Gaia Theory - 1960s

Sephiroth

Source : http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060 ... gore_global_warming

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By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent
Mon May 22, 6:34 PM ET

"The entire global scientific community has a consensus on the question that human beings are responsible for global warming and he has today again expressed personal doubt that that is true," Gore said in an Associated Press interview from France where he attended the     Cannes Film Festival.

Gore's documentary chronicles his efforts to bring greater attention to the dangers of climate change.

"New technologies will change how we live and how we drive our cars, which all will have the beneficial effect of improving the environment," Bush said. "And in my judgment we need to set aside whether or not greenhouse gases have been caused by mankind or because of natural effects and focus on the technologies that will enable us to live better lives and at the same time protect the environment."

Gore said the causes of global warming should not be ignored
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I don't understand why Bush don't want to accept FACTS about Global Warming. :hmm:
Is there something in Christianity stating it is against Global Warming?

kabukiman

loyalty and faith only to money.

fact that carbon credit trading being undertaken at 6 different platforms in europe demonstrate the need for political will to take the lead; society would accept the financially depressing measures.

Sephiroth

Source : http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060 ... bal_warming_deserts

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Mon Jun 5, 5:56 AM ET

LONDON - The world's deserts are under threat as never before, with global warming making lack of water an even bigger problem for the parched regions, a U.N. report released Monday said.

The first comprehensive look at deserts around the world said these areas, their wildlife and, most of all, their scarce water supplies are facing dramatic changes.

Desert areas make up almost one quarter of the Earth's surface, or 13 million square miles, and are home to some 500 million people, more than previously thought.

Most of the 12 desert regions whose future climate was studied face a drier future, the report said. Experts predicted that rainfall would fall by as much as 20 percent by the end of the century due to human-induced climate change.

Compounding the threat is the melting of glaciers. A large fraction of water used for agricultural and domestic purposes in deserts in the southwestern United States, Central Asia and South America come from rivers that originate in glaciers and snow-covered mountains, the report said.

The glaciers on the Tibetan plateau, for example, may decline by as much as 80 percent by the end of the century, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of scientists advising the United Nations.

"When the glaciers disappear, you are in serious trouble," said Andrew Warren, one of the report's authors and a professor of geography at University College London.

The report warned that renewable water supplies fed to deserts by large rivers are also in danger because of climate change and booming growth. It cited the Rio Grande and Colorado rivers in North America, the Tigris and Euphrates in southwestern Asia and the Amu Darya and Indus rivers in Central Asia as being under threat.
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Sephiroth

Source : http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/2006 ... ntfood_060619144648

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Mon Jun 19, 12:07 PM ET

OSLO (AFP) - A "doomsday vault" carved into the permafrost of a remote Arctic mountain will next year house samples of the world's most important seeds, with the goal of providing mankind with a Noah's Ark of food in the event of global catastrophe.

The top-security repository in Svalbard archipelago near the North Pole, where construction began on Monday, will preserve some three million batches of seeds from all known varieties of the planet's crops.

This precious gene bank would make it possible to re-establish crops obliterated by major disasters, say the project's initiators.

"What we will store on Svalbard is not just one or two million seed samples and germ plasm, but the work of countless generations of farmers for thousands of years," Cary Fowler, executive secretary of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, told AFP.

Fowler said crop diversity was imperilled not just by a cataclysmic event, such as a nuclear war, but also by natural disasters, accidents, mismanagement, and short-sighted budget cuts.

Surrounded by permafrost and rock, the seed samples, such as wheat and potatoes, will be stored at a temperature of minus 18 degrees Celsius (minus 0.4 Fahrenheit), which the trust hopes will ensure their survival for hundreds, maybe even thousands, of years.

Dubbed a "Noah's Ark" by the Norwegian government, the seed bank is expected to open in September 2007.
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Hmm ... Humans preparing for possible Global Destruction. :hmm:

Sephiroth

Yesterday, in STAR Newspaper, (dated 27/7/2006), Prime Minister of Malaysia criticise Sabah Minister (Musa something) for allow projects which could ruin the beauty of Sipadan island and its reef.

