Global warming?

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Nature Climate Change | Letter

The polarizing impact of science literacy and numeracy on perceived climate change risks

Seeming public apathy over climate change is often attributed to a deficit in comprehension. The public knows too little science, it is claimed, to understand the evidence or avoid being misled1. Widespread limits on technical reasoning aggravate the problem by forcing citizens to use unreliable cognitive heuristics to assess risk2. We conducted a study to test this account and found no support for it. Members of the public with the highest degrees of science literacy and technical reasoning capacity were not the most concerned about climate change. Rather, they were the ones among whom cultural polarization was greatest. This result suggests that public divisions over climate change stem not from the public’s incomprehension of science but from a distinctive conflict of interest: between the personal interest individuals have in forming beliefs in line with those held by others with whom they share close ties and the collective one they all share in making use of the best available science to promote common welfare.
http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v2/n10/full/nclimate1547.html#affil-auth

 

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here we go deniers
altho it would mean nothing to you huh ..

Groundbreaking Study Confirms Link Between Fracking and Earthquakes

Steve Horn, DeSmogBlog | March 30, 2016 9:41 am | Comments
A groundbreaking study published Tuesday in Seismological Research Letters has demonstrated a link, for the first time, between hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) for oil and gas andearthquakes.

The report, Hydraulic Fracturing and Seismicity in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin, confirms the horizontal drilling technique (which in essence creates an underground mini-earthquake to open up fissures for oil and gas extraction) is responsible for earthquakes, above and beyond what is already canonized in the scientific literature.

A groundbreaking study published in Seismological Research Letters has demonstrated a link, for the first time, between fracking for oil and gas and earthquakes. Photo credit: Wikipedia
We already knew that injecting fracking waste into underground wells can cause quakes. But now it’s not just the injections wells, but the fracking procedure itself that can be linked to seismicity.

ecowatch.com: Groundbreaking Study Confirms Link Between Fracking and Earthquakes

keep it close to hhome,so all can make the dollars, along with your Monsanto chemicals
you dont need to fool/feed the world with your garbage ..
but yes support the labelling of your death products ;;

USDA Deregulates Two Lines of Genetically Engineered Corn From Monsanto, Syngenta

Shannon Van Hoesen, Environmental Working Group | March 29, 2016 12:59 pm | Comments
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said last week it will allow farmers to plant two new strains of genetically modified (GMO) corn, one created by Monsanto and the other by Syngenta, without government oversight. The new strains are tolerant of the weed killers dicamba and glufosinate.

The decision is likely to lead to ever-greater use of these and other pesticides to grow genetically engineered crops, giving consumers yet another reason to want food products containing GMO ingredients to be labeled accordingly.

ecowatch.com: USDA Deregulates Two Lines of Genetically Engineered Corn From Monsanto, Syngenta

AUSTRALIA,land of plenty ha

Farmers welcome national free range egg standard
Farmers have welcomed a new national standard for free-range egg production, saying it's a win for common sense, consumers, farmers and chooks.

Kailis Bros sells bulk of seafood business to Chinese company
Australian seafood company Kailis Bros sells 90 per cent of its seafood processing, wholesale and export business to a Chinese conglomerate.

Fishermen get ready for banana prawn season
Northern Australia's banana prawn season starts tomorrow with most trawlers heading straight to the Gulf of Carpentaria.

always interesting whats happening outside our universe and what they find out uh ..ha

Two-faced alien planet 55 Cancri e has solid and liquid surfaces, maps reveal
Discovery News
By Ian O'Neill
Posted yesterday at 2:35pm

PHOTO: An artist's impression of the searing hot surface of "super-Earth" exoplanet 55 Cancri e (ESA/Hubble, M. Kornesser)
RELATED STORY: Hubble studies 'super-Earth' atmosphere for first time
Astronomers have, for the first time, mapped a nearby "super-Earth" exoplanet to find that one hemisphere is almost completely molten rock, while the other half is almost completely solid.

Two-faced alien planet has solid and liquid surfaces

incredile how yhey think they can get away with this sort of shit, and we follow thru/inherit it all in the name of its safe/feed the populace crap ..

Groups Sue FDA Over Approval of Genetically Engineered Salmon
Center for Food Safety and Earthjustice | March 31, 2016 9:48 am |Comments

A broad coalition of organizations sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today for approving the first-ever genetically engineered (GE) food animal, an Atlantic salmon engineered to grow quickly. The man-made salmon was created by AquaBounty Technologies, Inc. with DNA from three fish: Atlantic salmon, Pacific king salmon and Arctic ocean eelpout. This marks the first time any government in the world has approved a GE animal for commercial sale and consumption.

“FDA’s decision is as unlawful as it is irresponsible,” George Kimbrell, senior attorney for Center for Food Safety and co-counsel for the plaintiffs, said. “This case is about protecting our fisheries and ocean ecosystems from the foreseeable harms of the first-ever GE fish, harms FDA refused to even consider, let alone prevent. But it’s also about the future of our food: FDA should not, and cannot, responsibly regulate this GE animal, nor any future GE animals, by treating them as drugs under a 1938 law.”

ecowatch.com: Groups Sue FDA Over Approval of Genetically Engineered Salmon

 

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Climate Model Predicts Melting of West Antarctic Ice Sheet Could Double Sea Level Rise

Andy Rowell, Oil Change International | March 31, 2016 10:33 am | Commen
It is no longer a question of “if” the unthinkable happens, but a question of “when.” And the “when” could happen sooner than you think.

For decades climate scientists have been worried about what happens if the vast West Antarctic ice sheet melts.

