Scientists Urge G8 Not to Ignore Global Warming
rudkla - 15. Jun, 09:37
Global Warming - Globale Erwaermung
Donnerstag, 15. Juni 2006
Mittwoch, 14. Juni 2006
AN INCONVIENT TRUTH
rudkla - 14. Jun, 11:31
Dienstag, 6. Juni 2006
China Says Pollution Will Worsen With Economic Boom
China's drive for economic growth is in direct conflict with efforts to safeguard the environment, the government warned on Monday, and degradation is worsening despite official efforts to curb pollution.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/060506EA.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/060506EA.shtml
rudkla - 6. Jun, 14:01
UN WARNS: DESERT CITIES ARE LIVING ON BORROWED TIME
By John Vidal
The Guardian Monday,
June 5, 2006
http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1790471,00.html
The 500 million people who live in the world's desert regions can expect to find life increasingly unbearable as already high temperatures soar and the available water is used up or turns salty, according to the United Nations. Desert cities in the US and Middle East, such as Phoenix and Riyadh, may be living on borrowed time as water tables drop and supplies become undrinkable, says a report coinciding with today's world environment day.
Twentieth-century modernist dreams of greening deserts by diverting rivers and mining underground water are wholly unrealistic, it warns.
But the report also proposes that deserts become the powerhouses of the next century, capturing the world's solar energy and potentially exporting electricity across continents. For instance, a 310-square mile area of the Sahara could, with today's technology, generate enough electricity for the whole world.
The problem now facing many communities on the fringes of deserts, says the UN environment programme report, is not the physical growth of deserts but that rising water tables beneath irrigated soils are leading to more salinisation - a phenomenon already taking place across large tracts of China, India, Pakistan and Australia. The Tarm river basin in China, it says, has lost more than 5,000 square miles of farmland to salinisation in a period of 30 years.
The report suggests that Middle Eastern countries such as Saudi Arabia have used water from the desert very unwisely. Rather than growing staple crops such as wheat or tomatoes, it suggests that precious water should be used only for high value crops such as dates and fish farming.
The mining "fossil" water, laid down many millions of years ago, was once believed to have the potential to green deserts, but is now not thought to be a solution - except in Libya, where opinion is divided as to whether supplies may last 100 or 500 years.
But the greatest threat to people and wildlife living anywhere near deserts is climate change, which is already having a greater impact on desert regions than elsewhere. The Dashti Kbir desert in Iran has seen a 16% drop in rainfall in the past 25 years, the Kalahari a 12% decline and Chile's Atacama desert an 8% drop.
Most deserts, says the report, will see temperatures rise by 5-7C by the end of the century and rainfall drop 10-20%. This will greatly increase evaporation and dust storms, and will move deserts closer to communities living on their edges.
The problems of more heat and lower rainfall are being compounded by the melting of glaciers in mountainous regions. These waters sustain life in deserts but would be perilously close to drying up if global warming continued as expected.
The glaciers in the mountains of south Asia are expected to decline by 40% to 80% in the next century with profound effects on large populations in Bangladesh, Pakistan, India and China.
Much of the water used for farming the south-west US, central Asia and around the Andes is drawn from rivers that originate in snow-covered mountains, says the report.
Development in the next 100 years is largely contingent on what happens to the climate. However, the report envisages that deserts will become more popular tourist destinations and that some of the plants that grow there could be "crops of the future".
"Deserts are threatened as never before by climate change, overexploitation of water and salinisation," said Professor Andrew Warren of University College London, one of the report's authors.
"We risk losing not only astounding landscapes and ancient cultures but also wild species that may hold keys to our survival."
Informant: NHNE
The Guardian Monday,
June 5, 2006
http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1790471,00.html
The 500 million people who live in the world's desert regions can expect to find life increasingly unbearable as already high temperatures soar and the available water is used up or turns salty, according to the United Nations. Desert cities in the US and Middle East, such as Phoenix and Riyadh, may be living on borrowed time as water tables drop and supplies become undrinkable, says a report coinciding with today's world environment day.
Twentieth-century modernist dreams of greening deserts by diverting rivers and mining underground water are wholly unrealistic, it warns.
But the report also proposes that deserts become the powerhouses of the next century, capturing the world's solar energy and potentially exporting electricity across continents. For instance, a 310-square mile area of the Sahara could, with today's technology, generate enough electricity for the whole world.
