jezebel873 (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} jezebel873) wrote in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} so_very_doomed,@ 2008-05-06 16:34:00 |
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Environmental doom
Airline emissions ‘far higher than previous estimates’. “The aviation industry's failure to curb its soaring carbon emissions could lead to the 'worst case scenario' for climate change, as envisaged by the United Nations. An unpublished study by the world's leading experts has revealed that airlines are pumping 20 per cent more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than estimates suggest, with total emissions set to reach between 1.2 billion and 1.5 billion tonnes annually by 2025."
Oxygen-starved ocean 'deserts' emerging. “Underwater 'deserts' are emerging in tropical oceans as the oxygen vanishes from seawater, warns a new study. One of the consequences of a changing climate, the warmer oceans, is causing a decrease in the oxygen concentration and creating oxygen-starved, or 'hypoxic' conditions underwater.”
Tropics insects ‘face extinction’. “Many tropical insects face extinction by the end of this century unless they adapt to the rising global temperatures predicted, US scientists have said.”
Air above Artic Circle may be melting ice below. “Visitors to Alaska often marvel at the crisp, clear air. But the truth is, the skies above the Arctic Circle work like a giant lint trap during late winter and early spring, catching all sorts of pollutants swirling around the globe."
Dead ducks put Canada oil sands impact into focus. “Canada and the energy-rich province of Alberta are finding that nothing stains an oil supplier's environmental image, or emboldens its critics, like several hundred dead ducks. With 500 waterfowl killed in oily wastewater at the country's largest oil sands plant this week, government and industry now face a new struggle to convince the world they are not just paying lip service to cleaning up operations."
Low autumn flows sink Murray hopes. “South Australian Minister for the River Murray and Water Security Karlene Maywald said Lake Albert, at the bottom of the Murray, was in a critical state due to acid sulphate soils. 'We are going to see complete and utter ecological collapse unless we can raise the water level,' she said."
Airline emissions ‘far higher than previous estimates’. “The aviation industry's failure to curb its soaring carbon emissions could lead to the 'worst case scenario' for climate change, as envisaged by the United Nations. An unpublished study by the world's leading experts has revealed that airlines are pumping 20 per cent more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than estimates suggest, with total emissions set to reach between 1.2 billion and 1.5 billion tonnes annually by 2025."
Oxygen-starved ocean 'deserts' emerging. “Underwater 'deserts' are emerging in tropical oceans as the oxygen vanishes from seawater, warns a new study. One of the consequences of a changing climate, the warmer oceans, is causing a decrease in the oxygen concentration and creating oxygen-starved, or 'hypoxic' conditions underwater.”
Tropics insects ‘face extinction’. “Many tropical insects face extinction by the end of this century unless they adapt to the rising global temperatures predicted, US scientists have said.”
Air above Artic Circle may be melting ice below. “Visitors to Alaska often marvel at the crisp, clear air. But the truth is, the skies above the Arctic Circle work like a giant lint trap during late winter and early spring, catching all sorts of pollutants swirling around the globe."
Dead ducks put Canada oil sands impact into focus. “Canada and the energy-rich province of Alberta are finding that nothing stains an oil supplier's environmental image, or emboldens its critics, like several hundred dead ducks. With 500 waterfowl killed in oily wastewater at the country's largest oil sands plant this week, government and industry now face a new struggle to convince the world they are not just paying lip service to cleaning up operations."
Low autumn flows sink Murray hopes. “South Australian Minister for the River Murray and Water Security Karlene Maywald said Lake Albert, at the bottom of the Murray, was in a critical state due to acid sulphate soils. 'We are going to see complete and utter ecological collapse unless we can raise the water level,' she said."
