: White Beach, Philippines – Alamy
Some useful information here. Also take a look at the other paper on extreme weather linked from the article below.
Troposphere study
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Life-long learning opportunities for all
: Barcroft Media, Haytham Pictures
Good paper by Julia Gillard, also links off it to some others. How different this is from those terribly weak Millennium Development Goals. We now need something as strong for Biodiversity 🙂 Mike
China: rapid progress with air pollution
: China's last Beijing coal power plant - David Gray, Reuters
Two interesting articles here. China has always been capable of long-term planning, and more recently with creating rapid change (e.g. building a new city a month). So if these stories are correct, then well done to China. That also begs another question: why is Tony Abbott’s government in Australia stiil so keen on massive new coal mines?
Europe’s birds
: Ortolan bunting - Roger Tidman, Corbis
Early warning here. I imagine the report itself, once released, will be illuminating. There are several other links off the Guardian article below.
El Nino has, apparently, arrived.
: El Nino heat map - AFP / Getty images
This cyclical weather phenomenon has apparently finally arrived. NOAA said it started in March 2015, although few of the physical signs appeared. The link below shows Australia, Japan and NOAA all agreeing … we’ll soon find out. What the article does not say is that the 1997-98 ENSO saw roughly half of the world’s corals die. In the face of global warming the corals and seagrass beds absorb a huge amount of CO2 during their photsynthesis. We’re talking similar levels of carbon-fixing to tropical rain forests; so if we get more major coral bleaching events then we are likely to be in a mess.
CRISPR: for good or ill?
: Human embryo at the 16 cell stage - Dr Yorgos Nikas, Science Photo Library
Here’s a story to twist your mind in many different directions 🙂 🙁
Pangolin campaign shared on JNE’s fb public group
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Association of Journalists and Writers for nature and ecology
A big thank you for Marie Paule and Laurent Samuel for sharing our Pangolin campaign on the fb group of JNE: “Association des journalistes et écrivains pour la nature et l’écologie” (Association of Journalists and Writers for nature and ecology)
Since Marie first shared our page on her fb, two days ago, 10 person signed our petition, 7 of them already confirmed their signature as well.
More importantly, this is the first time – I am aware of – when anything from our website has been shared on a social media portal independently from us.
For those of you who are not on fb here how it’s look like there:
JNE Public fb group: Pangolin campaign shared
The Guardian and Gates
: TheGuardian
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“The road to hell is paved with good intentions”
…with assumptions and with ignorance of potential risk and consequences.
I can understand the biased ardour of The Guardian’s Keep it in the Ground team towards the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as they also funds the Guardian’s global development coverage.
What I can not understand is the lack of understanding the causative relationship between Climate Change and the global economical and financial system of which Bill Gates is one of the best representative figure.
The system in which he believes so fanatically and which allowed him to pile up his wealth is determined to destroy the biosphere of this planet for the shier personal interest of figures like Gates.
According to Forbes, the 1,826 members of the billionaires club owns “an aggregate net worth of $7.05 trillion, up from $6.4 trillion a year ago” possessed by 1,646 people. These guys are interested only in increasing their wealth further by taking as mach as possible and as quickly as possible from the biosphere, either directly or indirectly.
During the same period of time the population on Earth grew by more 80,000,000 people. Wast majority of them has literally nothing but they wear. To reduce the growth of human population which is the major and most fundamental reason of the climate change is not the interest of billionaires and of the current incarnation of capitalism.
In my view, The Guradian’s Keep it in the Ground team should have chosen a person to lead this campaign more wisely. They should have chosen someone who is committed to protect this planet rather than to make his profit from it.
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Vested interests vs. climate change
: Gregory Boyce chairman, Peabody Energy - Aaron M. Sprecher, Getty Images
This is what these times are actually about: just who is in charge of our globalised world?
Rhinos
: Sudan, one of the six remaining northern white rhinos at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy near Nairobi - Tony Karumba, AFP-Getty Images
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/12/last-male-northern-white-rhino