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William Michael posted an update: Recently retired Admiral. Phil Davidson established what has […]

Sun, 25 Jul 2021 21:37:38 +0100

Recently retired Admiral. Phil Davidson established what has become known as Davidson (Window) the time line set at 6 years in China plan to take control of Twain if by force if necessary…. British parliamentarian Halford Mackinder Geopolitical Heartland established in the early years of the 20th century has remained a standard guide for G… Read more

William Michael posted an update: Deuterium in health is still quite a new discovery and it […]

Sun, 25 Jul 2021 10:07:41 +0100

Deuterium in health is still quite a new discovery and it turns out to be extremely important in syndromes of chronic fatigue, cancer, and disease. Harold Clayton Urey was an American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 for the discovery of deuterium … later working on Manhattan p… Read more

William Michael posted an update: Third day: God gathered the water below the sky, creating […]

Sat, 24 Jul 2021 10:12:29 +0100

Third day: God gathered the water below the sky, creating land and sea, and God caused vegetation to sprout from the land. This Yahwist writing of the Torah is from either just before or during the Babylonian exile of the 6th century BC … I think it feasible that the writer was exposed to someone in Babylonian royal house or a papyrus source… Read more

William Michael posted an update: Regardless of one religious view or no views at all the […]

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 09:42:45 +0100

Regardless of one religious view or no views at all the ancients’ legends recorded on parchment coming of agriculture perhaps of Ninurta first on small clay tablets maybe he was time traveler or space adventures who was foretelling of coming events or recounting the history from the future. Those familiar with Old Testament Nimrod bible story m… Read more

William Michael posted an update: The Pop singer Gloris Estefan sang so beautifully a few […]

Wed, 21 Jul 2021 09:53:09 +0100

The Pop singer Gloris Estefan sang so beautifully a few years ago Coming of Dark … into the light!
I been doing research based on Global Catastrophic Risk GCR’s. an event where the sun would be blocked or partially masked from soot an autumn nuclear night event would unfold. After pouring over yellowing pages of crusty old book with that uni… Read more

William Michael posted an update: I spent most of this summer watching a Covid-19 sunset […]

Tue, 20 Jul 2021 09:52:47 +0100

I spent most of this summer watching a Covid-19 sunset drip over my cornfields with the Scarecrow’s tune from a yellow brick road about getting a brain bounding in my head … maybe it has been a dream world of pitchforks … me at a hayrack, after, I finish the unwashed farm fresh eggs from my Golden Comet hen you know if you do not wash the e… Read more

William Michael posted an update: The American TV series Jericho ran on CBS from September 20, […]

Mon, 19 Jul 2021 09:30:23 +0100

The American TV series Jericho ran on CBS from September 20, 2006, to March 25, 2008. It opens with a young boy in a red plaid jacket & blue jeans with his back to the camera viewing a mushroom cloud in the distance from a rural dirt road in Kansas in the United Stets …History teaches that the number 7 is very significant in the ancient texts. A… Read more

William Michael posted an update: Maybe you remember Jeremiah the post-apocalyptic […]

Sun, 18 Jul 2021 16:18:50 +0100

Maybe you remember Jeremiah the post-apocalyptic action-drama TV series from Showtime that ran in 2002-04 set in 2021 where a virus has impacted the entire earth sound familiar? Over the course of the first season, the group increasingly encounters threats originating from Valhalla Sector, which they discover to be a sealed and heavily armed… Read more

William Michael posted an update: News out of Winston’s World this week is that Special E […]

Sat, 17 Jul 2021 09:07:19 +0100

News out of Winston’s World this week is that Special Envoy on Climate saved the American Tax Payers a bundle on a long-distance phone call rather the former Lieutenant John Kerry traveled 4,857 miles to Moscow for a Beechwood 4-5789 moment with Russian president Valdimar Putin … Hearing such news makes “Orwellian,” crowd know it’s only short 130… Read more

William Michael posted an update: On Special Envoy on Climate John Kerry last day in Russia I […]

Wed, 14 Jul 2021 08:58:50 +0100

On Special Envoy on Climate John Kerry last day in Russia I would share this story about Grandmother Traubert for the family sometime during October 16-28 1962 she purchased several cases of peaches at My Dad a private in General George S. Patton 3rd Army carefully selected “Peaches’’ Uncle Geroge’s grocery Store I do remember being in the store… Read more

