So
You
think you know everything about global warming.
You
think Global Warming means just warmer days at the beach.
You
think Global Warming is just more bad weather.
You
think Global warming will not affect you.
You
think Global Warming is someone else’s problem.
Wrong
on all 5 counts!
You are about to learn the
frightening truth about Global Warming
Extinction of life
on Earth,
because of Climate Change/Global Change is now in the progress.
David
Suzuki says that 55,000 species a year are now going extinct
News Flash
Friday, 16 May 2008
Decimation
of life on earth
Species are
dying out at a rate not seen since the demise of the dinosaurs, according to
a report published today – and human behaviour is to blame.
Freshwater species
The world's species are declining at a rate "unprecedented
since the extinction of the dinosaurs", a census of the
animal kingdom has revealed. The Living Planet Index out today shows the
devastating impact of humanity as biodiversity has plummeted by almost a
third in the 35 years to 2005.
The report, produced by WWF, the Zoological Society of London
(ZSL) and the Global Footprint Network, says land species have declined by 25 per
cent, marine life by 28 per cent, and freshwater species by 29 per cent.
Jonathan Loh, editor of the report, said that such a sharp fall
was "completely unprecedented in terms of human history". "You'd
have to go back to the extinction of the dinosaurs to see a decline as rapid
as this," he added. "In terms of human lifespan we
may be seeing things change relatively slowly, but in terms of the world's
history this is very rapid."
And
"rapid" is putting it mildly. Scientists say the current extinction
rate is now up to 10,000 times faster than what has
historically been recorded as normal.
WE
MUST ACT NOW - TOGETHER
Extinction
is OUR choice, unless...
....
within the next 8 years we have STOPPED using
fossil fuels, PLANTED
millions of trees, ended logging,
and PREPARED our
cities and agriculture for the inevitable sea rise.
OTHERWISE OUR CHILDREN MAY NOT
SURVIVE
Say the Authors of
planetextinction.com
http://planetextinction.com/documents/Proof.pdf
Climate
Change, National Security and ethics - John James
www.planetextinction.com/documents/ethics.pdf
This is the core research on global warming, the proof that 2
degrees is inevitable, and the enormous ethical issues that are implied.
These need to be discussed now if we are to make rational decisions rather
than knee-jerk reactions.
Global Warming.
This is what it is
doing.
Stop the Clock on Extinction
a video message from Al Gore
Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction -Video
Warming may bring
mass extinctions: study
Updated Wed. Oct. 24 2007 7:53 AM ET
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- Whenever the world's tropical seas warm
several degrees, Earth has experienced mass extinctions over millions of
years, said a first-of-its-kind statistical study of fossil records.
And
scientists fear it may be about to happen again -- but in a matter of
several decades, not tens of millions of years.
'Humanity's very survival' is at risk, says UN
From The TimesOctober 26, 2007
Lewis Smith, Environment Reporter
The speed at which mankind has used the Earth’s resources over the past
20 years has put “humanity’s very survival” at risk, a study involving
1,400 scientists has concluded.
The environmental audit, for the United Nations, found that each
person in the world now requires a third more land to
supply his or her needs than the Earth can supply.
'No return' fears on climate change
THE world could be tracking towards
irreversible climate change as warming takes place much quicker than
previously thought, an Adelaide academic has warned.
Climate change expert Barry Brook, of Adelaide University, told
a Canberra conference — Imagining the Real Life on a Greenhouse Earth —
atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were headed towards 600 parts a million,
and forecast global temperature increases of up to
six degrees.
The Prophet Of Climate Change: James Lovelock
29 October, 2007
By Jeff Goodell
One of the most eminent scientists of our time says that global
warming is irreversible — and that more than 6 billion
people will perish by the end of the century
Environment
in Crisis: 'We Are Past the Point of No Return'
The world and human society face disaster to a worse extent, and
on a faster timescale, than almost anybody realises, James
Lovelock believes. He writes: " Before this century is over,
billions of us will die, and the few breeding pairs of people
that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable."
