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Post by Janus232 » 04-26-2007 07:26 AM

Satellites play vital role in understanding the carbon cycle
".....the first evidence of the Earth breathing"
http://www.innovations-report.de/html/b ... 83330.html

Eyes in the sky grow dim
"To permit the Earth-observing capability to diminish at this time is unwise"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6590333.stm

Boffin warns of bacteria's affect on global warming
"A vast stockpile of unreleased carbon dioxide in the oceans could speed up global warming"
http://www.portsmouthtoday.co.uk/news?ArticleID=2727331

Raising the alarm on the greatest threat to global security
"This will not be the first time people have fought over land, water and resources.......... but this time it will be on a scale that dwarfs the conflicts of the past"
http://nationmultimedia.com/2007/04/26/ ... 032761.php

Ice shrinks, birds migrate early in warmer Arctic
"The water in the Longyearbyen fjord has no ice, just as last year"
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?alias= ... rc=reuters

A new feedback on climate change from the hydrological cycle
"We conclude that an intensified hydrological cycle is likely to contribute a weak negative feedback to anthropogenic climate change"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 9275.shtml

Italy plans for water and power emergency
"The government has warned that Italy risks a drastic shortage of water, coupled with possible power blackouts, during the coming months. Following a mild winter with little rainfall, rivers and lakes are already severely depleted, the current unseasonably high temperatures and the scorching summer that the majority of climatologists predict, may overtax water-run generators"
http://www.wantedinrome.com/news/news.php?id_n=3052

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Post by Shirleypal » 04-26-2007 04:33 PM

Volcanoes Triggered Ancient Warming Event
http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnatu ... lcano.html
The same volcanic eruptions that sundered Greenland from Western Europe and created Iceland also triggered intense global warming 55 million years ago, scientists say.

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Post by Janus232 » 04-27-2007 01:48 AM

The Threat of "Abrupt Climate Change"
"the most likely scenario is also the most dangerous - an abrupt climate change over a period of a few decades"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeHNO9piv6o

Lava flows out of Kamchatka volcano
"Some 100 local tremors were registered at the volcano on Thursday"
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.htm ... &PageNum=0

Wave breaking along the stratospheric polar vortex as seen in ERA-40 data
"Frequent wave breaking in the lower stratosphere in early winter appears to both shield the upper portion of the vortex from wave disturbances and reduce the net upward wave activity flux into the troposphere, thereby allowing the vortex to strengthen into mid-winter"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 9509.shtml

Europe swelters in record spring heatwave
"We are getting about 11 hours of sunshine a day, practically double the average...... At the same time there has not been a drop of rain over most of France since the start of the month"
http://www.france24.com/france24Public/ ... at=science

Planet Earth nearing climate change 'tipping point'
"Glaciers are melting. Sea level is rising. Hurricanes are stronger. Heat waves are more deadly....... Forest fires are more intense. Entire species are disappearing"
http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp ... 2101662670

100-year flood in N.H. _ twice
"The U.S. Geological Service now says that seven rivers hit their once-in-a-100-years marks during the spring nor’easter. Five rivers set new all-time records"
http://news.bostonherald.com/national/n ... eid=196952

The big dry
"Australia is struggling to cope with the consequences of a devastating drought"
http://www.economist.com/world/displays ... id=9071007

Time running out to avoid climate disaster
"In the third section due to be presented in the Thai capital of Bangkok* on May 4, the IPCC is expected to outline what options are left for us to save the planet"
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/56446.html

*(Note: I will be at the meeting to cover this for interested pirates)

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Post by Janus232 » 04-27-2007 12:29 PM

Ocean’s ‘Twilight Zone’ Plays Important Role in Climate Change
“The twilight zone is a critical link between the surface and the deep ocean”
http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=7545&ti ... 486&ct=162

April temperatures smash 350-year record
“Swifts have arrived here early from Africa - everywhere you go you see signs that nature is confused about the season and is trying to cope”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... her127.xml

Billion Tree Campaign
"Globally, forest cover is at least one-third less than what it once was. It is time to reverse the trends, it is time to act"
http://www.unep.org/billiontreecampaign/

