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  • A Cry for Help from Rural Alaska. Is Anyone Listening?
    16 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    A Cry for Help from Rural Alaska. Is Anyone Listening? 14 01 2009 Four days ago, a cry for help went out via the Bristol Bay Times. Many of us have known that residents of Alaska’s rural villages are having a hard winter. The weather has been unusually cold, and prices of heating oil and gasoline have been astronomical. Add to that a disastrous collapsing salmon fishery in Bristol Bay that left residents in that area heading in to winter with less than usual, and you have the makings (…)

  • Coral Decline Warns of Ocean Changes: Australian Scientists
    3 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Commondreams.org
    Published on Friday, January 2, 2009 by Agence France Presse
    SYDNEY - A sharp slowdown in coral growth on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef since 1990 is a warning sign that precipitous changes in the world’s oceans may be imminent, scientists said Friday.
    Source: myclimatechange.net
    Strong evidence points to the cause being a combination of warmer seas and higher acidity from increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, Australian Institute of Marine Science (…)

  • George Carlin - Natural Disasters/Saving the Planet (2 videos)
    17 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/categorie-10208424.html

  • Pro-Coal PM Rudd of climate criminal Australia attacks"act now" greens as "radical" & "extreme"
    12 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The World is under enormous threat from man-made global warming (see the One-Page “Climate Emergency Facts and Required Actions” Statement designed for transmission to EVERYONE: ).
    However leading per capita greenhouse gas polluter Australia is committed to DOUBLING CO2 pollution by 2050 (while most EU countries want to REDUCE it by 80%) – and now Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has slammed those wanting to save the Planet through urgent action of carbon pollution as “radical (…)

  • Giant Antarctic Wilkins Ice Shelf Collapses! (2008.03.25 + VIDEO)
    8 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    A vast hunk of floating ice has broken away from the Antarctic peninsula, threatening the collapse of a much larger ice shelf behind it, in a development that has shocked climate scientists.
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    Satellite images show that about 160 square miles of the Wilkins ice shelf has been lost since the end of February, leaving the ice interior now "hanging by a thread".
    The collapsing shelf suggests that climate change could be forcing change much more quickly than scientists had predicted. (…)

  • Morales calls for ’reparations to the earth’ (video)
    29 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Source: cialnanterre.googlepage
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-24129560.html

  • Three Challenges for the Planet - Jeffrey Sachs (video)
    23 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Earth Institute Director Jeffrey Sachs outlines what are, in his view, the three greatest challenges to peace the world will face over the next several years.
    One of the world’s leading experts in aid and economic and sustainable development, Professor Jeffrey Sachs, gave a free public lecture at the University of Sydney on Tuesday, 15 July, 2008, to mark the opening of the University’s new Institute for Sustainable Solutions.
    Professor Jeffrey Sachs is Professor of Health Policy and (…)

  • ErockIT – the fastest hybrid bicycle made in Germany - top speed 80 km/h
    29 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    "ErockIT" riders have to pedal to get the bike going, and the faster they pedal, the faster the motor goes. The bike can reach speeds of up to 80 kilometres, or almost 50 miles, per hour and its inventor says it could revolutionise transport.
    http://en.rian.ru/video/20080929/117230866.html
    http://www.gizmag.com/the-erockit—50-mph-pedal-electric-hybrid-motorcycle/9528/
    http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/06/21/erockit-serial-electric-bike-impresses/
    http://www.erockit.net

  • NATO’s Doomsday Seed Vault in the Arctic by F. W. Engdahl
    25 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Global Research , September 22, 2008
    Using "Climate Change" as a Pretext to Appropriate World Seeds’ Treasure
    The controversial ‘Doomsday Seed Vault’, a nuclear-bomb-proof vault deep into the side of a mountain in NATO-member Norway’s Svalbard, near the Arctic Circle, has begun to collect seed samples from the entire world to freeze in the newly opened facility. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, along with the Rockefeller Foundation, Monsanto Corporation, Syngenta Foundation and the (…)

  • Geomagnetic field: when will compass fail?
    6 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Geomagnetic field: when will compass fail?
    16:50 | 05/ 09/ 2008 MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Kislyakov) - The recent trouble with the ISS, caused by simple computer virus capable of stealing logins and passwords for computer games only, was minor compared to possible environmental changes that could make space flights impossible. This could also cripple aviation and television, and even put terrestrial life at risk.
    It’s about the Earth’s geomagnetic field, (…)