Largest mass extinction in 65 million years underway, scientists
say
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March 8, 2006
Environmental scientists say they have
concrete evidence that the planet is undergoing the "largest mass
extinction in 65 million years". Leading environmental scientist
Professor Norman Myers says the Earth is experiencing its "Sixth Extinction."
Scientists forecast that up to five million species will be lost this
century. "We are well into the opening phase of a mass extinction of
species. There are about 10 million species on earth. If we carry on as we
are, we could lose half of all those 10 million species," Myers said
Earth in middle of sixth mass extinction, half of its species
could be wiped out by 2100
Temperature rise preceded four of the five mass extinctions
Indian-origin scientist reveals it took Earth 30 million years
to recover from mass extinction
Details Of Historic Mass Extinction Of Amphibians
by Staff Writers
San Francisco CA (SPX) Aug 12, 2008
Amphibians, reigning survivors of past mass extinctions, are
sending a clear, unequivocal signal that something is wrong, as their
extinction rates rise to unprecedented levels, according to a paper published by the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Humans are
exacerbating two key natural threats - climate change and a deadly disease
that is jumping from one species to another.
The authors confront the question of whether Earth is experiencing its
sixth mass extinction and suggest that amphibians, as a case study for
terrestrial life, provide a clear answer.
"A general message from amphibians is that
we may have little time to stave off a potential mass extinction," write co-authors Vance
T. Vredenburg, assistant professor of biology at San Francisco State
University, and David B. Wake, curator of herpetology in the Museum of
Vertebrate Zoology at University of California, Berkeley, in the August 12
issue of PNAS.
Amphibians are among
the oldest organisms on earth, having survived the last four mass
extinctions. The current extinction rate of amphibians is cause for alarm, according to
biologists.
Crude Impact:
The Sixth Great Extinction Video
Quote
“Climate change won't
kill all of us—but it will dramatically reduce the human population through the
warming-driven spread of infectious
disease,
the collapse of agriculture in traditionally
fertile areas, and the increasing scarcity
of fresh drinking water.” said Ross Gelbspan, retired from a 30-year career as an
editor and reporter at The Philadelphia Bulletin, The
Washington Post, and The Boston Globe. He is author of
The Heat Is On and
Boiling Point, and he maintains the website
heatisonline.org.
Science
& Technology
A brevia in this weeks edition of the journal
Science (subscription) points out the climate is changing faster than we expected. The IPCC
scenario's for climate change begin in the year 1990, and predict the expected changes
into the future based on our best understanding of Earth's climate system.
The brevia compared our observations over the past 16 years with the
predictions from the IPCC. Some of this weeks findings include:
1. CO2 levels match expected levels- but
we got the details wrong of why this is the case, miscalculating our sink and
sources. Better lucky than good?
2. Global Mean Surface Temperature
Increase is at the high end of expected levels. The warming trend is
happening quicker than most expectations, for unknown reasons.
3. Sea Level Rise is faster than
expected. 2mm/year was expected but we have been getting our feet wet at
3.3mm/year (+/- 0.4).
Put together, the past 16 years have exceeded
our expectations for change. This doesn't mean rapid
change will continue to happen, but we could call these results a 'trend'. The IPCC has been criticized for exaggerating climate change
scenario's- but in light of the past 16 years- it looks
like the IPCC might have been too conservative.
As reported
in
yesterday's edition of The Independent, a series of stunning and worrisome
studies has just shown that global warming is accelerating three times more
rapidly than initially feared. The rate of increase of greenhouse gas
emissions has tripled since the 1990s, the Arctic ice caps are melting three
times as fast, and the oceans are rising twice as fast as had been originally
forecast.
