy
> and ecology.  no matter how they manipulated their mathmatical model, it
> crashed at the end of the century.  so they proposed a steady state economic
> plan to supplant the still current limitless growth model.
>
> so, i decided to watch this CO2 trend carefully, and devote my life to the
> truly big problems facing humanity.  and i decided not to have children
> until i could assure them a future.
>
> for various reasons, i chose to focus on food, farming and health.  in
> 1978, i started the center for self healing to teach people to cure disease
> with food, acupressure and body therapies.  in 1983, i started the NY
> chapter of the northeast organic farming assoc. in 85, i started their
> certification program.  in 86, i started finger lakes organic growers coop.
> i continue to teach workshops to teach farmers how to create full scale soil
> fertility -- not just enough to nurse a profitable crop out of the soil, but
> to regenerate earth's damaged, depleted ecosystems, and provide full
> spectrum nutrition to consumers.
>
> by feb. 1990, i saw enough data to convince me both atlantic and pacific
> ocean currents were carrying their maximum load of heated water from the
> tropics to the edge of the arctic sea, and generating extreme weather
> systems across the northern edge of america and europe.  and ocean currents
> move 10 to 20 times more heat around the planet than the atmosphere.
> clearly the equilibrium of earth's thermal engine was tumbling out of
> balance.  i decided climate change will be the #1 issue of the 21st
> century.  and my main concern was how we will feed ourselves when we can no
> longer rely on climate and  weather.
>
> but then, in 1991, mt. pinatubo in the northern philippines -- where i
> lived as a young boy -- blew megatons of dust and aerosols into the
> stratosphere, and for three years the earth cooled.  only three years.
>
> anyway, greenhouse gas, global warming and climate change are only the top
> of the list of the "limits to growth" that are confronting humanity's hope
> for a future.  actually, the top of the list is peace -- without peace,
> nothing will work, and i see nor hear any leader articulating sesnsible
> strategy for peacemaking.  water pollution is equal in criticality to air
> pollution.  water depletion is equal to soil depletion.  deforestation and
> desertification.  degenerative disease and species extinction.  most of all,
> the stubborn, self-centered, self-serving, short-sighted, physical-fixated
> mindset of humanity, nationstates and corporations.
>
> i have also benefitted from relationships with several native american
> elders who discussed their prophecies and predications of the consequences
> of western greed and destruction of nature.  in october 1977, in "a basic
> call to consciousness," they warned the united nations:
>
> "Today the species of Man is facing a question of the very survival of the
> species. The way of life known as Western Civilization is on a death path on
> which their own culture has no viable answers. When faced with the reality
> of their own destructiveness, they can only go forward into areas of more
> efficient destruction. The appearance of Plutonium on this planet is the
> clearest of signals our species is in trouble. It is a signal which most
> Westerners have chosen to ignore.
>
> "Air is foul, waters poisoned, trees dying, animals disappearing. We think
> even the systems of weather are changing. Our ancient teaching warned us if
> Man interfered with Natural Laws, these things would come to be. When the
> last of the Natural Way of Life is gone, all hope for human survival will be
> gone with it. And our Way of Life is fast disappearing, a victim of these
> destructive processes."
> www.championtrees.org/yarrow/BasicCall.htm
>
> on august 6, 1992 (hiroshima day), i took a 6000 volt "short circuit to
> enlightenment," and spent the next five years sitting on the doorstep of
> death in the hands of divine beings.  the angels that sustained me through
> this ordeal also made it clear humanity is appoaching a "day of decision"
> when each soul must choose the future they will create for themselves, and
> to pass as their legacy on the their grandchildren.  the accumulating
> consequences of continuing the path of the last several centuries are clear
> all around us if we will simply pay attention to nature.
>
> i chose decades ago to be part of the solution and the cure.  on days when
> i must get in my car and drive around NY's capital region, i see little
> evidence anyone much is paying attention, or has the least clue how to
> choose and move in a new direction.  gratefully, this list is popuated by
> people trying and hoping to make a difference -- to co-create a different
> future.  but on this journey, our most important allies are the
> miocro-organisms who have been here since the beginning of evolution.
> second among our allies are the trees and their forest communities.
>
> when i returned from the doorway of death, i knew i had these assignments:
> 1) to call people to onondaga lake to pray for peace
> 2) to restore the earth by renewing the minerals and trace elements in
> soil so that all life can flourish again
> 3) to plant trees and regenerate forests so the biosphere can breathe
> again
> 4) to guide youth into nature awareness and environmental stewardship by
> sponsoring programs in ecological literacy
> 5) to heal men's emotional wounds and initiating men into traditional
> sacred masculine brotherhood
>
> by the way, speaking of "witch hunts," many people consider me a "water
> witch," but last year in jaipur, india, at the world council of elders of
> ancient traditions and cultures, i received the title "water angel."
> www.championtrees.org/sacredspace/WaterAngel.htm
>
> David Yarrow
> "If yer not forest, yer against us."
> Turtle EyeLand Sanctuary
> 44 Gilligan Road, East Greenbush, NY 12061
> dyarrow at nycap.rr.com
> www.championtrees.org
> www.OnondagaLakePeaceFestival.org
> www.citizenre.com/dyarrow/
> www.farmandfood.org
> www.SeaAgri.com
>
> "Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times,
> if one only remembers to turn on the light."
> -Albus Dumbledore
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Davis" <jeff0124 at velocity.net>
> To: "terrapreta" <terrapreta at bioenergylists.org>
> Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 8:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] A New Theory of Climate Change
>
>
> > Dear David,
> >
> > I also based my belief in GW by my own observations but when subjected
> to
> > multi-dimensional discussions on the subeject I though it would be best
> to do
> > some research with an open mind. Tunnel vision is not science. Pure
> emotion
> > driven is simply going on a witch hunt.
> >
> > For example: What if GW is real but what is killing your mountain top
> trees is
> > something else. By ignoring that something else, even by curing GW, you
> end
> > up with dead trees.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > On Sunday 02 September 2007 12:50 am, David Yarrow wrote:
> >> i think this quote below is utter and complete nonsense by hardheads
> still
> >> stuck in denial, who are willynilly willing to fabricate data to
> support
> >> their unwillingness to admit how massively human industrial abuse of
> nature
> >> is dismantling the ecosystems that are our planetary life support
> systems.
> >
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