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Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh



In the day of 15 November, Cyclone Sidr arrived on Bangladesh, with sustained winds of 215 km / h and top speeds of 250 km / h.

The cyclone came on one of the most populated areas and poorest on the planet. From the very serious Times of London, the toll could reach ten thousand deaths.



In addition, the cyclone is an ecological disaster. Indeed, it has devastated mangrove outstanding, which survived the last 500 Bengal tigers.

I had already reported the disappearance Island Lohachara . We can measure in the coming months the impact of Cyclone Sidr.

For more information:
1. Bangladesh cyclone "could claim lives 10.000 (The Times)
2. Cyclone Sidr (Wikipedia)
3. Tropical Cylone Sidr (Earth Observatory)
4. The balance of the cyclone Sidr over the 2,200 dead in Bangladesh (The World)
5. Cyclone Sidr an 'Ecological disaster' (IOL - South Africa)
6. Island Lohachara disappeared (Gaia - January 2007)

Photos: MODIS Rapid Response Project at NASA / GSFC and Rafiqur Rahman

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Syndrome collapse of bee colonies



recent years , there is an inexplicable phenomenon: bees, suddenly, at any time (except in winter where the hive is in sleep) does not fit into their hive. There is also an absence of dead bees in the hive or nearby. Bee colonies disappear altogether.

This phenomenon is not new. It was reported locally in 1896. But the disappearances have become important and begin to spread since the late 1990s. The warning was given as early as 2000 in Europe and in 2006 the United States.

Apples but also almond, avocado, cherries, onions, cucumbers, cotton, groundnuts, melon, etc.. depend 90% or 100% of bees for pollination. "If the bee were to disappear from the globe, man would have only 5 years to live." said Albert Einstein, they say.

So it is true that there are other insect pollinators than honeybees, and that the multiplication of colonies of honeybees is technical excellence. But in 2007, there was a peak alarming disappearance of bees.

In 2007, the rate of almost deserted or abandoned hives reached 70% or 80% in regions and countries most affected. A quarter of the livestock of U.S. apiaries have just disappeared during winter 2006-2007 and 35 states were affected by a U.S. congressional report in June 2007 .

It is unclear why bee colonies are disappearing. Several hypotheses have been advanced, among which are:
- IAPV virus (Israeli acute paralysis virus of bees).
- The mobile phone. Two scientists from the University of Landau in Germany showed that the waves produced by a mobile phone prevented bees from returning to their hive.
- Pesticides like Gaucho and Regent TS.

What is certain is that it is hard to imagine a world without bees. It is equally certain that it is man who is behind these mass disappearances of honeybee colonies.

For more information:
1. Syndrome collapse of bee colonies (Wikipedia)
2. Colony Collapse Disorder (Wikipedia)
3. Requiem for the Honeybee (The Institute of Science in Society)
4. Recent Honey Bee Colony Declines (Federation of American Scientists)

Credit: Luke

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Publication GEO-4 UNEP



Last Thursday, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has published its Global Environment Outlook: Environment for Development (GEO-4).

It indicates that the most serious threats to the planet, including climate change, the rate of extinction of species and the challenge of feeding a growing population are among the many problems that have not been resolved and put humanity at risk.

GEO-4 warns that we are living far beyond our means. The human population is now so large that "the amount of resources required to sustain it exceeds the resources ... humanity's footprint is 21.9 hectares per person while the Earth's biological capacity is, on average, only 15.7 ha / person ... "

" Our common future depends on our actions today, not tomorrow or some time in the future. "

" There were enough warnings since Brundtland. I sincerely hope GEO-4 is the last. The systematic destruction of natural resources has reached a level where the economic viability of economies is being challenged and where the bill we hand to our children may prove impossible to pay "," said Achim Steiner, Assistant Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director.

