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Bees, pollination crisis       top
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  • Bush, White House  ignores and impedes global warming remediation efforts.  Is it because of Pentecostal belief that the world is coming to an end?
  • MaineBee In January (2006), as beekeepers began preparing to place their beehives into California orchards to pollinate almonds, they found that varroa mites had decimated their bees, leaving many of the colonies dead and others severely weakened. The death of so many bees is creating a pollination shortage, threatening the almond crop -- the first to bloom in the spring. Beekeepers and almond growers have trucked in beehives from as far as Florida to meet the demand. To help with the pollination and to re-populate empty beehives, beekeepers have air-freighted bees to California from Australia
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Methane release 'looks stronger' By Michael Fitzpatrick Science reporter, BBC News  Jan 2010
  Frozen depositories are giving up methane to the sea Scientists have uncovered what appears to be a further dramatic increase in the leakage of methane gas that is seeping from the Arctic seabed.  ...  Methane is about 20 times more potent than CO2 in trapping solar heat.   ...   The findings come from measurements of carbon fluxes around the north of Russia, led by Igor Semiletov from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks.   ...   "Methane release from the East Siberian Shelf is underway and it looks stronger than it was supposed [to be]," he said.   ...    Professor Semiletov has been studying methane seepage in the region for the last few decades, and leads the International Siberian Shelf Study (ISSS), which has launched multiple expeditions to the Arctic Ocean.    ...    The preliminary findings of ISSS 2009 are now being prepared for publication, he told BBC News.   ...    Methane seepage recorded last summer was already the highest ever measured in the Arctic Ocean.    ...   High seepage Acting as a giant frozen depository of carbon such as CO2 and methane (often stored as compacted solid gas hydrates), Siberia's shallow shelf areas are increasingly subjected to warming and are now giving up greater amounts of methane to the sea and to the atmosphere than recorded in the past.   ...   METHANE HYDRATES Methane gas is trapped inside a crystal structure of water-ice The gas is released when the ice melts, normally at 0C At higher pressure, ie under the ocean, hydrates are stable at higher temperatures This undersea permafrost was until recently considered to be stable.   ...   But now scientists think the release of such a powerful greenhouse gas may accelerate global warming.   ...    Higher concentrations of atmospheric methane are contributing to global temperature rise; this in turn is projected to cause further permafrost melting and the release of yet more methane in a feedback loop.   ...    A worst-case scenario is one where the feedback passes a tipping point and billions of tonnes of methane are released suddenly, as has occurred at least once in the Earth's past.   ...    Such sudden releases have been linked to rapid increases in global temperatures and could have been a factor in the mass extinction of species.    ...    According to a report by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), the springtime air temperature across the region in the period 2000-2007 was an average of 4C higher than during 1970-1999.     ...    That is the fastest temperature rise on the planet, claims the university.     ...    The recent thaw over the last decade means that some of the large reserve of carbon from organic material such as dead animals and plants in sediments is now being released into the sea and into our atmosphere.     ...    Trapped below that is the methane hydrate now warming and leaking through holes in the defrosting sediments.    ...    1. Methane hydrate is stable at high pressure and low temperature 2. Nearer the surface, where water pressure is lower, hydrates break down earlier than at greater depth as temperatures rise 3. Gas rises from the sea-bed in plumes of bubbles - some of it dissolves before it reaches the surface 4. The ISSS team says it has detected methane breaking the ocean surface.       ...    Previously it was thought much of this gas was absorbed into the sea.      ...    But according to a recent report that Professor Semiletov and his team compiled for the environmental group WWF, the shallow depth of arctic shelves means that methane is reaching the atmosphere without reacting to become CO2 dissolved in the ocean.    ...    Professor Semiletov's fellow researcher aboard the Russian icebreaker that carries the ISSS team each year is Professor Orjan Gustafsson from Stockholm University in Sweden.     ...    He said that methane measured in the atmosphere around the region is 100 times higher than normal background levels, and in some cases 1,000 times higher.    ...    'No alarm'    ...    Despite the high readings, Professor Gustafsson said that so far there was no cause for alarm, and stressed that further studies were still necessary to determine the exact cause of the methane seepage.    ...    "It is important now to understand how fast it is being released and how much is being released," he said.    ...    However, there is a real fear that global warming may cause Siberia's subsea permafrost to thaw.    ...    Some estimates put the amount of carbon trapped in shelf permafrost at 1,600 billion tonnes - roughly twice as much carbon as in the atmosphere now.    ...    The release of this once captive carbon from destabilised ocean sediments and permafrost would have catastrophic effect on our climate and life on Earth, warn the scientists.   
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  • Daily Green  Global Warming May Have Shifted Jet Stream  ....  The migration of the jet stream is small – just 12 miles poleward per decade – but the scientists warned that "if the trend continues the impact could be significant." For instance, hurricanes might become more frequent or intense, as the jet stream ushers more tropical and subtropical storms into North America.
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  • ResourceInvestor Climate warming has become so universally accepted that it is worth one’s reputation to raise even a tepid question regarding warming wisdom or its factual accuracy.  global warming skeptic, denier article.
