Gaia Theory - 1960s

Sephiroth

Hmph ... This is what I call a Universal Justice.

Source : http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070305/ap_on_sc/pollution_storms

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By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer Mon Mar 5, 5:13 PM ET

WASHINGTON - Pollution from Asia is helping generate stronger storms over the North Pacific, according to new research. Changes in the North Pacific storm track could have an impact on weather across the Northern Hemisphere. Satellite measurements have shown an increase in tiny particles generated from coal burning in China and India in recent decades, researchers report in Tuesday's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The team, led by Renyi Zhang of Texas A&M University, studied pollution and clouds between 1984 and 2005, concluding that increasing particles enhanced the cloud updraft to generate more intense thunderstorms than previously.
Comparing 1984-1994 with 1994-2005 they found an increase of 20 percent to 50 percent in deep convective clouds.
The Pacific storm track, they noted, plays a critical role in global atmospheric circulation, and altering this weather pattern could have a significant impact on the climate.

"The intensified storms over the Pacific in winter are climatically significant," the researchers wrote. "The intensified Pacific storm track can also impact the global general circulation."
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Since 1800s, the West have been "stealing" from Asian Countries like India, China, Malaya, Indochina and such to built their own Economy. Because of their Exploites, many nations in Asia have lost in touch with who they are, their forefathers' ways and become poor country which strive hard to survive. But God always a Fair Judge.

Now, Asians in order to catch up with Modernization is contributing to a large level of pollution and it is the West's turn to suffer. ;)

Sephiroth

Source : http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070 ... le_energy_grease_dc

By Jon Hurdle
Mon Mar 12, 9:17 AM E

In the search for sustainable and non-polluting alternatives to fossil fuels, a small band of ecologically minded people are turning to vegetable oil and recycled restaurant grease to run their cars, trucks and even home-heating systems.

Entrepreneurs, some backed by public funds, are proving cars can be run on low-cost materials that are a readily available alternative to environmentally damaging fossil fuels.

"Fancy driving across Europe for free? Fuel cost zero?" is the intriguing proposition at http://www.macharsoft.co.uk/rmp/freefuel.html.

In Easthampton, Massachusetts, Greasecar Vegetable Fuel Systems makes conversion kits for cars to run on vegetable oil. The company has sold about 3,500 kits during its nine years in business, and says sales have been doubling annually in the last few years.

The kits are priced between $800 and $2,000 and users typically get used vegetable oil from local restaurants that are happy to give it away because they usually have to pay for disposal.

With the increasing popularity of vegetable oil as a motor fuel, a small industry of conversion kit installers has grown up, and some also supply the oil for their customers.

With the cost of engine conversion typically offset in a few months, users can quickly reap the benefits of free fuel. "Beyond that, it's money in your pocket," said Justin Carven, owner of Greasecar.


Why can't someone in Malaysia sell this sort of kits here?

Malaysia is one of the top producers in Palm Oil (which should be considered Vegetable Oil also) and we could use this sort of conversion kit and our own fuel source without relying on Imports on Oil. :hmm:

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sedondon

spam...............;)

Sephiroth

Originally posted by sedondon at 19-3-2007 10:11 AM
spam...............;)

Useful information for those who cares about Science and Technology.

Spam to those who do not know or have not learn how to think properly. ;)

sedondon

spam from racist forumer......

Sephiroth

Source : http://60minutes.yahoo.com/segment/54/the_age_of_warming

Good site about Global Warming. But does all this really help anything? It seems Mankind takes a lot of time denying problems exist, rather than doing something about it.

Does it takes hundreds/thousands of people dead and millions of dollars in damage before they could actually admit that there is a problem? :stp:

Humanity ... Advance in Evolution, but not very Advance in Intelligent.

Sephiroth

Source : http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070401/ap_on_he_me/asia_toxic_fish

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Experts estimate that up to 50,000 people worldwide suffer ciguatera poisoning each year, with more than 90 percent of cases unreported. Scientists say the risks are getting worse, because of damage that pollution and global warming are inflicting on the coral reefs where many fish species feed.

Dozens of popular fish types, including grouper and barracuda, live near reefs. They accumulate the toxic chemical in their bodies from eating smaller fish that graze on the poisonous algae. When oceans are warmed by the greenhouse effect and fouled by toxic runoff, coral reefs are damaged and poison algae thrives, scientists say.