William Michael posted an update: MOSCOW, July 12 (Reuters) is reporting that Special US […]

Tue, 13 Jul 2021 09:50:38 +0100

MOSCOW, July 12 (Reuters) is reporting that Special US Climate envoy John Kerry is in Russian Capitol meeting with that nations Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov what is being discussed has no official release. The idea Climatic responses to large soot injections …potentially large crop failures. Is not far from the mind of both men … Pro… Read more

William Michael posted an update: Special Envoy John Kerry Wheels have touched down among […]

Mon, 12 Jul 2021 09:36:41 +0100

Special Envoy John Kerry Wheels have touched down among those he is sure to seek out will be members of the Marvel Cinematic Universe LOL … based on his twitter page includes #Climateavengers#Uniteforchange showing… just how down to earth the former US Senator is … “Avengers: Age of Ultron” occurs about halfway through the film when our heroe… Read more

William Michael posted an update: As US Climate envoy John Kerry hears wheels up departing […]

Sun, 11 Jul 2021 09:09:21 +0100

As US Climate envoy John Kerry hears wheels up departing Washington D.C. traveling to Red Square July 12-15 to speak to officials this week about “global climate ambition.” Some of the many who remain on guard and care about climate issues have seen a shift in circulation patterns both in the ocean and the atmosphere. I liked myself to a sta… Read more

William Michael posted an update: As US climate envoy John Kerry prepares for trip to Moscow, […]

Sat, 10 Jul 2021 11:53:38 +0100

As US climate envoy John Kerry prepares for trip to Moscow, he would be well to recall the writings of Kikolai Gogol the Russian Novelist who wrote “We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any…”
Mr. Kerry might acquit himself with Gogol many books and short stories like an Evenings on a Farm… Read more

William Michael posted an update: "North America experienced an intense cold wave with […]

Fri, 09 Jul 2021 21:19:54 +0100

“North America experienced an intense cold wave with record low temperatures during the winter of 2017/18, at the time reaching the smallest rank of sea ice area (SIA) in the Bering Sea over the past four decades” This effected my home where I live and the future of USA food supply. News from Fieldview an agriculture web site placing a positive s…

William Michael posted an update: It’s Going Snow “A prolonged and intense cold wave from lat […]

Fri, 09 Jul 2021 10:26:58 +0100

It’s Going Snow
“A prolonged and intense cold wave from late December 2017 to early January 2018 hit North America in which record low temperatures gripped much of the central–eastern United States and central–eastern Canada…” (WMO 2018)

Just expressing my view on the upcoming visit to Russia by US Climate envoy John Kerry will be in Moscow J… Read more

William Michael posted an update: CNN reports “Northeast (United States) will endure … […]

Sat, 29 May 2021 16:51:08 +0100

CNN reports “Northeast (United States) will endure …record cold temperatures and heavy rain …” during its national memorial holiday planned celebration 2021. The events seem to support voices like Dr. Anita Bailey, PHD that have been talking about cooling in the midlatitude temperatures and across the American Prairie lands of Laura Ingalls… Read more

William Michael posted an update: I just seeded my corn crop with a no till time horizon of 90 […]

Mon, 24 May 2021 03:19:10 +0100

I just seeded my corn crop with a no till time horizon of 90 days till harvest expected August 21, 2021… a companion in maize in 3-week intervals should find my fields ablaze with earth tones of autumn in September & October. This is my effort to live up to the idea of acting locally but thinking globally. According to the Gro Drought Index (…

William Michael posted an update: Come join me at the Harvest Dinner table that is looming […]

Sun, 16 May 2021 20:26:01 +0100

Come join me at the Harvest Dinner table that is looming over the next mountainside sun rise bestirring memories of loved ones…
The spirts of days of yore seem to speak of The Ghost of the Shawnee Native peoples past & the great snow storms of the winter of 1747-48 retold by ancestors. Among the writings of this time is the dairy of The R… Read more

William Michael posted an update: In the book Cold Times: Preparing For The Mini Ice Age by […]

Sat, 15 May 2021 12:03:32 +0100

In the book Cold Times: Preparing For The Mini Ice Age by Anita Bailey, PHD. It has In Chapter 6 on page 101 Dr. Bailey penned after listing cold tolerant crops “Ideally, … would plant these in the spring, then replant a second crop in mid-to-late summer that would stand in the garden into the fall and winter always something growing … Dr. Baile…

