Global Warming Cont...

If you are a duck hunter, you probably have donated money to Ducks Unlimited or one of the newer waterfowl conservation groups and you know a bit about the importance of the breeding grounds. Many other species use the same protected and enhanced wetland areas on the far northern prairies.
Waterfowl hunters of necessity must be proponents of pollution reduction and watershed protection, etc.
Squirrel and turkey hunters of necessity must be the biggest proponents of forest protection and preservation and anti-clear-cutting of hardwood forests.
It is the same as a fan of athletics who doesn't want stadia and gyms destroyed! And people who love to eat good food and drink clean water and breathe clean air have to get on the bandwagon or suffer! Conservation is for everyone!

Why are people over here so soon after a big Bulldog basketball win over Fresnek?

I bet Mick is happy to see his old team, the Broncos, beating up on New England!

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New source of global warming gas found: plants

Wed Jan 11, 1:06 PM ET


LONDON (Reuters) - German scientists have discovered a new source of methane, a greenhouse gas that is second only to carbon dioxide in its impact on climate change.
The culprits are plants.
They produce about 10 to 30 percent of the annual methane found in the atmosphere, according to researchers at the Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany.
The scientists measured the amount of methane released by plants in controlled experiments. They found it increases with rising temperatures and exposure to sunlight.
"Significant methane emissions from both intact plants and detached leaves were observed ... in the laboratory and in the field," Dr Frank Keppler and his team said in a report in the journal Nature.
Methane, which is produced by city rubbish dumps, coal mining, flatulent animals, rice cultivation and peat bogs, is one of the most potent greenhouse gases in terms of its ability to trap heat.
Concentrations of the gas in the atmosphere have almost tripled in the last 150 years. About 600 million tonnes worldwide are produced annually.
The scientists said their finding is important for understanding the link between global warming and a rise in greenhouse gases.
It could also have implications for the Kyoto Protocol, which calls for developed countries to cut their emissions of greenhouse gases by 5.2 percent below 1990 levels by 2008-12.
Keppler and his colleagues discovered that living plants emit 10 to 100 times more methane than dead plants.
Scientists had previously thought that plants could only emit methane in the absence of oxygen.
David Lowe, of the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand, said the findings are startling and controversial.
"Keppler and colleagues' finding helps to account for observations from space of incredibly large plumes of methane above tropical forests," he said in a commentary on the research.
But the study also poses questions, such as how such a potentially large source of methane could have been overlooked and how plants produced it.
"There will be a lively scramble among researchers for the answers to these and other questions," Lowe added.

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Tyler, just enjoy your 70 degree day.

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Tyler, just enjoy your 70 degree day.

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Of course, DB meant this tounge in cheek, but it happens to be very good advice.

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Tyler, just enjoy your 70 degree day.

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Thanks DB! I will. Actually, I am enjoying the rain today.

"And the truth shall set you free " :D

Bitter Cold in Moscow Leaves Two Dead
Record-low temperatures across Siberia
Jan 17 12:52 PM US/Eastern
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MOSCOW

Two people died of exposure and 14 more were hospitalized in a single day as temperatures plunged in the Russian capital, city emergency medical authorities said Tuesday. Temperatures dropped from about freezing Monday afternoon to minus-28 Celsius (minus-18 Fahrenheit) overnight as a cold wave hit after inflicting record-low temperatures across Siberia.
Electricity monopoly RAO Unified Energy System of Russia said Tuesday that the sharp drop in temperature had caused no supply disruptions in Moscow. But NTV television reported that power was cut off to nearly 30 towns and villages in Ryazan region southwest of Moscow, and that there were also problems in the Volga River region of Samara.
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Chief executive Anatoly Chubais has threatened to reduce supplies to nonessential points if temperatures stay below minus-25 C (minus-13 F) for three days or more. NTV reported that in Moscow, the first items to be shut off if necessary would be electric-lit advertising billboards.
The national meteorological office RosHydroMet has forecast the current cold front to keep temperatures at or below present levels at least until Friday.
Russian media reported that police were under orders to make an exception to their usual practice of evicting homeless people from the subway, building entrances and other shelters.
The Interfax news agency reported that 107 people had died of exposure in Moscow since October.
Prosecutors opened a criminal investigation into alleged negligence by prison officials in the Russian Far East village of Takhtamygda, where the heating system broke down and the more than 800 inmates had to use makeshift wood-burning stoves to keep warm for more than a week, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported Tuesday. Investigators said prison officials had failed to obey instructions to keep a backup pump engine for the heating plant.
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http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/01/17/D8F6ITJ08.html

According to Mayor Nagin, God is causing the hurricanes, not global warming.

