Yes, be veg be green and save our planet!

Hopeful message:
Many governments are encouraging people to eat more vegetable and less meat. :):) If the media can join in to broadcast: Go Veg, Be Green to Save the Planet, it would help tremendously.
Let's hope everyone joins in to save the planet. Together we can make it!!! : )

2 recent reports on Global Warming

Recent reports on Global Warming:

Methane Gas release from Oceans:
A Storehouse of Greenhouse gases is opening up in Siberia:http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,547976,00.html

extracts:The report shows that Russian polar scientists have strong evidence that the first stages of Methane Hydrates melting are underway.In the permafrost bottom of the 200-meter-deep sea, enormous stores of gas hydrates lie dormant in mighty frozen layers of sediment. The carbon content of the ice-and-methane mixture here is estimated at 540 billion tons.

"This submarine hydrate was considered stable until now," says the Russian biogeochemist Natalia Shakhova.The permafrost has grown porous, says Shakhova, and already the shelf sea has become "a source of methane passing into the atmosphere."

The Russian scientists have estimated what might happen when this Siberian permafrost-seal thaws completely and all the stored gas escapes. They believe the methane content of the planet's atmosphere would increase twelvefold. "The result would be catastrophic global warming," say the scientists.

Animal Farming and Global warming:
Report on Global farm animal production and Global Warming: http://www.ehponline.org/members/2008/11034/11034.html

The report is a comprehensive study on how animal farming contributes to Global Warming.

Canadian Geneticist Part 1

Interview with David Suzuki. Human has forgot that we are part of nature. We also depend on clean air, clean water, clean soil for survival.
Human has the faculty to look to the future, look at the opportunities and the pitfalls and act accordingly.
Leading scientist are warning about climate issues and telling us about the catastrophies
that is ahead, but world leaders are not acting fast on it. [Because of economics etc,etc]:(
Log on to www.davidsuzuki.org for some solutions. Solution includes taking more vegetarian meals / taking public transport/ conserve electricity etc.

Canadian Geneticist Part 2

Part 2 of Interview. David talks about the people in the developed nations using too much resources of the planet. [Big house, huge spendings, lots of waste.] Developed nations have to reduce consumption. Humans have thought that consumption will lead to happiness. But actually it's harmonous human relationship that leads to happiness. Endless consumption has lead to huge environmental destruction.
Human have to put a value to everything. A CEO of a tree cutting company says that 'A tree has no economic value if it stays in a forest. It only has economic value if it is being cut down.' But we forget that when the tree is in the forest, it is a tremendous help to the environment. It absorbs CO2 from the air and place O2 into the atmosphere, it's roots hold the soil and prevent erosion, it provides shade and is a home to many animals. But all that has no economic value and so they cut the trees down. :( We really have to relook at our economic sense and put a priceless value on the trees, forests, clean water, coral reefs so that we will conserve these natural resources for the balance of the Ecosystems on Earth. : /

Canadian Geneticist Part 3

Interview with David Suzuki, scientist and environmentalist. Informative. He talks about the reverance for nature. The UN report: Lost of 55 thousand animal spieces per year. The analogy of we are like a car heading towards a brick wall at 100 miles/hr and yet no one is putting the brakes on. [The ones who knows are locked in the back of the car :( ] The interconnection of all life.

Al Gore: New thinking on the climate crisis

Share Al Gore's latest slideshow presentation [in Feb 08]

Al Gore latest slideshow presentation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUO8bdrXghs

It shows the urgent situation the planet is in.

I salute his sense of urgency and his message for us to adopt sustainable energy.

He argues that we are now in Global crisis.
Yet we are also at a point in history to make historic changes.

Abraham Lincoln's generation is a generation is a generation who make descions to abolish slavery. And hundreds year later, we still applaud that generation for making the right decision.

Let ours be a generation to adopt massive changes to switch to sustainable
green energy. [Solar /wind / wave] And a thousand years from now, the people would look back and say: "That is the generation that make the right choices and steer the world in the correct direction. This is the generation that resolutely resolves the climate issue and introduce the right type of energy resource for all the future generations. "

Let's act NOW , and let's make History.


