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Floods in Britain

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This years autumn storms are causing once again a lot of devastation and misery. My heart goes out to the wet people in Britain …

orangeguru (11-22 0:10) | No Comments | Permalink
California’s Wildfires

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This is an amazing shot – and a sad story. Wildfires are natural, but global climate change seems to make them worse … thanks humanity!

orangeguru (09-05 7:43) | 4 Comments | Permalink
The Arctic is shrinking – fast!

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Source: Spiegel Online (German)

The volume of the Arctic ice has shrunk a whopping 57% from 2004 till 2008. This is incredible and defies almost all forecasts how fast climate change will impact our lives.

orangeguru (07-14 22:33) | No Comments | Permalink
Let’s collect Cow Farts in the name of Science

A cow stands in her pen at the National Institute of Agricultural Technology in Castelar...A cow stands in her pen at the National Institute of Agricultural Technology in Castelar, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, in this picture taken July 4, 2008. Argentine scientists are taking a novel approach to studying global warming, strapping plastic tanks to the backs of cows to collect their burps. Researchers say the slow digestive system of cows makes them a producer of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that gets far less public attention than carbon dioxide in efforts to fight global warming. Picture taken July 4, 2008.   REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci (ARGENTINA)

Sounds like an idea of a 12 year old scientist, but it’s actually true. Argentina like to know how much gas their 55 million cows produce and science wouldn’t be science if you wouldn’t measure it correctly.

In my mind I only see floating cows over Argentina, causing a panic when they cross over to the Falklands and capture the islands once and for all …

More? Telegraph – Cow farts collected in plastic tank for global warming study

orangeguru (09-01 20:35) | No Comments | Permalink
James Burke – After the Warming

Documentary / Fiction – 1hour 46minutes – 1990 – the sound is a bit out of sync in the second half

I am a huge fan of James Burke – he is one of the great writers and thinker who can connect the dots and explain it all to mere mortals like myself. A science historian and TV producer with an impressive resume.

The first part is an excellent analysis of human history and how the weather influenced human development and history – and he we have influenced the weather. The second part is more fictional – a docu drama if you will – how a global climate watchdog battles global warming and which measures have to be done to change our current unsustainable lifestyle.

This two part series "After the Warming" was produced 1990 – and it freaked me out.

First – it shocked me, that he had already such an insight and clear suggestions in the year 1990, when hardly anyone – and certainly not the mass media – was talking about climate change and global warming.

Second – his "predictions" or better say insights are spot on, especially watching it now almost 20 years after it has been produced.

Third – we have already wasted so much time to change our lifestyle and we are still far behind what would actually be possible to re-balance the weather system.

Although the quality of the video isn’t brilliant – the content is. So please watch it.

orangeguru (06-25 18:54) | No Comments | Permalink
Huge cracks in the Arctic Ice? I hope those stupid humans can swim?

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BBC News: Vast cracks appear in Arctic ice

It’s melting and melting and melting. I wonder when we start to RALLY do something about climate change? When New Orleans is an underwater museum or Venice a diver’s Disney Land?

orangeguru (05-25 19:35) | No Comments | Permalink



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