http://www.warmingissues.com Global Warming Information Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:07:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   The Antarctic ozone hole reached its annual maximum on Sept. 12, 2008, stretching over 27 million kilometers, or 10.5 square miles. The area of the ozone hole is calculated as an average of the daily areas for Sept. 21-30 from observations from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on NASA’s Aura ... http://www.warmingissues.com/global-warming/2008-sees-fifth-largest-ozone-hole The current ordinance that Springfield has regarding smoking in restaurants is too weak. The Springfield City Council and the next governor of Missouri should work to ban smoking in all public places. Secondhand smoke is a public health issue. It is also a personal one: I have a right to ... http://www.warmingissues.com/global-warming/improve-smoking-ban Welcome Barrack Obama winning the United States presidential election, and we hope that it will bring positive energy context of global warming. MartinShareThis http://www.warmingissues.com/global-warming/congratulations-barrack The bright lights of the big city are getting a little bit duller — with just a hint of green. Motion sensors ensure that unoccupied offices, storerooms and canteens go dark after workers and cleaning crews leave at night. Dimmers soften overhead lights that once could burn only bright or not ... http://www.warmingissues.com/global-warming/efficiency%e2%80%99s-mark-city-glitters-a-little-less LIKE his uncle, his grandfather and many of their neighbors, Arie Versendaal spent decades working at the Maytag factory here, turning coils of steel into washing machines. When the plant closed last year, taking 1,800 jobs out of this town of 16,000 people, it seemed a familiar story of American industrial ... http://www.warmingissues.com/global-warming/a-splash-of-green-for-the-rust-belt Furu Mienis studied the development of carbonate mounds dominated by cold-water corals in the Atlantic Ocean at depths of six hundred to a thousand metres. These reefs can be found along the eastern continental slope from Morocco to Norway, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and on the western continental slope along ... http://www.warmingissues.com/global-warming/coral-reefs-found-growing-in-cold-deep-ocean To Save the planet we have approximately 2,580 days or 97 months. Climate experts argue that it is precisely then will be the critical threshold, and it will be impossible to stop the temperature that it will not exceed 2 degrees Celsius.  Meeting begins tomorrow in Brussels on climate change issues. Hardly ... http://www.warmingissues.com/global-warming/save-the-planet-in-2580-days Hi everyone who still read my blog (think there's no many) :) Anyway, for about 3 months I was on very long trip maybe it can be called Trip around the world.. but I`ll put some pictures from it later. Main idea is that I am back and I will place ... http://www.warmingissues.com/global-warming/i-am-back Among the many bills Congress is considering before it recesses for the November elections is a proposed land swap between the State of Alaska and the federal government that would allow a gravel road to be built through a remote national wildlife refuge. Environmental groups are lined up against the proposal, ... http://www.warmingissues.com/global-warming/swapping-land-for-a-road-to-divides-alaskans The eight-year-old, multibillion-dollar effort to rescue the Everglades has failed to halt the wetlands’ decline because of bureaucratic delays, a lack of financing from Congress and overdevelopment, according to a new report. The 287-page study by the National Research Council, a biennial review required by Congress, warned that South Florida’s stunning ... http://www.warmingissues.com/global-warming/harsh-review-of-restoration-in-everglades