Cheers and best wishes,
Low ck

Interviews with African delegates

Interviews with African delegates from Mali, Niger and Guinea-Bissau on the effects of climate change on the African continent. [Dry spells, draughts affecting food crops production]

Effects of Climate change on Canada

Recent Apr 08 interview with Dale Marshall, Canada’s climate policy analyst, on the effects of climate change on Canada. Source: http://www.suprememastertv.com/

Share research information about Global Warming

Hi friends,

I have done quite a bit of research into the urgent issue of global warming these few months.
Provide some links to the most updated news:

The following are some youtube documentaries about climate change and it's solutions:
Latest evidence of climate change:
Part I : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IPUttBunmg
Part II: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwXJul6mLug

Climate change : A planetary emergency:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c-UwQ3OF0g

A climate change documentary by Jewish community:
http://www.asacredduty.com/

Global Warming Time to act [A scroll of the latest effects of global warming] http://www.suprememastertv.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=featured&wr_id=109

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The melting of Arctic and Antarctic Ice would speed up the raise in ocean temperature.
If the sea gets warm by a few degrees, it would cause the huge amounts of Methane Hydrates
in the ocean to melt and cause massive release of Methane gas.

The last time in history that this happens is 55 million years ago.
When that happens 94 % of life on Earth is wiped out : ( : ( : (

Problems of methane gas release from oceans:
Gas Releases Helped End Ice Ages:
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/02/26/methane-global-warming.html

Methane Bubbling From Arctic Lakes, Now And At End Of Last Ice Age: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071025174618.htm

Arctic lakes have already started to emit Methane gas. The Earth is in a perilous situation now.
: ( : (

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The good news is that we can still revise the effects now but will require the population
in the planet to adopt life style changes.

The way to save the planet lies in 4 steps.

1. Reduce Meat consumption. [Adopt a more plant-based diet]

Meat industry is very very destructive to the environment.
It accounts for :
20 % of green house gas emission.
70% of deforestation of the Amazon forest.
Extensive usage of food, water and land resources.
[In South America, 400 million hectares of soya crops are fed to animals for human consumption, only 25 million hectares would be needed be needed to directly feed
all the humans in the world. ]
Pollution of land and water resources. etc

As long as the demand is there, the meat industry would be there and continue to
cause destruction to the planet.

Only a major reduction in meat consumption can drop the demand and brake the meat
industry so that the land, water would have time to recover.

Government, Vege clubs, religious groups need to join in to help.

The UN knows about this and it's chief is urging the world .
"Don't eat meat, ride a bike and live fugally."

The world leaders [government] are listening, but their action is
really slow on this issue.

2. Plant trees. Large scale.

[The world is progressing on this one. With Billionaires like Warren Buffett coming in to buy large areas of Amazon forest, just to protect it. Countries like China, Taiwan, US is having many programs ' to plant millions of trees. ]

However, Brazil has announced recently that deforestation of the Amazon Forest would be doubled this year.[2008] The main reason for deforrestation is to create land for cattle grazing, create land for growing feed crops, and to create land to grow crops for Biofuels. This is truely depressing :( : (

3. Switch to clean/green energy.
[Solar power become more efficient, hybrid cars, biofuels, biowaste factory etc. ]


4. the 3 Rs [Reduce, Recycle, Reuse]
Reduce electricity, water usage. Use Energy efficient light bulbs, use less air-con, switch off
appliances when not in use. etc.
Conserve resources.
Recycle paper/plastics. Find ways to Reuse resources.

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Pls pass this urgent message to friends who are concern about the environment : )
Encourage them to make lifestyle changes. Everyone has to join in to save the planet
and all that live on the planet.

It's really that urgent.

Sigh. .. : (

Low ck.

NASA Climate Report on Global Warming-Including Interview with Professor Gerald Dickens

NASA Climate Report on Global Warming, highlights the latest findings that the Arctic ice could almost be all melted by 2012. Interview with Professor Gerald Dickens (associate Professor of Earth Sciences, Rice University, USA) on carbon dioxide in the Oceans. Dr Katey Walter report that Methane gas bubbling up from Artic Lakes adds to Global warming. It also contains an urgent message to adopt life style changes to brake global warming.

Climate Change: A Planetary Emergency

Global warming as a planetary Emergency. Ice shrinking at alarming rate. Greenland ice loss. Artic and Antartic ice loss. Premafrost layers melt. Increase ocean temperature etc. Steps to brake Global warming.

Climate Change: A Global Climate Change: A Global Response

Scientist and world leaders responding to climate change.

The Link Between Meat Eating and Climate Change

Jeremy Rifkin, president of the Foundation on Economic Trends, delivers a keynote address on the
devastating role factory farms are playing in the climate change crisis at Animal Legal Defense
Fund's "Future of Animal Law" conference at Harvard Law School in March 2007.

His reasoning is rational and his arguments are unbeatable :)

UN Report on Livestock

Findings from United Nation's 2006 Food and Agriculture Report " Livestock's long shadow"

Climate Change on Public Health

A good documentary on the effects of Global warming on public health