--> This could lead to global warming increases of 1.5 degrees C, which would cause tremendous climate change. "Of course, this could be accelerated, and may be 'short-circuited' by direct human deforestation," say the researchers in the Nature article.
Wangari Maathai wanted to create a sustainable supply of fuel wood for rural African women while halting soil erosion and other threatening forms of environmental degradation. |
| The company's coal-burning power plants at Four Corners Generating Station at Fruitland, New Mexico, and its Mohave Generating Station in Laughlin, Nevada, contribute to global warming. Indeed, coal is one of the major contributors to greenhouse gases. (Interestingly, although nuclear power presents environmental problems due to toxic waste? |
| With respected scientists from NASA and WHOI talking about global warming, no wonder there is concern that industrial buildup of greenhouse gases is hastening radical climate change.
Scientists admit that it is possible that Earth's climate may suddenly cross the critical threshold needed to trigger abrupt climate change at any time, and that the extra "forcing" humans apply to the climate system by emitting large amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere makes this possibility far more likely than it would be otherwise. |
| Some of the most basic chemicals of global warming are the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, which are produced by the incomplete combustion in the burning of fossil fuel, particularly coal and petroleum. When scientists mention the first link to have been established between fossil fuels and cancer, they went back to 1775, when Sir Percival Pott determined that scrotal cancers among England's chimney sweeps were likely being induced by their exposure to soot, a rich source of PAHs. |
| And the chemicals of global warming are certainly having an impact on the animals around us. We ought to be looking a little more closely at what is happening to our wildlife, and we just might see also what is happening to us.
Joe Thompson of MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) said of an exhibition in North Adams, Massachusetts, "Becoming Animal: Contemporary Art in the Animal Kingdom," that it was a half-art, half-science show. |
 It also produces ten times as much carbon dioxide that contributes to global warming. Want to warm the climate? Turn on the lights!
So why, then, are so many people still using incandescent light bulbs? Primarily because they have no idea what it costs to actually operate them. The fact that these light bulbs are secretly slipping dollars out of your pocket every time they're used seems to go unnoticed by most consumers. All they see is the price tag at the store. And there, incandescent lights look really cheap. |
| They will raise your electricity bills, fill your trash with shards of glass, use up natural resources and accelerate global warming faster than any other light source on the planet today.
Are Compact Fluorescent Lights the answer?
But what about CFLs? Everybody's crazy about CFLs all of a sudden, it seems. People know that CFLs use only about 1/3rd the electricity of incandescent lights. Of course, they flicker and hum, and they take a long time to warm up, but they do save on electricity compared to the extremely inefficient incandescent light bulb. So what's not to like about CFLs? |
| According to the report in the Guardian, "a group of eminent UK scientists recently visited the White House to voice their fears over global warming, part of an intensifying drive to get the United States to treat the issue seriously. Among those scientists present at the White House talks were Professor John Schellnhuber, former chief environmental adviser to the German government and head of the UK's leading group of climate scientists at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. |
 And why is the agency's top bureaucrat now officially denying that global warming is a problem?
It's true: In a recorded interview that aired on National Public Radio a few weeks ago, NASA head Michael Griffin actually said, on the air, that it was arrogant and unfair to believe that global warming was a problem that needed solving. This left all the other NASA scientists gasping for air and e-mail blasting their resumes out to private-sector institutions that still remember what "scientific thinking" really means. |
 Taking on global warming
Addressing the challenge of infectious diseases also means taking action against global warming. Elevated temperatures may increase the number and distribution of insects such as mosquitoes that carry diseases like malaria; may promote bacterial growth leading to greater risk of food poisoning and diarrheal disease; and may warm waters and promote flooding, amplifying the risk of waterborne infections such as cholera. |
 Other places are predicted to become wetter as global warming leads to a more vigorous hydrological cycle. More frequent high-intensity rainfall events are predicted to substantially increase rainfall erosivity in New England, the mid-Atlantic states, and the Southeast. Models of soil erosion predict from 20 percent to almost 300 percenr increases—depending upon how farmers respond to changing rainfall patterns.