"Worldwide, we have a much bigger problem with toxins from algae in seafood than we had 20 or 30 years ago," said Donald M. Anderson, director of the Coastal Ocean Institute at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.
"We have more toxins, more species of algae producing the toxins and more areas affected around the world," he said.
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Sigh ... I happened to like seafood.

We throw garbage into the sea, now we eat it.


Source : http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070401/sc_afp/thailandweatherdrought_070401072317

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Sun Apr 1, 3:23 AM ET


BANGKOK (AFP) - Scorching weather and lack of rain has left more than eight million people in Thailand, the world's top rice exporter, suffering a drought that is ruining their farmland, officials said Sunday.
The drought has hit 58 of Thailand's 76 provinces, the government department responsible for disaster prevention and management said in a statement.

Most of them are in the north of the country, a region only just recovering from a choking haze caused by forest fires.
The department said about 114,000 rai (45,000 acres) of farmland had been affected, along with 8.23 million people.
Authorities said water pumps were being provided to help local farmers and residents.

The meteorological department warned that Thailand's northern, northeastern, eastern and central provinces including Bangkok would face more hot weather in the next 24 hours.

Northern provinces, including tourism hotspots Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai and Mae Hong Son, were engulfed in a haze last month caused by slash-and-burn farming and forest fires coupled with unusual weather patterns and lack of rain.
Last year, flooding inundated 47 Thai provinces, killing 207 people and causing at least 305.3 million baht (8.1 million dollars) in damage, mostly in the north of the kingdom.
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Global Warming starting to effect Thailand. It's not so hard to assume that it will effect Malaysia as well. :hmm:

Sephiroth

Source : http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070401/ap_on_sc/biofuel_debate

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By ARTHUR MAX, Associated Press Writer Sun Apr 1, 11:47 AM ET


AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Only a few years ago, oil from palm trees was viewed as an ideal biofuel: a cheap, renewable alternative to petroleum that would fight global warming. Energy companies began converting generators and production soared.
Now, it's increasingly seen as an example of how well-meaning efforts to limit climate-changing carbon emissions may backfire.

Marcel Silvius, a climate expert at Wetlands International in the Netherlands, led a team that compared the benefits of palm oil to the ecological harm from destroying virgin Asian rain forests to develop lucrative new plantations. Hiis conclusion: "As a biofuel, it's a failure."

Palm oil is attractive because it is relatively abundant, cheap at about $550 per ton, and requires few or no modifications to existing power stations.

Unlike carbon-rich fossil fuels, palm oil is considered carbon-neutral, meaning the carbon emitted from burning it is the same as what is absorbed during growth.

But the result of intensified farming has been to unleash far more greenhouse gases than will be saved at power stations.
The report issued late last year by Wetlands International, Delft Hydraulics and the Alterra Research Center of Wageningen University in Holland studied the carbon released from peat swamps in Indonesia and Malaysia that had been drained and burned to plant palm oil trees. About 85 percent of the world's palm oil comes from the two countries, and about one-quarter of Indonesia's plantations are on drained peat bogs, the report said.
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Hmm ... Palm Oil as Biofuel ... put the downside aside, this could make Malaysia into the leading biofuel producer in the next 20 years and may even supress Middle East as Oil producers. :hmm:

Malaysian Government SHOULD take deeper interest in research of Palm Oil as Bio fuel, and it should start right here in Malaysia as soon as possible. Our fuel stations don't need much modifications and we can afford to modify our vehicles. We have hundreds of hectars of palm trees already growing in Malaysia right now. ONLY thing missing is the effect to turn the oil into fuel, which should not be so hard for Malaysian Scientists without foreign help AND modify our own vehicles and stations. :hmm:

Personal message ... this is the LAST chance ... an oppurtunity given in answer to prayer of man knelting down asking for a second chance for his people so they will not go extinct. DO NOT MISS IT. :no:

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sedondon

pecah kelapa dijalanraya juga menyumbang kepada pencemaran.

Sephiroth

More warnings on Global Warming :

Source : http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070415/ap_on_sc/warming_security

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By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer
Sun Apr 15, 8:48 AM ET

WASHINGTON - Global warming poses a "serious threat to America's national security" with terrorism worsening and the U.S. will likely be dragged into fights over water and other shortages, top retired military leaders warn in a new report.

