Concerned citizen views

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One of the many picture found on the internet that tells us about what is happening to our climate

Concerned citizen views

Concerned citizen views

We should all be concerned about global warming, and as a concerned citizen I am worried, because it seems to me that it is being partly forgotten, even these days that there are these huge hurricanes, like hurricane Sandy which has devastated many states in America, the majority of people don’t really try to talk what can be done to stop global warming, they don’t seem interested enough to do anything much, and if they do it is like a passive interest. What else should happen before we all try harder to understand the situation and do something about it?

For my own part I can describe what I see is happening in these parts of Australia. A few years ago we had a drought then we have had two years with a lot or rain and floods, and now the drought seems to be starting again; the weather here seems to change suddenly from very wet to dry or very dry.

Now, let me talk about my life experience about the weather, I have been living in Brisbane for more than fifty years, and because I have been in a farm when I was young I always look at what is the weather like every day, so I have a pretty good idea what is going on and I am worried; I am worried because this issue of global warming, or perhaps we should call this climatic change are not taken seriously enough. I can see and feel the changes that are taking place weather wise and I hope that there is something that we can do, so I am looking for sign that steps are being taken from governments. But they don’t seem to care that much, they only seem to mention it every now and then and everything they do is very little compared to what needs to be done.

So, I have decided to write a few hubs or posts to publish on the internet, So that, I can be counted in, as one that is in favour of doing something about this problem of global warming.

Here I need to say, that personally I cannot add much to what has already been written from the experts, so, I am going to copy some reports that I find worth reading in the hope that you my readers read them and let your own government know what you think. Here I have also to say that everyone of us can help a little bit, starting from the way we live our lives, for instance even recycling is one of those things that can help, of course there are also many other things to consider.

So let us see what the experts say:

Report from the Internet; let us learn about it;

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Let us see what the expert say

So let us see what they say; in order to do that I have picked up a few links that explain the situation. So, click on the links below to learn whatever the expert are telling us?

www.climatechange.gov.au/

What Is Global Warming - Concerned about its effects?

Global Warming -- National Geographic

Global Warming Facts, Causes and Effects of Climate Change | NRDC

There are a lot more sites that explain the situation, anyhow let us hope that these link work.

Let us learn more about global warming

Apart from the reports about Hurricane Sandy these days, there are other reports all pointing out about the weather changes, and the extreme pattern that is emerging so to speak, so, I believe that something needs to be done. This is one of the reasons why I am writing this hub, because I would like to be counted in, as one that would like to see something done about it.

You see, there are many sites on the Internet that warn us and encourage us to to join them and let us be counted, I could copy and paste some of these very interesting articles, but that will make my hub contain duplicate content, so I have thought to use these articles somewhere else in the web, and then paste the link here, so that you can see what I mean.

One of these web address is one of my blog, called Mother Nature Challenge, here is the link; http://helpplanete.blogspot.com/

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Global warming is here for good

Every day I see more and more signs that really increase my concerns about global warming, I have to say that I have never wished that I would have to say this publically, but there are times when we really need to express our opinion openly, in the hope that people take notice of the facts that are happening right now, so, let me explain what I personally see today. Because what is happening right now has never happened before to the same extend.

But, first of all let me explain how and why I have come to this conclusion about these extra concerns about global warming, since I see a great difference in temperature in the city of Brisbane (Australia). From my observations I estimate that the temperature in Brisbane has gone up about three degrees, in the last fifty years or there about. If this trend keeps going on I don’t know how we will cope with this very high temperature in the future.

I have been living in Brisbane for the last 52 years apart for short breaks, and since I came to Brisbane I have always worked outside in the building industry. When one works outside one is forced to take notice of the weather every day, so what I am saying here in this article is mainly from my own personal observations, so let me describe one of these observations that come to my mind most often and the worries that this observation brings with it.