A view of icebergs calving from Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica in 2014. Researchers found that total rise of the sea could reach five or six feet by 2100. Photo credit: Jim Yungel / NASA
The melting of the ice-sheet, which is greater than the size of Mexico, has always been seen as somewhat of a doomsday scenario as it has to the potential to rise sea level by several meters. This is due to the fact that much of the ice-sheet sits on the ground, rather than floats.

ecowatch.com: Climate Model Predicts Melting of West Antarctic Ice Sheet Could Double Sea Level Rise

bummer
well knownlake, visited the area in the late 70s
beautiful, full, absolutely wonderful ..

Tasmanian energy crisis: Lake Gordon dam level fall captured in dramatic video
By Emilie Gramenz

www.abc.net.au: Dramatic drop in Lake Gordon dam levels captured by filmmaker

A retired filmmaker in a kayak has created a stark video contrasting Hydro Tasmania's Lake Gordon five years ago with its record low levels today.

Kayaker Mick Lawrence, 70, from Clifton Beach on Hobart's eastern shore habitually takes his cameras on his trips.

"I like exploring, I like going to new places, and I'm a keen observer, obviously, being a filmmaker," he said.

"I've probably been to Lake Gordon eight or nine times over 10 years and steadily I've watched it change, more so in the last two years, and the change has been dramatic."

www.abc.net.au: Lake Gordon dam level fall captured in dramatic video

OMG FFS unbelievable the mentality of
speaking of, only 1 city has imposed a ban on plastic bags in NZ
succesful as it is, no other has followed, admittedly .....

These 6 States Want to Ban Plastic Bag Bans (Yes, You Read That Right)
Lorraine Chow | March 30, 2016 10:50 am | Commen

Plastic bags—those non-biodegradable menaces that clog up our drawers, waterways and roadways alike—have been public enemy No. 1 in many cities and even entirestates which have legislated bans on these single-use pesks. But now, a growing number of pro-plastic states are spearheading bans on bag bans.

Multiple states are considering laws that will block local plastic bag bans. Photo credit: Flickr
ecowatch.com: These 6 States Want to Ban Plastic Bag Bans (Yes, You Read That Right)
personnally not keen onthese sorts of introduction
always reminds me of them introducing those CANE TOADS rto Aussie ..> dih

Scientists release bug to kill coral cactus on western Queensland station
ABC Rural
By Lydia Burton
Updated about 3 hours ago

PHOTO: Peter Jones puts a piece of coral cactus that is infected with insects into a coral cactus bush on Leander station.(ABC Rural: Lydia Burton)

www.abc.net.au: Scientists release bug to kill coral cactus

not surprising what humankind get up to hidden from view ..

Shocking Footage of Illegal Fishing in the Indian Ocean
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society | March 21, 2016 12:01 pm | Comments

Sea Shepherd Global’s Flagship, the Steve Irwin, is en route to the Indian Ocean to confront a killer in our oceans.

A fleet of fishing vessels is actively fishing on the high seas of the Indian Ocean using driftnets; a form of fishing banned by the United Nations in 1992 due to its indiscriminate and destructive impact.

Steve Irwin crewmember, Erica, holds a common dolphin, which was retrieved dead in the illegal net. Photo credit: Eliza Muirhead

ecowatch.com: Shocking Footage of Illegal Fishing in the Indian Ocean

lets hope they take notice and do something abouthis fracking ussiness it,,
but cany see it ..

 

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SOLAR favourite, as usual haha

This Must-See Documentary Shows the Future of Solar Power Is Here Today

Emily J. Gertz, TakePart | April 1, 2016 9:48 am | Comments

Filmmaker Shalini Kantayya set out to show that climate changeisn’t all gloom and doom. The result, Catching the Sun, ably makes that case, but may still leave you inspired and infuriated in equal parts.

This fast-paced and compelling documentary, which premieres today in New York City and in cities nationwide during April, follows a diverse group of job-seekers, activists, politicians and entrepreneurs as they tap into the world’s growing solar power economy.

This fast-paced and compelling new documentary follows a diverse group of job-seekers, activists, politicians and entrepreneurs as they tap into the world’s growing solar power economy. Photo credit: Catching the Sun
ecowatch.com: This Must-See Documentary Shows the Future of Solar Power Is Here Today
totally unrelated but
pretty unfortunate incidentm no matter how its looked at ..

a little different to what we normally hear?

ecowatch.com: This Must-See Documentary Shows the Future of Solar Power Is Here Today

oh boriing boring boring ..

Is Rooftop Solar Cheaper Than Buying Electricity From the Grid?

Joshua D. Rhodes, The Conversation | March 31, 2016 12:33 pm |Co\\\

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory this week said that rooftop solar panels have the potential to generate nearly 40 percent of electricity in the U.S. But what about the cost of going solar?

Many people ask when the cost of producing power from solar photovoltaic (PV) panels will be equal to or less than buying from the grid—a point called “grid parity” that could accelerate solar adoption.

Thinking of going solar? Prices are approaching the cost of grid electricity, but only in some places—so far. Photo credit: Joncallas / Flickr
But in asking the question, they often compare apples to oranges and forget that the answer varies from place to place and from one type of installation to another.

ecowatch.com: Is Rooftop Solar Cheaper Than Buying Electricity From the Grid?

March temperatures sets record as hottest ever, Bureau of Meteorology says

Hot March breaks temperature records

The hot start to 2016 continued into March with the Bureau of Meteorology releasing statistics showing the warm weather set new records.

www.abc.net.au: Hot March breaks temperature records

Stanford Scientists Find Fracking Linked to Groundwater Contamination in Pavillion, Wyoming
Andy Rowell, Oil Change International | April 1, 2016 10:32 am | Comments

As the fracking industry tries to expand internationally, being promoted as a so-called clean bridge fuel, it is increasingly clear the industry has not one, but two, Achilles heels.

The first is the release of the potent greenhouse gas, methane. The second is water pollution and the threat the controversial technique poses to drinking water.