He said something like "God give us beautiful scenery and things to enjoy. Why are we destroying this?"
Frankly speaking, ain't this a bit too late for it? :hmm:

Jabatan Alam Sekitar had been opened for nearly 10 years and they "makan gaji buta" because they don't know what happening. Rivers continued to be polluted (till, according to Pak Lah, even crocodiles also can die one), trees falling here and there, hills going bald faster than old people and their hairs, and even Hutan Simpanan get cut down openly without people bothered.

In Malaysia and Klang Valley alone, there are MANY housing projects which completed, but there is no buyers. In a few years, this new "tamans" will not have new occupants and you can see lalangs (weeds) overgrowning in them. What is sad here is, this place used to be forest and not kelapa sawit plantations alone.

I think the people of Malaysia don't care about Beautiful Scenery and Forest. If they could make a quick buck, they will do so without bother about the consequences.

SO, IF you have freaky storms where a city (like KL) does underwater, don't blame anyone. :no:

Sephiroth

[Just stating my opinion].

Two of the main problems Malaysian Government (or most government I guess) are facing today is :

1. Abuse of Environment continues - some due to Mismanagement and some due to Corruption.
2. Restructuring the Aborigine people (Kaum Asli) of a nation.

Malaysia had been under fire for this two problems since mid-90s and early 2000s. Orang Asli people in Malaysia lives like a 3rd or 4th level citizen in their own nations and despite of Perlembagaan which stated their rights, many of them don't even go to primary schools.


The solutions for this two problems may lies in a SINGLE solution. Return the Orang Asli back into the Forest and Rearm them with Modern day Education and Responsibility to take care the Forest. :hmm:

Right now, the responsibility to safeguard the Environment is given by the Government to city people who do NOT have any appreaciation to its beauty and value. The Bukit Cahaya Incident where the Jabatan Alam Sekitar people can simply say that there still a lot of forest left untouched despite of the illegal clearing by some party SHOWS how irresponsible they are.

The fact that the Rivers are polluted, waterfalls get dried up and coral are dying shows that people given this responsibility DO NOT HAVE what it takes TO GET THE JOB DONE. WHY? They do not appreciate the beauty and Value of it. Orang Asli had been living in the forest for a long time. They know how important it is, so giving the rights back to them will ensure that the forest is saveguard.

The Government can "adopt" a few candidates from the Orang Asli race, educate them about the Government procedures and what should be done and return them back to their people. They in return could provide education to their people, become leaders by creating community and produce more leaders, all the while, taking care of the forest. Thus a Renjer Unit could be form which can liase with Jabatan Perdana Menteri to ensure the Forest stays green.

This doesn't work in Forest alone, same thing can be done with Orang Asli living near water fronts in Selangor, Perak, Johor, Sabah and Sarawak area, among other places.

Anyway, just my opinion only. :hmm:

Sephiroth

Source : http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060803/us_nm/robertson_dc

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2 hours, 52 minutes ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Conservative Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson said on Thursday the wave of scorching temperatures across the United States had converted him into a believer in global warming.

The view put him at odds with fellow Republican        President George W. Bush, who has benefited politically from Robertson's backing and who has refused to embrace the concept of human-caused global warming.

"We really need to address the burning of fossil fuels," Robertson said on his "700 Club" broadcast. "It is getting hotter, and the icecaps are melting and there is a buildup of carbon dioxide in the air."

Last October, Robertson said the National Association of Evangelicals was teaming up with "far left environmentalists" for saying global warming was caused by humans and needed to be mitigated.

Also last year, Robertson, 76, said natural disasters affecting the globe, including hurricanes Katrina and Rita that wrecked the U.S. Gulf Coast, might be signs that the biblical apocalypse was nearing.