Working as a bricklayer in the building industry, I know very well that when it is hot it is a lot harder to lay bricks for many reasons, one of the reasons is that even though the temperature might be only thirty degrees, it happens that in some part of the works in the sun may well be forty degrees or even fifty degrees, I could go on explaining some more of these reasons, but this is not the right place to describe them all, but what I need to point out here is the fact that because of the very hot temperature, sometimes when it became extreme we would stop working for the rest of the day. Most of the time it would work this way, if the temperature went over thirty degrees and increasing (we) or the boss would have to make a decision whether to continue working or go home for the rest of the day. Now did you hear what I have just said? When the temperature was thirty degrees or higher we usually would stop working.

Presently in Brisbane for the last week the temperature has been well over thirty degrees, in fact it has been thirty three and thirty four for a whole week and today it might reach thirty five degrees or more, so I hope that you see what I mean here: when I say that I am more concerned than ever about global warming.

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This short notice or article here I need to add that I will be posting more articles about Global warming in the future, but at this stage I am wondering that I would like to link Global Warming with my other writings, and even though this is not a religious issue it is still linked to the religious issues that I have already published, so here-under are some links that you can check out.

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Where could global warming take us?

This is how Mother Nature would like our planet earth to be all the time, after all it is her work to keep the planet alive and well.

Here we have reasons to believe that global warming could slowly change our ways of living, you see, just by logic reasoning we could easily imagine that if the average temperature goes up there will be places where life will become harder and harder, it will be hotter and uncomfortable for us to say the least, but, not only it will be hot and uncomfortable for us, but the vegetation will start to die back when it is dry and hot and will not regenerate easily, therefore the desert land will increase in size, while the fertile land will shrink and slowly become arid land good for nothing, I believe that we should really think about this and try to see if there is something that can be done at least to slow the process of global warming.

If we are not able to do much to slow what is happening now, then we should really get ready to see the world in a different way. We should try to find other ways on how to survive in an hostile environment, but I would hate to live in a world that everything will depend from ourselves, because if something goes wrong there is nothing else to fall back in order to save ourselves. 

This is how we might end up, because we work against Mother Nature, and one day Mother Nature may destroy us.

Perhaps you think that this could never happen to us, but look even now there are already places that are so arid that is impossible to live on that land, one has only to look around to find the evidence. Now if we look even harder and criticize ourselves and look so far ahead we can see that one day we might disappear from the face of the earth, and if we don’t there will be a lot less people living on earth, because there is no way that they can survive, ether from the heat or from starving, because the earth will not produce enough for people to survive. I hope you see what I mean?

Modern exodus

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A boatload of people coming from North Africa to Italy, they also go to other European countries. This seems a modern exodus when lots of people move from one country to another. The question here arises: Could it be that the climate change has made this happen, because their countries are becoming poor.
  

Modern exodus

Dear readers, looking at what is happening today, there are reasons to believe that this modern exodus that we are witnessing today could be linked to global warming. Some of you may argue that the press dose not report this as the cause, but we suspect that it could be, because there are just too many people that move from their native land. Therefore there must be a widespread cause that makes these people want to move; anyhow let us just look at what is happening today.

The Italian Navy warns of “Biblical exodus” from North Africa to Italy and other European countries through the Mediterranean Sea.

The entire world should not talk about Italy not doing enough, because they need first to look at what is really happening; and then if they want come and give a hand to help the Italian that are doing what they could. What is happening has been described that it resembles a biblical exodus; Admiral.  Giuseppe De Georgi said that his ship has recued 18,546 illegal migrant, since October 2013 after the death of 364 migrant when their bout caught fire last October. Early in April 1014- four thousand migrant were rescued in 24 hours; it is believed that there are 600,000 migrant preparing to sail from Africa to Italy and other country around the Mediterranean Sea. So, the Italian are doing what they can.