A new study by scientists from Stanford University in California, published in Environmental Science & Technology has found that fracking operations near Pavillion in Wyoming “have had clear impact to underground sources of drinking water.” Photo credit: Dominic DiGiulio

ecowatch.com: Stanford Scientists Find Fracking Linked to Groundwater Contamination in Pavillion, Wyoming

5 months of drought
incredible whats going on all over the world
we dont know how lucky we can be .. mmmmm

Angry farmers protest in drought-stricken Philippines

Published on Apr 2, 2016
Three people are dead, and several are injured in clashes between police and farmers in southern Philippines. The demonstrators were angry about the lack of government help during one of the country's worst droughts in years.

Ethiopia dam: Concerns about enviornmental impact

Published on Apr 2, 2016

It has been five years since Ethiopian engineers began a giant hydroelectric project. But disagreements over safety, irrigation as well as political instability, have delayed the Grand Renaissance Dam. Charles Stratford reports from Guba on the Blue Nile in Western Ethiopia.

cool information to hear of for some regions ..

Tigers Could Make Roaring Comeback, Say Experts
Tiger numbers have plummeted by 95% over the past century, but they may soon be making a comeback, according to satellite images.

20:47, UK, Friday 01 April 2016

never thought they were into sych projects for there country/people

The wild tiger population has fallen 95% over the last 100 years

so often here of them warring with womever ..

 

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here is an excerpt of my entire family going for a 4 day roots seeking visit over easter to a 'family reunion' on a Maori Marae, meeting house place, founded by one of the original Mandelas ..

Parihaka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I want to thank you all for your efforts towards making our wananga as waste free as possible. I'm not sure how many know, and I wish I took pics but we had only a couple of bags of actual landfill in the end. For 110 approx people this was pretty amazing when some homes put out more than this on an average week!
Having the pig, and Parihakas willingness to compost made the waste food easy and contributed to the end minimal result of recycling. In the recycle we had a bag of hard plastic, about a third of a bag of soft plastic once squashed, some cardboard and paper and I only saw two actual glass bottles. A very small amount in total which was awesome.
No alcohol definitely makes a difference to this but also efforts to wash and squash what we did have helped.


and following is her daughters visit to NYC at the same time, just happened to be
i understand the problems of ant city in any country of the world, with there waste problem, but definitlty a good comparison to share ..
a small thing we individuals can achieve ..


Something distressing to me about New York was the amount of waste that place generates, every afternoon piles and piles of full rubbish bags are brought out of the stores and restaurants and piled high in the streets. I know I created a huge amount of waste just by being there, I contributed to the 12,000 tons of waste NYC produces every day. I found it incredible and so backward. I hope some serious changes are made and soon but the general attitude to waste is going to be hard to shift. Believe it or not, the photo below is actually one of the better piles I saw!! The white bags are recyclables, the black landfill and the cardboard to be recycled. The next bags along the street are the next stores landfill.

worth a repeat and no shame in doing so
ADMIRABLE'
repeat,no shame ..

5 Million Nigerians Oppose Monsanto’s Plans to Introduce GMO Cotton and Corn
Lorraine Chow | March 29, 2016 9:06 am | Comments

Millions of Nigerians are urging the Nigerian government to reject Monsanto’s attempts to introduce genetically modified(GMO) cotton and maize into the country’s food and farming systems.

One-hundred organizations representing more than 5 million Nigerians, including farmers, faith-based organisations, civil society groups, students and local community groups, have submitted a joint objection to the country’s National Biosafety Management Agency (NABMA) expressing serious concerns about human health and environmental risks of genetically altered crops.

ecowatch.com: 5 Million Nigerians Oppose Monsanto's Plans to Introduce GMO Cotton and Corn

good for them, admirable really, far more effective than any ghovt ..

Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft File Amicus Brief in Support of the Clean Power Plan
Greenpeace | April 1, 2016 2:34 pm | Comments
Today Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft filed an amicus brief in support of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan, showing the importance of the plan to major electricity consumers and the growing political advocacy by major technology companies for renewable energy.

Today Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft filed an amicus brief in support of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, showing the importance of the plan to major electricity consumers and the growing political advocacy by major technology companies for renewable energy.
In response, Gary Cook, senior energy campaigner forGreenpeace said:

“Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft have each committed to powering their operations with 100 percent renewable energy and they know that achieving these corporate commitments will not be possible without state and federal policy solutions such as the Clean Power Plan that will drive new investment in renewable energy.

ecowatch.com: Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft File Amicus Brief in Support of the Clean Power Plan

New Zealands been trying to promore it for 20 years or more
especially in Australia, hed to go offshore where the population is to make it a viable vbenture starting off
slow on the uptake?

This New Milk Featuring an Old Protein Promises Big Health Benefits
Jane Lear, TakePart | March 31, 2016 12:51 pm | Comments
The latest buzz in dairy circles is generated not by the raw versus pasteurized milk controversy—although the risks of raw milk continue to pop up in the news—but by A2 milk.

Say what?

Cartons of A2 milk by “The A2 Milk Company” brand. Photo credit: YouTube
The milk and other dairy products—which producers claim are more easily digested than the majority of commercially produced milk—may be new to the market in the U.S., but what sets them apart from your standard half-gallon is ancient history. Before we get into the various health claims swirling around the products, which range from A2 milk saving you from indigestion to A2 milk saving you from cancer, let’s be clear on what A2 milk is.

ecowatch.com: This New Milk Featuring an Old Protein Promises Big Health Benefits

WELL
we are never going to believe or stop eatiing it huh ha ..

Are You Eating Toxic Chocolate? Lead Found in Trader Joe’s, Hershey’s and Other Chocolates
As You Sow | March 26, 2016 8:40 am | Comments\

Consumer health watchdog As You Sow released results Wednesday showing that 35 of 50 chocolate products tested, including chocolate bunnies and eggs, expose consumers to lead and cadmium above levels set by California’s Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act.

