Old Project Avalon Forum (ARCHIVE) - View Single Post - Mankind & Earth: the Necessary Ingredients for a Responsible Love Story

RaKaR · 03-15-2009, 08:58 AM

YES, IT IS RELATED!

FIGU ENGLISH DISCUSSIONBOARD, Saturday, 14 March, 2009.

Member Corey - slightly edited:

[...]
"It seems so easy to now believe the Plejarens and Billy about the ice caps melting before our very eyes; but why does no one take their word for it about closing down US bases?
And it is not just their sentiments anymore!
I recently found this article: http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5903
where they too share the same opinion.*

THE CLIMATE IS BREAKING DOWN! THE CATASTROPHE IS LOOMING!

Enough is it not?"

We say:
"YES, dear Corey, it is certainly enough. WE HAVE TO ACT AND ACT NOW TO SAVE WHAT CAN STILL BE SAVED!"

The articles mentioned above are:
- http://news.yahoo.com/s/wcom/2009031...ane_season2008

"Hurricane season 2008, unlike 2006 and 2007, was a shift back to the years of numerous damaging and deadly U.S. and Caribbean storms and hurricanes; so far 883 direct deaths and 99 indirect deaths have been documented. Sixteen named storms formed, 8 became hurricanes of which 5 became major hurricanes. These numbers are very close to the 1995 to 2008 average of 15, 8 and 4, respectively rounded to the nearest whole number. Similar to the busy 2004 hurricane season there were numerous tropical cyclone strikes on the U.S. coastline."[...]

- http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/03/13-0

Published on Friday, March 13, 2009 by The Guardian/UK

CLIMATE CHANGE? TRY, CLIMATE BREAKDOWN

What's clear from Copenhagen is that policymakers have fallen behind the scientists: global warming is already catastrophic

by George Monbiot

The more we know, the grimmer it gets.

"Presentations by climate scientists at this week's conference in Copenhagen show that we might have underplayed the impacts of global warming in three important respects:

. Partly because the estimates by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) took no account of meltwater from Greenland's glaciers, the rise in sea levels this century could be twice or three times as great as it forecast, with grave implications for coastal cities, farmland and freshwater reserves.
. Two degrees of warming in the Arctic (which is heating up much more quickly than the rest of the planet) could trigger a massive bacterial response in the soils there. As the permafrost melts, bacteria are able to start breaking down organic material that was previously locked up in ice, producing billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide and methane. This could catalyse one of the world's most powerful positive feedback loops: warming causing more warming.
. Four degrees of warming could almost eliminate the Amazon rainforests, with appalling implications for biodiversity and regional weather patterns, and with the result that a massive new pulse of carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere. Trees are basically sticks of wet carbon. As they rot or burn, the carbon oxidises. This is another way in which climate feedbacks appear to have been underestimated in the last IPCC report."[...]

* See:http://www.projectavalon.net/forum/s...ad.php?t=11411
for 'closing down US bases' - the relation between the US foreign policy and the issue of world peace and security.

Thanks, member Corey.

Salome.

03-15-2009, 08:58 AM	#29
RaKaR Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 285	Re: Mankind & Earth: the Necessary Ingredients for a Responsible Love Story YES, IT IS RELATED! FIGU ENGLISH DISCUSSIONBOARD, Saturday, 14 March, 2009. Member Corey - slightly edited: [...] "It seems so easy to now believe the Plejarens and Billy about the ice caps melting before our very eyes; but why does no one take their word for it about closing down US bases? And it is not just their sentiments anymore! I recently found this article: http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5903 where they too share the same opinion.* THE CLIMATE IS BREAKING DOWN! THE CATASTROPHE IS LOOMING! Enough is it not?" We say: "YES, dear Corey, it is certainly enough. WE HAVE TO ACT AND ACT NOW TO SAVE WHAT CAN STILL BE SAVED!" The articles mentioned above are: - http://news.yahoo.com/s/wcom/2009031...ane_season2008 "Hurricane season 2008, unlike 2006 and 2007, was a shift back to the years of numerous damaging and deadly U.S. and Caribbean storms and hurricanes; so far 883 direct deaths and 99 indirect deaths have been documented. Sixteen named storms formed, 8 became hurricanes of which 5 became major hurricanes. These numbers are very close to the 1995 to 2008 average of 15, 8 and 4, respectively rounded to the nearest whole number. Similar to the busy 2004 hurricane season there were numerous tropical cyclone strikes on the U.S. coastline."[...] - http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/03/13-0 Published on Friday, March 13, 2009 by The Guardian/UK CLIMATE CHANGE? TRY, CLIMATE BREAKDOWN What's clear from Copenhagen is that policymakers have fallen behind the scientists: global warming is already catastrophic by George Monbiot The more we know, the grimmer it gets. "Presentations by climate scientists at this week's conference in Copenhagen show that we might have underplayed the impacts of global warming in three important respects: . Partly because the estimates by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) took no account of meltwater from Greenland's glaciers, the rise in sea levels this century could be twice or three times as great as it forecast, with grave implications for coastal cities, farmland and freshwater reserves. . Two degrees of warming in the Arctic (which is heating up much more quickly than the rest of the planet) could trigger a massive bacterial response in the soils there. As the permafrost melts, bacteria are able to start breaking down organic material that was previously locked up in ice, producing billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide and methane. This could catalyse one of the world's most powerful positive feedback loops: warming causing more warming. . Four degrees of warming could almost eliminate the Amazon rainforests, with appalling implications for biodiversity and regional weather patterns, and with the result that a massive new pulse of carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere. Trees are basically sticks of wet carbon. As they rot or burn, the carbon oxidises. This is another way in which climate feedbacks appear to have been underestimated in the last IPCC report."[...] * See:http://www.projectavalon.net/forum/s...ad.php?t=11411 for 'closing down US bases' - the relation between the US foreign policy and the issue of world peace and security. Thanks, member Corey. Salome.