Algumas ligações a notas e artigos sobre o aquecimento global: - eles falam por si: alguns trazem esperança; outros são sinistros (dos sinistros, uns são mais do que os outros).
Green skies are the new black Gristmill: The environmental news blog Grist:
"Feel like you're just not depressed enough today? Read the last bit of this Dot Earth post: During a break, I asked [Nobel prize-winning atmospheric chemist Dr. F. Sherwood] Rowland two quick questions. The first: Given the nature of the climate and energy challenges, what is his best guess for the peak concentration of carbon dioxide? ... His answer? '1,000 parts per million,' he said. My second question was, what will that look like? 'I have no idea,' Dr. Rowland said. He was not smiling." [a parte negra - de terror - vem a seguir...]
Christians Launch Campaign against Global Warming Hype Christianpost.com:
"While it may seem like everyone believes in global warming and the impending catastrophe it will bring, a group of conservative Christians countered that message Thursday by launching a national campaign to gather one million signatures for a statement that says Christians must not believe in all the hype about global warming."
“How can you create policies on uncertain science?” asked Dr. Barrett Duke, vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. “How can you say what it is that needs to be done when you don’t really know and you don’t really have real consensus on the state of the problem or what is causing the problem?”
Duke called it an “unbiblical” response to make policies based on unsettled data that would push the poor further into starvation and poverty. “If humans are not causing the problem then it doesn’t matter how much we reduce CO2 emissions. It won’t make any difference,” he said. Fellow signer Dr. E. Calvin Beisner, founder and national spokesman for the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, also talked about the harmful effects of popular climate change policies that call for a cap on carbon emission. “The number of premature deaths, number of diseases, and the harm to the human economy that can be predicted from the policies used to fight the warming” is more destructive than even if all the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)-predicted global warming-caused disasters came true, Beisner said emotionally to The Christian Post. “You try to cap emissions and you kill more people than die if you don’t cap emissions,” Beisner said, referring to those who would die from lack of access to energy, higher food prices, and the halt in their country’s economic development. “We will have killed people,” he added solemnly. “We care about this issue the same way why we care about abortion. It kills people.”
Several of the speakers at Thursday’s press event accused the green movement – that blames humans for the impending global warming disasters – of being driven by emotions and “fear-mongering.” “We believe this is being driven by emotions, emotions that will lead to decisions that will lead to negative consequences that will create tremendous harm not only to American families but impoverished families all around the globe,” said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council and former vice chairman of the Environmental committee in Louisiana.
Signers of the declaration said while they do acknowledge, in varying degrees, that global warming is real and humans are partly to blame for the earth’s warming, they believe that for the most part the heating of the earth is due to the natural warming and cooling cycle of the planet.
The “We Get It!” view starkly contrasts that of the IPCC and some prominent green evangelicals who believe that scientific evidence strongly supports that global warming is a serious crisis and man-induced. The IPCC report last year – which is said to be the clearest and most comprehensive statement to date on the impact of global warming mainly caused by man-induced carbon dioxide pollution – warns that 30 percent of the Earth’s species are at risk of extinction, up to 250 million people are likely to experience water shortage, and stronger and more frequent natural disasters are expected in the near future."
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Merlot from Yorkshire, Hampshire too hot to make wine: expert's prediction for 2080 Science The Guardian"Parts of southern Britain will become too hot for wine production within the next 75 years if summer temperatures continue to rise as rapidly as climate scientists predict. Stretches of the Thames Valley, Hampshire and the Severn Valley are expected to warm by as much as 5C by 2080, making them too hot to grow grapes. Instead, the areas will be more suited to currants, raisins and sultanas, which at present are cultivated in the hot climates of the Middle East and north Africa. Hotter summers are also likely to wreak havoc in more traditional wine producing countries such as France, Italy and Spain. But the shifting climate could open up vast areas of northern England to wine production, with Yorkshire and Lancashire able to produce grapes such as cabernet sauvignon and merlot, which are traditionally grown in southern France and Chile."
Scientists Discover Network of Cracks on Arctic Ice Cap:
"Need more evidence that the Arctic ice cap is slowly going the way of the once lush savannas of the Sahara? BBC Environment Correspondent David Shukman traveling with a team of scientists and Canadian troops during a recent expedition on Ward Hunt, bore witness to the discovery of several major new fractures stretching for more than 10 miles (16 km)."
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