Global warming and accelerated erosion are not the only problems facing agricultural land. |
| The Canadian and American prairie is already marginal as agricultural land in its western extent. Yet global warming is predicted to increase the seventy of droughrs here in Norrh America's heartland enough to make that of the Dust Bowl era seem relatively mild. Given the projected doubling of humanity in this century, it is far from certain that the world's population will be able to feed itself.
Other places are predicted to become wetter as global warming leads to a more vigorous hydrological cycle. |
 Other reported potential causes for CCD are extremely diverse and include the introduction of genetically modified crops, changing weather patterns, an increase in global warming, a proliferation in the use of pesticides and airborne chemicals, immune suppression triggered by stress, high-voltage transmission lines, environmental pollution, cheap sugar substitutes, burning fossil fuels, foreign fungi, parasites, and tracheal or varroa mites.
"There are a lot less bees than we used to have and we don't know why," said Brent Halsall, president of the Ontario Beekeepers' Association. |
 Conventional medical researchers declaring that vitamins are worthless is about as credible as Bush Administration climatologists claiming there's no such thing as global warming.
With the publication of this research, the distortion of health reality is now complete. According to the Americal Medical Association, vitamins will kill you but pharmaceuticals will make you healthy.
Someone help me stop laughing before I blow out a lung and require surgery. |
 Because radical weather patterns caused by global warming will disrupt food production, causing droughts in some areas and floods in others. As food production plummets, famine will become widespread. We are, after all, in a "food bubble" right now.
Why infectious disease? Because only balanced, healthy ecosystems keep infectious disease at bay. When ecosystems are disrupted, they become breeding grounds for infectious pathogens. Those pathogens spread quickly through non-natural animal production facilities (bird farms, cattle ranches, fish farming ponds, etc. |
 If everyone owned a car like this one, Americans could very likely reduce our country's addiction to foreign oil and assist in reducing the problem of global warming. Soon to be on the road, it would seem that these are among the most environmentally friendly vehicles available.
The Tesla Roadster can be recharged using solar energy; with installation for this option provided at the customer's home by SolarCity, a partner of Tesla Motors. SolarCity (www.solarcity.com) is a provider of solar energy systems, delivering power to homes and businesses. |
 You can help stop global warming starting right now
If you're interested in reducing the CO2 emissions and energy usage in your own home right now, using the brightest and most energy efficient LED lighting products available in the world today, check out my new company EcoLEDs (www.EcoLEDs.com).
In the coming days and weeks, I'll be writing about lighting technologies, covering incandescent, fluorescent and LED lighting products. |
 A less expensive light means increased affordability by a greater number of consumers, and that means a greater impact on saving energy and halting global warming. If we could sell these lights for one dollar and not go broke doing so, you can bet we'd be selling them for that dollar!
LED lights will never be as cheap as incandescent light bulbs. However, they will always pay you back in significant savings over time. And as electricity costs continue to rise, LED lighting makes even more economic sense. |
 President Bush also said he watched "The Secret" and is now invoking the power of intention to end global warming in a way that won't harm the economy.
To help businesses comply with the administration's Wishful Thinking policy of CO2 emissions reduction, the Bush Administration will issue small copper brass lamps (made in China) to all polluters in the United States, along with instructions to rub the genie lamps and make three wishes before firing up any coal plant, automobile or manufacturing facility. |
| Individual citizens will also be required to engage in Wishful Thinking to stop global warming, and those Americans who refuse to participate will be branded "eco terrorists" under a little-known provision in the Patriot Act that grants FBI agents the legal right to give atomic wedgies to anyone demanding civil liberties.
Not everyone is convinced that Wishful Thinking will actually result in greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Lawmakers were quick to leap on the obvious weakness in President Bush's ambitious plan. Rep. |
 This small, simple light can help consumers greatly reduce their environmental footprint while helping prevent global warming," said EcoLEDs founder Mike Adams, an outspoken advocate of natural health and environmental protection. "They represent a new era in environmentally friendly lighting, and they make incandescent lights and fluorescent lights virtually obsolete."
