This Earth - as WE KNOW IT

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This modern-day march to some sort of oblivion.   What destruction.

This week Orangutans, tomorrow Koala's.

Next year Fish.

 

Neckminnit Us.

 

https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/save_the_tapanuli_orangutans_93/?cGLPMab

 

[Earl Hood 5,789]

11 hours ago, DV8 said:

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This modern-day march to some sort of oblivion.   What destruction.

This week Orangutans, tomorrow Koala's.

Next year Fish.

 

Neckminnit Us.

 

https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/save_the_tapanuli_orangutans_93/?cGLPMab

 

Was in Borneo recently to see the Orangutans that are still surviving the palm oil plantations, now we have this hydroelectric dams in Indonesia! What hope for the Orangutans in this world? 

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29 minutes ago, Earl Hood said:

Was in Borneo recently to see the Orangutans that are still surviving the palm oil plantations, now we have this hydroelectric dams in Indonesia! What hope for the Orangutans in this world? 

 

30 minutes ago, Earl Hood said:

palm oil plantations

Items we all use everyday, without realising it contains palm oil,,,  at the expence of our Worlds Carbon Consuming Forests of Sth-East Asia and Indonesia.

At all our expenses now and into our future,,, and your children's futures... not they'r finances,,, but they're well being. 

And following on from there, also the finances.

 

https://awareenvironmental.com.au/whats-new/10-surprising-products-contain-palm-oil/

 

Orangutans, Our mammalian Canaries of the Coal-Mines

 

 

https://theantipalmoilcampaign.weebly.com/palm-oil-products.html

 

 

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[Wrecker45 3,378]

Yep we are doomed. The sky is falling, the coral that has survived 100’s of thousands of years to contribute to the Great Barrier Reef is cooked, Fairfax journalists are becoming extinct, climate change is causing droughts and floods simulataneously and Trump is about to create world war 3 siding with Russia against the rest.

[jackaub 1,402]

On 8/7/2018 at 8:56 PM, Wrecker45 said:

Yep we are doomed. The sky is falling, the coral that has survived 100’s of thousands of years to contribute to the Great Barrier Reef is cooked, Fairfax journalists are becoming extinct, climate change is causing droughts and floods simulataneously and Trump is about to create world war 3 siding with Russia against the rest.

Yes Wrecker 

The idiots are in control of the agenda

The world by any measure has never been in better condition this despite having to absorb incredible population growth

It truely is a wonderfull world!

[drysdale demon 4,174]

On 8/1/2018 at 11:48 AM, DV8 said:

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This modern-day march to some sort of oblivion.   What destruction.

This week Orangutans, tomorrow Koala's.

Next year Fish.

 

Neckminnit Us.

 

https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/save_the_tapanuli_orangutans_93/?cGLPMab

 

Shouldn't this topi be in general discussion and not the football section.

Edited October 30, 2018 by drysdale demon

[DV8 2,271]

27 minutes ago, drysdale demon said:

Shouldn't this topi be in general discussion and not the football section.

Hey DD, it is in the general topics section.  lol.  where did you wake up today ? ?

[Earl Hood 5,789]

On 10/30/2018 at 8:15 AM, jackaub said:

Yes Wrecker 

The idiots are in control of the agenda

The world by any measure has never been in better condition this despite having to absorb incredible population growth

It truely is a wonderfull world!

Hey Jackaud, just checking, are you taking the pizz with your wonderful World statement? Wonderful world for some, no doubt, not too Flash for a lot of non human species living in the ever diminishing wild parts of this planet. 

[rjay 23,925]

On 10/30/2018 at 8:15 AM, jackaub said:

Yes Wrecker 

The idiots are in control of the agenda

The world by any measure has never been in better condition this despite having to absorb incredible population growth

It truely is a wonderfull world!

'jackaub's' world...

 

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What is the Cost of One Meter of Sea Level Rise?

Sean Vitousek, Guest Commentary, | July 19, 2017, 9:48 am EST

The opening line of our recent Scientific Reports article reads “Global climate change drives sea level rise, increasing the frequency of coastal flooding.” Some may read this as plain fact. Others may not.

Undeniable and accelerating

100 years of data from tide gauges and more recently from satellites has demonstrated an unequivocal rise in global sea level (~8-10 inches in the past century). Although regional sea level varies on a multitude of time scales due to oceanographic processes like El Niño and vertical land motion (e.g., land subsidence or uplift), the overall trend of rising sea levels is both undeniable and accelerating. Nevertheless, variability breeds doubt. Saying that global warming is a hoax because it’s cold outside is like saying sea level rise doesn’t exist because it’s low tide.

Global sea level is currently rising at 3–4 mm/year, making it a relatively slow process. For instance, tides typically change sea level by 0.5-1.0 m every 12 hours, a rate that is ~100,000 times faster than global mean sea level rise.

