The United States is the world’s biggest producer of greenhouse gases, which include carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane among others. With their booming economic growth in recent years, China and India have joined the ranks of major producers as well.
 
Why can't we truely enfore regulations on the number of people who drive, speed on public roads, waste electricity within there home, heat a home that is a hole
 
Because they have freedom to do as they wish, it is there right!
 
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We always think that our ancestors had it pretty rough, and they did. But in one area, our founding fathers had it easy: They didn't have to contend with hurricane seasons like the one we experienced in 2005 when there were a record 27 named storms, including 15 hurricanes, with four of those reaching the highest category of intensity. Hurricane Katrina alone caused $100 billion in total losses and displaced almost 300,000 people.

By sampling the sediment in the brown muck of a quiet, shallow lagoon on Vieques, Puerto Rico, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution geologists Jeff Donnelly and Jonathan Woodruff were able to cast an eye back through geological history and analyze the footprints left by 5,000 years of hurricanes.

Their findings, published in the science journal Nature last week, described long periods of hundreds to thousands of years, in which global atmospheric conditions seemed to helped spawn more frequent, and more intense hurricanes.

The driving forces behind this heightened activity: strong West African monsoon seasons, whose warm, moist air masses generate 85 percent of our most dangerous hurricanes, and periods of weak El Niños, whose upper level winds can tear hurricanes apart.

El Niño is the name meteorologists give to episodic warming of the eastern Pacific Ocean which, in turn, affects atmospheric conditions, including winds that blow along the tropical regions of the Atlantic where hurricanes are spawned.

So, 300 years ago marked the end of 700 years of relatively mild hurricane seasons. Even more important to us is the fact that for the past 300 years, and continuing for an unknown period into the future, we have been in a very active phase.

What that means in light of global warming is unclear, Donnelly said.

"There's no real consensus. We still don't know how El Niño will respond (to global warming)," he said.

Hurricanes are fueled by warm water temperatures. With global warming heating up the world's oceans, Donnelly theorized there was always the possibility we could cross a threshold where West African weather and a weak El Niño combine to create frequent, extremely powerful storms year after year.

Or, the opposite could happen.

"It's certainly a very complex system. It's a puzzle and it's interesting to try and fit the pieces together," Donnelly said.

At least the methodology used in the WHOI research seemed disarmingly simple and understandable.

Ringed by mangroves, the placid Laguna Playa Grande is protected from the ocean by a barrier beach that is, in places, 260-feet wide and 7- to 10-feet high.

Puerto Rico is frequently in the path of hurricanes and when one draws near, or hits the island, waves wash over the beach and vegetation and into the lagoon carrying sand, shells and other debris along and depositing it in a layer on top of the chocolate brown organic silt on the bottom of the lagoon. Pushing plastic tubes as deep as 12 feet down into the muck, Donnelly, Woodruff and their assistants were able to remove core samples that constituted a geologic cross-section of everything deposited on the lagoon floor over the past 5,000 years.

Periodically, a hazy line of white interrupts the pudding-colored sediment — detritus carried over the barrier beach and into the lagoon by a storm surge.

The geologists found that they matched samplings taken elsewhere in the Caribbean and studies done in New York and Louisiana indicating that the storm was large enough to impact shorelines along the Atlantic and, sometimes, the Gulf of Mexico.

These were all compared with rainfall records from West Africa.

Donnelly was flying off to Crete last week to a climatology conference where he hoped to exchange his latest findings with peers.

"There's always going to be unknowns, but more and more we are learning how the system works and which factors are most important," he said.

By contrast, the study said the world'srichest countries contributed about 60 percent of total emissions in2004 and account for 77 percent of cumulative emissions since the startof the Industrial Revolution.

Theresearch showed global emissions since 2000 grew faster than in themost extreme scenarios developed by the United NationsIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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MIDDLETOWN, N.J. - For the second time in as many months, officials believe a coyote has attacked a child in this wooded, suburban town in central New Jersey.

Police and state wildlife officials set traps Tuesday, and were looking for the animal that attacked 5-year-old Brayden Gazette.
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1. If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?

2. If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?

3. Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

4. If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?

5. If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

6. Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

7. When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?

8. Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racing car not called a racist?

9. Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites?

10. Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?

11. Why isn't the number 11 pronounced onety one?

12. 'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?

13. If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it followthat electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboysderanged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleanersdepressed?

14. What hair colour do they put on the driver's licences of bald men?

15. I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny littlespoons and forks so I wondered what do Chinese mothers use -Toothpicks?

16. Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? Whatare we supposed to do, write to them? Why don't they just put theirpictures on the postage stamps so the postmen can look for them whilethey deliver the mail?

17. You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.

18. No one ever says, 'It's only a game' when their team is winning.

19. Ever wonder about those people who spend £2.00 apiece on thoselittle bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backwards: NAIVE

20. Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?

21. OK ... so if the Jacksonville Jaguars are known as the 'Jags' andthe Tampa Bay Buccaneers are known as the 'Bucs,' what does that makethe Tennessee Titans?

22. If 4 out of 5 people SUFFER from diarrhoea, does that mean that one enjoys it?

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We all need to do are little things for this planet we live on
 Stop thinking that we are free to do as we want
  For the effects are clearly being seen each and every day we wake up and live through

I gave up owning a car; no real need for, so why own one
 And I am trying to watch what I buy, use and waste
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The Kyoto Protocol is the only global accord on cutting so-called greenhouse gas emissions, but it lapses after 2012 and was rejected by the United States in 2001 as economic suicide because it is not binding on booming emitters China and India.

China, expected to overtake the United States within a year as the world's biggest polluter, is building a coal-fired power station every four days on average to fuel its rapidly growing economy.

Germany, backed by Britain, hopes the summit will give a boost to efforts to open serious negotiations on a successor to Kyoto — expanding its scope and extending its life.

The statement from the science academies urged governments to push for more energy efficiency, stop global deforestation, share cutting-edge clean technology and invest more heavily in zero-carbon energy sources.

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"Antarctica has shown little to no warming in the recent past with the exception of the Antarctic Peninsula, but now large regions are showing the first signs of the impacts of warming as interpreted by this satellite analysis," study co-leader Konrad Steffen said in a statement.

In a statement, NASA said that the melt was widespread, "including far inland, at high latitudes and at high elevations, where melt had been considered unlikely. Evidence of melting was found up to 560 miles inland from the open ocean, farther than 85 degrees south (about 310 miles from the South Pole) and higher than 6,600 feet above sea level."

The areas included a vast stretch of the Ross Ice Shelf abutting the Transantarctic Mountain range. That shelf is the size of Texas and would lead to major glacier flows into the ocean were it to collapse.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18698596/