Testing commissioned by As You Sow, and conducted at independent laboratories, indicates that the chocolate products contain lead and/or cadmium, and they fail to provide the legally required warning to consumers.

ecowatch.com: Are You Eating Toxic Chocolate? Lead Found in Trader Joe’s, Hershey’s and Other Chocolates

 

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how about this beauty ..

Welcome to one of the most exotic islands in the world
ADEN, Yemen — The Yemeni island of Socotra offers diverse and unique scenery. It is a place where history and culture meet in a magnificent natural setting with high levels of biodiversity. The island is home to a rich flora and fauna that includes rare species of birds not found anywhere else in the worl

rugged beauty,'like' love ha

Dragon's blood trees (L) and Socotran "desert roses" stand on a hillside in the protected area of Homhill on Socotra Island, Feb. 1, 2008. (photo by REUTERS/Alistair Lyon)

On the other hand, Socotra Island is one the four most important islands in the world in terms of biodiversity and vegetation, as it is home to thousands of endemic plants, animals and birds.

An Egyptian vulture flies on Socotra Island, March 27, 2008. The


Read more: Welcome to one of the most exotic islands in the world - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East


BEAUTYTHE MOST UNDERRATED PLACE IN EVERY STATE

Every state in this country has something -- be it a park, a museum, a mountain, hell, an entire freaking city -- that's downright fantastic but just doesn't get the credit it's due. Sure, maybe it's known, loved, and revered by some people in the region (those who, no doubt, will roll their eyes at this list 'cause they're already in the know) but for the most part, these spots go unnoticed, or worse, play second fiddle to more popular destinations.

www.flickr.com: Dunes

most unfortunate, must have fertilizer
but rtemember the 5 million
voting against the evil GMO
GOOGLE

Fertiliser shortage adds to woes of Nigerian farmers

Published on Apr 4, 2016
Farmers in Nigeria are running out of fertiliser because the government owes money to suppliers.

Fertiliser has also been seized by security services because of fears it could fall into the hands of Boko Haram.

Farmers are warning this will soon lead to food shortages.

Yvonne Ndege reports from Abaji on the outskirts of the
Federal Capital Territory

FYI
NZ was instrumental in starting this off, with our PM involved
thats why they signed things in Auckland NZ last month, and protesters were dissatisfied wityh it, sugggesting its all come 'too soon' and nothings really been workled out to everyones satisfaction
am watching and following closely ha

Mark Ruffalo: TPP Would Fuel Climate Chaos and Empower Corporate Polluters
Mark Ruffalo | April 4, 2016 9:28 am | Comments

any pundits were caught off-guard by the transpartisan fury over America’s trade policy rocking the presidential primary season. But it’s no surprise to me. I grew up in a working class family in Kenosha, Wisconsin. So I know why Americans have had enough of shiny promises, job-killing trade deals and Wall Street bailouts that propel ordinary people into an economic nose dive.

Hard working Americans of all political stripes recognize when the rules have been rigged against them, because they live day-to-day with the results. No doubt revolutionary change is an appealing alternative.

Since the North American Free Trade (NAFTA) and World Trade Organization agreements in the mid-1990s, America has lost more than five million manufacturing jobs net. Millions of service sector jobs also have been offshored.

Friends of the Earth members and allies protest TPP signing in Tampa, Florida, Feb. 4. Photo credit: Friends of the Earth

ecowatch.com: Mark Ruffalo: TPP Would Fuel Climate Chaos and Empower Corporate Polluters

hope so ..

Is the Tar Sands Boom About to Go Bust?

They conclude “no projects currently under construction are set to be completed that year or beyond.”

Aerial view of Syncrude Aurora tar sands mine in the Boreal Forest north of Fort McMurray. Photo credit: Greenpeace / Jiri Rezac

ecowatch.com: Is the Tar Sands Boom About to Go Bust?


how amazing
incredible things happening all the time
to counteract them damn wars ..

Researchers Celebrate First Live Encounter With Sumatran Rhino in Borneo for 40+ Years

Jamie Woolley, Greenpeace International | April 2, 2016 12:17 pm |Comments\

Researchers announced the first live encounter with a Sumatran rhino in Borneo for more than 40 years. But t-he human pressures that have pushed this species to the brink of extinction are still very much in play.

A rhino in the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary in Way Kambas National Park, Indonesia (2008). Photo credit: Willem v Strien / Greenpeace
An excited World Wildlife Fund (WWF) team released details of how the female rhino was safely captured in East Kalimantan (part of Indonesian Borneo) last month and has now been transported to a more protected region. Over the last few years, evidence from camera traps and footprints has indicated that these rhinos still survived in Borneo’s forests, but this is the first known encounter with a live animal since the early 1970s.

ecowatch.com: Researchers Celebrate First Live Encounter With Sumatran Rhino in Borneo for 40+ Years

 

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have to say quite impressive stuff ..

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oh FFS
joke or what??
tell the woreld a billion times
whats happened re that last Paris BS summitt, fat cats get together for a junket/talk shit/and it dies a natural death, till thje next junket ..

Surgeon General’s Warning: We Must Act on Climate
Nadia Prupis, Common Dreams | April 5, 2016 9:43 am | Comments

The report, The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment, finds that rising temperatures in the coming years will bring along with them the increased risk of:

Climate change is a serious threat to public health, particularly for pregnant women, children, communities of color and low-income people, a government report issued Monday has warned.

ecowatch.com: Surgeon General's Warning: We Must Act on Climate

so why doesent the Surgeon General get MONSANTO to place a health warning on every one of there devlish products WW
gutless bastard thats why?

and on another note
New Zealand was complicit in assissting the USA to manufacvture AGENT ORANGE in the Viet Nam days
a little known fgact as its kept secret/hidden for so many yhears
well known in NZ thanks to an investigative journalist
did not Round up stem from that dastartdy chemical
USA chemical warfare ..

