Archive for October, 2006

What a melting glacier means to one Swiss village

Posted October 25th, 2006 in Blog 0 Comments

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
With all the bad news about global warming and climate change, we can get dizzy with the large scale of the changes.  The Arctic Ocean is melting, the Greenland ice sheet is melting, all the glaciers of the world are melting, ocean levels are rising threatening to flood coastal cities, the [...]

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Iceland resumes whale hunting

Posted October 24th, 2006 in Blog 0 Comments

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Today from Margaret Swedish:
Eg brought this to my attention with a comment on my contact page.  Despite fierce international opposition, Iceland has resumed commercial whale hunting.   In doing so, the country has defied a ban that has been in place since the 1980s.
They are being cheered on by Japan and Norway who also [...]

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Bad news from NASA on the Greenland ice sheet

Posted October 23rd, 2006 in Blog 0 Comments

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Today from Margaret Swedish:
The Greenland ice sheet is being watched closely because of its high sensitivity to global warming and the consequent climate change.  The massive sheet contains billions and billions of gallons of fresh water and the melting will cause this water to flow directly into the salty ocean waters, threatening to push [...]

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In Melbourne, Catholics get global warming warning

Posted October 20th, 2006 in Blog 0 Comments

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Today from Margaret Swedish:
We have been hearing lately that some in the religious world are beginning to appreciate the threat of global warming and climate change to ‘civilization.’  As ecosytems begin to break down, as drought spreads through much of the food-producing parts of the world (like our US southwest, where only an [...]

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