CO2 Levels
are the highest that they have ever been
in 800,000 years
CLIMATE CHANGE: CO2 Levels Begin Accelerated Climb
By Stephen Leahy
BROOKLIN, Canada, Oct 26 (IPS) - Global warming has been compared to a slow-moving train wreck,
in which the passengers are blissfully unaware of the coming catastrophe.
With the shocking loss of the Arctic sea ice this summer and
several new reports this week that oceans and tropical forests are now
absorbing less of the world's steadily rising carbon emissions, our collective train wreck appears to have
already tipped into fast forward.
"Global warming is a big feature of our lives now. It
is no longer something that only future generations will have to cope
with," said Ted Scambos, senior research scientist at the National Snow
and Ice Data Centre in the U.S. city of Boulder, Colorado.
The major ecosystems that absorb carbon emissions from the
atmosphere are failing, and it is happening faster than anticipated, Scambos
told IPS.
Earth is on track to
hit this extinction-triggering warming point in about 100 years unless
greenhouse gas emissions are curbed, predicts Peter Mayhew of the
University of York in Britain.
"With less carbon being captured by the
oceans and forests, the future doesn't look good," said
Scambos.
The only hope now is major declines in emissions. If millions of people really push for major
cuts in emissions, change could happen very fast, he said.
"My biggest worry is that by not acting
soon enough, we won't have the resources to do more than keep our heads above
water," Scambos concluded.
Global Warming: Point of No Return?
Video
Video - 2050 How soon is now?
A 2004 Pentagon report warns the U.S.A.
President that an abrupt
climate change will take Planet Earth on the brink of anarchy and nuclear war for access to basics
resources like food and water.
'2050 How soon is now?' approaches the issue of Climate Change from the
perspective of the consequences for our civilization and the short time we
have to react.
You can find more information at
www.2050thedocumentary.com
and there is available
a blog space where to leave your point of view and read those of others.
UN report on global warming warns of irreversible impacts unless
action taken
Emissions must be reduced by 2050 to check global warming
London, Oct 12 :
Only the total
elimination of industrial emissions will succeed in limiting climate change to a two degrees rise
in temperature in the next century, a new computer analysis of climate change
has revealed.
Greenpeace holds industrialised nations responsible for global
warming
Global Warming "Tipping Points" Reached,
Scientist Says
Mason Inman in San Francisco,
California
for
National Geographic News
December 14, 2007
Earth has already crossed a number of climate change "tipping
points" at which today's levels of greenhouse gases will cause
additional large and rapid changes, a leading climate scientist said
yesterday.
Climate zones such as the tropics and temperate regions will continue to
shift, and the oceans will become more acidic, endangering much marine life,
he added. (Related:
"Climate
Change Pushing Tropics Farther, Faster"
[December 3, 2007].)
"I think in most
of these cases, we have already reached the tipping point," Hansen said.
"The very small
warming that's happened to date is having a large effect—pretty much
everywhere we look—on the ice of the planet," said Richard Alley of Pennsylvania State
University in University Park.
"It's
just been taken as a God-given fact that we're going to burn all these fossil
fuels and let the CO2 into the atmosphere, and you can't do that if you're
going to keep this planet resembling the one that we've had the last 10,000
years" Hansen said - NASA scientist
James Hansen talks about the urgency of the climate crisis-video
James Hansen on Climate Change –video
James Hansen concerned IPCC ignores danger of ice sheet melt –
video
It's too late to stop climate
change—so what do we do now?
As one prominent climate scientist
said recently, "We are seeing impacts today that we did not expect to
see until 2085."
Within the last two years, a number of leading scientists—including
Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC), British ecologist James Lovelock, and NASA scientist
James Hansen—have all declared that
humanity is about to pass or already has passed a "tipping point"
in terms of global warming. The IPCC, which reflects
the findings
of more than 2,000 scientists from over 100 countries, recently stated that
it is "very unlikely" that we will avoid the coming era of
"dangerous climate change."
