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Around the world glaciers are receding at a speedier pace than at any decade since records began, said The Times. Researchers from the International Glacier Monitoring Service, which records 29 glaciers across 11 mountain areas, guage that from 1850 to 1971 glaciers were shrinking at a net average rate of 28 centimetres a year. Between 1972 and 1999 the amount retreating rose to 65 – 85 centimeters a year. Since then the average has comprised more than 1 meter a year. Last year saw the greates

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31 January 2009 1 views No CommentPrint This PostEmail This Post There are people in this world who have different passions, hobbies, craze for something, some have a particular fondness towards, food or music, or games or animals, or any thing existing in the world. But there are some people in this world who have keen interest, love and passion toward the mankind, towards the service of humanity, towards helping the needy and spreading warmth all around.One such online community on the social

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Jan31 According to predicted values, there should have been 10 to 20 sunspots last month.They didn’t happen.“So what?” you ask.  “Why should we be concerned about sunspots?”Many scientists believe that variations in the Sun’s activity has a much larger impact on the Earth’s climate than greenhouse gas concentrations. The number of sunspots is one indicator of that activity.Currently, the Sun is at the minimum point of its nominal 11 year sunspot cycle.  This period is also the transition poi

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.: U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works :: Minority Page :.Washington DC: NASA warming scientist James Hansen, one of former Vice President Al Gore’s closest allies in the promotion of man-made global warming fears, is being publicly rebuked by his former supervisor at NASA.Retired senior NASA atmospheric scientist Dr. John S. Theon, the former supervisor of James Hansen, NASA’s vocal man-made global warming fears soothsayer, has now publicly declared himself a skeptic and decla

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Well, this is a step in the right direction: It’s official. The new face of the National Republican Party is Michael Steele, a 50-year-old African American, the first in the history of Abraham Lincoln’s party. At a time when Barack Obama is serving as the first African American president in history, the move is an interesting play to corral minority voters who will be crucial to a Republican comeback. But Steele is actually a Republican. A foe of abortion, the former lieutenant governor

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The Goracle: The debate’s over. The people who dispute the international consensus on global warming are in the same category now with the people who think the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona.” Harrison “Jack” Schmitt, PhD, geologist, former United States Senator:“As a geologist, I love Earth observations,” Schmitt wrote, “But, it is ridiculous to tie this objective to a ‘consensus’ that humans are causing global warming when human experience, geologic data and history, and c

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As the awareness for global warming spreads, many people are now trying to live a ‘greener’ lifestyle People are now opting to eat more organic foods and try to make use of renewable energy sources. But eating organic food isn’t the only way we can participate in saving the environment Unknown to most people, even the way we choose to dress can leave a huge impact on the environment. Clothing that is made from materials that are raised or grown without the use of chemicals in the form of pestici

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This just in from Elsa Evers at the Climate Action Summit in Canberra:As the bus from Sydney circled the first roundabout into Canberra this morning, I had a sudden feeling of dread: ‘What if nobody turns up to Climate Action Summit?’Of course, Australia’s climate action leaders are not the types to cancel at the last minute. Soon after my panic attack, I walked into a 500-seat lecture theatre packed to the rafters with people concerned about our collective future.There was an intense sense of m

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Global SmarmingWe stand at a unique moment in human history- the window for action on global warming is measured in months -not years- Decisions that we make -or fail to make- in 2009 will have profound impacts not only for our children and grandchildren but for every human being that will ever inhabit the face of this earth from now until the end of time. How’s that for Dramaticus Poeme du Jour, mes amis?  The above “poeme”  is actually the lead-in paragraph on the The National Teach-Inpropagan

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January 31st, 2009 | By Tom Raftery |    Flush hour: Oslo to run buses powered by biomethane from human sewage | Environment | guardian.co.ukFree, friendly and non-fossil – biomethane from human waste will soon power public transport in the capital citytags: oslo, human waste, biomethane NASA Mission to Help Unravel Key Carbon, Climate MysteriesNASA’s first spacecraft dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide is in final preparations for a Feb. 23 launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base i

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