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Here i found a protest against Australia and Tasmania ancient forest logging. It is deeply hypocritical and repulsive that Australia continues industrially clearing its native forests so read the following text below and think for yourself.

Tasmania, Australia’s woodchipping giant Gunns Ltd. is poised to be granted fast track approval by the Tasmanian government to build a massive chemical pulp mill in northern Tasmania. This forest-hungry pulp mill will be a disaster for Australia’s ancient forests, climate, wildlife and future. If built, the US$1.4 billion project would need four million tonnes of logs a year. It would double Gunns’ current rate of clearcutting in Tasmania’s native forests. It will also dump thousands of tonnes of poisonous waste into Bass Strait every day, threatening marine life, tourism and the fishing industry. For way too long Tasmania’s ancient forests - some containing massive eucalyptus trees - have been clearcut to produce paper pulp, mostly for the Japanese market… Continued markets for paper pulp from ancient forest liquidation depend upon this disastrous pulp mill being forced through the Australian legal system… the impact of this massive pulp mill on Tasmania’s ancient native forests, much less regional and global climate, have not been considered. Additionally Minister Turnbull has acknowledged there is insufficient data available to assess the impacts of 64,000 tonnes a day of poisonous waste being released into Bass Strait… (the) Gunns had already signed a contract with construction firm John Holland to start building the pulp mill “in the first week of September”… At a time when Australia’s federal government is proposing funding ancient forest protection and conservation internationally as a measure to a combat climate change, it is hypocritical and repulsive that Australia continues industrially clearing its own native forests. Australia’s ancient forests will still be logged, even clearcut, for throw away consumer products; even as the Australian government calls upon less developed and poor nations to protect their forests for the climate

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Greenpeace Switzerland and artist Spencer Tunick teamed up for this unusual project which purpose is again to open our eyes for the global warming threat. Today, six hundred people shed their clothes on a Aletsch glacier in the Swiss Alps to cry out for help against a planetary emergency: global warming.

Without clothes, the human body is vulnerable, exposed, its life or death at the whim of the elements. Global warming is stripping away our glaciers and leaving our entire planet vulnerable to extreme weather, floods, sea-level rise, global decreases in carrying capacity and agricultural production, fresh water shortages, disease and mass human dislocations. If global warming continues at its current rate, most glaciers in Switzerland will completely disappear by 2080, leaving nothing but valleys and slopes strewn with rock debris. Over the last 150 years, alpine glaciers have reduced in size by approximately one third of their surface and half of their mass, and this melting is accelerating. The Aletsch Glacier retreated 115 meters (377 feet) in a single year from 2005 to 2006.

Known around the world for his installations, Spencer Tunick wants people to know that global climate change is not an abstract issue, but a hazardous threat which affects us all. “I want my images to go more than skin-deep. I want the viewers to feel the vulnerability of their existence and how it relates closely to the sensitivity of the world’s glaciers”, he said.

Big thanks to all the volunteers who bared all in 10 degrees C.

Dr. Robert Davis has shown some research results to the meeting of the Association of American Geographers which is being held in San Francisco this year
(Dr. Davis’s presentation was scheduled for 4 p.m. Friday April 20, 2007). Hurricanes are powered by the temperature difference between the top of the sea and the air above the storm, and there’s nothing so strange why Hurricane Dean has emerged back into the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, entering the Bay of Campeche.
Is there changes in rainfall, which causes flooding that has been responsible for many deaths and damage in recent storms? In fact, there is so many active periods of hurricane behaviors that are documented in the historical record of Atlantic tropical cyclone observations and a measure of the power dissipated by tropical cyclones (proportional to the cube of wind speeds accumulated over the North Atlantic and western North Pacific basins) has approximately doubled since about 1950!
Now, Dean is expected to hit central Mexico on Wednesday and Mexico’s president cuts short a meeting in Canada to return home, because Hurricane weakens to Category 1 after hitting as Category 5, but may strengthen. It is consensus statement of the scientists that no individual tropical cyclone can be directly attributed to climate change, but it is true also that the tropical cyclone wind-speed monitoring has changed dramatically over the last few decades leading to difficulties in determining accurate trends!!

While North America and Europe, where the science is strongest, exhibit the highest density of indicators, scientists have made a great effort in recent years to document the early impacts of global warming and how sometimes little things can turn into big things.At the peak of the last ice age (18,000 years ago), the temperature was only 7ºF colder than it is today!How people and nature adapt to climate change will determine how seriously it impacts human health. That’s why we think that learning about the environment is very important and could help us many more.
“Climate change is the most severe problem we are facing today, more serious than even the threat of terrorism.” has told David King,the UK Government Advisor at January 2004.
While there is consensus among most scientists, corporate leaders, government officials, NGOs, and international bodies that global warming must be halted, it should go much more meaningful to all parts of society – communities, individuals, business, states and localities, and governments to work all together up on this quest. Many global issues are climate-related and thus may be affected by climate change. One of our main ideas is to provoke you for doing it much more safety and ensure that the future could be good, here you can demonstrate what you care about and how do you think all we may drive against the speeches that all we do is Earth as hell..

Solar insolation variability has emerged as a major climate driver and the sea level
has risen since the end of the last ice age, and the geologic time periods Cretaceous, Eocene and Miocene are known to have high sea levels and represent green-house world whereas Carboniferous, Oligocene, Pleistocene (most recent) periods represent ice-house times. There are many drivers that control small temperature changes (up to 5oC) over short periods of time (up to hundreds of years). The cycles in photosynthesis thus produced cycles in O2 in the water column, which produced cycles in the oxidation and then deposition of Fe3+ compounds on the ocean floor. As it is well known that humans now control more than 40% of the land area and have thus altered biogeochemical cycles in ways we are unsure, how the Human civilization should develops after the global problem? But..we can envision the dust and the H2SO4 would first cut down on sunlight reaching the Earth for a few years. H2SO4 would come out as acid rain, probably seriously effecting plant life at one of the variants. Detailed reconstructions of the glacial and climatic history of the Antarctic Peninsula since LGM are hampered by scarcity of available archives, low resolution of many datasets. Now we need to pay much more attention to all this haotic facts, toward the big quest. The formation, stabilization and preservation of continental lithosphere provide our most direct record of the ancient evolution of the Earth!