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Author Archives: gymnosperm
Further GRBaV Observations
A number of things we have noticed about red blotch did not really fit into the themes of prior posts but we feel bear mention. The first, along the lines of Dr. Golino’s finding of a similar virus in a … Continue reading
Posted in GRBaV, Red Blotch Disease, Wine
Tagged Master Gardeners, Red Blotch, Roger Raiche
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Say Watt? Or Why I Just Love Math
Mathematics is one of the many human languages. It is written in very impressive hieroglyphics that can include multitudes of “terms”, many of which are given Greek letters. This language has been very much in fashion since the Enlightenment and … Continue reading
GRBaV, Heredity or Environment?
The burning question in the vineyard business these days is whether or not to rip out and replant Red Blotch infected vines. On the one hand, the first variant of the disease has spread at an average of maybe 4% … Continue reading
The State of the Onion
Let’s say the way this planet works is an onion. There are many layers and they interact in ways far more complex than onion rings. Yet we have to start somewhere, and peeling back the layers of this onion can … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Geology, LLSVP's are Doughboys, Magnetic Reversals, Moho, Oceanography, Seismic Tomography
Tagged missing energy
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Pope Misguided the XXXXXXXXIX Preaches Crusade Against Carbon
In an action that betrays all the more clearly the religious roots of the Carbon crusade, the Pope continues a long and sorry tradition of involving the church in matters best left to science and individual conscience. From Galileo a … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Carbon Theology, Climate, Ethics
Tagged Carbon Crusade, Pope
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Lamarc Col, Muir Pass, Mt. solomons, Charybdis, Mt. Goddard, Echo Col, December, 1976
We had fallen in love with the moonscape of Muir Pass and the improbable hut there while hiking the John Muir Trail in 1966. No vegetation besides hardy buckwheats and lichen can be seen in any direction from this … Continue reading
GRBaV, The Vector, Which Mite It Be?
At a recent UC extension course, “Current Issues in Vineyard Health”, an impressive group of researchers presented their work. Dr. Brian Bahder revealed evidence of a second variant of GRBaV, commonly called red blotch virus, that seems to have invaded a block … Continue reading
Hold and Haul, The Surprising Result of a Careful Analysis of Sustainability
The purpose of this investigation is to evaluate the “sustainability” in terms of fossil energy use between localized wastewater treatment at a sewage treatment facility and “hold and haul” trucking to the EBMUD cogeneration facility in Oakland for a new … Continue reading
The end of the Hollowscene
The concept of the Holocene epoch is a 19th century notion developed when the preceding “ice age” was thought of as a monolithic block of ice extending back to the end of the Pliocene. In this context it made sense … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropic interglacial, Anthropocene, Climate, Geology, Holocene, Paleoclimate
Tagged Anthropic interglacial, Hollowscene, Misanthroposcene
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GRBaV, A Null Hypothesis
As one contemplates the panoramas of red vineyards and walks rows to find disturbingly few completely asymptomatic plants, it is easy to consider a null hypothesis suggested by early notions that red blotch has been around a long time masked by similar symptoms … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, GRBaV, Red Blotch Disease, Wine
Tagged Red Blotch, Red Blotch Disease, Red Vein Virus
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