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Discussions about the environment and ecology.
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CONSENSUS WATCH - 10/09/2008
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Daily Sun: 10 Oct 08 The sun is blank--no sunspots. Sunspot number: 0 October 09, 2008 CONSENSUS WATCH - 10/09/2008 An ongoing series dedicated to vigorously monitoring emerging threats to The Consensus that global warming is real, caused by humans, and must be addressed immediately if we are to forestall cataclysm. After all, without... more »
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Species Threatened By Global Warming
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Tropical Rainforest And Mountain Species May Be Threatened By Global Warming ScienceDaily (Oct. 10, 2008) — Contrary to conventional wisdom, tropical plant and animal species living in some of the warmest places on Earth may be threatened by global warming, according to an article by University of Connecticut Ecologist Robert K. Colwell and... more »
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WANTED: SHEEP WITH LESS GAS
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ANIMAL GAS AFFECTING CLIMATE CHANGE The search is on to find a way to breed cattle and sheep that produce less methane gas. The average sheep produces 20 litres of methane gas per day and climate scientists claim that sheep flocks and cattle herds produce significant greenhouse gas that are adding to climate change concerns.... more »
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NEW FOCUS ON ENERGY ALTERNATIVES
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Regardless of who becomes the next president of the US an expected focus on energy alternatives to fossil fuels will take the heat off concerns over a pending world economic recession. Concerns related to declining stocks of fossil fuels and continuing financial turmoil would drive world leaders to look at new ways of... more »
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PUSHING SPECIES TO THE BRINK
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Thirty-five percent of the world's birds, 52 percent of amphibians and 71 percent of warm-water reef-building corals are threatened by likely climate change, according to a report prepared by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature presented to the World Conservation Congress being held in Barcelona.... more »
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SUMMERS CHANGING IN BRITAIN
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Great Britain has gone through another wet summer that several weather forecasters attribute to the implosion of climate change. The heavy rains in Britain over the past two summers were predicted by computer models that analyzed the effect of global warming where a warming atmosphere contains more moisture.... more »
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SALMON STRUGGLE IN CHANGING WORLD
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Scientists predict that the salmon, rock lobster and abalone industries in the southern equatorial oceans will be among the hardest hit by imploding climate change. A report from Australia's CSIRO has detailed the devastating effects it believes climate change will bring to Australia's commercial fishing and aquaculture industries.... more »
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Illegal Trail Builder Honored by Mountain Bikers
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So, what else is new? Mike [link] Bike community lost man who built park trails Don Lynn Sleeper •Born: Feb. 24, 1956, in Fort Monmouth, N.J. •Died: Oct. 6, 2008, in San Antonio •Survived by: Father, Julian R. Sleeper, mother, Idabelle Sleeper, sisters Paula Schnittiger and Elizabeth Dyer, brothers Mark Sleeper,... more »
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Canadians Against Alternative Energy!
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Bloody reactionaries!! October 10 08 Dozens of prominent Quebec artists, scientists and media personalities joined about 60 environmental and social groups yesterday to launch a vast campaign to pressure Quebec's Liberal government to cancel plans to refurbish the province's only nuclear reactor.... more »
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