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POPSMale tuataras face dateless futures Like many reptiles the ratio of males to females depends on the temperature. Many more creatures depend on a relatively stable temperature range to remain viable. All are part of a food chain. If a link is knocked out, the predator can starve, and the prey overpopulate. Evolution is a relatively slow process. If change happens too quickly, the creatures don't have time to adapt, and the link is knocked out. This can lead to the collapse of the food chain.
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POPSOcean review finds warming on the rise.
It isn't just that ice is melting that is making the sea level rise, it is also the fact that water expands as it heats. With the volume of water in the ocean - 2/3 of the Earth's surface is covered with water, even a small temperature increase can have a dramatic effect. The way the expansion, and melting are factored into the research reports can make them a lot clearer, and more accurate. While there are the best of intentions, regarding some kind of remedy, I don't remember anyone being able to literally turn back the tide, which seems like the bottom line. King Canute had a go, but he was trying to prove that point to some knucklehead courtiers, who'd flattered him. He knew they were full of hot air, but figured it was worth getting wet to see the look on their faces. Don't you hate it when a King calls your bluff. Still you can look at the bright side. The world is getting more like Venice every day. All you have to do is buy shares in a Gondola Company.
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POPSModern lifestyle compounds global warming We have to start changing the way that we live. This isn't a problem that is specific to any country in particular, but seems to be a 'side effect' of an 'improvement in living standards' across the world. Another case of where while it may be easy to point out a problem, but how this problem can be solved is completely beyond us. Where the intervention of the authorities is pointless, because it involves a change in lifestyle as a personal decision. There is also a general failure to recognize that the problems such as overconsumption of power, energy, and fuel, with obesity, and overeating, and over cultivating, so we will have trouble providing for ourselves, have a character that can be compared to many addictions. Beside the denial that there is a problem. The allusion that it is something beyond our control, yet somehow it will all work out in the end.
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POPSGlobal warming 'rescue' plan may backfire We can't predict the weather, yet solutions keep rising as to how we could 'fix' the weather. Most fixes also threaten 'side effects' that promise to be more complicated than the original problem. We seem to pretend we can dictate terms to nature, when it is clearly the other way around.
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POPSUN climate panel 'downplayed' tech need The United Nations panel for climate chance, included into it's calculations the idea that energy efficiency would increase over time. It was not specific as to how this was going to happen. Some people see scientists as Magicians with magic wands, when they are blind men with sticks. Very often when a scientist discovers something, they are at least as surprised as anyone else. Assuming there will be technological advance, is like promising money before it has been earned.
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POPSConvert your car to burn water+gasoline High Conversion, Few Refunds, Due To Huge Demand: Soaring Gas Prices Compel People To Save Gas!!! Popular D.i.y Watercar: Run Your Car Partially On Water, Reduce Emissions/Global Warming! Practical Free Energy Based On 1000s Of Real Cars Worldwide!!!
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POPSWarmer seas boosted cyclones by 40% They can't say this will mean global warming will lead to more of these extreme weather events in the future, but from their computer models, they know the weather will always be an unpredictable beast. Lucky we have all that ice in the ice caps to cool the seas down.
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POPSUN Warns of Biofuels' Environmental Risk There has been the prospect of biofuels causing food shortages, where food crops are replaced with biofuel crops, but there is the fact that biofuel crops like any other need large mounts of water to grow, with associated redirection of drinking water. There is the land required to grow them, and in Indonesia, Malaysia, and no doubt other countries, where forests can face threats, when they are cleared, to make room for expansion of palm oil plantations. These forests naturally store carbon, and are a key tool in the fight to reduce global warming. Is There Money in it ? Then it will happen. Then there is another prospect. An outbreak of pests and/or diseases could wipe out an entire plantation with one stroke. Then it will happen.
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POPSREALITY CHECK! There is a frightening new global trend of denial... Europeans think that they don't need to limit fishing... Car companies don't think they need to improve fuel economy standards... Bush thinks he can increase spending and cut taxes at the same time... Jingoists think we are winning the war in Iraq... Democrats think Hillary Clinton has enough experience to win an election... Polluters think that Global Warming won't really happen... Evangelicals think Jesus is coming back soon... Fundamentalists think they can win the war against modernity... The truth is: we're stuck with this world. The rules DO apply. No free passes. You have to face the music sometime. We must choose realism over comfortable delusion. Unfortunately, for now, wistful thinking will rule the day until we let it all collapse around us. Then we'll stand there scratching our heads saying: How could this happen?
