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Post by Shirleypal » 08-08-2007 07:52 PM

Safe trip Janus, looking forward to seeing you upon your return.:)

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Post by Psychicwolf » 08-09-2007 02:04 AM

Safe journey, Janus.
Dance to heal the earth. Not just when you're dancing, but always. Live the dance, whenever you move, in all you do, dance to heal the earth.

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Post by Janus232 » 08-13-2007 06:34 AM

Afternoon Pirates......

Have arrived home safely and will post some pictures soon.. 4 now I have 2 sleep.... :)

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Post by Janus232 » 08-14-2007 08:02 AM

Omens for Our Planetary Future
The great Serpent of the Amazon forest,
The wise Turtle of the California desert,
Will share their ancient secrets again,
With humans humble enough to want to learn
To live in balance with one another,
And with the Earth, Great Goddess Mother of All the Living,
Embracing and nourishing all her children.
http://greenearthfound.org/write/poems.html

Reinfeldt Opens Water Week
"climate change ”hits first through water”, quoting figures that over 1 billion people lack access to safe and clean water"
http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/International/ ... el=1535869

Tree Deaths in California’s Sierra Nevada Increase as Temperatures Rise
"Life is increasingly uncertain for trees in California's Sierra Nevada. A new study by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reports a rising death rate for trees in this mountain range, paralleling increasing summer drought due to warming temperatures"
http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1716

Abrupt climate change in southeast tropical Africa
"The timing and magnitude of abrupt climate change in tropical Africa during the last glacial termination remains poorly understood........ events in Lake Tanganyika, coeval with millennial and centennial-scale climate shifts in the high latitudes, suggest that changes in Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone location and Indian monsoon strength are important components of abrupt global climate change and that their effects are felt south of the equator in Africa"

Climate change controversies: a simple guide
"The Royal Society has produced this overview of the current state of scientific understanding of climate change to help non-experts better understand some of the debates in this complex area of science"
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=6229


"I don't know how many of you follow the whole controversy about Global warming and all this, I mean it seems very abstract to many people. But a lot of planetary ecologists and people who study this sort of thing are very concerned, you know, more concerned than you might think because they are beginning to think it's already to late, a lot of global climatic models say that at a certain point the homeostatic mechanisms that keep basically global temperatures within a certain survivable range reach a tipping point, beyond that you get a runaway greenhouse effect where no matter what you do it just keeps getting hotter and hotter and that destroys Ocean currents and climatic homeostasis the world over.

This may be the last century in which the Human species survives and I'm not saying that to scare you, except that I'm saying it because I'm scared. So we have to start thinking about that, and we have to start doing something about that and we have to stop accepting the lies and the pabulum that is spread, the information is either suppressed or distorted, the media is no longer our friend the media has become completely corporatized and co-opted and craven and that is why you don't hear about that you ought to be hearing about" Dennis McKenna

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Post by Janus232 » 08-14-2007 09:39 AM

Arctic sea ice set to hit new low
"We know that natural climate variability can strongly influence the sea ice, but I think we are starting to see a positive feedback now"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6944401.stm

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Post by Janus232 » 08-15-2007 07:03 PM

Hell is about to break loose
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/stor ... 01,00.html

Lethal Heat Waves Threaten Urban Residents
"As of today, Phoenix has had 24 days with temperatures of 110 degrees or higher so far this year. The record was 28 days in 1979"
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... d=12744487

Calculating Antarctic stratospheric temperature from Special Sensor Microwave Imager and Sounder
"The constant viewing angle of the conical scanning sensor enables us to qualitatively analyze the stratospheric temperature without performing any retrieval or radiance assimilation"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 0646.shtml

The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/grounders/npoess.html
http://jointmission.gsfc.nasa.gov/project/index.html

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Post by Janus232 » 08-17-2007 06:19 AM

Japan Swelters in Record Heat Wave
"The mercury hit 105.6 degrees in the western city of Tajimi in the afternoon, breaking a previous national record of 105.4 degrees"
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id ... _article=1

Climate-varying Atlantic circulation mapped
"Defining the size of the variability in meridional overturning circulation is a fundamental prerequisite to understanding how it may be changing on climate-relevant time scales"
http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/health/ ... on-mapped-$1123892.htm

Gulf Stream: a cautionary tale Video
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/s ... ale/685152

Thermal evolution of permeability and microstructure in sea ice
"We find that sea ice displays universal transport properties remarkably similar to crustal rocks, yet over a much narrower temperature range. Our results yield simple parameterizations for fluid transport in terms of temperature and salinity, and permit more realistic representations of sea ice in global climate and biological models"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 0447.shtml

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Post by Janus232 » 08-18-2007 10:38 PM

