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  • Spain suffering worst drought ever
    5 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Spain suffering worst drought ever Mon 5 Feb 2007 4:44 AM ET
    By Julia Hayley
    MADRID, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Jose Maria Macias has been in the water business for the best part of four decades and cannot remember a drought as bad as the one Spain is suffering now.
    "We are going through a terrible drought. This is the third year of it and it’s probably the worst there has been in Spain," he told Reuters in an interview on Friday.
    Macias is president of the Tagus water basin, which (…)

  • Has the White House interfered on global warming reports?
    31 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    A new report claims that the Bush administration has suppressed scientists’ climate-change work. By Peter N. Spotts | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
    More than 120 scientists across seven federal agencies say they have been pressured to remove references to "climate change" and "global warming" from a range of documents, including press releases and communications with Congress. Roughly the same number say appointees altered the meaning of scientific findings on climate (…)

  • £4bn to stop big drought killing heart of Australia
    30 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bernard Lagan in Sydney
    Huge bill to fix leaking pipes Canberra to take control of rivers
    As Australia’s drought deepens, ruining farms, leaving towns without water and causing thousands of city homes to crack as the soil dries out, John Howard, the Prime Minister, announced a radical A$10.5 billion (£4 billion) programme to restore the nation’s dwindling rivers.
    Mr Howard declared the viability of the vast Murray-Darling Basin at risk and announced that the Government would take over (…)

  • Planet Earth in Peril: ALERT EVERYONE! Time for Radical Change...
    22 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "We are trading lives for oil." Former US Senator Gary Hart, CFR Representative
    PLANET EARTH IN PERIL: ALERT EVERY PERSON YOU KNOW!
    I’m contstantly astonishing at the lack of response by the human society, with all of its specializations & preoccupations— to the growing planetary SURVIVAL crisis.
    I mean what the hell good is your popularity, your bank accounts, your nicely shined car, your sports team victory or the size of your hard drive— when the planet is going to be turned (…)

  • Climate Change vs Mother Nature: Scientists reveal that bears have stopped hibernating
    21 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published: 21 December 2006
    Bears have stopped hibernating in the mountains of northern Spain, scientists revealed yesterday, in what may be one of the strongest signals yet of how much climate change is affecting the natural world.
    In a December in which bumblebees, butterflies and even swallows have been on the wing in Britain, European brown bears have been lumbering through the forests of Spain’s Cantabrian mountains, when normally they would already be in their long, annual sleep. (…)

  • Today, 13.12.06, Large Tsunami Shock Wave ocurred again on the Sun
    13 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Today, 13.12.06, Large Tsunami Shock Wave ocurred again on the Sun
    http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

  • Powerful Magnetic Storm Approaches the Earth
    9 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The largest electromagnetic energy emission in the last 30 years has been recorded on the Sun, the Shernberg State Astronomy Institute said on Thursday. This energy outburst may damage equipment of space satellites, the scientists say. Doctors warn that the emission is dangerous for those afflicted with cardiovascular illnesses as well as for healthy people.
    Scientists at the Shernberg Astronomy Institute of the Moscow State University have reported record-high emissions of (…)

  • Al Gore: Can a grass roots movement compel him to run in 2008?
    2 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Al Gore: Can a grass roots movement compel him to run in 2008? By Mary MacElveen December 2, 2006
    In watching this YouTube.com video feed titled, Al Gore on stopping global warming in which he was interviewed by Larry King there is a comparison to what Al Gore has been doing to that of Newt Gingrich’s tactics to reach out to the grass roots level. Before you deck me for even comparing the two, please take note of Gingrich’s quote made the other night concerning freedom of speech as it (…)

  • Global growth in carbon emissions is ’out of control’
    13 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Global growth in carbon emissions is ’out of control’
    By Steve Connor Science Editor
    Published: 11 November 2006
    The growth in global emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels over the past five years was four times greater than for the preceding 10 years, according to a study that exposes critical flaws in the attempts to avert damaging climate change.
    Data on carbon dioxide emissions shows that the global growth rate was 3.2 per cent in the five years to 2005 compared with (…)

  • WELCOME TO ARMAGEDDON!..The World’s Greatest Threatss
    2 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Many of these stories, which are of vital concern to every soul on earth, are ignored, and not covered by the media.
    In no order, the most severe threats to the world and the existence of all.
    1. Depleted Uranium. Spread by Allied forces in Kosovo, and then in the Gulf War and now in Iraq,through tank shells, this deadly dust-embedded substance has caused thousands of still and deformed births, as well as thousands of cases of Leukemia in the general population and in troops returning (…)