Monsanto CEO Says ‘Roundup Is Not A Carcinogen’ But 94 Scientists From Around the World Disagree
Lorraine Chow | April 4, 2016 2:05 pm | Comments

Glyphosate, the main ingredient in the Monsanto’s flagship product Roundup, the most widely applied pesticide worldwide. Photo credit: Flickr
Both sections of the interview are definitely worth the listen for anyone interested in what the agrotech chief has to say about Monsanto’s ongoing string of controversies—or as Hobson puts it—how “Monsanto has become the face of corporate evil in this country.”

Last week, Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant sat down with Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson for a wide-ranging, two-part interview about everything Monsanto, from genetically modified crops and the future of agriculture, to the company’s recent spate of PCB lawsuits.

ecowatch.com: Monsanto CEO Says 'Roundup Is Not A Carcinogen’ But 94 Scientists From Around the World Disagree

Food Not Bullets: Hunger Pangs of Starving Farmers Met by a Barrage of Bullets
Zeph Repollo, 350.org | April 4, 2016 12:09 pm | Comments

Some 5,000 farmers and tribal people have blocked a major highway in the southern Philippine province of Cotabato in a standoff to demand food and immediate relief from the effects of drought brought about by the El Nino phenomenon. Photo credit: Pinoy Weekly

On the morning of April 1 police forces opened fire at some 5,000 farmers and indigenous Lumad demanding relief and subsidies for farm communities who have been intensely affected by the El Niño dry spell in Kidapawan City in the Philippines.

ecowatch.com: Food Not Bullets: Hunger Pangs of Starving Farmers Met by a Barrage of Bullet

 

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Holy crap, Rbk, ease up on the copy & paste thing.

Anyway, one of your articles got pretty alarmist about sea level rise doubling. Even if losing that ice sheet really did double the rate at which sea level rises, keep in mind that the sea level rises at a rate of millimeters per year.

The problem with loss of ice is not the increase in sea level, it's that ice reflects more light than it absorbs, so turning ice into water changes the rate of heat exchange between the Earth and Sun, which in turn further alters precipitation. It's those changes in precipitation that has the most potential to cause human suffering and economic damage. Where we put our farmlands was based on precipitation patters that are changing right now, which means those precipitation changes will result in a lot of farms getting less rain than expected, which has the negative effects you would expect.

The Arab Spring is at least in part influenced by this. It drove up food prices enough to create enormous political unrest.

 

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Holy crap, Rbk, ease up on the copy & paste thing.

The Arab Spring is at least in part influenced by this. It drove up food prices enough to create enormous political unrest.


holy crap yourself oxnard, just dont bother going in to view the copy/paste if it disturbs you so much
there maybe some article of interest for someone in any of the articles, not just what your interested in,
sea level rising/arab spring of all things geeesus, havemt we moved on from there

the confidence you are gradually showing will stand you in good stead in the future, but i doubt you weould haver survived any politics forums several years ago

in saying that i am not sure if you have any idea re this
not that i give a shit anyway, but
Global warming?
Jjz1109, Jan 23, 2014 ... 61 62 63
Replies:1,247
Views:18,841
Oxnard
with 1200 plus posts/18000.800 views
with most of the posts being put out there by me,
my interest in the topic/i dont seek no accolades duh and virtually only yoursel amd the infamous Julie being negative,
say anything about cut/paste
i have statrd seveal times if a mod ,or Rob e suggest i desist i will,dont need an osxnard to tell me my business

and please point me in the direction of a similar thread of interest,you obviously visit it to take what you want
have you actually contributed something of interest

oh and it will continue tomorrow am as usual, no change imminent ha
you may eventually find a niche and settle down/into it ha'

 

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Holy crap, Rbk, ease up on the copy & paste thing.

The Arab Spring is at least in part influenced by this. It drove up food prices enough to create enormous political unrest.


holy crap yourself oxnard, just dont bother going in to view the copy/paste if it disturbs you so much
there maybe some article of interest for someone in any of the articles, not just what your interested in,
sea level rising/arab spring of all things geeesus, havemt we moved on from there

the confidence you are gradually showing will stand you in good stead in the future, but i doubt you weould haver survived any politics forums several years ago

in saying that i am not sure if you have any idea re this
not that i give a shit anyway, but
Global warming?
Jjz1109, Jan 23, 2014 ... 61 62 63
Replies:1,247
Views:18,841
Oxnard
with 1200 plus posts/18000.800 views
with most of the posts being put out there by me,
my interest in the topic/i dont seek no accolades duh and virtually only yoursel amd the infamous Julie being negative,
say anything about cut/paste
i have statrd seveal times if a mod ,or Rob e suggest i desist i will,dont need an osxnard to tell me my business

and please point me in the direction of a similar thread of interest,you obviously visit it to take what you want
have you actually contributed something of interest

oh and it will continue tomorrow am as usual, no change imminent ha
you may eventually find a niche and settle down/into it ha'

The copy and pasting simply clutters things up. Why not just post links like everyone else?

 

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obviously go al ecstatic over this news ha, love it yes .
obsessed with solar,way to go

20 Cities Leading America’s Solar Revolution
Environment America Research & Policy Center | April 6, 2016 8:35 am |Comments

Sixty-four major American cities are now home to almost as muchsolar capacity as the entire country had installed at the end of the 2010, according to a new analysis, which ranks America’s major cities for their solar power.

Solar panels atop of the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Photo credit: Georgia Tech Research Institute

ecowatch.com: 20 Cities Leading America's Solar Revolution

never learn, just never/dont want to learn ..

