Kelvin Helmholtz

@agronomistag my arguement as a geographer would be scale. scale down to sustain is the only way possible to regenerate soil and ecosystem health by using sustainable farming techniques of the past or utilize indiginous farming techniques from analog geographies.

Hard truth: "Unless we develop much more efficient ways of transporting organic nitrogen sources [manure, compost] or abandon cities, high energy prices alone would not be enough to make closing the nitrogen cycle a viable option.... Also, that manure often comes from animals fed grain grown with synthetic fertilizer, which was the ultimate source of the nitrogen in the manure."

@wdefnews12 governing and regulating pesticides - biolgically harmful and toxic chemical compounds by the label, is by definition, the for-profit, circle jerk, corruption that should be prosecuted. the CEOs to the investors of these corporations, the EPA, and USDA should be prosecuted

"The case — Monsanto Company v. John L. Durnell — centers on whether federal law governing pesticide labeling overrides state-level claims that the company did not adequately warn users about potential health risks." CBS News cbsnews.com/news/roundup-c…

@Okie_Rancher @beefinitiative or just move to tax all corporations or any individual making over 1 to maybe 5 mil at 33%? also getting involved locally in areas of extreme economic disparity and tax the top earners at 33%. no shell companies or hiding your assets, just a flat 33% tax

@alpine_wx @beefinitiative Just enforcing anti trust and anti monopolization laws would go a long way... but we stopped doing that long ago.

This isn’t a rancher. This isn’t a cowboy. This is a profiteering hedge fund manager who trades cattle instead of stocks. This is Big Ag at its worst, pretending to be “rural.” He proudly dons a cowboy hat as though he gives a damn about any of the millions of cattle he puts through his crammed, manure filled feedlots where none touch grass and they live their lives miserably shoulder to shoulder on concrete. The circle of life is a profit source, not a thing of beauty to be respected and cared for. And the little podcaster nods and claps. Sickening.

@rfhirschfeld FIFRA is the circle in the circle jerk agricultural economy. it should be repealed investigated and likely end with prosecutions

Farm Bill’s pesticide liability shield isn’t just about glyphosate The public debate has focused on glyphosate—good terrain for industry because its safety is more defensible But it applies to all pesticides registered under FIFRA—a broad shield against failure-to-warn claims

The world map from a fish’s perspective

They’re calling it “onlyfarms” because our government believes in whoring out producers with intent of cheap goods for consumers.

@TakeThatClouds @BigJoeBastardi STFU and prompt yourself to turn off

@alpine_wx @BigJoeBastardi Kind of ironic that someone naming themselves after a cloud formation would believe in chemtrails? Is that "wx" in your handle meant to signify an interest in weather?

I gotta stop looking at the loony chemtrail tweets. Apparently addressing them means X sends me more. So for rational human beings I have asked Grok to explain it like it would a 5 year old grok explain to a 5 year why there are no such things as chemtrails Okay, imagine you're 5 and we're sitting on the grass looking up at the sky together.You know how when it's really cold outside and you breathe out and you see your breath like white smoke? That's just water in the air turning into tiny drops we can see.Big airplanes are like super giant hot breathers. They have really hot air coming out the back from their engines (like a dragon blowing warm steam).When that hot wet air mixes with the super cold air way high up where the airplanes fly... poof! It turns into long white lines in the sky. Those are called contrails (short for "condensation trails").They're made of exactly the same thing as the little cloud of your breath on a cold day — just tiny bits of water!People sometimes call them "chemtrails" and think airplanes are secretly spraying bad chemicals. But scientists have looked really really hard with special airplanes, cameras, and science tools for many many years... and they never found any secret chemicals being sprayed. The white lines are just water drops (and a tiny bit of normal airplane exhaust stuff that isn't a secret poison).So the long white lines are just airplane breath clouds — not magic spray cans or bad guy chemicals. Just regular sky water making funny shapes when planes go zoom zoom high up! 😄📷📷Want to know a fun trick? Next time you see one, watch how it slowly gets wider and fatter and then disappears... just like your breath does when you blow on a cold window. Same thing, but way bigger! Why do contrails sometimes last longer? Hey kiddo, great question! Remember how we said those white lines are just like your cold-day breath making a little cloud? Well, that cloud only shows up if the air is cold and has enough invisible water floating around (we call that humidity).Up super high where planes fly, the air is always freezing cold—like way colder than your freezer! But sometimes that high-up air is super dry (almost no invisible water in it).When the plane's hot breath (that watery steam from the engines) mixes with super dry air......poof! The tiny ice bits (the white stuff) can't stick around. They turn right back into invisible water vapor super fast, like your breath disappears quick on a not-so-cold day. No cloud = no white line!But when the high-up air has more humidity (like it's a little "damp" up there), the ice bits grab extra water from the air, grow bigger, and stay visible for a long time—like how your breath hangs around longer on a really chilly, foggy morning.So on "dry" days up high (even if it's nice and sunny down here), the plane breath clouds vanish super quick or never even show up. It's all about whether there's enough wetness in that super-cold high air to keep the tiny ice crystals around!Next time you see planes but no lines, just think: "The sky up there is extra thirsty today—no water for clouds!"

