Race for the Rain Forest - #63

Hey! I just started clicking again - my account got missed up and I been working on getting it fixed with care2 support for 2 months - so far so good.

Hi husker, glad to see ya again.............................



Welcome all to the WILDCLICKERS club..............

Need an answer?? Just ask.

Good to see you fellas here.

Clicked and clacked and clicked some more, til my clicks and Aa's were complete.

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aktbird57 - You and your 283 friends have supported 1,990,981.1 square feet!

Marine Wetlands habitat supported: 60,092.7 square feet.
You have supported: (0.0)
Your 283 friends have supported: (60,092.7)

American Prairie habitat supported: 37,802.1 square feet.
You have supported: (10,417.3)
Your 283 friends have supported: (27,384.9)

Rainforest habitat supported: 1,893,086.3 square feet.
You have supported: (163,017.7)
Your 283 friends have supported: (1,730,068.6)

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trying to decide what to wear for the party when we reach TWO MILLION square feet

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1 Aktbird57 .. 1201 45.701 acres

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and then there is the FIFTY ACRE target !!!

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Thanks for the new thread, danon, and the shiny new dance floor.

C'mon boys, let's do some slip-slidin' away while the polish is still on the floor.

Thanks, ehbeth

Still clicking away, but a reminder if always welcome, as is a new thread.

Joan Lee, it is always good to see you, regardless of reason or season.

Hi everybody! Just saw the invite, already clicked, sent an e-card to friends to get them interested and hey, It's birthday week for me! Celebrating every day until the day after! Hope I survive it!

Happy birthday week to you, Teenyboone!

Happy Bairthday, Teeny!

Birthday alert for wildclicker host of the new rainforest thead, Danon!

Kicking off shoes for a turn around the shiney new dance floor.

From New Scientist:

Special Reports On Key Topics In Science And TechnologyTimeline -- Climate Change

1827: French polymath Jean-Baptiste Fourier predicts an atmospheric effect keeping the Earth warmer than it would otherwise be. He is the first to use a greenhouse analogy.

1863: Irish scientist John Tyndall publishes a paper describing how water vapour can be a greenhouse gas.

1890s: Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius and an American, P C Chamberlain, independently consider the problems that might be caused by CO2 building up in the atmosphere. Both scientists realise that the burning of fossil fuels could lead to global warming, but neither suspects the process might already have begun.

1890s to 1940: Average surface air temperatures increase by about 0.25 °C. Some scientists see the American Dust Bowl as a sign of the greenhouse effect at work.

1940 to 1970: Worldwide cooling of 0.2°C. Scientific interest in greenhouse effect wanes. Some climatologists predict a new ice age.

1957: US oceanographer Roger Revelle warns that humanity is conducting a "large-scale geophysical experiment" on the planet by releasing greenhouse gases. Colleague David Keeling sets up first continuous monitoring of CO2 levels in the atmosphere. Keeling soon finds a regular year-on-year rise.

1970s: Series of studies by the US Department of Energy increases concerns about future global warming.

1979: First World Climate Conference adopts climate change as major issue and calls on governments "to foresee and prevent potential man-made changes in climate."

1985: First major international conference on the greenhouse effect at Villach, Austria, warns that greenhouse gases will "in the first half of the next century, cause a rise of global mean temperature which is greater than any in man's history." This could cause sea levels to rise by up to one metre, researchers say. The conference also reports that gases other than CO2, such as methane, ozone, CFCs and nitrous oxide, also contribute to warming.

1987: Warmest year since records began. The 1980s turn out to be the hottest decade on record, with seven of the eight warmest years recorded up to 1990. Even the coldest years in the 1980s were warmer than the warmest years of the 1880s.

1988: Global warming attracts worldwide headlines after scientists at Congressional hearings in Washington DC blame major US drought on its influence. Meeting of climate scientists in Toronto subsequently calls for 20% cuts in global CO2 emissions by the year 2005. UN sets up the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to analyse and report on scientific findings.

1990: The first report of the IPCC finds that the planet has warmed by 0.5°C in the past century. IPCC warns that only strong measures to halt rising greenhouse gas emissions will prevent serious global warming. This provides scientific clout for UN negotiations for a climate convention. Negotiations begin after the UN General Assembly in December.

1991: Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Philippines, throwing debris into the stratosphere that shields the Earth from solar energy, which helps interrupt the warming trend. Average temperatures drop for two years before rising again. Scientists point out that this event shows how sensitive global temperatures are to disruption.

1992: Climate Change Convention, signed by 154 nations in Rio, agrees to prevent "dangerous" warming from greenhouse gases and sets initial target of reducing emissions from industrialised countries to 1990 levels by the year 2000.

1994: The Alliance of Small Island States - many of whom fear they will disappear beneath the waves as sea levels rise - adopt a demand for 20% cuts in emissions by the year 2005. This, they say, will cap sea-level rise at 20 centimetres.

1995: The hottest year recorded to date. In March, the Berlin Mandate is agreed by signatories at the first full meeting of the Climate Change Convention in Berlin. Industrialised nations agree on the need to negotiate real cuts in their emissions, to be concluded by the end of 1997.

In November, the IPCC states that current warming "is unlikely to be entirely natural in origin" and that "the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate". Its report predicts that, under a "business as usual" scenario, global temperatures by the year 2100 will have risen by between 1°C and 3.5°C.

1996: At the second meeting of the Climate Change Convention, the US agrees for the first time to legally binding emissions targets and sides with the IPCC against influential sceptical scientists. After a four-year pause, global emissions of CO2 resume their steep climb, and scientists warn that most industrialised countries will not meet Rio agreement to stabilise emissions at 1990 levels by the year 2000.