The truth is that we may already be witnessing the early stages of
runaway climate change in the melting of the Arctic, the increase in storm
intensity, the accelerating extinctions of species, and the prolonged nature
of recurring droughts.
Moreover, some scientists now fear that the
warming is
taking on its own momentum—driven by internal feedbacks that are
independent of the human-generated carbon layer in the atmosphere.
March 11,
2007
This is our future - famous cities
are submerged, a third of the world is desert, the rest struggling for food
and fresh water. Richard Girling
investigates the reality behind the science of climate change
The message, delivered by the UK
Met Office’s Hadley Centre for Climate Change, was cataclysmic.
"There should have been panic on the
streets," says Lynas in his new book, Six Degrees, "people shouting from the rooftops, statements to parliament and
24-hour news coverage."
In layman's language, Hadley's message was that newly discovered
"positive feedbacks" would make nonsense of accepted global-warming
estimates. It would not be a gradual, linear increase with nature slowly
succumbing to human attrition. Nature itself was about to turn nasty. Instead of absorbing and retaining greenhouse gases from the
atmosphere, the figures suggested, it would suddenly spew them out again -
billions of years' worth of carbon and methane, incontinently released in
blazing surges that would drown or incinerate whole cities. Ice would melt in torrents, and the Earth's essential green
lung, the Amazon rainforest, could be moribund as early as 2050. A vicious
spiral would have begun which would threaten not just our way of life but the
very existence of our own and every other species on Earth.
Creation of a different planet
An in debt look at how
population and growth is affecting our planet
Hansen
quote
Creation of ‘a different planet’, with an
ice-free Arctic and eventual disintegration of ice sheets, can be averted
only if planetary energy balance is restored at an acceptable global
temperature, i.e., one that avoids these catastrophic changes. Estimates of
permissible additional warming must be refined as knowledge advances and
technology improves, but the upshot of crystallizing science is that the
‘safe’ global temperature level is, at most, about 1°C greater than year 2000
temperature. It may be less.
I had always thought of terraforming as the
stuff of science fiction. In a Star Trek movie or a Ben Bova novel a barren
planet is transformed into one with a rich biosphere by amazing human
technology and effort. Instead, we’re going in the opposite
direction, applying it haphazardly to a planet (Earth, the only one we have)
with an incredibly rich biosphere and making it poorer. Worse, we call it
progress.
Effects of
Global Warming Video
Global Warming: Nation Under Siege
(documentary 57
minutes; 12/5/2007)
We are at the crossroads of the most significant crisis of
modern times. Two profound,
life-changing events - the rapid depletion of fossil fuels and
rising sea level from the warming of the earth's atmosphere - are converging
to dramatically alter our future. Hear from Edward Mazria, founder of
Architecture 2030, as he unveils a new
study of sea level rise showing fly-over 3D images depicting the potentially
calamitous coastal and national impacts of these events. Then learn of the
historic role we must play in addressing this crisis and a solution that is
based on available means and measurable results.
At the Poles, Melting Occurring at Alarming Rate
By Doug Struck
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, October 22, 2007; A10
For scientists,
global warming is a disaster movie, its opening scenes set at the poles of
Earth. The epic already has started. And it's not fiction.
As the air warms over
Canada, Alaska and
Siberia, the melting
permafrost releases millions of tons of trapped carbon and methane, further
accelerating the encroaching disaster. Greenland's moving glaciers pick up
speed, likely bringing in this century the first three feet of a possible
23-foot rise of the seas that would ultimately inundate
New York
City and South Florida and drive millions of people from low-lying
areas of
Asia.
The ice shelves collapsing in western Antarctica bring glacier melting
there, pouring as much water into the sea as Greenland. Eventually, the giant
frozen continent of eastern Antarctica, so far insulated from the rest of the
warming planet, may begin to melt. The thermohaline ocean circulation pattern
begins to slow.