Photographer Offers Window On A 'Dying Sea'
"The Aral Sea disaster is the largest man-made catastrophe, the most unreported in the media"
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/20 ... 269cc.html

Achievements in Stratospheric Ozone Protection
EPA Publication EPA-430-R-07-001 April 26, 2007
http://epa.gov/ozone/2007stratozoneprogressreport.html

Drought increasing fire-prone area in Mekong Delta region
"More jungles in the Mekong Delta region are turning saline and prone to fire, after 100,000 hectares of rivers and channels dried out, aggravating residents as the dry season comes to a close"
http://www.thanhniennews.com/features/? ... wsid=27376

Geologists to discuss historic ice core
"...... signs of fluctuations are critical since the Ross Sea ice is a floating extension of the even bigger West Antarctic Ice Sheet -- an area so unstable scientists foresee its collapse from global warming. Such a collapse could raise sea levels worldwide by a catastrophic 20 feet"
http://www.physorg.com/news96828703.html

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Post by Shirleypal » 05-01-2007 08:55 PM

Janus here is a link you may be interested in if you don't already have it.

http://www.earthportal.org/

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Post by Janus232 » 05-03-2007 04:39 AM

Yes, SP I had a potter around...... :)

UN secretary general appoints three special envoys on climate change
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/ ... tments.php

Swiss Re Exec Explores Risk and Mitigation Disconnect at RIMS
"Swiss Re's position on climate change recognizes the "scientific evidence of rising temperatures and increasing frequency and severity of natural catastrophes." Swiss Re has faced the problem by introducing more "mitigation and adaptation into global risk management, not only through traditional risk transfer but in the development of insurance-linked securities and weather derivatives"
http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/in ... /79255.htm

Climate change battle like WWII - Charles
"we need to act very rapidly indeed to avert environmental disaster"
http://cooltech.iafrica.com/science/821767.htm

Castro calls for world energy revolution
"An energy revolution is needed immediately"
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007- ... 053698.htm

Industry and science join forces to strengthen the UK’s capability in monitoring the environment from space
"As our planet’s climate changes, such instruments on board Earth observation satellites are becoming essential tools to monitor the changes and provide a health check on the environments in which we live"
http://www.innovations-report.de/html/b ... 83563.html

Lunch with the FT: James Lovelock
”Humanity will be reduced to a few breeding pairs............ An enormous food shortage will kill off most people........ Watch the Dutch. Half of northern Europe will be under water, and there’s Holland behind a 10ft surrounding wall carrying on business as usual”
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/cd8ffb5a-f14b-1 ... 10621.html

Submergence - Grim Reality for Coastal Folk
"'We are seeing our village and community disappear"
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=37589

Water and energy security
"It is not too dramatic to state that if global warming becomes a reality, and if climate change is not halted, our country as we know it today will be largely unrecognisable. We have perhaps a few years in which to draw up a survival plan"
http://www.timesofmalta.com/core/article.php?id=260275

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Post by Janus232 » 05-04-2007 01:08 AM

Live Press conference
"Mitigation of Climate Change" IPCC Working Group III Report"
http://ipcc.bravehost.com/

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Post by Shirleypal » 05-04-2007 01:11 AM

Good for them Janus, when in the hell is this country going to wake up.

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Post by Janus232 » 05-04-2007 01:21 AM

Well, That's a question for You Guys & Gals in the US.... A change of thinking is required... The conference has just begun.....

