"The world has already passed the point of no return for climate
change, and civilisation as we know it is now unlikely to survive,
according to James Lovelock, the scientist and green guru who
conceived the idea of Gaia - the Earth which keeps itself fit for life."

"It's not behaving like it used to behave," Peterson said.

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Hemp, the ideal plant to save the planet!

This is the national campaign coordinators list for key members of local
State HIPPIE Networking Groups to coordinate campaigns between States as the
National HIPPIE Hemp Campaign with info posted here that may be useful in
any State, forwarded to that list by its designated member on this HIPPIE
networking group national coordinators list

This USA Hemp Industry Program Planting Initiative Enterprise, US-HIPPIE,
Networking Group is to further global environmental emergency level actions
to not only legalize hemp, but promote a global scale revival of the 1941-45
USDA Hemp for Victory program, then to win the war effort against the Axis,
and now to win the war against Mother Earth in order to prevent intolerable
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groups, eg: (copy and paste links)

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Subject: [Rainbow_Tribe]


Ocean's temperature off Santa Barbara now highest in 1,400 years

Usha Lee McFarling
Los Angeles Times
Jan. 7, 2006 12:00 AM

Southern California coastal waters have warmed in recent decades to
their highest level in 1,400 years, according to a study of
fossilized plankton published this week in the journal Science.

A group led by David Field of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography
analyzed sediment cores drilled off the Santa Barbara coast. The
cores contained thin layers of shells from microscopic plankton
called forams that rained to the seabed after the animals died.

The cores showed that, as ocean temperatures varied, forams
alternated between species that thrive in warmer waters and those
dominating cooler waters.

Field found that subtropical and tropical forams started to increase
around 1925. The increase became more dramatic after the 1970s.

Part of the ocean warming was due to a cycle of climate variability
called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, which shifts about every 20
years. The last warm cycle lasted from 1977 to the mid '90s.

But Field found that the abundance of tropical and subtropical forams
has risen to its highest point in 1,400 years, suggesting that the
increase was not just a product of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.

"There's an additional warming ... that makes the 20th century
atypical," he said.

Experts estimate the decadal oscillation accounts for 1 degree
Fahrenheit variation in Southern California ocean temperatures. Over
the past century, upper ocean temperatures here have warmed nearly 3
degrees.

One likely cause of the extra temperature rise is the production of
greenhouse gases, which are linked to global warming, Field said.

Bill Peterson, a scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, agreed with Field's conclusions of a long-term
warming trend.

Peterson also said the Pacific Decadal Oscillation may be speeding up
for unknown reasons from its 20-year cycles to three- or four-year
cycles.

"It's not behaving like it used to behave," Peterson said.





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Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 2:49 PM
To: banyacya@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [banyacya] Earth in crisis: 'We are past the point of no return'

Earth in crisis: 'We are past the point of no return'
____________________________________________________________

James Lovelock: The Earth is about to catch a morbid fever that may
last as long as 100,000 years

Each nation must find the best use of its resources to sustain
civilisation for as long as they can

Published: 16 January 2006
http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article338830.ece


Imagine a young policewoman delighted in the fulfilment of her
vocation; then imagine her having to tell a family whose child had
strayed that he had been found dead, murdered in a nearby wood. Or
think of a young physician newly appointed who has to tell you that
the biopsy revealed invasion by an aggressive metastasising tumour.
Doctors and the police know that many accept the simple awful truth
with dignity but others try in vain to deny it.

Whatever the response, the bringers of such bad news rarely become
hardened to their task and some dread it. We have relieved judges of
the awesome responsibility of passing the death sentence, but at least
they had some comfort from its frequent moral justification.
Physicians and the police have no escape from their duty.

This article is the most difficult I have written and for the same
reasons. My Gaia theory sees the Earth behaving as if it were alive,
and clearly anything alive can enjoy good health, or suffer disease.
Gaia has made me a planetary physician and I take my profession
seriously, and now I, too, have to bring bad news.

The climate centres around the world, which are the equivalent of the
pathology lab of a hospital, have reported the Earth's physical
condition, and the climate specialists see it as seriously ill, and
soon to pass into a morbid fever that may last as long as 100,000
years. I have to tell you, as members of the Earth's family and an
intimate part of it, that you and especially civilisation are in grave
danger.