Africa’s Traditional Crops Under Threat as Big Ag, Gates Foundation ‘Donate’ GMO Technology
Lorraine Chow | April 6, 2016 10:00 am | Comments

A new report from the African Centre for Biodiversity, a nonprofit that aims to protect the continent’s biodiversity and food production system, accuses the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and GMOcompanies including Monsanto of introducing GMO technology in Africa “under the guise of philanthropy.”

The report, For your own good!, also warns that GMO companies are currently conducting R&D on the genetic modification of staple African crops such as cassava, sorghum, sweet potato, pigeon pea, cowpea, banana and rice. The report says that the key countries “targeted” include, Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda and Malawi.

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ecowatch.com: Africa's Traditional Crops Under Threat as Big Ag, Gates Foundation 'Donate' GMO Technology

OMG shake my head, how lucky we are
poor souls
Phillipines EL NINO DROUGHT WW

Philippines drought: Farmers desperate for government help

Published on Apr 5, 2016
The El Nino weather phenomenon is being blamed for one of the worst droughts on record in the Philippines. The Island of Mindanao is at critical point.

Last Friday, three farmers were killed when thousands gathered to protests against what they say is a lack of government action.

'bummer it never knocked out a few countries
'blame NK for it no doubt'

Meteor seen by dozens of people across New Zealand

Last updated 02:22, April 6 2016

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/78600790/Meteor-seen-by-dozens-of-people-across-New-Zealand?cid=edm:stuff:dailyheadlines&bid=3076490

never learn, obviously not interested
lust for OIL and no concern for the environment, what a combination ..


High Levels of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals Found Near Fracking Wastewater Site
Lorraine Chow | April 6, 2016 9:23 am | Comments

A new study from the University of Missouri (MU) has reported high levels of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in the surface water near a fracking wastewater disposal facility in West Virginia, raising concerns if similar cases are occurring nationwide given the country’s 36,000 fracking disposal sites.

A number of high profile “fraccidents” have occurred in and around West Virginia. Photo Credit: EarthJustice
The report, Endocrine Disrupting Activity in Surface Water Associated with a West Virginia Oil and Gas Industry Wastewater Injection Disposal Site, was published today in the peer-reviewed journal Science of the Total Environment.

BuzzFeed News reported from the study:

ecowatch.com: High Levels of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals Found Near Fracking Wastewater Site

cool 'like very much' BRILLIANT

A conservationist's rhino-in-the-sky idea

Thursday 7 Apr 2016 10:48 a.m.

Ray Dearlove was formerly a real estate agent, but now works to save rhinos (TARP / Facebook)

Read more: A conservationist's rhino-in-the-sky idea

but
win many,lose 1,still sad .., such huge strong beautiful animals ..

Rare rhino dies shortly after discovery
A rare Sumatran rhino, the first to be found in Indonesian Borneo in 40 years, has died.

Rare rhino dies shortly after discovery

 

[rbkwp]

The copy and pasting simply clutters things up. Why not just post links like everyone else?

i see you conveniently ignored what was stated huh/shows a little/big ignorance on your part
a one liner response on that would have been sensible

clutter things up, someone a few months here has decided how the site should be run, well well

dl was correct after all, with the thread he started

live with it oxnard, it wont be changing
your one liner responses, like everyone else as you say, wel

the new LPSG platform, as oxnard, well known member desires it ha
and how everyone should conform to such ..

 

[rbkwp]

and again
the world as Trump and oxnard would not like to see it,just not in my image huh duh'
the cluttered world of copy/cut/paste, oh so important ..
would have thought this is of more importance ..

Half of World Heritage Sites at Risk From Fossil Fuel Development and Other Industries
Climate Nexus | April 7, 2016 9:33 am | Comments

Nearly half the world’s natural heritage sites are threatened by various forms of industrial development, according to a new report. The World Wildlife Fund says extractive industries and other large projects pose a clear risk to at least 114 of 229 global sites identified by the organization.

The Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries in China are home to more than 30 percent of the world’s endangered wild giant pandas, but the world heritage site is under threat from industrial activities, says WWF. Photo credit: Donald G. Reid / WWF
A full two-thirds of the sites in sub-Saharan Africa are under threat and 46 sites are recorded as facing multiple threats, including Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and the Galapagos Islands. The report calls on governments to restrict industrial activities in these areas and demands accountability from the businesses whose operations are damaging these landmarks.

Greater flamingos in flight over Doñana national park marshes, Andalusia, Spain. The Andalusian government is supporting the reopening of a mine near the park, a world heritage site. Photo credit: Diego Lopez Alvarez / WWF
ecowatch.com: Half of World Heritage Sites at Risk From Fossil Fuel Development and Other Industries


and equally of importance, shamefull disgusting, just incredibly unbelievable ..

Tigers Declared Extinct in Cambodia
Lorraine Chow | April 6, 2016 10:37 am | Comments

Due to years of illegal poaching and loss of habitat, tigers are now “functionally extinct” in Cambodia, conservationists conceded for the first time Wednesday.

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According to World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-Cambodia, the last tiger seen in Cambodia’s wild was in 2007 from a hidden camera set up in the Eastern Plains Dry Forest Landscape in Mondulkiri Protected Forest.

ecowatch.com: Tigers Declared Extinct in Cambodia


WOW!!!