To have a better picture of what is happening here are a couple of links and some photos to show you what we mean;  

Italy calls for EU help as it pulls 4000 migrants from sea in 48 hours

09 April 2014

·         1,000 migrants rescued off Italian coast in 24 hours 

03 Jan 2014

Now if you have been able to open the links and have read their article content, then you will know that it is an enormous problem, and that the Italians alone cannot solve it, the entire world needs to step in and try to solve this world wide problem. It is my humble opinion that no country should be left alone in cases like these.

Today it seems that Italy is the preferred place for these refugees, tomorrow it can be somewhere else; now, we say refugees because some of them are real refugees, but we feel that there is a lot of them that just run around the world to find a better life for themselves and they don’t care at all if in the process they inflict damage to the rest of the world peaceful communities. One has to look at what is happening in Rome to see what we are talking about.

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Now, let us leave behind the Italian problem just for the sake of talking about the reasons why we are writing this blog about Mother Nature warning; therefore what we want to say in this post is this; we want to say that there could be a different cause that makes these people move from their mother land, now the only other cause that we can see is global warming, you see global warming has make their lands poor and they fight each other to survive; this is making things worse and in the end they want to leave their country to find a new life. Well at least this is the way we see it.

This is all that we want to say today, see you later on when we find something else to talk about global warming or other natural problems that affect Mother Nature. 

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Modern exodus 

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Some useful links

 Some personal and religious links: 

http://menfranco-re.blogspot.com/

http://ifyoubelieveingod.blogspot.com/

http://manneedsgod.co.uk

http://frankmenchise.com

http://diybrickwork.com

http://frank-nrwo.yolasite.com

http://menfranconewworldorder.yolasite.com

http://myreligioustheory.yolasite.com 

Global warming reminder

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Global warming reminder

Today apart the many problems we the people of this world already face, there is this problem that we are causing ourselves, because we are overusing our resources and we are causing changes in the atmosphere and this is the main cause of global warming, so we would like to remind you to try to do your share for minimizing this effect of global warming.

There are many ways for doing this, but first of all let us see what the experts say, by clicking this link of this article published on the internet,  Effects of Global Warming - practicalaction.org‎; Some of the content of this link is written here under and it reads:    

It is the world’s poorest people who are hardest hit by devastating droughts, floods and other extreme weather events. This is a massive injustice – climate change is caused by the world’s richest countries.

Around the world, Practical Action is working in different ways to tackle both the causes and effects of climate change, including

·         Working with communities to reduce their vulnerability to the disasters made worse and more numerous by climate change, and to help them adapt to the longer term challenges which a changing climate pose.

·         Working with other organisations to share our learning of what works well and what can be done to make programmes of work with poor communities even more effective.

·         Working with national and international bodies around the world to create and strengthen policies which reduce emissions and encourage funding and focus on adaptation to climate change.

·         Working with schools and teachers to encourage the delivery of effective, exciting climate change lessons which engage today's young people in the issues of climate change, creating a generation of global citizens who understand the impact of their actions on the environment and people around the world.

·         Launching and supporting campaigns designed to raise awareness of the impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities, and enabling them to take tangible action to support strong and urgent change at the local, national and international level.

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If we take this problem seriously, we should be doing more than what is being done at the present time, for instance in Australia it is election time soon, but both major parties have not come up with anything urgent that needs to be done, they are happy to go along and look at each other and also at the rest of the world. The great concern here is this; are we going to be able to do enough to stop global warming? Or, are we going to leave it for too late and we will ruin our climate forever? 

This post is being written just to remind people what we need to do, for the future generations of mankind.

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Mother Nature

Global warning reminder

IS TO BE CONTINUED; 

Next time with another post about climatic changes.

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Some useful links from same author: 

http://frankmenchise.com

http://frank-nrwo.yolasite.com

http://menfranconewworldorder.yolasite.com

http://myreligioustheory.yolasite.com

https://sites.google.com/site/menfrancoreconciliation/  

https://sites.google.com/site/prayersofreconciliation/ 

https://sites.google.com/site/godintheuniverse/ 

http://manneedsgod.blogspot.com

Be healthy, wealthy and wise

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Be healthy, wealthy and wise

Hi everybody!