Our planet has kept itself healthy and fit for life, just like an
animal does, for most of the more than three billion years of its
existence. It was ill luck that we started polluting at a time when
the sun is too hot for comfort. We have given Gaia a fever and soon
her condition will worsen to a state like a coma. She has been there
before and recovered, but it took more than 100,000 years. We are
responsible and will suffer the consequences: as the century
progresses, the temperature will rise 8 degrees centigrade in
temperate regions and 5 degrees in the tropics.

Much of the tropical land mass will become scrub and desert, and will
no longer serve for regulation; this adds to the 40 per cent of the
Earth's surface we have depleted to feed ourselves.

Curiously, aerosol pollution of the northern hemisphere reduces global
warming by reflecting sunlight back to space. This "global dimming" is
transient and could disappear in a few days like the smoke that it is,
leaving us fully exposed to the heat of the global greenhouse. We are
in a fool's climate, accidentally kept cool by smoke, and before this
century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of
people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains
tolerable.

By failing to see that the Earth regulates its climate and
composition, we have blundered into trying to do it ourselves, acting
as if we were in charge. By doing this, we condemn ourselves to the
worst form of slavery. If we chose to be the stewards of the Earth,
then we are responsible for keeping the atmosphere, the ocean and the
land surface right for life. A task we would soon find impossible -
and something before we treated Gaia so badly, she had freely done for us.

To understand how impossible it is, think about how you would regulate
your own temperature or the composition of your blood. Those with
failing kidneys know the never-ending daily difficulty of adjusting
water, salt and protein intake. The technological fix of dialysis
helps, but is no replacement for living healthy kidneys.

My new book The Revenge of Gaia expands these thoughts, but you still
may ask why science took so long to recognise the true nature of the
Earth. I think it is because Darwin's vision was so good and clear
that it has taken until now to digest it. In his time, little was
known about the chemistry of the atmosphere and oceans, and there
would have been little reason for him to wonder if organisms changed
their environment as well as adapting to it.

Had it been known then that life and the environment are closely
coupled, Darwin would have seen that evolution involved not just the
organisms, but the whole planetary surface. We might then have looked
upon the Earth as if it were alive, and known that we cannot pollute
the air or use the Earth's skin - its forest and ocean ecosystems - as
a mere source of products to feed ourselves and furnish our homes. We
would have felt instinctively that those ecosystems must be left
untouched because they were part of the living Earth.

So what should we do? First, we have to keep in mind the awesome pace
of change and realise how little time is left to act; and then each
community and nation must find the best use of the resources they have
to sustain civilisation for as long as they can. Civilisation is
energy-intensive and we cannot turn it off without crashing, so we
need the security of a powered descent. On these British Isles, we are
used to thinking of all humanity and not just ourselves; environmental
change is global, but we have to deal with the consequences here in
the UK.

Unfortunately our nation is now so urbanised as to be like a large
city and we have only a small acreage of agriculture and forestry. We
are dependent on the trading world for sustenance; climate change will
deny us regular supplies of food and fuel from overseas.

We could grow enough to feed ourselves on the diet of the Second World
War, but the notion that there is land to spare to grow biofuels, or
be the site of wind farms, is ludicrous. We will do our best to
survive, but sadly I cannot see the United States or the emerging
economies of China and India cutting back in time, and they are the
main source of emissions. The worst will happen and survivors will
have to adapt to a hell of a climate.

Perhaps the saddest thing is that Gaia will lose as much or more than
we do. Not only will wildlife and whole ecosystems go extinct, but in
human civilisation the planet has a precious resource. We are not
merely a disease; we are, through our intelligence and communication,
the nervous system of the planet. Through us, Gaia has seen herself
from space, and begins to know her place in the universe.

We should be the heart and mind of the Earth, not its malady. So let
us be brave and cease thinking of human needs and rights alone, and
see that we have harmed the living Earth and need to make our peace
with Gaia. We must do it while we are still strong enough to
negotiate, and not a broken rabble led by brutal war lords. Most of
all, we should remember that we are a part of it, and it is indeed our
home.

