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Hurricane experts admit they can’t predict hurricanes early; December forecasts too unreliable http://www.ottawacitizen.com/mobile/story.html?id=5847032
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Chile forest fire ravages Torres del Paine Park
The authorities in Chile have closed one of the country's most popular national parks as a massive forest fire continues to rage through the area. Four hundred tourists were evacuated from Torres del Paine National Park in Patagonia on Thursday as firefighters failed to stem the blaze. Officials said more than 85 sq km (21,000 acres) had been destroyed. ( multiply at least 4 times since last info hrs ago ) Goverment seeking help to Australia USA , Argentina Fire is out of control .. |
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2011 was ninth-warmest year since 1880
Last year's temperature continues a trend linked to greenhouse gases that saw 9 of the 10 hottest years occurring since 2000, NASA scientists said. |
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Is Arsenic the Worst Chemical in the World?
Arsenic is the number one environmental chemical for human health,” Joshua Hamilton tells me during a recent phone call. We’re talking about his latest research, a just-published study Hamilton’s study looked at arsenic’s effect on mother mice and their offspring. But he chose the 10 ppb dose for a very human reason. It’s the safety standard the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sets for arsenic in drinking water. Why does EPA need such a standard? Because an estimated 25 million Americans (mostly on private well systems) drink water contaminated by arsenic-rich bedrock. (I’ve put an arsenic map of the United States at the top of the post. Note that micrograms per liter is the same thing as parts per billion. This tells you that a lot of private wells — which are not held to public water supply regulations — run above the EPA standard.).......... |
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Those in the US and familiar with the persistent haze in their region, may have interest in knowing how this comes about. A report by NOAA:
Haze Over the Central and Eastern United States http://www.spc.noaa.gov/publications/corfidi/haze.html It's considered largely as anthropogenic of origin. --//-- |
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Anyone living in the Great Lakes region... get your gasmasks out, and be sure to not eat any produce that comes from anywhere near that region: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/06/08/4...oisoning-the-great-lakes/
With all that knowledge we have and cheap coal still wins from wind/solar/tidal/hydro/nuclear... AMAZING. Reminded me of that famous song by King Crimson --//-- |
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Okey
 Spawning coral monitored for effects of climate change The divers’ lights pierce the night-time darkness 18 metres below the rolling waves of the Gulf of Mexico. As the beams pan across a coral reef, they illuminate whitish spheres nestled in the pale yellow ridges of female coral mounds. Triggered by some unknown signal, these eggs start to rise, a few at a time, like little helium balloons. Male corals nearby begin to release sperm, which resembles drifting smoke, or milk stirred into black coffee. Dispersed by currents, the gametes gradually ascend towards a reproductive rendezvous at the surface See video |
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The Inuit dispose of dead Polar Bears as toxic waste... now how come?
Frost Flowers Pump Pollution Frost Flowers, courtesy University of Manitoba Changes in Arctic sea ice are having a cascade of effects in the North. One surprising one is the way the chemistry of ocean, ice and atmosphere are interacting. Dr. David Barber, Canada Research Chair in Arctic Systems Science at the University of Manitoba, and his colleagues have been studying the much larger amount of thin, fresh ice that is forming annually, because multi-year sea ice has declined so much. This thin ice forms structures on its surface called "frost flowers," which channel briny water from the ocean to the surface of the ice. Chemicals in the brine, including bromine, then evaporate into the air. Bromine then reacts with the mercury in the atmosphere, which comes from industrial pollution in the South. The mercury then falls out of the atmosphere, and is entering the northern food chain.  frost-flowers.jpgFrost Flowers, courtesy University of Manitob How that Mercury getting there was stated. Think of burning coal and high smoke stags to conveniently export the dirty air far far away. But, don't have the illusion that this same smoke always goes the Arctic way... it travels from the east to the west coast or from the west to the east coast, and when it rains... something in the ground water, or the latices & tomatoes from your garden! Keep them burning... CO2 and what comes with it is good for plants [some claim]. |
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