The problem now facing many communities on the fringes of deserts, says the UN environment programme report, is not the physical growth of deserts but that rising water tables beneath irrigated soils are leading to more salinisation - a phenomenon already taking place across large tracts of China, India, Pakistan and Australia. The Tarm river basin in China, it says, has lost more than 5,000 square miles of farmland to salinisation in a period of 30 years.
The report suggests that Middle Eastern countries such as Saudi Arabia have used water from the desert very unwisely. Rather than growing staple crops such as wheat or tomatoes, it suggests that precious water should be used only for high value crops such as dates and fish farming.
The mining "fossil" water, laid down many millions of years ago, was once believed to have the potential to green deserts, but is now not thought to be a solution - except in Libya, where opinion is divided as to whether supplies may last 100 or 500 years.
But the greatest threat to people and wildlife living anywhere near deserts is climate change, which is already having a greater impact on desert regions than elsewhere. The Dashti Kbir desert in Iran has seen a 16% drop in rainfall in the past 25 years, the Kalahari a 12% decline and Chile's Atacama desert an 8% drop.
Most deserts, says the report, will see temperatures rise by 5-7C by the end of the century and rainfall drop 10-20%. This will greatly increase evaporation and dust storms, and will move deserts closer to communities living on their edges.
The problems of more heat and lower rainfall are being compounded by the melting of glaciers in mountainous regions. These waters sustain life in deserts but would be perilously close to drying up if global warming continued as expected.
The glaciers in the mountains of south Asia are expected to decline by 40% to 80% in the next century with profound effects on large populations in Bangladesh, Pakistan, India and China.
Much of the water used for farming the south-west US, central Asia and around the Andes is drawn from rivers that originate in snow-covered mountains, says the report.
Development in the next 100 years is largely contingent on what happens to the climate. However, the report envisages that deserts will become more popular tourist destinations and that some of the plants that grow there could be "crops of the future".
"Deserts are threatened as never before by climate change, overexploitation of water and salinisation," said Professor Andrew Warren of University College London, one of the report's authors.
"We risk losing not only astounding landscapes and ancient cultures but also wild species that may hold keys to our survival."
Informant: NHNE
rudkla - 6. Jun, 11:49
GLOBAL WARMING MAY SWAMP HAWAIIAN WILDLIFE
STUDY WARNS
By James Owen
National Geographic News
June 5, 2006
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/06/060605-hawaii.html
A chain of tiny, remote Hawaiian islands could become the largest marine sanctuary in the U.S. as soon as next year.
But the rare wildlife living there could disappear beneath the waves by the end of this century because of global warming, a new study warns.
A team of Hawaii-based scientists calculates that two-thirds of some islands in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) could be submerged by 2100.
A scattered archipelago stretching some 1,200 miles (1,930 kilometers) across the Pacific Ocean, NWHI is home to colonies of unique animals that may be swamped as their low-lying islands succumb to rising sea levels, researchers say.
Animals at risk include rare seals, sea turtles, and bird species found only on NWHI.
The NWHI consist of islands, atolls, and pristine coral reefs and are slated to form part of the largest national marine sanctuary in the United States, if approved by the Bush Administration.
Threats to the islands from future sea level rise were assessed for the first time by a team led by Jason Baker of the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, part of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Studies suggest that sea levels rose almost 6 inches (15 centimeters) during the 20th century.
Levels are expected to rise farther and faster this century, as global warming accelerates the melting of glaciers and polar ice caps, and as higher water temperatures expand the volume of the world's oceans.
The team created 3-D computer models of NWHI to gauge the possible impact of future sea level rises using scenarios forecast by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) based in Gland, Switzerland.
Their findings suggest that by 2100 up to 65 percent of some islands would be lost if the sea level rose 18.9 inches (48 centimeters), which is the average IPCC projection.
The team also found that a 34.6-inch (88-centimeter) rise -- the maximum sea level rise forecast by 2100 -- could result in up to 75 percent of NWHI wildlife habitat disappearing.
The researchers report their findings in in the latest issue of the journal Endangered Species Research.
Hawaii's Vulnerable Species
Vulnerable species include the critically endangered Hawaiian monk seal, one of the world's rarest marine mammals; the Hawaiian green sea turtle; and the Laysan finch, one of four endemic birds.
Other species found only on the NWHI include 3 land snails, 12 plants, and more than 60 invertebrates.
"Oceanic islands in general tend to have high levels of [unique species], due largely to their isolated nature, and the Hawaiian archipelago is the most isolated in the world," NOAA's Baker said.
"These little islands are important nurseries for monk seals, sea turtles, and millions of seabirds," he added.
