Archive for February, 2012

28
Feb

Global Warming Causes and Effects of Global Warming

Have at least occasionally broke concerns drastic climate changes, that are often not distinguish summer from winter, spring than autumn days and nights? I wonder how they do not reflect our mood, action, nauseate of mental, psycho-social condition of our overall health. Taking anything on a personal level though, the personal, its own environment?

Recent findings and actions to improve the ecological situation in the world-the greenhouse effect (ironically: positive enrichment of the tourist offer), alternative energy and purity, it should at least some time to engage and worry a little laonger.

Can no automobile least one day a year, right now? Let’s try.

28
Feb

Sustainable Power – The Ultimate Solution to Pollution?

A lot of celebrities are joining in the call to action and stirring up a media frenzy to bring attention to the problem.

Pollution is wreaking havoc on the environment as well as the human population, causing disease and discomfort and leaving a trail of harmful side-effects in its wake. Pollution comes in many forms, including noise, heat, etc., but the worst type comes from chemicals.

 
Pollution sources come in 2 guises, point source and nonpoint source. Nonpoint source is basically water pollution whose source can’t be readily identified, such as agricultural run-off or debris from ships, etc. Point source is pollution that emanates from a single point, such as chemical spills from an industrial plant, a jet engine, etc.

 
The answer to that is “No”. Pollution has been around in one form or another since life on earth began, it’s just that the level of pollution has never been so high thanks to the increased population around the world and our overall increased reliance on fossil fuels for energy and cars and gasoline-powered transportation in general.

27
Feb

Global Warming: A 4.5 Billion Year Perspective

Global Warming:

A 4.5 Billion year Perspective

by

Frenchie Shapiro

 

 

So here it is, Wednesday January 12th, 2011 and we in Atlanta have been home-bound for the past three days because of snow and ice.  The northeast has gotten hit with another major snowstorm which has affected travel, and schools have been shut down.  For the skeptics of global warming the mantra is – where’s the global warming?  Supporters of global warming counter with, “global warming isn’t about the earth warming, it’s about severe climate change,” and to argue the point further, they point to just how crippling these storms have been as a prime example of how hydrocarbon pollution has contributed to these extreme climate changes.

My question to proponents of fossil fuels causing climate change is, are we really seeing severe weather fluctuations or have you looked at the big picture?  What do I mean by that?  Over the last forty years we have over-analyzed weather data because of an explosion of new technology which we never had access to before.