The world’s melting glaciers: Disappearing alpine glaciers are an ominous sign of global warming
Every day I read or hear somewhere a media person of some type say that the glaciers aren’t really melting, they are actually gaining ice. Then I see blog posts repeating this false claim. How can people deny reality, when the glaciers are melting right in front of our eyes? (This is getting as bad as denying the moon landing.) The fact is that glaciers, world-wide, are indeed melting, and it’s not due to natural “cycles” or sun activity, it’s due to global warming caused by us. Also, read more about George Will’s latest disinformation below. (Click on the photo for the video to start).
*Video: national geographic glaciers melting january 2010
From National Geographic.
While the glaciers melt, the politicians are still trying to find a way to talk to each other without the demands and recriminations.
NEW DELHI: With an eye on the climate change conference in Mexico, [next December] the BASIC countries are considering ways to mend fences with the small island states and less developed countries. At the BASIC meeting to be held this week, India is likely to put forward a proposal for a fund to help vulnerable countries to deal with the effects of climate change.
The BASIC meeting in New Delhi will focus on post-Copenhagen scenario. With the group—Brazil, South Africa, India and China—now focusing on climate change negotiations leading to the conference at Mexico, it will need to work out ways in which it can make common cause with the rest of the developing bloc. There has been a sense that in Copenhagen, the emerging economies or the more advanced developing countries had broken ranks with the G-77. For the BASIC to retain its negotiating strength it will need to reach out to the vulnerable countries in the developing group.
The fund could serve this purpose. “The details of the fund are still being worked out,” a senior ministry official said. The proposed fund will be bilateral in nature and not under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change. The fund is unlikely to be a formal set up as that would require setting up of structures. Instead each of the four countries—Brazil, South Africa, India and China—will co-ordinate their climate related aid to vulnerable countries. Source
Why do China and for that matter, the U.S., even bother pretending they are interested in climate change? I have lost my patience with these politicians and "negotiators". They don't care about the future of the livability of the planet -- it's politics, the next election, jobs and low cost energy that they are concerned with. Climate change has always been secondary to not only developing countries but to the most-developed "developing" countries too. Look at the use of coal in China, with no end in sight. To the tiny nation of the Maldives it's the opposite -- climate change [...]
Are the following categories of subsurface pumps for SRP application for artificial lift are API pumps?
API-25-175-THM-16-4-4
API-25-175-RHAM-16-4-4
API-25-150-RHTM-16-4-4
API-25-125-THM-16-4-4
API-25-125-RHAM-16-4-4
Angie Banicki is a publicist in Hollywood who, when she set off to travel the world, got her friends (some of them noted celebrities) to give her their personal travel tips. An unusual but entertaining read.
If a hydraulic system is designed by taking in to consideration a particular fluid (properties of a particular fluid) and now if it is to be used for another fluid, what all things will have to be checked to assure that whether another fluid can be used with that system or not.
We have a tailings pump system which pumps tails to our tails dams.There is 2 pumps, one being a fixed speed and one a variable speed.The variable speed is last in line to control the level in the tank.The problem we have is when the variable speed is running and we try to start the fixed speed, it
If a portable filtration device is designed for cleaning a particular specified line size of a hydraulic system, then can it be used for the line size smaller than specified?
Here’s a talk I just gave on Big Think–about viruses, synthetic biology, and tapeworms that carry my name. The sound quality isn’t as good as I’d like, but I hope the words make up for it.
I went to my first live Flamenco show earlier this week. Flamenco is a form of baila y msica dance and music. It is known throughout Spain but is only native to the region of Andalusa. It has many Arabic and Gypsy influences. Flamenco shows usually include a guitar player a singer and a dancer. I went with a group of friends from school. The bar that it was held at was at the entrance to th
One of the phrases you were taught very early on highschool that it could be raining cats and dogs in England. Not only in England. Just out of my bed checking the weather even before 8 oclock already an Italian was on his way to the La Junt. Leaving the caring Hospedaje in Villa Santa Lucia and having said goodbye to Rafo and Jan who were also Southbound. Immediately il cime de Santa Lucia sta
I managed to come up with a surprising number of classic pop culture reference titles for this entry on the way lsquohomersquo from work on friday evening including ldquoTalk Dirty to Merdquo ldquoI Should Wear My Sunglasseshellip Even at Nightrdquo and ldquoDust in the Windrdquo. I have no doubt that there are many more brilliant alternatives out there so if yoursquove got
New Orleans Parts 2 and 3During our 3 nights in the Big Easy and music and food were some of the highlights. Since we were staying in the east end of the Quarter and the nearby Frenchmen Street area in Marigny had been recommended to us thank you Loy we concentrated there. Although our visit was MondayWednesday there was still good live music to be found. One night we saw Charlene Neville a
Last weekend I took a trip with my German class to the city of Weimar in the German state of Thuringia and I just now got the pictures uploaded. Weimar is a relatively small town65000 peoplebut it's had a lot to do with German history Goethe and Schiller lived there in the 18th century and the Bauhaus school was founded by Walter Gropius there in 1919.My experience was especially interest
Got Travel Everything you need to plan your trip is at Essentravel.com. If you don't know where you'd like to go look at our Destination Guides for countries and cities that catch your eye. Get a general overview of foods cultures and languages. Learn how to get around. Read practical information on entry requirements visas and safety...comments reviews complaints aurora hotels vacation
Got Travel Everything you need to plan your trip is at Essentravel.com. If you don't know where you'd like to go look at our Destination Guides for countries and cities that catch your eye. Get a general overview of foods cultures and languages. Learn how to get around. Read practical information on entry requirements visas and safety...comments reviews complaints aurora hotels vacation
Got Travel Everything you need to plan your trip is at Essentravel.com. If you don't know where you'd like to go look at our Destination Guides for countries and cities that catch your eye. Get a general overview of foods cultures and languages. Learn how to get around. Read practical information on entry requirements visas and safety...comments reviews complaints aurora hotels vacation
Got Travel Everything you need to plan your trip is at Essentravel.com. If you don't know where you'd like to go look at our Destination Guides for countries and cities that catch your eye. Get a general overview of foods cultures and languages. Learn how to get around. Read practical information on entry requirements visas and safety...comments reviews complaints aurora hotels vacation
Got Travel Everything you need to plan your trip is at Essentravel.com. If you don't know where you'd like to go look at our Destination Guides for countries and cities that catch your eye. Get a general overview of foods cultures and languages. Learn how to get around. Read practical information on entry requirements visas and safety...comments reviews complaints hotels in aurora vacati
Resolvi passar o Rveillon em Londres e vou postar algumas fotos aqui. No vou falar muito sobre essa cidade pois j existe um post meu aqui da primeira vez que fui l em Maro do ano passado onde descrevi em detalhes como a cidade e os lugares de interesse para visitar. Bom eu fui para Londres no dia 31 de Dezembro e como era de esperar vrios avies estavam chegando naquele dia para uma das m
From Hornopiren it was a long day or two short ones as I had seen on the map. The ferry at Puelche had to be reached before 20.00 otherwise you could not cross for that day to Arena. The day started out bad for the bicycle. A spoke had tore the wheel open so it was difficult to center the wheel. I tried an hoped for the best. I was already on 23k when the wheel did not turn anymore. Daniel a mount