"Yet much of this lively activity occurs just a few meters above sea level."
In the worst-case scenario, Baker says, some islands would come close to disappearing entirely.
For example, up to 99 percent of Trig Island could be submerged.
Trig Island has become the main birthing site for Hawaiian monk seals after the loss of other sites to the sea.
Researchers suggest this has led to overcrowding on the island, resulting in increased predation of seal pups by sharks.
Writing in Endangered Species Research, the team says further loss of the seal's habitat "can only be expected to exacerbate an already lamentable situation."
Sea Turtles
The Hawaiian green sea turtle is similarly at risk, the team says, with more than 90 percent of females laying their eggs on one NWHI atoll.
The study suggests the main island haven for the Laysan finch isn't in danger, but smaller colonies would be wiped out under the average scenario for sea level rise, increasing the overall risk of extinction.
Nor is sea level rise the only threat to NWHI wildlife from global warming, the team says.
Surveys led by Greta Aeby of the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology in Kaneohe have revealed damage to reef systems in the region in recent years caused by coral bleaching.
Bleaching is a phenomenon linked to higher water temperatures that can cause corals to die.
Scientists fear coral bleaching events may become more frequent as ocean temperatures rise.
The study team, however, suggests there may be a way to help counter the effects of sea level rise in NWHI.
This would involve redistributing sand to increase the size and stability of vulnerable islands in a process known as beach nourishment, Baker says.
"If this were done in the NWHI, it could help preserve key islands and the species which depend upon them," he said.
"Any such work should only be undertaken after very careful planning to ensure no harm is done in the process."
The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands are currently being considered as the 14th and largest national marine sanctuary in the U.S. Final designation is expected next year.
The NOAA says federal sanctuary status would give the islands and their wildlife enhanced protection in terms of enforcement, research, and funding.
Informant: NHNE
By James Owen
National Geographic News
June 5, 2006
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/06/060605-hawaii.html
A chain of tiny, remote Hawaiian islands could become the largest marine sanctuary in the U.S. as soon as next year.
But the rare wildlife living there could disappear beneath the waves by the end of this century because of global warming, a new study warns.
A team of Hawaii-based scientists calculates that two-thirds of some islands in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) could be submerged by 2100.
A scattered archipelago stretching some 1,200 miles (1,930 kilometers) across the Pacific Ocean, NWHI is home to colonies of unique animals that may be swamped as their low-lying islands succumb to rising sea levels, researchers say.
Animals at risk include rare seals, sea turtles, and bird species found only on NWHI.
The NWHI consist of islands, atolls, and pristine coral reefs and are slated to form part of the largest national marine sanctuary in the United States, if approved by the Bush Administration.
Threats to the islands from future sea level rise were assessed for the first time by a team led by Jason Baker of the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, part of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Studies suggest that sea levels rose almost 6 inches (15 centimeters) during the 20th century.
Levels are expected to rise farther and faster this century, as global warming accelerates the melting of glaciers and polar ice caps, and as higher water temperatures expand the volume of the world's oceans.
The team created 3-D computer models of NWHI to gauge the possible impact of future sea level rises using scenarios forecast by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) based in Gland, Switzerland.
Their findings suggest that by 2100 up to 65 percent of some islands would be lost if the sea level rose 18.9 inches (48 centimeters), which is the average IPCC projection.
The team also found that a 34.6-inch (88-centimeter) rise -- the maximum sea level rise forecast by 2100 -- could result in up to 75 percent of NWHI wildlife habitat disappearing.
The researchers report their findings in in the latest issue of the journal Endangered Species Research.
Hawaii's Vulnerable Species
Vulnerable species include the critically endangered Hawaiian monk seal, one of the world's rarest marine mammals; the Hawaiian green sea turtle; and the Laysan finch, one of four endemic birds.
Other species found only on the NWHI include 3 land snails, 12 plants, and more than 60 invertebrates.
"Oceanic islands in general tend to have high levels of [unique species], due largely to their isolated nature, and the Hawaiian archipelago is the most isolated in the world," NOAA's Baker said.
"These little islands are important nurseries for monk seals, sea turtles, and millions of seabirds," he added.
"Yet much of this lively activity occurs just a few meters above sea level."
In the worst-case scenario, Baker says, some islands would come close to disappearing entirely.
For example, up to 99 percent of Trig Island could be submerged.
Trig Island has become the main birthing site for Hawaiian monk seals after the loss of other sites to the sea.
Researchers suggest this has led to overcrowding on the island, resulting in increased predation of seal pups by sharks.