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According to Mayor Nagin, God is causing the hurricanes, not global warming.

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Well, God and Bush are pretty tight...we know how Bush feels about black people thanks to Kanye West.:icon_wink

When does the madness ever stop!? LOL

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapc...eut/index.html
Invasion of the giant jellyfish



TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) -- A slimy jellyfish weighing as much as a sumo wrestler has Japan's fishing industry in the grip of its poisonous tentacles.


Vast numbers of Echizen kurage, or Nomura's jellyfish, have appeared around Japan's coast since July, clogging and ripping fishing nets and forcing fishermen to spend hours hacking them apart before bringing home their reduced catches.
Representatives of fishing communities around the country gathered in Tokyo on Thursday, hoping to thrash out solutions to a pest that has spread from the Japan Sea to the Pacific coast.

"It's a terrible problem. They're like aliens," Noriyuki Kani of the fisheries federation in Toyama, northwest of Tokyo, told Reuters ahead of the conference.
There are no official figures on the size of the problem, but Kani says the financial losses are obvious.

"If your nets are full of jellyfish, of course there is no space for fish," he said.
Cutting up and disposing of the giants can turn a three-hour fishing trip into a 10-hour marathon, while valuable fish are poisoned or crushed under the weight of the unwanted catch.

And what a catch. One Echizen kurage can be up to 2 meters (6 feet, 7 inches) in diameter and weigh up to 200 kilograms (440 pounds).

Despite their size, the invertebrates aren't toxic enough to cause serious harm to humans, but fishermen often wear goggles and protective clothing to avoid stings when dealing with them.

Much about the jellyfish, the largest variety found in the Sea of Japan, remains a mystery, according to Hitoshi Iizumi of the Seikai National Fisheries Research Institute in Niigata.

Researchers have suggested they drift to Japan on currents after reproducing in South Korean or Chinese waters, a theory that Japan wants to investigate with the other two nations.

But with relations between Japan and its nearest neighbors at a low ebb, Tokyo wants to avoid apportioning blame.
"We have a neutral stance," said Yukihiko Sakamoto of the National Fisheries Agency, which organized Thursday's conference.
'Culinary solution'

"It doesn't matter whether the jellyfish come from South Korean waters or Japanese waters. We just want to do something to minimize the damage to the fishing industry," he said.

Spikes in population have occurred in the past, notably in 1958, but consecutive outbreaks in 2002 and 2003 prompted the government to seek reasons and solutions.

Scientists have suggested global warming might be a factor.

Some fishermen have had some success in combating the intruders by introducing guide nets with larger than usual holes.

Jellyfish are simply swept through the holes by water currents, while other fish tend to notice the nets and swim alongside them, eventually being trapped in the fishing nets.

"By altering the way we fish, we have probably secured 80 to 90 percent of our normal catch," said fisherman Masatoshi Kuruma, who said he has in the past found up to 3,000 jellyfish in his nets off Nyuzenmachi in Toyama prefecture.
Officials at Thursday's conference are also set to propose a forecasting system that would allow fishermen to prepare for the next onslaught of the jumbo jellyfish.
South Korean fishermen have been suffering similar woes, but China, where giant jellyfish are a delicacy often served dried and dressed with sesame oil, does not seem to have registered the outbreak as a major problem, Japanese officials said.
Seaside communities in Japan have tried to capitalize on the menace by developing novel jellyfish dishes from tofu to ice cream, but for some reason the recipes have failed to take off.
Participants at Thursday's conference said they had experimented with feeding the jellyfish to farmed crabs and using them as fertilizer.

Scientist with an agenda will blame anything on global warming.

Coldest on record since 1927....hum....

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/01/19/D8F7TLHO0.html

Plus in Europe...

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/0....r0tg2976.html

Yes, those damn scientist who are paid by the oil and gas industry will try to debunk science. They look more stupid every day.

Whales swimming up the river Thames? Rare whales spotted way off course near the coast of Texas? Giant jellyfish? All of them where they aren't supposed to be= Ocean temperatures, currents are screwed up= Screwed up weather patterns= not good for us.

The discussion of global warming should be a discussion of extreme climatic events and what is causing them. Sitting here in northwest arkansas dry as a bone watching rain in the forecast go south or north or east or west, global drying would be our greatest fear about now! And, yes, we haven't had much of a winter so far!