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Climate Change Crusaders Tell us to Get to Work
Mon, 10/11/2010 - 14:34 | 
Earth Activist
Tags: Small animals at risk as Earth warms from climate change
Sat, 10/02/2010 - 05:24 | Earth Activist
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- Small mammals at greater risk from global warming than once thought, say U.S. biologists
- 12,000-year old fossils reveal some small species have never recovered their populations
- Many small mammal populations may already be at tipping point, researchers say
(CNN) -- The biodiversity of small mammals in North America may already be close to a "tipping point" causing impacts "up and down the food chain" according to a new study by U.S. scientists.
Climate change 'partly to blame' for sweltering Moscow
Tue, 08/10/2010 - 10:31 | Earth Activist
It seems like climate change has an influence in the wildfires in Russia and things can possibly be getting worse before they get any better. Apparently the fires started in peat bogs and have spread across the entire country. Scientists are concerned that we may face the very same problem in a number of so called hot spots across the planet and some predict we can expect these and many more fires as the planet takes a turn for the warmer.
Would you be prepared for wildfires in your town? How does one cope with wildfires in the urban areas?
BBC News - Climate change 'partly to blame' for sweltering Moscow
Extreme heat and wildfires have led to a blanket of smog over Moscow Global climate change is partly to blame for the abnormally hot and dry weather in Moscow, cloaked in a haze of smoke from wildfires, say researchers. The UK Met Office said there are likely to be more extreme high temperatures in the future. Experts from the environmental group WWF Russia have also linked climate change and hot weather to raging wildfires around the Russian capital.
Backbone of marine food chain in alarming decline
Mon, 08/09/2010 - 09:35 | Earth Activist
Our oceans are under attack and marine life are suffering horribly and it seems we are at a tipping point in the balance of life in the oceans. Phytoplankton are the basic building blocks of life in the ocean. Phytoplankton are the most important food source in the oceans and studies suggest we are seeing a 40% reduction since 1950 which may seem like a long time but in the life of the oceans it is more like seconds are to humans.
The study referenced below suggests a correlation between the decline in phytoplankton and climate change with a direct relationship between the number of plankton and the temperature of the ocean. With the earth expected to only get warner over the next few decades the question must be asked at what point do all of the plankton die and what happens when they do?
can you imagine a world with no to little marine life? You may say well I don't eat seafood so it won;t effect me but that's BS when you consider how important the oceans are to all life around us. What are we supposed to do about sick seas?
Backbone of marine food chain in alarming decline - Tiny marine algae, known as phytoplankton, are the backbone of the marine food chain, yet a new study in Nature has found that this backbone is disintegrating. Researchers discovered that since 1950 phytoplankton has declined by approximately 40 percent across the Northern Hemisphere, a decline that corresponds to warming waters due to climate change. Given that these microscopic plants feed the oceans' abundance all the way up the food chain—from zooplankton to fish to seabird to sharks to humans—the decline has likely impacted the very structure of the ocean. [Earth Climate News]
First decade of new millennium hottest on record
Sat, 07/24/2010 - 15:21 | Earth Activist
The first decade of the new millennium has been the hottest on record thus far since the mid 1800's and there has been a progression towards hotter and hotter years for the last 50 or more. Now you can have your opinions on global warming and climate change and they can certainly differ based on opinions but what we cannot refute are the facts as we know them and to date the planet has been hotter this year than any year we have ever kept data for.
What are the ramifications of this news? What does it mean the planet has become hotter and what exactly is the cause? Are we experiencing a natural fluctuation in the global temperatures or has mankind done something to upset the delicate balance of nature and our planets ecosystems? I personally feel that it must be a manmade occurrence when you consider that in all of history there has never been a species that has created as much mayhem and destruction upon earth as humans have.
The evidence is clear that no being has ever done as much as we have to alter the face of our planet and the very chemical composition of the world we live in. Each and every day we pour tons of garbage and waste into once pristine environments without an idea as to what kind of damage we are inflicting not only on the planet but all life on earth. Do we really think these toxic chemicals and waste by products are going to just disappear? How much garbage can Planet Earth handle before she becomes sick and dies?
Is thermosphere contraction tied to climate change and global warming?
Sun, 07/18/2010 - 10:08 | Earth Activist
Scientists are baffled by a recent contraction in the thermosphere which some say has been influenced by the volume of carbon dioxiide being released into the environment and what is most scary is just how little we actually know about our Planet Earth and the eco system we live in.
The thermospehere is what lies between our atmosphere and outer space. It runs from about 55 to 350 miles above earth and is heavily influenced by the suns energy and our pollution. Statistics show that although the thermosphere is in a constant flux this particular contraction is the largest ever recorded in over 40 years of data. That seems huge but in the big picture you have to ask how long this process has been going on and whether or not we even know what we are looking at. I mean 40 years seems like a long time but when you consider how long the thermosphere has been there it is barely a blip on the timeline.
Our 40 years of monitoring the thermosphere amounts to no more than a millsecond of it's actual time in existence and one has to wonder if this does not happen every 50 years or so or are we actually destroyong the layers between us and the Sun. What happens if we actually ruin the thermosphere and the atmosphere? Will humans be able to adapt to a new environment or will we force the evolutionary rise of a new species that can breathe this new air and wipe ourselves out in the process?
Humans continue to act as if there are no repurcussions for our actions and we put quick financial profits over the long term value in sustainable earth friendly development. It is for certain that in the last 100 years we have made a greater impact on the Planet than any other species in that time and we may actually have been the most destructive species to have ever lived in the entire history of Planet Earth.
What do you think is happening?
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