Great news for shipping...bad news for the environment...
Conservative estimates had the nortwest passage opening up due to ice melt anywhere from 2012 to 2080...
No wonder Russia has been getting gung-ho about claiming territory in the arctic circle!!!
Brilliant!!! Let me go out and get a copy of this rag so that they can expound on global warming!!!
Dopes!
We just don't know the impact of what we do...
Dredging of the St. Clair river in the 60's has apparently caused water outflows in excess of 2.5 billion gallons a day in the great lakes system.
As a side note, with costs of municipal water around $15 per thousand gallons...that's about $37MM down the drain every day.
an interesting article.
While it's not the savanna that I am used to thinking about (lions, tigers and giraffes etc.) it is amazing that 70% of the worlds remaining savanna land mass is in Australia.
I'm one of the culprits myself.
Everyone of those bottles goes into the landfills...
Why not start a bottle deposit on water and juice bottles???
you might say..."Yeah, what's the big news here?"
to which I would respond, "well, the last time a hurricane hit Hawaii was in 1871!!!"
nope...nothing going on with the environment...nothing at all...
Interesting point of view.
I have said a million times that I can have a conversation around how bad global warming is, how much of an impact we are having but I really find it hard to believe that people still think we are not having an impact on the environment.
who knows...
A rare river dolphin called a baijis that lived in the Yangtze River in China is the first extinction of a large vertabrate in over 50 years.
Essentially, dig a hole 3 miles underground...fill it full of water, the pressure and heat boil the water to 350+ degrees...now take the superheated water out of the ground to produce electricity...
Very clean for the environment...except for the EARTHQUAKES!
Not sure what is causing it, but Lake Superior is losing it's water.
There is so much about the environment that we just don't know
As mentioned in this blog before...as the Arctic circle starts to melt more and more emphasis will be placed on the resources that can be found there.
This is yet another example of something that is "Frosting" the relations between the US and Russia.
so says the Mexican government...
There can be no meaningful conversation about immigration if there is no control of the borders.
I'm sorry but in this case I feel the environment just has to suffer a little.
If Mexico is so concerned about the impacts, why not patrol it's border and do something (anything actually) to curb border jumping.
Ok, two articles in a row about the environment...
But please don't label me a tree-hugging hippie!!!
I still drive my gas guzzling SUV, but this is a great story!
Well, this seems to be a recurring theme...
the more I read about this, the more I find it amazing how science fiction becomes science fact...
when I was "Younger" (I won't tell you how young or how old) I read a book called "Last Gasp" by Trevor Hoyle.
It took me a while to find it...Barnes and Noble didn't even have it listed but Amazon did
http://www.amazon.com/Last-Gasp-Trevor-Hoyle/dp/B000BP77SW/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/102-3516042-5495302?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1185926030&sr=8-2
It was a pretty good book...can't tell you it was great, but after all these years I did remember it, even if Barnes and Noble didn't, so that has to say a lot...
Basically it was an apocolyptic end of the world type book based on the expansion of these "Dead Zones".
Like I said, it's amazing that a book written in 1983 has the basic premise (excluding the rest of the plot!!!) of the book coming true almost 25 years later...
Interesting article, and it does provide some interesting insights.
Simply put, I would have a little concern with the report as it seems to be pretty close minded...
It is very easy to "adjust the math" to get a result that you are looking for.
The first thing I thought of when reading the article was that the study was funded by the Nuclear Power industry
A great article about a Russian expedition to the North Pole...cool in itself, but buried at the bottom of the article is a quick hit on US/Russian tensions...
It's about Russia claiming more waters off it's north cost and the US opposition to such tactics...
Maybe I am reading too much into this but in the relatively near future the Arctic circle will be a huge focus for international tension. As the ice caps melt (initially for part of the year and then for the entire year) there will be more and more competition to gain control of a viable "East/West" passage that would cut weeks off of shipping times from China to Europe and the East coast of the US.
yet another instance of tension with Russia...also see my post about troop reductions in Europe if you haven't read it yet.
well, I had another conversation the other day where a friend said that global warming didn't exist...
As you can imagine, I was a little surprised by this comment.
I'm open to discussing how bad, what impacts humans are having, trending of natural events etc. but I can't sit and discuss that there just isn't anything happening...
What I think would really help move the discussion of environmental issues forward is to essentially stop using the term "Global Warming" (it's politicized and is almost as touchy a subject as religion and abortion) and start discussing the topic in terms of how much it will cost people in the future.
Simply put, if you are a "Non-Believer" and some says global warming...you tend to hear "Global Warming...blah...blah...blah" However, if someone were to say that rising temperatures will cost you $400/year in extra cooling costs for your house, the frozen corn you put on your table will now cost $6/lb, Milk will cost $8/gal and orange juice...just forget about it...you may be more interested in the conversation.
an interesting article that states that only one in three people polled within 20 miles of the coast would evacuate during a hurricane warning...
I wonder what these numbers looked like before Katrina
