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LET ME EXPLAIN THE PURPOSE OF THIS BLOG. WE WANT TO USE THIS BLOG TO WRITE A DIARY OF THE LIFE OF OUR NEWBORN BABY RAFAEL, WHENEVER THERE ARE THINGS TO SAY ABOUT HIM. BECAUSE BLOGS NEED TO BE ACTIVE TO ATTRACT VISITORS, WE WILL ALSO WRITE AN OLD MAN LIFE STORY, WHICH IS THE LIFE STORY OF HIS GRANDFATHER. THIS OLD STORY CAN BE USED TO COMPARE IT WITH THE NEWBORN BABY STORY, YOU SEE TODAY THINGS CHANGE VERY QUICKLY AND IT COULD BE INTERESTING TO SEE THE DIFFERENCE. WE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO PASTE LINKS LIKE BABY SONGS TO MAKE IT MORE BABY FRIENDLY.

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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Ocean currents change

THIS BLOG HAS BEEN OPENED TO HOUSE ALL SORTS OF ISSUES ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGES, IT IS OPEN FOR DISCUSSION TO THE PUBLIC, SO ANYBODY CAN COMMENT ON IT, IF AND WHEN THEY HAVE SOMETHING USEFUL TO SAY. THERE WILL BE ALSO SOME GARDENING DISCUSSIONS HOW YOU CAN HELP BY HAVING YOUR OWN BACKYARD KITCHEN GARDEN
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Mother Nature Challenge
Ocean currents change
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WELCOME!
You are invited to browse and take part in the discussions that follow.
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Here we are looking again what to do to help planet earth?
This report I found on the Internet.-www.sayyesaustralia.org.au/
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Mother Nature Challenge
Ocean currents change
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I am afraid that I have to say again that I am using the Internet and copying entire articles to make my point; but I have come to the conclusion that really it is wiser to use what the experts have written, since what they have written is a lot better of what I could ever write, so let us see what I have found this time?
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Ocean currents emerge as climate change hot-spots
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As they warm, they shift
By Richard Chirgwin • Get more from this author
Posted in Environment, 30th January 2012 17:22 GMT
A global study that assesses the temperature change in ocean currents has made two findings – one surprising, the other less so. The unsurprising outcome is that as the Earth’s temperature rises, so does the temps in a collection of major ocean currents; the surprise is that those currents are warming faster than the globe as a whole.
According to the study, published this week in Nature Climate Change, a pattern of warming in the ocean’s long-distance currents has now been identified near Australia, Japan, Africa, and North America.
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Moreover, the warming is also sending the currents “polewards”, meaning that species migrations already observed in Australia (in which many species are moving southwards at as much as a degree per year) are almost certain to happen on a global scale.
The study, "Enhanced warming over the global subtropical western boundary currents", aims to identify whether, and to what degree, changes in ocean currents may occur due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas forcing.
The currents are important because on their thousands-of-kilometer journeys redistributing heat from equatorial regions to the mid-latitudes, they also release both heat and moisture into the atmosphere.
The currents could be thought of as heat pumps on a global scale, collecting heat nearer to the equator, and dropping it off – along with both moisture and the energy to, among other things, drive storms – further away.
According to the study, the currents are hot-spots in the climate-change picture, warming considerably faster than the average warming of the ocean. Over all the data sets, which comprise the Gulf Stream, Kurshio Current, East Australian Current, Brazil Current, and Aguhlas Current, the average warming over a century has been around 1.2°C, while the global mean rise in temperatures is 0.62°C for the same period.
One of the paper’s authors, CSIRO’s Dr. Wenju Cai, told the ABC’s The World Today that the change is significant because it’s an observation on a global scale. He told the program that while warming of the East Australian Current had already been documented, this study demonstrates that it’s not just happening “in an isolated part of the Tasman Sea.”
Because the change is global, and because the various currents have warmed pretty much in step, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Michael McPhaden said the synchronized change in ocean circulation is “most likely [caused by] anthropogenic greenhouse gas forcing."
The scale of the change, at two to three times global temperature rises, is one thing that surprised McPhaden, because “we did not think there was such a tight connection between ocean circulation on these small scales near the western boundaries.”
To try and account for natural climate variability, the researchers present a second analysis in which the change in the currents is presented in two periods: from 1900 to 1949, and from 1949 to 2008.
The picture is far less uniform, the study finds, in the first 50 years, with some currents (the Kuriosho, Gulf Stream, and Anguhlas) rising noticeably, while the East Australian and Brazil currents did not. This, they say, might reflect the lower impact of greenhouse-gas forcing in the earlier period, such that some fluctuations were smaller than natural variability. ®
A hat-tip to The World Today, which first carried the story in Australia, and thanks to Dr. Wenju Cai for providing a copy of the paper so that The Register was able to expand upon the original report. ®
Update: Since this story went live, Dr Cai has provided further information via e-mail to The Register regarding the source data used in the study.
Before regular ocean temperature monitoring was put in place, wind speeds – which are fed by energy from the ocean – are the key proxy for ocean temperature. Hence, regarding data towards the 1900 start date of the projection, Dr Cai wrote, “Much of the early changes are inferred from winds, for which we have more observations.”
While “reconstructed data certainly have limitations,” he wrote, winds “are a major driver of climate change.”
Importantly, he noted that the outputs of this study agree with predictions from other sources: “Climate models project a synchronized warming under various emission scenarios”.
This suggests a secondary, but still important, result of this study: it serves to help validate other climate models.
Data comes from a variety of sources, Dr Cai said: “Since 1950, we have started to [get] good data, though the coverage is sparse, and the amount increases dramatically since 1979 (the satellite era).
“Since 2003, we have built a network of 3,000 floats around the globe, which measure SST [sea surface temperature] every 10 days.
“However, for over 60 years, CSIRO has continuous monthly measurements of ocean temperature of Maria Island in Tasmania, which show a warming rate of up to 3°C.” ®
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End of report:
I hope you see what I mean, for instance; it is very worrying to know this last bit about Maria Island in Tasmania.
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HELP MOTHER NATURE FOR BETTER CLIMATE
Ocean current change
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Thursday, January 12, 2012

