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Energy Pollution's Impact On Our Environment
Precarious
A grounded bird
Perched feet from sheer faces,
Freefalls and deadly drops
Flying on jutted thrusts of rock
I suddenly feel boreal
And pseudo-alpine.
The wind rustles steadily
In lower reaches of this chasm,
this monstrous ravine.
Clouds puff and duplicate
In the sun's constant spread.
Mountains engage the eye
From every dimension
Beyond the third
Into a timeless fourth.
Time eased away
In the day's anxiousness.
Next is annexed to now
You are the impermanence of moment.
Ned Green wrote this beautiful poem on the Appalachian Trail in his Journal in 1997.
On February 18, 2001, at only 26, doing what he loved most, climbing, his support on an
ice ledge gave way where he fell into a deep chasm on Mt. Washington, New Hampshire.
HUMAN-CO2-CHEMICAL IMPACT ON ENVIRONMENT
Information on humankind's impact on Global Climate Change first began to be posted on Flyby News on 22 February, 2002, beginning with an article about widespread environmental change in the Arctic. It has always made sense to lessen the amount of greenhouse gas emissions, especially Carbon, into our atmosphere. And to maintain the lungs of Earth, forests, and places for carbon sinks and air purification. The New World Disorder or the military industrial complex empire had another agenda in lock step with fascist fear, control of the elite over the masses. It is the blind leading the blind. We hope raising awareness
for life's survival in the 21st Century for a big turnaround. Becoming more aware is a critical step regardless of outcome. Our integrity, our humanity is at risk.
06 May, 2015 - Common Dreams - Sarah Lazare
It's Official: Global Carbon Levels
Surpassed 400 ppm for Entire Month
In summer 2000, an international team of scientists led by Serreze
released results of a study documenting widespread
environmental changes over the Arctic.
To read the article published by Space.com, see:
Scientists Say Polar Warming Continues With Ice Mass Losses
News Flash! ! !
This came in 20 March 2002 on the vernal equinox:
An Antarctic ice shelf that was 200 metres thick
and had a surface area of 3,250 square kilometres
has broken apart in less than a month.
"We knew what was left would collapse eventually,
but the speed of it is staggering,"
-- Dr David Vaughan
Glaciologist at the Bas in Cambridge.
"[It is hard] to believe that 500 billion tonnes of
ice sheet has disintegrated in less than a month."
The full article, with graphics and maps, is located at
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1880000/1880566.stm
For related information and article, see editor's notes and item 1
Collapsing the doubts on warming - posted 25 March 2002.
The Day After Tomorrow?
The present state of the 'ocean conveyor belt' that transfers
warm, less salty water from the Pacific to the Atlantic as a
shallow current, and returns cold, more salty water from the
Atlantic to the Pacific as a deep current flowing further
south. This flow is threatened by melting ice in the
Arctic, and disruptions off the Antarctic coast.
See following link for a photo and more on this critical concern!
Ocean Forces Threaten Our Climate
UPDATED - August, 2008:
Scientists Astounded by Speed of Deep Freeze
It's one of the most dramatic examples of climate change in Earth's history,
and scientists now say it happened almost entirely in one year's time.
Climate chill came exactly 12,679 years ago: study
The study, of pollens, minerals and other matter deposited in annual
layers at the bottom of Lake Meerfelder Maar in Germany, pinpointed an
abrupt change in sediments consistent with a sudden chill over just one year.
The world's largest frozen peat bog
is thawing for the first time in 11,000 years
(since it was formed at the end of the last ice age).
This bog in western Siberia, the size of France and Germany
combined, could release "billions of tonnes of greenhouse gas."
Warming Hits 'Tipping Point'
Originally published August 11, 2005 by the Guardian/UK
UPDATED <> NEWS <> RESOURCES
15 March, 2015 - Youtube - 0:37:30 + 20:30
Beyond Moss Brook
No Fracking Way! +
Bart Jordan Timesinger
More info on Wordpress & also view
Via Greenfield Community Television
14 January, 2016 - Democracy Now! - War and Peace
As California Methane Leak Displaces Thousands,
Will U.S. Regulate Natural Gas Sites Nationwide?
01 October, 2014 - Youtube - 15:23 - OfGeometry
Pilots, Doctors and Scientists
Tell the Truth About Chemtrails
07 January, 2016 - Democracy Now! - War and Peace
TransCanada Sues the U.S. for $15B
for Rejecting Keystone XL.
Will This Be the New Normal Under TPP?
11 December, 2015 - TheSleuthJournal - Bart Sibrel
Solar Storm Means No Food
for You and Your Family
06 October, 2015 - Economic Collapse - Michael Snyder
Electromagnetic Pulse: One Day We Will Wake Up
In An America Without Electricity And Society
Will Totally Break Down
09 December, 2015 - Democracy Now! - War and Peace
Naomi Klein Decries Climate Deal as
Extraordinarily Dangerous; Backs
Defiance of French Protest Ban
04 December, 2015 - Democracy Now! - Amy Goodman
Climate Scientist James Hansen Warns World is on
Wrong Track to Prevent Runaway Global Warming
Flyby News endorses James Hansen's proposal to end the fossil fuel age.
As far as the status of the U.N. Climate Summit in Paris, Hansen said:
"This is really a total fraud."
James Hansen proposes a plan to phase out dirty energy
with clean energy with an across-the-board carbon fee.
"You collect money from fossil fuel companies and you
distribute it equaled [to] all residents. So the one
who does better than average and limiting his
fossil fuel use will get more in the dividend
than he pays in increased prices."
04 November, 2015 - Mother Jones - James West
Bernie Sanders Wants to Ban
All New Fossil Fuel Development
on Federal Lands
20 October, 2015 - The Nation - Bill McKibben
Exxon Knew Everything There Was to Know About
Climate Change by the Mid-1980s—and Denied It
This proves how greed and political military support
can achieve dominance and profit to kill us all..
including themselves.. and some good people are
still here to talk about it.. I hope this adds
to the enormous shift we must go through to
end the fossil nuclear fuel era.
27 December, 2015 - Daily Kos - xaxnar
The Ongoing Environmental Disaster
Currently Not Making The Headlines
28 December, 2015 - Common Dreams - Deirdre Fulton
Climate Change. Extreme Weather
Wreaking Havoc Across Globe
04 August, 2015 - Democracy Now! - War and Peace
Naomi Klein: Obama Is Beginning
to Sound Like a Climate Leader,
When Will He Act Like One?
