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Karach: May 23, 2003; no war but class war

I'm just here to spread the good news about the big book of edible poisons

# ? Feb 20, 2024 04:57

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# ? May 25, 2024 04:00

mawarannahr: May 21, 2019

lol
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2018/SPS/JPN/18_4072_00_e.pdf

6 pages of produce they're planning to or already use cquat on

# ? Feb 20, 2024 08:08

mawarannahr: May 21, 2019

part of an interesting piece about citrus growers in Turkey and their situation wet climate annihilation
Impacts of the Climate Crisis on Citrus Fruits - From the World of Agriculture - Ali Ekber Yıldırım | FOOD, AGRICULTURE, AND LIVESTOCK PLATFORM

www.tarimdunyasi.net - Wed, 31 Jan 2024 posted:

The Enterdonat lemon is at risk of extinction

�zbek �zler, who produces and exports citrus fruits in �ukurova and apples in Niğde, mentioned that due to climate change, some products no longer yield efficiency, stating: "For example, we have a variety of lemon, Enterdonat. It might not be very important in terms of quality, but it's the earliest-fruiting variety. It's very valuable and important in terms of timing, filling a significant gap. It used to facilitate Turkey's early entry into many markets. Due to climate changes, over the last 10 years, none of our producers have been able to obtain yield from this variety. Producers who used to get 5-7 tons of yield are now happy if they get 3 tons. As the yield decreased, producers started to remove it. This variety is facing the risk of extinction.

Apart from that, we have a Satsuma mandarin variety in Mersin and Hatay Erzin. When I first started working, it was indispensable for Russia, England, and Europe during Christmas and New Year's. With autumn becoming warmer and winter shorter, the fruit's shelf life began to decrease. We are thankful if we can make it to the beginning of December, not to mention New Year's. One day, while harvesting in the garden, my father came and asked what we were doing. When I said we were cutting mandarins, he said, 'we used to cut these in February.' Mandarins that were cut in February are now being cut in December."

Different varieties should be tried

�zbek �zler mentioned they are working on different product varieties, including cherries, and described their efforts as follows: "Cherries don't grow on the plains in Adana and Mersin because they require a certain amount of chilling. We researched whether we could find a suitable variety because if we could grow it, it would be very early and could be marketed for a certain period. If successful, it will be a cherry variety suitable for our country's climate at that time, with very high added value, being the northern hemisphere's first cherry. Our research led us to discover such a variety in California, and we started efforts to bring it to Turkey and ensure its adaptation. We planted it in Adana. We brought in 14 varieties of cherries. After five to seven years of trials, 12 were unsuccessful, but two succeeded. Two varieties were identified, and their planting is underway. Let me explain its value to you this way; one of Germany's largest supermarket chains made a direct financial contribution of 1.8 million Euros to the producers and offered a 10-year purchase guarantee, agreeing to buy it for 3.5 Euros per kilo on the branch."

The greatest danger is sudden weather changes

�zbek �zler, mentioning that sudden weather changes are the biggest problem in fruit cultivation, illustrated with examples: "Farmers also face problems besides varieties. Due to climate change, there is drought in Central Anatolia. In �ukurova, we encounter unprecedented pests and diseases due to temperature and rainfall. If the rain lasts too long at certain times, it prevents harvesting. It's January 27; we were able to harvest for 10 days, and for 15 days, we could only look at the fruit and couldn't harvest because of the rain.

Due to the heat, fruits' resistance decreases, shelf life shortens, and they soften. It used to be cold in December, January, February, but now the cold comes in March. The tree is most vulnerable and weak during this period, and then it gets damaged by the cold. In 2022, the cold in March due to frost halved the yield. When early heat in spring made temperatures rise from 23-24 degrees to 38-39 degrees in May, there were flower and fruit falls, and again, the yield suffered. We are exposed to such difficulties.

How does this affect exports? As I initially explained, the loss of some varieties, entering the market, extending the season, and scheduling with markets seriously challenge us. When the season shortens, and there's significant production in Turkey, you need to sell it in a shorter time. Harvesting quickly, packaging, reaching the market, transportation, and getting buyers ready is not easy. Trying to sell in 45 days what you usually sell in 90 days requires a very different strategy. The absence of products that are resistant to long journeys. Due to climate change and the shifts in the season, our competitors were Spain, Egypt, Morocco, and suddenly, our competitors became South Africa, Argentina. Because the changes in the climate made the productions of the two hemispheres overlap."

# ? Feb 20, 2024 09:16

toggle: Nov 7, 2005

how�s pakistan after those brutal floods from a couple years back? still hosed i imagine?

# ? Feb 20, 2024 10:10

Radical 90s Wizard: Aug 5, 2008; ~SS-18 burning bright,
Bathe me in your cleansing light~

It hasn't been on the news, so it must be fine

# ? Feb 20, 2024 11:39

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

�Like the flip of a switch, it�s gone�: has the ecosystem of the UK�s largest lake collapsed?

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Declan Coney, a former eel fisher, knew there was something wrong when the famed swarms of Lough Neagh flies failed to materialise. In past years, they would appear around the Northern Irish lake in thick plumes and �wisps� � sometimes prompting mistaken alarm of a fire incident, Lough Shore residents say.

Clothes left out on a washing line �would be covered in them�, Coney says. So would any windshield on a vehicle travelling around the lough�s 90-mile shoreline. Conservationists marvelled at their courtship dances, hovering above treetops.

Last spring the flies never arrived. �This is the first year ever that, if you walked up to the Cross of Ardboe or the area around there, you�d find there�s no flies,� Coney says.

