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 15 Aug 2005 @ 14:41
Climate warning as Siberia melts
11 August 2005
NewScientist.com news service
Fred Pearce
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The world's largest frozen peat bog is melting. An area stretching for a million square kilometres across the permafrost of western Siberia is turning into a mass of shallow lakes as the ground melts, according to Russian researchers just back from the region.
The sudden melting of a bog the size of France and Germany combined could unleash billions of tonnes of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere. More >
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 14 Aug 2005 @ 06:29
A story for finding the way to bring the peoples of the world out of whatever ignorance we are dwelling in, and into a new sense of community and oneness with the life of our planet.
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This version of the Buffalo Calf Woman's bringing of the first sacred Pipe is from American Indian Myths and Legends, 1980, by Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz.
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The Sioux are a warrior tribe, and one of their proverbs says, "Woman shall not walk before man." Yet White Buffalo Woman is the dominant figure of their most important legend. The medicine man Crow Dog explains, "This holy woman brought the sacred buffalo calf pipe to the Sioux. There could be no Indians without it. Before she came, people didnt know how to live. They knew nothing. The Buffalo Woman put her sacred mind into their minds." At the ritual of the sun dance one woman, usally a mature and universally respected member of the tribe, is given the honor of respresenting Buffalo Woman. More >
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 24 Jul 2005 @ 22:24
Little things change along the way.
Migration patterns.
Breeding seasons.
Diet.
Let us count the ways.
Let us count the days.
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Here are a couple of articles,
shedding a little thoughtful light,
through the clouds of distractions.
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 19 Jul 2005 @ 16:47
"It should become a weapon in the hands of journalists, writers, poets, singers, teachers, plumbers, taxi drivers, car mechanics, painters, lawyers - anybody who wishes to participate in the resistance." More >
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 29 May 2005 @ 20:44
[Oceans cover more than 70% of the Earth's surface. In fact, as author Brad Matsen and artist Ray Troll have pointed out (Matsen and Troll, 1994), an appropriate name for our planet is Planet Ocean. (The term Planet Oceanus has also been used: Pinet, 1992.)] [link] More >
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 15 May 2005 @ 15:34
Here is something on the current state of the Gulf Stream and some ideas about possible emerging scenarios. *-_*/
The Sunday Times - Ireland
May 08, 2005
Ireland faces big chill as ocean current slows.
Jonathan Leake, Science Editor
CLIMATE change researchers have detected the first signs of a slowdown in the Gulf Stream — the mighty ocean current that keeps Ireland and Europe from freezing. They have found that one of the “engines” driving the Gulf Stream — the sinking of supercooled water in the Greenland Sea — has weakened to less than a quarter of its former strength. The weakening, apparently caused by global warming, could herald big changes in the current over the next few years or decades. Paradoxically, it could lead to Ireland, Britain and northwestern Europe undergoing a sharp drop in temperatures. More >
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 8 May 2005 @ 16:44
"If it's not in the paper on or TV, it cain't be true."
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Columnist and editor of the Chicago Tribune Media Service, Robert Koehler's article on election fraud was rejected, for first time in his career.
Both the rejected article (1) and his response to it (2) are below.
With introductory commentary from Brad's Blog. More >
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