Environment & Climate Change
Scientists Offered Cash to Dispute Climate Study
By Ian Sample, The Guardian UK
Friday 02 February 2007
Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.
full article here.
Canada acts to protect rainforest
Monday, 22 January 2007, 08:44 GMT
Canada has pledged to spend millions of dollars to help protect the world's largest temperate rainforest.
The government will allocate CAN$30m (US$26m, £13m) to maintain the area of British Columbia known as the Great Bear Rainforest.
full article here, related here.
Under Water by 2100? Risk of the Rising Sea
By Mike Taugher, The San Jose Mercury News
Friday 26 January 2007
Scientists seek ways to avert a creeping catastrophe in Bay area.
The seas have been rising for 18,000 years, but the pace has quickened.
At the Golden Gate Bridge, the Pacific Ocean crept seven inches higher during the past century, as global warming melted glaciers and expanded ocean waters.
Californians are taking notice. In one of the first efforts of its kind in the state, officials are starting to address the threats rising seas pose to the Bay Area.
One of the first steps was to compile maps that show what would happen if the sea level rose three feet - the upper limit for what might occur by 2100, according to computer models of climate used by the state.
full article here.
US Urges Scientists to Block Out Sun
By David Adam and Liz Minchin, The Sydney Morning Herald AU
Monday 29 January 2007
The US wants the world's scientists to develop technology to block sunlight as a last-ditch way to halt global warming.
full article here.
Canada Worried by Plunging Caribou Population
By David Ljunggren, Reuters
Monday 29 January 2007
Ottawa - The caribou population in Canada's vast Northwest Territories is falling rapidly and the increasingly warm climate could slow the animals' chances of recovery, a wildlife specialist said Friday.
Herds of barren-ground caribou - which for centuries have been a crucial source of food and furs for local aboriginals - have dropped by between 40 and 86 percent over the last 10 years. The largest single herd fell from 472,000 animals in 1986 to 128,000 in 2006 and is still declining.
full article here.
Some Experts Blast Latest Climate Report
By Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press
Sunday 28 January 2007
Washington - Later this week in Paris, climate scientists will issue a dire forecast for the planet that warns of slowly rising sea levels and higher temperatures. But that may be the sugarcoated version.
full article here.
White House Rejects Mandatory CO2 Caps
By John Heilprin, The Associated Press
Friday 02 February 2007
Washington - Despite a strongly worded global warming report from the world's top climate scientists, the Bush administration expressed continued opposition Friday to mandatory reductions in heat-trapping "greenhouse" gases.
full article here.
Bush 'distorted' climate change reports
By Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington and Fiona Harvey in London
Updated: 5:12 a.m. ET Jan 31, 2007
The Bush administration has routinely suppressed or distorted communication of climate change science to the public, a climate specialist at Nasa's Goddard Institute said on Tuesday.
full article here.
Indonesia May Lose 2,000 Islands to Climate Change
Reuters
Monday 29 January 2007
Jakarta - Indonesia could lose about 2,000 islands by 2030 due to climate change, the country's environment minister said on Monday.
full article here.
Pirates Stick By Whales
By Kelpie Wilson, t r u t h o u t | Columnist
Sunday 28 January 2007
Every winter, the Japanese whaling fleet heads to the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica on a mission to kill a thousand whales. Ever since the International Whaling Commission (IWC) banned commercial whaling in 1986, Japan has used a curious rationale for its whaling. It does not kill a thousand whales for commercial purposes. It kills them for scientific research.
full article here.
By Ian Sample, The Guardian UK
Friday 02 February 2007
Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.
full article here.
Canada acts to protect rainforest
Monday, 22 January 2007, 08:44 GMT
Canada has pledged to spend millions of dollars to help protect the world's largest temperate rainforest.
The government will allocate CAN$30m (US$26m, £13m) to maintain the area of British Columbia known as the Great Bear Rainforest.
full article here, related here.
Under Water by 2100? Risk of the Rising Sea
By Mike Taugher, The San Jose Mercury News
Friday 26 January 2007
Scientists seek ways to avert a creeping catastrophe in Bay area.
The seas have been rising for 18,000 years, but the pace has quickened.
At the Golden Gate Bridge, the Pacific Ocean crept seven inches higher during the past century, as global warming melted glaciers and expanded ocean waters.