The flies were long considered a nuisance. Now, however, alarm is growing. �People have really been scared,� he says, by the rate of accelerated change to the lough�s ecology that their absence signals. �It�s just happened. Like the flip of a switch, it�s gone.�

�Lough Neagh fly� can refer to various non-biting midges, but these crucial insects support fish and wildfowl that are endemic to the lough system, as well as frogs and predatory insects. The loss of these keystone species, alongside sharp reductions of others, the spread of invasive species like zebra mussels, and a long-term deterioration in water quality, indicates deep trouble across the lough�s entire ecology. It also raises the prospect that this shallow body of water and its surrounding wetlands may have shifted beyond a state of decline into cascading ecosystem collapse.

Lough Neagh � the largest freshwater lake in the UK � supplies more than 40% of Northern Ireland�s drinking water, and hosts the largest wild eel fishery in Europe. It is considered a cultural and archaeological �jewel� that reaches �way back� into the very beginning of shared memory on the island.

Last summer, a vast �bloom� of blue-green algae � a thick, photosynthesising blanket that deprives the lake of oxygen, choking aquatic life � brought the lough�s accelerating biodiversity crisis into sharp focus. It prompted considerable public outcry and is expected to return in �more severe� form this coming summer.

The toxic algal growth � described by local people as appearing like something otherworldly due to its brilliant green or blue appearance � has since disappeared from the surface of the lough, but remains visibly suspended just underneath.

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Breen pauses to take stock of the losses he has witnessed since he began work here as a wildlife ranger in 1986.

�In the winter, we did an annual wildfowl count � a colleague and I did this particular section,� he says, gesturing towards an area of several square kilometres between Coney Island and Kells Point.

�We got about 50,000-60,000 diving ducks. So many that people � our bosses, I mean � came out of Belfast to take a look for themselves, since they didn�t believe us at first.�

These fleets of pochard, scaup and goldeneye made Lough Neagh an internationally significant site for overwintering birds in the 1980s. In the years since, their numbers have plummeted. A 2013 study found that the number of these winter migratory birds at the lough had dropped nearly 80% in a decade � from 100,000 to fewer than 21,000.

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�I remember lying in bed and hearing these swans calling out to each other, up and down the lough, having this magnificent conversation at all hours of the night. That�s all gone.�

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�This whole lough could be an income generator that keeps all of our young people from emigrating to the cities and emigrating out of the country. We could have a really good life around this lough, while supporting the rest of the ecology.�

But Breen, who has also worked in government, is less optimistic.

�They�re hoping this will blow over, now the algae�s disappeared from sight�, he says of decision-makers and government, �and that it�ll be back to business as usual.�

it�s fine

# ? Feb 20, 2024 12:05

Ihmemies: Oct 6, 2012

The area is completely surrounded by farmland, so most likely all the runoff has ultra poisoned the lake for a long time.

# ? Feb 20, 2024 12:14

AceClown: Sep 11, 2005

I've just seen my first butterfly of the season....

In February

# ? Feb 20, 2024 14:19

Microplastics: Jul 6, 2007; It's what's for dinner.

The Butterfly a-hosed

# ? Feb 20, 2024 14:20

Karach: May 23, 2003; no war but class war

TACD posted:

‘Like the flip of a switch, it’s gone’: has the ecosystem of the UK’s largest lake collapsed?

it’s fine

as usual the British think too small. Meanwhile we in the colonies have nearly mastered the art of environmental chromomancy

Lake Winnipeg: 24,000 km^2
Lough Neagh: 392 km^2

# ? Feb 20, 2024 14:20

Scarabrae: Oct 7, 2002

Winnipeg had climate change on loving easy mode and threw it away

# ? Feb 20, 2024 14:22

mags: May 30, 2008; I am a congenital optimist.

AceClown posted:

I've just seen my first butterfly of the season....

In February

sounds like a lovely silver lining for what isn�t that bad yet. enjoy

# ? Feb 20, 2024 14:41

kater: Nov 16, 2010

man I like conceptually do not know what a big lake looks like. 90 miles of shoreline sounds absurd but that�s apparently pretty small compared to big lakes. I guess I don�t know what a pretty small lake looks like either. just teensy weeny ones

# ? Feb 20, 2024 14:46

mags: May 30, 2008; I am a congenital optimist.

# ? Feb 20, 2024 14:47

Harold Fjord: Jan 3, 2004

kater posted:

man I like conceptually do not know what a big lake looks like. 90 miles of shoreline sounds absurd but that’s apparently pretty small compared to big lakes. I guess I don’t know what a pretty small lake looks like either. just teensy weeny ones

There's this weird thing about shore length where you can get a good estimate of how long it will take to get around or an accurate estimate of all the wiggles and those two numbers have almost nothing to do with one another

# ? Feb 20, 2024 14:54

Ruggan: Feb 20, 2007; WHAT THAT SMELL LIKE?!

Microplastics posted:

The Butterfly a-hosed

the better-fly away

# ? Feb 20, 2024 15:02

TeenageArchipelago: Jul 23, 2013

lmao

# ? Feb 20, 2024 15:06

Ruggan: Feb 20, 2007; WHAT THAT SMELL LIKE?!

Karach posted:

as usual the British think too small. Meanwhile we in the colonies have nearly mastered the art of environmental chromomancy

Lake Winnipeg: 24,000 km^2
Lough Neagh: 392 km^2

ok, so can we genetically modify these things to not produce toxins and then turn them into a food source???

# ? Feb 20, 2024 15:10

Karach: May 23, 2003; no war but class war

TeenageArchipelago posted:

lmao