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Hot doom means famine lurky! |
Mon, March 20, 2006
Hot doomWorld waking up to reality but it may already be too late
By Bill Kaufmann
The past few weeks of dire greenhouse gas news has either been a huge
conspiracy by scientists everywhere to beggar rich nations or a torrent
of inescapable reality-based data.
It's a rare day that goes by without more harrowing revelations on the
global warming front -- evidence handily roasting the denial of
skeptics.
For the second year in a row, arctic sea ice has failed to re-form, or
even return to its long-term average rate of decline.
It's sparked fears global warming has resulted in a winter as well a
summer melt in the region.
Other surveys have shown the ice has shrunk by 20% compared to its
average volume of two decades ago.
The loss of ice increases the absorption of solar heat, further
magnifying the warming trend.
Scientists fear the meltdown typifies changes occurring at a pace far
more rapid than thought a mere few years ago.
"One of the big changes this winter is that a large part of the Barents
Sea has remained ice-free for the first time," Prof. Peter Wadhams, an
arctic ice specialist at Cambridge University told the U.K. newspaper
The Independent.
A 10-year NASA survey, the most comprehensive undertaken, shows a net
loss of ice sheet covering Greenland and Antarctica amounts to 20
billion net tonnes of water -- equalling all the water used in every
sector in the states of New York, Virginia and New Jersey.
Greenland's glaciers have been disintegrating at a dizzying pace that's
only now become apparent.
That great island's crumbling ice has been piling into the sea as if
transported by a subterranean conveyor belt.
Last week, a Georgia Institute of Technology study bolstered ties
between warmer seas and more potent hurricanes.
Acknowledgement that human activity is playing a significant role is
becoming as irreversible as the phenomenon itself.
Ice cores lifted from Greenland show CO2 levels at their highest in
hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of years.
Atmospheric greenhouse gas levels were at their loftiest in 2004 and
are still ballooning.
Other scientists have calculated greenhouse gases are now being
released 30 times faster than were the emissions that triggered an era
of dramatic warming millions of years ago.
Researchers at a St. Louis, Mo., conference last month heard emissions
that took 10,000 years to spark a warming incident 55 million years ago
would, at current rates, require a mere three centuries to do the same.
The great meltdown now underway was nowhere to be seen a century ago,
or before the impact of the industrial revolution could be felt; ice
packs that were growing 20 years ago are now rapidly retreating.
All the warmest years on record have been chalked up in the past
decade, while Environment Canada reports this winter has been the
nation's balmiest since figures have been kept.
The runaway rapidity of the changes have pretty much ruled out purely
natural causes while skeptics who insist the science is turning in
their favour are being pushed to the fringe like never before.
Even core supporters of the bumbling George W. Bush have broken ranks
with him on climate change.
A coalition of U.S. evangelicals last month issued a call to action on
global warming, linking its effects to poverty.
"Christians must care about climate change because we love God the
creator," read the coalition's statement.
Large corporations are capitulating to reality, with some like GE
reversing their opposition to a UN public/private environmental
initiative.
The threat of global warming and humanity's role in it have become so
obvious, even the Bush-lite federal Tories are finding it impossible to
write off Kyoto.
But their stance is bound to be tied at the hip to that of the Bush
administration, whose failure to sign on to any meaningful remedies
sets a wretched example to other non-Kyoto signatories like China and
India.
Sadly, Canada, with its dismal record on reducing greenhouse gases,
isn't in much of a position to lecture the Americans.
And still more depressing news came last week from the Washington-based
World Resources Institute which joined a chorus lamenting a climate
change tipping point might have already been reached.
It's feared global warming will long continue on an upward trend even
if emissions are drastically reduced.
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Luke 21:8-11 (NASB95)
8 And He said, "See to it that you are not misled; for many will
come in My name, saying, 'aI am He,' and, 'The time is near.'
bDo not go after them.
9 "When you hear of wars and disturbances, do not be
terrified; for these things must take place first, but the end does not
follow immediately."
Things to Come
10 Then He continued by saying to them, "Nation will rise
against nation and kingdom against kingdom,
11 and there will be great earthquakes, and in various places
plagues and famines; and there will be terrors and great 1signs from
heaven.
a John 8:24
b Luke 17:23
1 Or attesting miracles
End times:
http://mart1963.tripod.com/index.htm
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22 Mar 2006 05:15:23 PM |
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"Acknowledgement that human activity is playing a significant role is
becoming as irreversible as the phenomenon itself."
Sorry pal. The same NASA scientists YOU quote as stating ice caps are
melting, also say the ice caps on Mars are also melting at remarkable rate.
