World-News

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/24/8507



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ice+melting

https://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/24/MNSDVIN7E.DTL


Informant: Teresa Binstock



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=glacier

In YaleGlobal Online, James Hansen writes: "Government 'energy information' departments parrot industry. Partly because of disinformation, the major efforts needed to develop alternative energies have not been made. The reality of limited supply forces prices higher. Eventually, sales volume will begin to decline, but fossil-fuel moguls will make more money than ever."

https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042308EA.shtml



Seven Myths of Energy Independence

According to Paul Roberts in Mother Jones, "Thoughtful observers have been trying to debunk energy independence since Nixon's time. And yet the dream refuses to die, in no small part because it offers political cover for a whole range of controversial initiatives.... In the doublespeak of today's energy lexicon, says Julia Bovey of the Natural Resources Defense Council, 'energy independence' has become code for 'drill it all.'"

https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042308EB.shtml



Melting Methane

Volker Mrasek, Der Spiegel, reports: "Researchers have found alarming evidence that the frozen Arctic floor has started to thaw and release long-stored methane gas. The results could be a catastrophic warming of the earth, since methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide."

https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042308EC.shtml



Greenhouse Gases, Carbon Dioxide and Methane, Rise Sharply in 2007

ScienceDaily reports: "Last year alone global levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, the primary driver of global climate change, increased by 0.6 percent, or 19 billion tons. Additionally methane rose by 27 million tons after nearly a decade with little or no increase. NOAA scientists released these and other preliminary findings today as part of an annual update to the agency's greenhouse gas index, which tracks data from 60 sites around the world."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042408O.shtml

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Climate a 'Life and Death' Issue for Native Peoples
https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/24/8491/



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=drilling
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=methane
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=greenhouse+gases
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=carbon+dioxide
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=NOAA
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Hansen
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Roberts
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Haider+Rizvi

Climate change could cause global conflicts as large as the two world wars but lasting for centuries unless the problem is controlled, a leading defence think tank has warned.

https://tinyurl.com/4puefo


From Information Clearing House

https://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/7ab1da9f85fe531c?hl=en



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Agrarsprit
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Biodiesel
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Urwald

Randolph E. Schmid of The Associated Press reports: "Last month was the warmest March on record over land surfaces of the world and the second-warmest overall worldwide. For the United States, however, it was just an average March, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Thursday."

https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042208EB.shtml

Terrence McNally, AlterNet, says: "Of all the resources needed to build an economy that will sustain economic progress, none is more scarce than time. That is one of the key messages of 'Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization,' the newest book by Lester Brown."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042208T.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Earth+Day
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lester+Brown
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Terrence+McNally

Wallace J. Nichols, writing for Truthout, conveys his inspiration to take immediate action in response to global warming: "Today, we face [a] serious crises - loss of biodiversity, a warming planet, collapsing fisheries, looming food and water shortages, and pollution in every corner of the globe. Scientists forecast a '2050 Scenario' in which Earth is hotter, dirtier and overcrowded with nine billion people who are left to wage wars for what little remains."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042208D.shtml

Der Energieverbrauch und damit die CO2-Emissionen des Flugverkehrs nehmen in Deutschland pro Jahr um etwa dreieinhalb Prozent zu.

https://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741683461ms96



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Flugverkehr
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Energieverbrauch
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=CO2-Emissionen