Ways to Prevent Global Warming

Three years ago, images of immense destruction and poverty in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward filled the television screens of Americans following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Now, Jindal and others in the area are keeping a close watch on Tropical Storm Gustav, which is barreling in their direction. Though the storm’s path hasn’t been confirmed, it is expected to turn into a Category 3 hurricane and hit the Gulf Coast sometime Sunday. Jindal has already declared a state of emergency, and put 3,000 National Guard troops on alert, and New Orleans will issue a mandatory evacuation of the city if a Category 3 storm comes within 60 hours. Many area residents are blaming city and state officials for stalling the process, even as they hear about disaster relief plans like the $10. Despite all the money that has poured into the state for rebuilding the levees and protecting the city from future hurricanes, Jindal said it is just a drop in the bucket considering the city is only prepared for a Category 3 storm. read more

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Global warming activists are putting agriculture firmly in their crosshairs, launching new efforts to restrict meat production and consumption. Many analysts view the current criticism of agricultural products as quite ironic given the ongoing efforts by global warming activists to tell farmers they will make money from global warming legislation, through subsidies for wind power. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations attributes 18 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions to livestock. The latest attacks on agriculture follow a December 2006 report from the Livestock, Environment, and Development (LEAD) Initiative, supported by the World Bank, European Union, U. The report, titled “Livestock’s Long Shadow,” asserts the “livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global. Almost all religions require sacrifices, some including dietary restrictions, and now global warming has its own dietary restrictions,” said Lewis. read more

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Associate Professor David Nolan and postdoctoral researcher Eric Rappin of the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science developed the new computer model for evaluating hurricane frequency and formation in present and future tropical climates. The scientists said current computer simulations of global climate change represent the coarsest features of hurricanes, and thus might be in error. Nolan and Rappin said they created a more precise computer model. As the water temperature increased, the effectiveness of the wind shear in suppressing hurricane formation actually became greater. The simulations suggest that in a global warming world, there would be fewer hurricanes, but those that do form could become stronger. The study that included Professor Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was reported in the July issue of the journal Geophysical Research Letters. read more

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Last time (and the time before), Australia finished fourth in the medal table and we finished 10th. THE International Olympic Committee gave China the Games because it knew that only the wilder shores of politics could possibly fuel its bizarre four-yearly extravaganza. GREEN groups are particularly misguided in their criticism of the major developing economies of India, China, Mexico and Brazil for not committing to greenhouse gas cuts. Global warming has been caused solely by Western nations which, on the back of cheap energy, massively increased the prosperity of their people while at the same time refusing to share the largesse with the largely hungry Third World. If Western nations are genuinely concerned by the global impact of global warming, they need to compensate the developing world for fossil fuel restraint. It is time to consign to the non-recycling bin the spurious green mantra that people in developing nations will also benefit from curbing global warming. read more

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Environmental advocates have accused the Bush administration of delaying the release of the 149-page report so that it could avoid regulating greenhouse gases. They claimed that the Bush administration has worked to discourage a link between public health and climate change, fearing this would compel the government to regulate greenhouse gases. Telegraph, the report was prepared as part of a response to a 2007 supreme court ruling under the Clean Air Act, which found the Environmental Protection Agency must regulate greenhouse gases unless there was a scientific reason not to. The paper says that the report lays out for the first time the scientific case for the grave risks that warming poses to people, and to the food, energy and water on which society depends. On Friday, the White House dismissed the scientists’ findings, when it said the Clean Air Act was the wrong tool to control global warming pollution and said that a new law, which dealt solely with global warming, was needed. read more

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Experts said global warming specifically caused loss of 21 per cent of medicinal plants and 25 per cent of pasture plants. Research into climate change and grazing in northeastern Qinghai-Tibet plateau had shown the decrease in plant species, Julia Klein, a US Colorado State University Assistant Professor who led the research said. The experts warning came at a joint meeting of the International Rangeland Congress and the Internatonal Grassland Congress during their week-long meet at Hohhot, capital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, which concluded on Saturday, official Xinhua news agency said. The research was carried out at four sites at the Haibei Alpine Research Station where annual temperature is minus 2 degress Celsius and the elevation is 3,200 metres. read more

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The world's developed countries should take the lead in the battle against global warming and push for halving global emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, the group of business leaders said Friday. TOKYO (AP) — The world’s developed countries should take the lead in the battle against global warming and push for halving global emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, a group of business leaders said Friday. The World Economic Forum, in proposals presented to Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, also urged the Group of Eight countries — which are holding a summit in Japan in July — to set nearer-term reduction goals. Japan has pledged to reduce its emissions of greenhouse gases, which are blamed for the rising of world temperatures, by between 60 percent and 80 percent by 2050, but has not set an interim target. The group also called for the setting of an interim “milestone” as part of a new international global warming pact scheduled to be completed in 2009, but mentioned a more modest range of cuts between 14 percent and 35 percent by 2030. read more

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T he stark realities of global warming and subsequent rising sea-levels are appearing to begin to have major effects on small Caribbean and Pacific Islands nations, with the latest stark call for assistance coming from the President of the Pacific Islands nation of Kiribati. President Atone Tong recently said during a visit to New Zealand that Kiribati, as a nation, may no longer exist in 60 years and that Kiribati’s population of 90,000 may have move elsewhere much earlier than within the 60-year timeframe in order to survive. Immediate solutions would be either desalination or fresh water shipments from other countries but longer-term solutions will have to be evacuation of the various populations of those islands. Some of the solutions are technically viable depending on population size and location while for other islands or island groups, the only ultimate solution seems to be for the population to move off them. The sad part is that, apart from being some of the world’s most beautiful countries, the local inhabitants of these island states have been on their islands for many, many generations and having to move away from their homelands will be very sad indeed. read more

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Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne said today he will list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. That will provide polar bears with a variety of protective measures from the federal government, though under the terms outlined by Kempthorne there will be provisions to allow continuing exploration for oil and gas in the Arctic seas where the bears live. Advocacy groups had called for the bears to be protected, not from hunters or developers, but on the grounds that their habitat was threatened by global warming. Geological Survey and other agencies, predicting that without action, melting sea ice in the Arctic might wipe out two thirds of the polar bear population by 2050. Opponents argued that the Endangered Species Act is a clumsy tool for protecting the environment because it places needless restrictions in an area where a species lives. In public statements it argued, “The rapid warming of the Arctic and melting of the sea ice pose an overwhelming threat to the polar bear, already suffering starvation, drowning and population declines as its sea-ice habitat melts away. read more

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