Archive for 'World News'
Intelligent life on Earth.
Enjoy!
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Posted: August 30th, 2010 under Foundation News, General, World News.
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August 28th 1963 – ‘I still have a dream!’
We still have many things to overcome and new challenges to face. Let us all be inspired to hold on to that dream on August 28th 2010 looking back and listening to Martin Luther King Jnr in his historic speech on that day in 1963.
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Posted: August 28th, 2010 under Action Needed, Foundation News, General, World News.
Tags: activism, Climate Change
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Science stunner: Vast East Siberian Arctic Shelf methane store destabilizing and venting
NSF issues world a wake-up call: “Release of even a fraction of the methane stored in the shelf could trigger abrupt climate warming.”
March 4, 2010
Methane release from the not-so-perma-frost is the most dangerous amplifying feedback in the entire carbon cycle. Research published in Friday’s journal Science finds a key “lid” on “the large sub-sea permafrost [...]
Posted: August 16th, 2010 under Climate Change, Foundation News, General, Tipping Points, World News.
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The Caribou and us.
Sometimes the most important news is what is not happening.
That comment in a recent article along with the following adaptation (from the French) of a story sent to me by a colleague in Quebec Canada made me reflect on why the global community is not focused and active on pushing for immediate reductions in greenhouse [...]
Posted: August 15th, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, Foundation News, General, Nature, World News.
Tags: arctic, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, Ice free Arctic, methane, permafrost
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Greenland ice sheet faces ‘tipping point in 10 years’
Scientists warn that temperature rise of between 2C and 7C would cause ice to melt, resulting in 23ft rise in sea level
The entire ice mass of Greenland will disappear from the world map if temperatures rise by as little as 2C, with severe consequences for the rest of the world, a panel of scientists told [...]
Posted: August 13th, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, World News.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, greenland, icesheet loss, sea level rise, Tipping Points
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Massive ice island breaks off Greenland
August 7th — A piece of ice four times the size of Manhattan island has broken away from an ice shelf in Greenland, according to scientists in the U.S.
The 260 square-kilometer (100 square miles) ice island separated from the Petermann Glacier in northern Greenland early on Thursday, researchers based at the University of Delaware said.
The [...]
Posted: August 8th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, World News.
Tags: #BREAKING NEWS, arctic, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, greenland, Ice free Arctic, icesheet loss, sea level rise, Tipping Points
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An evil atmosphere is forming around geoengineering
Greenhouse Neutral Foundation comment – In the series Letters from 2030, we wrote about geoengineering in the piece Man’s folly – The Hail Mary Clouds. A visitor commented this must be fiction – until she researched the issue. This tampering with the planet must not be allowed to take place. As you read through the [...]
Posted: July 24th, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, Nature, World News.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, geo-enginineering, global warming, scientists, World News
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Dying and dead dolphins, oil covered whale, fires from burning off oil
Aerial video footage that is hard to watch, shot by waterkeeper John Wathen, off the coast of Alabama.
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Posted: July 11th, 2010 under Action Needed, General, Nature, World News.
Tags: Oil drilling, Oil Lobby, Oil Spill
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Will you join in a ‘Coalition of the Willing’?
As you watch this compelling animated video presentation ask yourself if you want to become part of the solution to the problems we face of our own making.
You can be the solution as a single voice that joins many others. Personally I have and am committed to being engaged to create change in our troubled [...]
Posted: July 3rd, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, Foundation News, General, World News.
Tags: activism, activists, Climate Change, global warming
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Ocean Changes May Have Dire Impact on People
The first comprehensive synthesis on the effects of climate change on the world’s oceans has found they are now changing at a rate not seen for several million years.
In an article published June 18 in Science magazine, scientists reveal the growing atmospheric concentrations of man-made greenhouse gases are driving irreversible and dramatic changes to the [...]
Posted: June 30th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Tipping Points, World News.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, CO2 Emissions, natural systems, Ocean Acidification, science, species extinction, Tipping Points, World News
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