This is Menfranco Laws posting this time, to encourage you to be healthy wealthy and wise. We would also like to reintroduce first the reason of these writing posts: These posts are being written to encourage you to help save planet earth; you see every little helps, and if everyone of us does something to help the environment then it is going to be easier to save our planet, after all we need this planet the way it is if we want to survive in the future.

Also, these writings are being created to find ways on how we can discuss and reach consensus about how to find a way which may help the environment. The word key here is to discuss and reconcile ourselves with the environment, since any other ways may well be futile for the future of all humanity.

In these posts we would like to ask people what they think about these climatic issues being discussed in here, while we will present them with what is happening in the world nowadays; but at the same time we intend also to somehow compare the boring old time ways of living to the hectic ways of nowadays living, this may well be interesting to some people.

In a way this will give us a broader base to discuss about public concerns, and also make the subject more interesting. The old writings ways of life that we would be using to compare belong to one of the people that are contributing in these blogs; they have not been published yet at the time that we are writing this the first time, so let us hope that it works out well.

If you are following this blog you know that last post that we have written was about grow your own vegies, I think that is a very good way to go; so, let us see how we can achieve that and at the same time Help Planet Earth a little bit.

Well, as we all know every little thing may help Mother Nature keep the right balance, and if we do the right things, we can be healthy wealthy and wise at the same time. We do not have to grow just vegies; what about growing flowers or fruit trees if you have enough space.

It would be wise to start a small garden, and try not to spend too much money if it is possible, recycle all vegetable matter and try to use whatever can be reused. Perhaps it would help to know what other gardeners do, but above all try to learn as you go; you see every garden is a tiny bit different from other gardens, so you need to observe your own growing garden to know what is better to do.

Some gardeners keep a record so that they know what is better to grow in their own garden, others just try to remember as much as possible, and this helps them decide what to grow next.

Remember this, just staying outside and gardening is a healthy lifestyle.

So, be healthy, wealthy and wise and start gardening; what I you waiting for?

Mother Nature challenge, help Planet Earth

Be healthy wealthy and wise

TO BE CONTINUED;

Next time with another helpful post

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You are all invited to take part in these writings and please, write to a comment and let us know what you think about it all.

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Other links from same author 

http://frankmenchise.com

http://frank-nrwo.yolasite.com

http://menfranconewworldorder.yolasite.com

http://myreligioustheory.yolasite.com

https://sites.google.com/site/menfrancoreconciliation/  

https://sites.google.com/site/prayersofreconciliation/ 

https://sites.google.com/site/godintheuniverse/ 

http://manneedsgod.blogspot.com

Report of concerned citizen

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Report of concerned citizen

I am a concerned citizen and I am thinking that all is not well, because we don’t take global warming seriously when we should; so, I am writing this post to highlight my concerns. Now apart what I can say for myself, I have collected some information from the web, where the expert tell us a few things about this issue, and this information will be pasted here-under.

I believe that we should all be concerned about global warming, because it seems to me that it is being partly forgotten, even these days that there are these huge hurricanes, like Hurricane Sandy which has devastated many states in America, the majority of people don’t really try to talk what can be done to stop global warming, they don’t seem interested enough to do anything much, and if they do it is like a passive interest. What else should happen before we all try harder to understand the situation and do something about it?

For my own part I can describe what I see is happening in these parts of Australia. A few years ago we had a drought then we have had two years with a lot or rain and floods, and now the drought seems to be starting again; the weather here seems to change suddenly from very wet to dry or very dry.

