|
Post by nautonnier on Nov 6, 2014 19:35:19 GMT
Magellan is spot on here. Kiwi you live in NZ and the champagne for sun screen is now looking like the biggest bust ever. If you sit in the strong Auckland sun you can get a 20K dose in a day but more reliably hit the bottle, I take 3k/day its good for everything from heart to anti cancer low cost high chance of a better outcome. I also live in Auckland and look at the wonderful Rangitoto, see you around. Just don't wash it off. D3 is secreted onto the skin just like nature's own sunscreen. However, as soon as they feel a little sticky people go and have a shower with an industrial strength degreasant (shower gel) to remove all the natural oils, lanolin and D3. That is why you are 'squeaky clean' you have just removed all your skin's natural oils, UV protection and UV damage treatment D3. Ideally, a cool shower only if you really need one and use soap only where needed - armpits etc. Then gentle pat dry. Allow 3 days for D3 to soak through the skin it then goes on an interesting circuit to the liver via the kidneys to become fully fledged Vitamin D.
|
|
|
Post by magellan on Nov 7, 2014 5:24:16 GMT
Kiwi, great to see you back. I am being 100% serious. Have you or your wife been checked for vitamin D levels? Even if they read "normal", an adult over 40-50 that doesn't get sufficient Vitamin D from the sun (some don't absorb it well anyway), taking 4-6k units of D3 a day is ok. How about magnesium? A standard blood serum test does not reveal the true magnesium levels in your body because ~95% of magnesium is not in the blood! Only a RBC test can determine accurate magnesium levels. How do I know this? After years of problems and trips to the hospital (won't bore with the details), for whatever reason nobody checked my Vitamin D levels, so two years ago I requested it from my doctor. I was >30% deficient, and then put on 50,000 units a week. I now take 4,000 every day. Next, my niece, a geneticist and chemist at U of M (Michigan) taught me about magnesium. It is IMO a near miracle mineral. There are several forms and not all agree with everyone nor work equally well. Personally I take this: www.jigsawhealth.com/supplements/magnesium 1000mg a day. Look up the connection between MS and Vitamin D/Magnesium, not to mention heart disease, BP, diabetes. If your doctor won't perform the RBC test for magnesium, have it done yourself requestatest.com/magnesium-rbc-testing It's all about glucose. Oh Yes, you can assume that I've been researching MS instead of arctic ice the last few years. My wife takes extra Vit D & Magnesium. But (as we say) Correlation does not imply causation, and there are many types of MS. It may be genetic, where the re-myelination process is flawed, or autoimmune where the body attacks the myelin sheath. Some forms may be a type of diabetes (Type 3!!) and so on. My wife has Primary progressive, and this affects men & women in equal numbers, and is not helped by immune suppression used for the episodic forms of MS. The Keto-diet is good for diabetes, and, some report recovery with MS. Because MS is a long term disease, it is hard to fit research into the normal PhD time frame - so hard to get funding - it all goes on climate research! lol For us folk without MS, our nerves get damaged, just as in MS, but we can repair fast enough for no symptoms. I have brain lesions - the normal amount for my age - but MS sufferers have extensive brain lesions and nerve damage. During sleep, the genes that express for re-myelination are activated, and nerve repair proceeds, so MS sufferers need more sleep - which is often difficult due to pain and other symptoms. MS research is in early days, as cancer research was years ago - and one day, they may be able to diagnose many different types of MS accurately, and have cures/treatments for many of them, just as many cancers now are treated. Also, early detection for MS may become standard- my Wife wasn't diagnosed correctly for over 20 years, which hasn't helped!! There is no(nor will there be a) simple single cure for MS, nor will something that works for one, work for another! And "cures" for episodic MS may not be cures, as folks with that type can also go into remission. Anyways, I'll report back from time to time on progress. I happen to believe inflammation is the cause of many ailments, including heart disease and heart attacks, not to mention all manner of pain. Many infections go undetected and cannot be treated by conventional methods. At one time my triglycerides were above 500. The liver looks at plaque as an infection, up goes the CRP levels to fight the "infection". And so on.... I digress. I've had one flu shot in the past 20 years (dumber back then, and it made me very sick), yet nearly everyone at work faithfully gets their yearly shot and guess who are the ones that get the flu every year? Let me say you and your wife are in our prayers, also that epilepsy is no joy ride either, and as you say, being undiagnosed for several years makes it harder. I credit Dr. Carolyn Dean (through my niece) for saving my life. When it comes to Magnesium, she is second to none. If you have time, look up Serrapeptase, an amazing enzyme. As a late wise friend once told me, if Hans Nieper says it is good, it is good.
|
|
|
Post by scpg02 on Nov 7, 2014 14:40:02 GMT
yeah I refuse to get those. I've never had a flu shot and never had the flu. Rare to even get a cold.
|
|
|
Post by sigurdur on Dec 16, 2014 17:42:24 GMT
cires.colorado.edu/news/press/2014/AGUgreenland.html#sthash.LOU3RnlK.8p8jmIi1.dpuf“Satellites obviously do not cover the early 1900s, when the region experienced a rapid increase in temperatures,” Bjork said. But with time constraints provided by historic photographs, he and his colleagues recorded a remarkably quick ice response between 1900 and 1930, more rapid than seen in the last 15 years, he said. The new data promise to help researchers understand how quickly glaciers can react to temperature changes, which is important today as the Arctic climate warms again
|
|
|
Post by acidohm on Dec 16, 2014 22:06:31 GMT
Hi Sig, This also on BBC news today, unusual to have an 'upbeat' report on the environment, certainly in mainstream British press... "Arctic sea ice may be more resilient than many observers recognise. While global warming seems to have set the polar north on a path to floe-free summers, the latest data from Europe's Cryosat mission suggests it may take a while yet to reach those conditions. The spacecraft observed 7,500 cu km of ice cover in October when the Arctic traditionally starts its post-summer freeze-up. This was only slightly down on 2013 when 8,800 cu km were recorded. Two cool summers in a row have now allowed the pack to increase and then hold on to a good deal of its volume. And while the ice is still much reduced compared with the 20,000 cu km that used to stick around in the Octobers of the early 1980s, there is no evidence to indicate a collapse is imminent. CryoSat (Esa) Cryosat has funding to take it through 2017, but there is currently no planned successor "What we see is the volume going down and down, but then, because of a relatively cool summer, coming back up to form a new high stand," said Rachel Tilling from the UK's Nerc Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (CPOM) at University College London (UCL). "So, what may be occurring here is a decline that looks a bit like a sawtooth, where we can lose volume but then recover some of it if there happens to be a shorter melt season one year," she told BBC News. The British researcher is presenting her work this week at the American Geophysical Union's Fall Meeting in San Francisco. Cryosat is the European Space Agency's (Esa) dedicated polar monitoring platform." www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30399079
|
|
|
Post by Ratty on Dec 17, 2014 23:28:00 GMT
So .... we have this: "Two cool summers in a row have now allowed the pack to increase and then hold on to a good deal of its volume." ... and this: Persistent Warming Drives Big Arctic ChangesAnd you lot wonder why I am confused.
|
|
|
Post by nonentropic on Dec 18, 2014 2:46:11 GMT
And those two cool summers were all the way through the hottest years, sorry forgot the word "unprecedented" warm years on planet earth.
somewhere there is a conflict, can anyone explain this?
|
|
|
Post by sigurdur on Dec 18, 2014 5:41:49 GMT
According to GISS TEMP the Arctic had a hot summer.
|
|
|
Post by douglavers on Dec 18, 2014 10:10:16 GMT
Whenever observation does not agree with model, change the observation. Sigurdur, you really need to appreciate modern weather science! More seriously, the chart from the attached link is interesting: weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.gifI don't understand why the central Atlantic can be so anomalously cold, while the area around Iceland and in the Barents Sea is showing warmer than average. Another blog I saw somewhere pointed out that the "warm" area west of Iceland was enjoying rapidly increasing ice cover. I think I am going to accept the cold Central Atlantic anomaly as that has been present for many months, and assume error elsewhere. This means the North Atlantic Drift has dramatically slowed, and terawatts of heat are no longer reaching Europe/ Barents Sea area from the Tropics. The Icelanders better worry about becoming part of the Greenland Ice Shelf, and I think I expect a considerably cooling [freezing] of the Barents Sea. Also, a much colder Europe. PS The second graph down of Anthony Watt's sea ice blog shows worldwide polar ice comfortably ABOVE the 30 year average for this time of year. wattsupwiththat.com/reference-pages/sea-ice-page/Why have I not seen this quoted anywhere in the world's press? As Sigurdur said, it is disturbing that ice is increasing at both ends of the planet.
|
|
|
Post by acidohm on Dec 18, 2014 17:02:55 GMT
And those two cool summers were all the way through the hottest years, sorry forgot the word "unprecedented" warm years on planet earth. somewhere there is a conflict, can anyone explain this? All this in a year when ice clung on in the great lakes, glacier formation is being observed at Ben Nevis in Scotland and record low temps are recorded in antartica and the US during the summer. I really don't know how the average of world temps is calculated, however it does seem there is alot of variation in the world's climate right now.... ....i mean more then normal....whatever that is! Also, a much colder Europe. - douglavers Metcheck is suggesting -4 and below for UK around new year, perhaps a little early to get the thermals ready, however those conditions feel alot like the 5 years previous to winter 2011/12 when it was exceptionally cold and snowy. It only warmed up the last 2 year's but it rained....alot. those years bought us yo the peak of this weak sun cycle, but no way can there be a link with this ? IF there is an as yet not understood link between sun and climate, and any cold we may soon get is related to this. ...Arctic ice may reach historically average conditions... Also...i got thinking about enthalpy and pulled this of Web. .. When water (in any of the three phrases) moves from a lower to a higher ordered state, the air surrounding the H20 will have energy added to it. This is called a release of latent heat (e.g. when heat is subtracted from liquid water, the individual water molecules will slow down. They eventually slow down to the point at which the hydrogen bonds do not allow the liquid to rotate anymore. Ice now develops. The energy the water molecules once had to rotate has been given up to the surrounding air). The three processes that add heat to the surrounding air are condensation, freezing and deposition (gas to solid). Apologies if I'm getting anyone to suck eggs....but basically the process of freezing water to ice adds energy to the atmosphere....go figure...
|
|
|
Post by nautonnier on Dec 18, 2014 18:09:06 GMT
Exactly - who would have thought that cooling means losing heat? Or rather as heat cannot disappear transferring heat to the environment.
|
|
|
Post by scpg02 on Dec 22, 2014 6:35:11 GMT
Most of Alaska's Permafrost Could Melt This Centuryby Tia Ghose, Staff Writer | December 18, 2014 11:48am ET SAN FRANCISCO — The permafrost in some of Alaska's most iconic national parks could all but disappear this century, new research suggests. Right now, half of the ground in Denali National Park's is frozen year-round, but if global warming continues at the current pace, just 1 percent of this land could remain permafrost by the year 2100, according to new research presented here at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Not only could vast swaths of the Alaskan tundra transform into swampy bogs, but the melting ice could release troves of the climate-warming carbon locked beneath the frozen ground. "If the climate continues to warm as it has been for the last 30 or 40 years, permafrost will degrade, and only in a few pockets will you have permafrost," said study co-author Santosh Panda, a permafrost scientist at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. ~snip~ www.livescience.com/49184-permafrost-disappears-from-alaska.html
|
|
|
Post by acidohm on Dec 22, 2014 11:13:34 GMT
Oh permafrost scientists....you so silly!
|
|
|
Post by kiwistonewall on Dec 25, 2014 4:42:09 GMT
On the other hand, permafrost might cover most of the USA, the part not covered by ice sheets.
Which do you prefer? Let us delay the next ice age by any means possible.
Get your SUV's out and drive, drive drive.
Merry Christmas to all.
|
|
|
Post by kiwistonewall on Dec 25, 2014 5:22:42 GMT
|
|