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Arctic 5degrees hotter than usual

admin /19 October, 2008

AUTUMN air temperatures have climbed to record levels in the Arctic due to major losses of sea ice as the region suffers more effects from a warming trend dating back decades, a report says.

The annual report issued by researchers at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other experts is the latest to paint a dire picture of the impact of climate change in the Arctic.

It found that northern autumn air temperatures are at a record 5C above normal in the Arctic because of the major loss of sea ice in recent years that allows more solar heating of the ocean.

Local power generation saves regions and economy

admin /19 October, 2008

by John Farrell, Renewable Energy World

The next twenty years could see up to US $1 trillion of investment in renewable energy in rural areas. Wind and solar power will be harnessed; and non-food crops will provide the fuel for a new generation of biofuels. But will rural areas reap the benefits of this massive investment or will communities merely observe the remaking of rural economies?

Huge wind farms, large concentrating solar plants and big biorefineries drive down the cost of harnessing renewable power. Federal energy policy is premised on this hypothesis, but the evidence suggests otherwise. The benefits of building big are small; the benefits of building small, on the other hand, are quite large. The key to sustainable rural economic development and the renewable energy future of America is a series of modest sized, locally owned wind farms, solar plants and biofuel refineries.

New book on Bee Death

admin /19 October, 2008

by Anne Pyburn in Chronogram

Alert observers of current events may have noticed, half buried in the general melange of war/gas prices/ politics/ celeb gossip that passes for What’s Happening Now, some alarming news about bees cropping up in the past few seasons. They’re going missing. To anyone with a glancing familiarity with how ecosystems work, this is an upsetting prospect. Besides being iconic, bees play a crucial role in the agricultural process; without them, we can kiss a lot of food crops good-bye.

When a news broadcast touches upon the subject of the missing bees, it’s usually in mystified tones. Where, oh, where could the bees be? What’s causing this phenomenon? Woodstock author Michael Schacker offers some plausible answers—ones that a lot of Powers That Be probably don’t want to accept. To the extent that one accepts his theory—and his evidence seems compelling—this explains both Colony Collapse Disorder (as the bees’ vanishing act is officially called) and the media silence surrounding its roots.

Related Generator articles:

1.Bee kill gets pesticide banned in Germany

2. Bee crisis in UK threatens food supply

3.  UK warns of imminent bee death

4. The Return of the Bread Riot

5.  Farmer on international crusade against GM crops

6.  GM is causing bee death

7. COLLAPSING COLONIES

8. No bees? Not just strange, but scary 

Litigation inspires government to act on climate change

admin /19 October, 2008

CLIMATE change litigation is important for prodding governments to act on green issues.

NSW Land and Environment Court chief judge Brian Preston told the Judicial Conference of Australia he expected “the avenues used to litigate climate change will continue to expand”.

Such actions “raise the public’s awareness of the implications of climate change and, sometimes, solutions are reached at a much faster pace by commencing proceedings”, Justice Preston said.

The law of torts, domestic statutes and international conventions had been used by plaintiffs, he said.

UK commits to 80% reduction

admin /17 October, 2008

The UK government committed on October 16to cutting greenhouse-gas emissions by 80% by the middle of the century in a bid to tackle climate change.

In a move that was widely welcomed by environmental campaigners, Ed Miliband, the new energy and climate change secretary, said that the current 60% target would be replaced by the higher goal in the climate change bill.

Miliband told MPs that the tough economic conditions were not an excuse to “row back” on the commitment to tackle global warming.

Money and the crisis of civilisation – Pt 3

admin /16 October, 2008

From part 2 The present crisis is actually the final stage of what began in the 1930s. Successive solutions to the fundamental problem of keeping pace with money that expands with the rate of interest have been applied, and exhausted. The first effective solution was war, a state which has been permanent since 1940. Nuclear Continue Reading →

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