Now, let me talk about my life experience about the weather, I have been living in Brisbane for more than fifty years, and because I have been in a farm when I was young I always look at what is the weather like every day, so I have a pretty good idea what is going on and I am worried; I am worried because this issue of global warming, or perhaps we should call this climatic change are not taken seriously enough. I can see and feel the changes that are taking place weather-wise and I hope that there is something that we can do, so I am looking for sign that steps are being taken from governments. But they don’t seem to care that much, they only seem to mention it every now and then and everything they do is very little compared to what needs to be done.

So, I have decided to write a few hubs or posts to publish on the internet, So that, I can be counted in, as one that is in favor of doing something about this problem of global warming.

Here I need to say, that personally I cannot add much to what has already been written from the experts, so, I am going to copy some reports that I find worth reading in the hope that you my readers read them and let your own government know what you think. Here I have also to say that everyone of us can help a little bit, starting from the way we live our lives, for instance even recycling is one of those things that can help, of course there are also many other things to consider. 

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So let us see what the experts say:   

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The results are in and the reality of global warming is beyond dispute or debate. It’s not just an environmental issue. It affects our public health and national security. It’s an urgent matter of survival for everyone on the planet — the most urgent threat facing humanity today. It’s going to take action from you and all of us working together.

The first step, Join the Virtual March.

The second step, Keep reading below, and share this with friends.

Global warming isn’t opinion. It’s a scientific reality. And the science tells us that human activity has made enormous impacts to our planet that affect our well-being and even our survival as a species.

The world’s leading science journals report that glaciers are melting ten times faster than previously thought, that atmospheric greenhouse gases have reached levels not seen for millions of years, and that species are vanishing as a result of climate change. They also report of extreme weather events, long-term droughts, and rising sea levels.

Fortunately, the science also tells us how we can begin to make significant repairs to try and reverse those impacts, but only through immediate action. That’s why we urge you to join us. The Stop Global Warming Virtual March is virtual but its purpose is real. By spreading the word and sharing this with others, our collective power will force governments, corporations, and politicians everywhere to pay attention.

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What is Global Warming?

The Earth as an ecosystem is changing, attributable in great part to the effects of globalization and man. More carbon dioxide is now in the atmosphere than has been in the past 650,000 years. This carbon stays in the atmosphere, acts like a warm blanket, and holds in the heat — hence the name ‘global warming.’

The reason we exist on this planet is because the earth naturally traps just enough heat in the atmosphere to keep the temperature within a very narrow range – this creates the conditions that give us breathable air, clean water, and the weather we depend on to survive. Human beings have begun to tip that balance. We’ve overloaded the atmosphere with heat-trapping gasses from our cars and factories and power plants. If we don’t start fixing the problem now, we’re in for devastating changes to our environment. We will experience extreme temperatures, rises in sea levels, and storms of unimaginable destructive fury. Recently, alarming events that are consistent with scientific predictions about the effects of climate change have become more and more commonplace.

Environmental Destruction

The massive ice sheets in the Arctic are melting at alarming rates. This is causing the oceans to rise. That’s how big these ice sheets are! Most of the world’s population lives on or near the coasts. Rising ocean levels, an estimated six feet over the next 100 years or sooner, will cause massive devastation and economic catastrophe to population centres worldwide.

The United States, with only four percent of the world’s population, is responsible for 22% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. A rapid transition to energy efficiency and renewable energy sources will combat global warming, protect human health, create new jobs, protect habitat and wildlife, and ensure a secure, affordable energy future.

Health Risks

Malaria. Dengue Fever. Encephalitis. These names are not usually heard in emergency rooms and doctors’ offices in the United States. But if we don’t act to curb global warming, they will be. As temperatures rise, disease-carrying mosquitoes and rodents spread, infecting people in their wake. Doctors at the Harvard Medical School have linked recent U.S. outbreaks of dengue fever, malaria, hantavirus and other diseases directly to climate change.

Catastrophic Weather

Super powerful hurricanes, fueled by warmer ocean temperatures are the “smoking gun” of global warming. Since 1970, the number of category 4 and 5 events has jumped sharply. Human activities are adding an alarming amount of pollution to the earth’s atmosphere causing catastrophic shifts in weather patterns. These shifts are causing severe heat, floods and worse.