Joining calls already made by scientists and environmental activists, the retired U.S. military leaders, including the former Army chief of staff and        President Bush's former chief Middle East peace negotiator, called on the U.S. government to make major cuts in emissions of gases that cause global warming.

The report warned that in the next 30 to 40 years there will be wars over water, increased hunger instability from worsening disease and rising sea levels and global warming-induced refugees. "The chaos that results can be an incubator of civil strife, genocide and the growth of terrorism," the 35-page report predicted.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070416/ap_on_re_us/spring_storm

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By DAVID BAUDER, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 21 minutes ago



CROTON-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. - A menacing spring storm punished the Northeast for a second straight day Monday, dumping more than 8 inches of rain on Central Park and sending refrigerators and pickup trucks floating down rivers in one of the region's worst storms in recent memory.

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"This one is really a horror show," Gov. Eliot Spitzer said after touring hard-hit areas north of New York City.

The nor'easter left a huge swath of devastation, from the beaches of South Carolina to the mountains of Maine. It knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of people and was blamed for at least 11 deaths nationwide, including a New Jersey man who drowned inside a car.

Vermont got about 17 inches of snow, with flakes still falling Monday across sections of Pennsylvania, New York and Maine.
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Humans begining to go extinct. :hmm:

Sephiroth

From today's NST Newspaper (dated May 3, 2007)

Titled : Final Warning.
Global Warning : It's here and now, not in the distant future.

According to the UN report on Climate Change, the World will be hotter place by 2100. This is what will happen :

+2.4 Celsius (from what we have now) - Coral Reefs become extinct.
[Note : when that happens, coastal areas will have no defense against storms and tidal waves).

+ 3.4 Celsius (from what we have now) - Rainforests turns into deserts.
(Note : this includes Malaysian Rainforest, FYI ).

+4.4 Celsius (from what we have now) - Melting ice caps displace millions of people.
(Note : Remember 1980s Famine in Africa? That is NOTHING. Imagine it Worldwide, especially in poor countries and countries which are closest and vurneable to the Sea like Bangladesh).

+5.4 Celsius (from what we have now) - Sea levels rises by 5 feet.
(Note : That means that Sea water will reclaims areas which is now coastal areas. In Malaysia, there are thousands of people living along the Coastal Areas and making living of the Sea. Not to mention those high-rising hotels which they built without regarding the Environment (which can go to the Sea for all I care).

+6.4 Celsius (from what we have now) - Most life as we know it is EXTERMINATED.
(Note : BEEP! Game Over ... you want me to explain it to you?)

Malaysia WILL be effected by this as well as all the other nations on the World and it is all Humans' fault.

Sephiroth

Source : http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070605/ap_on_re_eu/vatican_going_solar

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By FRANCES D'EMILIO, Associated Press Writer Tue Jun 5, 6:53 PM ET


ROME - Some Holy See buildings will start using solar energy, reflecting Pope Benedict XVI's concern about conserving the Earth's resources, a Vatican engineer said Tuesday. The roof of the Paul VI auditorium will be redone next year, with its cement panels replaced with photovoltaic cells to convert sunlight into electricity, engineer Pier Carlo Cuscianna said.
The 6,300-seat auditorium is used for the pontiff's general audiences on Wednesdays in winter and in bad weather during the rest of the year. Concerts in honor of pontiffs are also staged in the hall, with its sweeping stage. The cells will produce enough electricity to illuminate, heat or cool the building, Cuscianna said.
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Well ... Interesting ... Pops going Solar.

Actually, this is a good idea. Vatican City is a small place (about less than the size of Singapore if not mistaken). By using methods like Solar Panels and other methods to generate electricity, Vatican city could become a working model for other countries to learn from and follow. :hmm:

Vatican City could teach others (and the World) on how to implementl, manage solar (and other energy resources) and derive Scientific data from it to use for other nations. Start small and others will follow once a working model exists and could be used to follow the suit.

Sephiroth

The Deal which fell little short on commitment.

Source : http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070607/ap_on_re_eu/g8_summit

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By CLAUDIA KEMMER, Associated Press Writer
Thu Jun 7, 4:42 PM ET



HEILIGENDAMM, Germany - Group of Eight leaders including        President Bush agreed Thursday to call for substantial global emissions reductions to fight global warming and cited a goal of a 50 percent cut by 2050.

