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POPSOcean review finds warming on the rise.
It isn't just that ice is melting that is making the sea level rise, it is also the fact that water expands as it heats. With the volume of water in the ocean - 2/3 of the Earth's surface is covered with water, even a small temperature increase can have a dramatic effect. The way the expansion, and melting are factored into the research reports can make them a lot clearer, and more accurate. While there are the best of intentions, regarding some kind of remedy, I don't remember anyone being able to literally turn back the tide, which seems like the bottom line. King Canute had a go, but he was trying to prove that point to some knucklehead courtiers, who'd flattered him. He knew they were full of hot air, but figured it was worth getting wet to see the look on their faces. Don't you hate it when a King calls your bluff. Still you can look at the bright side. The world is getting more like Venice every day. All you have to do is buy shares in a Gondola Company.
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POPSNanopaper soaks up oily spills Makes you wonder what else there is that can do a good or better job than ordinary paper. If it's a matter of cost, technological advances are reducing prices all of the time.
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POPSWater Policy in Israel and Palestine - There's Enough Water for Both The increasing difficulties with water availability, concludes the hydrogeologist, result from Israel using the majority of water resources for agricultural purposes, although this sector today represents a very small portion of the Israeli economy. Despite this, the Israeli state remains unswervingly committed to the Zionist foundation myth, which regards the promotion of agriculture as a central tenet in the Jewish settlement of Palestine. Messerschmid, in turn, sees the priorities of Israeli water policies as fundamentally flawed, leading to a wasteful use of the precious resource. Large areas of land, for instance, are still intensively watered even during conditions of very high temperatures, although most of the water immediately evaporates. The Palestinians, by contrast, do not even have the amount of water at their disposal that was promised in the Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty. Deutsche Fassung
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POPSConvert your car to burn water+gasoline High Conversion, Few Refunds, Due To Huge Demand: Soaring Gas Prices Compel People To Save Gas!!! Popular D.i.y Watercar: Run Your Car Partially On Water, Reduce Emissions/Global Warming! Practical Free Energy Based On 1000s Of Real Cars Worldwide!!!
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POPSGlaciers melting at an 'alarming' rate There are figures which show the current melt rates, and they say there is no end in sight, but the end will come when there is no glacier left to melt. people that rely on glaciers for water, will have to find it somewhere else. There is no doubt, wherever they get it, it will be expensive.
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POPSSandcastles need water to stay upright They found you don't need much water at all. As long as it isn't dry. They also say that the work has implications in things like mining, and pharmaceuticals, where there are powders involved. The same principle applies
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POPSUN Warns of Biofuels' Environmental Risk There has been the prospect of biofuels causing food shortages, where food crops are replaced with biofuel crops, but there is the fact that biofuel crops like any other need large mounts of water to grow, with associated redirection of drinking water. There is the land required to grow them, and in Indonesia, Malaysia, and no doubt other countries, where forests can face threats, when they are cleared, to make room for expansion of palm oil plantations. These forests naturally store carbon, and are a key tool in the fight to reduce global warming. Is There Money in it ? Then it will happen. Then there is another prospect. An outbreak of pests and/or diseases could wipe out an entire plantation with one stroke. Then it will happen.
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POPSWeird water Discovery challenges long-held beliefs about water's special properties
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POPSChemical find shuts down 2 L.A. reservoirs The chemical bromate, is craeted when bromine in groundwater is combined with chlorine, and exposed to sunlight. It is said to be the first time an occurrence like this has been observed. Bromine is a key ingredient in flame retardants, so the chemicals used to fight the California fires may be leeching into the ground water. The dams are a fraction of LA's total water storage, but fire retardant chemicals would have been used over a wide area of California State, so soils may have unusually high bromine levels. It may pay to find out exactly why this happened to be wary of where it may happen again.
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POPSResearchers Find New Deep Water Coral The coral was found in a national park created by George Bush, off the Hawaiian Islands. It is 3000-6000 ft deep and is a reminder that so few of the existing marine species that exist have been discovered. We know more about the moon, than the Ocean
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POPSUN has concern about Baghdad Cholera The outbreak has spread to half of Iraq's 18 provinces It is spread, by drinking contaminated water, It is estimated 1 in 3 children has access to clean drinking water. Increased rain and flooding allows it to spread, through contaminated water. One of the main symptoms, that often results in death is dehydration. Attempts are being made to increase distribution of clean water, and water purification tablets.
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POPSUN Calls for improved Worldwide Sanitation A third of the planets population, don't have clean water, and sanitation. 90% of Human sewage in developing countries, pollutes the public water supply, due to a lack of sewerage systems. The UN Secretary General, is naming 2008 the International Year of Sanitation, to highlight the problem.
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