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There has been a lot of talk about climate change recently—and rightly so. A young lady from Sweden by the name of Greta Thunberg , has brought the fight to the world leaders. She is quite right, that we need to be careful of what we do to the environment. I remember when I was a child, there were no hawks or eagles around my local area—because of the widespread use of DDT . Now after being banned in 1972, I see hawks daily and eagles weekly. But there are still climate change doubters . Even if the science shows the impact, some will always deny it. Part of this is due to how the World Economy plays into the politics. This is often frustrating for the activists; who usually don't want to think about this part of the issue—because they believe their point-of-view is of a higher importance. Perhaps it is, but when I visited the the climate protest at the Minnesota State Capitol , the first few speakers were more focused on racial inequality than they were on climate change. I was...

It was great to stop by the Climate Change Protest at the Capitol today! But I couldn't stay very long. I had to leave the protest in the capable hands of the people who don't work. The signs were great! In fact I haven't seen that many cardboard signs since that panhandler convention a few years back. But just the same, I'm glad that somebody is taking notice of the damage being done to the environment. https://climate.nasa.gov/effects/

We were lucky enough to be given a tour of the SPRUCE Project in the Chippewa National Forest, North of Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Our tour guide was W. Robert Nettles IV, SPRUCE Project Operations Manager at Oak Ridge National Laboratory . I went into the site fueled primarily by my lifetime of interest in the natural environment; as well as my interest from volunteering as a park ranger in the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge. However, by the time I was done, my interest in technology, from over 10 years as an IT professional, was thoroughly peaked! Definitely off the "beaten path," in a spruce bog in Northern Minnesota, this site boasts an incredible array of scientific equipment that is supported by an amazing technological infrastructure! There are control sites and some of the chambers have added heat, carbon dioxide, or both. A lot of equipment and experimental testing goes on 24/7, 365 days per year. These guys know their stuff. The 10 chambers are connected ...