Monster black hole discovered in an unlikely galaxy may be common
Discovery News
By Irene Klotz
Updated about 3 hours ago

PHOTO: Monster black holes may lurk in the heart of more galaxies than we thought.(NASA, ESA, D Coe, J Anderson, R. van der Marel (STScI))

Astronomers have found a monster black hole, some 17 billion times more massive than the sun, in a modestly sized galaxy, raising suspicions supermassive black holes may be more common than originally thought.

www.abc.net.au: Monster black hole discovered in unlikely galaxy

and
the competition ha the inferior noisy windpower ha
but i geuss it has its places/benefits, in wind torn areas ha yahoooo

21 Countries That Reduced Carbon Emissions While Growing Their GDP

Nate Aden, World Resources Institute | April 6, 2016 8:18 am | Comments
As countries embark on the transition to a new climate economy, there’s a debate about whether growth can drive or even coexist with, climate stabilization. On the other side of the coin, it’s also a discussion of whether climate stabilization can drive growth.

Economic growth and carbon dioxide emissions have increasingly diverged in the UK. Photo credit: James Allan / Flickr
The debates on growth and resources are complex, fractious and centuries old and while they won’t be resolved in the immediate future, recent developments show that global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions stayed flat in 2014 and 2015 while GDP continued to grow. This emerging trend is supported by 21 countries that have managed to reduce GHG emissions while growing GDP.

ecowatch.com: 21 Countries That Reduced Carbon Emissions While Growing Their GDP


interesting that
as NZ suffered from an outbreak of didymo, yes thats the name given, green snot
anyway it was originally/apparently traced back to possibly stemming from North American fisherman transporting it on there boots
NZs fault for not checking the boots thoroughly in customs

www.biosecurity.govt.nz: Didymo | MPI Biosecurity New Zealand
sooooooo maybe??

Blue-green algae triggers red alert in north-west Victorian horticulture region
Posted about an hour ago

PHOTO: Blue-green algae is turning the Murray River green at Barmah in northern Victoria. (ABC: Warwick Long)

Thousands of horticulture properties are being affected by a blue-green algae outbreak in the Murray River at Red Cliffs.

The Sunraysia Regional Algal Coordinating Committee has issued a red alert warning for the algae between Red Cliffs and Merbein.

Livestock producers have been advised to move stock to alternative water sources.

Chair of the algal committee Owen Russell said livestock troughs should be shaded to slow the algae's growth and stock should be prevented from drinking directly from the river.

www.abc.net.au: Red alert issued for blue-green algae in north west Victoria

mmmmmmmmm ha'
but
a bit like crayfish so uhmmm not really?

Rock lobsters seized in WA black market probe

An alleged black market trade of rock lobster is discovered on Western Australia's coast after an investigation by the state's fisheries watchdog.

 

[Elmer Gantry]

Nature Climate Change | Letter

The polarizing impact of science literacy and numeracy on perceived climate change risks

Seeming public apathy over climate change is often attributed to a deficit in comprehension. The public knows too little science, it is claimed, to understand the evidence or avoid being misled1. Widespread limits on technical reasoning aggravate the problem by forcing citizens to use unreliable cognitive heuristics to assess risk2. We conducted a study to test this account and found no support for it. Members of the public with the highest degrees of science literacy and technical reasoning capacity were not the most concerned about climate change. Rather, they were the ones among whom cultural polarization was greatest. This result suggests that public divisions over climate change stem not from the public’s incomprehension of science but from a distinctive conflict of interest: between the personal interest individuals have in forming beliefs in line with those held by others with whom they share close ties and the collective one they all share in making use of the best available science to promote common welfare.

Or they have the best BS monitors as they are somewhat capable of critical thought. Just sayin'...................

 

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www.washingtonpost.com: Shocking new study foresees a swamped planet as the GOP revels in illogic

 

[Oxnard]

Or they have the best BS monitors as they are somewhat capable of critical thought. Just sayin'...................

Are you saying that rejecting anthropomorphic climate change is the result of critical thought?

I'm sorry, but that is simply ludicrous.

The consensus of the relevant experts is overwhelming. Those climatologists who disagree with the climate model have only minor objections, which is why the anti-science side of this argument gets their "science" from outsiders like Ross McKitrick, who is either deliberately deceiving people, or else is so incompetent that he can't tell degrees from radians and can't figure out how conservation of energy works in those equations, or complete incompetents like Monckton, who is an economist turned politician who claims to be a scientist.

As with all anti-science movements, climate change deniers have to make two claims: that nearly all of the relevant experts are part of a vast conspiracy, and that they are greater experts than the experts. This is the same delusion that creationists, anti-vaccine people and anti-GMO people truck in.

 

[marinera]

Actually, what the study I posted shows is that people more educated tend to be more sceptic of AGW. All this name calling by AGW supporters, this idea that if one doesn't believe in AGW is an illiterate, should make people with enough critic sense suspicious. If a scientific theory has proofs, you don't need to name call those who are sceptics of it.

For example, I see AGW believers always calling sceptics 'deniers'. This is strange per se, you don't call those who don't believe in the II law of thermodinamycs 'deniers', do you?

AGW believers believe in AGW because they want to conform to what is propaganded as the 'scientific truth', not because they understand science better. Actually, when they appeal to the number of 'experts' that believe in AGW, they are using a non-scientifi argument.

AGW believers want to forbid scepticism about AGW. Al Gore made a film filled with bullshits and he is still around selling that crap, he even asks about a law that makes illegal defending scepticism about AGW:
'A coalition of state attorneys general announced Tuesday that they will be working together to investigate corporations who may have misled the public about climate change.
.......
“We want them to tell the truth so we can get down to the business of fighting climate change.”
www.huffingtonpost.com: State Attorneys General Pledge To Crack Down On Climate Fraud

The sentence in bold is nothing short than frigthtening. Those who burnt Giordano Bruno and would have burnt Galileo to,o had him not abjured, said the same thing.

 

[rbkwp]

GOOD
even supposed clean green New Zealand hasent made this bold step
i will bitch and moan post/clutter images of
esp MONSANTOs Glysophate Round up and other products until the day i die
grrrrrr hate the money hungry bastards
at the expense of peoples health ..as bad as the wars a certain counntry insists on creating ..
i may even partially forgive France for its Nuclear testing in the Paxcific, but naaah not really, mark it down to a different era/govt/circumstance ha
there blatant act of TERRORISIM in NZ waters will never be forgiven tho ..

