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Man vs Nature - NightskyeB4Dawn - 04-22-2022
I saw the YouTube video, "Google Earth Time lapse shows how planet has changed in past 37 years". It is supposed to show the effects of climate change on the Earth over time. I don't think that enough research has gone into how much man's activity has gone into these changes.
I can tell you from experience, that man has more of an impact on the changes on our Earth than climate does, and most of the changes that the nature makes, is in response to man's activity.
The number of land slides and the amount massive Earth changes, as well as what we see as loses and damages to our living areas, is due primarily to man's interference and constructions, in areas to accommodate man's choices of how and where he chooses to live.
I have a mere five and a half acres of land, and the changes in the areas that I do not manipulate is mild, compared to the areas that I attempt to control, which is quite noticeable. You can see staggering changes in areas where I do nothing but walk, compared to the areas where I don't. Animals can travel throughout the woods and they leave a lot less change and destruction in their wake.
Going back to nature becomes quite evident when you watch it up close. I think we should be looking at the mess we make, and it might help us accommodate the changes that comes from nature.
RE: Man vs Nature - Michigan Swamp Buck - 04-22-2022
My property is 40 acres of hardwood swamps. It was a mature woods 25 years ago, but I've had it logged several times. Opening up the woods caused an explosion of natural diversity. I won't go into detail, but a mature hardwood forest is far less diverse. I've changed a lot here, yet in some 50 years, if no one does anything to the property, it will be back to what is was pretty much.
I feel the most damage to the ecosystem here is gypsy moths and the emerald ash borer beetle. All the ash trees are dead and fallen over, it's a mess out there.
RE: Man vs Nature - NightskyeB4Dawn - 04-22-2022
The Earth will do just fine without us.
We can scream and cry all we want about climate change, and make claims that eventually our planet will no longer be able to support life, but our Earth would do just fine without us.
In fact, it would probably fare much better without us.
RE: Man vs Nature - Ninurta - 04-22-2022
Fascinating.
I plugged - goo.gle/timelapse - into my browser address bar, and once the page loaded up, I navigated to the area I grew up in. It only had data between 1984 and 2020 for that area, so I did a screencap of every one of those years and then trimmed the screencaps to just the map area and stepped through them.
It was remarkable to watch how over that 35 years, year over year, Mother Nature took back what had always been hers. "Global warming" has spurred an explosion of life and biodiversity there.
What was once pastureland when I was growing up that Black Angus cattle were run on is now a vast cedar forest. The old original growth hardwood forest that had been confined to slopes on the mountain too steep to clear has spread out from it's center in those 35 years and retaken lands until it butted into the cedar forest.
All hail global warming, because it proves that in the end, the wild will win - so long as we can manage to keep the temperatures up in the current range or higher to give life a fighting chance.
1984:
2020:
The brownish-green is cedar forest, and the dark green is hardwood forest.
And, finally, a GIF flashing between the two to show the gains Mother nature has made:
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RE: Man vs Nature - NightskyeB4Dawn - 04-22-2022
One of man's faults is that we don't realize how destructive we can be, until we realize that things are dying all around us.
Another big fault is that we believe everything we consider good, happens because of something we did, but everything we think is bad, is because of something someone else did.
RE: Man vs Nature - kdog - 04-22-2022
Life, nature , will always find away to survive and thrive no matter what humans do. What we do to our environment is temporary.
And humans will survive also, just look at all the places people survive just living off the land and nothing else.
Sure, the cities will fall and the population diminished, but humans as a species are very adaptable and have overcome alot.
We have become spoiled and comfortable and lazy.
RE: Man vs Nature - NightskyeB4Dawn - 04-22-2022
(04-22-2022, 08:12 PM)kdog Wrote: Life, nature , will always find away to survive and thrive no matter what humans do. What we do to our environment is temporary.
And humans will survive also, just look at all the places people survive just living off the land and nothing else.
Sure, the cities will fall and the population diminished, but humans as a species are very adaptable and have overcome alot.
We have become spoiled and comfortable and lazy.
I think they are afraid we may find this out.
I spent three months without electricity out here in these woods and it may have been one of the most pleasant times I spent out here.