Taking notice of global warming

THIS BLOG HAS BEEN OPENED TO HOUSE ALL SORTS OF ISSUES ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGES, IT IS OPEN FOR DISCUSSION TO THE PUBLIC, SO ANYBODY CAN COMMENT ON IT, IF AND WHEN THEY HAVE SOMETHING USEFUL TO SAY. THERE WILL BE ALSO SOME GARDENING DISCUSSIONS HOW YOU CAN HELP BY HAVING YOUR OWN BACKYARD KITCHEN GARDEN
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Taking notice of global warming
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WELCOME!
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Here we are looking again what to do to help planet earth?
This report I found on the Internet.-www.sayyesaustralia.org.au/
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Mother Nature Challenge
Taking notice of global warming
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TAKING NOTICE OF GLOBAL WARMING
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Nobody seems to take notice of global warming, so today again we are
writing a post in my blog called, Mother Nature Challenge and we are talking
about global warming; it is something that cannot be avoided, because as soon
as I/we am/are in the open meaning outside or in the country, we notice that
something is different from the way it used to be when we were young. We seem
all to notice that the weather is not what it used to be, it changes suddenly
from hot to cold or vice verse, there are extreme spell of dry weather for a
long time, then it starts to rain and soon that welcome rain becomes too much
because it rains for days and it may even flood us, like it did last year here
in Brisbane, now because of all these changes in the weather pattern, one has
reasons to believe that we might have made unwelcome changes to the weather; so
we really need to think what mankind needs to do. We have been advised from
many learned people and if we just look in the Internet the reasons are
explained very well from the expert, Just look at a small part of this article
that I have just copied hereunder to see what I mean, and I quote:
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The effects of global
warming
are the ecological and social changes caused by the rise in
global temperatures. Evidence of climate
change
includes the instrumental temperature record, rising sea levels, and decreased snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere.[6] Most of the observed increase in global
average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the
observed increase in human greenhouse gas concentrations[7]. Projections of future climate change
suggest further global warming, sea level rise, and an increase in the
frequency of some extreme weather events.[8] Parties to the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC) have agreed to implement
policies designed to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases to avoid dangerous climate change.
End of quote.
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So, here I may say again that we have really
done something that is against Mother Nature liking, therefore, now it is time
that we challenge ourselves and try to meet the challenge that Mother Nature
seems to throw at us? That is do not make more mistakes, because if you do you
will be paying dearly even with our lives, because it may come a time when it
will be very hard to live well on this planet earth.
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Mother Nature Challenge
HELP MOTHER NATURE FOR BETTER CLIMATE
Taking notice of global warming
IS TO BE CONTINUED:
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