France to Ban Glyphosate Weedkillers Due to Health Risks
Lorraine Chow | April 8, 2016 10:21 am | Comments

France is banning glyphosate mixed with certain adjuvants (additives) due to its perceived risks to human health. The move comes less than two months after Ségolène Royal, France’s minister of ecology, sustainable development and energy, called for the ban.

Monsanto’s glyphosate-containing herbicides have been linked to cancer in humans.Photo credit: Flickr
ANSES—France’s food, environment and health agency—sent a letter this week to manufacturers informing them that it intends to withdraw the authorization on herbicides containing glyphosate mixed with the adjuvant tallow amine, ANSES’ deputy director general Francoise Weber told Reuters.

According to Weber, ANES made the decision after the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) suggested greater potential risks compared to glyphosate alone.

ecowatch.com: France to Ban Glyphosate Weedkillers Due to Health Risks

and
as has been predicted some years ago, well remember scientists predicting such, of course the F'wit deniers will triple there denials ..pathetic ..
notice the few/occasional deniers that appeared on this thread, 1 post wonders, soon F'd off, too much truth to contend with ..

Melting of Arctic Sea Ice Already Setting Records in 2016
Roz Pidcock, Carbon Brief | April 8, 2016 9:59 am | Comments

The decline of Arctic sea ice is already setting records in 2016, with the winter peak in March clocking in as the lowest since satellite records began, scientists say.

A new and fuller summary of this year’s Arctic winter by the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) confirms thepreliminary announcement last week that sea ice reached its annual maximum extent on March 24 this year.

The decline of Arctic sea ice is already setting records in 2016, with the winter peak in March clocking in as the lowest since satellite records began, scientists say. Photo credit: Jim Yungel / NASA
Covering an area of 14.52m square kilometers, this year’s peak winter extent is a shade smaller than the previous record low set in 2015. But the new NSIDC report adds a lot more detail about what it calls a “highly unusual” and “most interesting” Arctic winter.

ecowatch.com: Melting of Arctic Sea Ice Already Setting Records in 2016


NG ARTICLES as good as ( incls cut/copy/paste/ clutter, for emphasis?)
been a lifetime member ha
never regretted it,.

Why the New Sea Level Alarm Can't Be Ignored

The physics of ice predicts that sea level will rise twice as much by the end of the century as previously estimated.

news.nationalgeographic.com: Why the New Sea Level Alarm Can't Be Ignored

New Map Shows Rise in Human-Caused Earthquake Risk

The USGS map is the first to include quake risks related to human activity, largely tied to the fracking boom in the central states.

news.nationalgeographic.com: New Map Shows Huge Rise in Human-Caused Earthquakes

Damaged Japanese Spacecraft Likely ‘Beyond Saving’
POSTED MON, 04/4/2016

This may be the largest remaining piece of the space telescope Hitomi.

New observations suggest that Hitomi, Japan’s flagship X-ray telescope, is tumbling through space in ten or more pieces—and is likely unrecoverable.

“The available data now seem to indicate a real break-up rather than just “some” debris shedding,” writes satellite tracker Marco Langbroek. “If true, then Hitomi is beyond saving.”

phenomena.nationalgeographic.com: Damaged Japanese Spacecraft Likely ‘Beyond Saving’

Discovery Could Rewrite History of Vikings in New World

Guided by ancient Norse sagas and modern satellite images, searchers discover what may be North America's second Viking site.

news.nationalgeographic.com: Discovery Could Rewrite History of Vikings in New World

naught cute little fiery animals, no doubt
wouldent want to tangle with one, or a pack of them ha ..

Prairie Dogs Are Serial Killers That Murder Their Competition

The herbivorous rodents kill off competing ground squirrels—the first such behavior seen in a mammal, a new study says.

news.nationalgeographic.com: Prairie Dogs Are Serial Killers That Murder Their Competition

 

[marinera]

Poor squirrels. Mother nature is cruel, isn't she?

 

[Oxnard]

Actually, what the study I posted shows is that people more educated tend to be more sceptic of AGW. All this name calling by AGW supporters, this idea that if one doesn't believe in AGW is an illiterate, should make people with enough critic sense suspicious. If a scientific theory has proofs, you don't need to name call those who are sceptics of it.

For example, I see AGW believers always calling sceptics 'deniers'. This is strange per se, you don't call those who don't believe in the II law of thermodinamycs 'deniers', do you?

AGW believers believe in AGW because they want to conform to what is propaganded as the 'scientific truth', not because they understand science better. Actually, when they appeal to the number of 'experts' that believe in AGW, they are using a non-scientifi argument.

AGW believers want to forbid scepticism about AGW. Al Gore made a film filled with bullshits and he is still around selling that crap, he even asks about a law that makes illegal defending scepticism about AGW:
'A coalition of state attorneys general announced Tuesday that they will be working together to investigate corporations who may have misled the public about climate change.
.......
“We want them to tell the truth so we can get down to the business of fighting climate change.”
www.huffingtonpost.com: State Attorneys General Pledge To Crack Down On Climate Fraud

The sentence in bold is nothing short than frigthtening. Those who burnt Giordano Bruno and would have burnt Galileo to,o had him not abjured, said the same thing.

How would you characterize a non-expert who is skeptical of something that enjoys a consensus of over 97% of scientists from the relevant field?

Mind you, consensus can bed measured a number of different ways. The 97% figure is perhaps the most conservative (pun intended).

Just by expressing this skepticism, they are necessarily claiming to have a better understanding of climatology than the vast majority of climatologists.