GEO-4 concludes that if "governments must be in the foreground, the others are equally important for success in achieving sustainable development. We better understand the current challenges and the time has come to act quickly to safeguard our survival and that of future generations. "

For more information:
1. The most serious problems persist on the planet, warns a UN report (UNEP)
2. Fourth Global Environment Outlook (UNEP)
3. Twenty years later, the world still in bad shape, according to UNEP (The World)

Credit: UNEP

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France launches its ecological revolution



Thursday evening, Nicolas Sarkozy concluded three months of intense debate by a speech that lays the foundation of the green revolution for France desired. This speech was delivered in the presence of José Manuel Barroso, European Commission president, and Al Gore and Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace, who hailed the originality and effectiveness that participatory and democratic process.

Nicolas Sarkozy called for "a revolution in our thinking, our policies, our objectives" . He said: "I want the Grenelle is the founding act of an ecological New Deal in France, Europe and worldwide. (...) Your proposals, I make my own, I will wear them, I implement them. (...) For a man like me take this speech is that France is changing, "

The main measures used are detailed here and are summarized here .

Note also those qui me semblent les plus emblématiques :
- Réduction de moitié dans les dix ans de l'usage des peslticides dans l'agriculture.
- Gel du maïs OGM Monsanto 810, dont la culture en plein champ a proliféré en France depuis son autorisation par Lionel Jospin (PS) et Dominique Voynet (Les verts) en 1998.
- Soutien des cultures biologiques, qui recevront 20% des commandes de la restauration collective publique.
- Bâtiment neuf : programme de "rupture technologique" pour tous les bâtiments publics qui devront être construits dès 2010 en basse consommation (50 kwh/m2/an). Pour le privé à partir de 2012.
- TVA à taux réduit sur tous les produits respect the ecological environment and biodiversity.
- Development of renewable energy to 20 million tonnes of oil equivalent by 2020.
- Prohibition on incandescent lamps in 2010.

Planning Act to implement the conclusions of the Grenelle Environment Forum will be proposed to Parliament this winter, in January-February, said Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, Secretary of State for Ecology.

Well that's it! Nicolas Hulot gave all this a " 18 of 20, to leave some leeway . Not me, I give an outright 20 of 20. Because sitting around a table to the people he met, and obtain concensus on topics as conflict than that, he had to. And now, finally , we have a government that will take head on the real issues that concern us, and which also affect our children and our children's children. As

said American Indians: " We do not inherit the Earth from our parents, we borrow it from our children " .

I must say that all this makes me hope again in the future. Of course, we will not solve all these problems in a snap, while no government has wanted to address de front en quarante ans, de droite comme de gauche. Mais enfin, le coup d'envoi est donné, il n'y a plus qu'à se retrousser les manches tous ensemble. Le gouvernement va être l'objet de toutes les pressions venant de tous les lobbys, mais il faut que Nicolas Sarkozy tienne bon. Je pense qu'il le fera.

Tout d'un coup, l'avenir me semble plein de promesses. Ca ne m'était pas arrivé depuis très très longtemps.

Pour en savoir plus :
1. Le Grenelle Environnement (site officiel)
2. Rapport du rapporteur général (Grenelle Environnement)
3. Discours du Président de la République à l'issue des premières conclusions of the Grenelle Environment (Elysee.fr)
4. The main measures adopted by the Grenelle (Le Nouvel Observateur)
5. measures and proposals of the Grenelle (Liberation)
6. The "green revolution" of Nicolas Sarkozy (Le Figaro)
7. the "Grenelle", Nicolas Sarkozy made his "green revolution" (The World)
8. Borloo announced the freezing of GMO legislation in January (The World)
9. law to implement the proposed Grenelle this winter (Le Nouvel Observateur)

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Wildfires in California



For more than ten days, Southern California was ravaged by devastating wildfires.

During the summer of 2007, there was a record drought that has completely dried up the vegetation of the hills. And then, when the fires broke out, California, one of the most powerful states of the world, was powerless to deal with flames everywhere. Nor Greece in August .



He had ordered the evacuation of 500,000 people. There had so far five dead, 40 wounded and one thousand five hundred houses destroyed. Damage is estimated at one billion dollars.

One consequence of global climate announced the massive forest fires. The U.S. is trying to achieve.

