Geo-engineering, climate change, sea levels

Geo-engineering doesn't prevent at all the rise of the tides. Engineering on a global scale is not a solution, even in an emergency, to the climate damage caused by human activities. This is the conclusion reached by a team of British, Chinese and Danish researchers after a new study on the future of the Earth's oceans.

In their opinion there is no escape: sea levels will rise at least 30-70 cm by the end of 2100, even using the latest weather manipulation techniques. Substituting geo-engineering for the control of emissions would create an enormous risk for future generations, according to research published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The highest authority on climate change, the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) predicted that sea levels will be 20-60 cm higher by the end of this century. This is an estimate which many scientists now revise upwards, bringing it up to 1-1.5 meters.

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In Japan, 5355 schools out of the 29,600 public primary and junior high schools with canteens for students, served whale meat at least once up to March 2010, during the school year , a survey by Kyodo news revealed.

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The UK’s chief environmental scientist has stated that Britain’s greenhouse gas emissions have actually increased in the last 20 years due to ‘hidden’ emissions in imported goods.

Since last year, China has been labeled the number one emitter of greenhouse gases, though it is the West that fuels much of China’s emissions by importing so much from the rapidly developing Asian super power

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Celebrities are raising their voices to aid in the fight to help the people of flood-ravaged Pakistan.

Pakistanis adding their star status to the cause include politician and former cricketer Imran Khan, film actress Meera and pop star Abrar-ul-Haq.

Hollywood actress and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie has donated $100,000 (€78,000) to the aid effort and is lending her voice in order to urge others to help.

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Japan's economic success is causing many serious environmental problems, but one stems not from its factories but from too many golfers. In the late 1980s, several groups actively opposing golf course throughout Japan met in Kobe for their third annual national convention.

Here is powerful testimony to the seriousness with which communities consider the adverse effects of golf courses. According to a report by the OECD, Japan's early success in combating pollution is threatened by increasingly wasteful patterns of consumption.

Japan's total land area is about the same as the state of California. Over 100 million people live in this land space.

Before World War II, there were only 23 golf courses in all of Japan and only 72 in 1956. Now, there are a total of 1,700 golf courses in operation, with another 330 under construction and roughly 1,000 in various stage of planning.

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In the wake of a summer that spawned harsh heat waves and forest fires in Europe; and catastrophic floods in China, Pakistan and elsewhere in Asia, climate debate is back in the news.

Debate about the significance or even existence of anthropogenic global warming featured prominently the headlines last winter during the UN climate conference in Copenhagen, the ‘Climategate’ scandal the IPCC and the Met Office were embroiled in; and when parts of Europe and the US experienced unseasonably cold temperatures.

These major events were followed by a relative lull in media coverage of climate issues, punctuated by the odd story about overfishing or biodiversity. Then came the Icelandic volcano and the granddaddy of all eco-news stories, the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe and blundering BP.

Now, dear friends, the debate – like the planet – is hotting up again.

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