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Arctic Meltdown in Progress

By postMigrator December 17, 2008 December 17, 2008 RT Newswire

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” … major changes are sweeping the Arctic, researchers say.”

“Five years ago, I was not sure it’s very serious, but now I’m
sure something is going on and we should warn people,” says
Igor Semiletov from the University of Alaska in Fairbanks…”
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Nature
Published online 17 December 2008
doi:10.1038/news.2008.1314

News

Arctic warming spurs record melting

Greenland and Siberia see rapid changes.

Rich Monastersky

Record melting in northern Greenland and the
widespread release of methane gas from formerly
frozen deposits off the Siberian coast suggest
that major changes are sweeping the Arctic,
researchers say.

Ride to Honor Lakota Natives Killed in December, 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre

By postMigrator December 16, 2008 December 16, 2008 Uncategorized

Ride to Honor American Indians Killed in 1890:

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/15-1

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Ocean Acidification and the Humboldt Squid

By postMigrator December 16, 2008 December 16, 2008 Uncategorized

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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

By postMigrator December 16, 2008 December 16, 2008 RT Newswire

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.