For more information:
1. NASA Images of California Wildfires (NASA)
2. Fires in Southern California (Earth Observatory)
3. Wind fanned Wildfires scorch California, half one million evacuated (mercopress)
4. Fires were raging (Los Angeles Times)
5. Forest fires in Greece (Gaia)

Photo credit: NASA and Kevin Labianco

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barrel of oil exceeds $ 85



barrel of oil reached 86.13 dollars last Monday in New York. As you can see from the chart above, it was 20 dollars in 2002 to 30 in 2004 dollars, 50 dollars in 2006, and now exceeds $ 80.

must know that world oil production peaks at present to 84 million barrels per day.
Here are the numbers for recent years (source: EIA ):
- 2003: 79.62 million barrels per day.
- 2004: 83.12 million barrels per day.
- 2005: 84.63 million barrels per day.
- 2006: 84.60 million barrels per day.
- 2007: 84.31 million barrels per day. (First semester)

As I wrote May 16, 2005: the peak of world oil production is this year, and the above figures prove it. Since 2005, the existing wells are drying up faster than new discoveries, and we can no longer exceed 84.6 million barrels per day.

It is happening in this world has already happened to oil offshore UK : we have passed the peak of production, and we began the slow decline in production.

As at the same time, demand from China is growing strong , $ 100 a barrel should not be long now.

For more information:
1. barrel of oil reached a new peak over $ 86 (The World)
2. Light Crude Oil (CL, NYMEX) (TFC Commodity Charts)
3. Other International Petroleum (Oil) Data (Energy Information Administration)
4. Towards the end of oil (Gaia)

Credit graphic: TFC Commodity Charts

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Al Gore and the IPCC are the Nobel Peace



The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded this year to Al Gore and the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), "for their efforts to collect and disseminate knowledge about climate change caused by man, and to lay the foundations for the measures needed to fight against these changes. "

That, for me, probably the Nobel Peace most significant since this distinction is very honorable.

Indeed, global warming will bring tremendous changes, with dramatic consequences on water resources and food supplies. As noted by Nicolas Hulot, democracy is a luxury that can afford an affluent society. Once the main resources will begin to fail seriously, all these fine principles will quickly shatter, and democracy may become a distant memory.

access to energy sources, control of water supply, etc.. will perhaps create conflicts between peoples and states equally bloody border wars conducted by European nations in the nineteenth and Twentieth centuries.

The Nobel jury has understood, and he wanted to launch a powerful message to governments around the world to the problems related to global warming are finally taken into account as they should be is to tell a priority.

Only if we get serious and massively to the rapid degradation of our environment we will be able to keep the peace.

For more information:
1. The Nobel Peace Prize jointly to Al Gore and the IPCC (The World)
2. Climate and peace (The World)
3. An Inconvenient Truth (Gaia)

Photo credit: Eric Lee

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Grenelle Environment Phase 2: You have the floor



Borloo, No. 2 Government and Minister for Ecology, Development and Planning Sustainable yesterday presented the results of Phase 1 of the Grenelle Environment .

This first phase was devoted to dialogue and development proposals within 6 working groups, workshops and two intergroup. Each group was made up of NGOs (Greenpeace, WWF, Fondation Nicolas Hulot, the Friends of the Earth, LPO, etc. ...), and state representatives, employees, employers, representatives of local authorities and legal persons involved. A very democratic consultation in the spirit of the Grenelle Accords , traded in a crisis of May 68.



Here is a summary of the synthesis of each group. For more details, click on the links.

1. fight against climate change and controlling energy .
Group 1 recalls the undeniable reality of climate change and its impacts as well as the depletion of resources has come fossils. IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) estimates and between 1 and 6 ° C the average temperature rise associated ground this climate change by the end of the century. The objective is to enable future generations to have the resources they need for their development. The Task Force believes that in this context, France must now be put on the path of a division by four of its emissions of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, which means to imagine a development model totally different from what we know until now.

2. Preserving biodiversity and natural resources .
If the crisis of biodiversity is less well known than the climate, the damages are no less serious or more reversible. Group 2 has adopted a benchmark of 119 measures for biodiversity and natural resources.