It’s almost as if sea-level rise were slow enough for us to do something about it…

https://blog.ucsusa.org/guest-commentary/what-is-the-cost-of-one-meter-of-sea-level-rise

 

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[DV8 2,271]

https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/am/saving-the-sumatran-tiger-from-extinction/10576386

Saving the Sumatran tiger from extinction

By Anne Barker on AM

The Sumatran tiger is now so rare there are around 400 left in the wild.

But conservationists are optimistic they can stave off extinction.

A new campaign is enlisting the support of another 'tiger' — the Richmond Football club in Melbourne — to raise awareness in Australia.

Play

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.

 

https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/am/saving-the-sumatran-tiger-from-extinction/10576386

[Crompton's the man 635]

Yesterday’s Australian is full of letters rejoicing in the previous day’s article which explains why those silly scientists are all wrong about rising carbon dioxide levels.

Can anyone provide a non paywall version of that article?

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'Sustainable palm oil' may not be so sustainable after all

Vision of an orangutan seemingly under assault from heavy machinery in Indonesia went viral on social media last week, briefly putting the issue of illegal palm oil operations back in the spotlight.

The footage, originally shot in 2014, shows the animal clambering to get away while an excavator pushes the lone tree it is sheltering in to the ground.

The men who can be seen pursuing the animal were from International Animal Rescue (IAR) and the Agency for the Conservation of Natural Resources (BKSDA) and were attempting to sedate and capture the animal before relocating it.

In an attempt to stop scenes like this, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) set up the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in 2004, with industry partners and social-environmental organisations.

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And in 2011 the RSPO trademark was launched as a way to certify products containing sustainably grown palm oil.

 

Today, many of the biggest producers of things such as chocolate,  shampoo,  chips,  household cleaning products,  cosmetics,  and even pet foods are members of RSPO and claim their palm oil comes from sustainable sources.

It is often difficult to tell which products contain palm oil though,  because Australian guidelines allow more generic terms like "vegetable oil" or "vegetable fat" to be listed on product packaging instead.

 

And palm oil is the most widely used "vegetable oil" in the world.

 

Many have criticised RSPO, saying it provides cover for corporate palm oil stakeholders to carry on with business as usual.

 

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The Delta fire burns in the Shasta-Trinity national forest, California, in September 2018...

Photograph: Noah Berger/AP

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/dec/26/america-in-pictures-2018

 

An airplane flies past the sun during a California wildfire in Yosemite National Park on July 15, 2018.

Noah Berger/AP

https://www.businessinsider.com/california-wildfire-smoke-blowing-to-east-coast-2018-11/?r=AU&IR=T

Smoke from California's wildfires is drifting across the US to New York — and it's making pretty sunsets

• Dave Mosher
• Nov. 20, 2018, 4:03 PM

California's recent wildfires have killed at least 82 people.   Nearly 700 others are still missing.

The recent scourge of wildfires in California has claimed the lives of at least 82 people, and authorities report that nearly 700 others are still missing.

The Camp Fire in Northern California has proven to be the deadliest in the state's history, killing 79 people. The blaze has scorched more than 150,000 acres of land, destroyed more than 15,000 buildings, and is about 70% contained as of Tuesday.

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Wildfire smoke from California has reached New York City, 3,000 miles away

Wildfire smoke concentrations on August 8.

https://mashable.com/article/smoke-california-wildfires-east-coast/#CozfFeQCXkq5

 

Anthony Wexler, the director of the Air Quality Research Center at the University of California, Davis, packed his bags and drove his family out to the coast.  

They're escaping the smoke.

Davis, California, sits amid a layer of wildfire smoke in Northern California. To the northwest, the largest fire in state history, the Mendocino Complex Fire, continues to burn. To the southeast, the Ferguson Fire has closed down smoke-choked Yosemite National Park indefinitely. And to the North, the Carr Fire, infamous for its towering fire tornado, still burns.

 

The air quality in the region around the fires — whose spread has been enhanced by extreme heat parching the land — is some of the worst in the world. 

"I decided to go out to the coast for a couple days because it was so ridiculous," Wexler said. 

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California just had its hottest month on record, and that means more wildfires

Predicted hot California temperatures on August 8, 2018.

https://mashable.com/2018/08/08/california-hottest-month-july-fires/#oCjnLJ0oamqQ

 

It should come as no surprise that California is burning. 

On Wednesday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported that July was California's hottest month since record keeping began in 1895.

 

Those scorching temperatures withered the land, creating profoundly parched forests primed to catch fire with just a spark. 

[dieter 3,325]

On 11/15/2018 at 9:59 PM, Earl Hood said:

Hey Jackaud, just checking, are you taking the pizz with your wonderful World statement? Wonderful world for some, no doubt, not too Flash for a lot of non human species living in the ever diminishing wild parts of this planet. 

Not to mention certain people in a certain region of the world which apparently has Biblical references. The whole region in fact, you know that area which certain Western countries feel they have to either invade or 'sort out', if you like.Apparently, it's a good region to test the latest weapons of mass destruction, things like depleted uranium etc etc