Writing in Endangered Species Research, the team says further loss of the seal's habitat "can only be expected to exacerbate an already lamentable situation."
Sea Turtles
The Hawaiian green sea turtle is similarly at risk, the team says, with more than 90 percent of females laying their eggs on one NWHI atoll.
The study suggests the main island haven for the Laysan finch isn't in danger, but smaller colonies would be wiped out under the average scenario for sea level rise, increasing the overall risk of extinction.
Nor is sea level rise the only threat to NWHI wildlife from global warming, the team says.
Surveys led by Greta Aeby of the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology in Kaneohe have revealed damage to reef systems in the region in recent years caused by coral bleaching.
Bleaching is a phenomenon linked to higher water temperatures that can cause corals to die.
Scientists fear coral bleaching events may become more frequent as ocean temperatures rise.
The study team, however, suggests there may be a way to help counter the effects of sea level rise in NWHI.
This would involve redistributing sand to increase the size and stability of vulnerable islands in a process known as beach nourishment, Baker says.
"If this were done in the NWHI, it could help preserve key islands and the species which depend upon them," he said.
"Any such work should only be undertaken after very careful planning to ensure no harm is done in the process."
The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands are currently being considered as the 14th and largest national marine sanctuary in the U.S. Final designation is expected next year.
The NOAA says federal sanctuary status would give the islands and their wildlife enhanced protection in terms of enforcement, research, and funding.
Informant: NHNE
rudkla - 6. Jun, 11:46
An Inconvenient Truth: Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb
A must see!
http://political.moveon.org/seethetruth/?id=7858-6817338-krFUwxbcuUp_qtVPkROv6A&t=2
Watch the Trailer
http://political.moveon.org/seethetruth/?id=7858-6817338-krFUwxbcuUp_qtVPkROv6A&t=3
Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced. Here's what the critics are saying about the movie
An Inconvenient Truth
"One of the most important films ever. If this does not move you to change, nothing will." — Larry King, CNN "Made me want to buy a hybrid and shoot my old car, so no one else could drive it... Amazing and smartly done film." — Bob Mondello, NPR "This is activist cinema at its very best, for it serves to popularize and demythologize a problem long obscured by those most threatened by the solution. With humor and searing intelligence, Gore outlines crucial steps we must take to avert impending disaster and proves that inaction is no longer an option-in fact, it's immoral." — Sundance Film Festival "Not to be missed. It doesn't matter whether you're a Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative... your mind will be changed in a nanosecond." — Roger Friedman, Fox News
More reviews: Time Magazine: http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1197075,00.html
Los Angeles Times: http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/reviews/cl-et-truth24may24,0,577270.story?coll=cl-mreview
New York Magazine: http://nymag.com/movies/reviews/17092/index.html
"Go see Al Gore’s new documentary—and then pay attention to who attacks it." TAKE ACTION: http://www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/
This is more than an animal ethics issue, this is a world issue. This will affect all of us regardless of nationality, economic status or creed. Please see the film and let us join together to solve the most pressing issue facing us today. Our very survival as a species depends on it.
Thanks to all our dear friends of Care2.
Zahra and Adis P.
http://political.moveon.org/seethetruth/?id=7858-6817338-krFUwxbcuUp_qtVPkROv6A&t=2
Watch the Trailer
http://political.moveon.org/seethetruth/?id=7858-6817338-krFUwxbcuUp_qtVPkROv6A&t=3
Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced. Here's what the critics are saying about the movie
An Inconvenient Truth
"One of the most important films ever. If this does not move you to change, nothing will." — Larry King, CNN "Made me want to buy a hybrid and shoot my old car, so no one else could drive it... Amazing and smartly done film." — Bob Mondello, NPR "This is activist cinema at its very best, for it serves to popularize and demythologize a problem long obscured by those most threatened by the solution. With humor and searing intelligence, Gore outlines crucial steps we must take to avert impending disaster and proves that inaction is no longer an option-in fact, it's immoral." — Sundance Film Festival "Not to be missed. It doesn't matter whether you're a Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative... your mind will be changed in a nanosecond." — Roger Friedman, Fox News
More reviews: Time Magazine: http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1197075,00.html
Los Angeles Times: http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/reviews/cl-et-truth24may24,0,577270.story?coll=cl-mreview
New York Magazine: http://nymag.com/movies/reviews/17092/index.html
"Go see Al Gore’s new documentary—and then pay attention to who attacks it." TAKE ACTION: http://www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/
This is more than an animal ethics issue, this is a world issue. This will affect all of us regardless of nationality, economic status or creed. Please see the film and let us join together to solve the most pressing issue facing us today. Our very survival as a species depends on it.