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POPSDecision on listing Polar Bear postponed The Polar bear is clearly threatened, the big problem they seem to have with the reason seems to be beside the point. Unless it is is to divert the attention from the threat the Polar Bear is to the Oil and Mining industries. If you wait long enough, the problem will go away. There is no need to classify something as endangered, if it is extinct. How much has to die for the sake of a profit ?
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POPSUN Climate Chief to visit Antarctica Much of the ice that has built up over the land at the poles has been frozen fast to the land. As the climate warms, and sea level rises, a sheet of water can form between the ice and the land. Then, due to the buildup, and weight of the ice on the water, an ice sheet can slip into the ocean, creating turbulence, greater ocean volume, and an acceleration of the melt. Will we soon have a planet where there is no ice?
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POPSLoss of sea ice is harming walrus There is the restriction of walrus to the land when most of the rich feeding grounds, are offshore, where the walrus once used the ice as a platform. The same thing is endangering other species such as polar bears, and seals. The concentration of walrus and other animals on the land and the range that gives them has a detrimental effect in their local feeding, where overfeeding can strip the habitat of an available food source.
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POPSGlobal warming making more ice clouds Ice in the upper atmosphere extends in a continuous layer, from 82-88km (65-70miles). The clouds have been studied by scientists for the past 27 years, and the change in nature, and size of the clouds in the past few years has been significant. The clouds, which reflect the sunlight over the horizon, after sundown, are being seen for the first time from the ground, during the summer months in both the north and the south pole.
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POPShaha, Howard out... He's a bit of a poster boy for right wingers here in the UK. Anything that causes a thumb in the eye for 'em, is welcome.
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POPSUrea 'climate solution' may backfire Similar to the idea of seeding the ocean with iron, the project is being seen as a way of generating 'carbon credits' Independent scientists have called for further research, however the biggest hurdle seen by the companies seems to be arranging the approval of various national governments. I remember W.C Fields mentioning something about not drinking water because of fish urine. It's a wonder they need more. There is also significant runoff from fertilizer containing nitrates, ending up in the ocean. The company says it is researching but wants to protect 'intellectual property' Natural upswellings of nitrogen have been known to produce toxic blooms, and nitrous oxide, a more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2
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POPSScientists enhance nature's carbon handling mechanism When rock is weathered, CO2, in water percolates through soil and rocks and becomes alkaline. This alkaline water can hold carbon better as bicarbonate, will reduce the acidity, and some of the carbon remains in sediment that settles on the bottom.
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POPSWorld's coal dependency hits environment. Where do the products go, that the energy from coal in China is used to make? When China burns coal the damage is obvious, and it contributes to the pollution and global warming effects. All over the world including the U.S. The Chinese are using the U.S. as a Role Model. and Chinese coal use cannot deny the use of coal in other parts of the world including the U.S., particularly the per capita use. The Pollution? All toxins that are released into the environment, are being evenly distributed around the world. While there are 'hot spots' as time passes tests in the most unexpected places in the world are giving the same positive results. Chinese Acid rain and heavy metal pollution no doubt falls on other countries. as do the same pollutants in the U.S.
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POPSThink Tank: Climate Affects Security. People start to feel insecure when they can't breathe. They say 'Climate Scientists' underestimated how quickly the climate would change through fear of being alarmist. Now It's seen to be a threat to security, as 'Discovered' by the 'Think Tank' In the words of a septic tank "What a load of crap" The Deaf and Blind have decided to speak.
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POPSFires release tons of global warming gas They contributed as much as the U.S. in a week they don't mention that the U.S. does it 52 weeks a year. The implication may be that the fires contribution is above what industry produces, and so it is an 'imposition'. "If it wasn't for those fires, we'd have more 'freedom' to burn gasoline." Fires were burning long before gasoline.
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