-Caveat Lector- One of the most serious environmental emergencies of these times is the increasingly devastating weather patterns and storms associated with global warming due to the greenhouse effect and ozone layer depletion, both of which are exacerbated by combustion of oxygen by fossil fuels and the deforestation of trees that otherwise produce oxygen thus decreasing atmospheric O2/CO2 ratio. Some computer models predict destruction of all oceanic phytoplankton (over half of our current oxygen supply) by the year 2008 from increased solar irradiation due to continuing ozone layer depletion. http://www.projectearth.com The number one priority for solving this problem is how to rapidly regreen the planet and save the remaining trees to rebalance the atmospheric O2/CO2 ratio. This means industrial hemp re-legalization, and a global scale environmental emergency "Hemp for Victory" crash program to grow this most bioefficient crop everywhere possible as soon as possible. We need a 180 degree turn in US and international hemp/cannabis policies, not only for relegalization of industrial hemp but for an all out effort to grow it everywhere possible quickly to save the atmosphere and ameliorate weather disasters associated with global warming. http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/gear.html http://www.jackherer.com http://www.chrisconrad.com http://www.thehia.org (see report below for latest scientific evaluations of global warming and climate change) These are some of the survival issue messages being carried by Global Peace Walk2000 next year (along with the medical cannabis re-legalization message, et. al.) from San Francisco, January 15th, to Washington DC and to the United Nations for its 55th anniversary in New York City, October 24, 2000, hoping to gather over a million people in DC and NYC uniting all survival issue messages under the banner of "Global Peace Now!" as a universal human resolve. http://www.globalpeacenow.org --------------------------------------------------------- COMING CLIMATE CHANGE COULD BE EXTREME, EXPERTS SAY >From the Global Situation Report, edited by Michael Lindemann Vol.1 No.20 - Oct. 25, 1999 - Part 1 Two separate studies announced last week, one from the University of Colorado at Boulder and the other from the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) in cooperation with the University of East Anglia, UK, both offered serious warnings of climate change ahead. Another scientific report released in London on October 18 by the UK National Weather Service modeled future climate as if atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide were stabilized, rather than climbing precipitously as at present, intending to show that serious, coordinated global action to fight climate change can still have good results. But action must be swift and aggressive, the authors said. And in related news, NASA scientists announced on October 21 that they had gathered strong evidence indicating the return of the mid-Pacific ocean condition called La Nina, which "will have a powerful impact on the weather system" this winter, according to oceanographer William Patzert of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In the University of Colorado study, announced October 21, scientists studied sediments from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean and found evidence of very large and rapid shifts in temperature during the ice age period between 30,000 and 60,000 years ago. Scott Lehman, a research associate at CU-Boulder's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, said the study indicated the temperature of the Sargasso Sea between the West Indies and the Azores fluctuated repeatedly by up to 9 degrees Fahrenheit. Climate records and models indicate that changes in warm ocean temperatures are likely to produce widespread, global climate impacts. "The temperature of the warm ocean realm regulates the water vapor content of the atmosphere and its greenhouse capacity," Lehman said. Climate models suggest that ocean circulation changes of the kind that caused huge temperature fluctuations millennia ago could be triggered by current human activity. "The impact of possible future circulation changes may be more dramatic and widespread than suspected," Lehman said. His research appears in a paper co-written with Julian Sachs of Columbia University's Barnard College, published in the Oct. 22 issue of the journal Science. Lehman and Sachs reached their conclusions after studying 50 meters of sediment cores hauled up from several miles deep in the Sargasso Sea near Bermuda by French scientists as part of an international project. "The warming at the end of the last ice age about 10,000 years ago was supported by the disappearance of enormous ice sheets, a one-third increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and changes in the seasonal distribution of the sun's energy," Lehman said. "But the abrupt changes we documented during the last ice age seem to be almost entirely ocean driven." "Numerical modeling studies show that similar changes can be triggered by warming associated with human emissions as well," said Lehman. "Trapping more heat in the atmosphere has the potential to kill major parts of ocean circulation, with the effects reverberating throughout the world." One possibility in Lehman's research is that a major warming trend could be followed by a sudden severe cooling worldwide. The last 8,000 years have been remarkably stable in terms of climate, Lehman said. But that could change very soon. "By altering the environment through greenhouse gas emissions, we will likely find out how fragile the stability of Earth's climate really is. We may well find out we are dealing with a hair trigger." Meanwhile, the Worldwide Fund For Nature released its report on the predicted effects of climate change on 15 countries or regions in advance of the next round of climate negotiations opening October 25 in Bonn, Germany. "Evidence for the warming of our planet over the last 200 years is now overwhelming," said lead author of the study, Dr. Mike Hulme. "We're increasingly seeing the unmistakable fingerprint of human influence on global climate. With no action to curb emissions, the climate on Earth over the next century could become warmer than any the human species has lived through." One of the largest dangers flagged by the WWF report is coastal flooding. The report says that models predict flooding of New York City, Boston and Miami in the U.S.; Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya in Japan; and other major coastal cities throughout the world. But another consequence is major drought in some areas, including the Amazon region of South America as well as large parts of Mexico and Central America, the study says. In Russia and Canada, rapid warming could destroy huge expanses of forest. According to the Lycos Environmental News Service, international efforts to tackle the problem of global climate change will be the focus of a major United Nations conference in Bonn, Germany from October 25 to November 5. Some 5,000 participants from 150 countries are expected to attend. Ministers and senior government officials face a full agenda of political and technical issues that will determine how the international community goes about minimizing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases over the critical early decades of the 21st century. The first coordinated international commitment to limit greenhouse gas emissions was set out in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which commits signatory countries to individually tailored emissions targets for the period 2008-2012. The overall result, if successful, would be a reduction of emissions in developed nations of more than five percent compared with benchmark 1990 levels. Kyoto participants recognize that this is only a start in the right direction. Yet some nations, notably the United States, are balking at the presumed cost of meeting Kyoto targets. So far, only fourteen nations -- none of them major industrial powers -- have actually ratified the Kyoto Protocol. Against this backdrop, a new study from the UK uses a "carrot and stick" approach in addressing climate change. The carrot is the authors' supposition that there is still time -- barely -- to head off the the worst excesses of climate change, if the world community acts swiftly and wisely. The stick, however, is a stern warning that without such swift global action, the outcomes of climate change could be dire. Using models run on a supercomputer at the UK's Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, researchers from the UK National Weather Service predict that the unmitigated increase in greenhouse emissions, especially CO2, will lead by the 2080s to a three degrees Centigrade increase in average global temperatures and a 40 centimeter (15.75 inch) increase in sea levels. Among other consequences would be substantial dieback of tropical forests, a seven-fold increase in the number of people affected by flooding each year, and some 3 billion people affected by severe water shortages by the year 2080. The weather service scientists prepared two models of CO2 mitigation, one in which the atmospheric concentration of CO2 levels out at 750 parts per million (ppm) -- double the current level -- and another in which it peaks at 550 ppm, or double the pre-industrial level. At 750 ppm, the 3 degree C increase in global warming is slowed by 50 years, to 2230; while at 550 ppm, global temperature would increase by only 2 degrees C by 2230. However, to achieve even the 750 ppm target, the world's nations would have to commit to substantially stricter emissions protocols than those mandated at Kyoto, the scientists said. The UK weather service study was meant to help define the meaning of "dangerous" emission levels and CO2 buildup, which could have an important bearing on the next rounds of international negotiations regarding climate change and emission standards. 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