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Re: Global Warming II
« Reply #75 on Jun 27, 2008, 10:14pm »

check out this vid George Carlin on Global Warming

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« Reply #76 on Jun 28, 2008, 6:45am »

That was some funny stuff.

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« Reply #77 on Jun 28, 2008, 9:40am »

Just announced on CNN. The Artic ice cap will melt completley by the end of 2008. Although there is only a 50/50 chance!

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« Reply #78 on Jul 4, 2008, 8:22am »

It'll be interesting to see what happens there. I happened to see that article and, although it's been a week or so since I read it, I seem to remember that they were talking about new ice and ice that's been there for some enormously long period of time ( I can't remember that particular detail), and that much of the "old" ice is gone. Like I said, it'll be interesting to see what really happens.

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« Reply #80 on Aug 16, 2008, 11:52am »

Climate Change Could Wreck New York's Bridges, Tunnels
Friday, August 15, 2008

NEW YORK — Flooded subways. Bridges deteriorating in the hot sun. Rising seas nipping at the edges of Manhattan.

Those scenarios are up for review by a panel of scientists, government officials and private sector representatives studying how the city's infrastructure will hold up to climate change.

The Climate Change Adaptation Task Force met Tuesday for the first time as part of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plan to address global warming in New York City, which already includes orders to switch the city's taxi fleet to hybrids by 2012 and to retrofit city buildings to meet greener standards.

Experts on the panel said the potential consequences of global warming could include more frequent storms, flooding throughout the city's coastal and lowland areas, repeated blackouts on a power grid stressed to its limits and bridges that deteriorate under the heat.

"We have to adapt to the environmental changes that have already taken place, or that we can reasonably expect will occur because of climate change," Bloomberg said.

The panel will begin its work by studying the city's infrastructure to better understand the city's preparedness for possibilities such as more catastrophic storms, hotter temperatures and a rising sea level.

"The city was built with an assumption of an environmental baseline, and climate change in many ways changes that baseline," said panel co-chair William Solecki, director of The Institute for Sustainable Cities at Hunter College.

"Some of these transformations can potentially be catastrophic as large storms; others might be more subtle and difficult to discern over the short term," Solecki said.

The mayor has asked the group to produce a report and inventory of existing at-risk infrastructure, plus plans to make those areas more secure, in one year.

The panel has also been asked to draft guidelines for new construction that take into account anticipated effects of climate change.

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Re: Global Warming II
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U.N.: Eat Less Meat to Save the Planet
Monday, September 08, 2008

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What's more polluting -- these cows or the smokestacks behind them?

Beat the heat — eat less meat.

That's the message being sent by the head of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won last year's Nobel Peace Prize along with Al Gore.

"Give up meat for one day [a week] initially, and decrease it from there," Dr. Rajendra Pachauri told Britain's Observer newspaper in comments published Sunday.

Pachauri reasons that because raising, feeding, slaughtering and shipping livestock produces much more greenhouse gas than does growing plants, a decrease in the number of livestock worldwide would do a lot to offset the threat of global warming.

"In terms of immediacy of action and the feasibility of bringing about reductions in a short period of time, it clearly is the most attractive opportunity," he told the Observer.

A U.N. study in 2006 found that 18 percent of greenhouse-gas emissions came from the livestock industry, chiefly in the form of methane burped up and otherwise emitted by cattle, sheep and pigs.

Additionally, as meat consumption grows as developing countries get richer, more and more forests are cut down for pasture, resulting in fewer trees to replace carbon dioxide with oxygen.

Chris Lamb, a spokesman for the British pork industry, disputed Pachauri's logic.

"Climate change is a very young science and our view is there are a lot of simplistic solutions being proposed," Lamb said.

Pachauri, who like many Indians is a vegetarian, was re-appointed last week to a new six-year term as the head of the IPCC.

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