Five Things We Can All Do

·         Join StopGlobalWarming.org. Together our voices will be heard!

·         Spread the word, share the learning. Send this link to family, friends, and colleagues. Share why this is so important.

·         Change begins at home. (See our Action Items list)

·         Put the heat on your elected officials to support legislation to stop global warming.

·         The power of the pocketbook; buy green products and donate to environmental organizations.

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I hope you see what I mean and start thinking what you can do to help?

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Some politicians know that we need to do something about global warming soon, see what President Barack Obama has said: I hope that he would be able to do something about it.

President Barack Obama

We now know without a doubt that global warming is threatening us with higher temperatures, more drought, more wildfire, more flooding, and more erosion of our coastal communities. People who don’t believe this can yell about it as loudly as they want, but it doesn’t change the fact that the overwhelming scientific evidence has proven this over and over again. We must act now with the rest of the world to curb emissions so that we can leave our children a safer, healthier planet.

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Anyhow, during these last few days, we have all heard about Hurricane Sandy and the destruction it has caused in America and nearby.   

This is one of the reports I found on the web.

 Hurricane Sandy: Costs to Come

By Ryan Avent (The Economist) - November 1, 2012

THE economic approach to global warming is relatively straightforward. The emission of greenhouse gases generates a negative spillover—global warming—that harms others. Someone driving a car emits carbon dioxide into the atmosphere which contributes to climate change, but because most of the cost of the car’s contribution to warming will be felt by people other than the driver, he has an incentive to drive too much. Aggregate that decision to emit too much across all of the world’s population, and you get a serious economic problem.

Luckily, there is a solution. By taxing the emission of greenhouse gases, one can align private and public costs. The cost of the driver’s emissions will be “internalised”, he’ll drive less, emissions will fall, and warming will slow. All that remains is to tot up an estimate of the “social cost of carbon” and convert that into an optimal tax rate. And in fact, many models reckon the tax need not be too high, as it makes sense to accommodate quite a lot of warming. The costs of climate change will mount over time, but so too will global income, the thinking goes. Economic actors are resilient and will be able to adapt. All in all, we shouldn’t expect global warming to dent expected GDP growth so much that a stifling tax rate is necessary.

There is some wisdom in this analysis. Remarkably, Americans have adopted what is effectively an even more sanguine view of the harm from warming, by refusing to tax carbon and investing quite conservatively in green technology and research. But as the devastation from Hurricane Sandy makes clear, the economic approach is a bit too anti-septic and simplistic a way of understanding and responding too an incredibly complex and potentially catastrophic climate phenomenon. The American approach is out-and-out reckless.

With the superstorm now dissipating, estimates of its economic impact are beginning to emerge. Kate Mackenzie comments on some of them here. Goldman Sachs economist Jan Hatzius notes that damage estimates of $10 billion to $20 billion look small and may well be revised up (Hurricane Katrina was responsible for roughly $113 billion in damage). Yet the observed impact of the storm on economic numbers could be even smaller. October data will probably take a hit, but much of the shortfall may be made up in November and December such that fourth-quarter GDP will hardly register the event. Pimco’s Mohamed El-Erian reckons that the storm will show up in the fourth-quarter data, but mostly because state and federal governments are less fiscally willing and able to provide support. Still, the fact that such an epic storm might not even knock the GDP statistics off track lends credence to those who argue, for instance, that things like a massively expensive sea wall to protect New York City or an Apollo programme for green energy would represent useless waste.

