Earth may be close to the
warmest it has been in the last million years, especially in the part of the Pacific Ocean where
potentially violent El Nino weather patterns are born, climate scientists
reported on Monday.
http://www.news.com/ Reuters 9-25-06
This
doesn't necessarily mean there will be more frequent El Ninos--which can
disrupt normal weather around the world--but it could well mean that these wild
patterns will be stronger when they occur, said James Hansen of NASA's Goddard
Institute for Space Studies in New York City. The El Nino phenomenon is an important factor in
monitoring global warming, according to a paper by Hansen & colleagues
published in the current issue of Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences. El Ninos can push temperatures higher than they might ordinarily
be. This happened in Ô98 when a so-called "super El Nino" helped heat
the Earth to a record high.
What is significant, the scientists
wrote, is in Ô05 the same
temperature range as 1998, & probably was the warmest year ever, with no
sign of the warm surface water in the E equatorial Pacific typical of an El
Nino.
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ENERGY & Cooling GAIA?
I GET bags &
jars from anywhere to store & home
I recycling
clothes from friends & thrift shops again
I gather seeds to plant for growing food in
fertile land
I make my yogurt
& kefir from raw organic goat milk
I love the sky
day & nite, clouds & sunshine heating
The rain shines
up surfaces like sun reflecting on snow
Nature thrills
me more than TV, radio & movies can
I accept total responsibility
for karma causing my life
& not
polluting earth, riding a bike footravel & breath
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I give help
present anytime for free giving it away
Camping out for
20 years on the earth loving energy
I save egg
shells braking down for composting soil
I pick dandilion
leaves & dig up their roots 4 herb teas
I always go
barefoot, except when its freezing cold
The trees sparkle
in sunshine thru leaves rays bold
Like candles
glowing out soft lite meditation beholds