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  • Climate Data Hint at Irreversible Rise in Seas
    24 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Friday, March 24, 2006 by the New York Times
    by Andrew C. Revkin
    Within the next 100 years, the growing human influence on Earth’s climate could lead to a long and irreversible rise in sea levels by eroding the planet’s vast polar ice sheets, according to new observations and analysis by several teams of scientists.
    One team, using computer models of climate and ice, found that by about 2100, average temperatures could be four degrees higher than today and that over the (…)

  • Antarctica Cannot Replace Ice Loss
    22 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Study finds continent is shrinking faster than it can grow. Experts say changes to the global water cycle could hasten the pace of sea-level rise.
    By Robert Lee Hotz
    The ice sheets of Antarctica - the world’s largest reservoir of fresh water - are shrinking faster than new snow can fall, scientists reported Thursday in the first comprehensive satellite survey of the entire continent.
    Researchers at the University of Colorado determined that between 2002 and 2005 Antarctica lost ice at (…)

  • ’There Is No Such Thing as Bird Flu’ says German Virologist
    18 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Airborne Menace
    ”[We’re being asked to believe] that migratory birds in Asia have been infected with an extremely dangerous, deadly virus. These mortally diseased birds then keep flying for weeks on end. They fly thousands of kilometres, and then in Romania, in Turkey, Greece and elsewhere infect hens, geese or other poultry, with which they have had no contact, and which within a very short time get diseased and die.
    But the migratory birds do not get diseased and do not die, but (…)

  • Rumsfeld Profits From Bird Flu Scare
    18 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Fortune Magazine/Nelson D. Schwartz
    A year ago Tamiflu was known, if at all, as an obscure remedy for influenza, which doctors typically treat with bed rest and chicken soup. Today, with panic mounting over a potential bird flu pandemic, it’s the most sought-after drug in the world, as everyone from suburban soccer moms in the U.S. to health officials in London and Taipei scramble to stockpile the pill. At the moment, it seems, virtually the entire world is on sick-chicken alert.
    "One (…)

  • Ice Retreats in Arctic for 2nd Year; Some Fear Most of It Will Vanish
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 by the San Francisco Chronicle by Andrew Revkin For the second year in a row, the cloak of sea ice on the Arctic Ocean failed to grow to its normal winter expanse, scientists said yesterday. The finding led some climate experts to predict a record expansion of open water this summer.
    "We keep looking for the ice to recover, but it isn’t," said Mark C. Serreze, a senior scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., which (…)

  • Experimental weather modification bill - fast tracking - for passage in US Senate ...
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Rosalind Peterson
    March 11, 2006 Venus Project
    U.S. Senate Bill 517 and U.S. House Bill 2995, a bill that would allow experimental weather modification by artificial methods and implement a national weather modification policy, does not include agriculture or public oversight, is on the “fast track” to be passed early in 2006.
    This bill is designed to implement experimental weather modification. The appointed Board of Directors established by this bill does not include any (…)

  • Amazonia: Where All Life Matters
    12 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By JULIA KENDLBACHER Counterpunch
    They came from the deepest forest, gathered at the two harbors of Porto Velho in Rondônia and Belém in Pará and finally reached the center of Amazonia, Manaus. They came together to celebrate the 20th anniversary at the annual conference of the Conselho Nacional dos Seringueiros (CNS), organization of the famous Chico Mendes that until today is fighting for the rights of the rubber tappers and traditional populations of the rainforest. More than 350 (…)

  • Simpleton Says: With all the talk about the oceans rising maybe we should plan ahead
    2 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    why not solve 2 birds with one stone , if the oceans invariably are going to rise due to carbon emmissions or whatever are making the glaciers melt rapidly, why not start bulldozing transportation routes for boatfaring vehicles and use the excess ocean waters that would otherwize flood the lands ready to carve out the entry points when the ocean got high and have a whole transportation system that could be controlled by controlling the waterboats would need no fuel if you could keep the (…)

  • US state terrorism War on Terra - global warming, 2005 hottest year & Coalition passive genocide
    24 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The greed- and racism-driven US War on Terra (the Earth, humanity, us) for control of resources is currently being WON by UK-, Australian- & Coalition-backed US state terrorism. US, Australia and Canada are the world’s worst greenhouse gas polluters per capita and now NASA reports that 2005 was the hottest year in a century. The post-invasion avoidable mortality in Occupied Iraq and Afghanistan now totals 2.1 million (the under-5 infant mortality totalled 1.7 million). The global (…)

  • Greenland ice cap breaking up at twice the rate it was five years ago, says scientist Bush tried to
    19 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Climate change: On the edge Greenland ice cap breaking up at twice the rate it was five years ago, says scientist Bush tried to gag by: Jim Hansen on: 17th Feb, 06 A satellite study of the Greenland ice cap shows that it is melting far faster than scientists had feared - twice as much ice is going into the sea as it was five years ago. The implications for rising sea levels - and climate change - could be dramatic. Yet, a few weeks ago, when I - a Nasa climate scientist - tried to talk to (…)