Governments urgently need to redefine security, and to recognise that climate change poses by far the greatest threat to our own security, and to that of future generations. And as the quotation from Martin Luther King at the front of the report reminds us: “There is such a thing as being too late”. The world has less than a decade to change
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BRITAIN TO BRACE FOR NEAR HURRICANE FORCE WINDS
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Breaking Earth NewsWaves of up to 14 metres in height are being predicted for the west coast this weekend.
They would be the highest experienced for a number of years.
The Marine Institute and Met Éireann have issued a warning to all ships, fishing vessels and anyone close to the shoreline to take great care, particularly tomorrow afternoon.
Computer-generated wave forecasts, using information picked up on the Marine Weather Buoy Network, show that waves with a significant height of up to 14m, about 45 feet, could occur in the seas to the west of Ireland.Previously the biggest waves recorded by the Marine Institute's data buoys were at the M1 Buoy to the west of Galway Bay on 17 January 2005, waves of 13.4m or about 40 feet.
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"It was nice to see the comet again," says Peter von Bagh who spotted it last night from his home in Porvoo, Finland You can easily find it with binoculars even in a light-polluted urban sky.
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Above: Chandra X-ray Observatory images of "cannonball star" RX J0822-4300. [More]
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Breaking Earth NewsA NUCLEAR attack by terrorists causing widespread panic, chaos and death is inevitable and will happen soon, a senior Scottish police officer has warned.
Ian Dickinson, who leads the police response to chemical, biological and nuclear threats in Scotland, has painted the bleakest picture yet of the dangers the world now faces.
Efforts to prevent terrorist groups from obtaining materials that could be made into radioactive dirty bombs - or even crude nuclear explosives - are bound to fail, he said. And the result will be horror on an unprecedented scale.
Casualties caused by radiation, which most people don't understand, would trigger widespread "panic and fear", said Dickinson. And the response of the emergency services "would be chaotic" because of a shortage of resources.
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High sea tides paralyze traffic in Indonesian capital
High tides flood Indonesian capital with sea water
AlgeriaDozens of people had been injured and many were missing after several days of heavy rain, they said.
"It is a catastrophe: Houses destroyed, vehicles lost, and people are running in the streets looking for relatives," said one resident, Mohamed Mouloudi.
"We need help. People are gathered now in the local stadium as well as in schools," he added.
The floods caked streets in mud, swept away parts of two bridges that lead to the town and damaged a hospital.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA - An increased activity on Karkar island volcano is worrying volcanologists and Madang residents because the lack of monitoring equipment means there is no way of knowing the dangers posed. Monitoring equipment set up in 2002 were destroyed within 24 hours of them being set up on the island. Images received this month confirmed that there has been an increase in thermal activity and gas emission from the SE and SW flanks of Bagiai cone on Karkar. The increase in thermal activity has resulted in vegetation dying near these two areas. People from Kevasop village on the southwest of the island heard low roaring noises in late October. Since that time Bagiai cone has been releasing thin white vapour visible from Kevasop village. There has been a vast increase in vapour and smoke compared to three months ago. The volcano last erupted in 1979, killing two volcanologists on the island.
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The exceptionally high tides are part of an 18-year cycle. The situation is exacerbated by the failure to fix a sea barrier breached more than a week ago. Authorities pumped out some of the water, which was 23 feet (7 meters) deep in the worst hit areas and washed more than a mile (1.6 kilometers) inland Monday. At least 2,200 houses were inundated, some with chest-deep water. Part of the problem is global warming, which causes sea levels to rise and may make coastal cities like Jakarta especially vulnerable to flooding and monsoon storms.
The Northern Hemisphere is on track for this year to be the warmest since record-keeping started 127 years ago. Hemisphere-wide, temperatures for January through October averaged 1.3 degrees above the norm and could break the record for the warmest year, set in 2003. The warming trend could impact the melting of Arctic sea ice and worsen drought conditions throughout the United States. In Salt Lake City, Utah, the summer of 2007 was the warmest ever on record. The months of June, July and August averaged 0.7 degrees warmer than they did in 1994 — the previous record-breaking year. July was Salt Lake City's hottest-ever record; August was its second-hottest. In addition, spring 2007 in Salt Lake City was the third-warmest ever recorded. Last winter, normally the wettest time of year in the Southwest, was unusually dry. Los Angeles had its driest "water year" (measured from July to June) on record with 3.21 inches of rain. As for the coming winter, the recently updated U.S. forecast by the Climate Prediction Center calls for UNUSUAL warmth to persist across most of the nation — 4 percent warmer than the 30-year average — continuing a decade-long trend of warm winters. Drought could begin to develop across the southern Plains, which until now has had a very wet year, according to the latest forecasts. Texas is experiencing its fourth-wettest year on record. The only areas forecast to be wetter-than-average this winter are in the Pacific Northwest and the Ohio Valley.