3. Establish an environment-friendly health .
impacts on human health of environmental degradation are some scientifically valid for other sufficiently documented to warrant action has reduce the risks to the latest finally suspects or unknown, but potentially serious enough to require sustained vigilance. On the basis of this Group 3 proposes actions to seek scientific convergence, better governance, and support for public decisions.

4. Adopt patterns of production and consumption: agriculture, fisheries, food processing, distribution, and sustainable uses of forests territories.
Of all time agriculture was the result of a strong interaction between man and his environment. Since the first human who, abandoning the collection, has chosen species food for thousands of years of learning, different soils and climates, cultures and various social organizations built the agriculture of today. More recently genetics, agronomy, chemistry, and mechanization accelerated this trend dramatically, and causes significant environmental consequences. It is essential to initiate a movement of profound transformation of the entire agriculture and revisit the foundations of conventional agriculture, to reconcile the imperatives of economic efficiency, robustness to change climate and ecological realism.

5. Building an ecological democracy: institutions and governance .
Redefining Environmental policy, placing the concerns of long-term and future generations in the heart of the project for our country, to invent a new mode of development based on the opportunities associated with changing patterns of production and consumption require appropriate and consistent policies in all areas: energy, transport, housing, agriculture, health ... This requires new frameworks for action and development for these policies.

6. Promote development patterns environmental conditions for the competitiveness and employment .
Building a new equilibrium in terms of virtuous economic, environmental, and social activities between production, consumption, research and development, innovation and service in France and Europe.

7. Intergroup Workshop GMOs.
Big debate on this subject. The best is to read synthesis.

8. Intergroup Workshop Waste . Whether
Waste produced by households, artisans, merchants, businesses, farmers or communities, and whether hazardous or non-hazardous waste management of our present major challenges both in terms of limiting resources has come raw materials and energy, as the environmental and health impact of this management must be reduced.

Phase 1 is completed and we now turn to phase 2 . You have the floor. For that, you have until October 12 to participate in the Forum Grenelle Environment

If the future of our planet you want, express yourself!

Read More:
1. The Grenelle Environment (official site)
2. The Grenelle Environment (The World)
3. Grenelle Phase 1, successful firing (Liberation)
4. The French called to enrich the "Grenelle of the environment" (L'Express)

Photo credit: Reuters

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The Northwest Passage is open



As expected, the Arctic sea ice continues to melt at high speed. And for the first time, Northwest Passage is open: it is free of ice. It

is materialized in orange on the photo Envisat ASAR above. As I said about the collapse of the Ayles ice , this passage will allow the establishment of a massive sea transit between Europe and Asia, and disappearing wildlife who lives in the Arctic region, including polar bears .

The blue line on the image above is the Northeast Passage, which is still partially blocked in Siberia. But this is only a postponement.



Indeed, the area covered by ice in September 2007 only 3 million square kilometers. It is 1 million kilometers square less than the previous minima observed in 2005 and 2006.

Over the past ten years the average loss of Arctic sea ice was 100 000 square kilometers per year. A sharp drop of one million square kilometers in one year confirms the "avalanche process" and the sudden acceleration of the polar caps melt.

And this will obviously have major repercussions on the climate of our planet.

For more information:
1. Satellites witness Lowest Arctic ice coverage in history (ESA)
2. Northwest Passage Nearly Open (NASA - August 22)
3. Northwest Passage Nearly Open (NASA - 29 août)
4. Passage du Nord-Ouest (Wikipédia)
5. Arctic Sea Ice News Fall 2007 (The National Snow and Ice Data Center)
6. Arctic sea ice 'melts to all-time low' (The Telegraph)
7. La banquise se retrécit (Gaïa - octobre 2005)
8. La banquise arctique va disparaître l'été d'ici 2040 (Gaïa - décembre 2006)

Crédit photos : ESA et NASA

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Forest fires in Greece



La Grèce est en flammes. Pictured above, provided by NASA August 25, one can see the extent of fires, fanned by strong winds northeast. These are the most devastating fires that Greece has ever known.

