tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35222492008-05-04T12:21:00.250-07:00Earth NewsLorenzoBlogger286125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522249.post-69623379955276091512008-05-04T11:58:00.000-07:002008-05-04T12:21:00.283-07:00Trashy Bags: A brilliant environmental solution
Thinking of plastic packaging in a different way can bring many benefits. The problem with packaging is that after its original role has been fulfilled it is considered to be without any value. Creative and innovative solutions can be found however, that can add value to this seemingly valueless material and at the same time prolong its life by Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522249.post-90000956460534652502008-03-25T15:56:00.000-07:002008-03-25T16:06:31.583-07:00Giant Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapses
(National Geographic, March 25, 2008)
New satellite images reveal what scientists call the "runaway" collapse of an enormous ice shelf in Antarctica as the result of global warming. . . . The chunk of coastal ice was some 160 square miles (415 square kilometers) in area—about seven times the size of Manhattan. . . . The shelf's rapid collapse began on February Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522249.post-24736349544078386312008-03-25T15:40:00.000-07:002008-03-25T15:44:31.783-07:00Antarctic shelf 'hangs by thread'
(Helen Briggs, BBC News, 25 March 2008)
A chunk of ice the size of the Isle of Man has started to break away from Antarctica in what scientists say is further evidence of a warming climate. . . . Satellite images suggest that part of the ice shelf is disintegrating, and will soon crumble away. . . . The Wilkins Ice Shelf has been stable for most of the last Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522249.post-80142393768472575352008-01-28T17:42:00.000-08:002008-01-28T17:47:02.104-08:00Asteroid to make close approach
(BBC News, 29 January 2008)
A asteroid some 250m (600ft) across is about to sweep past the Earth. . . . There is no chance of it hitting the planet, but astronomers will train telescopes and radar on the object to learn as much about it as they can. . . . The asteroid - which carries the rather dull designation 2007 TU24 - will pass by at a distance of 538,000km (Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522249.post-56860730776908151692008-01-08T10:31:00.000-08:002008-01-08T10:43:51.644-08:00The Fate of the Ocean ... not good
(Julia Whitty, Mother Jones, March/April 2006)
Our oceans are under attack, and approaching a point of no return. Can we survive if the seas go silent?
The 25 years I’ve spent at sea filming nature documentaries have provided a brief yet definitive window into these changes. Oceanic problems once encountered on a local scale have gone pandemic, and these Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522249.post-37796287531808586832007-12-06T11:26:00.001-08:002007-12-06T11:26:41.082-08:00The Future of Food
Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522249.post-32742888080450173332007-11-29T17:18:00.000-08:002007-11-29T17:22:27.392-08:00I wonder what this is?
I have also viewed this apparent object using Google Earth, which it seems to me would be a difficult place to insert a hoax. Check it out for yourself. It is at 70 33' 07.67" N, 40 02' 17.71" W.
Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522249.post-54268407820173839352007-08-05T11:41:00.000-07:002007-08-05T11:50:41.601-07:00The Spirit of NOW ... Peter Russell's World Clock
Click the link above to see (in real time) how fast the forests are being cut down, how many cars, bicycles, and computers were produced today, etc.
You can change the view to day, week, and year to see some interesting statistics. For example, in the past 30 days more people have died from suicide than from wars and violence, and during the sameLorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522249.post-12194497447812603522007-03-10T08:14:00.000-08:002007-03-10T08:24:15.592-08:00Ghawar Is Dead!
(Matthew S. Miller, ICH, 03/09/07)
...It was also announced recently, without the same media feeding frenzy (as Anna Nicole Smith), that another queen of mass-culture is dead too. Few of us even know her name. Rather than being the personification of the contemporary zeitgeist, she is one of the cornerstones of what Marx called global capitalism’s base. She was an integral part ofA Curmudgeontag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522249.post-47998147325536823982007-02-26T18:18:00.000-08:002007-02-26T18:25:56.516-08:00Western states united to bypass Bush on climate
(Timothy Gardner, Reuters, February 26, 2007)
Five Western U.S. states have formed the latest regional pact to bypass the Bush administration to cut emissions linked to global warming through market mechanisms. . . . The Western Regional Climate Action Initiative requires Oregon, California, Washington, New Mexico and Arizona to develop a regional Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522249.post-26592781758586622732007-02-12T14:42:00.000-08:002007-02-09T06:18:59.519-08:00Ten Ways to Prepare for a Post-Oil Society
(James Howard Kunstler, Kunstler.com, February 10, 2007)
[Click on the link above for detalis about the following steps.]