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Post by Janus232 » 05-04-2007 09:46 AM

Mitigation of Climate Change
4 May 2007, Bangkok, Thailand - the report (pdf)
http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM040507.pdf

Spreading Honey Bee Disappearances
"Nosema ceranae certainly is a stressor, but it doesn’t seem to be the smoking gun that we were looking for"
http://www.earthfiles.com/news/news.cfm ... nvironment

Deadly Frog Disease Is Spreading
"Additional pressures including habitat loss, air and water-borne pollutants such as herbicides and even climate change could weaken frogs' immune systems, and make them more prone to fungal infections"
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 095949.htm

Indonesia deforestation fastest in world
"Indonesia's rate of forest destruction also made the country the third-largest greenhouse polluter after the United States and China"
http://www.stuff.co.nz/bayofplenty/4047151a7693.html

Carbon-cycle feedbacks increase the likelihood of a warmer future
"The effect of positive carbon-cycle feedbacks on the likelihood of extreme future warming must be incorporated into climate policy-related decision making"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 8685.shtml

Climate Change, Not Humans, Trounced Neanderthals
“When we found big drops in marine productivity, we knew there were big changes in climatic condition in Iberia”
http://www.livescience.com/environment/ ... imate.html

As drought worsens, Australian cattle scour roadsides for food
"I think it's the most extreme and the most dangerous situation arising from climate change facing any country in the world right now"
http://www.france24.com/france24Public/ ... &cat=null#

The Gnostic Revival
“end-time tribes”
http://wholelifetimes.com/2007/05/proph ... e0705.html

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Post by Janus232 » 05-06-2007 08:46 AM

Scientists issue warning of climate change death threats
"The present scientific consensus is that the climate is changing and that human activity is contributing significantly to this. We have to prepare for the consequences and consider the possible health impacts"
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/6f613b6c-faa5-1 ... 10621.html

Oceanic climate and circulation changes during the past four centuries from radiocarbon in corals
"Low radiocarbon levels persisted for ten years during the early 1600s and for sixteen years during the early 1800s, both coincident with periods of high volcanic aerosol loading in the atmosphere from massive eruptions. Intensification of tropical circulation at this time may be linked to climatically-controlled changes in the structure of the tropical thermocline that is responsible for delivering cool, upwelled waters to the tropical east Pacific"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 8681.shtml

Global warming may spark severe droughts
"Complicated climate fluctuations, a high demand for water to cope with economic, social and environmental development and the limited regulation of irrigation systems are some of the major causes of dryer weather"
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/show ... 3SOC050507

Malaysian, Indian Scientists To Study Himalayan Ice Core
"We are interested in getting ice core from Indian and Indonesia, especially from Irian Jaya because they also have glaciers"
http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3/news.php?id=260379

There are a few minor items this week worthy of mention
Climate Science from Climate Scientists
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar ... this-week/

Forests to Combat Desertification 16-19 April 2007 (Jerusalem Israel)
"The conference will provide a broad forum for the summary and synthesis of state-of-the-art afforestation practices"
http://www.fcd.org.il/main.php?page=about

Global Research Technologies
"Extensive deployment of the GRT air-capture system makes it possible to envision for the first time an actual reduction of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, perhaps even to pre-industrial levels"
http://www.grestech.com/stake.php

EU Leads Clamor for Carbon Cuts After UN Climate Repor
"We now have very, very clear options on how to deal with climate change"
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,214 ... 35,00.html

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Post by Janus232 » 05-08-2007 01:52 AM

Floods and drought: Lloyd's assesses climate change
"These things are fact, not hypothesis......... You don't have to be a believer in global warming to recognize the climate is changing. The industry has to get ready for the changes that are coming"
http://www.reuters.com/article/environm ... RSS&rpc=22

Famous Caymans coral reefs dying
"We are at a very critical time in the history of coral reefs"
http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsAr ... ived=False

Experts seek new climate strategy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6631419.stm

On recent interannual variability of the Arctic winter mesosphere
"These results might explain observations of enhanced upper atmospheric NO descending to the upper stratosphere in 2006 and highlights the importance of gravity waves in modulating the coupling of the upper atmosphere with the stratosphere"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 9293.shtml

Disappearance of great whales would create a huge ecological void
"I think the implicit view has historically been that whales were just these magnificent, big creatures. Nobody asked the question of what that really meant, whether whales were major players in ocean ecosystems"
http://www.paramuspost.com/article.php/ ... 4123709192

The Earth's climate is seesawing
"We don't know with certainty what will happen"
http://www.idw-online.de/pages/de/news206636

