your irregular doom & gloom report #1 by 1kiki

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your irregular doom & gloom report #1

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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 10:16 PM

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2015/03/monsanto-fined-failing
-report-chemical-release?et_cid=4487735&et_rid=366206770&type=headline

Monsanto Fined for Failing to Report Chemical Release
Fri, 03/27/2015 - 3:00pm
Associated Press, Keith Ridler

Monsanto Co. has agreed to pay $600,000 in fines for not reporting hundreds of uncontrolled releases of toxic chemicals at its eastern Idaho phosphate plant. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice announced the agreement involving the biotechnology company's Soda Springs facilities.

http://www.biosciencetechnology.com/news/2015/03/two-exotic-termites-f
ind-love-florida?et_cid=4486838&et_rid=366206770&type=headline

Two Exotic Termites Find Love in Florida
Fri, 03/27/2015 - 10:34am
Jennifer Kay, Associated Press

This undated photo provided by Thomas Chouvenc of the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS), shows young hybrid termite offspring eight months after the light-colored female Formosan termite, bottom right, mated with the darker male Asian termite, bottom left, in Florida. The Asian and Formosan termites, two of the most destructive termite species in the world, invaded Florida, probably through cargo shipments, several decades ago. Now they may be breeding where their habitats overlap in South Florida, according to a University of Florida study published Wednesday, March 25, 2015, in the journal PLOS ONE. (AP Photo/Thomas Chouvenc, University of Florida/IFAS)
Two particularly hungry, exotic termite species apparently have found love halfway around the world and, as with so many other Florida hook-ups, the results are disturbing.

Asian and Formosan subterranean termites are two of the most destructive termite species in the world, responsible for much of the estimated $40 billion in economic losses attributed to termites annually. Their habitat ranges overlap in lush South Florida, already home to a daunting number of invasive plant and animal species thriving where they should not. Each termite invaded Florida, probably through cargo shipments, several decades ago, but experts believed the colonies didn't mingle because their aboveground mating swarms launched in different months.

That is, until University of Florida researcher Thomas Chouvenc noticed something unusual about the termite swarms in his Fort Lauderdale neighborhood two years ago.

http://www.rdmag.com/news/2015/03/antarctic-ice-shelves-rapidly-thinni
ng?et_cid=4487439&et_rid=366206770&type=headline

Antarctic ice shelves rapidly thinning
Fri, 03/27/2015 - 10:08am
Mario Aguilera, Univ. of California, San Diego

A new study led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the Univ. of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) researchers has revealed that the thickness of Antarctica’s floating ice shelves has recently decreased by as much as 18% in certain areas over nearly two decades, providing new insights on how the Antarctic ice sheet is responding to climate change.

Data from nearly two decades of satellite missions have shown that the ice volume decline is accelerating, according to a study published in Science and supported by NASA. Scripps graduate student Fernando Paolo, Scripps glaciologist Helen Amanda Fricker and oceanographer Laurie Padman of Earth & Space Research (a non-profit institute specializing in oceanography research) constructed a new high-resolution record of ice shelf thickness based on satellite radar altimetry missions of the European Space Agency from 1994 to 2012.

http://www.biosciencetechnology.com/news/2015/03/report-diversity-new-
england-plant-life-threatened?et_cid=4486838&et_rid=366206770&type=headline

Report: Diversity of New England Plant Life is Threatened
Fri, 03/27/2015 - 10:42am
Bob Salsberg, Associated Press

A comprehensive report being released Thursday, March 26, 2015, by the New England Wild Flower Society shows that much of New England’s rich native flora is fighting for survival against increasing odds. Conservationists studied more than 3,500 known plant species and determined that about 22 percent are considered rare, in decline, endangered or possibly extinct. Many plants also range over a much smaller geographical area than they once did. ...

Another statistic that researchers found alarming: More than 30 percent of current plant species are not native to the region. Non-native or invasive species often compete with and crowd out existing plants.

http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2015/03/confirmed-positive-fee
dback-occurs-climate-change?et_cid=4492250&et_rid=366206770&type=headline

Confirmed: Positive Feedback Occurs in Climate Change
Tue, 03/31/2015 - 7:00am
Univ. of Exeter

A new study has confirmed the existence of a positive feedback operating in climate change whereby warming itself may amplify a rise in greenhouse gases resulting in additional warming.

The study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, shows that in addition to the well understood effect of greenhouse gases on the Earth’s temperature, researchers can now confirm directly from ice-core data that the global temperature has a profound effect on atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. This means that as the Earth’s temperature rises, the positive feedback in the system results in additional warming.

It has been known for a while that the Earth has historically had higher levels of greenhouse gases during warm periods than during ice ages. However, it had so-far remained impossible to discern cause and effect from the analysis of gas bubbles contained in ice cores.

Prof. Tim Lenton from Geography at the Univ. of Exeter said, “Our new results confirm the prediction of positive feedback from the climate models, the big difference is that now we have independent data based evidence for it.”

http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2015/03/technology-fails-see-i
nside-fukushima?et_cid=4487735&et_rid=366206770&type=headline

Technology Fails to See Inside Fukushima
Fri, 03/27/2015 - 3:00pm
Associated Press, Yuri Kageyama

Muon drift tubes are seen on an equipment shown to journalists by Toshiba officials at its research center in Yokohama near Tokyo Friday, March 27, 2015. Image: AP Photo, Emily WangMuon drift tubes are seen on an equipment shown to journalists by Toshiba officials at its research center in Yokohama near Tokyo Friday, March 27, 2015. Image: AP Photo, Emily Wang
Cutting-edge technology was billed as a way to decipher where exactly the morass of nuclear fuel might sit at the bottom of reactors in the Japanese power plant that went into multiple meltdowns four years ago. But the technology went wrong today during a simple demonstration for reporters for the $5 million project. It’s a sobering reminder of the enormous challenges that lie ahead for the decommissioning of Fukushima Dai-ichi. ...

No one knows where the molten fuel debris lies, and in what shape or state. Tokyo Electric Power Co., which operates Fukushima Dai-ichi, has said it likely sank to the bottom of the plant. But the fuel could have dropped even beyond.

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Sunday, April 5, 2015 12:18 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Disturbing, all of it. But thanks for the info.

Just a few comments:

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Two Exotic Termites Find Love in Florida

But global trade is a good thing!!!

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Antarctic ice shelves rapidly thinning

Don't you know? It's growing, not shrinking!

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Report: Diversity of New England Plant Life is Threatened

The sixth Great Extinction occurred in the Plasticene Era.

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Technology Fails to See Inside Fukushima

The many-hundred tons of fuel are busy burrowing their way to the center of the earth. DRILLED cores of the concrete base were heavily infiltrated with uranium oxides (pretty yello colr, too) and they knew that about a year after the metldowns. This is just an exercise in denial.

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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.

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Sunday, April 5, 2015 10:47 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

1kiki - maybe that's your problem. You're irregular.

I bet if you were more regular, you'd be less of ...well, what you are now.

Metamucil , or perhaps a special yogurt, is all you need.

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Sunday, April 5, 2015 9:30 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

sociopath

SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.

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Sunday, April 5, 2015 11:07 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

You're too full of poop.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Sunday, April 5, 2015 11:53 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

troll

http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=59641
kiki: apologize for and rescind your trolling
rapturd: Nope

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