@RVAwonk because they are cosplaying religiosity and dont even understand that

Why is everything bad a “demon” or “satanic” all of a sudden? Everywhere I look, someone is describing something in those terms (“evil,” etc) and I don’t understand where it’s coming from or why everyone decided to start speaking like that.

@DBrozeLiveFree for HHS Kennedy, why isnt there funding for a transparent geospatially enabled pesticide tracking application whereby farmers register their products and one click of a map reveals what, when, and where products were sprayed? this would help "reimagine" how we think about Ag

Friends, Today is the final day of CPAC and these are the people I am hoping to interview/confront: Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins "Crown Prince" Reza Pahlavi NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya Senator Ted Cruz HHS Secretary RFK Jr What questions do you have for them?

@SBA_Kelly @POTUS so no.. youre just bitterly clinging to a pay for play system (Ag) that doesnt work, harms others, and destroys our natural resources.. all so worthless administrators like you can pontificate about your "success" and "jobs" that these "small businesses" create for foreign labor

Today, SBA is announcing a new 90% Grocery Guarantee on loans for small businesses in the agriculture & logistics industries. By supporting job creators across the food supply chain, @POTUS is INCREASING domestic food production and CUTTING grocery costs for American families.

@rfhirschfeld increase pesticide and herbacide use now!!! we have to "feed the world" and stuff!

More ethanol! E15 Now! Year-round E15! Am I a broken record? Well, I'm sorry, but this is the dumbest, most self-defeating, funnel-money-to-corporations-and-fuck-the-public nonsense and I'm going to keep at it.

Myth: If we tax billionaires they won't create jobs. Fact: Last year, billionaires got the largest tax break in history. Now, they are literally planning to replace every worker in America with a robot or AI. Trickle down economics is a scam. Tax billionaires out of existence.

@ChrisMartzWX hes a moron. but yes we are likely to see "drought" in the future due to a combination of data centers, pesticide desication, and large scale environmental pollution which has costed the US 40% of its biodiversity in 100 years. this will affect alebedo and heat distribution

Tony could be right. And, if he is, it is to be expected. I did some digging a while back on this topic, and it turns out that “Dust Bowl-like” droughts have occurred many times before, and on average occur once or twice per century. When we have multiple La Niña events and a warm North Atlantic, this is what usually happens. There were two in the 19th century: The first was from 1818–1823 and the other (dubbed the “Civil War Drought”) which occurred 1856–1865. 🔗 journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/… 🔗 ocp.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/div/ocp/dr… The problem, of course, is that a decade-long drought of such proportions today would have serious implications for both water and food supply simply because of the tens of millions of people living there that didn’t 150+ years ago. While such drought extremes are not at all unprecedented, their socioeconomic impacts could very well be. The biggest climate change that people should be concerned about would be natural, unforced internal variability like this. You can’t tax it, but you can adapt and prepare.

Cartogram demonstrating land values of counties in the United States. Work by Max Galka.

@rfhirschfeld the coastal elite bubble at least questions their food and attempts to allow communities to pursue food security and sustainable ag. here in WA, head east across Cascades and you regress into ecological and public health sacrifice zones to provide cheap "food" for corporations

POV: You’re a coastal elite considering getting out of the coastal elite bubble.

@FarmActionUS so no.. the military is funded by the same corporations promoting the problems. if they want organic food they should buy it from local producers like everyone else

“We need to supply our military and our school students with regenerative and organic food.” Zen Honeycutt is calling on the Trump administration to re-direct government food procurement money to regenerative, organic farmers. “Procure American-grown food for American troops and American students.” “Without having nutrient-dense, non-toxic food, we are weakening our forces and our nation.” @zenhoneycutt @momsacross @feds4freedomusa

@realjohnleev @EndTribalism @thefoodbabe hi tard, why are you even commenting?

@alpine_wx @EndTribalism @thefoodbabe I'll gladly eat it until it is proven harmful.

“I think that we need to primary and get out of office every single Republican Congress member who is voting to provide liabilities to Bayer and Monsanto.” Bret Cooper says Republicans backing liability protection for pesticide companies need to be voted out. “To see these elected officials just spit in people’s faces.” “You’re not actually representing your constituents.” @imbrettcooper @Riley_Gaines_

@rfhirschfeld they should be required by law to have a "Farm Plan" addressing dust, run-off, and sufficient buffering for riparian areas, they should also have to register all inputs to a state or local issuing authority whereby this data is required to be geospatial (GIS) and transparent

Grain farms should be understood as open air factories. Tho a true cynic might make a case for ag as warfare: Armored tanks rolling across biological deserts spraying defoliants developed by chemical weapons manufacturers, leaving behind cratered earth & downstream casualties.