Temperatures have soared to near record levels in some eastern regions and Robertson said that was "the most convincing evidence I've seen on global warming in a long time."
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Sheesh ... Americans really have a DENSE MATTER for brain. It took 6 Hurricane, a dozen Tornadoes, God-knows how many forest fires and heatwaves to finally get this people to understand the problems they had cause. :nerd:

I wonder how many Hurricanes, Tornadoes, forest fires and heatwave it going to need to kick this administration into actually doing something useful.

sedondon

whateverlah

Sephiroth

by sedondon   

whateverlah  

Kalau tak ada apa2 yg berguna itu nak keluar dr mulut kamu itu, belajar utk DIAM. FAHAM?

Sephiroth

Anyone read yesterday's newspaper (the Star - 13th August, 2006)

Title - "Save our Turtles" and there is a picture of a egg collector on the coverpage, showing there is no eggs anymore. So what's the problem here?

As a Nature and Animal Lover myself, I CANNOT possiblity more UPSET and PISSED at this title. STAR (and the Government) made it sounds like the ONLY reason turtles, other creature and even nature should be perserved is to make money out of them.

I mean, WHAT is the difference between putting a picture of a person who STEAL eggs and sell it to show the turtles are gone and a picture ofa hunter with a rifle, stating there is no more tigers to shoot? :stp:

No wonder Environment conservation tasks having problems. The Government got their priorties screwed up. Environment is not safeguarded so we could use them for later profits alone, it is to saveguard our health and heritage as well. Is this means that the Government will do something ONLY IF there is proficts for it in the near future? :hmm:

IF ONLY reason Government wants to saveguard trees is to cut it down in some different time or saveguard the turtles so they can allow people to steal and sell eggs, might as well don't do anything about it. <_<

Sephiroth

Source : http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060907/sc_nm/space_planets_dc

Other Worlds ... other beauties to see and admire. :love:

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Earthlike planets covered with deep oceans that could harbor life may be found in as many as a third of solar systems discovered outside of our own, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

These solar systems feature gas giants known as "Hot Jupiters," which orbit extremely close to their parent stars -- even closer than Mercury to our sun, University of Colorado researcher Sean Raymond said.

The close-orbiting gassy planets may help encourage the formations of smaller, rocky, Earthlike planets, they reported in the journal Science.

Water is key to life as humans define it.

"I think there are definitely habitable planets out there," Raymond said. "But any life on these planets could be very different from ours. There are a lot of evolutionary steps in between the formation of such planets in other systems and the presence of life forms looking back at us."

As many as 40 percent of the 200 or so known planets around other stars are Hot Jupiters, the researchers said.
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sedondon

nampaknyer thread ini tidak mendapat sambutan. sekian terima kasih. sendiri post, sendiri baca. wakakaka!!!

Sephiroth

by sedondon   

nampaknyer thread ini tidak mendapat sambutan. sekian terima kasih. sendiri post, sendiri baca. wakakaka!!!  

Balik ke thread X-ray kamera kamu itu. ff:



Source : http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060 ... aska_forest_insects

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By DAN JOLING, Associated Press Writer
Sun Sep 10, 12:56 PM ET

FAIRBANKS, Alaska - Destructive insects in unprecedented numbers are finding Alaska forests to be a congenial home, said University of Alaska forestry professor Glenn Juday, and climate change could be the welcome mat.

Warmer winters kill fewer insects. Longer, warmer summers let insects complete a life cycle and reproduce in one year instead of two, the forest ecologist said.

Warm winters also can damage trees and make them less able to fend off insect attacks by changing the nature of snow. Instead of light, fluffy snow formed at extreme cold temperatures, warm winters produce wet, heavy snow more likely to break the tops of spruce trees, Juday said.

"They are not well adapted to handling big, heavy wet snow loads," Juday said. "It does them in."