William Michael posted an update: In the book Cold Times: Preparing For The Mini Ice Age by […]

Fri, 14 May 2021 09:40:25 +0100

In the book Cold Times: Preparing For The Mini Ice Age by Anita Bailey, PHD. It has 3 chapters on food numbers- 4: Food Immediate Basics- 6: Food: Producing Your own & 7 : Food: Small Scale Live Stock. In Chapter 6 on page 101 Dr. Bailey penned after listing cold tolerant crops “Ideally, a serious grower would plant these in the spring, then r… Read more

William Michael posted an update: africa .com published a very informative article on Gro […]

Thu, 13 May 2021 09:42:02 +0100

africa .com published a very informative article on Gro Intelligence CEO Sara Menker Accounting for Climate Change it provides a link to a Time Magazine news clip We Can End Hunger in America—If We’re Willing to Make Significant Changes to Our Food System that ran January 20, 2021 the Day President Joe Biden took office in the USA “…

William Michael posted an update: Americans should begin to store food as soon as today […]

Wed, 12 May 2021 18:42:37 +0100

Americans should begin to store food as soon as today …!
• The Day After Tomorrow film is based on the book The Coming Super Storm 1999 by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber, another climate disaster related book is Arnold Federbush, author of Ice!, a 1978 novel with similar themes.
• Could it happen in the 21st century? Yes! The science in the movie…

William Michael posted an update: The first Hurricane to produce snow that has been documented […]

Wed, 12 May 2021 13:00:26 +0100

The first Hurricane to produce snow that has been documented came to New England in October 1804 and like the 1869 storm it did not weaken upon reaching north coast of America. Thinking out loud for just a moment the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation/AMOC) is weakening this will most likely cause the eastern United Sates to be exposed to… Read more

William Michael posted an update: Bloomberg reports that by 2050 the worlds economy will be […]

Tue, 11 May 2021 08:52:51 +0100

Bloomberg reports that by 2050 the worlds economy will be based 50 % in China /India -20% in Europe 20 % in USA -10% in all others. For the first time since colonialism the wealthy nations will not be located in Europe or The United States … Following this projection to its’ logical conclusion calorie & protein demands will follow … I was bor…

William Michael posted an update: Last fall a study found that sea ice was the likely cause of […]

Tue, 11 May 2021 04:02:28 +0100

Last fall a study found that sea ice was the likely cause of the “Little Ice Age” …
The report points out that the event was center in Europe was in fact a regional cooling event the ice drifting out of the Artic caused the Vikings to vanish from Greenland in 15th century …Food for thought?🌲

William Michael posted an update: I enjoy writing tales about history, weather, and food […]

Sun, 09 May 2021 10:00:35 +0100

I enjoy writing tales about history, weather, and food supply. Please allow me to share a short from essay: I have had a few American Thanksgiving stories published in a local newspaper this one highlights … The food in Mother Earth …
“Falcons Wing, Turkey Pole Down take us back to Old Plymouth Town …” Aunt Clara November 23, 1967 Bewitch…

William Michael posted an update: My thought on Climate Change if it brings harsh winters do, […]

Sat, 08 May 2021 23:00:23 +0100

My thought on Climate Change if it brings harsh winters do, we as a society become the predatory birds or migratory birds…. ? Russian Prince Peter Kropotkin wrote in his 1902 essay Mutual Aid: A factor of Evolution. He witnesses in the snow-covered lands of Siberia “that animal populations were limited not by food sources, which were abu… Read more

William Michael posted an update: The increase in coal fired power plants in Asia effects […]

Sat, 08 May 2021 11:35:44 +0100

The increase in coal fired power plants in Asia effects world Climate Change! Understanding the link and it’s effect is easy when connecting the dots of the ‘The Great Snow of 1717” …
Those unifiliar with the Dark Days in New England on Sunday October 21, 1716 when at about 11:00 AM the darkness over took the land for about ½ hour is clearly… Read more

William Michael posted an update: Warming Favorable Snowstorm Conditions? It that true? Let me […]