22 July, 2015 - Common Dreams - Lauren McCauley
Study: When Human Consumption
Slows, Planet Earth Can Heal
'New research debunks myth of
climate-friendly fracking revolution'
16 July, 2015 -Common Dreams - Andrea Germanos
Human Exploitation of Nature Has
Driven Planetary Health to the Edge
New report says
'we have been mortgaging the
health of future generations'
09 June, 2015 - OEC - Melanie Houston
US EPA's study confirms water
contamination caused by fracking
06 June, 2015 - Common Dreams - Jon Queally
G7's Unrelenting Burning of Fossil Fuels
Called 'Weapon of Mass Destruction'
Report by Oxfam International slams
G7's disregard for people and planet
06 May, 2015 - Common Dreams - Sarah Lazare
It's Official: Global Carbon Levels
Surpassed 400 ppm for Entire Month
03 June, 2015 - Democracy Now! - War and Peace
"Cultural Genocide": Landmark Report
Decries Canada's Forced Schooling
of Indigenous Children
03 June, 2015
Fracking Protests Continue in Texas
as New ALEC-Backed Law Bars
Towns from Banning Drilling
02 June, 2015 - Youtube 0:07:58 - Flyby News
Beyond Moss Brook
Save Pulpit Falls!
12 June, 2015 - Recorder - Richie Davis
Crowd slams state at pipeline hearing
Article+ also posted at FN Wordpress
11 June, 2015 - GCTV - Video - 02:45:55
DPU Berkshire Gas & TGP Hearing
07 April, 2015 - E&E Publishing - H. Northey and K. Bogardus
FERC: Employees negotiate for
industry jobs under agency's eye
Employees at Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
have deep ties to the industry they regulate,according
to agency documents detailing their job negotiations
and stock holdings.
29 December, 2014 - Flyby News - Wordpress
Fossil fuels dead end – Transformation
27 December, 2014 - Salon - Rebecca Solnit
The Age of Capitalism is over
Rebecca Solnit assesses our poisonous
fossil fuel dependency -- and why we're
on the verge of a paradigm shift
04 October, 2012 - Youtube - RealEconTV
The Shale Gas Shell Game
BrassCheckTV:
Short sighted, short lived wells
17 December, 2014 - Think Progress
B-R-E-A-K-I-N-G
New York Will Ban Fracking
18 December, 2014 - Boston Globe - Andrew Ba Tran
Where communities have banned fracking
16 December, 2014 - Wordpress - Flyby News
Stop the Pipeline – Referendum in Mass
on Facebook too
Campaign to explore Referendum in Mass
Through the heart of New England?
No Fracked Gas In Mass
19 December, 2014 - Democracy Now!
New York Says No to Fracking:
. . Following Grassroots Outcry
over Public Health
19 November, 2014 - Democracy Now! - War and Peace
As Sioux Tribe Calls Keystone XL an
"Act of War", TransCanada Hires
PR Firm to Probe Critics
16 November, 2014 - Truthout - Anne Meador
Fed Up With FERC: The People Declare
Greed "Not in the Public Interest"
17 November, 2014 - ZeroHedge - Tyler Durden
3 Billion Gallons Of Fracking Wastewater
Pumped Into Clean California Aquifiers:
"Errors Were Made" State Admits
04 December, 2014 - RT - Reuters
Congress gives Native American lands to
foreign mining company with new NDAA
03 August, 2013 - Sleuth Journal
Joe Biden's Son's Company Prepares
To Drill Shale Gas In East Ukraine
13 May, 2014 - CNN - Jason Hanna
Ice melt in part of Antarctica
'appears unstoppable,' NASA says
8 July, 2014 - Phys.org - Sean Nealon
Sand-based lithium ion batteries that
outperform standard by three times
Through the heart of New England?
No Fracked Gas In Mass
10 March, 2014 - PDF - Camille Cosby
Ignorance is not bliss
15 June, 2014 - Youtube - Flyby News
Moss Brook and TGP
No Fracking Way!
Produced through the facilities of
Greenfield Community Television
16 June, 2014 - GCTV Feature Short - 0:05:00
A Man And His Land
Also posted on Youtube
21 May, 2014 - Valley Advocate - Maureen Turner
An Ironic Proposal
Mass Audubon denies pipeline
developers access to sanctuary lands.
30 July, 2014 - GCTV - Video
Making Their Voices Heard
Full video of 30 July, 2014 rally in Boston
against the proposed Tennessee Gas Pipeline.
30 July, 2014 - Recorder - Richie Davis
Rally reaches Statehouse - Gas pipeline
protesters meet with Governor Patrick
11 June, 2014 - TheEdge - Judy Eddy
Eye on the Pipelines: Opposition gathers
to network of natural gas pipelines
from the 'fracking' fields
23 April, 2014 - Common Dreams - Zoltán Grossman
The Cowboy Indian Alliance Rises to
Protect Our Common Land and Water
28 April, 2014 - Democracy Now! - War and Peace
“We Need to End the Fossil Fuel Age”:
Music Legend Neil Young Protests
Keystone XL Oil Pipeline
27 May, 2014 - Disasters - Michael Janitch
Colorado 4 MILE LONG Landslide
[Hushed Up] @ FRACKING operation
08 May, 2014 - Ohio Public Radio
Driller Causes Fracking Liquid Spill..
06 May, 2014 - RT
Oklahoma at risk for damaging
earthquake, but is fracking to blame?
'The magnitude 5.7 quake that hit Prague, Oklahoma
on Nov. 6, 2011 was, in fact, linked to fracking
operations, the USGS said in March.
Mounting scientific evidence has linked an uptick
in seismic activity in states like Oklahoma to fracking
developments amid the current domestic energy boom.'
23 April, 2014 - Common Dreams - Lauren McCauley
Family Wins Fracking Suit
in Legal Blow to Industry
21 April, 2014 - GaslandMovie - Food & Water
Tell Congress: Don't Rubber
Stamp Fracked Gas Exports!