  • ScienceRay Coldest Europe Winters  or   Oceanographer Josh Willis of NASA, in turn, proved that, over the past 18 years for the contrary became only more powerful and warmer. Scientist for nearly two decades to collect data from research vessels and satellite, which observed the sea surface
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  • notes: clathrates, discovered by Sir Humphrey Davy, 1810, other common clathrates are ethane, propane, isobutane, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulphide, can cause undersea slumps that spawn tusnamis, generated by bacterial degradation of organic matter in low oxygen environment, complex process requiring the activity of several varieties of bacteria, methanogenesis, mainly restricted to high latitudes and continental margins in the oceans, average thickness of the clathrate stability zone along continental shelf is 500 meters,  eThomas.web,
  • EPA administrator: Mike Leavitt: "Kyoto was a bad treaty..."
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  • Wikipedia, Clathrates, search terms: gas hydrates, hydrogen-bonded water molecles, occur in large quantities in outer planets and the earth's deep ocean floor, at Storegga Slide, Norwegian continental shelf, also found in permafrost regions such as Mallik gas hydrate field in the Mackenzie Delta, Canadian arctic, can plug gas pipelines.
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  • ExxonSecrets:  Climate Change Skeptics List continued:  Accuracy in Academia, Accuracy in Media, Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, Africa Fighting Malaria Air Quality Standards Coalition, Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, Alliance for Climate Strategies, American Coal Foundation American Conservative Union Foundation, American Council for Capital Formation Center for Policy Research American Council on Science and Health, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, American Enterprise Institute-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, American Friends of the Institute for Economic Affairs, American Legislative Exchange Council, American Petroleum Institute, American Policy Center, American Recreation Coalition, American Spectator Foundation Americans for Tax Reform, Arizona State University Office of Cimatology, Aspen Institute, Association of Concerned Taxpayers Atlantic Legal Foundation, Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Blue Ribbon Coalition, Capital Legal Foundation Capital Research Center and Greenwatch, Cato Institute, Center for American and International Law, Center for Environmental Education Research, Center for Security Policy, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise Center for the New West, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, Centre for the New Europe Chemical Education Foundation, Citizens for A Sound Economy and CSE Educational Foundation, Citizens for the Environment and CFE Action Fund, Clean Water Industry Coalition, Climate Research Journal, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, Communications Institute, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Congress of Racial Equality, Consumer Alert, Cooler Heads Coalition, Council for Solid Waste Solutions, DCI Group, Defenders of Property Rights, Earthwatch Institute, ECO or Environmental Conservation Organization European Enterprise Institute, ExxonMobil Corporation, Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment, Fraser Institute, Free Enterprise Action Institute, Free Enterprise Education Institute, Frontiers of Freedom Institute and Foundation, George C. Marshall Institute, George Mason University, Law and Economics Center, Global Climate Coalition, Great Plains Legal Foundation, Greening Earth Society, Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, Heartland Institute, Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University, Hudson Institute, Illinois Policy Institute Independent Commission on Environmental Education, Independent Institute, Institute for Biospheric Research, Institute for Energy Research, Institute for Regulatory Science, Institute for Senior Studies, Institute for the Study of Earth and Man, Institute of Humane, tudies, George Mason University, Interfaith Stewardship Alliance, International Council for Capital Formation, International Policy Network - North America, International Republican Institute, James Madison Institute, Junkscience.com, Landmark Legal Foundation Lexington Institute, Lindenwood University, Mackinac Center, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Media Institute, Media Research Center, Mercatus Center, George Mason University, Mountain States Legal Foundation, National Association of Neighborhoods, National Black Chamber of Commerce, National Center for Policy Analysis, National Center for Public Policy Research National Council for Environmental Balance, National Environmental Policy Institute, National Legal Center for the Public Interest National Mining Association, National Policy Forum, National Wetlands Coalition, National Wilderness Institute, New England Legal Foundation, Pacific Legal Foundation, Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, Peabody Energy, Property and Environment Research Center, formerly Political Economy Research Center, Public Interest Watch, Reason Foundation, Reason Public Policy Institute, Science and Environmental Policy Project, Seniors Coalition, Shook, Hardy and Bacon LLP, Small Business Survival Committee, Southeastern Legal Foundation, Stanford University GCEP, Statistical Assessment Service (STATS), Tech Central Science Foundation or Tech Central Station, Texas Public Policy Foundation, The Advancement of Sound Science Center, Inc., The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, The Annapolis Center for Science-Based Public Policy, The Justice Foundation (formerly Texas Justice Foundation), The Locke Institute, United for Jobs, University of Oklahoma Foundation, Inc., US Russia Business Council Virginia Institute for Public Policy, Washington Legal Foundation, Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public, Policy. Western Fuels, World Affairs Councils of America, World Climate Report
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2006  No. 5 - The Fate of the Earth in the Balance: The Metaphysics of Climate Change, Steven F. Hayward No. 4 - Climate Policy, by Kenneth P. Green No. 3 - Bringing Down Gas and Oil Prices, by Kenneth P. Green No. 2 - Air Pollution and Health: Do Popular Portrayals Reflect the Scientific Evidence? by Joel Schwartz No. 1 - Fate of the World Redux: Assessing the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, by Steven F. Hayward

