Climate change 'will hit Africa hardest'
Staff and agenciesWednesday February 2, 2005
Urgent action must be taken in order to prevent Africa from bearing the brunt of global warming, a scientific conference on climate change was told today.
US encouraged to act on climate change
The World Today
Wednesday, 2 February , 2005 12:26:00
Reporter: Marie Scoutas
KAREN PERCY: In one of the biggest gatherings of the world's top climate scientists for several years, researchers from 30 countries are in the English city of Exeter for talks on the threats of global warming.
Impacts Of Climate Change
Africa could bear the brunt of the damage from projected human-induced climate change, according to Bill Hare, Visiting Scientist, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
SA warned of climate change impact
The Conservation Council of South Australia says unless urgent action is taken to address climate change, there will be more natural catastrophes such as the Eyre Peninsula fires.
The council has backed Premier Mike Rann's call for a national summit on climate change, which he hopes can be held before the end of this year.
Storms lash eastern Australia
Emergency crews have been working to secure properties after heavy rains and high winds lashed Australia's eastern states.
Pressure on US to combat climate change
By Fiona Harvey in Exeter, England
Published: February 1 2005 22:50
Last updated: February 1 2005 22:50
Britain stepped up pressure on the US on Tuesday to join international efforts to combat climate change at a gathering of leading climate scientists called by Tony Blair, UK prime minister.
Dramatic change in West Antarctic ice could produce 16ft rise in sea levels
By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor
02 February 2005
British scientists have discovered a new threat to the world which may be a result of global warming. Researchers from the Cambridge-based British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have discovered that a massive Antarctic ice sheet previously assumed to be stable may be starting to disintegrate, a conference on climate change heard yesterday. Its collapse would raise sea levels around the earth by more than 16 feet.
RUNAWAY CLIMATE CHANGE POSSIBLE
Scientists at a global warming conference in England say they see potential triggers for runaway climate change but admit that when and how they may be unleashed are quite unknown.
THIS IS THE ISSUE people fail to consider as a highly charged political issue. George Walker Bush has 'set up' the people of the USA for failure in preparation for Climate Change. Much of the USA will be susceptible to heat that will increase the highest summer temperature a minimum of eleven degrees. People will die. Storms will be highly destructive including tornado outbreaks as the North Polar Cap fails. People around the world will die by the high global temperatures and adverse weather if this situation remains unabated.
Currently the heat is building. The density of carbon dioxide is still increasing. Every once in awhile I see a 'glimmer' of hope in Earth resolving it's current geophysics in the manifestation of the Jet Stream over the vortexess. I honestly don't see it happening without intervention. Targeted Ocean Seeding to increase body weight of baleens and other fisheries will pull carbon dioxide out of the troposphere without returning it. The algal blooms we currently experience on Earth are beneficial as they provide 60% of the breathable oxygen but for the algae that die without consumption or becoming detritis at the bottom of the ocean that carbon dioxide returns to the troposphere.
The failure of an attempt to 'cool' Earth by reducing carbon dioxide through 'Targeted' Ocean Seeding is that as the oceans heat the algae will crenate in the heat and there will be no species alive to use the carbon dioxide enhances with added seeded nutrients. If that happens human life on Earth will not be possible as the breathable oxygen saturation around the planet will fall below 21% and there will be mass anoxia.
I have faith that algae will continue to adapt/mutate to survive at higher ocean temperatures as they reproduce into many generations in short periods of time allowing genetic diversity to provide NEW species for our continued oxygen supply. There is absolutely no guarantees that will happen.
The best that can happen is for Human Induced Global Warming to be reversed by reducing carbon dioxide levels while continuing to hold methane at it's current levels or less.
Recently there was a return of the Jet Stream in a 'crude' pursuit around the Northern Hemisphere. That is very encouraging to realize there is still potential for Earth to return to 'normal' tropospheric balance. I wasn't sure that was possible until this past week.
I'll write again.
