[FRIAM] Fwd: Question from Merle

[Frank Wimberly]

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Most people don't like them.

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On Sun, Jan 5, 2020, 9:27 AM Merle Lefkoff <merlelefkoff at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nick, I presented your question about variability to our close Swedish
> colleague, Lars Larsson.  Here is his response below.
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Lars Larsson <perslars at hotmail.com>
> Date: Sun, Jan 5, 2020 at 6:10 AM
> Subject: Sv: Question from Merle
> To: Merle Lefkoff <merlelefkoff at gmail.com>
>
>
> Hej Merle,
> All farming-land need a rotation of different crops. Some times perennial
> plants to increase the nitrogen and some time other crops.
> So it means that we need a rotation program (3-5 year) and this different
> plant must stand the climate change.
>
> A bigger problem is the insects. We need them for this rotation. I have
> been working with my local food program since we met in Stockholm.
> I talk to fisher/hunters and they told me that this year the fishing was
> zero. So I talk to next village and next village and next village and
> everywhere the same problem.
>
> So I find some experts (entomologist) of insects and they told me that the
> situation is catastrophic. The insect are  more or less extinct. In this
> clean country?
> We *cant focus on climate change*, it is only a part of the problem. Just
> now, just here it is not a problem at all. The problem with lack of insects
> is worse.
>
> The entomologists told me the they have warn the government years ago. The
> problem is the management of the forests and the pesticides from the
> farming.
> This is two sensitive areas for the government so they did not listen. If
> the scientist was to tell about it they lost their titles so they could
> not tell the truth about it.
> And it is still the same situation.
>
> So in my topsoil improvement program I involve the insects and now it is
> emergency. We have 2-3 years to help them to survival.
> If the insects will be extinct the climate doesn't matter we can't
> survival. It takes millions of years to repair. Climate can be adjusted i
> 100 year if we want.
>
> Kram
> Lars
>
>
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> *Från:* Merle Lefkoff <merlelefkoff at gmail.com>
> *Skickat:* den 5 januari 2020 07:54
> *Till:* Lars Larsson <perslars at hotmail.com>
> *Ämne:* Question from Merle
>
> A member of the complexity group here is a retired Philosophy professor.
> I've got them all thinking about climate now, and here is what Nick wrote:
>
> "I could (after some labor) cite data to support the following concern:  What
> we should be watching out for, perhaps more than long term climate
> warming, is increases in year-to-year climate variability.
>
> You can grow rape seed in Canada and maize in the US, and as the
>  climate alters, the bands of climate supporting these two crops will
>  move north.  But what happens if one year the climate demands one crop  and
> the next the other?  And the switch from one to the other is entirely
> unpredictable.
>
> LARS--is this a good idea?  Do you have data on this?
>
> --
> Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D.
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>
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