2005  November-December - The China Syndrome and the Environmental Kuznets Curve, by Steven F. Hayward September-October - Katrina and the Environment, by Steven F. Hayward July-August - A Cross of Green? Reflections on Eco-Theology, by Steven F. Hayward May-June - Air Quality: Much Worse on Paper Than in Reality, by Joel Schwartz March-April - Resurrecting Clear Skies, by Ted Gayer January-February - Climate Change Science: Time for "Team B"?, by Steven F. Hayward 2004

November-December - That Old Time Religion: A Review of Recent Environmental Books, by Steven F. Hayward September-October - Finding Better Ways to Achieve Cleaner Air, by Joel Schwartz July-August - Beyond Kyoto: Real Solutions to Greenhouse Emissions from Developing Countries, by Roger Bate and David Montgomery May-June - "Changing All the Rules," Ignoring All the Facts on New Source Review, by Steven F. Hayward March-April - Climate Change and Mosquito-Born Disease, by Roger Bate January-February - Emissions Down, Smog Up. Say What? by Joel Schwartz and Steven F. Hayward

 

 2003  November-December - Environmental Justice: Where Selma and the Cuyahoga River Fire Meet, by Steven F. Hayward September-October - "Censorship" and the Uncertain Science, by Samuel Thernstrom July-August - Making Sense of "New Source Review," by Steven F. Hayward May-June - Eco-Hysteria Then and Now, by Steven F. Hayward April - New Doubts about the Dominant Climate Change Models, by Steven F. Hayward March - A Blow to Chemophobia, by Steven F. Hayward January - Lomborg Gets the Galileo Treatment, Or, "'Shut up,' They Explained," by Steven F. Hayward