The writer is an independent environmental scientist and Fellow of the
Royal Society. 'The Revenge of Gaia' is published by Penguin on 2 February




Environment in crisis: 'We are past the point of no return'

Thirty years ago, the scientist James Lovelock worked out that the
Earth possessed a planetary-scale control system which kept the
environment fit for life. He called it Gaia, and the theory has become
widely accepted. Now, he believes mankind's abuse of the environment
is making that mechanism work against us. His astonishing conclusion -
that climate change is already insoluble, and life on Earth will never
be the same again.

By Michael McCarthy Environment Editor
Published: 16 January 2006
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article338878.ece


The world has already passed the point of no return for climate
change, and civilisation as we know it is now unlikely to survive,
according to James Lovelock, the scientist and green guru who
conceived the idea of Gaia - the Earth which keeps itself fit for life.

In a profoundly pessimistic new assessment, published in today's
Independent, Professor Lovelock suggests that efforts to counter
global warming cannot succeed, and that, in effect, it is already too
late.

The world and human society face disaster to a worse extent, and on a
faster timescale, than almost anybody realises, he believes. He
writes: " Before this century is over, billions of us will die, and
the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic
where the climate remains tolerable."

In making such a statement, far gloomier than any yet made by a
scientist of comparable international standing, Professor Lovelock
accepts he is going out on a limb. But as the man who conceived the
first wholly new way of looking at life on Earth since Charles Darwin,
he feels his own analysis of what is happening leaves him no choice.
He believes that it is the self-regulating mechanism of Gaia itself -
increasingly accepted by other scientists worldwide, although they
prefer to term it the Earth System - which, perversely, will ensure
that the warming cannot be mastered.

This is because the system contains myriad feedback mechanisms which
in the past have acted in concert to keep the Earth much cooler than
it otherwise would be. Now, however, they will come together to
amplify the warming being caused by human activities such as transport
and industry through huge emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon
dioxide (CO2 ).

It means that the harmful consequences of human beings damaging the
living planet's ancient regulatory system will be non-linear - in
other words, likely to accelerate uncontrollably.

He terms this phenomenon "The Revenge of Gaia" and examines it in
detail in a new book with that title, to be published next month.

The uniqueness of the Lovelock viewpoint is that it is holistic,
rather than reductionist. Although he is a committed supporter of
current research into climate change, especially at Britain's Hadley
Centre, he is not looking at individual facets of how the climate
behaves, as other scientists inevitably are. Rather, he is looking at
how the whole control system of the Earth behaves when put under stress.

Professor Lovelock, who conceived the idea of Gaia in the 1970s while
examining the possibility of life on Mars for Nasa in the US, has been
warning of the dangers of climate change since major concerns about it
first began nearly 20 years ago.

He was one of a select group of scientists who gave an initial
briefing on global warming to Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet at 10
Downing Street in April 1989.

His concerns have increased steadily since then, as evidence of a
warming climate has mounted. For example, he shared the alarm of many
scientists at the news last September that the ice covering the Arctic
Ocean is now melting so fast that in 2005 it reached a historic low point.

Two years ago he sparked a major controversy with an article in The
Independent calling on environmentalists to drop their long-standing
opposition to nuclear power, which does not produce the greenhouses
gases of conventional power stations.

Global warming was proceeding so fast that only a major expansion of
nuclear power could bring it under control, he said. Most of the Green
movement roundly rejected his call, and does so still.

Now his concerns have reached a peak - and have a new emphasis. Rather
than calling for further ways of countering climate change, he is
calling on governments in Britain and elsewhere to begin large-scale
preparations for surviving what he now sees as inevitable - in his own
phrase today, "a hell of a climate", likely to be in Europe up to 8C
hotter than it is today.

In his book's concluding chapter, he writes: "What should a sensible
European government be doing now? I think we have little option but to
prepare for the worst, and assume that we have passed the threshold."

And in today's Independent he writes: "We will do our best to survive,
but sadly I cannot see the United States or the emerging economies of
China and India cutting back in time, and they are the main source of
[CO2] emissions. The worst will happen ..."