Central Pacific Freshwater Supplies Threatened
"Very limited land areas and extremely permeable coral soils in atolls reduce surface runoff to insignificant amounts and decrease the potential for surface storages of water. This means thin lenses of fresh groundwater floating over seawater are the major source of reliable freshwater for people in many atolls. The team found that both the quantity and salinity of atoll groundwater is extremely vulnerable to frequent ENSO-related droughts. Droughts can last as long as 4 years and occur with a frequency of one significant drought, coupled to La Niña events, every 6-7 years. In long droughts domestic water wells are often too salty too drink and some communities have to rely on large groundwater lenses or on coconuts"
http://presszoom.com/story_139741.html

Call for network to monitor Southern Ocean current
"The senior science advisor to the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) has called for the establishment of a Southern Hemisphere network of deep ocean moorings to detect any change in ocean circulation that may adversely influence global climate"
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=23288

Present-day and ice-covered equilibrium states in a comprehensive climate model
"Our results imply that a snowball Earth is possible, in principle, with inception possibly triggered by a brief dark spell"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 8880.shtml

Yukon's Zelma Lake draining at rapid rate
"Is the frequency of this, is it increasing over time, or are we seeing more of this because of higher temperatures?"
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/20 ... zelma.html

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Post by Janus232 » 08-19-2007 10:47 PM

QUATERNARY STRATIGRAPHY OF BERMUDA: A HIGH-RESOLUTION PRE-SANGAMONIAN ROCK RECORD
"Bermuda's geology provides a tangible, high-resolution dataset of environmental change that is not available in deep sea cores or from tectonic coastline studies"
http://www.uow.edu.au/content/groups/pu ... 014956.pdf

Climate warming revealed by englacial temperatures at Col du Dôme
"Temperatures were measured in two deep boreholes drilled at the same location in the ice at Col du Dôme (4250 m) in 1994 and 2005, providing clear evidence of atmospheric warming. The 1994 temperature profile was already far from steady state conditions. Results from a heat transfer model reveal that the englacial temperature increase cannot be explained solely by atmospheric temperature rise. The latent heat produced by the refreezing of surface meltwater below the surface also contributes to the englacial temperature increase. Although surface melting is normally very low at this altitude, this contribution became significant after 1980 for temperatures at the top of the borehole. Simulations for different climatic scenarios show that glaciated areas located between 3500 and 4250 m could become temperate in the future. This warming could have a major impact on the stability of hanging glaciers frozen to their beds if the melting point is reached"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 9933.shtml

Tracking the route of catastrophic ice-age floods in Northwest
http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/19134

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Post by Janus232 » 08-21-2007 01:54 AM

Swiss scientists warn of increasing conflict over oil scarcity
"Conflict over crude oil will increase in proportion with its scarcity -- the global economy is facing a recession.......We are running to the oil limit without thinking"
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/6244143.html

Geothermal energy may supplant fossil fuels
"But the 3.4 magnitude tremor on the evening of December 8 was no ordinary act of nature: It had been accidentally triggered by engineers drilling deep into the earth's crust to tap its inner heat and thus break new ground - literally - in the world's search for new sources of energy"
http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/200 ... 82007.html

Space Solar Energy Has Future, U.S. Researchers Say
"Small demonstration project could help justify further research"
http://newsblaze.com/story/200708201732 ... ories.html

Regional Haze Dialogue works on new strategies to fight climate change
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/ ... 63/1/.html

Changes in freshwater content in the North Atlantic Ocean 1955–2006
"Over the last two decades there is a pattern of decreasing Freshwater in the upper 400 meters and increasing Freshwater below 1,300 meters for the North Atlantic Ocean"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 0126.shtml

Quakes today........
mb 6.4 CENTRAL MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
mb 5.9 PAPUA, INDONESIA
mb 5.4 POTOSI, BOLIVIA
mb 6.5 PHILIPPINE ISLANDS REGION
mb 5.6 CENTRAL MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
mb 5.2 TANZANIA
http://www.emsc-csem.org/index.php?page ... &min_mag=5

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Post by Janus232 » 08-24-2007 01:18 AM

The Cost of Rising Food Prices
"We face the tightest agriculture markets in decades and, in some cases, on record"
http://www.cfr.org/publication/14025/co ... y_analysis

Climate Change Impact and Adaptation on Global Food Security
"An increase in consecutive years of extremes is expected"
http://www.futurewater.nl/uk/projects/dwc-global

Global warming threat to China's food supply
"When the global average temperature increases by 1.5 degrees to 2.5 degrees, about 20 percent to 30 percent of animals and plants around the world will die"
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article ... 328425.htm

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Post by Janus232 » 08-25-2007 02:31 AM

Death toll mounts in Greek fires
"We are living through an unspeakable tragedy today" Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6963373.stm

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Post by Captain Fantastic » 08-29-2007 11:46 PM

Janus - closing this thread. Time to start Thread 2.

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