Breaking Storm NewsMANILA (AFP) — The death toll from Typhoon Mitag rose to 17 in the Philippines, officials said Tuesday, as search operations continued for a missing air force jet and a fishing vessel with 27 people aboard.
The typhoon killed 17 people and left four others missing, the civil defence office said.
The number of people displaced also jumped to 540,000 across 19 provinces ravaged by flash floods and landslides triggered by the typhoon.
Mitag has weakened as it exited the Philippines towards the southern islands of Japan.
Tropical storm Hagibis meanwhile weakened to tropical depression status as it crossed Mindoro island towards southern Luzon in the afternoon, while a second tropical depression with similar 55 kilometre (34 mile) per hour winds threatened from the Pacific Ocean.
Hagibis killed 13 people last week in its initial pass over the Philippines.
It reversed course Monday, sinking a fishing boat near the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, leaving 27 Filipino crewmen missing, officials said.
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Researchers say a total of 183 buildings have been destroyed and the Marine lighthouse moved twice in the past 30 years.
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MELBOURNE'S homes are cracking up and the problem will become worse next year.
Inner-city suburbs are being hardest hit as soil continues to dry out because of the prolonged drought, placing further strain on buildings, a new study has revealed.Source: news.com.au via steve468
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LONDON (Reuters) - Weather-related disasters have quadrupled over the last two decades, Oxfam said in a report published on Sunday.
From an average of 120 disasters a year in the early 1980s, there are now as many as 500, with Oxfam attributing the rise to unpredictable weather conditions cause by global warming.
"This year we have seen floods in South Asia, across the breadth of Africa and Mexico that have affected more than 250 million people," said Oxfam's director Barbara Stocking.
"This is no freak year. It follows a pattern of more frequent, more erratic, more unpredictable and more extreme weather events that are affecting more people.
The number of people affected by disasters has risen by 68 percent, from an average of 174 million a year between 1985 to 1994 to 254 million a year between 1995 to 2004.
"Action is needed now to prepare for more disasters otherwise humanitarian assistance will be overwhelmed and recent advances in human development will go into reverse," Stocking said.
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LEVELS of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas emitted by burning fossil fuels, hit a record high in the atmosphere in 2006, accelerating global warming, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said. But concentrations of methane, the number two heat-trapping gas, flattened out in a hint that Siberian permafrost is staying frozen despite some scientists' fears that rising temperatures might trigger a runaway thaw.
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Breaking Earth NewsSuch a monumental act of stupidity and greed indeed happened in southern Central Kalimantan. The project was the brainchild of pride-filled dictator Suharto, desperate in the mid-1990s to reverse Indonesia's rice deficit that required imports and ready to go to any lengths suggested by cronies and rapacious family members to do it.
Not a single crop was reaped from what was known as the mega-rice project: at least none that would suffice for an evening meal. Plenty of valuable timber ended up as pure profit in the pockets of Jakarta's super-wealthy, however, as the rainforests that once soaked up carbon dioxide were stripped of their bounty, mostly for overseas sale.
Now supporters of the post-Suharto reformasi administration, including Australia, are scrambling to allocate money to redress the fiasco and get some climate-change runs on the board, but grave questions remain over how much of the damage can be undone.
Map showing the path of Typhoon Mitag as it nears the eastern Philippines (© AFP/File)
Image: A Somali woman carries sacks of food aid at Jowhar refugee camp, Somalia, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2007. Tens of thousands of Somalis who fled the violence in their conflict-wracked capital are facing yet another humanitarian crisis, a debilitating food shortage after poor rains. Credit: AP Photo/Khalil SenosiHistory may be bound to repeat itself as Earth’s climate continues to warm, with changing temperatures causing food shortages that lead to wars and population declines, according to a new study that builds on earlier work.
The previous study, by David Zhang of the University of Hong Kong, found that swings in temperature were correlated with times of war in Eastern China between 1000 and 1911. Zhang's newer work, detailed in the Nov. 19 online edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, broadens its outlook to climate and war records worldwide and also found a correlation between the two.
"This current study covers a much larger spatial area and the conclusions from the current research could be considered general principles," Zhang said.
The research does not represent direct cause-and-effect, but rather suggests a link between climate and conflict.