1997: Kyoto Protocol agrees legally binding emissions cuts for industrialised nations, averaging 5.4%, to be met by 2010. The meeting also adopts a series of flexibility measures, allowing countries to meet their targets partly by trading emissions permits, establishing carbon sinks such as forests to soak up emissions, and by investing in other countries. The precise rules are left for further negotiations. Meanwhile, the US government says it will not ratify the agreement unless it sees evidence of "meaningful participation" in reducing emissions from developing countries.

1998: Follow-up negotiations in Buenos Aires fail to resolve disputes over the Kyoto "rule book", but agree on a deadline for resolution by the end of 2000. 1998 is the hottest year in the hottest decade of the hottest century of the millennium.

2000: IPCC scientists re-assess likely future emissions and warn that, if things go badly, the world could warm by 6°C within a century. A series of major floods around the world reinforce public concerns that global warming is raising the risk of extreme weather events. But in November, crunch talks held in The Hague to finalise the "Kyoto rule book" fail to reach agreement after EU and US fall out. Decisions postponed until at least May 2001.

2001: The new US president, George W Bush, renounces the Kyoto Protocol because he believes it will damage the US economy. After some hesitation, other nations agree to go ahead without him. Talks in Bonn in July and Marrakech in November finally conclude the fine print of the protocol. Analysts say that loopholes have pegged agreed cuts in emissions from rich-nation signatories to less than a third of the original Kyoto promise. Signatory nations urged to ratify the protocol in their national legislatures in time for it to come into force before the end of 2002.

2002: Parliaments in the European Union, Japan and others ratify Kyoto. But the protocol's complicated rules require ratification by nations responsible for 55% of industrialised country emissions, before it can come into force. After Australia joins the US in reneging on the deal, Russia is left to make or break the treaty, but hesitates. Meanwhile, the world experiences the second hottest year on record.

2003: Globally it is the third hottest year on record, but Europe experiences the hottest summer for at least 500 years, with an estimated 30,000 fatalities as a result. Extreme weather costs an estimated record of $60 billion this year. 2003 also sees a marked acceleration in the rate of accumulation of greenhouse gases. Scientists are uncertain if it is a blip or a new, more ominous trend. Meanwhile Russia blows hot and cold over Kyoto.

2004: A deal is struck on Kyoto. President Putin announces in May that Russia will back the Protocol - and the EU announces it will support Russia's membership of the World Trade Organization. On 18 November, the Russian parliament ratifies the protocol enacted, 2005

Great thread.

Happy birthdays, Danon and Teenybopper~

Extreme weather, flooding, in Europe.

Will go click.

CLIMATE SCIENCE: The First of Many?
---------------------------------------------------------------------------H.
Jesse Smith

The first hurricane ever documented in the South Atlantic, Catarina,
struck
the southern coast of Brazil on 28 March 2004. This unprecedented event
led
some Brazilian meteorologists to deny that it was a hurricane at all;
further analysis, however, has shown that it was.

In a detailed study of the storm, Pezza and Simmonds describe its
evolution
from genesis on 20 March 2004 as an extra-tropical cyclone, through its
strengthening to a category I hurricane before it drifted over land.
This
hurricane developed because of an unusual combination of high sea
surface
temperatures, low vertical wind shear, and strong mid-to-high latitude
blocking (which interferes with normal east-west atmospheric flow).
These
conditions are functions of large-scale atmospheric circulation
patterns in
the region and could be related to climate change. If so, more
hurricanes
may occur in the South Atlantic in the future. -- HJS

Geophys. Res. Lett. 10.1029/2005GL023390 (2005).

FOREST RESEARCH: Sky-High Experiments (p. 1314)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------Elizabeth
Pennisi

Using construction cranes, scientists are achieving a better overview
of
forest ecology and how trees contribute to global climate change. On
page
1360, a team reports findings from the first phase of a long-term
experiment looking at carbon dioxide's effects in established forests.

Full story at
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/309/5739/1314?etoc

I can't access this as I don't have a paid subscription to Science.

Hi, guys.

I've been clicking daily; just lost sight of these threads so I haven't been hanging out in the clubhouse. A big shout-out to ehBeth for clicking for me while my 'puter was laid up with a nasty virus.

Nice shiny dance floor, Danon. Hmmmm...

Good to see both Husker and M.A.

<grabbing Stradee, merry andrew, and sumac's hands and pulling them onto the dancefloor>


spin

spin

twirl

twirl

spin



sliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide

thanks, stradee - all there as plain as...etc.
Happy birthday,teeny!

wow! went away for a minute and missed a whole page.

Yay!! the Merry Andrew is back!!! Welcome back MA... You must tell us all about your adventures.

ehBeth, after the dance we could have a roller skating party........

Happy B'Day teeny.................

clicked

ehBeth,

spinning

dizzy-ing

thudding

<bounce>

Hey! Whazz my left foot doin' wrapped round my right ankle? This floor is sliiiiippereee!!!

Danon, not much to tell. Spent some time in Hawaii in July. Spent most of August sleeping. That's how I deal with stress -- I hibernate. Running around right now getting my security clearance updated. Hadda get finger-printed today as part of that endeavor. The nice folks at Boston PD HQ were glad to do it -- for a fee of $5. People in Washington are waiting with bated breath for the paperwork so they can add my name to those cleared to enter the White House from time to time. I've had a couple of phone calls already.

<helps Stradee to her feet while untying the knots in his own ankles>