India Blamed for eight Percent of Carbon Emissions Growth

August 23, 2008 Carbon emissions into the atmosphere from fossil fuel combustion worldwide in 2007 was 22 percent higher than in 2000, says the Worldwatch Institute. India accounted for eight percent of this. 'The US and Europe accounted for roughly four and three percent, respectively, of the growth during this period,' the Worldwatch has said in a recent report. 'India contributed eight percent and China a staggering 57 percent.' The Washington-based think tank says that despite the rapid increase, China's 18.. » read more

Time to Re-adjust Your Thinking About "Causation" - What and Who is Really Causing the IIlls in our World: (with video)

----- Original Message ----- From: AF To: Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 8:21 PM Subject: Time to re-adjust your thinking about "causation" - what and/or who is really causing the ills in our world?   Do you care about what is really going on?  Here is a taste of reality for you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e42GA3GGLK8 Remember, historically, political leaders and the globalist bankers believe in, and they have practiced creating chaos to destroy the existing order, to create the new order, under their strict control.  What kind of chaos?  Trumped-up wars - false flag terrorists attacks - engineered famines - fake fuel shortages and the sequestering of alternative fuels - immigration problems - economic chaos - religious wars - environmental disasters - perpetuating disease in which cures do exist, so expensive treatments can rule the day - all that and more, all carefully planned and executed.. » read more

Oceans On The Precipice Of Mass Extinctions And Rise Of Slime

Posted 8/17/08 Human activities are cumulatively driving the health of the world's oceans down a rapid spiral, and only prompt and wholesale changes will slow or perhaps ultimately reverse the catastrophic problems they are facing. During a recent research expedition to Kiritimati, or Christmas Island, Jeremy Jackson and other researchers documented a coral reef overtaken by algae, featuring murky waters and few fish. The researchers say pollution, overfishing, warming waters or some combination of the three are to blame. Photo credit: Jennifer E. Smith Such is the prognosis of Jeremy Jackson, a professor of oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, in a bold new assessment of the oceans and their ecological health.. » read more

Ash Plume Wreaks Havoc with Alaska Flights

August 11, 2008 SEA-TAC AIRPORT -- Hundreds of passengers trying to get to Alaska finally got some good news Monday as Alaska Airlines announced they are resuming service to the state. Fourty-four flights were canceled Sunday night for safety reasons due to ash from the eruption at the Kasatochi Volcano on Alaska's Aleutian Islands. The volcano actually erupted Thursday and it's quite far from the usual flight paths. However, the wind shifted over the weekend and brought the ash over the interior of the state, prompting the National Weather Service to issue an Ash Plume Warning. The airline says flights to Anchorage, Adak, Fairbanks, Juneau, Ketchikan and Sitka were canceled, leaving 5,200 customers affected.. » read more

Citing Poor Conditions, China Refuses To Send Delegation To Olympics

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A Mist Opportunity at the Olympics

Friday, August 8, 2008; A15 Quote of the Week: The winner, despite intense competition, is senior International Olympic Committee official Arne Ljungqvist, who said the deadly air pollution in Beijing is "mist," not a "major risk" and blamed the media for hyping the non-problem. "The mist in the air that we see . . . is not a feature of pollution primarily, but a feature of evaporation and humidity," Ljungqvist, chairman of the IOC's medical commission, told reporters Tuesday.. » read more

U.S. Cyclists Are Masked; Criticism Isn’t

August 6, 2008 BEIJING — After months of speculation about how Olympic athletes would react to the air quality problems here, some answers arrived at the airport Tuesday, when four track cyclists on the United States Olympic team stepped off their flight wearing masks over their mouths and noses. Yves Herman/Reuters A cyclist from the U.S. team arrived wearing a mask at the Beijing airport on Tuesday ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. They were the first athletes at these Summer Games seen wearing masks publicly to combat the effects of pollution, and the sight of them drew considerable attention and criticism from United States Olympic officials.. » read more

Global Warming Means More Raw Sewage in Local Water: Report

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White House Disavows EPA Plan on Emissions

Friday 11 July 2008   The Bush administration today disavowed its own proposal to seek comment on whether the government should regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act, declaring that the proposed approach would be unworkable. The Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday that Congress, not the EPA, should regulate greenhouse gases. EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson said that the Clean Air Act is "ill-suited" to addressing greenhouse gas emissions. (Photo: Reuters)     Under pressure from the Supreme Court, the Environmental Protection Agency has spent the past 15 months exploring how the government might regulate emissions linked to global warming, a matter that federal climate experts and international scientists have repeatedly said should be urgently addressed.. » read more

Contaminated Kuwait sand lands in Idaho

Posted 7/1/08 Governor claims radioactivity of shipment at par with background levels in ambient Idaho Nearly 80 rail cars containing 6,700 tons of contaminated sand from Gulf War I are being shipped by American Ecology Corp. to its hazardous waste disposal site near Grandview, 70 miles southeast of Boise. The sand arrived by ship at Longbeach, Washington on May 12. The sand was from Camp Doha in Kuwait. Responding to a series of questions posed by The Idaho Observer, Idaho Governor Butch Otter stated, "…it appears that the material in question is well within the contaminant limitations of the U.. » read more

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