European leaders hailed the deal as progress in the wrangling between Europe and the United States over global warming, with the Europeans pushing mandatory cuts and the U.S. resisting.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who shepherded the deal as chair of the G-8 summit in this seaside resort in northern Germany, called it "very great progress and an excellent result." With Bush resisting concrete cuts, it had appeared Merkel's summit would fall short of her goal of a substantial deal on climate change.

But the language of the declaration appeared to be well short of a full commitment. It called for the countries to "seriously consider" following the European Union, Japan and Canada in seeking to halve emissions by 2050.
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Westerns don't like to follow anyone else's examples, do they? They have to have it and thought of it first or they will ignore the methods is necessary for the current problem. Heck, they could even go to the extend of deny there is a problem in the first place.

While the G8 members (especially USA and Britain) accept that problem exists and they should cut down emission, problem continue to become worse. There will be more storms and hurricanes in USA, things going to be pretty cold around Europe and in Asia areas, there will be increase in rain, flood and other natural phenomenes.

This is time to ACT, NOT time to agree that we should do something and celebrate this "agreement" as if we have won a major war.

Sephiroth

Source : http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070607/ap_on_re_us/river_fight

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By MEG KINNARD, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 42 minutes ago

COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina's attorney general asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to stop North Carolina from draining millions of gallons from a river that provides drinking water and electricity to both states.
The lawsuit comes as drought conditions worsen in the Carolinas and vivid images of a severe dry spell five years ago linger in the minds of locals.

"There's nothing more precious than water except maybe oxygen," South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster said at a news conference announcing the lawsuit. "So far, the oxygen supply seems to be all right, but we're running out of water."

The permit issued by the North Carolina Environmental Management Commission allows the two cities to draw water from the river and return treated wastewater to a river basin that is closer to their communities than the Catawba. Returning the water to its source would be too expensive, a spokeswoman for the cities has said.

"It's really not a bad problem if the water is handled properly, to take it out and use it and put it back," McMaster said. "It's the interbasin transfers that just disrupt nature."

McMaster claims a 1991 North Carolina law that allows the transfer violates the U.S. Constitution by not equitably sharing the river between the states.
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Here's something I have NEVER except to see happening in USA - "Civil War" for Water recourses.

One of the consequence of Global Warming could be increase in droughts and desert areas. I was expecting things like this could be happening in poor countries like Africa, even India and Asia countries. But I have never thought it could be happening in USA, not this fast.

Humans better learn how to manage the Natural Resources effectively so they and other lifeforms could live in harmony and in peace. So far, Humans are not learning this valuable lessons quick enough or effective enough. :hmm:

Sephiroth

I don't understand what Malaysian Government thinking. Their Management Skills is getting worse and worse every year. :@

They sign contract to purchase Incinerator Unit to handle the increasing trash. Some Incinerators like from Japan have the ability to convert trash to electricity and proven to be clean to the Environment with as minimun impact as possible. A good deal if you ask me.

Then the Government cancelled the Contract and have to pay the compensation to the company, which is a waste of money.

Now they are saying that the Government going to identify and open new lands for trash filling.

It's really stupid of the Government to take this actions because Incinerators are good options than opening new lands and trash which you bury in this land can pollute the water supply and the rivers further.

Sephiroth

Source : http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070807/ts_nm/weather_un_extreme_dc

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By Laura MacInnis Tue Aug 7, 9:57 AM ET


GENEVA (Reuters) - The world experienced a series of record-breaking weather events in early 2007, from flooding in Asia to heatwaves in Europe and snowfall in South Africa, the United Nations weather agency said on Tuesday.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said global land surface temperatures in January and April were likely the warmest since records began in 1880, at more than 1 degree Celsius higher than average for those months.

There have also been severe monsoon floods across South Asia, abnormally heavy rains in northern Europe, China, Sudan, Mozambique and Uruguay, extreme heatwaves in southeastern Europe and Russia, and unusual snowfall in South Africa and South America this year, the WMO said.

"The start of the year 2007 was a very active period in terms of extreme weather events," Omar Baddour of the agency's World Climate Program told journalists in Geneva.

While most scientists believe extreme weather events will be more frequent as heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions cause global temperatures to rise, Baddour said it was impossible to say with certainty what the second half of 2007 will bring.