Currently, about twenty percent of the electricity used in the United States is used to power lights. |
 It's call the "close your eyes and pretend it doesn't exist" policy, which is, coincidentally, the exact same policy followed by the Bush Administration global warming team.
So the next time you hear the FDA warning you about how dangerous and deadly all those Chinese products are, remember what they're NOT telling you: the hazards of American-made food and personal care products, almost all of which are intentionally and knowingly laced with cancer-causing chemicals. |
 And while some areas are inundated with rain, others suffer severe droughts (like Australia right now).
The global warming deniers, however (the same group of people who still think the Earth is flat), insist these weather patterns are just random and have no correlation whatsoever with the fact that human beings are severely disrupting the natural climate balance on this planet. If you run into one of these people, try not to shove them into the fast-moving waters flowing down Main Street. (They can't swim.)
London bridges falling down? Try the U.S. infrastructure... |
 And the third reason is because I would never want to be associated with the kind of people who live on steak and animal products as primary food sources -- those cigarette smoking, steak eating, pro-war, wife beating alcoholic numnuts who think global warming is a hoax and that that the whole world would be better off if we all just ate more beef and drank more milk. (That association has a strong basis in fact, by the way. In the United States, rates of alcoholism and wife beating are much higher in towns, cities and counties that consume and produce more beef. |
 We've already sent the climate into a tailspin with carbon dioxide emissions and global warming, but that's only the beginning of this story. The Earth is being poisoned, day by day, by greenwashing corporations and gullible consumers, and it's only a matter of time before it all comes back to bite us so hard that we become a race of chemically-induced genetic mutants. |
 Other signs of these conditions might include bloating, weight loss,
SIGNIFICANT FACT
Burping and farting are no laughing matters when it comes to global warming.The gas expelled by cows and other livestock is responsible for nearly 20% of methane emissions worldwide. Nitrogen-rich manure also adds to the problem.The situation is even worse in New Zealand, where a whopping 60% of greenhouse gas emissions come from livestock. vomiting blood, and bloody stools.
(See The Scoop on Poop, below.) Finally, excessive burping with severe nausea or vomiting may be danger signs of a heart attack. |
| Simply eating meat products is so destructive to the environment that you could actually do more to reduce global warming by going vegetarian than by ditching your car.
Magically, the purchasing of a handful of green products each week causes all that guilt to just melt away. The more green products we buy, many consumers believe, the greener the planet will be! Americans are the only people in the world who believe we can save the Earth by going shopping.
Be skeptical of manufacturers' claims
It's more important now than ever to be skeptical of "green" claims by product manufacturers. |
| Under the Bush Administration, government-employed scientists are routinely told they cannot report results indicating the progression of global warming. The United States is the last among industrialized nations to claim that carbon dioxide emissions produced by human civilization have no impact whatsoever on the world climate. This is an utterly ridiculous position, and yet one that U.S. policymakers insist upon. These policymakers go out of their way to censor scientists whose data and conclusions might run counter to the desired belief. |
| It's true: In a recorded interview that aired on National Public Radio a few weeks ago, NASA head Michael Griffin actually said, on the air, that it was arrogant and unfair to believe that global warming was a problem that needed solving. This left all the other NASA scientists gasping for air and e-mail blasting their resumes out to private-sector institutions that still remember what "scientific thinking" really means.
NASA is also the organization that launched the twin robot rovers to Mars, also at a cost of several hundred million dollars. |
 Eating meat is worse for the environment than driving an SUV, and cows produce enormous amounts of methane that accelerates global warming.)
NewsTarget is continuing to publish educational photo tours for consumers, including the recent Pomegranate and Blueberry Juice Consumer Shopping Guide. New investigative photography projects will be published soon on healing foods, grocery products to avoid and other educational topics.
The new "Guess This Meat" video can be viewed on YouTube at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=OI77zi-AKhg
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