"I just don't see a happy ending
for this," said Ted Scambos, who studies the polar ice at the National
Snow and Ice Data Center at the
University
of Colorado.
Most scientists say the changes anticipated at the poles in the next 30
to 40 years are inevitable
How Scientist are coping with Climate Dread
Rees: 'Don't give me optimism.'
Enviro experts battle despair as doom scenarios roll
in.
By
Bryan
Zandberg
Published: October 20, 2006
TheTyee.ca
It's not just crazy people with the sandwich boards anymore: a lot of
level-headed professionals
believe the end of our world
is nigh. Some top scientists see global warming making much of the planet
barely
habitable within a few generations. Or sooner.
Rapid Global Warming Will Create
Famine And Drought, Lovelock Warns
By Steve
Connor
Climate change is happening faster than anyone
predicted and its consequences could be dire for the survival of civilization
in the 21st century because of the chaos it will cause in terms of
famine,
drought and mass migration
from the May 30, 2007 edition –
Dangerous climate change has not yet arrived,
but the tipping point may not be far off. And it may be reached with a
smaller temperature rise than recent studies suggest.
Those are among the conclusions from an
international team of climate scientists in a study this month, which they
say bolsters the case for an alternative strategy to combat climate change.
The main idea: focus intensely on cutting greenhouse-gas emissions other than
carbon dioxide in the short term, giving the world a little leeway in dealing
with the trickier issue of CO2.
By
Peter N.
Spotts | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Dangerous climate change has not yet arrived, but the tipping point may
not be far off. And it may be reached with a smaller temperature rise than
recent studies suggest.
Quotes
...''We have passed
that and some other tipping points in the way that I will define them,''
Hansen said in an e-mail. "we have not passed a point of no return. we can
still roll things back in time _ but it is going to require a quick turn in
direction."
[12/12/2007] The Hindu
-
`Arctic is
screaming,' say scientists
'We're a lot closer to climate tipping points than we thought we were,'
said James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. "if we are to have
any chance in avoiding the points of no return, we're going to have to make
some changes."
[12/14/2007] Reuters -
Carbon cuts
a must to halt warming
James Hansen, director of NASA's
Goddard Institute for Space Studies said
"We now realize that we
have passed or are on the verge of passing several tipping points that pose
grave risks for humanity and especially for a large fraction of our fellow
species on the planet" he wrote in a draft…
"We have taken it as a
God-given fact that we will burn all the fossil fuels" he said at the press conference. "But we simply
cannot do that, if we want to keep the planet we now have."
How Warm is Too Warm?
We can’t reverse the warming we have already caused. Per the IPCC report,
CO2 concentrations since the 1800’s have increased from 280 parts per million
(ppm) to 380 ppm, causing global temperatures to increase by about 1.3oF. To undo that warming, we would have to return the CO2
concentration to its pre-industrial level. This would require removing
800,000 million metric tons of CO2 from the atmosphere, and we just don’t
have the ability to do that. To put that amount in perspective, consider that Richard
Branson’s Virgin Earth Challenge will give $25 million to anyone who can
remove just 0.1% of that amount.
It’s going to get warmer than it is today. Even if we
stabilized greenhouse gas concentrations today - a virtual impossibility -
the rate of warming would slow, but not stop for another 30 years. This delayed warming, caused by (among other factors) how long
it takes for the ocean to heat and cool, is called “warming in the pipeline”. The IPCC estimates that warming in the pipeline will
increase global temperatures by an additional 1.0oF, no matter what action we
take. But we can - and better - stop it there.
Video
A Message from AAAS on Climate Change -Video
Sir David Attenborough: The Truth About Climate Change –video
ScienceDaily (Dec. 27, 2007) — There are
new findings regarding a phase of rapid global greenhouse warming that took
place 55 million years ago. This period of climate change is regarded as the
best fossil analogue to current and future greenhouse warming.
Global
Warming :Become part of the solution Video
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