FYI: Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States

[badger2]

We will mention short-term/long-term temperature changes at the micro-environment level: inside the city. First, the reading prisoners get to see a glimpse of the feature article from which we will quote. Note how the lack is introduced immediately:

City Wants to Stem Tree Loss
Wisconsin State Journal
Does Hisang's model factor-in retroactive effects of pesticide and drug resistance on the human genome. No, because that's impossible to determine. Hsiang does not have the stones to address the Chinese Emerald Ash Borer parameter which has a direct impact on temperature.

 

[badger2]

Should be on the integrity in science thread, but here we are, noticing these jerks that are not educated enough to be lime-lighted in such a way. We excerpt to get a basic profile of the pathology:

'....where new high-rises have replaced old canopy, which "creates an oven for vehicles." he said. Concerns over tree loss in Madison have led to the creation of an Urban Forestry Taskforce, which seeks to craft recommendations for the city to better protect and encourage the growth of trees in Madison. The taskforce, an outgrowth of Sustainable Madison Committee, brings together Madison residents and city department heads to continue a conversation about policies that affect the city's trees....the taskforce, whose nine members were appointed last week, will provide recommendations and strategies to both the city and private landowners by next summer.
....trees in and around Wisconsin's urban areas provide $78.9 million worth of energy savings to residents, and remove air pollution to the tune of $47.8 million....For older residential neighborhoods centered around the Isthmus, where above-ground power lines can get tangled in trees, the canopy is threatened by city initiatives to replace trees with shorter shrubs -- or "Q-tip trees" -- that are cheaper to maintain but don't provide the same benefits.

For newer neighborhoods -- those developed in the 1970s or later -- the need is for greater tree diversity to combat problems such as emerald ash borer, Knepp said. The lack of tree diversity in Madison has become especially apparent as the removal of thousands of ash trees has aesthetically "devastated" many neighborhoods, he said. Downtown faces its own challenges....there is little room left on the setback for large canopy trees, Ahrens said, leaving an "urban heat island" '

 

[badger2]

To unravel the democratic leukemia of "diversity," one must include the history of the Emerald Ash Borer at Detroit, as well as the history of ash plantings in that city. The borer was described in China circa 1886 or so, and the State of Michigan is suspect for aiding its dissemination. According to published documents, the Michigan DNR at Detroit "thought it was ash yellows," a Candidiasis-yeast infection of the trees. There was apparently not enough experience to positively confirm the suspected disease, and no supposedly, not a single field worker spotted any holes in the trunks. Nevertheless, the Michigan DNR had this beetle growing in their labs, still unidentified, and not a peep out of the CDC or any other quarantine agency. Stupid shit, it went on to culminate in the (architectural) establishment of special ash borer installations, which photos of buildings are available on the internet. We will try to find one to post here, for the literary and nostalgic value.

 

[badger2]

EAB
Attack on white fringetree by emerald ash borer likely to be widespread
'....Chionanthus virginicus....What about the chemistry of the trees that makes them vulnerable to attack?'

https://www.fs.fed.us/nrs/news/review/review-vol20.pdf
'....working with colleagues at the Chinese Academy of Forestry....'

'Chionanthus virginicus L. Grey Beard Root, decoction for cancer, Georgia (1959), National Cancer Institute central files.'
(Hartwell, Plants Used Against Cancer)

 

[badger2]

When it comes to the EAB story and its accompanying fairy tales, we're not buying DNR Alzheimer's.

'114. Agrilus coeruleus Rossi....Frost (1922) p. 96.A European species recently introduced, taken at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, and at Sherborn, Massachusetts. In Europe it is found in Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, and Italy on oak, beech, birch, and alder.

176. Agrilus transimpressus Fall Fall (1925) p. 181-2. Type Locality: Hope, Arkansas, on Juglans nigra.'
(Chamberlin WJ, The Buprestidae of North America North of Mexico 1926)

 

[badger2]

Climate Change and Ash Dieback Crisis
Climate change and the ash dieback crisis. - PubMed - NCBI

But EAB at Detroit is a different scenario from Europe due to arsenic from the stacks in Ontario, which has been known for a long time. James Duke's phytochemistry database documents arsenic in the bark of Chinese ash trees, and arsenic hardens the jaws of the Chinese Emerald Ash Borer just as it does the lead in bullet making.

 

[miketx]

Where do all these liars come from?

 

[badger2]

The arsenic from Ontario went down South for use in cotton growing. Is anyone surprised about Agrilus on walnuts at Hope, Arkansas?

 

[badger2]

When one views the arsenic map for Michigan, contamination sites are in red, though Detroit's county is depicted as lilly white. That is another aspect of the fairy tale.

Arsenic Contamination at Deloro
www.academon.com/term-paper/arsenic-contamination-at-deloro-109292/
'....environment ministry was aware of this for more than a decade....'

EBI / Deloro
Historical Overview

 

[badger2]

The Wisconsin city tree article mentioned in this thread does not tell the complete story. Powerline easements are routinely sprayed with herbicide in the city, and few can prove what's being sprayed. Trees should not have to compensate for human sloth in putting lines underground, which is also a pretext for not replanting because the replants could end up looking down the gun-barrel of public domain capitalism, a very special delirium.

 

[badger2]

Shot Dead

 

[badger2]

Drowned.

Fernando Pereira
Fernando Pereira - Wikipedia

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Shot Dead

Yeah, Mexico is dangerous.

 

[badger2]

Stupidity is dangerous, and the Earth and its trees can no longer afford human crotch-clownism gone capitalist 'nanas. One mountain on which poaching carried the death sentence was Mao Shan. Where are the black-market videos of loggers getting crucified or lobotomied with their own chain-saws? Why a scarcity of islamorads when they're needed? Apparently, the French state did not know there was a human on board the Rainbow Warrior when it sent its agents. That is a classic, and is aptly addressed in McKenna's book, Violence and Difference. Protecting trees could be a futuristic vocation. Perhaps a drone-bot will do a better job, it can capture the poaching on video and instantly transmit it to USMB.

 

[badger2]

11 Jul 2017 Lund University, Sweden: The Most Effective Individual Steps to Tackle Climate Change Aren't Being Discussed
https://phys.org/news/2017-07-effective-individual-tacle-climate-discussed.html