Fri, 07 May 2021 22:26:04 +0100

Warming Favorable Snowstorm Conditions? It that true? Let me explain …
While it can be too warm to snow, it cannot be too cold to snow! To claim that record snowfall is inconsistent with a warming world betrays a lack of understanding of the link between global warming and extreme precipitation. What we think we might know is that a 2013 study f… Read more

William Michael posted an update: Could China weather modification program (Sky River) in the […]

Fri, 07 May 2021 09:09:05 +0100

Could China weather modification program (Sky River) in the fullness of time make it cold?
Today’s preschoolers will be just ready to turn 21 years old in 2035. Some of the many do not believe that warming Climate Change is real.
It was Cotton Mather who recorded “that in the Winter of the year 1688, there feel a Red Snow, which lay like Blo…

William Michael posted an update: Seeding, Growing & Harvesting The “Three sisters … “wi […]

Thu, 06 May 2021 08:47:50 +0100

Seeding, Growing & Harvesting The “Three sisters … “will fill empty bellies…These three crops are also at the center of culinary traditions and complement one another as well. A diet of corn, beans, and squash is complete and balanced. Corn provides carbohydrates and the dried beans are rich in protein and have amino acids absent from corn. S… Read more

William Michael posted an update: Speaking as a school boy who pounded erasers with chalk dust […]

Wed, 05 May 2021 09:56:03 +0100

Speaking as a school boy who pounded erasers with chalk dust flying after school till the sun had begun to set for years … scientists have now put the spotlight Azolla (Azolla pinnata), also known as water fern, is a free-floating aquatic plant that forms clumps. It has short branches, slender roots, and is coated with tiny hairs that help keep t… Read more

William Michael posted an update: Lead scientist Dr Wu Jing, at the Key Laboratory of Cenozoic […]

Tue, 04 May 2021 09:03:39 +0100

Lead scientist Dr Wu Jing, at the Key Laboratory of Cenozoic Geology and Environment at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Wu said she was now more worried about cooling than warming.
During the Little Ice Age history teaches us many extended drought periods coupled with extreme cold…?

William Michael posted an update: The mixing of the midlatitude temperatures with the warming […]

Tue, 04 May 2021 09:02:13 +0100

The mixing of the midlatitude temperatures with the warming artic temperatures it is believed by many to be the cause a number of cold weather events. This is the research conclusion of Dr. Jennifer Francis her work was the foundation for the briefing of Obama Admiration Science Team to explain the cold weather events of 2013-2014.
These cold… Read more

William Michael posted an update: The big take away from Bloomberg’s Agriculture Spot Index T […]

Sun, 02 May 2021 22:42:51 +0100

The big take away from Bloomberg’s Agriculture Spot Index The mega crops Corn, wheat, soybeans, vegetable oils: That form the backbone of much of the world’s diet and they’re dramatically more expensive, flashing alarm signals for global shopping budgets.
Recent history tells us that global food costs have surged for 10 straight months, the longe… Read more

William Michael posted an update: I have been reading about plans to boycott the summit by […]

Sun, 02 May 2021 18:43:27 +0100

I have been reading about plans to boycott the summit by many who have devoted themselves unselfishly to social justice. Those missing voices would leave a void … Throughout his lifelong struggle, Cesar Chavez never forgot who he was fighting for. What [the growers] don’t know,” he said, “is that it’s not bananas or grapes or lettuce. It’s p… Read more

William Michael posted an update: It's just beginning to rain it is May 11. 1315 on Gregorian […]

Fri, 30 Apr 2021 09:14:33 +0100

It's just beginning to rain it is May 11. 1315 on Gregorian calendar... it is Pentecost Sunday in Europe the precipitation will continue from spring into summer lasting till fall. This natural event now 705 years ago will usher in the  The Great Famine of 1315–1317 (occasionally dated 1315–1322. What man-made Climate Change may cause is lon…

William Michael posted an update: Clausius-Clapeyron equation, tells us that the atmosphere […]

Thu, 29 Apr 2021 09:30:14 +0100

Clausius-Clapeyron equation, tells us that the atmosphere can hold 7% moisture for every 1C of temperature rise. As such, a world that is around 4C warmer than the pre-industrial era would have around 28% more water vapor in the atmosphere. What plants do well during the rainy season? Among rainy season veggies include:
• Bamboo s…

William Michael posted an update: Science research releases in 2020 from Lead scientist Dr Wu […]