One cause of these fires is the exceptional heat wave experienced by the Central Europe this year, especially in Greece. Although this is not very sensitive in recent weeks in France, global warming is here, as confirmed by the NOAA chart below which shows the temperature anomalies over the period January-July 2007 compared to the same period seasonal the years 1961 to 1990 :



Besides Argentina, the climate is sensitive everywhere.

Over the period from January to July since records began in 1880 for the average land surface temperature over the oceans, 2007 ranks second, tied with 2002 and 2005.

But if we consider that the average land surface temperature, the period from January to July 2007 was the warmest ever recorded, as you can see the bottom curve on the chart below:



Global warming is confirmed and intensified. As expected, this is accompanied, among others, devastating forest fires.

For more information:
1. fires killed 51 people in Greece and threaten the site of Olympia (The World)
2. Climate of 2007 - July Global Analysis (NOAA)
3. Warming to end in May 2007 (Gaia)

images Credit: NASA and NOAA

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Extinction of Baiji



The baiji is gone. An international expedition of 30 scientists has traveled 1,669 miles for six weeks along Yangtze River in search of fresh water dolphin which was threatened with extinction. There have not found a single specimen of the whale.

The baiji, a freshwater dolphin living in the Yangtze River for twenty million years, was finally extinguished.

The main cause is the noise pollution of water due to the heavy maritime traffic on the Yangtze River. I have already spoken of here din World of Silence and damage it causes to marine mammals that are so spot underwater acoustics. In the case of the Yangtze, the baiji had to cope more fishing nets in Lesquer they choked, and industrial and agricultural waste discharged into the River.

Human activity has been due in less than one hundred years of this quiet and peaceful species that lived in this river for twenty million years. Hopefully the St. Lawrence belugas can survive longer than the Yangtze River baiji.

For more information:
1. The river dolphin died (Liberation)
2. Requiem for a Freshwater Dolphin (Scientific American)
3. Shock as dolphin Declared extinct (BBC News)
4. Baiji (Wikipedia)

Credit: Institute of Hydrobiology, Wuhan, China

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Warming in late May 2007



The chart above shows the Earth's climate warming over the period January-May 2007 compared to the same period on an average 1961 to 1990.

As can be seen, the warming is not uniform. It is more pronounced in Europe and Russia. There's even a cooling in some areas of the North Pacific and Antarctic oceans. By cons, where it warms up seriously, as in Siberia it reaches values of + 5 ° C in less than 20 years! This only accelerates the melting of permafrost , which will release more CO2 and methane into the atmosphere.



May 28, Russia has experienced an unprecedented heat wave. The temperature in Moscow reached 32.9 ° C. The previous temperature record date of May 1891 with 31.8 ° C. This is the first time in 128 years that the temperature in Moscow exceeds 30 ° C in May.

For more information:
1. Climate of 2007 - May in Historical Perspective (NOAA)
2. The Climate of 2007 (NOAA)
3. Extreme weather hits Europe and Russia (BBC News)
4. Melting permafrost will release massive amounts of methane into the atmosphere (Gaia - September 10, 2006)
5. 125 large Arctic lakes disappear (Gaia - June 12, 2005)

Image credit: NOAA

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Global warming: the G8 conclusions



Here the official text of the final communiqué of the G8 summit of Heiligendamm on global warming, I've translated into French:

" Climate Change, Energy Efficiency and Energy Security: Combating climate change is a major issue of humanity and has the power to seriously degrade our natural environment and the global economy. We have taken note of the recent IPCC report and its conclusions. We are convinced that urgent and concerted action is necessary and we accept our responsibility to take the initiative to combat climate change. Regarding the determination of an overall goal for reducing emissions, in the approach on which we agreed in Heiligendamm involving all major emitters, we will seriously consider the decisions of the European Union, Canada and Japan which include at least the reduction by half of global CO2 emissions by 2050.