Union of Concerned Scientists
Climate Risks of Overreliance
on Natural Gas for Electricity
04 December, 2014 - RT - Reuters
Congress gives Native American lands to
foreign mining company with new NDAA
December, 2014 - ICH - Mike Whitney
Ukraine War Driven by Gas-Dollar
Link Defending Dollar Imperialism
03 August, 2013 - Sleuth Journal
Joe Biden's Son's Company Prepares
To Drill Shale Gas In East Ukraine
18 September, 2014 - Impact Lab
$100B invested in wind or solar
will produce more energy than oil
18 December, 2014 - The Japan Times
6 tons tainted water leak at Fukushima
No. 1 during Korean safety tour
17 December, 2014 - Global Research - Michel Chossudovsky
The Fukushima Endgame: The Radioactive
Contamination of the Pacific Ocean
17 May, 2014 - Youtube - WuweiTranslations
Aerospace Worker:
"I Installed Chemtrails Devices"
21 April, 2014 - Forbidden Knowledge TV
Explosive UN Testimony
23 March, 2014 - Youtube - Rosalind Peterson
Chemtrails, Here is your PROOF!
17 December, 2013 - Common Dreams - Dahr Jamail
Considering Extinction: Are We
Falling Off the Climate Precipice?
08 April, 2014 - Democracy Now! - War and Peace
"Science Does Not Exist on Capitol Hill":
Rep. Welch on GOP’s Climate Change Denial
19 November, 2013 - Youtube - Audio
Fukushima "Apocalypse in Progress"
Gundersen & Wasserman
28 October, 2013 - Global Research - Ethan A. Huff
Radioactive Debris in Pacific Ocean:
Fukushima Radiation is Tearing up
the West Coast of the US and Canada
07 June 2009 - Nature - Common Dreams
Earth Facing Imminent 'Tipping Point'
Humankind is facing the threat of extinction,
according to new research released recently by
the science journal Nature. The article is entitled,
"Approaching a state shift in Earth's biosphere"
27 September, 2013 - Washington Post - Darryl Fears
IPCC report says humans almost
certainly cause global warming
18 October, 2013 - RT - News
Radioactivity level spikes
6,500 times at Fukushima well
20 September, 2013 - Common Dreams - Harvey Wasserman
The Crisis at Fukushima's Unit 4
Demands a Global Take-Over
18 September, 2013 - Democracy Now - War and Peace
How US Narrowly Avoided a Nuclear Holocaust
33 Years Ago, and Still Risks Catastrophe Today
18 September, 2013
The 1,000-Year Flood: Did Global Warming
Worsen Colorado's Unprecedented Rainfall?
16 September, 2013 - AFP - Global Post
Typhoon hits Japan as Fukushima
operator releases water into sea
16 September, 2013 - WantToKnow - Fred Burks
Fukushima 'Not Under Control', 9/11 Truth
Advancing, Israel Pushing Syria Strike
10 August, 2013 - Youtube - RT
China Syndrome at Fukushima,
Melted Cores Moved Into the Earth
03 December, 2013 - The Agonist - Michael Collins
Saudi America and the State of Denial
27 August, 2013 - WCAX News
Entergy announces plans to close Vermont Yankee
18 August, 2013 - BeforeItsNews - Deborah Dupree
Aussies Blow Lid Off BP Gulf Oil-Corexit
Deaths, ‘Health Catastrophe’ Cover-Up
02 October, 2012 - MORPHcity - Cassandra Anderson
Scientists Warn Geo-Engineering
Can Kill Billions of People
13 May, 2013 - Democracy Now - War and Peace
Climate Tipping Point? Concentration of CO2
Tops 400 ppm For First Time in Human History
11 May, 2013 - AP - Seth Borenstein
Experts: CO2 record illustrates 'scary' trend
08 March, 2013 - Common Dreams - Andrea Germanos
Earth Hurtling Towards Temperatures
Not Seen in 11,000 Years
03 March, 2013 - Youtube - John Massaria
Climate Change - Extinction - ChemTrails
04 January, 2013 - Bill Moyers - Anthony Leiserowitz
Ending the Silence on Climate Change
15 November, 2012 - Democracy Now - War and Peace
"Chasing Ice": Film Captures Melting of Planet
Through the Lens of Photographer James Balog
17 September, 2012 - The Guardian - John Vidal
Arctic expert predicts final collapse
of sea ice within four years
25 July 2012 - Common Dreams - Staff
'Not a Mistake': NASA in Disbelief
over Rate of Melting Ice
30 May 2012 - RSN - Pratap Chatterjee
How Obama Helped Authorize
Shell's Drilling the Arctic
07 November, 2012 - Examiner - Deborah Dupre
Military BP partnership
prevents toxic Gulf cleanup
20 May 2012 - BBC News - Richard Black
Arctic melt releasing ancient methane
31 May 2012 - Science Daily
Geoengineering for Global Warming:
Increasing Aerosols in Atmosphere
Would Make Sky Whiter
10 May 2012 - Natural News - Ethan A. Huff
Corexit chemical dispersant used by BP
during Gulf oil disaster linked to
horrific human injuries
23 April 2012 - Democracy Now! - War and Peace
Gulf Oil Spill: BP Execs Escape Punishment
as Fallout From Disaster Impacts Sea life
19 April 2012 - EcoWatch - Greg Palast
BP Covered Up Blow-out Two Years
Prior to Deadly Deepwater Horizon Spill
05 April 2012 - Common Dreams - Staff
USGS: Recent Earthquakes
'Almost Certainly Manmade'
Report implicates oil and natural gas drilling, aka fracking
05 September 2012 - Examiner - Deborah Dupre
Sinkhole area Isaac aftermath
fish kills raise potable water question
22 August 2012 - Bloomberg - Inajima and Song
Tepco Finds Extreme Levels of
Radioactivity in Fukushima Fish
18 August 2012 - Rolling Stone - Bill McKibben
The Arctic Ice Crisis
05 August 2012 - Washington Post - James Hansen
Climate Change is Here and
Worse Than We Thought
03 July 2012 - Truthdig - Amy Goodman
Climate Change: 'This Is Just the Beginning'
03 July 2012 - Democracy Now - War and Peace
"This Is Just the Beginning": Forest Fires,
Deadly Storms, Record Heat, a Changed Climate
03 July 2012
Climate Disasters' Toll Worsened by Sustained
Attacks on Public Sector, Science and Regulation
20 May 2012 - BBC News - Richard Black
Arctic melt releasing ancient methane
09 May 2012 - NYTimes - James Hansen
Game Over for the Climate
01 May 2012 - Natural News - Ethan A. Huff
Fukushima still spewing massive radiation
plumes;
America in 'huge trouble,' says nuclear expert
02 April 2012 - Science Daily - Joshua Landis
Scientists Track Radioactive Iodine
in New Hampshire from Japan
Nuclear Reactor Meltdown
28 March 2012 - Common Dreams - Experts
Radiation at Fukushima
Far Worse Than Thought
23 March 2012 - CounterPunch - James Marc Leas
Vermont Yankee, State Rights
and the Future of Nuclear Power
04 April 2012 - AP - Washington Post
Ice age thaw may serve as global warning:
First greenhouse gas spiked,
then temperatures rose
"Carbon dioxide levels have jumped roughly
the same amount in the last century as they
did over 6,000 years to get out of the ice age."