We don't need half of what we think we do, and the other half we don't "need" at all.
RE: Man vs Nature - BIAD - 06-17-2022
They couldn't resist it, Bee Eaters visiting the eastern coast of Britain and it seems these birds are the vanguard of climate-change.
Proof that you can't believe what you read.
Quote:Rare birds’ arrival an ‘unmissable sign’ climate emergency has reached BritainThe Guardian:
Pushed north by global heating, birds like the European bee-eater seen in Norfolk likely to become established visitors.
'Rainbow-hued bee-eaters breeding on the Norfolk coast this summer and three rare black-winged stilts fledglings in Yorkshire are an “unmissable sign”
that the nature and climate emergency has reached Britain, according to conservationists. Birdwatchers are flocking to north-east Norfolk to see the
European bee-eaters, a colourful rare visitor from Africa and southern Europe, after seven birds were spotted close to Cromer by a local birder.
Several bee-eaters have been observed making nest burrows in a small sand quarry near the coastal village of Trimingham, raising hopes they will breed
successfully. Bee-eaters did not breed in Britain between 1956 and 2001 but this is now the sixth nesting attempt this century, with birds nesting in County
Durham in 2002, Herefordshire in 2002, the Isle of Wight in 2014, Cumbria in 2015 and Nottinghamshire in 2017, when nests in a quarry failed because
of bad weather.
“These seven bee-eaters are certainly the most colourful and exciting birds you can see in the UK right now,” said Mark Thomas of the RSPB. “While an
incredible sight, we mustn’t forget that the arrival of these birds to our shores is due to changes to our climate and subsequent pressures on wildlife both
here and across the globe.
“Pushed northwards by climate change, these exotic birds will probably become established summer visitors in the future, having been an early and
unmissable sign in the past two decades that the nature and climate emergency has reached our shores.” The starling-sized bee-eaters have red backs,
blue bellies and yellow throats, and can be seen feeding on bees, dragonflies and other flying insects which they catch in mid-air.
At Potteric Carr nature reserve in Doncaster, three black-winged stilts this week fledged from what is believed to be the most northerly nest in Britain for
a wading species, which is rare in this country and does not breed here every year. Andy Dalton, operations manager at Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, said:
“It’s been a tense wait but we’re overjoyed. Potteric Carr is a green oasis on the fringe of Doncaster, surrounded by busy roads and industrial development
– the conservation work we do here has a significant impact for wildlife including rare species like black-winged stilts.”
Danny Heptinstall, director of policy and partnerships at Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, warned that nature-rich places must be protected and restored at a large
enough scale to ensure that species forced north by global heating can find refuge in Britain.
“The only reason we’ve got black-winged stilts breeding at Potteric Carr is because we have a fantastic landscape-scale nature reserve of a couple of hundred
hectares with ambitions to extend it further. If we don’t create the habitat for these species in the UK they will have nowhere to go,” said Heptinstall.
“It’s positive, exciting and a brilliant endorsement of the work we’ve been doing at Potteric Carr but it’s also an alarm call. The flip-side is what we are losing
at the same time. In Yorkshire we’re looking anxiously at our seabird populations, including kittiwakes, fulmars and puffins.”
Of the UK’s 25 breeding seabird species, 24 are assigned red or amber status on the birds of conservation concern list, meaning they are at risk of local
extinction. As sea temperatures rise, fish stocks move north or disappear, reducing the breeding success of seabirds farther south and compelling species
to shift to where they can find food.
* The RSPB and the North-East Norfolk Bird Club have set up a car park and viewing area in a large grass field off Gimingham Road near Trimingham so
the bee-eaters can be watched without admirers disturbing their nesting attempts...'
Taken from: www.historicalrarebirds.info
Quote:European Bee-eater
MEROPIDAE
Merops apiaster Linnaeus, 1758 (139, 42)
STATUS
Palearctic. Monotypic.
OVERVIEW
Arrives in Britain between April and October, but mostly in the spring. Parties of up to twenty together have been recorded.
Breeding took place in Sussex during 1955.
The link offers countless reports of these birds, but these days, history is a playground for the dying MSM to attempt to show themselves relevant.