NOAA 3D Earth in virtual world
"It's a parallel world"
http://hazmatmag.com/issues/ISArticle.a ... e=05072007

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Post by Janus232 » 05-08-2007 10:56 AM

What's Happening To The Bees? CBS Video
Florida's top bee expert Jerry Hayes speaks with Harry Smith about the mysterious bee population decline in the United State
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/ ... 9226.shtml

Citigroup to spend $50 billion over 10 yrs to address climate change
"it aims to support the commercialization and growth of alternative energy and clean technology among its clients and markets, as well as within its own businesses and operations"
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/c ... AC890F0%7D

Scientists battle to preserve coral reefs
"We've long suspected climate change is driving disease outbreaks. Our results suggest that warmer temperatures are increasing the severity of disease in the ocean"
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1 ... 482C659023

Disasters in science's cross hairs
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007 ... 867196.htm

UN Says Global Warming is Confusing Birds and Whales
"During meetings on climate change among representatives from over 100 countries, specialists said global warming is confusing the biological clocks of birds and whales -- disrupting their migration patterns"
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,214 ... 70,00.html

Amazon rainforest locks up 11 years of CO2 emissions
"Writing in Global Change Biology, carbon cycle scientists led by Dr. Sassan Saatchi of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) report a new method for estimating the distribution of biomass over the Amazon basin"
http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0508-amazon.html

Melting of the Greenland ice cap may affect future stability of ocean circulation
"Deep ocean sediments offer a record of ocean circulation in the past. By studying these sediments, we can see that abrupt changes in ocean circulation and the subsequent climate change are not a new phenomenon, but have happened on several occasions in the past. When the great ice sheets covering North America and Scandinavia melted at the end of the last ice age, the subsequent flow of fresh water into the North Atlantic caused the greatest natural disturbance in ocean circulation in the last 20,000 years"
http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ ... 7217/cs/1/

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Post by Janus232 » 05-09-2007 07:28 AM

Flights Hit Record 2.5 Million This Month
"it's bad news for the climate and ultimately it's our children who will be paying the price"
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/arti ... article.do

Conservationists warn of butterfly food chain impact
"butterflies hatching up to two months early this year"
http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/Garden ... aid/587554

Temperature soars and breaks old record
"Toronto - The temperature Tuesday soared to 27.5C, breaking the old 27.2C record set back in 1939"
http://680news.com/news/local/article.j ... 90717_4908

Allure of the climate-fixing elixir
"We are going to need technologies that at first light seem like silver bullets because the scale of the climate change problem is so large"
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/09/ ... ncol10.php

Little Green Data Book 2007
Carbon Dioxide Emissions on the Rise (World Bank)
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNA ... 07,00.html

'book of life'
"Advances in technology for searching, annotating, and visualising information now permit us - indeed mandate us - to build the Encyclopedia of Life"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6638017.stm

Benefits and drawbacks of bioenergy must be considered
“unless new policies are enacted to protect threatened lands, secure socially acceptable land use, and steer bioenergy development in a sustainable direction overall, the environmental and social damage could in some cases outweigh the benefits”
http://esa.un.org/un-energy/pdf/susdev.Biofuels.FAO.pdf

Vanishing honey bees a concern in region Economic impact worrisome
"I think the concern is nobody really knows the extent of the problem"
http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs. ... /705090333

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Post by Janus232 » 05-09-2007 01:35 PM

GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE: NATIONAL SECURITY IMPLICATIONS Strategic Studies Institute
"Climate change is underway. The effects will vary according to a broad variety of circumstances and interactions, some of which are not well-understood"
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.ar ... PUB779.pdf

Another consequence of global warming – ocean dead zones
"There is good reason to be seriously concerned”
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera ... uence_.htm

Climate change threatens California water supply
"bad scenario"
http://www.reuters.com/article/environm ... 0120070509

Is this what it takes to save the world? Nature 447, 132-136 (10 May 2007)
"Long marginalized as a dubious idea, altering the climate through 'geoengineering' has staged something of a comeback"
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v4 ... 7132a.html

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