29 March 2012 - Democracy Now! - War & Peace
Ousted Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed
on Coup that Ousted Him & Climate Activism
09 April 2012 - Part 2
From Political Prisoner to Climate Activist:
President Mohamed Nasheed Speaks Out
20 March 2012 - Common Dreams - Staff
Unprecedented Temperatures
Soar, Highs Continue
Climate scientist: This is the 'most unusual'
weather event I've witnessed in my lifetime.
22 March 2012 - Global Justice Ecology Project
Native Americans Protest
Keystone XL From A Cage
Take Action - 350.org - 05 May 2012
Connect the Dots between climate
change and extreme weather
17 March 2012 - BBC - Richard Black
Climate 'tech fixes' urged for Arctic methane
13 September 2011 - Natural News - Mike Adams
Solar flare could unleash nuclear holocaust
across planet Earth, forcing hundreds of
nuclear power plants into total meltdowns
15 March 2011 - Common Dreams - David Krieger
Mother Nature and Nuclear Power
For a successful technology, reality must
take precedence over public relations,
for Nature cannot be fooled.
- Richard Feynman
(1918-1988) American physicist
Help stop new nuclear power plants:
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
13 December 2011 - The Independent (UK) - Steve Connor
Shock as retreat of Arctic sea ice
releases deadly greenhouse gas
05 December 2011 - DailyKos - Bill McKibben
Most Important News Story of the Day/Millennium
Financial-Energy Crisis solution policy
Open letter (Oct. 2008) to Obama
By Jonathan Mark
07 December 2011 - Democracy Now - War & Peace
Nobel-Winning IPCC Chair Rajendra Pachauri Urges
Obama to "Listen to Science" on Global Warming
06 December 2011 - Inter Press Service - Common Dreams
US Obstinacy at Climate Talks
Destroying Hope, Planet
27 February 2012 - Common Dreams - Staff
There Will Be Fire: The 'Carbon
Bomb' 'Waiting to Be Ignited'
27 February 2012
White House Vows to 'Expedite'
New Pipeline Proposal
02 February 2012 - Democracy Now! - John Fenton
Obama's Support for Natural Gas Drilling
"A Painful Moment" for Communities
Exposed to Fracking
02 February 2012
"Gasland" Director Josh Fox Arrested
at Congressional Hearing on Natural Gas Fracking
20 February 2012 - Common Dreams - UN-Experts
'Perpetual Growth Myth'
Leading World to Meltdown
24 February 2012 - Examiner - Deborah Dupre
Secret 3rd Gulf of Mexico well
evidence as BP trial to begin
02 Febuary 2012 - Examiner - Deborah Dupre
Rights groups sue Gulf oil company
04 May 2011 - Youtube - Dr. Helen Caldicott
Expert Says Millions Will Die From Japan Radiation
16 August 2011 - 60 Minutes - Australia's CBS
Fukushima Now Radiating Everyone:
'Unspeakable' Reality 'Will Impact All Of Humanity
10 February 2012 - NYTimes - SFGate
2 nuclear reactors
approved for Georgia
10 February 2012 - NukeFree - Harvey Wasserman
We May Yet Lose Tokyo . . . Not to Mention
Alaska . . . . . and Now Georgia, [USA], Too
26 January 2012 - ValleyAdvocate - Stephanie Kraft
Judge Overturns Vermont Nuke Law
22 March 2012 - Huff Post - Wilson Ring
Vermont Yankee Protest: 130 Arrested At
Nuclear Plant's Corporate Headquarters
22 March 2012 - No Nukes - Safe & Green
Occupy Entergy HQ
Your Time Is Up
Defend democracy and state rights!
Ideas for balance in a mad mad world
Flyby News Health and Spiritual Blog
"It's better to light one candle
than to curse the darkness."
- Emily Dickinson
03 January 2012 - Huff Post - Harvey Wasserman
2012 Is the Year to Finally Bury Nuke Power
09 August 2011 - Democracy Now - War and Peace
Atomic Cover-Up: The Hidden Story Behind
the U.S. Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
05 August 2011 - War Is A Crime - David Swanson
Truman Lied, Hundreds of Thousands Died
05 August 2011 - Video - Information Clearing House
Is this the Greatest Crime in Human History?
14 February 2011 - Flyby News - Jonathan Mark
Lord of the Rings * Black 9/11 * Exposed
02 August 2011 - Democracy Now - War and Peace
Radiation Hits Record High
at Japanese Nuclear Plant
16 June 2011 - CounterPunch - Karl Grossman
Fukushima and the Nuclear Establishment
18 June 2011 - Guardian UK - Associated Press
Because of a rapid rise in radiation Japanese nuclear
plant halts operation to clean contaminated water
04 August 2011 - FAIR - Common Dreams
The Fires This Time:
In Coverage of Extreme Weather,
Media Downplay Climate Change
27 June 2011 - Reuters - Zelie Pollon
Firefighters beat back flames on nuclear
Los Alamos National Laboratory property
07 July 2011 - Democracy Now - War and Peace
As Exxon Crude Oil Spills Into Yellowstone River,
Obama Mulls New Pipeline From Canada to Texas
24 June 2011 - Examiner - Deborah Dupre
Large levee breach three miles up from
Cooper Nuclear Station. Mandatory evacs
24 June 2011 - Democracy Now! - Jeff Donn
New Exposé Reveals Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Colluded with Industry to Weaken Safety Standards
21 June 2011 - Daily Mail (UK) - Reporter
Dangerous radiation leaked from 75%
of United States nuclear power plants
08 November 2011 - Reuters - Laura Zuckerman
Seventeen workers exposed
to radiation at Idaho lab
09 November 2011 - Common Dreams - Karl Grossman
NASA Readies Nuclear Launch
"Don't Do Disney..."
02 September 2011 - VIDEO - Josh Fox
Protecting the Sacred
Oscar nominated director Josh Fox (Gasland)
gives powerful support to Tar Sands Action!