Aspen leaf miners have turned quaking aspen leaves from green to silver. The insects expanded from 1,400 acres in 2000 to 584,405 acres in 2004, according to the University of Alaska Fairbanks

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Another example of how Globar Warming is effecting the Ecosystem in various parts of USA and Upper Hemisfera. :hmm:

sedondon

sepiroth, copy paste copy paste copy paste copy paste! :gantuk:

[ Last edited by  sedondon at 12-9-2006 09:42 AM ]

sedondon

BY SEPIROTI;

Saya rasa ASIAN patut mula memaksa negara2 besar spt America dan Britain supaya menbersihkan pencemaran mereka sendiri di tempat sendiri. Kalau tak bersihkan pun, suruh mereka jangan tambah lebih banyak pencemaran.

Aik? Hari tu kata sokong amerika. Saya claimed amerika banyak melakukan ujian senjata nuklear awak nafikan. Ni lain pulak? Ujian senjata nuklear tak mencemarkan alam sekitar ker? US telah melakukan ujian nuklear sejak tahun 50 - 60an lagik tahu tak?
yennadey tambi? :cak:

Sephiroth

Source : http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060912/sc_nm/environment_plants_dc

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Climate change seen pushing plants to the brink
By Jeremy Lovell
Tue Sep 12, 9:41 AM ET


LONDON (Reuters) - Thousands of plant species are being pushed to the brink of extinction by global warming, and those already at the extremes are in the greatest danger, a leading botanist said on Tuesday.

Paul Smith, head of Britain's Millennium Seed Bank, said the drylands of the world which cover 40 percent of the earth's surface and are home to more than one-third of the population faced the bleakest future.

"In the southern hemisphere the plants can either go up or south. But in South Africa's Cape they can't do either, so the 8,000 unique species of fijnbos (indigenous vegetation) there are a real worry," he told Reuters on a visit to London's Kew Gardens.

Smith's team is on target to have sorted and stored seeds from 10 percent of the world's plant species by 2010 in a race against time as global temperatures rise due to burning fossil fuels for transport and power.

"The trouble is that when we started collecting it was generally agreed that there were 242,000 plant species. But now some people believe it could be as high as 400,000.

"We really need to find out just what is out there before it has gone forever," he said, noting that on Robinson Crusoe island off Chile scientists found there had been eight extinctions in just the past decade.

Climate Change Minister Ian Pearson said scientists predicted that in Britain alone rainfall would have halved by 2080, with hotter, drier summers and warmer, wetter winters with frosts -- essential to the natural cycle -- a rarity.
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Source : http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/2006 ... europe_060913182544

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Wet and dry: Europe's weird summers set to become commonplace, says study
Wed Sep 13, 2:25 PM ET


PARIS (AFP) - Continental Europe's extreme summers of recent years, characterized by heavy floods or killer heatwaves, could be commonplace by the turn of the century, a climate study says.

Its authors believe that changes in the complex relationship between air temperature and land moisture, driven by global warming, will cause European summers to suffer from chronic variability by 2100.

Publishing on Thursday in the weekly British science journal Nature, the Swiss research team say that the hot, dry climate zone of the Mediterranean rim is destined to creep northwards as temperatures rise.

As a result, central and eastern Europe will suffer a "positive feedback mechanism" -- in essence, a vicious circle in which higher temperatures cause the soil to evaporate more and vegetation to breathe out more moisture.

In damp regions, more airborne moisture and warm air help to fuel the precipitation cycle, causing more and more rainfall and thus boosting the risk of flooding.

Devastating floods struck parts of Europe in 2002 and 2005 while in 2003, the continent was gripped by a record heatwave that claimed as many as 35,000 lives.

Previous research into climate change in Europe has also sketched the risk of huge variability from one year to the next, but the underlying causes for this were unclear.
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You know, I usually don't qoute anything from the Bible but Christians like the Americans and most of Europeans should remember what it had said in Book of Revealation on Doomsday according to their own religion. One of the signs of the End of the World is that the World incapable of producing enough food for humans.