Wed, 28 Apr 2021 22:06:39 +0100

Science research releases in 2020 from Lead scientist Dr Wu Jing, at the Key Laboratory of Cenozoic Geology and Environment at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said the study had found no evidence of human influence on northern China’s warming winters.
Their findings confirmed an earlier study by a…

William Michael posted an update: In Food Security June 12, 2020 issue a great story on […]

Wed, 28 Apr 2021 02:11:28 +0100

In Food Security June 12, 2020 issue a great story on wheat… I been following the efforts with Goat Grass a wild relative of wheat 😁 an important reservoir of genetic diversity survey of over 13 crops showed that CWR have been used .. Talking points to get the conversation going around a wilderness campfire during story telling … “climate chang…

William Michael posted an update: If you have not had the pleasure to read this article by […]

Tue, 27 Apr 2021 09:26:45 +0100

If you have not had the pleasure to read this article by Tommaso Cinquemani, I wanted to share a small portion of it with you… I took this debate out of the class room and into the fields… let the tomatoes plants decide …!
Luigi Cattivelli,director of the Center for Genomic and Bioinformatics Research at Crea, disagrees with Dr. Salvatore Cecca… Read more

William Michael posted an update: Dr. Agnes Kalibata, President since 2014 of the Alliance for […]

Mon, 26 Apr 2021 23:02:49 +0100

Dr. Agnes Kalibata, President since 2014 of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), is Special Envoy to the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit… She holds a doctorate in Entomology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
I recently viewed Kristi Pelzel of Todays Africa News found Dr. Kalibata enthusiasm for the upcoming summit r… Read more

William Michael posted an update: I came across a most exciting story of Valentina whose […]

Mon, 26 Apr 2021 21:29:31 +0100

I came across a most exciting story of Valentina whose ambitious project aimed at the recovery of some varieties of ancient wheat. Taking on the task in Umbria, rented land and started the cultivation of these lost varieties,
She credits biodiversity geneticist, Dr. Salvatore Ceccarelli, who explained to her how it was the repeated interventions… Read more

William Michael posted an update: I read that Mr. John Kerry, who is US Special Presidential […]

Mon, 26 Apr 2021 09:46:33 +0100

I read that Mr. John Kerry, who is US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate said “The United States is proud to be pioneering the Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate initiative along with the United Arab Emirates and several other supportive partners,” The project is going to be forth coming in September then rolled out on the world s… Read more

William Michael posted an update: Students of agriculture like myself should take lots of […]

Mon, 26 Apr 2021 00:51:41 +0100

Students of agriculture like myself should take lots of notes when giants like Italian plant geneticist Salvatore Ceccarelli share his deep knowledge. He is featured in the documentary by independent videographers Eleni Gill and Sarah Cahlan, it explains that over time, the technique evolutionary crop breeding produces seed varieties that are… Read more

William Michael posted an update: I started a few VIGNA UNGUICULATA aka Black-eyed cow peas… I […]

Sun, 25 Apr 2021 18:31:33 +0100

I started a few VIGNA UNGUICULATA aka Black-eyed cow peas… I purchased from a Native American Seed Company during the winter a Sprawling Old-World annual cultivated for food and forage and green manure. Taking them out of the natural desert environment of absolutely rainless, bald, rocky, or sandy surfaces. I got one growing 8 inches tall.… Read more

William Michael posted an update: I recommend reading over the summer … Mark Schapiro book S […]

Sun, 25 Apr 2021 09:27:23 +0100

I recommend reading over the summer … Mark Schapiro book Seeds of Resistance The Fight To Save Our Food Supply. The notes section pages (165-177) allows those who wish to lean more to use interlibrary loan to acquire a vast amount of research material . Reading is fundamental my great aunt graduated from Columbia University a early 20th c…

William Michael posted an update: Since the beginning of the last century, photosynthesis on a […]

Sun, 25 Apr 2021 08:58:29 +0100

Since the beginning of the last century, photosynthesis on a global scale has increased in nearly constant proportion to the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide. Both are now around 30% higher than in the 19th century, before industrialization began to generate significant emissions.. Carbon dioxide fertilization is responsible for at least 80% of…

William Michael replied to a discussion in the forum Champions Network

Sat, 24 Apr 2021 19:51:30 +0100

Reply to New Champion proposal

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