But there are two problems with this mode of thinking. One is that the economic resiliency that allows us to shift economic activity across time and geography, holding down the cost of such storms, has its limits. People cluster together in New York City, despite the high cost of living, because of the extraordinary advantages of being there, surrounded by other skilled professionals. There are “returns to scale” that hold New York together—productivity per person rises with population and density. Given limited disruption, the city will quickly bounce back, but a larger disaster could disperse enough of the city’s people and businesses to undermine the scale that acts as New York’s gravity. That could generate very large economic losses. New York can’t easily be replaced, and even if it were logistically possible to create another megacity there’s no guarantee that resources would re-congeal there. They might stick, instead, to lots of smaller cities: a much less productive distribution.

The more serious issue, however, is simply that GDP is not capturing everything we care about. GDP is a flow of income, for one thing. A storm that destroys existing wealth could actually raise the flow of production in the short term as people rebuild, such that higher GDP growth might nonetheless mean less wealth overall. Moreover, GDP is a very imperfect measure of human welfare. Even if GDP and wealth were relatively unharmed by the storm, we might nonetheless want to prevent a great deal of human suffering. The damage to America’s northeast pales in comparison with the destruction wrought in Haiti, but because Haitians are so poor the economic cost of the damage there is almost imperceptible. The fact that the average Haitian emits about a hundredth as much carbon dioxide each year as the typical American suggests that unaccounted-for economic injustice may be at least as big a concern with global warming as underestimated human costs.

And so it would be entirely appropriate if the damage done by Sandy shakes Americans out of complacency on the issue of global warming, despite the relatively tolerable price tag of the storm. The storm is costlier than the estimated bill reflects. And future storms will be costlier still.

Many scientists and journalists are cautious in listing climate change as a causal factor behind a storm like Sandy. Understandably so: weather emerges as part of a complex system, and it would be impossible to say whether a storm would or would not have materialised without global warming. But scientists are becoming ever less shy in drawing a line between a higher frequency of “extreme” weather events and a warming climate. Climate shifts the probability distribution of such events, and so global warming may not have “caused” Sandy, but it makes Sandy-like storms more probable. As the ever-less-funny joke goes, 500-year weather events seem to pop up every one or two years these days. Frequency and intensity of storms aside, future hurricanes that hit the east coast will do so atop rising sea levels. Contemplate the images of seawater rushing over Manhattan streets and into subway and highway tunnels. Then consider that sea levels are rising. And then reflect on the fact that New York is very much like a typical megacity in being located on the water; tracing a finger around America’s coastlines leads one past most of the country’s largest and richest cities.

Americans may absorb all of this and decide that the smart choice continues to be a course of inaction. They may continue to believe that the storms—and droughts and heat waves and blizzards and floods—to come will be manageable because they’ll be richer and well-equipped to adapt. Hopefully, there will at least be a better sense of what that is likely to mean and the trade-offs it will involve. Adaptation will be an ongoing, costly slog, with a side order of substantial human suffering. It will be one American icon after another threatened. Adaptation is not going to be easy. Hopefully Americans will ask themselves whether it’s so much worse than the alternatives—high carbon taxes or large public investments or both—after all.

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As I have said I am posting this, in the hope that some people read this and become aware of things that need to be done.

May God bless us and help us all? 

Environment will change

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Welcome to my blog, Mother Nature Challenge
and this post, Environment will change
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On the Yahoo news today was reported that because of the global warming there will be adverse changes in the environment, hereunder is a copy of the report:

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Conserving Australia's environment as it is today will become increasingly impossible as the world warms, so governments should instead focus on managing environments as they change, the CSIRO says.

A new report, released on Tuesday, says the impact of climate change on plants, animals and ecosystems will be "significant" by 2030 and "extreme" by 2070.

"This is likely to see the emergence of new environments and the disappearance of many existing environments," the CSIRO study states.

"The general pattern of change in vegetation is likely to be a decline in the area of environments that now favour trees and an increase in more arid environments favouring open woodlands, chenopod shrublands and grasslands."

Some species will persist where they are now geographically but their numbers will change.

Others will prosper in new regions and die out in others as climate change takes effect.

The report says current thinking about conservation - to preserve species and communities in their historical locations - will need to change.