02 September 2011 - Examiner - Deborah Dupre
First Nation Peoples powered
Pipeline Protest at White House
21 June 2011 - AlJazeera - State of the Ocean
Ocean life 'facing mass extinction'
30 May 2011 - The Guardian/UK - Common Dreams
Worst Ever Carbon Emissions
Leave Climate on the Brink
23 May 2011 - 350.org - Bill McKibben
Keep Calm and Carry On
A link between climate change and Joplin tornadoes
23 May 2011 - Democracy Now - Amy Goodman
The Fight over Coal Mining is a 'Fight About Democracy'
New Documentary with Robert Kennedy, Jr. Chronicles
Campaign to Halt Mountaintop Removal.
10 May 2011 - ZME Science - Mihai Andrei
9 out of 10 top climate change
deniers linked with Exxon Mobil
22 April 2011 - Democracy Now! - Amy Goodman
Earth Day Special
Vandana Shiva and Maude Barlow
on the Rights of Mother Earth
22 April 2011
"Now Is Our Time to Take a Stand"
Tim DeChristopher's Message to Youth
Climate Activists at Power Shift 2011
25 April 2011 - Common Dreams - Karl Grossman
Why Nuclear Power Will Never be Safe
19 June 2011 - Examiner - Deborah Dupre
Missouri River Flood - Nuclear Warnings
Nebraska's Fort Calhoun Nuclear plant
possibly leaking radiation now,
10,000 evacuees prepare to leave
20 June 2011 - The Examiner - Deborah Dupre
Fukushima suicide mission,
TEPCO nixes pricey solution
07 June 2011 - CNN - Tokyo
3 nuclear reactors melted down
after quake, Japan confirms
01 June 2011 - Compass Natural - Steven Hoffman
Fukushima in Our Food: Low Levels of Radiation
from Japan's Nuclear Meltdown Detected in Milk,
Fruit and Vegetable Tested from California Farms
30 May 2011 - Der Spiegel/Germany - Common Dreams
Germany's Nuclear Phaseout
Is an 'Historic Moment'
Take Action - Million FAX March Action Page
Stop All New Nuclear Power Development
11 March 2011 - Special article by Karl Grossman
Japan Nuclear Emergency
For more on this topic:
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
25 February 2011 - Scientific American -David Biello
Can Geoengineering Save the World from Global Warming?
06 October 2010 - Youtube
G. Edward Griffin talks about new CHEMTRAIL film
October 2010 - Reality Zone - DVD film
What in the World Are They Spraying?
15 December 2010 - TruTV - YouTube
Conspiracy Theory W/ Jesse Ventura:
HAARP [Season 1, Episode 1] (Full Length)
Do you want to see a Third Season?
Tell TruTV you support Jesse and the show!
For FN's resource, see:
Military Weather - Chem/Nukes in Space
04 February 2010 - The Guardian/UK - Common Dreams
Mass Tree Deaths Prompt Fears of Amazon 'Climate Tipping Point'
Scientists fear billions of tree deaths caused by 2010 drought
could see vast forest turn from carbon sink to carbon source
02 June 2010 - The Guardian (UK) - Felicity Carus
UN urges global move to meat and dairy-free diet
15 February 2011 - Truthout - Greg Palast
Chevron Runs From Judgment in Ecuador
13 December 2010 - YouTube - Dr. Len Horowitz
Conspiracy Theory With Jesse Ventura,
Season 2 Episode 7 (BP OIL SPILL) - FULL LENGTH
07 July 2010 - Len Horowitz and Sherri Kane
WAR on The World
Thirty Facts Reveal Gulf Oil Disaster Was Planned
13 July 2010 - Youtube - Flyby News Productions
Leonard Horowitz and Sherri Kane
Interviewed by Jonathan Mark on July 1, 2010
Part 1 of interview is at above link.
For all 6 parts, and for Bob Bowman Interview, click here!
[Flyby News Productions, listed in alphabetical order]
17 July 2010 - Socio-Economics Blog - Gianluigi Zangari
Gulf of Mexico Loop Current Broken!
Risk of Global Climate Change by BP Oil Spill
05 October 2010 - EuropeBusiness Blog - Lord Stirling
Life On This Earth Just Changed
- Rebuttal -
{But following data not related to 2010 Oil-Corexit timetable}
07 December 2010 - Reporting Climate Science - Leon Clifford
Gulf Stream is not slowing because of global warming
"NASA found no change in the strength of the circulation
between 2002 and 2009. And using the longer set of satellite
altimeter data, NASA found that the circulation had actually
increased in speed by about 20 percent between 1993 and 2009."
22 December 2010 - Agence France-Presse - Common Dreans
Biting Winters Driven by Global Warming: Scientists
28 December 2010 - Democracy Now - Dr. Paul Epstein
From Snowstorms to Heat Waves, How Global Warming
Causes Extreme Weather and Climate Instability
13 January 2011 - Common Dreams - Jeff Biggers
EPA Vetoes Largest Mountaintop Removal
Permit: New Era of Civility in the Coalfields?
21 May 2010 - Hot Indie News - Nature
World’s Oceans getting warmer significantly
Based on a new study, detailed in the
May 20, 2010 issue of the journal Nature.
15 April 2010 - Democracy Now! -
Environmentalist, 350.org Founder Bill McKibben on
"Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet"
22 January 2010 - Agence France Presse - CommonDreams
Last Decade Warmest Ever: NASA
14 January 2010 - Climate Progress
2009 hottest year on record
in Southern Hemisphere
and tied for second globally
15 January 2010 - The Guardian (UK) - Common Dreams
Arctic Permafrost Leaking Methane
at Record Levels, Figures Show
Experts say methane emissions from the Arctic
have risen by almost one-third in just five years,
and that sharply rising temperatures are to blame.
21 December 2009 - Democracy Now!
Hugo Chavez Interview with Amy Goodman
Copenhagen - How to Tackle Climate Change
17 December 2009 - Valley Advocate - Stephanie Kraft
Three Hundred and Fifty Chimes
Bells rang from Copenhagen across the world
to warn us to lower greenhouse gas emissions.
21 December 2009 - 911blogger - Jerry Mazza
One man's look at the global warming horizon
How oil remains the culprit behind 9/11 and global warming,
the latter being a reality not an elitist scam.