We agreed that the Convention United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the appropriate forum for negotiating future global action on climate change. We are committed to progress in this forum and we appeal to all to participate actively and constructively in the UNFCCC conference to be held in Indonesia in December 2007 in order to reach a post-2012 agreement (post - Kyoto Protocol) that will include all major emitters. To address the urgent challenge of climate change, it is vital that the major emitting countries fall agree on a detailed contribution to a framework by end 2008 would be the basis of mutual agreement under the auspices of the UNFCCC by 2009. We reiterate the need for commitment of economies that are major emitters on how best to manage the challenge of climate change. We insist that any future action must be based on the principle of the UNFCCC responsibilities and capabilities of common but differentiated.

technology, energy efficiency et les mécanismes économiques, y compris les systèmes d'échange d'émissions ou les incitations fiscales, sont des éléments clé pour maîtriser le changement cliamtique et amélmiorer la sécurité de l'énergie. Nous avons réaffirmé les principes sur la sécurité de l'énergie que nous avions approuvés à Saint Pétersbourg. Dons notre discussion avec les pays émergents, nous avons affirmés que l'efficacité énergétique et la coopération technologique serait cruciales dans nos discussions futures."

Comme on peut le constater à la lecture de ce texte, il y a encore du chemin à faire. Mais au moins la prise de conscience is there, and the problem of global warming has become a must for world leaders. Even George W. Bush, who said two years ago that Kyoto was a "rotten deal for the U.S. economy" who had made no concessions at Gleneagles signed the text you just read.

When Al Gore, former U.S. vice president, Nicolas Sarkozy has called on the phone to congratulate him after his presidential election, Nicolas Sarkozy told her he wanted to resume his torch in the fight against global warming. If one of 8 members of the G8 is already to the cause of Al Gore's good news.

For more information:
1. Chair's summary (G8 summit 2007)
2. At the G8 summit, minimum agreement on climate (The World)
3. Group of Eight (Wikipedia)
4. 4th IPCC report - findings in Group I (Gaia)
5. 4th IPCC report - findings of the Group II (Gaia)
6. 4th IPCC report - findings of the Group III (Gaia)
7. Kyoto Protocol (UNFCCC)
8. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
9. Kyoto était un "accord pourri pour l'économie américaine" (Gaïa - 5 juillet 2005)

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Cyclone Gonu reaches the Persian Gulf



Le cyclone Gonu se dirige actuellement vers le golfe Persique. C'est un cyclone de catégorie 5 avec des vents à 260 km/h et des rafales à 315 km/h. Il soulève des vagues de 12 mètres ...

C'est le plus puissant cyclone à atteindre le golfe Persique jamais observé. (On a commencé à enregistrer les cyclones en 1945).

Il devrait atteindre les côtes du sultanat d'Oman après-demain.

For more information:
1. Thousands Flee Storm Oman Threat (BBC News)
2. Oman on high alert as cyclone nears (Al Jazeera)
3. Powerful Cyclone Gonu heads to Persian Gulf (USA Today)
4. Cyclone Gonu (Wikipedia)
5. Tropical Cyclone Gonu (NASA Earth Observatory)

Credit: UAE Civil Aviation

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4th IPCC report - the findings of the Group III



The conclusions of the Group III 4 ° IPCC report were presented to Bangkok May 4, 2007. You can download in the form of a summary in English .

The point of this report is the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, which is growing faster than expected.

In the 90s, the growth rate of CO2 averaged 1% per year. Between 2000 and 2005, it is 3%.

The increase in CO2 was provided by the models, it is due to increasing world population and accelerated industrial development of countries like India or China. By cons, what was not foreseen was that the plants and the oceans sequester less carbon dioxide than expected, so that the warming is being carried away.

That's what has just confirmed a study of the British Antarctic Survey . The "carbon sinks" trap half the CO2 produced by human activity. The Southern Ocean is involved in 15%. This study shows that the absorption of CO2 in the Southern Ocean is reaching saturation and that the acidity of the Southern Ocean may reach a crisis level before 2050, as previously thought present.