Thanks to all our dear friends of Care2.
Zahra and Adis P.
rudkla - 6. Jun, 08:55
Sonntag, 4. Juni 2006
Global warming 'the greatest atrocity'
From: AAP
By Xavier La Canna
June 04, 2006
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,19359468-1243,00.html
AUSTRALIAN actor Jack Thompson has said destruction of the environment is a worse atrocity than the September 11 terror attacks and the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima combined.
Thompson, who will today address a Melbourne rally on the eve of World Environment Day, said measurably more people were affected by global warming than by the three catastrophic events.
"That is not to diminish what happened on 9/11. That is probably the most awful and spectacular incident in my life since Nagasaki and Hiroshima," he said.
"But Hiroshima, Nagasaki and 9/11 all together, when you look at the meltdown of the Greenland ice-cap and the flow-on of that alone, the numbers of people affected, it is measurably more."
The death toll from Nagasaki and Hiroshima was probably more than 100,000, possibly exceeding 200,000 within five years of the World War II bombings. An estimated 3,000 people died as a result of the attacks on September 11,
2001.
Thompson, who starred in films including Breaker Morant, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, The Sum of Us and My Brother Jack, said he was passionate about encouraging sustainable development.
Thousands of people are set to join today's rally to push to protect Victoria's old growth forests.
An organiser for the demonstration, Gavan McFadzean, said at least 5,000 people were expected to take part in the march from the State Library to Federation Square.
Mr McFadzean said with enough pressure he thought the Victorian government would move to protect old growth forests before the November state election.
"State governments in Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia have protected their old growth forests, and moved their logging industries into plantations. Victoria's forests are just as precious," he said.
He said an area equivalent to 27 football grounds was logged each day in Victoria and moving to protect the forests would help the environment.
"Protecting old growth forests is good for climate change," Mr McFadzean said.
A state government spokesman said much had been done to create national parks in Victoria.
The Bracks government has announced a plan to phase out logging of old growth forests in the Otway ranges by 2008.
Thompson most recently co-starred with Sean Penn in The Assassination of Richard Nixon.
Japanese Australians and the RSL today gave qualified support to Thompson's comments.
Committee member of the Australia-Japan society, Hiroko Fischer, said while Thompson may be exaggerating, it was possible that over the next 100 years global warming will have a bigger impact than the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
"It is hard to compare the two. The bombings were quite devastating ... the environment is slowly getting affected," Ms Fischer said.
RSL national president Major-General Bill Crews said global warming may eventually prove more catastrophic than the bombings, and the terror attacks.
"Global warming is a global situation, as far as it has been proved, and is far more extensive than more isolated incidents such as the bombings in Japan or the attacks on September 11," Maj-Gen Crews said.
He said in terms of the total impact to humanity, global warming may ultimately have more impact.
An estimated 15,000 people joined today's rally to protect Victoria's old growth forests.
Informant: binstock
By Xavier La Canna
June 04, 2006
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,19359468-1243,00.html
AUSTRALIAN actor Jack Thompson has said destruction of the environment is a worse atrocity than the September 11 terror attacks and the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima combined.
Thompson, who will today address a Melbourne rally on the eve of World Environment Day, said measurably more people were affected by global warming than by the three catastrophic events.
"That is not to diminish what happened on 9/11. That is probably the most awful and spectacular incident in my life since Nagasaki and Hiroshima," he said.
"But Hiroshima, Nagasaki and 9/11 all together, when you look at the meltdown of the Greenland ice-cap and the flow-on of that alone, the numbers of people affected, it is measurably more."
The death toll from Nagasaki and Hiroshima was probably more than 100,000, possibly exceeding 200,000 within five years of the World War II bombings. An estimated 3,000 people died as a result of the attacks on September 11,
2001.
Thompson, who starred in films including Breaker Morant, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, The Sum of Us and My Brother Jack, said he was passionate about encouraging sustainable development.
Thousands of people are set to join today's rally to push to protect Victoria's old growth forests.
An organiser for the demonstration, Gavan McFadzean, said at least 5,000 people were expected to take part in the march from the State Library to Federation Square.
Mr McFadzean said with enough pressure he thought the Victorian government would move to protect old growth forests before the November state election.
"State governments in Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia have protected their old growth forests, and moved their logging industries into plantations. Victoria's forests are just as precious," he said.
