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Category Archives: Floods
..: Ristorante Mystica :.. Iceland volcano panic button
”For an Icelandic volcano this was a relatively small eruption, but there are fears that it could set off the nearby Katla volcano, a far more violent beast capable of inflicting immense damage.
The precedents are not good. In the past 1,000 years, Eyjafjallajökull has erupted three times, in AD920, 1612 and 1821, and each time the Katla volcano blew up soon afterwards. And because Katla lies under a glacier, it sets off colossal floods as the ice rapidly melts. Worse still, Katla can shoot up enormous plumes of ash, gas and acid high into the atmosphere, blocking out the Sun’s energy and creating a deep chill.
The effects on the UK could be severe. In June 1783 the Laki volcano close to Katla erupted for several months with clouds of poisonous gas that killed 9,000 people in Iceland. But the eruption also created a cold fog that spread across much of Europe and North America, in some places causing the coldest summer for 500 years as the Sun’s warmth was blotted out. ”
Posted in Climate, Coal, Countries, Floods, Map, solar
Tagged Agriculture, Biodiversity, Carbon Cycle, Climate Change, iceland, NASA, volcanoes, WB Carbon
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Ecology and Biosphere Sustainability
The human family faces the imminent collapse of the biosphere – the thin layer of life organized into ecosystems, upon an otherwise lifeless planet – that makes Earth habitable. Marshes and rivers and forests and fish are far more than resources – they and all natural ecosystems provide for humanity’s habitat and existence upon Earth. A few centuries of unprecedented explosion in human numbers and surging inequitable consumption are needlessly destroying being for all living things. Environmental movement accommodation and compromise have not brought required policies necessary to avert widespread ecosystem collapse, or to lay the basis for achieving global ecological sustainability.
Ecology and Biosphere Sustainability
The human family faces the imminent collapse of the biosphere – the thin layer of life organized into ecosystems, upon an otherwise lifeless planet – that makes Earth habitable. Marshes and rivers and forests and fish are far more than resources – they and all natural ecosystems provide for humanity’s habitat and existence upon Earth. A few centuries of unprecedented explosion in human numbers and surging inequitable consumption are needlessly destroying being for all living things. Environmental movement accommodation and compromise have not brought required policies necessary to avert widespread ecosystem collapse, or to lay the basis for achieving global ecological sustainability.
Joachim Chissano: Scientists can make Africa rich
Water is essential for life. Safe, abundant water is vital to our ability to prosper and to fulfill our potential. Without it, we face a continual decline in well-being; we face poverty and hunger and increasing levels of conflict.Across Africa, a third of us have no access to clean water, and almost two thirds no access to clean sanitation, causing widespread suffering from malaria, typhoid, dysentery to many other diseases.Apart from this effect upon our health, the loss of productivity from water-related illnesses holds back our progress.The population in many African countries is growing rapidly each year, averaging 2.5 per cent across sub-Saharan Africa, but the lack of safe water and sanitation reduces our economic growth at twice that rate. And a growing population must be properly fed.
Posted in Climate, Coal, Countries, Floods, Politics
Tagged water day, World Water Crisis
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Iceland prepares for second, more devastating volcanic eruption – Times Online
The islands worst eruption in modern times was in 1783, when the Laki volcano blew its top. The lava shot to heights of 1.4 kilometres and more than 120 million tonnes of sulphur dioxide was released into the atmosphere.A quarter of the islands population died in the resulting famine and it transformed the world, creating Britains notorious “sand summer”, casting a toxic cloud over Prague, playing havoc with harvests in France — sometimes seen as a contributory factor in the French Revolution — and changing the climate so dramatically that New Jersey recorded its largest snowfall and Egypt one of its most enduring droughts.
via Iceland prepares for second, more devastating volcanic eruption – Times Online.
Posted in Climate, Countries, Floods, Freeze, Opposing Views
Tagged Climate, Climate Change, impact, volcanoe
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UN Climate Process ‘Needs a Good Spanking,’ Yvo de Boer Says – BusinessWeek
“More meetings does not mean success,” de Boer, who steps down from his UN post on July 1, said today at the Carbon Market Insights conference in Amsterdam. “We need to get down to business.”
The Copenhagen summit in December 2009 was a failure even though it was preceded by many meetings, de Boer said. While about 150 nations agreed to submit plans or targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the meeting failed to produce a global treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which lapses in 2012.
“Going back from Copenhagen, I was extremely disappointed,” de Boer said. “My first feeling was it had been an absolute disaster.”
via UN Climate Process ‘Needs a Good Spanking,’ Yvo de Boer Says – BusinessWeek.
Posted in Climate, Coal, Countries, Floods, UNFCCC
Tagged adaptation, Africa, Africa Climate, Agriculture, Biodiversity, biofuel, Carbon Cycle, Climate Change, Copenhagen, IPCC, Soil
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What is wrong with the Global Climate Change Architecture?
In his submission before retiring to the private sector, Yvo de Boer sent a warning short, it is impossible to change the climate change architecture from inside the UN.
Does he know something we dont know? What is wrong with the current architecture? Is it at the Kyoto Protocol level or is it at the “Financing mechanism level”, or is the current framework not able to deliver any depictable positive change?
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Posted in Climate, Coal, Floods, Freeze, Map, Opposing Views, Politics, UNFCCC, solar
Tagged architecture, Climate, de boer, developing countries
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Hard to agree on U.N. climate treaty in 2010: de Boer | Reuters
De Boer said developing countries would want to know what a treaty would mean “in terms of obligations and what its going to bring for them in terms of finance and technology, before they are willing to take that step and say yes, we are willing to work toward a legally binding treaty.”
“So I think the first step will be to get the architecture right and I think that can be done in Mexico (Cancun, Mexico, from November 29-December 10). The next step would be to decide on a treaty on it,” he said
via Hard to agree on U.N. climate treaty in 2010: de Boer | Reuters.
Hard to agree on U.N. climate treaty in 2010: de Boer | Reuters
De Boer said developing countries would want to know what a treaty would mean “in terms of obligations and what its going to bring for them in terms of finance and technology, before they are willing to take that step and say yes, we are willing to work toward a legally binding treaty.”
“So I think the first step will be to get the architecture right and I think that can be done in Mexico (Cancun, Mexico, from November 29-December 10). The next step would be to decide on a treaty on it,” he said
via Hard to agree on U.N. climate treaty in 2010: de Boer | Reuters.
Posted in Climate, Coal, Countries, Floods, Map, Opposing Views, Politics, UNFCCC, solar
Tagged de boer, Mexico, Mexico 29-10 December, Un
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Embattled UN climate boss defends record
“Wherever we do make projections of the future, we provide a range, and that range is something that is totally defensible,” he said.
However, he admitted that, “it’s not as though we have gone through everything for a second time to apply a fine-tooth comb and see whether there are any other errors. There are others who are now working overtime on that kind of job.”
Mr Pachauri declined to name anyone behind the concerted attack on the IPCC, saying it was probably backed by powerful corporate interests determined to thwart concerted action against global warming.
via FT.com / World – Embattled UN climate boss defends record.
Posted in Climate, Countries, Floods, Freeze, Opposing Views, Politics, UNFCCC, solar
Tagged adaptation, Biodiversity, Climate Change, IPCC
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