Global Warming Crises & 9/11 Awareness
25 June 2010 - Newsweek - Sharon Begley
Newspapers Retract 'Climategate'
Claims, but Damage Still Done
16 February 2011 - Smirking Chimp - Harvey Wasserman
Obama's $36 Billion Nuke-Powered Giveaway
22 December 2009
Helen Caldicott Slams Environmental Groups
on Climate Bill, Nuclear Concessions
July, 2010 - Blip TV - Karl Grossman
Nuclear Power:
Dirty, Dangerous and Expensive
18 February 2010 - Democracy Now!
"A Bad Day for America":
Anti-Nuclear Activist Harvey Wasserman
Criticizes Obama Plan to Fund Nuclear Reactors
Nuclear Information And Resource Service
Help Stop A Taxpayer Bailout
of the Nuclear Power Industry!
23 July, 2010 - Nuclear Information and Resource Service
Good News From Washington (For A Change)
Senate Rejects Emergency Funding Bill
with $9 Billion in Nuke Loan Guarantees
22 July 2010 - Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility
EPA Employees Blow the Whistle
on Flawed Climate Bills
Agency Specialists Say Greenhouse Gas
Offsets Unenforceable and Demand Probe
14 February 2009
Climate change could be even worse than feared!
22 May 2009
New worries on Arctic permafrost thaw
21 July 2009
Here Comes the Ice
Greenpeace is recording the breakup of the
Petermann Glacier, one of Greenland’s largest.
23 November 2009
Antarctic Ice Loss Vaster, Faster Than Thought: Study
Scientists believe that Antarctica could lose
more ice than Greenland within a few years..
21 October 2010 - Democracy Now! War and Peace Report
6 Months Since BP Oil Spill, Writer and Environmentalist
Terry Tempest Williams Asks "Where Is Our Outrage?"
21 October 2010 - GregPalast.com - Greg Palast
The Petroleum Broadcast System Owes Us an Apology
09 June 2010 - Sherri Kane - Leonard Horowitz
Vatican Official Tied To BP, Goldman-Sachs,
And Media Censorship In The Oil Fiasco
Increasing Evidence Of Foul Play
21 May 2010 - New York Times - Bob Herbert
More Than Just an Oil Spill
The disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is threatening
an ecosystem the same way that big corporations
like BP threaten our political system.
17 August 2010 - NY Daily News - Common Dreams
Government Report on Gulf Oil Spill Inaccurate,
Scientists Say at Least 79% of Oil Still in the Sea
06 August 2010 - 911blogger - Sander Hicks
From Agent Orange, to 9/11, to BP:
Kenneth Feinberg is Master of Disaster
17 June 2010 - Helium.com - Terrence Aym
How the BP Gulf disaster could kill millions
Secret ingredients of chemical dispersant Corexit finally revealed
11 June 2010 - Natural News - Mike Adams
Toxic Corexit dispersant chemicals remained
secret as feds colluded with Big Business
18 June 2010 - Scientific America -Common Dreams
Is Using Dispersants on the BP Gulf Oil Spill
Fighting Pollution with Pollution?
17 May 2010 - NaturalNews - Mike Adams
Massive underwater oil cloud
may destroy life in Gulf of Mexico
Financial Crisis solution policy
Open letter (Oct. 2008) to Obama
By Jonathan Mark
22 July 2010 - Associated Press - Cara Anna
First details on China oil spill's cause emerge
02 June 2010 - The Guardian (UK)- UN Report
UN urges global move to meat and dairy-free diet
09 December 2010 - Democracy Now - War and Peace Report
Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa on WikiLeaks,
the September Coup, U.S. Denial of Climate
Funding, and Controversial Forest Scheme REDD
06 December 2010 - Democracy Now - War and Peace
Pablo Solón Responds to Secret U.S. Manipulation
of Climate Talks Revealed in WikiLeaks Cable
07 December 2010 - NIRS - Take Action
Tell Congress: Stop $9 Billion in New Nuke Loans.
No More Taxpayer Bailouts for Giant Corporations!
CHEMTRAILS
09 April, 2016 - YourNewsWire - Kristen Meghan
Military Insider Comes Clean About
Chemtrails To Luke Rudskowski
17 March, 2016 - YourNewsWire - Sean Adl-Tabatabai
Top Scientist Confirms Aluminium
Poisoning Via Chemtrails Is Real
12 December, 2015 - Youtube - 1:48
Chemtrails Report: WIN TV
NEWS, Dubbo, Australia
01 October, 2014 - Youtube - 15:23 - OfGeometry
Pilots, Doctors and Scientists
Tell the Truth About Chemtrails
30 April, 2014 - Zen Gardner - Carolyn Williams Palit
The True Purpose of Chemtrails?
September, 2007 - Youtube - UN webcast
Rosalind Peterson addresses the UN
on Chemtrails And Geoengineering
Read the transcript here!
29 April, 2013 - CE - Arjun Walia
Geoengineering & Chemtrails:
What In The World Are They Spraying?
And Why?
05 June, 2014 - MemoryHole - Marcus K. Dalton
Chemtrails Are Over Las Vegas
17 May, 2014 - Youtube - WuweiTranslations
Aerospace Worker:
"I Installed Chemtrails Devices"
17 May, 2014 - GlobalTruth.net - Eric Lavals
Does the Airline You Fly Spray Chemtrails?
Plus more video resources
05 February, 2014 - YouTube - GeoEngineeringWatch
Geoengineering And The Collapse Of Earth
Updated
Energy Pollution's Impact On Environment
For more information, see following FN archive links:
August 6, 2008 - Item 3
A Simple Statement On Nuclear Power and Climate Change
"We do not support construction of new nuclear reactors
as a means of addressing the climate crisis. Available
renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies are
faster, cheaper, safer and cleaner strategies for
reducing greenhouse emissions than nuclear power."
Sign the petitionJune 26, 2008 - Item 1
Global Warming – James Hansen - Tipping Point - Congress- - James Hansen: Prosecute oil companies, top scientist says
- - Global Warming Twenty Years Later: Tipping Points Near
- - Global Warming and Heavy Rainfall
May 15, 2008 - Item 2
World CO2 Continues to Rise – Polar Bears threatened- - World CO2 Levels At Record High, Scientists Warn
- - U.S. lists polar bears as threatened species
March 26, 2008 - Item 3
Exposed Bribes to Scientists, Global Warming, Aerial Spraying- - Bribes offered to scientists
- - Bush Administration to Blue-State California: Drop Dead!
