Global Warming Issues

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 satellite.

NOAA scientists, who have monitored the ozone layer since 1962, have determined that this year’s ozone hole has passed its seasonal peak for 2008. Data is available at online

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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 breathe clean air.

In July 2003, Springfield passed a law prohibiting smoking in restaurants, with the exception of eateries with annual alcohol sales exceeding $200,000 or when 50 percent or more of sales come from alcohol. There is also an exception for restaurants with 50 seats or less that may allow smoking, and a restaurant that sells liquor can allow smoking in a separate, ventilated area. If you ask me, way too many “exceptions.”

Many states have placed a ban on smoking in public establishments. For example, the Clean Indoor Air Act became effective in New York in July 2003 and the Freedom to Breathe Act became effective in Minnesota in October 2007. It is now time for the state of Missouri to follow their lead and enact legislation that will ban smoking in all public establishments: restaurants, stores, bowling alleys, bars, etc.

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Welcome Barrack Obama winning the United States presidential election, and we hope that it will bring positive energy context of global warming.

Martin

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 at all. Timers guarantee that buildings fade to black while the city sleeps.

Gone are the days when cheap electricity, primitive lighting technology and landlords’ desire to showcase their skyscrapers kept floor after floor of the city’s highest towers glowing into the night. Now, rising energy costs, conservationism, stricter building codes and sophisticated lighting systems have conspired to slowly, often imperceptibly, transform Manhattan’s venerable nightscape into one with a gentler glow.

Instead of tower after tower shining at all hours — the World Trade Center stayed aglow long after its occupants went home — the skyline is becoming a patchwork of sparsely sparkling buildings decorated with ornamentally lighted tops.

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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 decline: another company town brought to its knees by the vagaries of global trade.

Except that Mr. Versendaal has a new factory job, at a plant here that makes blades for turbines that turn wind into electricity. Across the road, in the old Maytag factory, another company is building concrete towers to support the massive turbines. Together, the two plants are expected to employ nearly 700 people by early next year.

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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 the east coast of Canada and the United States. Mienis studied the area to the west of Ireland along the edges of the Rockall Trough.

In her research Mienis analysed environmental factors like temperature, current speed and flow direction of seawater as these determine the growth of cold-water corals and the carbonate mounds. The measurements were made using bottom landers, observatories placed on the seabed from the NIOZ oceanographic research vessel ‘Pelagia’ and brought back to the surface a year later.

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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 the first time participants understand that the power and the other clock, not only to the hook on the office wall. It does not count minutes before the Apocalypse, but recalls that all we do from now on, is extremely important. 

Or climate change will beat us, or we have it. Climate change will force us to change, but change and the unknown is always afraid of, though we have the necessary knowledge, tools and technologies that change the sušvelnintume and veiktume responsibly. 

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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 there many posts about Global warming issues from tomorow. So check back daily !!!