He goes on: "We have to keep in mind the awesome pace of change and
realise how little time is left to act, and then each community and
nation must find the best use of the resources they have to sustain
civilisation for as long as they can." He believes that the world's
governments should plan to secure energy and food supplies in the
global hothouse, and defences against the expected rise in sea levels.
The scientist's vision of what human society may ultimately be reduced
to through climate change is " a broken rabble led by brutal warlords."

Professor Lovelock draws attention to one aspect of the warming threat
in particular, which is that the expected temperature rise is
currently being held back artificially by a global aerosol - a layer
of dust in the atmosphere right around the planet's northern
hemisphere - which is the product of the world's industry.

This shields us from some of the sun's radiation in a phenomenon which
is known as "global dimming" and is thought to be holding the global
temperature down by several degrees. But with a severe industrial
downturn, the aerosol could fall out of the atmosphere in a very short
time, and the global temperature could take a sudden enormous leap
upwards.

One of the most striking ideas in his book is that of "a guidebook for
global warming survivors" aimed at the humans who would still be
struggling to exist after a total societal collapse.

Written, not in electronic form, but "on durable paper with
long-lasting print", it would contain the basic accumulated scientific
knowledge of humanity, much of it utterly taken for granted by us now,
but originally won only after a hard struggle - such as our place in
the solar system, or the fact that bacteria and viruses cause
infectious diseases.

Rough guide to a planet in jeopardy

Global warming, caused principally by the large-scale emissions of
industrial gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2), is almost certainly the
greatest threat that mankind has ever faced, because it puts a
question mark over the very habitability of the Earth.

Over the coming decades soaring temperatures will mean agriculture may
become unviable over huge areas of the world where people are already
poor and hungry; water supplies for millions or even billions may
fail. Rising sea levels will destroy substantial coastal areas in
low-lying countries such as Bangladesh, at the very moment when their
populations are mushrooming. Numberless environmental refugees will
overwhelm the capacity of any agency, or indeed any country, to cope,
while modern urban infrastructure will face devastation from powerful
extreme weather events, such as Hurricane Katrina which hit New
Orleans last summer.

The international community accepts the reality of global warming,
supported by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In
its last report, in 2001, the IPCC said global average temperatures
were likely to rise by up to 5.8C by 2100. In high latitudes, such as
Britain, the rise is likely to be much higher, perhaps 8C. The warming
seems to be proceeding faster than anticipated and in the IPCC's next
report, 2007, the timescale may be shortened. Yet there still remains
an assumption that climate change is controllable, if CO2 emissions
can be curbed. Lovelock is warning: think again.

'The Revenge of Gaia' by James Lovelock is published by Penguin on 2
February, price £16.99


Global warming to speed up as carbon levels show sharp rise

By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor
Published: 15 January 2006
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article338689.ece


Global warming is set to accelerate alarmingly because of a sharp jump
in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Preliminary figures, exclusively obtained by The Independent on
Sunday, show that levels of the gas - the main cause of climate change
- have risen abruptly in the past four years. Scientists fear that
warming is entering a new phase, and may accelerate further.

But a summit of the most polluting countries, convened by the Bush
administration, last week refused to set targets for reducing their
carbon dioxide emissions. Set up in competition to the Kyoto Protocol,
the summit, held in Sydney and attended by Australia, China, India,
Japan and South Korea as well as the United States, instead pledged to
develop cleaner technologies - which some experts believe will not
arrive in time.

The climb in carbon dioxide content showed up in readings from the US
government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, taken at
the summit of Mauna Loa, Hawaii. The measurements have been taken
regularly since 1958 in the 11,400ft peak's pristine conditions, 2,000
miles from the nearest landmass and protected by unusual climatic
conditions from the pollution of Hawaii, two miles below.

Through most of the past half-century, levels of the gas rose by an
average of 1.3 parts per million a year; in the late 1990s, this
figure rose to 1.6 ppm, and again to 2ppm in 2002 and 2003. But
unpublished figures for the first 10 months of this year show a rise
of 2.2ppm.

Scientists believe this may be the first evidence that climate change
is starting to produce itself, as rising temperatures so alter natural
systems that the Earth itself releases more gas, driving the
thermometer ever higher.

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