Wednesday, February 7, 2007
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My daughter, Laura, made this photo of me while we were visiting the Great Smoky Mountains, probably about 1999.
This blog is dedicated to the Earth, our MOTHER SHIP. We are all on this boat together. "To a patient scientist, the unfolding greenhouse mystery is far more exciting than the plot of the best mystery novel...it is not the fate of some fictional character, but of our planet and species, which hangs in the balance as the great carbon mystery unfolds at a seemingly glacial pace." — D. Schindler
Millions of years ago, when our Mother Ship was very young, the atmosphere was, scientists say, full of all sorts of gases, including huge amounts of CO2 and was very toxic to life AS WE KNOW IT NOW. It took most of the succeeding MILLIONS of years for plants and animals to process and use most of that CO2, transforming it, with their dead bodies, into coal, oil, peat..... And now in just a few hundred years we are harvesting that coal and oil at an alarming rate and churning a vast amount of that carbon back out into the atmosphere as CO2. What it took millions of years to do, we are undoing so fast that I fear it is almost too late to "put on the brakes."
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My daughter, Laura, made this photo of me while we were visiting the Great Smoky Mountains, probably about 1999.
About Me
- Nana K
- Southeast, United States
- Why blog? Well, last year, following a routine physical, my dr determined that I needed an MRI of my head--just to check some kinda minor issues--but found something not so minor--a tumor nesting on the top of my right frontal lobe. The tumor is, most likely, a meningioma (about 95% are benign) and 1.5 x 1.5 cm in size. My dr thinks it best to just "wait and watch" for growth and/or changes. So now, why blog? Well, it is my desire to have an anonymous place to go where I can share my beliefs, passions, and worries. Which brings me to this: my blog is not about meningiomas, but about who I am. My fear is NOT that this will kill me--we all die--my biggest fear is that I become someone different--that my friends and family will not know me--THAT I WILL NOT KNOW ME! So I will preserve here my feelings and opinions--my passions and politics--I might need to refer back to them just to give myself a little "pinch".....
Stored here are "things" I don't want to forget, should my "frontal lobe" start to get itchy!
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