Hi Gary:
I will email you and if you don’t mind sending those to me that would be great!

Hi Penny:
Collections of Albrecht’s papers are published in book form by Acres, U.S.A. I have had the first four volumes since the mid 1990’s.
https://bookstore.acresusa.com/collections/william-a-albrecht
I have made a few files taking examples from these volumes. If you email me, I can send a couple of these files. One shows that declining soil fertility increases damage done by floods, droughts and erosion. The other gives examples of how other species select their nutrition.

“What is called “science” today is mainly funded “science”
I agree with that completely and in fact am going to begin using that term- Funded science.

“By the way, I am self funded so I have no obligation to anyone.”

Like myself and this site- self funded.

btw: William Albrecht, PhD.. I’m going to have a read, if possible, into his work. If you have a link you’d like to provide please do?
Thanks

Your comment that funding is the reason for a researcher conducting a study is important. What is called “science” today is mainly funded “science”. This means that the researcher, in order to receive more funding in the future, must slant the study to benefit whoever has funded the study. This is certainly the case in both medicine and agriculture.
By the way, I am self funded so I have no obligation to anyone.

“The fact is also that with higher CO2 levels the planet is actually becoming more ‘greener’ as plant life is flourishing”

And that additional greening would increase CO2 during the decay process before the uptake begins anew in the spring.

Which is why every May we get the hysteria about these high levels- the peak before the fall.

Hi Gary

‘From the same link, the authors conclude that bees are unable to determine the different protein content of different floral sources.”

I think bees are able to differentiate more then scientists wish to consider. So I agree with William Albrecht.

Interesting about the lupine ” Legumes have the genetic capability to produce pollen with a superior protein content”
I’m know what Lupines are.
And have gardened as well for 30 years.

The lack of interest is likely attributable to the lack of funding for such studies- All the money is in carbon and connecting everything to “excess carbon”

I hope you keep your project going 🙂

I have no qualms in stating that CO2 is 100% NOT a greenhouse gas, period..

And the facts are always the same here… Our present atmospheric gas makeup is replete of CO2 which is essential for plant life… Without CO2 in a number ABOVE about 150 parts per million, we would face extinction as the plants would basically DIE… But of course nobody talks about this all important factor and we have the retarded ‘climate change’ nutters out there screaming that we should REDUCE CO2 or have it stupidly ‘extracted’ out of our atmosphere by artificial means…

The fact is also that with higher CO2 levels the planet is actually becoming more ‘greener’ as plant life is flourishing.. .Thus with more plants, the more O2 which is their waste product is in our atmosphere for WE to survive..

As far as I am concerned, we should be figuring out even MORE ways to pump CO2 into our atmosphere to assure a thriving plant life across the globe….

From the same link, the authors conclude that bees are unable to determine the different protein content of different floral sources.
I have four volumes of papers by the late soil scientist, William Albrecht, PhD, who disagrees with this conclusion. He states that biotic strata other than man are gifted in assaying their food intake according to different plant species and different degrees of rock development into soil on which the plants grow. The minerals in the soil for protein production result from the development of rock into soil.
To illustrate what Albrecht is saying, in 2016 I started a pollinator garden in the backyard of house in Willowdale. I chose Wild Lupine as the primary plant for this garden. The caterpillar of the Karner Blue Butterfly uses this plant as its sole source of food. The Karner Blue Butterfly is extirpated in Ontario. By increasing the ablilty of the soil to produce protein, I wanted to demonstrate that this would be the key to bringing back the Karner Blue Butterfly to Ontario.
I realized, if I was successful in improving the ability of the soil to produce protein, this would be shown in the growth of the lupine and in the response of other pollinators to the plants when they flowered.
The lupine is a legume. Albrecht points out that legumes are indicators of high soil fertility when they are large and are producing large quantities of seed. The same plant grows in High Park in Toronto. The plant looks much different in my garden.
When the lupine flowers in my garden, bumblebees come into the yard to collect the pollen from this single species of plant. Other flowering plants in the yard are ignored while the bumblebees load up on pollen from the lupine and then leave the yard. Legumes have the genetic capability to produce pollen with a superior protein content. Albrecht states, however, this only occurs when the legume is growing in a soil with a high ability to produce protein. In a soil with a low capability of producing protein, the pollen of a legume is no better than that of a non-legume.
If one wanted to save pollinators from population declines perhaps leading to extinction of species, would it make sense to investigate if increasing the ability of soil to create protein might reverse these population declines? So far, butterfly and bumblebee experts seem to see no value in doing such an experiment and none have expressed any interest is seeing what is happening in my project.

Hi Yaya:
I was thinking how it was warmer in the 80’s through to the 90’s and maybe the early 2000.
But for years now, better then a decade it’s been consistently cooler.

We used to be able to get an early start on the garden. For a long time now it’s been a late start particularly for peppers and eggplants.
We’re putting up a greenhouse in hopes of having that extended growing period back again

“Protein production in the soil depends on the minerals required to produce protein being in the soil in sufficient quantity”

Just an opinion, the issue with bees, is likely multi factored.

From the link provided

“Drivers that have been associated with
these declines include, but are not limited to, socioeconomic
concerns (e.g. agricultural intensification), invasive pests
and/or pathogens (e.g. Varroa, Nosema), agrochemicals
(e.g. neonicotinoids) and a decline in genetic diversity of
bee populations and food sources (e.g. over-reliance on one
floral source) [11 –17]. These factors may act singly or in combination to influence bee health”