- - Alex Jones Hurts Truth By Ignoring Human-Made Excess in AirMarch 20, 2008 - Item 2
Glaciers suffer record shrinkage- - As Andean Glaciers Shrink, Water Worries Grow
- - NASA Data Shows Thickest and Oldest Arctic Ice Is Melting
October 19, 2007 - Item 2
Ice Caps Melting Fast: Say Goodbye to the Big Apple?September 30, 2007 - Item 3
Arctic Thaw May Be at ‘Tipping Point’- - A chance to protect the Arctic Refuge forever
- - STOP Mountaintop removal mining
June 20, 2007 - Item 3
Global Warming Crises & 9/11 Awareness – Building Coalitions- - Global Warming ‘Is Three Times Faster Than Worst Predictions’
- - Warming and 9/11 Related Danger Zones
- - Dems Plan to Channel Billions in Oil Subsidies to Renewable Fuels
- - Converting Waste Heat Into Power – GreenLiving - SolarFest
February 16, 2007 - Item 4
Greenhouse Gases Hit New High, Rise AcceleratesJanuary 27, 2007 - Item 2
ChemTrails and the New World OrderJanuary 24, 2007 - Item 2
UN Climate Panel to Project Wrenching Change- - Global warming: the final verdict
December 1, 2006 - Item 3
Carbon emission rises shock expertsSeptember 17, 2006 - Item 3
Greenhouse Gas Bubbling From Melting Permafrost Feeds Climate WarmingMay 2, 2006 - Item 2
Chilling warnings on receding permafrostApril 4, 2006 - Item 2
Forum Hears Dire Warnings Of Environmental Collapse- - Is It Too Late to Stop Global Warming?
April 1, 2006 - Item 1
Was Confusion Over Global Warming a Con Job?'- - Time Cover Story - Global Warming Heats Up
March 27, 2006 - Item 1
Sea rise could be 'catastrophic'- - Glacial earthquakes rock Greenland
- - Studies: Polar warming speeds up
March 16, 2006 - Item 1
Climate change 'irreversible'- - States Calculate Global Warming Pricetag
- - Another Senate Attempt for Oil Drilling in ANWR
December 21, 2005 - Item 3
Ecosystems Plunge as Carbon Rise- - Republicans Add Alaska Oil Drilling to Defense Bill
- - How America Plotted to Stop Kyoto Deal
- - Great Lakes Headed for Catastrophic 'Ecological Collapse'
- - Scientists: Greenland Glaciers Retreating
November 29, 2005 - Item 3
Arctic Booms as Climate Change Melts Polar Ice CapNovember 22, 2005 - Item 1
Global Disaster Will Follow If the Ice Cap on Greenland MeltsGreenland's glaciers have begun to race towards the ocean..
the most alarming manifestations of climate change to date -
suggest that the ice cap is melting far more rapidly than scientists
had thought, with immense consequences for civilisation and the planet.
Geoffrey LeanNovember 1, 2005 - Item 3
U.S. Military Wants to Own the WeatherSeptember 27, 2005 - Item 1
This is Global Warming, Says Environmental Chief- - Wes Clark Blog Invite - national security and global warming
"The increased intensity of these kinds of extreme storms
is very likely to be due to global warming."
Referring to the arrival of Hurricane Rita: "If this makes
the climate loonies in the States realise we've got a problem,
some good will come out of a truly awful situation."
Sir John Lawton
chairman of the Royal Commission
on Environmental PollutionSeptember 19, 2005 - Item 3
Global Warming 'Past the Point of No Return'- - Government Email Plays in the Katrina Blame Game
- - Katrina Relief: It's Iraq Deja vu All Over Again
- - Toxic Waters 'Will Make New Orleans Unsafe for a Decade'
- - Global Warming Hits New Orleans
September 6, 2005 - Item 3
Impact of CO2-Induced Warming on Hurricane IntensitySeptember 1, 2005 - Item 1
Katrina's real name is Global WarmingAugust 13, 2005 - Item 1
Warming Hits 'Tipping Point'June 15, 2005 - Item 3
Global Warming: The US Contribution in FiguresApril 24, 2005 - Item 3
Hell of an Earth Day - House Energy Bill - Take Action for Senate- - On Eve of Earth Day, House Passes Energy Bill that Allows ANWR Drilling
April 24, 2005 - Item 3
Oil production could peak next year- - Stirling Solution for Earth-friendly Onsite Power Generation
February 20, 2005 - Item 3
Final Proof: Global Warming is a Man-Made Disaster- - US Citizens' Ratification of the Kyoto Protocol
Join a people's campaign to ratify the Kyoto ProtocolFebruary 8, 2005 - Item 1
Apocalypse Now: Sleepwalking to End of the EarthNovember 10, 2004 - Item 3
New Scientific Consensus: Arctic Is Warming- - Fast Arctic Thaw Threatens People, Polar Bears
November 6, 2004 - Item 3
Awesome power of Iceland volcanoNovember 4, 2004 - Item 3
Volcano Erupts in Isolated Iceland AreaOctober 11, 2004 - Item 2
[NO] Surprise CO2 rise may speed up global warmingSeptember 25, 2004 - Item 2
Study: "Antarctic Glaciers Melting Faster"Glaciers once held up by a floating ice shelf off Antarctica
are now sliding off into the sea -- and they are going fast,
scientists said on Tuesday.
Two separate studies from climate researchers and the space agency
NASA show the glaciers are flowing into Antarctica's Weddell Sea,
freed by the 2002 breakup of the Larsen B ice shelf.
Writing in the journal Geophysical Research Letters,
the researchers said their satellite measurements suggest
climate warming can lead to rapid sea level rise.March 11, 2004 - Item 1
We Face Climate Disaster * Global Warming as a Weapon of Mass Destruction"We are carbonizing the oceans with dire consequences."