South Asia's worst monsoon flooding in recent memory has affected 30 million people in India, Bangladesh and Nepal, destroying croplands, livestock and property and raising fears of a health crisis in the densely-populated region.
Heavy rains also doused southern China in June, with nearly 14 million people affected by floods and landslides that killed 120 people, the WMO said.

England and Wales this year had their wettest May and June since records began in 1766, resulting in extensive flooding and more than $6 billion in damage, as well as at least nine deaths. Germany swung from its driest April since country-wide observations started in 1901 to its wettest May on record.

Mozambique suffered its worst floods in six years in February, followed by a tropical cyclone the same month, and flooding of the Nile River in June caused damage in Sudan.

Uruguay had its worst flooding since 1959 in May.

Huge swell waves swamped some 68 islands in the Maldives in May, resulting in severe damage, and the Arabian Sea had its first documented cyclone in June, touching Oman and Iran.

Temperature records were broken in southeastern Europe in June and July, and in western and central Russia in May. In many European countries, April was the warmest ever recorded.

Argentina and Chile saw unusually cold winter temperatures in July while South Africa had its first significant snowfall since 1981 in June.
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While I cannot but to be sympathized with suffering of others, one must remember that they are suffering because of their own fault for polluting the World.

Sephiroth

Source : http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070831/sc_nm/food_dc

By Robert Evans
Fri Aug 31, 11:04 AM ET

GENEVA (Reuters) - Spreading deserts and degradation of farm land due to climate change will pose a serious threat to food supplies for the world's surging population in coming years, a senior United Nations scientist warned on Friday.

M.V.K. Sivakumar of the U.N.'s World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said the crunch could come in just over a decade as all continents see more weather-related disasters like heat waves, floods, landslides and wildfires.

"Should we worry about land being degraded? Yes," Sivakumar, who leads the WMO's agricultural meteorology division, told a news conference in Geneva.

"Today we feed the present world population of 6.3 billion from the 11 per cent of the land surface that can be used for serious food production. The question is: Will we be able to feed the 8.2 billion that we expect to populate the globe in 2020 if even less land is available for farming?," he said.


This is something we all should take time to sit down and think carefully. In next 20 years, there could be a mass-scale famine like that of 1980s Africa famine. Only problem here is - it could happen EVERYWHERE.

I'm not talking about Africa alone, it could happen in South America, Asia, even in US and Europe.

Sephiroth

Source : http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070918/hl_afp/ushealthvirusclimate

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by Jean-Louis Santini Tue Sep 18, 1:56 PM ET



CHICAGO (AFP) - Global warming likely will lead to an increase in infectious disease around the world, as viruses, microbes and the agents that spread them flourish, experts at a medical conference warned Tuesday.

The problem is already evident and has become particularly acute in just the past decade, according to researchers at a meeting of the American Society for Microbiology.

"Human-induced climate change ... is proceeding a little bit faster than we would have expected," said McMichael, an epidemiologist at the University of Canberra in Australia.

Experts cite West Nile virus as a disease whose spread has been facilitated by global warming

Climate change experts believe that the earth's temperature is likely to rise by 1.8-4.0 degrees Celsius by the year 2100.
Experts believe diseases worsened by global warming already have contributed to the deaths of between 150,000 and five million people per year.

In addition to an increase in diseases like malaria and dengue fever, global warming is likely heighten the incidence of diarrhea, heat waves, drought, floods and malnutrition.
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Death comes by dozen and people still "studying" to know whether Global Warming have anything to do with it. Fact - It does.

Question which everyone should be asking is not whether Global Warming have anything to do with it or not, BUT what are they going to do to stop further destruction?

The World does not need Parasites which will destroy it, and Humans have been living like parasites for the past 200 years. There will come a time when the World will decided whether Humanity should be allowed to live or not. DO NOT reach that stage, CHANGE when there's still time.

Obersliutenant

permaculture is the answer to the formation of deserts . the formation of deserts is particularly due to poor soil management practices.

Sephiroth

Finally, some good posting from forumers.

Permaculture - Good choice. Especially now when it is evident that Man have been abusing Nature in attempt to produce more food, as the population grows.

It is not possible for Mother Nature to produce enough food for all of us, especially since we have limited amount of agricultural land and a portion of this land are been used to produce commercial stuff like coffee beans etc.

Land management IS a must, if we are to avoid another 1980s Famine. We have the knowledge and Technology, but only lacking commitment in such field. At least, that is what I believe.

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture