Category: Climate chaos

The atmosphere is to the earth as a layer of varnish is to a desktop globe. It is thin, fragile and essential for preserving the items on the surface.150 years of burning fossil fuel have overloaded the atmosphere to the point where the earth is ill. It now has a fever. Read the detailed article, Soothing Gaia’s Fever for an evocative account of that analogy. The items listed here detail progress on coordinating 6.5 billion people in the most critical project undertaken by humanity. 

Replacement insulation scheme ditched

admin /21 April, 2010

Replacement insulation scheme ditched

Thursday April 22, 2010, 9:13 am
 

 

 

 

The Federal Government is believed to have scrapped the replacement scheme for its botched home insulation program.

The original $2.4 billion program was shut down in February after it was linked to four deaths, more than 100 house fires, and cases of rorting.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd commissioned respected former bureaucrat Allan Hawke to review the scheme and recommend changes for a revamped program, which Mr Rudd promised would start on June 1.

Fairfax papers claim Dr Hawke’s report is highly critical about the policy’s development and implementation and that timelines for starting the revised program in June were insufficient.

Seismic activity rises in California

admin /20 April, 2010

Seismic activity rises in California

CARA MIA DIMASSA

April 20, 2010

LOS ANGELES: Seismologists are unable to explain a marked recent increase in earthquake activity in Southern California.

There have been 70 quakes greater than magnitude 4.0 in Southern California and Baja California so far this year, the most of any year in the past decade. There were 30 last year and 29 in 2008.

Big earthquakes tend to occur in cycles, and experts have said the region has been in a quiet cycle in recent years.

The string of quakes this year raises the possibility that Southern California might again be entering a more active seismic period. Scientists said the increase did not mean the Big One was imminent, but it could mean more quakes were on the way.

Peruvian glacier split triggers deadly tsunami

admin /15 April, 2010

Peruvian glacier split triggers deadly tsunami

Chunk of ice the size of four football pitches falls from Hualcan glacier into Andean lake, resulting in at least one death

A glacier in the Peruvian Andes

A glacier in the Peruvian Andes. Photograph: James Brunker/Alamy

A massive ice block broke from a glacier and crashed into a lake in the Peruvian Andes, unleashing a 23-metre tsunami and sending muddy torrents through nearby towns, killing at least one person.

The chunk of ice, estimated at the size of four football pitches, detached from the Hualcan glacier near Carhuaz, about 200 miles north of the capital, Lima, on Sunday. It plunged into a lagoon known as lake 513, triggering a tsunami that breached 23 metre (75ft) high levees and damaged Carhuaz and other villages, according to authorities.

Climate change may trigger earthquakes and volcanoes

admin /11 April, 2010

01 October 09 Posted by: Richard Graves Climate change may trigger earthquakes and volcanoes Far from being the benign figure of mythology, Mother Earth is short-tempered and volatile. So sensitive in fact, that even slight changes in weather and climate can rip the planet’s crust apart, unleashing the furious might of volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and Continue Reading →

World Banks’s $3.75bm coal plant loan defies environment criticism

admin /11 April, 2010

World Bank’s $3.75bn coal plant loan defies environment criticism

US, Britain, the Netherlands, Italy and Norway abstain from vote in protest

• South Africa is becoming a high-carbon zone to attract foreign investment | Joss Garman
• Britain’s key vote on World Bank loan to Medupi power station

 

The World Bank approved a controversial $3.75bn loan to build one of the world’s largest coal-fired power plants in South Africa yesterday, defying international protests and sharp criticism from the Obama administration that the project would fuel climate change.

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