1. Expand your view beyond the question of how we will run all the cars by means other than gasoline.
2. We have to produce food differently.
3. We have to inhabit the terrain differently. Virtually every place in our nation Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522249.post-79426869595865860782007-02-09T06:09:00.000-08:002007-01-11T11:08:51.112-08:00'Doomsday' seed vault design unveiled
(Mark Kinver, BBC News, 9 February 2007)
The final design for a "doomsday" vault that will house seeds from all known varieties of food crops has been unveiled by the Norwegian government. . . . The Svalbard International Seed Vault will be built into a mountainside on a remote island near the North Pole. . . . The vault aims to safeguard the world's Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522249.post-23467494423230910772007-01-11T11:04:00.000-08:002007-01-11T11:08:45.661-08:00Climate Report: Europe is doomed
(Michael McCarthy and Stephen Castle, The Independent, 10 January 2007)
Europe, the richest and most fertile continent and the model for the modern world, will be devastated by climate change, the European Union predicts today. . . . The ecosystems that have underpinned all European societies from Ancient Greece and Rome to present-day Britain and France, and Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522249.post-90812123801664467992006-12-12T13:56:00.000-08:002006-12-12T14:00:02.460-08:00Global warming to melt Arctic sea ice away by 2040
(Stan Beer, IT Wire, 13 December 2006)
A new scientific research report predicts that the frozen sea areas in the Arctic circle will be completely gone by the summer 2040 due to the impact of global warming resulting from greenhouse gas emmissions. . . . According to the study, by a team of scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522249.post-1165081391269144902006-12-02T09:31:00.000-08:002006-12-02T09:43:11.306-08:00StopKillingUs.org Web Site Launched
To most us us, Africa is seldom in the forefront of our thoughts. Yet, with 800 million people, it is the second most populous continent on this little planet. According to scientists, like James Lovelock, it is the African continent that is going to suffer more severely from the effects of global climate change than will the western nations who are the ones Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522249.post-1164729279139593582006-11-28T07:50:00.000-08:002006-11-28T07:54:39.163-08:00Carbon emissions show sharp rise
(BBC News, 27 November 2006)
The rise in humanity's emissions of carbon dioxide has accelerated sharply, according to a new analysis. . . . The Global Carbon Project says that emissions were rising by less than 1% annually up to the year 2000, but are now rising at 2.5% per year. . . . It says the acceleration comes mainly from a rise in charcoal consumption and aLorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522249.post-1160409644430415612006-10-09T08:56:00.000-07:002006-10-09T09:00:44.450-07:00Earth begins 'ecological debt' phase
(BBC News, 9 October 2006)
Rising consumption of natural resources means that humans began "eating the planet" on 9 October, a study suggests. . . . The date symbolised the day of the year when people's demands exceeded the Earth's ability to supply resources and absorb the demands placed upon it. . . . The figures' authors said the world first "ecological Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522249.post-1158237062703321542006-09-14T05:25:00.000-07:002006-09-14T05:31:02.746-07:00Drastic shrinkage in Arctic ice
(BBC NEWS, 14 September 2006)
A Nasa satellite has documented startling changes in Arctic sea ice cover between 2004 and 2005. . . . The extent of "perennial" ice - thick ice which remains all year round - declined by 14%, losing an area the size of Pakistan or Turkey. . . . The last few decades have seen summer ice shrink by about 0.7% per year. . . . The Arctic Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522249.post-1158089727822868372006-09-12T12:32:00.000-07:002006-09-12T12:35:28.300-07:00Humans blamed for powerful hurricanes
(Lee Bowman, Scripps Howard News Service, September 12, 2006)
Rising ocean temperatures in key hurricane nurseries are due primarily to increased greenhouse-gas concentrations from human activity, scientists report in a new study. . . . Using 22 different computer models of the climate system, atmospheric researchers from 10 centers studied Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522249.post-1158020702934453262006-09-11T17:20:00.000-07:002006-09-11T17:25:02.956-07:00More Evidence of Climate Change
(Richard Black, BBC News website, September 11, 2006)
The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew has issued a "position paper" saying that man-made global warming is changing the outlook for plants and trees worldwide. . . . It says four species on its own lands are flowering earlier each year. . . . Kew's conservation scientists say other human activities such as the Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522249.post-1154389651664675972006-07-31T16:42:00.000-07:002006-07-31T16:47:31.940-07:00Environmental Crisis in Lebanon
(BBC News, 31 July 2006)
An oil slick caused by Israeli bombing of the Jiyyeh power station now covers 80km (50 miles) of coast. . . . Local environmental groups describe the slick as an "environmental disaster". . . . Almost as much oil may have entered the water as during the 1989 Exxon Valdez tanker incident in Alaska, which led to widespread ecological damage. Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522249.post-1153435123442443072006-07-20T15:36:00.000-07:002006-07-20T15:38:43.460-07:00President Chavez Announces Ban of Genetically Engineered Crops in Venezuela
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias has announced that the cultivation of genetically modified crops will be prohibited on Venezuelan soil, possibly establishing the most sweeping restrictions on transgenic crops in the Western Hemisphere. Though full details of the administration’s policy on genetically modified Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522249.post-1153178122525431252006-07-17T16:12:00.000-07:002006-07-17T16:15:22.573-07:00Big Problems with Canadian Oil Sands
According to Western Oils Sands, one of the major players in the oil sands project, the cost of extracting the oil is "skyrocketing." The cost of its project jumped 50 percent over the previously estimated bill of $7.3 billion, thanks to increasing costs of labor and supplies. Competitor Nexen says its oil sands costs will rise 10 percent, while Shell says theLorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522249.post-1152206731408654912006-07-06T10:10:00.000-07:002006-07-06T10:26:38.446-07:00Climate change 'real and severe' reports BBC's expert panel
(BBC News, 6 July 2006)
Temperatures are likely to rise by 3C to 5C by the end of the century, with impacts likely to be "severe" but not "catastrophic", the panel said. . . . It also concluded that politicians are unlikely to cut emissions sufficiently to prevent dangerous global heating. . . . The panel's discussions were based on Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522249.post-1151353128111357472006-06-26T13:08:00.000-07:002006-06-26T13:22:38.223-07:00Greenland Ice Sheet Flows Faster During Summer Melting
(Goddard Space Flight Center, June 06, 2002)
New measurements show that the flow of ice in the Greenland ice sheet has been accelerating since 1996 during the summer melt season. The results suggest that the ice sheet may be responding more quickly to the warming climate than previously thought. In an article published in Science magazine's A Curmudgeon