Is any research being done to bring back the naturally colored cottons?

Mansanto has been working on blue for years. Sally Fox (FoxFibre) has green and brown. There’s another version of green native to North America called ‘tennessee green’, not very stable (cotton we use is native to Central & South America). These are mentioned and linked to in my cotton gin post.

I’ve seen green and brown growing in the field. The green plant looks very different from usual and it’s smaller and more fibrous. The brown cotton is beautiful in the field. It looks *exactly* like bunches of little baby bunnies nestled amongst the green plant. You’d never think of growing cotton as cute but brown is.

1. volcanic activity is the greatest source estimated at more than 500Giga tons/year most of it unseen because it happens in the ocean

2. Forests, soil activity, rotting vegetation, falling leaves, etc. @150Gigatons/year

3. All of man’s activities fuel useage 6.5 Gigatons/year

Much has been written about the oceans pH becoming more acidic from increasing CO2, but that actually makes no sense because the oceans only absorb CO2 when they are cooling. So if the oceans are absorbing CO2 then the earth is actually cooling not warming.

Consider this, the climate on earth is always changing and has changed dramatically in the past without any help from us. Man’s contribution to the total CO2 in the atmosphere is at 0.04%. In the past CO2 levels have changed only when the earth’s temperature has changed. Not the other way around. CO2 changes lag temperature changes. The temperature increases and then CO2 levels rise with a lag of about 200 to 300 years. That is what the ice core records show. Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth is that CO2 does not drive temperature change – temperature change drives the change in CO2 levels.

Where do you think the temperature change comes from?
Look up in the sky – latest reports are that the atmosphere is actually cooling, not warming – a decrease of water vapor in the stratosphere has caused this cooling. So what might the greatest green house be? If you guessed water vapor, you are spot on.

One of the nice things about increased atmospheric CO2 is that our food crops will grow in places where it was too dry to grow things like corn and wheat before, without increasing irrigation. If CO2 is really a pollutant as the EPA has designated it, remember that ever living thing on the earth gives off CO2 and we are literally made from building blocks that incorporate CO2. Your bones and teeth contain calcium carbonate which is made from calcium and CO2.

Thanks for letting me tell this and I will confine myself more directly to the subject at hand in the future.

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