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In December 2005, NASA's chief climate scientist, James E. Hansen, estimated that an environmental tipping point will be reached within ten years if we continue business-as-usual and do not make immediate, major cuts in carbon dioxide emissions. When that point is reached in 2016, the heat in the atmosphere will start melting enough permafrost that stored carbon dioxide and methane will be added to the atmosphere through a positive feedback. Such massive quantities of these gasses will cause a fast and unstoppable warming, leading to drastic environmental changes.
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The United States, with only four percent of the world’s population, is responsible for 22% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. A rapid transition to energy efficiency and renewable energy sources is critical in the very near-term. This movement is essential to help combat global warming, protect human health, create new jobs, protect habitat and wildlife, and ensure a secure, affordable energy future.
Global warming- The damage has already been done. Is there any hope of a recovery? Can the changes be reversed? One of the most dramatic pictures that we often get to see these days is the shrinking polar ice caps. The cause of global warming is still a matter of some controversy. There is a school of thought that the global warming is in fact not caused by any increase in percentage carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. However it is to be noted that the drastic climatic changes and the melting of the ice caps have become a matter of too much concern to the common man and an everyday high priority concern for everyone whether politician, scientist, industrialist or economist.
Average temperatures in the Arctic region are rising twice as fast as
they are elsewhere in the world. Arctic ice is getting thinner, melting
and rupturing. For example, the largest single block of ice in the
Arctic, the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, had been around for 3,000 years before
it started cracking in 2000. Within two years it had split all the way
through and is now breaking into pieces. The polar ice cap as a whole is
shrinking. Images from NASA satellites show that the area of permanent
ice cover is contracting at a rate of 9 percent each decade. If this
trend continues, summers in the Arctic could become ice-free by the end
of the century. Rising seas would severely impact the United States as
well. Scientists project as much as a 3-foot sea-level rise by 2100.
According to a 2001 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study, this
increase would inundate some 22,400 square miles of land along the
Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, primarily in Louisiana,
Texas, Florida and North Carolina. A warmer Arctic will also affect
weather patterns and thus food production around the world. Wheat
farming in Kansas, for example, would be profoundly affected by the loss
of ice cover in the Arctic. According to a NASA Goddard Institute of
Space Studies computer model, Kansas would be 4 degrees warmer in the
winter without Arctic ice, which normally creates cold air masses that
frequently slide southward into the United States. Warmer winters are
bad news for wheat farmers, who need freezing temperatures to grow
winter wheat. And in summer, warmer days would rob Kansas soil of 10
percent of its moisture, drying out valuable cropland.
The photograph taken in 1928, above, shows how the Upsala Glacier, part of the South American Andes in Argentina, used to look. The ice on the Upsala Glacier today, shown in 2004 below, is retreating at least 180 ft. per
year GREENPEACE
Satellites are used to map the extent and duration of snowmelt on the Greenland ice sheet. The dark red area represents the extent of snowmelt in 2005, three years beyond Dr. Zwally's survey. It is the most extensive in the 27 year history of data collection. (Figure courtesy of NOAA and CIRES)
While fossil fuels have been known to be non-renewable, our dependence on this form of fuel has surprisingly been persistent. Crude oil on which we depend so much is distributed unevenly on this planet causing instabilities in wealth distribution. Therefore the turmoil for control and power. If dependence on non-renewable energy resources such as fossil fuels can be reduced, there would be greater peace and prosperity in the world. Since this is the goal of every nation, the focus on renewable and alternate energy resources should be given maximum focus, support and funding.
The discovery of enormous oil wells under the ocean
beds caused much excitement in the early sixties and seventies.
Countries such as UK, Norway, Denmark, Germany and Netherlands developed
the oil reserves discovered in the North Sea reserves.
Chevron estimated the 300-square-mile region where its test well sits could hold between 3 billion and 15 billion barrels of oil and natural gas liquids.
With increase in supply of crude oil, the price of petroleum products dropped to affordable levels and increased government spending in furthering the fossil fuel consumption. Little consideration was given to the effect of large scale mining of crude oil on the ecosystem and balance in the mass distribution in the Crust. Man made imbalances in the Crust due to indiscriminate mining has resulted in the creation of new faults and which results in earth quakes.
According to the popular theory Global Warming is chiefly caused by the accumulation of certain fossil fuel emission products such as carbon dioxide. Even if it is possible to reduce emissions by 50% immediately, we would still be only retarding the 'Warming' process. But with current available fuel technologies the most optimistic figure that developed nations can aim for is much lower. What is in fact achievable is even lower. As for developing nations, they are not even in a position to prioritize this over the other immediate problems they face.
Since the emissions as a whole has a global impact, the nations have to cooperate with each other to achieve the emissions target. Which in turn means that the developed nations will have to pull their weight to bring on board the alternate technologies. Kyoto convention report is available at http://unfccc.int/2860.php Carbon Emissions Trading http://www.emissionstrading.nsw.gov.au/
- Public opinion decides on Kyoto
- Australia signs Kyoto agreement...
- New government under pressure to back carbon emissions cuts...
- 2007 warmest year recorded
- Absorption of CO2 by Sea Algae
- Gore blasts the US at Bali 12 Dec 2007
- Global warming causes record disasters 13 Dec 2007
- Carbon capture key for coal 13 Dec 2007
- Sceptics put their case to the UN 14 Dec 2007
- Targets to be taken out of pact 14 Dec 2007
- UN closer to climate deal as US holds out 15 Dec 2007
- US agrees to back the deal at Bali 16 Dec 2007
- Tempers fly at the Bali talks 16 Dec 2007
- Australian PM pledges to forge 2009 deal 17 Dec 2007
- Carbon market could oustrip foreign exchange 17 Dec 2007
- Australia can afford reductions in carbon emissions 31 Dec 2007
- Global warming is a boon to a Canadian port 2 Jan 2008
- Arctic ice recedes at record levels
- Poor countries footprints smaller compared to rich countries footprints
- Carbon dioxide emission must cease - A new report -Mar 10, 2008
- Australia's gives up on climate change policy - The Epoch Times - Nov 05, 2009
- Meet Niburu - Planet x of the Solar System
- Neburu 2 - Global warming - A new concept outside of CO2 emissions theory - MUST SEE
- Planet X (Nibiru) - video
- Nibiru - Video
- The meltdown in Antarctica is more severe than what was predicted
- Permanent climate change - the persistent draught in the west
- Global warming causes; Man-made and natural
Planet X visit in 2012 - Surviving it
The Antarctic Ice Shelf disintegrating
The Science behind the Antarctic ice shelf melt
Vegetarianism and Global Warming
A Global Climate Change - Animation
The glaciers of Bolivia - A close look at the changes in the last 10 years
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