February 24, 2004 - Item 1
Now the Pentagon Tells Bush: Climate Change Will Destroy UsFebruary 7, 2004 - Item 3
How Global Warming May Cause the Next Ice AgeNovember 28, 2003 - Item 1
Global Warming Gas Seen Increasing Dramatically * New View of Data Supports Human Link to Global WarmingJuly 8, 2003 - Items 1-4
Global Warming Alert * Stirling Engine for Waste Heat Power Systems * "The Apollo Project" 10-point plan for energy independence * Process for New Sustainable Fuel ResourcesJanuary 9, 2003 - Item 4
NASA: Arctic Sea Ice Disappearing Before End of CenturyNovember 29, 2002 - Item 3
Arctic Meltdown and New Evidence of Global WarmingNovember 24, 2002 - Items 2 and 4
World's Worst Oil Spills off Spain's Coast * EPA Eases Rules on Air CleanupNovember 11, 2002 - Item 1
Carbon Dioxide on the RiseOctober 30, 2002 - Item 1
Global Warming Submerging NYJuly 9, 2002 - Item 1
Earth 'will expire by 2050'June 27, 2002 Items 1-4
Help Cut Global Warming * Too Hot? * Truth on WarmingAugust 24, 2002 - Item 3
Analysis of Bush's Wildfire Plan! July 20, 2002 - Item 1
Earth's Ice Melting Faster Than ProjectedJune 15, 2002 - Items 1, 2, & 3
Warming World on Thin Ice - Bush Manifesto: Death by Carbon DioxideMay 29, 2002 - Items 1-4
Expert warns world is warming faster than forecast * Antarctic Ice Melt Poses Worldwide Threat * World Summit on Sustainable Development * SolarFestJune 4, 2002 - Item 1
The Big Admission -- Climate is Changing, US Says in ReportApril 17, 2002 - Items 1 & 2
Practical "Stirling" Solution for Onsite Power Production and The Arctic MeltdownDecember 21, 2001 - Item 2
2001 to be second hottest year since records began: UNSeptember 11, 2001 - Item 2
Astronaut says environmental damage can be seen from space.October 11, 2001 - Item 2
Satellites Reveal Drought ConditionsMay 9, 2001 - Item 1
Letter on Global Warming and Missile DefenseJuly 23, 2001 - Item 1
Global Warming Deal ReachedJanuary 13, 2001 - Item 2
Peatlands Loss Linked to Global Warming SurgeMarch 4, 2002 - Items 1 & 2
Declaration of Energy Independence - Energy Debate in SenateMarch 6, 2002 - Item 1
A report on climate change: catastrophe could be imminentMarch 18, 2002 - Item 2
Taking the Earth's temperature The global temperature data for January and February 2002 are in -- and it sure has been hot.
April 24, 2002 - Item 3
The Uglier American - Climate scientist ousted
-- Washington - Feb 14, 2002 --
The Arctic ice cap is shrinking that much is known with certainty.
Over the past century, the extent of the winter pack ice in the
Nordic Seas has decreased by about 25%. Last winter the Bering
Sea was effectively ice-free, which is unprecedented, and if
this big melt continues, some say the formerly ice-locked
Arctic will have open sea lanes as soon as 2015.
By 2050, the summertime ice cap could disappear entirely.
For the complete article, see:
Arctic Summer Sea Lanes Open By 2015 Forecasts ONR
also from Space.com:
Is Europe About To Freeze
Disaster at sea: global warming hits UK birdsBy Michael McCarthy Environment Editor
30 July 2004
Disaster at sea: global warming hits UK birds
Leading article: A disaster that should serve as a global warning
Hundreds of thousands of Scottish seabirds have failed to breed this summer in a wildlife catastrophe which is being linked by scientists directly to global warming.
The massive unprecedented collapse of nesting attempts by several seabird species in Orkney and Shetland is likely to prove the first major impact of climate change on Britain.
In what could be a sub-plot from the recent disaster movie, The Day After Tomorrow, a rise in sea temperature is believed to have led to the mysterious disappearance of a key part of the marine food chain - the sandeel, the small fish whose great teeming shoals have hitherto sustained larger fish, marine mammals and seabirds in their millions.
In Orkney and Shetland, the sandeel stocks have been shrinking for several years, and this summer they have disappeared: the result for seabirds has been mass starvation. The figures for breeding failure, for Shetland in particular, almost defy belief.
More than 172,000 breeding pairs of guillemots were recorded in the islands in the last national census, Seabird 2000, whose results were published this year; this summer the birds have produced almost no young, according to Peter Ellis, Shetland area manager for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).
Martin Heubeck of Aberdeen University, who has monitored Shetland seabirds for 30 years, said: "The breeding failure of the guillemots is unprecedented in Europe." More than 6,800 pairs of great skuas were recorded in Shetland in the same census; this year they have produced a handful of chicks - perhaps fewer than 10 - while the arctic skuas (1,120 pairs in the census) have failed to produce any surviving young.
The 24,000 pairs of arctic terns, and the 16,700 pairs of Shetland kittiwakes - small gulls - have "probably suffered complete failure", said Mr Ellis.
In Orkney the picture is very similar, although detailed figures are not yet available. "It looks very bad," said the RSPB's warden on Orkney mainland, Andy Knight. "Very few of the birds have raised any chicks at all."
The counting and monitoring is still going on and the figures are by no means complete: it is likely that puffins, for example, will also have suffered massive breeding failure but because they nest deep in burrows, this is not immediately obvious.
But the astonishing scale of what has taken place is already clear - and the link to climate change is being openly made by scientists. It is believed that the microscopic plankton on which tiny sandeel larvae feed are moving northwards as the sea water warms, leaving the baby fish with nothing to feed on.
This is being seen in the North Sea in particular, where the water temperature has risen by 2C in the past 20 years, and where the whole ecosystem is thought to be undergoing a "regime shift", or a fundamental alteration in the interaction of its component species. "Think of the North Sea as an engine, and plankton as the fuel driving it," said Euan Dunn of the RSPB, one of the world's leading experts on the interaction of fish and seabirds. "The fuel mix has changed so radically in the past 20 years, as a result of climate change, that the whole engine is now spluttering and starting to malfunction. All of the animals in the food web above the plankton, first the sandeels, then the larger fish like cod, and ultimately the seabirds, are starting to be affected."
Research last year clearly showed that the higher the temperature, the less sandeels could maintain their population level, said Dr Dunn. "The young sandeels are simply not surviving."
Although over-fishing of sandeels has caused breeding failures in the past, the present situation could not be blamed on fishing, he said. The Shetland sandeel fishery was catching so few fish that it was closed as a precautionary measure earlier this year. "Climate change is a far more likely explanation."
The spectacular seabird populations of the Northern Isles have a double importance. They are of great value scientifically, holding, for example, the world's biggest populations of great skuas. And they are of enormous value to Orkney and Shetland tourism, being the principal draw for many visitors. The national and international significance of what has happened is only just beginning to dawn on the wider political and scientific community, but some leading figures are already taking it on board.
"This is an incredible event," said Tony Juniper, director of Friends of the Earth. "The catastrophe [of these] seabirds is just a foretaste of what lies ahead.
"It shows that climate change is happening now, [with] devastating consequences here in Britain, and it shows that reducing the pollution causing changes to the earth's climate should now be the global number one political priority."
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