Professor Chris Rapley, Director of the British Antarctic Survey said: "Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, the world's oceans it absorbed about a quarter of the 500 gigatons of carbon emitted into the atmosphere not human activity. The possibility that global warming might affect the absorption of CO2 in the Southern Ocean (the most powerful "carbon sinks") is taken very seriously. "

For more information:
1. Climate Change 2007: Mitigation of Climate Change (IPCC WGIII -. pdf file)
2. 4th IPCC report - the findings of the Group II (Gaia)
3. CO2 emissions soar since 2000 (Le Figaro)
4. Polar ocean 'soaking up less CO2' (BBC news)
5. Climate change affects Southern Ocean carbon sink (British Antarctic Survey)
6. L’Océan Antarctique absorbe moins de CO2 que prévu (notre-planete.info)

Crédit illustration : IPCC

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Nicolas Sarkozy uses the Nicolas Hulot's Ecological Pact



Le 22 décembre 2006, Nicolas Sarkozy avait signé le Pacte écologique de Nicolas Hulot . Puis il a été élu le 6 mai 2007 . Le soir de sa victoire, il a déclaré que "La France fera de la lutte contre le réchauffement climatique sont premier combat."

Et, in fact, when Friday, May 18, 2007, the Fillon government is announced, we see that the No. 2 government, one Minister of State, Alain Juppe, Minister for Ecology, Development and the sustainable development, which carries the Secretary of State for Transport. Nicolas Hulot had wanted a "vice prime minister" in charge of environment. As this post did not exist in our present constitution, it was not possible to do better.

And the following Monday, the first political act of Nicolas Sarkozy is convening at the Elysee Palace in the morning NGOs (Greenpeace, WWF, Friends of the Earth Foundation Nicolas Hulot, the League for the Protection of Birds (LPO), the Climate Action Network (CAR), the Ligue ROC federation France Nature Environment (FNE) and Ecology without Borders) and scientists in the afternoon, as Jean Jouzel Jean-Marie Pelt, or the philosopher Edgar Morin, in preparation for the "Grenelle of the Environment" which will take place in the second half of October. It was originally scheduled for September, but it was postponed until the second half of October, time for Nicolas Hulot finished filming.

Nicolas Sarkozy said at the opening of the preparatory meeting: "Le Grenelle de l'environnement will not be just another conference to establish the ecological emergency and conclude that we must act. The days of seminars is behind us. The time has come for action. "

Alain Juppe, announced the formation of several groups of preparatory work. He referred to six themes: the fight against global warming, conservation of biodiversity including fisheries resources, issues that link health and environment, rural development and agricultural policy, management of natural resources including water, and finally the issue of environmental governance.

"It is still a key moment : was in front of us a minister of state who has a very wide area, we have a president who tells us at this point is his desire and determination. I think we have enough work " welcomed Nicolas Hulot. This meeting is" a great sign of openness, "said the president also Yannick Jadot of Greenpeace.

Ecology is finally out of its ghetto and the future of the planet is taken head on by our new president and his government. Celebrating this historic and necessary, and we look forward to seeing you in late October to see what will actually come out of this "Grenelle Environnement".

To More:
1. Nicolas Sarkozy signed the Nicolas Hulot's Ecological Pact (Gaia)
2. The Fillon government (Chez Luc)
3. ecology in Elysée handshake "historic" and successful (TSR)
4. Green light for the Grenelle Environment (Le Figaro)

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4th IPCC report - the conclusions of the Group II



The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) IPCC in English, is an expert group established in 1988 by the UN. He organized three working groups :

- Le Groupe I, qui étudie les principes physiques et écologiques du changement climatique
- Le Groupe II, qui étudie les impacts, la vulnérabilité et l'adaptation au changement climatique
- Le Groupe III, qui étudie les moyens d'atténuer (mitigation) le changement climatique

Le GIEC doit présenter son 4ème rapport sur le changement climatique cette année.

Le Groupe I a présenté ses conclusions le 2 février 2007 à Paris .

Le Groupe II vient de présenter ses conclusions le 6 avril 2007 à Bruxelles.

Les points forts de ce rapport sont les suivants :

- 75 à 250 milions de personnes pourront manquer d'eau en Afrique d'ici 2020.
- Les rendements agricoles pourront augmenter de 20% en Asie de l'Est et du Sud-Est, mais pourront décroître de 30% en Asie Centrale et en Asie du Sud.
- L'agriculture non irriguée pourra chuter de 50% dans certains pays africains d'ici 2020.
- 20 à 30% de toutes les espèces végétales et animales seront menacées d'exctinction si les températures s'élèvent de 1,5 à 2,5°C.
- Les glaciers et le couvertures neigeuses devraient se réduire, réduisant la disponibilité en eau douce des pays alimentés par l'eau des glaciers.