Californians are taking notice. In one of the first efforts of its kind in the state, officials are starting to address the threats rising seas pose to the Bay Area.
One of the first steps was to compile maps that show what would happen if the sea level rose three feet - the upper limit for what might occur by 2100, according to computer models of climate used by the state.
full article here.
US Urges Scientists to Block Out Sun
By David Adam and Liz Minchin, The Sydney Morning Herald AU
Monday 29 January 2007
The US wants the world's scientists to develop technology to block sunlight as a last-ditch way to halt global warming.
full article here.
Canada Worried by Plunging Caribou Population
By David Ljunggren, Reuters
Monday 29 January 2007
Ottawa - The caribou population in Canada's vast Northwest Territories is falling rapidly and the increasingly warm climate could slow the animals' chances of recovery, a wildlife specialist said Friday.
Herds of barren-ground caribou - which for centuries have been a crucial source of food and furs for local aboriginals - have dropped by between 40 and 86 percent over the last 10 years. The largest single herd fell from 472,000 animals in 1986 to 128,000 in 2006 and is still declining.
full article here.
Some Experts Blast Latest Climate Report
By Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press
Sunday 28 January 2007
Washington - Later this week in Paris, climate scientists will issue a dire forecast for the planet that warns of slowly rising sea levels and higher temperatures. But that may be the sugarcoated version.
full article here.
White House Rejects Mandatory CO2 Caps
By John Heilprin, The Associated Press
Friday 02 February 2007
Washington - Despite a strongly worded global warming report from the world's top climate scientists, the Bush administration expressed continued opposition Friday to mandatory reductions in heat-trapping "greenhouse" gases.
full article here.
Bush 'distorted' climate change reports
By Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington and Fiona Harvey in London
Updated: 5:12 a.m. ET Jan 31, 2007
The Bush administration has routinely suppressed or distorted communication of climate change science to the public, a climate specialist at Nasa's Goddard Institute said on Tuesday.
full article here.
Indonesia May Lose 2,000 Islands to Climate Change
Reuters
Monday 29 January 2007
Jakarta - Indonesia could lose about 2,000 islands by 2030 due to climate change, the country's environment minister said on Monday.
full article here.
Pirates Stick By Whales
By Kelpie Wilson, t r u t h o u t | Columnist
Sunday 28 January 2007
Every winter, the Japanese whaling fleet heads to the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica on a mission to kill a thousand whales. Ever since the International Whaling Commission (IWC) banned commercial whaling in 1986, Japan has used a curious rationale for its whaling. It does not kill a thousand whales for commercial purposes. It kills them for scientific research.
full article here.
The fast-paced, consumerist lifestyle of Industrial Society is causing exponential rise in psychological problems besides destroying the environment. All issues are interlinked. Our Minds cannot be peaceful when attention-spans are down to nanoseconds, microseconds and milliseconds. Our Minds cannot be peaceful if we destroy Nature.
<b>Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment.</b>
Subject : In a fast society slow emotions become extinct.
Subject : A thinking mind cannot feel.
Subject : Scientific/ Industrial/ Financial thinking destroys the planet.
Subject : Environment can never be saved as long as cities exist.
Emotion is what we experience during gaps in our thinking.
If there are no gaps there is no emotion.
Today people are thinking all the time and are mistaking thought (words/ language) for emotion.
When society switches-over from physical work (agriculture) to mental work (scientific/ industrial/ financial/ fast visuals/ fast words ) the speed of thinking keeps on accelerating and the gaps between thinking go on decreasing.
There comes a time when there are almost no gaps.
People become incapable of experiencing/ tolerating gaps.
Emotion ends.
Man becomes machine.
A society that speeds up mentally experiences every mental slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.
A ( travelling )society that speeds up physically experiences every physical slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.
A society that entertains itself daily experiences every non-entertaining moment as Depression / Anxiety.
FAST VISUALS /WORDS MAKE SLOW EMOTIONS EXTINCT.
SCIENTIFIC /INDUSTRIAL /FINANCIAL THINKING DESTROYS EMOTIONAL CIRCUITS.
A FAST (LARGE) SOCIETY CANNOT FEEL PAIN / REMORSE / EMPATHY.
A FAST (LARGE) SOCIETY WILL ALWAYS BE CRUEL TO ANIMALS/ TREES/ AIR/ WATER/ LAND AND TO ITSELF.
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