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admin /11 May, 2010
Bad medicine
Chemical dispersants being used in Gulf clean-up are potentially toxic
Coast Guard workers spray Corexit in a 2007 Berkeley, California, cleanup. It is not yet being used on Gulf of Mexico beaches. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)We finally know the main two dispersants that BP and the U.S. government are using to treat the ongoing Gulf spill. Both, by their maker’s own admission, have the “potential to bioconcentrate,” and both have “moderate toxicity to early life stages of fish, crustaceans, and mollusks,” according to a study by Exxon, the company that originally developed them. Their use may be the least-bad course, given the importance of minimizing oil’s effect on coastal wetlands. But a little digging into the chemical makeup of these two substances, which are being dumped in vast quantities into the Gulf, reveals that they could potentially do far more harm than good, both to the Gulf and to humans who later eat from it.
admin /11 May, 2010
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admin /10 May, 2010
Half the planet too hot in 300 yrs
Danny Rose, AAP May 11, 2010, 5:02 am
Australian scientists warn half the planet could “simply become too hot” for human habitation in less than 300 years.
New research by the University of NSW has forecast the effect of climate change over the next three centuries, a longer time horizon than that considered in many similar studies.
It suggests without action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, mankind’s activities could prompt average temperatures to rise as much as 10 to 12 per cent by 2300.
admin /10 May, 2010
Climatologist Ellen Mosley-Thompson on warming in Antarctica
Earlier this year, climatologist Ellen Mosley-Thompson led an expedition to drill into glacial ice on the Antarctic Peninsula, one of the world’s fastest-warming regions. Here, she describes what it’s like working in the world’s swiftly melting ice zone
Ellen Mosley-Thompson and her husband, Lonnie Thompson, are two of the world’s most respected climatologists and glaciologists, traveling around the globe to bore holes in shrinking glaciers and ice sheets. Mosley-Thompson works mainly at the poles, in Greenland and
Antarctica, while her husband has done more ice corings of low-latitude glaciers — in the Andes, Africa, and the Himalayas — than any other person alive. Their work, taken together, paints a sobering portrait of the rapid retreat of most of the world’s glaciers and ice caps in the face of the buildup of planet-warming greenhouse gases.
Several months ago, during the Antarctic summer, Mosley-Thompson — the director of the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University — returned to Antarctica for the ninth time to head a six-person expedition to the Bruce Plateau on the Antarctic Peninsula. The peninsula has warmed faster than almost any other place on Earth, with winter temperatures increasing by 11 degrees F over the past 60 years and year-round temperatures rising by 5 degrees F. As a result, sea ice now covers the western Antarctic Peninsula three months less a year than three decades ago, 90 percent of glaciers along the western Antarctic Peninsula are in retreat, and large floating ice shelves are crumbling.
admin /9 May, 2010
From The Sunday Times
May 9, 2010
Leaderless UK stokes crash fears
David Smith, Economics Editor
FEARS of a market slump mounted this weekend after British politicians failed to form a government and senior bankers warned that the eurozone crisis might cause bank lending to seize up.
European finance ministers are today expected to agree a financial support mechanism for ailing economies such as Greece, Portugal and Spain. Traders fear the scheme, to be announced tonight, will not be enough to reassure markets and there will be a repeat of last week’s chaotic trading.
admin /9 May, 2010
Piers Akerman
Saturday, May 08, 2010 at 05:18pm
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd and Treasurer Wayne Swan have seriously miscalculated the level of support they can count upon for their new attempt to seize a massive chunk of mining industry profits.
In an era when most Australians hope to receive some form of superannuation from funds that have invested considerable amounts in blue chip mining shares, the Labor Government’s call to wreak class warfare no longer has the resonance it had in the Menzies era.
The ALP and its attack dogs, like Australian Workers Union boss Paul Howes, may rail against billionaires in the mining industry and undermine their own arguments about the need to participate in the global marketplace, but mums and dads watching the diminishing returns on their superannuation, in which they have invested hard-earned dollars, are unlikely to be convinced that the Rudd Government is acting in their best interests.
