Hi Chris >talk about synchronicity.
:-) Excellent stuff, synchronicity, there's always something deeply reassuring about it. >i heard two tidbits today. first (note >that i didn't have time to cross-check this one), the latest data >indicates that the oceans are even warmer, and warming at a faster >rate, than had been thought until now. which means that global >warming is farther along than previously believed, since about 90% of >atmospheric warming gets absorbed by the oceans. For years now, each time there've been new findings they say it's worse than they expected it to be. It's ridiculous that people are still talking of "12/25" or even 25/25. Let alone "Peak Oil" - as if it matters! Peak Heroin? >second, some dudes >in australia have shown that whale poop, much like that of grazing >animals, promotes carbon sequestration by providing phytoplankton with >valuable nutrients. whale poqulations worldwide are, depending on the >species, at 1 to 10 percent of their former levels. the australian >team calculates that sperm whales in the southern hemisphere alone, if >allowed to regain their former numbers, would effectively remove 2 >million tons of carbon dioxide annually. That's really interesting, I never would have thought of that. Have you got a link? The Aussies are getting very impatient with the Japanese about this, putting on all sorts of pressure, more and more so. Good on them. The Japanese are either utterly oblivious, or offended that people are criticising their "traditions". I'll criticise their traditions - just what sort of sociopathic idiot do you have to be to think there can ever be any shred of an excuse for killing a whale? Traditions my ass. Most Japanese are completely unaware that there's any sort of issue or problem over the annual dolphin slaughter at Taiji and elsewhere, if they've even heard of it. They haven't got a clue, in spite of all the fuss over "The Cove". Several cinemas here were running "The Cove", in Tokyo and Osaka, but they withdrew it, because of threats and harassment by right-wing groups. "Nationalists oppose the film as a denigration of Japanese culture." Hmphh. That's very unsatisfactory - isn't there a better net-lingo snort of derision and contempt than "Hmphh"? Best Keith _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