He said an area equivalent to 27 football grounds was logged each day in Victoria and moving to protect the forests would help the environment.
"Protecting old growth forests is good for climate change," Mr McFadzean said.
A state government spokesman said much had been done to create national parks in Victoria.
The Bracks government has announced a plan to phase out logging of old growth forests in the Otway ranges by 2008.
Thompson most recently co-starred with Sean Penn in The Assassination of Richard Nixon.
Japanese Australians and the RSL today gave qualified support to Thompson's comments.
Committee member of the Australia-Japan society, Hiroko Fischer, said while Thompson may be exaggerating, it was possible that over the next 100 years global warming will have a bigger impact than the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
"It is hard to compare the two. The bombings were quite devastating ... the environment is slowly getting affected," Ms Fischer said.
RSL national president Major-General Bill Crews said global warming may eventually prove more catastrophic than the bombings, and the terror attacks.
"Global warming is a global situation, as far as it has been proved, and is far more extensive than more isolated incidents such as the bombings in Japan or the attacks on September 11," Maj-Gen Crews said.
He said in terms of the total impact to humanity, global warming may ultimately have more impact.
An estimated 15,000 people joined today's rally to protect Victoria's old growth forests.
Informant: binstock
rudkla - 4. Jun, 16:08
"Du kontrollierst den Klimawandel“
02.06.2006
Unter dem Motto „Du kontrollierst den Klimawandel“ soll jedem Bürger Europas bewusst gemacht werden, wie sein Verhalten und geänderte Gewohnheiten im Alltag zum Klimaschutz und damit zu einer erheblichen Verringerung der Treibhausgasemissionen beitragen können.
http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=6&news:oid=n5392
Al Gore: Klimaschutz ist eine "moralische Aufgabe"
29.05.2006
Jetzt ist Klimaschutz sogar bei den Internationalen Filmfestspielen in Cannes ein Topthema - mit Hilfe des früheren US-Vizepräsidenten und Beinahe- Präsidenten Al Gore. http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=6&news:oid=n5361
Noch stärkere Erderwärmung?
29.05.2006
Forscher kommen in neuen Studien zu alarmierenden Ergebnissen: Der Anstieg der globalen Temperaturen müsse um 15 bis
78 Prozent nach oben korrigiert werden. http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=6&news:oid=n5358
Moderne Geschäftsreise: Kosten sparen und Klima schützen
29.05.2006
Geschäftsreisen per Flugzeug rücken in doppelter Hinsicht in den Blickpunkt. Die betriebswirtschaftlichen Kosten steigen durch den hohen Ölpreis - und gleichzeitig steigen die Folgekosten für das Klima. http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=6&news:oid=n5328
Unter dem Motto „Du kontrollierst den Klimawandel“ soll jedem Bürger Europas bewusst gemacht werden, wie sein Verhalten und geänderte Gewohnheiten im Alltag zum Klimaschutz und damit zu einer erheblichen Verringerung der Treibhausgasemissionen beitragen können.
http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=6&news:oid=n5392
Al Gore: Klimaschutz ist eine "moralische Aufgabe"
29.05.2006
Jetzt ist Klimaschutz sogar bei den Internationalen Filmfestspielen in Cannes ein Topthema - mit Hilfe des früheren US-Vizepräsidenten und Beinahe- Präsidenten Al Gore. http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=6&news:oid=n5361
Noch stärkere Erderwärmung?
29.05.2006
Forscher kommen in neuen Studien zu alarmierenden Ergebnissen: Der Anstieg der globalen Temperaturen müsse um 15 bis
78 Prozent nach oben korrigiert werden. http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=6&news:oid=n5358
Moderne Geschäftsreise: Kosten sparen und Klima schützen
29.05.2006
Geschäftsreisen per Flugzeug rücken in doppelter Hinsicht in den Blickpunkt. Die betriebswirtschaftlichen Kosten steigen durch den hohen Ölpreis - und gleichzeitig steigen die Folgekosten für das Klima. http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=6&news:oid=n5328
rudkla - 4. Jun, 08:43
Freitag, 2. Juni 2006
Conservation Lagging as Emissions Climb
rudkla - 2. Jun, 10:13
Mittwoch, 31. Mai 2006
Energy Geopolitics 2006
Richard Heinberg says that without a detailed knowledge of energy geopolitics, "The modern world affairs analyst is in little better position to discern the patterns and portents than was his or her ancient Roman counterpart, the reader of entrails."
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/053006EA.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/053006EA.shtml
rudkla - 31. Mai, 11:50
