Archive for 'Nature'
Is there Life in a Sea of Plastic?
Greenhouse Neutral Foundation comment: Although this short 30 second presentation does not dwell on the toxicity of the plastic plague in our oceans, let us not forget that many of these plastics contain BPA now being recognised as a harmful carcinogenic toxin. We are now being warned about its effect, but who will warn the [...]
Posted: March 9th, 2010 under General, Nature.
Tags: plastic bags, plastic pollution, plastics, StoplasticBags
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Awakening with Nature
Over the coming weeks and months the Foundations very special guest contributor Lee Hiller, will share her rekindled love of all that makes our fight on Terra so essential that we win for future generations. The fragility of this ecosystem she is privileged to roam and share will inspire many. Thank you Lee!
When Bob Williamson [...]
Posted: March 9th, 2010 under General, Nature.
Tags: conservation groups, eco-systems, Nature
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Dire water supply outlook for Western Australia
Australia’s top scientific research organisation says climate change is responsible for a sharp fall in Western Australia’s water resources and that the worst is yet to come.
The CSIRO has released a report showing significant climate change since the mid-1970s has impacted on surface and ground water yields and rainfall over that time has dropped by [...]
Posted: March 8th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature.
Tags: Climate Change, science, water shortages
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Huge island of rubbish floating off California
Oceanographers have found that a vast floating island of rubbish in the Pacific has doubled over a decade and is now nearly six times the size of Britain.
The giant waste collection, known as the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” lies between California and Hawaii and has been gradually growing for 60 years.
It contains everything from plastic [...]
Posted: March 8th, 2010 under General, Nature.
Tags: Pacific Gaia, plastic bags, plastic pollution
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Beached whales killed by ingesting plastic
Greenhouse Neutral Foundation Comment: – Although this incident occurred in December 2009 it came to our attention recently via a contact in the United States. As many will know we are endeavouring via the STOPlasticBags campaign to highlight how our profligate consumption of plastic bags impacts on our world. This is another stark example of [...]
Posted: March 8th, 2010 under Action Needed, General, Nature.
Tags: activism, natural systems, plastic bags, plastic pollution, plastics, StoplasticBags
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Flow – For the Love of Water
Irena Salina’s award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century – The World Water Crisis.
Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world [...]
Posted: March 7th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature.
Tags: water shortages, water wars
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Mother Nature’s effervescence, ‘Bubbles,’
For those who have read my book ZERO Greenhouse Emissions – The Day the Lights Went Out – Our Future World, the reports this week by the science community of the discovery of methane release from thawing methane clathrates from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf will come as little surprise. In chapter 9 Mother Natures [...]
Posted: March 6th, 2010 under Climate Change, Foundation News, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: arctic, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, methane, methane clathrates, natural systems, science, Tipping Points
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Climate change human link evidence ’stronger’ Reports the UK Met Office
From the News desk at the BBC – A review from the UK Met Office says it is becoming clearer that human activities are causing climate change.
It says the evidence is stronger now than when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change carried out its last assessment in 2007.
The analysis, published in the Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews [...]
Posted: March 5th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, CO2 levels, glacial melt, global warming, Ice free Arctic, icesheet loss, science, sea level rise, Tipping Points, World News
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Study Says Undersea Release of Methane Is Under Way
This report fron the New York Times follows up on other reports posted this week by the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation.
Climate scientists have long warned that global warming could unlock vast stores of the greenhouse gas methane that are frozen into the Arctic permafrost, setting off potentially significant increases in global warming.
Now researchers at the University [...]
Posted: March 5th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Tipping Points, World News.
Tags: arctic, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, greenhouse emissions, methane, methane clathrates, natural systems, science, Siberia
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What Do We Know About Climate Change?
Here Peter Sinclaire puts a case for ‘Climate Denial – Crock of the Week’
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Posted: March 5th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, Nature.
Tags: Antarctica, arctic, Climate Change, global warming, greenhouse emissions, greenland, Ice free Arctic, icesheet loss, natural systems, science, sea level rise, West Antarctic
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