Ride to Honor American Indians Killed in 1890:
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/15-1
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Year: 2008
Ocean Acidification and the Humboldt Squid
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“While many other squid and octopus species have
oxygen transport systems that are equally
sensitive to pH, few have such high oxygen demand
coupled with large body size and low
environmental oxygen. Therefore the scientists
believe that their study results should not be
extrapolated to other marine animals.”
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EurekAlert!
University of Rhode Island
Public release date: 15-Dec-2008
Contact: Todd McLeish
tmcleish@uri.edu
401-874-7892
Ocean acidification from CO2 emissions will cause
physiological impairment to jumbo squid
KINGSTON, R.I. – December 15, 2008 – The elevated
carbon dioxide levels expected to be found in the
world’s oceans by 2100 will likely lead to
physiological impairments of jumbo (or Humboldt)
squid, according to research by two University of
Rhode Island scientists.
FALSE SOLUTION: Experimenting With Carbon Capture & Storage in the Sahara
This is almost ridiculous enough to be funny.
ASW
Business Week
December 15, 2008
Algeria’s Carbon-Capture Experiment
A venture by Algeria’s Sonatrach, BP, and
Norway’s Statoil to strip CO2 out of natural gas
and store it underground could help cut emissions
By Stanley Reed
About 700 miles south of Algiers, the capital of
Algeria, a monumental assemblage of pipes and
cylinders rises from the bleak Sahara Desert. Not
far away is a small airstrip and helicopter pad.
And in a compound down the road, surrounded by a
thick stand of trees to break the whistling
winds, there are dormitories, tennis courts, even
a mess hall, where a crew of chefs whips up
hearty meals including lobster pie and potato
tarts for several hundred people.
Sour News From Poznan: Why We Must Avoid Warming of 2 Degrees C
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“The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC), … has suggested greenhouse gas emission
cuts … to avoid a 2°Celsius increase in global
temperature. …. An increase of this magnitude
is expected to destroy 30 percent to 40 percent
of all known species, generate bigger, fiercer
and more frequent heat waves and droughts, and
more intense weather events like floods and
cyclones.”
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JOHANNESBURG, 15 December 2008 (IRIN) – Maldives,
an archipelago off the southeastern coast of
India, told the climate change conference in
Poznan, Poland, that even a 2°C rise in
temperature would take the world into the “danger
zone” of irreversible climate change.