Scientists warn of dangers from El Niño.
Researchers at the United Kingdom’s national weather service Met Office are cautioning that this year’s El Niño, last seen in 2003, will be worsened by the impacts of global warming in generating erratic weather events.
El Niño is a cyclic pattern caused by ocean temperature changes that results in disturbances such as intensified storms and dry spells. Speaking of extreme events that are already being seen in 2009, Dr. Steve Jennings of the UK-based charity Oxfam said, "This could be the hottest year in known history. Poverty and climate change is enough of a challenge: an El Niño will only make things harder. We are really concerned it will result in intense droughts in Southern Africa and floods in Eastern Africa.”
Britain’s Met Office, Dr. Jennings and Oxfam, many thanks for this alert of the risks we face with the coming El Niño. Through our concerted efforts to live more harmoniously with the environment, may a more stable ecosystem become the norm.
Supreme Master Ching Hai, who often offers her guidance through our planetary crisis, spoke of the climatic tolls already occurring in Africaduring a May 2009 videoconference in Togo.
Supreme Master Ching Hai: Sadly, global warming is affecting African countries in all the severest and some of the most visible ways. Zimbabwe, Somalia, Mauritius, Mozambique, and Sudan – just to name a few – are experiencing worsened droughts that make it difficult to plant crops, thus adding to food shortages and prices rising. Add to this, desertification and deforestation that further degrade the land. Increased temperatures mean erratic rainfall – either too little ortoo much at a time – so we have ravaging floods that drown the crops and fires that burn the forest.
Our thinking, our actions, have to send out a message to the universal energy that we want a better planet, we want a safer life, we want a saved world. Then the universal energy will do just that. Such is the power of just being vegan. Because that means we spare life, we want life, we want constructive energy, we don’t want destruction. So vegan is the answer.
Reference:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/12/weather-el-nino-climate-change-environment http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/13/el-nino-climate-change
Meat consumption devastating world’s waters.
A study by the US-based World Resources Institute (WRI) shows that the rise in meat consumption and demand for fossil fuels is a direct cause of oxygen depletion in the world’s coastal and freshwater areas. Saying that close to 500 coastal areas now suffer from hypoxia, the report indicated that this number is expected to rise.
The researchers also found that a full 80% of the nitrogen used in factory hog farm production is being returned to the environment as a pollutant through pig manure and the growing of animal feed. Lead author Mindy Selman said, “One swine operation in the Black Sea region that is now closed had more than 1 million pigs and generated sewage equivalent to a town of 5 million people.”
We appreciate your endeavors, Ms. Selman and associates at World Resources Institute in bringing more understanding of our aquatic environments’ critical plight. Let us all turn to the life-saving and green vegan lifestyle for the safety of the waters and the planet.
Reference:
http://www.wri.org/press/2009/07/worlds-waters-choking-meat-consumption-and-other-human-activities,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Resources_Institute, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutrophication
EXTRA NEWS
As part of the country’s environmental and planet-cooling initiatives, Kenya’s Environment minister John Michuki announces a mandate for 10% of all privately held land to be planted with tree cover.
http://www.kbc.co.ke/story.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wangari_Maathai
Scientists at the US Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) are testing a new geothermal heat extraction process to produce clean energy.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090716113356.htm
France joins the Principality of Monaco in an effort to save the endangered Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna by supporting an agreement to ban international trade
of the fish.
http://www.panda.org/wwf_news/?170441/France-joins-Monaco-in-call-for-international-trade-ban-for-endangered-bluefin-tuna
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