The Loft and Global Warming

Perhaps my ABC Wednesday post yesterday should have been L is for Loft!  I'm still tidying it - and probably will be for some time to come.

Judging by my Memories are Made of This Blog the last time I tried (unsuccessfully) to tidy the loft was in March 2008.  I made an entry in that less popular blog as follows:-


In sorting all the papers, photos and slides in the loft I have come across this piece of schoolwork by Helen when she was aged 8. Now we know who to blame for global warming.

 I particularly love the teachers marginal comment and Helen's response.

Cynics

I know there are some folk who are still cynical about global warming. It is therefore good to be able to publish indisputable proof that it is taking place...

Global warming...

Rubber Ducks and Global warming

What do rubber ducks and global warming have in common?

See anewsblog2008.blogspot.com/
 

GLOBAL Warming Solved

Researchers in Argentina are currently studying the effect of methane produced by livestock on global warming, and to measure the amount of gas produced by cows, they outfitted the animals with pink tanks to collect their farts. No, I’m not kidding:

The Argentine researchers discovered methane from cows accounts for more than 30 per cent of the country’s total greenhouse emissions. As one of the world’s biggest beef producers, Argentina has more than 55 million cows grazing in its famed Pampas grasslands.

Guillermo Berra, a researcher at the National Institute of Agricultural Technology, said every cow produces between 8000 to 1,000 litres of emissions every day. One of the researchers said that by feeding cows clover and alfalfa instead of grain, we could reduce methane emissions by 25 percent. How cool is that?

Global warming

It's OK GB, I'm not really suggesting you walk home from New Zealand!

What shall we learn today?

What would you like to learn today? How about twenty insect songs –
http://www.musicofnature.com/songsofinsects/iframes/twentyspecies.html



or the new maths of global warming
http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/ps/2007/07/ps.html
A descriptive slideshow by Craig Damrauer showing the equations for the new math of global warming.



or micro photos of insects by Dennis Kunkel
http://www.astrographics.com/cgi-bin/ase/ase.cgi?affiliate=sciam&mode=display&gallery=3&type=arthropod&color=&keywords=&page=12