"This paradigm of conservation will become increasingly unachievable and less effective for guiding conservation investment and actions," it states.

Instead there should be a preparedness to manage "inevitable change in order to minimise the loss of values associated with biodiversity".

A new concept of "dynamic biodiversity" could see a focus on the existence of species rather than their abundance and distribution.

The health of ecosystems could be the objective rather than fighting to preserve their existing composition and structure.

Australia's national science agency suggests the species-by-species approach will be more difficult to manage with a dramatic rise in the number of species vulnerable to extinction.

It could be a matter of "conserve the stage not the actors".

"Many of the environments our plants and animals currently exist in will disappear from the continent," lead researcher Dr Michael Dunlop said in a statement.

"Our grandchildren are likely to experience landscapes that are very different to the ones we have known."

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We all hope that somehow our scientists find a way to minimize the adverse effects that this change will bring.

Global warming article

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Welcome to my blog
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This post is called; Global warming article
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Global warning article
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Let us spread the knowledge about what is known global warming.
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This article is from the Internet:
Earth
is a very special planet – it is close enough to the sun to receive a lot of energy, but far enough not to be scorched.
It is in what you might call the "goldilocks zone", where the conditions are just right for life as we know it.
To help keep these conditions just right, our planet is wrapped in a layer of greenhouse gases.
This layer keeps the globe warm like a blanket, shielding it from the cold universe – commonly referred to as the greenhouse effect.
While not being the most potent greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2) is the main driver for the greenhouse effect.
And this is where we have a problem.
The cause of climate change is the unlimited burning of fossil fuels - coal, oil and natural gas - releasing CO2 in the atmosphere at an ever increasing rate.
Because of this the layer of greenhouse gas gets thicker, which in turn makes the Earth warmer.
The reason we do this is to satisfy our hunger for energy. But thanks to human ingenuity there are now smarter ways to make energy.

Culprit coal
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The biggest climate polluter is the global power sector, and it generates around 40% of all global electricity from coal. We need electricity - but when you take into account the true cost of coal there are much better ways to get it!
According to the International Energy Agency the power sector is responsible for 37% of all man-made Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions. It creates about 23 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions per year – in excess of 700 tonnes a second.
In turn, this CO2 continues to heat up our planet and pose an unprecedented threat to us and the environment. Read more here on the impacts of climate change.
Generating electricity through the burning of fossil fuels, in particular carbon-heavy coal, has a greater impact on the atmosphere than any other single human activity.
Coal is the world's most widely available fossil fuel
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Weaning humanity off coal will not be easy. There is an estimated 2 billion people with no access to domestic electricity, and recoverable reserves of coal exist in about 70 countries, according to the World Coal Institute, an industry lobby group (the largest are in the United States, Russia and China). It is considered a cheap form of energy.
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But coal is not cheap - if you have to pay for it all
The true cost of coal cannot be found on any balance sheet, but in the lives and health of people and ecosystems. If the global power sector could be made fully accountable for the true costs of pollution and climate change, it would probably turn away from fossil fuel overnight.
Too many governments still subsidize coal production and this distorts the energy market. OECD countries support their coal industry with a whopping $30 billion USD annually.
Much cleaner renewable energies are hampered in their ability to compete with a dirty fuel that is subsidized. Politicians have the power to remove fossil-fuel subsidies or, better still, transfer them to renewable energy.
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When the true cost is taken into account, renewable energy
begins to look by far the best option for a healthy and sustainable future.
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End of article
I have to say that we need to be more active about this global warming before it may become too late? So let the politician start doing something about it.
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Mother Nature Challenge
Global warming article
IS GOING TO BE CONTINUED;
Next time with another post about climate change
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Some links of interest
www.climatechange.gov.au/

http://menfrancostory.blogspot.com

http://menfranco.blogspot.com

http://genzanoit.blogspot.com/

http://helpplanete.blogspot.com/