2002  December - Fading Green, by Steven F. Hayward November - The State of the Nation's Ecosystems: A Review, by Steven F. Hayward October - The New Corporate Balance Sheet: Black, Red--and Green, by Steven F. Hayward August - Sustainable Development in the Balance, by Steven F. Hayward July - AEI's Environmental Policy Outlook, by Christopher DeMuth and Steven F. Hayward

 
 WMR Former congressman run out of town after taking on Obama-connected energy firms   January 3-4, 2011
Former Representative Eric Massa (D-NY) was subjected to gay sexual harassment charges, all subsequently dismissed by House-appointed attorneys and which were partly-engineered by senior staffers for outgoing openly-gay Representative Barney Frank (D-MA), after Massa took on two energy firms closely connected to the Obama White House.    ...   Before he resigned from office amid unsubstantiated harassment charges made by his chief of staff Joseph Racalto, the former "driver" for Frank, in March 2010, Massa took on Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy Corporation and its CEO Aubrey McClendon, the natural gas "fracking king" and a proponent of non-coal carbon energy sources, including the Canadian Keystone oil sands pipeline project. McClendon has been a political donor to Democrat and Republican presidential candidates, including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain.    ...   Chesapeake Energy is the major exploiter of fractured natural gas from the Marcellus Shale of Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio and shale oil from the Utica Shale of New York and its operations have contaminated fresh water supplies and caused earthquakes.    ...   WMR has obtained correspondence documenting Massa's opposition to Chesapeake's environmentally-damaging operations in western New York. In a January 10, 2010 letter to McClendon, Massa asks for a meeting to discuss a proposed Chesapeake disposal facility in the town of Pulteney in the pristine Finger Lakes region. Massa pointed out to McClendon that Keuka Lake was surrounded by several communities that relied on tourism and agriculture, both of which rely on clean water.    ...   Massa demanded that the politically-connected McClendon withdraw plans for the facility, which would store resurfaced fluids from hydraulic fracturing and endanger the fresh water resources of the region. The letter was followed by communications between members of Massa's staff and Frank's staff to bring down Massa in a contrived scandal.    ...   Earlier, on September 11, 2009, Massa took on President Obama on one of his pet energy projects, wind energy. Under Obama's "stimulus" package, designed to create hundreds of thousands of jobs across the country, including in wind energy projects, $74.6 million in taxpayers' money was awarded by the Departments of Energy and the Treasury to Canandaigua Power Partners, LLC and Canandaigua Power Partners II for wind projects in Cohocton, New York.    ...    The two firms are shell companies that operate on behalf of First Wind, a firm under investigation by then-New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo for bribery, intimidation, and other misconduct involving wind energy projects across the northeastern United States. First Wind was financially backed by Dearborn Partners, a major source of campaign funds for then-White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel. White House economic adviser Larry Summers was also linked to First Wind.    ...   Alarm bells went off among the Emanuel-Summers cabal after Massa's September 11 letter was received. The letter stated: ". . . the award of $74.6 million dollars to corrupt companies that have changed names time and again forming new LLCs and new Inc.s but maintaining their business model of lie, cheat, and corrupt at the expense of taxpayers has stirred great unrest in New York's 29th Congressional District." Massa pointed out that Canandaigua collected electricity production rewards for non-existent energy.     ...   Eventually, Massa was forced to resign. Republican Tom Reed replaced Massa in the 29th district and WMR's sources in the district report that Racalto and Reed continue to maintain a relationship. Reed is wholly-owned and operated by the natural gas fracking and the wind power industries. Frank has announced he is not running for re-election, citing re-districting. It is highly unlikely that the addition of a few hundred more Republican voters in Frank's heavily-Democratic district is the real reason behind his decision not to run again.

 

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