Signs already showing that Disasters and Nature is turning against Man due to their own Sins but many Europeans Countries (and Church officials) do not wish to listen. Even when their own Scientists produce data supporting it, this politicians turn it to another group who cause skeptical about it and pollutions continues without much changes. :hmm:

Sephiroth

But enough with the gloomy news, some new development in field of Alternative Energy research.

Source : http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20 ... togeneratemorepower

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Floating Ocean Windmills Designed to Generate More Power

Ker Than
LiveScience Staff Writer
LiveScience.com
Mon Sep 18, 4:45 PM ET

Windmills that would float hundreds of miles out at sea could one day help satisfy our energy needs without being eyesores from land, scientists said today.

Offshore wind turbines are not new, but they typically stand on towers that have to be driven deep into the ocean floor. This arrangement only works in water depths of about 50 feet or less梒lose enough to shore that they are still visible.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have designed a wind turbine that can be attached to a floating platform. Long steel cables would tether the corners of the floating platform to a concrete-block or other mooring system on the ocean floor, like a high-tech ship anchor. The setup is called a "tension leg platform," or TLP, and would be cheaper than fixed towers.

Like the offshore windmills currently in use, the TLP's would use undersea cables to shuttle the electricity to land.


The researchers estimate their floater-mounted turbines could work in water depths ranging from about 100 to 650 feet. This means that in the northeastern United States, they could be placed about 30 to 100 miles out at sea. Because winds are stronger farther offshore, the floating windmills could also generate more energy

Sephiroth

Sigh ... did anyone check out yesterday's newspaper (NST - 25/09/2006) :

70% of Coastal Areas in Perak, Selangor and Kelantan is facing erosion and that could lead to lost of lives and millions of ringgits of damage.  

Just when I was being happy that 300 students and young people have united in Gotong Royong to clean the Parks, this news dashed my hope yesterday. :geram:

This is result of Government not capable of stopping individual companies from violating Mangroove forests and clearing them. Result, sea water in form of waves will erode the land faster and Malaysia will find itself getting smaller and smaller by the year.

Only solution I see - launch a campaign to STOP such activities immediately, replant the Mangroove forest (luckly, Mangrooves trees grow fast) and hopeful that the erosion will be stopped.

You know ... this can be considered as a Punishment from Mother Nature as well. Man cut down mangroove trees because they could only see the monetary value in it. Mangroove forest is place where birds rear its hatchling, where crabs lives and where many local fishermen find their livehood. Man cut it down to make fast money, destroying this habitat, so Mother Nature just returning the favour.

Sephiroth

Source : http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061004/ap_on_sc/global_warming

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By LINDA A. JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer
Wed Oct 4, 7:06 PM ET

TRENTON, N.J. - Global warming could strain the Northeast's power grid, farms, forests and marine fisheries by the next century unless carbon dioxide emissions are reduced by 3 percent each year, according to a report released Wednesday.

The climate in the nine states

Sephiroth

Source : http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061004/sc_nm/environment_oceans_dc

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By Anna Mudeva
Wed Oct 4, 9:26 AM ET

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Sewage is a growing threat to oceans and seas, putting at risk marine life and habitats as the pollution problem escalates, the        United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) said in a report on Wednesday.

The "State of the Marine Environment" report found that substantial progress had been achieved in reducing oily wastes and organic pollutants such as long-lived industrial chemicals in the past two decades but other problems had grown worse.

In many developing countries, between 80 and 90 percent of sewage entering coastal zones is estimated to be raw and untreated, said the report compiled by the UNEP global program of action for protection of marine environment (GPA).

The pollution -- linked to rising coastal populations, inadequate treatment infrastructure and poor waste handling facilities -- is putting at risk human health and wildlife as well as livelihoods from fisheries to tourism, it said.

"In the past we thought the ocean could be our sewage treatment plant," UNEP executive director Achim Steiner told a news conference in        The Hague.

"But we cannot do that any more as even in the Arctic we see two-three times increase in concentration of mercury in seals and whales," Steiner said.
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BTW ... I see someone vote s/he doesn't accept it. Who is it and WHY?