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POPSIndian Engineer 'builds' new glaciers via Cakebelly (Amplify) cakebelly says: “So far, Mr Norphel’s glaciers have been able to each store up to one million cubic feet of ice, which in turn can irrigate 200 hectares of farm land. For farmers, that can make the difference between crop failure and a bumper crop of more than 1,000 tons of wheat. The “iceman” says he has seen the effects of global warming on farmland as snows have become thinner on the ground and ice rivers have melted away never to return. His own work has now been recognised by the Indian government, which has given him £16,000 to build five new glaciers. But time is his enemy, he told The Hindustan Times. “I’m planning to train villagers with instruction CDs that I have made, so that I can pass on the knowledge before I die,” he said. “
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POPSMother Nature's Tears. I rather thought this one image was particularly powerful. It is part of a slide show on religious sightings. I didn't think the other ones were very impressive. Interesting, but not very impressive.
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POPSThe Spirit Bear
While the white bears are protected by law, the other ninety percent...the ones that carry the gene but don't show the coloration...are fair game. Also, timber companies are interested in logging the islands and areas where these bears live. For the past couple of years debate has been heating up over a proposed park centered on Princess Royal Island. "Spirit Bear Park" would encompass 265,000 hectares, (1,000 sq. miles "ish"), and provide complete protection for the ten or fifteen white bears that live there and their black kin, as well as grizzlies, wolves, ancient stands of Sitka Spruce, and important spawning streams for salmon. The B.C. government has counter-proposed a 39,000 hectare park, giving the rest to loggers. The clear-cutting began last year. We will just have to wait and see what kind of impact it has on the bears. Black bears of any color are pretty good at adapting to man, and I think that in the long run, the Kermode Bear will survive, even if it's numbers are reduce
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POPSGreenland Glaciers Melting At Shocking Speed I just read a Danish article, that stated that the walls of a 15 square kilometer ice-melt lake have collapsed, causing billions of liters of freshwater to rush into the sea, causing the death of an untold amount of fish, due to decompression sickness, as they were forced to quickly flee to the surface of the fjord, causing their immediate death. I can't seem to find anything about this calamity in English yet, but here's a translated page about this terrible incident; http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=da&u=http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Indland/2009/09/12/141735.htm&ei=RdSsSsOeLYXt-Abb-Jy9Bg&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Indland/2009/09/12/141735.htm%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG
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POPSThe remotest places for the lonest of wolves Isolated, lonely, remote and hard to get to - such destinations have always tempted travelers with their beauty, magic and inaccessibility. Infinite steppes of Siberia or eternal glaciers of Greenland, though majestic looking, become less seductive when you picture living there permanently.
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POPSAnti drug war protest march Argentina: three thousand marchers in the Peace March in Bariloche, Argentina, where tomorrow the South American Union of Nations will be in session to debate US military bases in Columbia. NGOs, unions, political parties. Big placard: "Peace and down with US military bases in Latin America." Other placards demanded: "US out of Columbia" and "the defense of the glaciers." These fools in Bariloche have their hearts in the right places, bless their hearts. But "NGOs, unions, and political parties" follow a bogus thirdworldist party line that makes them look like clowns to most people.
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POPSThe Fog-catchers more: FogQuest, a Canadian charity that promotes fog net technology, has been involved in dozens of projects across South America as well as Israel, Nepal, Haiti and even in the deserts of Namibia. In Peru a string of nets have recently been erected on the slopes above Lima. Rain rarely falls on the Peruvian capital or the surrounding hills where many of its poorest citizens live, forcing the population to get water from Andes glaciers many miles away. But the glaciers are shrinking, prompting fears of serious water shortages. As in other parts of the world where unscrupulous water suppliers are squeezing supply, local people in Lima are being forced to pay up to six times the usual price for unclean water brought in by lorry.
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POPSSwiss seek Pope's blessing to stop glacier melting more: "The residents of Fiesch and Fischertal hope that this will happen in September or October and are optimistic that the Holy Father will decide in their favor as he has repeatedly spoken out about climate change," they said in a statement. Switzerland's glaciers shrank by 12 percent over the past decade, melting at their fastest rate due to rising temperatures and lighter snowfalls, a recent study showed. Glaciers are a key source of water for hydro-electric plants in Switzerland as well as an important tourist attraction. Researchers are predicting that the temperatures in the Swiss Alps will rise by 1.8 degrees Celsius in winter and by 2.7 degrees Celsius in the summer by 2050. (Reporting by Emma Thomasson; Editing by Jon Boyle)
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POPSIndia says Global Warming is Hogwash The Indians and Chinese are not fools. Their societies are geared on growth, where our liberals are geared on self evisceration. I know of a nice cliff where I invite all liberals to do us all a favor and step off, thus returning their carbon to the biosphere.
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