Heilsinki Institute for Solar Research has data that our sun is burning
brighter now than it has in 1000 years (berilium 10 increases).
Your "Global Warming" mantra is really Solar Warming. Ain't nothin we are
doing to cause it... ain't nothing we can do to effect it.
Of your drivel, there is some truth:
"Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom,"
"there will be great earthquakes, and in various places
plagues and famines; and there will be terrors and great signs from
heaven".
"The time is near."
"And He said, 'I am He...' "
<marttila69@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1142997966.007245.53550@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com...
Mon, March 20, 2006
Hot doomWorld waking up to reality but it may already be too late
By Bill Kaufmann
The past few weeks of dire greenhouse gas news has either been a huge
conspiracy by scientists everywhere to beggar rich nations or a torrent
of inescapable reality-based data.
It's a rare day that goes by without more harrowing revelations on the
global warming front -- evidence handily roasting the denial of
skeptics.
For the second year in a row, arctic sea ice has failed to re-form, or
even return to its long-term average rate of decline.
It's sparked fears global warming has resulted in a winter as well a
summer melt in the region.
Other surveys have shown the ice has shrunk by 20% compared to its
average volume of two decades ago.
The loss of ice increases the absorption of solar heat, further
magnifying the warming trend.
Scientists fear the meltdown typifies changes occurring at a pace far
more rapid than thought a mere few years ago.
"One of the big changes this winter is that a large part of the Barents
Sea has remained ice-free for the first time," Prof. Peter Wadhams, an
arctic ice specialist at Cambridge University told the U.K. newspaper
The Independent.
A 10-year NASA survey, the most comprehensive undertaken, shows a net
loss of ice sheet covering Greenland and Antarctica amounts to 20
billion net tonnes of water -- equalling all the water used in every
sector in the states of New York, Virginia and New Jersey.
Greenland's glaciers have been disintegrating at a dizzying pace that's
only now become apparent.
That great island's crumbling ice has been piling into the sea as if
transported by a subterranean conveyor belt.
Last week, a Georgia Institute of Technology study bolstered ties
between warmer seas and more potent hurricanes.
Acknowledgement that human activity is playing a significant role is
becoming as irreversible as the phenomenon itself.
Ice cores lifted from Greenland show CO2 levels at their highest in
hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of years.
Atmospheric greenhouse gas levels were at their loftiest in 2004 and
are still ballooning.
Other scientists have calculated greenhouse gases are now being
released 30 times faster than were the emissions that triggered an era
of dramatic warming millions of years ago.
Researchers at a St. Louis, Mo., conference last month heard emissions
that took 10,000 years to spark a warming incident 55 million years ago
would, at current rates, require a mere three centuries to do the same.
The great meltdown now underway was nowhere to be seen a century ago,
or before the impact of the industrial revolution could be felt; ice
packs that were growing 20 years ago are now rapidly retreating.
All the warmest years on record have been chalked up in the past
decade, while Environment Canada reports this winter has been the
nation's balmiest since figures have been kept.
The runaway rapidity of the changes have pretty much ruled out purely
natural causes while skeptics who insist the science is turning in
their favour are being pushed to the fringe like never before.
Even core supporters of the bumbling George W. Bush have broken ranks
with him on climate change.
A coalition of U.S. evangelicals last month issued a call to action on
global warming, linking its effects to poverty.
"Christians must care about climate change because we love God the
creator," read the coalition's statement.
Large corporations are capitulating to reality, with some like GE
reversing their opposition to a UN public/private environmental
initiative.
The threat of global warming and humanity's role in it have become so
obvious, even the Bush-lite federal Tories are finding it impossible to
write off Kyoto.
But their stance is bound to be tied at the hip to that of the Bush
administration, whose failure to sign on to any meaningful remedies
sets a wretched example to other non-Kyoto signatories like China and
India.
Sadly, Canada, with its dismal record on reducing greenhouse gases,
isn't in much of a position to lecture the Americans.
And still more depressing news came last week from the Washington-based
World Resources Institute which joined a chorus lamenting a climate
change tipping point might have already been reached.
It's feared global warming will long continue on an upward trend even
if emissions are drastically reduced.
_______________________________________________________________________
Luke 21:8-11 (NASB95)
8 And He said, "See to it that you are not misled; for many will
come in My name, saying, 'aI am He,' and, 'The time is near.'
bDo not go after them.
9 "When you hear of wars and disturbances, do not be
terrified; for these things must take place first, but the end does not
follow immediately."
Things to Come
10 Then He continued by saying to them, "Nation will rise
against nation and kingdom against kingdom,
11 and there will be great earthquakes, and in various places
plagues and famines; and there will be terrors and great 1signs from
heaven.
a John 8:24
b Luke 17:23
1 Or attesting miracles
End times:
http://mart1963.tripod.com/index.htm
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23 Mar 2006 01:02:56 AM |
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The sun's been burning at a constant rate that you would expect it to
get cooler, if anything, not hotter as the fuel of the sun decreases
with time and on the other hand a third of the global population (India
and China) are modernising to such an extent that they can barely meet
their energy consumption needs which as a by product brings an ever
increasing amount of heat into the atmosphere.
I know that governments have been trying to suppress information about
global warming by scientist and would be more then happy to blame it on
something else then actually deal with the problem themselves.
End times:
http://mart1963.tripod.com/index.htm
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| User: "D&SW" |
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23 Mar 2006 06:41:13 PM |
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"The sun's been burning at a constant rate that you would expect it to get
cooler, if anything, not hotter as the fuel of the sun decreases with
time..."
Yes of course that would explain the melting of Martian ice caps...or is it
all the SUV's and coal power plants they have?
Man made global warming is tree huggeer fiction.
The sun does not burn at a "constant" rate but goes through cycles. We have
been in a multi decade cycle of increased solar activity. To pretend the
increased solar activity would have no effect on our climate is displaying a
hidden agenda. The earth is going through climate change, but the amount of
change caused by man doesn't even move the needle.
We ain't causing it, and we ain't gonna stop it.
<marttila69@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1143097376.312497.107440@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com...
The sun's been burning at a constant rate that you would expect it to
get cooler, if anything, not hotter as the fuel of the sun decreases
with time and on the other hand a third of the global population (India
and China) are modernising to such an extent that they can barely meet
their energy consumption needs which as a by product brings an ever
increasing amount of heat into the atmosphere.
I know that governments have been trying to suppress information about
global warming by scientist and would be more then happy to blame it on
something else then actually deal with the problem themselves.
End times:
http://mart1963.tripod.com/index.htm
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24 Mar 2006 01:00:01 AM |
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Below is a story explaining the melting of the ice caps on Mars and if
you do a quick search you will also find newspaper articles of
governments trying to gag scientist from warning about global warming
until a large body of scientist got together and force it into the spot
light.
We ARE causing it but with our heads in the sand, we probably wont stop
it.
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Mars is Melting
The south polar ice cap of Mars is receding, revealing frosty
mountains, rifts and curious dark spots.
Listen to this story via streaming audio, a downloadable file, or get
help.
August 7, 2003: It's not every day you get to watch a planetary ice cap
vanish, but this month you can. All you need are clear skies, a
backyard telescope, and a sky map leading to Mars.
Actually, you won't need the sky map because Mars is so bright and easy
to find.
Just look south between midnight and dawn on any clear night this
month. Mars is that eye-catching red star, outshining everything around
it. It's getting brighter every night as Earth and Mars converge for a
close encounter on August 27th.
Above: Amateur astronomer Thomas Williamson of New Mexico took this
picture of Mars on August 1st. He used an 8-inch telescope and a
digital web camera. [more]
Sign up for EXPRESS SCIENCE NEWS delivery
Mars has gotten so big in recent weeks that even a backyard telescope
will show details on the planet's surface: dust clouds, volcanic
terrains, impact basins. Best of all is the south polar cap. Made of
frozen CO2 or "dry ice," it reflects more sunlight than any other part
of the planet. The southern hemisphere of Mars is tipped toward Earth
and the bright cap is remarkably easy to see.
Don't wait too long to look, though, because the ice will soon be gone.
Like Earth, Mars has seasons that cause its polar caps to wax and wane.
"It's late spring at the south pole of Mars," says planetary scientist
Dave Smith of the Goddard Space Flight Center. "The polar cap is
receding because the springtime sun is shining on it."
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End times:
http://mart1963.tripod.com/index.htm
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25 Mar 2006 01:13:16 PM |
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So the last 30 years of steadily increasing solar activity has no impact?
The fact that volcanic activity puts hundreds of times more "green house
gases" into the atmosphere has no impact?
Sorry, simply ain't buying that.
<marttila69@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1143183601.613814.180400@t31g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
Below is a story explaining the melting of the ice caps on Mars and if
you do a quick search you will also find newspaper articles of
governments trying to gag scientist from warning about global warming
until a large body of scientist got together and force it into the spot
light.
We ARE causing it but with our heads in the sand, we probably wont stop
it.
______________________________________________________________________________________________
Mars is Melting
The south polar ice cap of Mars is receding, revealing frosty
mountains, rifts and curious dark spots.
Listen to this story via streaming audio, a downloadable file, or get
help.
August 7, 2003: It's not every day you get to watch a planetary ice cap
vanish, but this month you can. All you need are clear skies, a
backyard telescope, and a sky map leading to Mars.
Actually, you won't need the sky map because Mars is so bright and easy
to find.
Just look south between midnight and dawn on any clear night this
month. Mars is that eye-catching red star, outshining everything around
it. It's getting brighter every night as Earth and Mars converge for a
close encounter on August 27th.
Above: Amateur astronomer Thomas Williamson of New Mexico took this
picture of Mars on August 1st. He used an 8-inch telescope and a
digital web camera. [more]
Sign up for EXPRESS SCIENCE NEWS delivery
Mars has gotten so big in recent weeks that even a backyard telescope
will show details on the planet's surface: dust clouds, volcanic
terrains, impact basins. Best of all is the south polar cap. Made of
frozen CO2 or "dry ice," it reflects more sunlight than any other part
of the planet. The southern hemisphere of Mars is tipped toward Earth
and the bright cap is remarkably easy to see.
Don't wait too long to look, though, because the ice will soon be gone.
Like Earth, Mars has seasons that cause its polar caps to wax and wane.
"It's late spring at the south pole of Mars," says planetary scientist
Dave Smith of the Goddard Space Flight Center. "The polar cap is
receding because the springtime sun is shining on it."
___________________________________________________________________________
End times:
http://mart1963.tripod.com/index.htm
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29 Mar 2006 10:11:35 PM |
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The sun does go through cycles where it gets hotter and cooler, but
indications are that the next solar maximum is the smallest that has
been for 100 years. Volcanoes have been with us, these solar cycles
have been with us and the ice caps have still grown.
With mans increase use of energy and the build up of green house gases
we really are heating up the planet to such an extent that the ice caps
are melting away.
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30 March, 2006.
The Next Solar Maximum the Smallest in 100 Years?
The interior of the Sun holds the key to predicting the strength of
each solar cycle. Internal magnetic fields are twisted up and wrapped
around the Sun due to the Sun's differential rotation. These fields are
thought to be what gives rise to the formation of sunspots and related
space weather activity.
05 March 2005 | The latest research results[1] by Drs. Leif Svalgaard,
Yohsuke Kamide at the Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya
University (Japan) and Edward W. Cliver at the Space Vehicles
Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Hanscom Air Force Base
(Massachusetts) suggest that the Sun may be less active during the next
solar cycle than it has been during the last 100 years.
These results are based upon one of the most successful solar cycle
prediction methods in existence. The "Precursor Method" is capable of
predicting the magnitude of the next solar maximum up to about 7 years
before the solar maximum occurs. This is possible by examining the
strength of the magnetic fields that congregate in the polar regions of
the Sun a few years before the solar minimum of each solar cycle and
relating the strength of those fields to the observed sunspot numbers
during the next solar maximum. The polar magnetic fields provide the
"seed" magnetic flux necessary to drive the sunspot activity during the
next solar cycle.
The most recent findings by Dr. Svalgaard et al. are based on only the
first of three years of data during the current decline of solar cycle
23. At least two more years of data (through the solar minimum) are
required to provide a more accurate prediction. Nevertheless,
sufficient data is now available to make an initial reasonable
prediction. They predict that the next solar maximum (the time during
which the proliferation of sunspots is greatest) will be associated
with a sunspot number of only 75, with an error of =B1 8. If this
prediction holds true, the next solar cycle (cycle 24) will peak around
the year 2011 with a sunspot number that is lower than any previous
solar cycle since cycle 14 when the observed sunspot number peaked at a
value of only 64 in 1906.
What is the significance of this prediction, assuming it holds true?
Sunspots are a source of eruptive phenomena such as solar flares.
Energetic coronal mass ejections are also related to the occurence of
solar flares. And coronal mass ejections can produce hazardous space
weather conditions to spacecraft, aircraft and power grids. One would
think that a lower sunspot number would be good news for these
industries. Overall average space weather effects may indeed be a bit
milder. But these industries are more adversely affected by the few
extreme solar outbursts that occur during the solar cycle than they are
during the less volatile "average" conditions observed during the solar
cycle. Svalgaard et al. are quick to point out that some of the most
intense space weather storms have occurred during solar cycles having
low sunspot numbers. For example, two of the eight most intense
geomagnetic storms during the last ~150 years occurred during solar
cycle 14, while three of the five strongest energetic proton events at
greater than 30 MeV since 1859 occurred during solar cycle 13 when the
peak sunspot number plateaued at only 88. The scientists note that the
next solar cycle could prove to be an excellent test-bed for a number
of models and theories concerning the solar cycle and solar activity.
A direct measure of the strength of the solar polar fields will be
possible during 2007-2008 when the Ulysses space probe will make
another pass over the solar poles. Dr. Svalgaard and his colleagues
fully expect the strength of the polar fields measured during these
polar passes will be significantly smaller than the strength of the
fields that were observed during the polar passes of 1994 and 1995
during the minimum phase of the last solar cycle. This would help
validate their prediction of a much smaller solar maximum during the
next solar cycle than has been observed in recent memory.
This research was published in the Geophysical Research Letters, volume
32 on 11 January 2005 (L01104, doi:10.1029/2004GL021664, 2005) by the
American Geophysical Union.
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23 Mar 2006 12:49:03 AM |
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Inuit alarmed by signs of global warming
'Sentries for the rest of the world' report massive changes to Arctic
life
Updated: 8:33 a.m. ET March 22, 2006
PANGNIRTUNG, Canada - Thirty miles from the Arctic Circle, hunter Noah
Metuq feels the Arctic changing. Its frozen grip is loosening; the
people and animals who depend on its icy reign are experiencing a
historic reshaping of their world.
Fish and wildlife are following the retreating ice caps northward.
Polar bears are losing the floes they need for hunting. Seals, unable
to find stable ice, are hauling up on islands to give birth. Robins and
barn owls and hornets, previously unknown so far north, are arriving in
Arctic villages.
The global warming felt by wildlife and increasingly documented by
scientists is hitting first and hardest here, in the Arctic where the
Inuit people make their home. The hardy Inuit -- described by one of
their leaders as "sentries for the rest of the world" -- say this
winter was the worst in a series of warm winters, replete with alarms
of the quickening transformation that many scientists believe will
spread from the north to the rest of the globe.
The Inuit -- with homelands in Alaska, Canada, Greenland and northern
Russia -- saw the signs of change everywhere. Metuq hauled his fishing
shack onto the ice of Cumberland Sound last month, as he has every
winter, confident it would stay there for three months. Three days
later, he was astonished to see the ice break up, sweeping away his
shack and $6,000 of turbot fishing gear.
In Nain, Labrador, hunter Simon Kohlmeister, 48, drove his snowmobile
onto ocean ice where he had hunted safely for 20 years. The ice flexed.
The machine started sinking. He said he was "lucky to get off" and grab
his rifle as the expensive machine was lost. "Someday we won't have any
snow," he said. "We won't be Eskimos."
'It's getting very strange up here'
In Resolute Bay, Inuit people insisted that the dark arctic night was
lighter. Wayne Davidson, a longtime weather station operator, finally
figured out that a warmer layer of air was reflecting light from the
sun over the horizon. "It's getting very strange up here," he said.
"There's more warm air, more massive and more uniform."
Villagers say the shrinking ice floes mean they see hungry polar bears
more frequently. In the Hudson Bay village of Ivujivik, Lydia Angyiou,
a slight woman of 41, was walking in front of her 7-year-old boy last
month when she turned to see a polar bear stalking the child. To save
him, she charged with her fists into the 700-pound bear, which slapped
her twice to the ground before a hunter shot it, according to the
Nunatsiaq News.
In the Russian northernmost territory of Chukotka, the Inuit have
drilled wells for water because there is so little snow to melt.
Reykjavik, Iceland, had its warmest February in 41 years. In Alaska,
water normally sealed by ice is now open, brewing winter storms that
lash coastal and river villages. Federal officials say two dozen native
villages are threatened. In Pangnirtung, residents were startled by
thunder, rain showers and a temperature of 48 degrees in February, a
time when their world normally is locked and silent at minus-20
degrees.
"We were just standing around in our shorts, stunned and amazed, trying
to make sense of it," said one resident, Donald Mearns.
Confirmed by science
"These are things that all of our old oral history has never
mentioned," said Enosik Nashalik, 87, the eldest of male elders in this
Inuit village. "We cannot pass on our traditional knowledge, because it
is no longer reliable. Before, I could look at cloud patterns, or the
wind or even what stars are twinkling, and predict the weather. Now,
everything is changed."
The Inuit alarms, once passed off as odd stories, are earning
confirmation from science. Canada's federal weather service said this
month that the country had experienced its warmest winter since
measurements began in 1948. Some of the larger temperature increases
were in the arctic north.
"That is entirely consistent with the long-range forecasts that
indicate the effects of global warming will be most felt in the north,"
said Douglas Bancroft, director of Oceanography and Climate Science for
Canada's federal fisheries department.
"What we see is very clear. We are going to see a reduction in the
overall arctic ice. It doesn't mean it goes away. But it brings
profound changes," he said by telephone from Ottawa, the Canadian
capital. "Weather will get stormier because the more open water you
have, the easier it is for storms to brew up."
Bancroft said there would also be significant changes in the region's
ecosystems.
"You have species that adapted over 40,000 years to a certain regime,"
he said. "Some will make it, and some won't."
Animals in peril
Satellites at NASA have measured a meltdown of the ice sheets in
Greenland and Antarctica in the past decade. With other NASA data,
scientists in Boulder, Colo., say the retreat of the ice caps in 2006
may be as large as last year's, which they say was likely the biggest
in a century. Earth's average surface temperatures last year tied those
of 1998, the highest in more than a century, NASA says.
In this month's issue of the journal Science, a team of U.S. and
Canadian researchers said the Bering Sea was warming so much it was
experiencing "a change from arctic to subarctic conditions." Gray
whales are heading north and walruses are starving, adrift on ice floes
in water too deep for feeding. Warmer-water fish such as pollock and
salmon are coming in, the researchers reported.
Off the coast of Nova Scotia, ice on Northumberland Strait was so thin
and unstable this winter that thousands of gray seals crawled on
unaccustomed islands to give birth. Storms and high tides washed 1,500
newborn seal pups out to sea, said Jerry Conway, a marine mammal expert
for the federal fisheries department in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
"We are seeing dramatic changes in the weather systems," Conway said.
"To be honest, we don't really understand what are the potential
impacts. If you look back in history, there have been warming periods
that have gotten back to normal. But we don't know if that will happen
this time."
'The world is slowly disintegrating'
Metuq, the hunter, fears the worst. "The world is slowly
disintegrating," he said, inside his heated house in Pangnirtung, a
community of 1,200 perched on a dramatic union of mountain and fjord on
Baffin Island. Seal skins stretched on canvas dried outside his home.
The town remained treacherous. Rain in February had frozen solid, and
there had been almost no snow to cover it.
"They call it climate change," he said. "But we just call it breaking
up."
The troubles for the Inuit are ominous for everyone, says Sheila
Watt-Cloutier, head of the International Circumpolar Conference, an
organization for the 155,000 Inuit worldwide.
"People have become disconnected from their environment. But the Inuit
have remained through this whole dilemma, remained extremely connected
to its environment and wildlife," she said. "They are the early
warning. They see what's happening to the planet, and give the message
to the rest of the world."
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24 Mar 2006 12:58:43 AM |
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Just in case the environmentalists are right for once ...
Global warming is a particularly knotty problem for several reasons.
First, it is even more complex than most other scientific
controversies and requires a very broad range of experts. Second, for
the past few decades there has been a belief in some quarters that
industrial civilization is a Crime against Nature and we must be made
to pay. Third, once every blue moon or so, those people get something
right (they were right about lead --- which can cause brain damage and
voting for Democrats). Fourth, the belief in the environmentalist
faith tends to be cumulative; acceptance of dubious ideas ideas on
acid rain etc. is used as a precendent for accepting other dubious
theories. This means if the GW hysteria is wrong we can't let them get
away with assuming it is indubitable. OTOH, if they turn out to have
some proof and are resisted anyway that could also be used as a
precedent. Fifth, the extreme complexity means it is possible to
gerrymander the expert advice. We might have theorists telling us the
statistics prove the case and statisticians telling us the theory is
solid. We can also have people summarizing things by telling us the
truth, the half truth, and nothing but the truth.
I doubt if it is possible for the average citizen (or even the average
on-line addict) to make an informed decision. The best we can hope for
is trying to eliminate so-called "experts" who are using this as an
excuse for an anti-industrial revolution. The good news is we have a
method.
Nuclear energy.
If the worst-case analysis is even close to truth, that can be used to
push through nuclear energy schemes. (If solar energy etc. can solve
the problem easily, that means the worst-case analysis was false.) If
every government has a set policy of using nuclear energy as an
alternative to regulation, the environmentalist wackos will back off
from their most extreme claims and maybe real experts will be able to
decide. If they back off we'll know it was a bluff and if they
continue anyway we'll know they're sincere.
The political problems involved in deregulating nukes are minute
compared with the regimentation needed to suppress fossil fuels. In
any case, the political problems are due to the fact that the People
think the Experts oppose nuclear energy and the Experts think the
People oppose nuclear energy.
GO NUKES!
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25 Mar 2006 11:25:52 PM |
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WARNING WARNING WARNING!
People don't seem to realise how hot it will get once the ice has
melted due to global warming. With large sheets of ice falling into the
sea, the true extent of the build up of heat is hidden from a world
that is ever increasing it's energy needs resulting in the heating up
of the atmosphere.
Ice water reduces heat far better then ice by itself and even with that
increase level of cooling with the extra ice in the water, we are still
getting the hottest years in recorded history!
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Revelation 16:8-9 (KJV)
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was
given unto him to scorch men with fire. 9 And men were scorched(a) with
great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these
plagues: and they repented not to give him glory. [1]
a scorched: or, burned
End times:
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27 Mar 2006 09:50:15 AM |
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Polar Ice Caps Are Melting Faster Than Ever... More And More Land Is
Being Devastated By Drought... Rising Waters Are Drowning Low-Lying
Communities... By Any Measure, Earth Is At ... The Tipping Point
The climate is crashing, and global warming is to blame. Why the crisis
hit so soon--and what we can do about it
By JEFFREY KLUGER
Posted Sunday, Mar. 26, 2006
No one can say exactly what it looks like when a planet takes ill, but
it probably looks a lot like Earth. Never mind what you've heard about
global warming as a slow-motion emergency that would take decades to
play out. Suddenly and unexpectedly, the crisis is upon us.
It certainly looked that way last week as the atmospheric bomb that was
Cyclone Larry--a Category 5 storm with wind bursts that reached 180
m.p.h.--exploded through northeastern Australia. It certainly looked
that way last year as curtains of fire and dust turned the skies of
Indonesia orange, thanks to drought-fueled blazes.
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Luke 21:7-28 (KJV)
7 And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be?
and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass? 8 And
he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my
name, saying, I am Christ; and the time(a) draweth near: go ye not
therefore after them. 9 But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions,
be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end
is not by and by. 10 Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against
nation, and kingdom against kingdom:
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and
pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from
heaven.
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the
stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea
and the waves roaring;
26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those
things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be
shaken. 27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud
with power and great glory. 28 And when these things begin to come to
pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth
nigh.
a and the time: or, and, The time
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29 Mar 2006 09:45:44 PM |
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We should consider the word of the Lord - Mat 24:7-8
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:
and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in
divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Psa 91:5-8 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for
the arrow that flieth by
day; Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the
destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy
side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh
thee. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of
the wicked.
Mark Woolhouse did give some profound confirmations about the
pestilences of which the Lord Jesus Christ warned would be a sign of
the last days of the great tribulation immediately before He would
send His angels to gather His elect IMMEDATELY AFTER the tribulation
of those days. Woolhouse said NEW infectious diseases are now
emerging at an exceptional rate. Humans are accumulating new
pathogens at a rate of one per year. Woohouse went on to say at this
2006 meeting of bio-scientists that this meant that agencies and
governments would have to work harder than ever before to keep on
top of the threat.
Most of these new infectious diseases, such as avian influenza and
HIV/Aids, are coming from other animals. "This accumulation of new
pathogens has been going on for millennia - this is how we acquired
TB, malaria, smallpox," said Woolhouse. "But at the moment, this
accumulation does seem to be happening very fast. So it seems there
is something special about modern times - these are good times for
pathogens to be invading the human population."
Professor Woolhouse has catalogued more than 1,400 different agents
of disease in humans; and every year, scientists are discovering one
or two new ones. Some may have been around for a long time and have
only just come to light. Others that have emerged recently are
entirely new, such as HIV; the virus that causes Sars, and the agent
of vCJD (mad cow desease). The difference today, say researchers, is
the way humans are interacting with other animals in their
environment.
Dan 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book,
even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and
knowledge shall be increased. This running to and fro globally with
modern air travel is a factor. The things Woolhouse said confirm
that as well. The global air travel is an important driver as well
as global trade and hospitalization. The fast rate at which
pathogens are appearing means public health experts will need to
work harder than ever to control the spread of emerging disease
threats.
"The sort of image I want to get away from is the famous statement
from the 1960s when the US Surgeon General said, 'diseases were
beat'," said Woolhouse. He went on to say "Pathogens are evolving
ways to combat our control methods. The picture is changing and
looks as if it will continue to. We're going to have to run as fast
as we can to stay in the same place. We need surveillance.
Surveillance in most parts of the world for infectious disease is
really quite poor - particularly surveillance for infectious
diseases in animals such as vermin like rats."
Woolhouse noted that we're under assault not only from those novel
species, but also from NEW genetic variants of pathogens that have
been with us for a long time.
A recent tally identified 1,415 disease-causing microbes in humans,
including bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasitic worms. We share
fully 61 percent of those pathogens with other animal species. Of
the total, 175 cause "emerging diseases" -- ones not known until
recently in humans. Of those, 75 percent came out of other animals
to invade Homo sapiens.
The impact of species-jumping pathogens varies. Hendra virus moved
from fruit bats to horses in 1994 and is known to have killed a
total of only three people. Since the 1970s, the Ebola virus has
incited some horrifying outbreaks that, so far, have failed to blow
up into epidemics. Influenza viruses usually cause a lower mortality
rate but hit far more people; currently, an H5N1 "bird flu" strain
threatens to break that pattern by staging an encore of the 1918-19
killer flu pandemic that killed 50 million to 100 million people.
HIV/AIDS is both chronically widespread and deadly, now accounting
for almost a fourth of infectious disease deaths.
Have "emerging" species-jumping diseases actually been with us for
millennia, identified only when medical research achieves sufficient
precision in detecting and identifying microbes? Durland Fish,
professor at the Yale School of Public Health, says that better
research is part of it, but there still appears to be a faster rate
of disease appearance these days. He said, "Dr. Woolhouse makes an
interesting point: that 'emerging disease' is a new concept but a
very old process. Humans have always acquired new diseases." We're
being hit more frequently today than in previous eras, he says,
partly because "transportation, trade, human population growth, and
environmental change are going on at unprecedented rates."
Only be very strong and of good courage. It shall be well with the
righteous in judgment. Stay IN the Word.
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31 Mar 2006 10:08:53 PM |
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Pacific Ocean getting warmer, more acidic
SEATTLE, March 31 (UPI) -- Testing by U.S. scientists finds that the
Pacific Ocean is getting warmer and more acidic, while the amount of
oxygen is decreasing.
Scientists with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory and the University of
Washington say the ocean is becoming increasingly acidic because of its
absorption of carbon dioxide, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported
Friday.
"You don't have to believe in climate change to believe that this is
happening," said Joanie Kleypas, an oceanographer with the University
Corporation for Atmospheric Research, a non-profit organization based
in Boulder, Colo. "Acidification is more frightening than a lot of the
climate change issues."
Carbon dioxide is a byproduct of burning fossil fuels and in the past
200 years, the ocean has absorbed about half of what's been released
into the atmosphere, the scientists say.
The pH of the saltwater has dropped 0.025 units since the early 1990s,
the pH scale is exponential, so a one-unit drop is a 10-fold decrease,
therefore the new measurement puts the ocean on track for a dramatic
decline by the end of the century, the scientists say.
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Revelation 16:3-6 (KJV)
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became
as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea. 4
And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains
of waters; and they became blood. 5 And I heard the angel of the waters
say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be,
because thou hast judged thus. 6 For they have shed the blood of saints
and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are
worthy.
End times
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02 Apr 2006 01:43:14 PM |
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On 31 Mar 2006 20:08:53 -0800,
<> wrote:
Pacific Ocean getting warmer, more acidic
It's a hot and sour soup?
BTW, won't you feel embarrassed when global warming is reversed with
nuclear power?
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03 Apr 2006 11:11:00 PM |
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Tornadoes, hail hit south, central U.S.; 27 dead
At least 23 deaths in Tennessee; 17 people in critical condition
Updated: 7:54 p.m. ET April 3, 2006
NEWBERN, Tenn. - Thunderstorms packing tornadoes and hail as big as
softballs ripped through eight states, killing at least 27 people,
injuring scores and destroying hundreds of homes in the South and
Midwest. At least 17 others were in critical condition.
Tennessee was hit hardest, with tornadoes striking five western
counties Sunday and killing 23 people, including an infant and his
grandparents and a family of four.
Most of the deaths were along a 25-mile path stretching from Newbern,
about 80 miles northeast of Memphis, to Bradford, officials said. The
Highway Patrol sent teams with search dogs to the area Monday to check
what remained of damaged homes and businesses for anyone who might be
trapped in the rubble.
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Revelation 16:17-21 (GNT)
17 Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl in the air. A loud voice
came from the throne in the temple, saying, "It is done!" 18There
were flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder, and a
terrible earthquake. There has never been such an earthquake since the
creation of the human race; this was the worst earthquake of all! 19The
great city was split into three parts, and the cities of all countries
were destroyed. God remembered great Babylon and made her drink the
wine from his cup-the wine of his furious anger. 20All the islands
disappeared, all the mountains vanished. 21Huge hailstones, each
weighing as much as fifty kilogrammes(45 pounds), fell from the sky on
people, who cursed God on account of the plague of hail, because it was
such a terrible plague.
End times
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