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  • Climate change: On the edge
    19 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Greenland ice cap breaking up at twice the rate it was five years ago, says scientist Bush tried to gag
    By Jim Hansen
    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 the media about these issues following a (…)

  • Global warming: passing the ’tipping point’
    13 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Our special investigation reveals that critical rise in world temperatures is now unavoidable
    By Michael McCarthy
    A crucial global warming "tipping point" for the Earth, highlighted only last week by the British Government, has already been passed, with devastating consequences.
    Research commissioned by The Independent reveals that the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has now crossed a threshold, set down by scientists from around the world at a conference in Britain (…)

  • One million drawings.
    10 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Our goal is to compile one million drawings during 2006 in order to send a strong visual and virtual message. It s about making a campaign to sensibilise people on the defence of the Earth (in the present and future), by making a fresco composed by one million drawings fram all over the World. Together we are going to express our refusal to the slow destruction of our planet.
    The participants: who are they? Their participation!
    The adventure is starting and is to be followed up daily. (…)

  • It’s capitalism or a habitable planet - you can’t have both
    5 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Our economic system is unsustainable by its very nature. The only response to climate chaos and peak oil is major social change
    by Robert Newman
    There is no meaningful response to climate change without massive social change. A cap on this and a quota on the other won’t do it. Tinker at the edges as we may, we cannot sustain earth’s life-support systems within the present economic system.
    Capitalism is not sustainable by its very nature. It is predicated on infinitely expanding (…)

  • Debate on Climate Shifts to Issue of Irreparable Change
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Some Experts on Global Warming Foresee ’Tipping Point’ When It Is Too Late to Act
    By Juliet Eilperin
    Now that most scientists agree human activity is causing Earth to warm, the central debate has shifted to whether climate change is progressing so rapidly that, within decades, humans may be helpless to slow or reverse the trend.
    This "tipping point" scenario has begun to consume many prominent researchers in the United States and abroad, because the answer could determine how (…)

  • Bush Regime at War with the Earth: Top NASA Scientist Says So
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Top NASA Scientist Warns Global Warming Is Here, Claims Censorship by Bush Regime Jan-29 2006
    NASA’s top climatologist accused officials President Bush’s administration of trying to keep secret a warning he issued about potentially catastrophic changes in Earth’s climate caused by rapidly rising levels of greenhouse gases. Do you think global warming is a real and present danger?
    Dr. James Hansen, 63, of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University’s Earth (…)

  • Pesticide Tests on Humans Approved by EPA
    25 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Pesticide Tests on Humans Approved by EPA
    In yet another example of how America’s industrial giants together with Federal Health officials "protect" the safety and health of its citizens, the EPA has now determined guidelines which will allow testing of insect poisons on humans too.
    Shocking? - not really - especially considering how dispensation of various toxins to people has been happening for quite some time in the U.S. Consider the carcinogen Aspartame - although banned in Japan, (…)

  • Chemtrails Fact or Fiction? Media is starting to report
    10 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    2 Media Outlets have started to report as well as other local news agencies.
    Viewpoint/Chemical trail fallout continues, but the truth is out there By Michael F. Williams The Tribune http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/living/13583252.htm
    Well, the jig is up. A small group of alert citizens in a remote coastal California county has pulled the curtain from over our Federal Chemtrail Program (FCP).
    Thanks to readers such as Richard Palmquist and the truthradio.com Web site he (…)

  • Why I’m Happy I Evolved
    2 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By OLIVIA JUDSON
    IF chimpanzees observed New Year’s Day, they would have much to reflect on. In 2005, they joined humans, chickens and mosquitoes, as well as less famous occupants of the planet, on an exclusive but growing list: organisms whose complete genomes have been sequenced.
    What would they make of this news, I wonder? Perhaps they would resent the genetic evidence that they are related to us. Or perhaps they would, as I do, revel in being part of the immensity of nature and a (…)

  • 10 Good Things about Another Bad Year
    1 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Medea Benjamin
    As we close this year, a year in which we were pummeled by the Iraq war, attacks on our civil rights, and Mother Nature’s fury of hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis, there is no shortage of reasons to feel bruised and beaten. But to start the New Year with a healthy determination to keep on fighting, we need to reflect on the good things that happened. And there are plenty.
    One continent alone - South America - could provide more than ten examples of wonderful (…)