Hi Everyone.

Again we have a feast of information that should interest many. Welcome to the new subscribers who joined us all this week. There was some concerning news coming from the North regarding the inevitable release of methane clathrates and this features heavily in this weeks Voice for Change Newsletter.

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Here are the week’s environmental education offerings.

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Mother Nature’s effervescence, ‘Bubbles,’-With the reports this week of accelerated methane releases from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, as with global warming the once stable methane clathrates start to thaw, I thought it appropriate to point to the extract from Chapter 9 of the book that deals with the likelihood of this positive feedback. Read what was written in 2007 on this subject.

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Climate change human link evidence ’stronger’ Reports the UK Met Office – The Met Office makes its case for the hard evidence of climate change amid all the denier media that has recently hit the headlines around the world.

http://bit.ly/9LaGmf

Study Says Undersea Release of Methane Is Under Way – Methane clathrates thawing in the Arctic. Methane with a warming effect of 25 times that of CO2 is like providing as it suggests in the follow MSNBC report, a steroid boost to CO2-e levels in the atmosphere.

http://bit.ly/9YjQpL

“Countdown to Doomsday” Methane Release MSNBC – With guest James Hansen of NASA.

http://bit.ly/7uvCQ5

Lawmakers From Coal States Seek to Delay Emission Limits – The reality of coal lobbyists in the United States.

http://bit.ly/9BWPMP

What do we know about climate change? – I think this is a valuable dispassionate presentation of facts on the history of climate change evidence. Parts are also quite amusing.

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The world has become far too hot for the aptly named Exit Glacier in Alaska. – While we average worldwide temperature rise at +.8 degrees, we should not be diverted from the fact that average temperatures in the Arctic and Antarctic have indeed been recorded to have risen by a greater level of 6 degrees + or- 1.

http://bit.ly/9jKBd9

Increasing methane leaks in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf could trigger abrupt warming – The first report coming this week on the methane thaw in the North.

http://bit.ly/9XygXU

All is not well for the plight of Pacific Salmon – This video report from MSNBC shows that the decline in Pacific salmon is another outcome of our activities.

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Pine Bark Beetles on the march in British Columbia – Again from MSNBC the fate of forest pines in British Columbia is being sealed as the Pine Bark Beetle with a longer (warmer) breading season march north to invade and destroy previously pristine forests.

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The Latest Tech Trends for Your Home – be they good or bad. – The consumer products that keep us on the couch.

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More Ambition Needed if Greenhouse Gases are to Peak in Time, Says New UNEP Report – The United Nations Environment Program warn us that we need take action.

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Paper Bags or Plastic Bags? Everything You Need to Know- The data presented in this story is essential reading for anyone looking at the LCA comparison of paper verses plastic.

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Prince Charles and friends team up with the green frog for climate change! – A great little presentation by Princes William and Harry and their father, with some other friends you’ll recognize and a big green frog!

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Robin Hood Tax – How the banks might fix the world – as if! – Bill Nigh shifts uncomfortably in his chair as the case for a bank tax to fix the worlds problems is discussed. Highly amusing!

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We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change – Al Gore – Al Gore looks at the political position of the US in this piece he wrote for the New York Times.

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Finally for the ‘Best of the Best’ picks for this week we have selected There is a certainty – I was inspired to write this piece by John Peter Thompson of Maryland USA who proposed in his blog that “We need to find a pathway between doing nothing at all and waiting until there is nothing to be done.” and Climate change is coming to you as it did to a dear friend of mine. Denise Russo and her family live outside Atlanta Georgia. Denise is a brave crusader for the group ThirstAidLive.com. This traumatic event that happened to her and many of her neighbours shows us that extreme weather events brought on by climate change, no longer are only of concern to those distant to us in the Third World. Climate change does not pick favourites.

See you next week!

Bob Williamson