Are Climate Change and Global Warming one and the same thing?.... NO !

 Read about the important differences between "Climate Change" and "Global Warming".

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A MUST read: IPCC report 17 November 2007

In November 2007 the IPCC issued its  "strongest call for immediate action to save humanity from the deadly consequences of unrestrained greenhouse gas emissions."


The report which was signed off by 130 nations including the United States and China, slammed the door on any argument for further delay and made it clear that under no circumstances should we listen to those who urge that we wait to develop new technology.

Panel members said "their review of the data led them to conclude as a group and individually that reductions in greenhouse gasses had to start immediately to avert a global climate disaster that could leave island states submerged and abandoned, African crop yields decreased by 50 percent, and cause over a 5 percent decrease in global gross domestic product."

The report can be read here :  IPCC Report 17 November 2007

What path is the Real World Following ...?

Updating the Climate Science

What Path is the Real World Following?

Makiko Sato & James Hansen

Columbia University
web page maintained by Makiko Sato (mhs119@columbia.edu)

What happens to coral when the oceans warm up?

Professor Simon Donner of the University of British Columbia says that in 30-50 years, if they do not adapt, we will see corals bleaching and starving as the oceans warm up.

Poison Gas, Clean Energy ...... ??

Imagine my surprise to read an article by the National Geographic News reporting that “Poison Gas may produce Clean Energy” At first I thought, now if this isn’t an Oxymoron, then I don’t know !

However reading the article proved to be interesting. Apparently an area of the Black Sea has carried very little life for decades now as a result of toxic waster that has been allowed to pollute the waters. But it seems now that these very waters may just be useful in capturing hydrogen sulfide gas which scientists believe could become a new source of ‘clean power’.

The lack of oxygen in the waters of the Black Sea has created this massive concentration of ‘good’, albeit poisonous gas. Here is an instance where pollution can be put to good use, according to Mehmet Haklidir of the Tübitak Marmara Research Center in Gebze-Kocaeli Turkey.

It can be likened to “killing two birds with one stone”. We take out the bad and we get the good, all in one action. Well sort of! It’s not that simple.
In a previous blog I wrote about Gas Hydrate studies being research in the Gulf of Mexico. Maybe there is hope after all.

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Read the full NGN article here:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090324-black-sea-energy.html?source=rss