Posted 27 October 2014 - 01:58 PM
You may have to wait many years before scientific data is offered...although next July people will start noticing that 1/2 the trees in Boulder are already dead. I have contacted 40 people of influence with ZERO replies. I am going to start tracking down people in person just to see if they are really really stupid or simply lying under a gag order.
As of autumn 2014 over 50% of the trees in Boulder are in their last death throws due to radiation oxidizing the phloem, and considering the speed of their decline it will be 80% next year, and virtually 100% in 2016. This is easily observable from the bark-splitting that is occurring on tree trunks around town. Next Spring there will be some slight growth on many of these trees, but they will be bare dead sticks by the Fall.
Observation says that it is oxidation of the phloem in the entire tree which was noticable in 2013 and now is off the charts. It is not just the insides that are undergoing oxidation, the leaves and bark are also showing extreme oxidation and rapid aging (senescence). All vegetation is rusting and burning up, even pond scum. The trunks are cracking because the phloem is dead, leaves are dying on the tree, along with branches and roots. There is only one thing that could do this...radiation accumulation in soil water...and increased solar radiation.
The city, county and state will have to undergo an intensive investigation of the amount and type of radiation in the soil/soil water, and how much is continuing to fall in the rain and the snow. Factors and strategies the governmental bodies will have to consider include: The type of public announcement through the media, public education program, social and psychological services for ecoshock, how to fell trees on an industrial scale and make the most of the wood, replanting with species that can survive high radiation, growing of large scale acreage of hemp to prevent soil erosion and provide the fiber for ground matting, city run-off mediation in preparation for excess silting of the water systems.
The response to Systemic Environmental Collapse should be immediate, comprehensive and incorporate the entire societal organization structure. The main focus for city planners and engineers should be extracting wood to prevent fires and windfall, drainage silt mediation, river bank fortification, soil erosion prevention, studying Chernobyl for the types of vegetation to replant if any; replanting with species from earlier in the earth's evolution, Australian and African species and various soil and water adjustments. Soil rebuilding with zeolite, humalite/leonardite, humus, compost tea for soil microbe enhancement, mycorrhiza and mushroom innoculation to speed land readiness for replanting by increasing decomposition of underground root systems of dead trees etc...
For social healing I suggest that specific trees be reserved for sculptures...and to employ a troop of expert wood carvers, to turn the devastation into a celebration of the human spirit. Turn a loss into a gain wherever possible.
If you are in Colorado all you need do is go outside and observe to see that I am correct. See that the leaves are just as readily dying on the tree as turning autumn colors, oxidized rusted leaves and bark, split bark, sap oozing, blacking bark, dead branches, dead trees, blighted leaves, burnt edges of leaves, leaf stalks disorientated and twisted with oxidation, leaves rolling due to oxidation in the leaf stalk. The smell is not the normal sweet smell of a healthy fall...the vegetation smells like death.
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Solaris, on 01 September 2014 - 04:52 PM, said:
