My carbon-eating units

Best way to deal with the anthropogenic generation of carbon dioxide is to plant some carbon-eating units. That's what Dor and I did this Memorial Day weekend. Here, let me show you a picture of one.

What are these? I already told you, carbon-eating units. I have no idea beyond that, except the near one is an Asian lilly. That I do know. We have diversity quotas for our garden.

That's me, shamelessly contributing to global warming, generating carbon dioxide. By breathing.
 
But wait, I'm also planting something that eats carbon dioxide, so I must be contributing to global cooling.

Other than that, I had no idea what I was doing. I'm supposed to be planting peas. But I think it's the wrong time of year. Never grew peas before. This year will probably be no exception.

 
When it comes to gardening, I am close to clueless. But being clueless has never stopped me before, so why now?

And here I am, shamelessly generating carbon monoxide, plus a lot of noise and dust. More global warming. Somebody needs to report me to the EPA.

And here are my little friends, happily eating the noxious effluents I have shamelessly produced. The tomato in the lower right looks like he's had a little too much CO₂.

It's been a good, hard-working, holiday. Doris and I strategized, discussed, planned, drew diagrams, measured, borrowed a rototiller, then went to Lowes.  And pitched our plans in the trash. Just too many beautiful plants. Felt like Adam and Eve, prior to the serpent.

We got started after church on Sunday, and worked pretty much straight through today (Tuesday). Here's the vegetable garden. The line with no mulch is where my lettuce is supposed to come up. Never grew lettuce before. This year's probably no exception. At least the seeds were cheap, unlike the peas.

All snide remarks aside, it's been a great holiday weekend. We got a lot done. Here's the pond area. By the way, you can barely see it, but if you'll note the grill in the background, just above it is some black and yellow. It's the bottom of Doris's Iowa Hawkeyes flag. Football Momma loves her Hawkeyes. We're flying it in the backyard so the local OSU fans don't run us out of town.

This is the view from the deck. Comical to watch the birds mug one another in an effort to gain control of the birdbath, which is the prime real estate in the backyard according to my local feathered friends. Whoever talks about nature being in harmony has evidently spent most of their days inside. It's aerial combat out here.

And here's Dor. She's the one who really knows what to do with all these plants.

And this is Lilly, my heart-throb. Gorgeous.

Political Science

When scientists start behaving like politicians, it's a sure bet that the "science" they promulgate has been thoroughly politicized.

Now that "Global Warming" has assisted in trashing the U.S. economy, and destroying all semblence of a rational energy policy, it is at least gratifying that the politics behind the "science" are finally being exposed: see Jim Lacey's article here.

Some of us have known for years that the "science" was junk. There is a reason why Greenland is so-named, and I doubt that the emissions of internal combustion engines were involved. Long live real science!

[added 11/29/2011] See also here.