"For the first time we will not wave his arms on the basis of empirical data derived from models, we can really measure" said Martin Parry, co-chairman of the Group II at a press conference.

If you click on the picture that illustrates some article, you'll fall on an interactive map of BBC (in English) detailing all points of the report.

For more information:
1. IPCC WGII web site (IPCC)
2. Climate Change 2007: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (IPCC WGII -. Pdf file)
3. Billions face climate change risk (BBC News)
4. Stark picture of a warming world (BBC News)
5. Climate change Around the World (BBC News)
6. The fourth IPCC report - Group I (Gaia)
7. IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (Wikipedia)

Photo credit: BBC

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2006: Fifth warmest year ever recorded



Last year at the same time, I told you that 2005 was the warmest year ever recorded .

The results for 2006 have just arrived: it ranks fifth, and therefore take the 2004 which took place earlier this rank behind, in order, 2005, 1998, 2002 and 2003.

And here is what gives the temperature curve which is at the bedside of our planet, with the average temperature reading for 2006:



This is an average temperature . But this average conceals very different situations depending on where you are on Earth. The distribution of surface temperature anomaly for 2006:



This diagram shows the temperature deviation in 2006 compared to averages temperatures observed from 1951 to 1980, as a reference. The deviation in ° C is given by the color code at the bottom of the scale of the image.

As you can see from this diagram, the warming is much more pronounced in the Arctic where it is around 3 ° C. At the same time, there are places where there is a very low warming or cooling, as in some ocean areas colored blue.

James Hansen, director of NASA GISS, said: "2007 should be warmer than 2006 because of the return of El Niño in the Pacific Ocean and Because of the continuous increase of the emission of greenhouse gas emissions by mankind. "

For more information:
1. 2006 Was Earth's Fifth Warmest Year (NASA)
2. The five years the warmest century (Gaia - February 4, 2006)
3. What is El Niño? (NASA Earth Observatory)

illustrations Credit: NASA

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The coastline is receding at Happisburgh



Pictured above you can see the evolution of the withdrawal of the English coast at the village of Happisburgh in Norfolk, on the banks the North Sea. On the left, the photo was taken in 1986, amid in 1999 and right in 2003.

In the upper part of the picture, you can see that the road from the beach and the houses that lined it disappeared. And bottom of the picture, most of the houses that were in the sea is already extinct, about the houses that line the road obliquely, they will disappear very soon, as you can see in the picture below taken January 25, 2007 :



In the photo above to can see that there were wooden fenders, which were built after the storm of January 31, 1953 where water had risen two feet on the Norfolk coast and had killed 80 people. Well, by a law passed by the British government in late 2006, it was decided that not rebuild the fences, which as you can see from the photo top right, have completely disappeared.

The British government has decided that it was worth the shot to spend money to protect the coast at Happisburgh. The argument of Clive Bates, a senior member of the Environment Agency is: "In fact, whatever we do to reduce émissions de gaz à effet de serre, nous allons devoir faire face à une montée des eaux d'environ un mètre sur la côte est de l'Angleterre pendant les 100 prochaines années. Ou bien nous ne seront pas capable de défendre nos côtes, ou bien cela coûtera trop cher. Un des points les plus délicats pour nous est de décider où nous ne pourrons plus maintenir une défense côtière, et où il faudra dire aux gens de s'en aller."

Pour en savoir plus :
1. Happisburgh coastal erosion (CCAG)
2. Britain abandons coastline defense (Yahoo news)
3. The East Coast Floods of 1953 (EDP24)

Credit: Environment Agency and Mike Page

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GMOs are dangerous to their health? The study accuses



The experts say eating GMO is safe for health. And every year come new GMOs on our plates. Yet today two new scientific studies show a toxic risk.

For 90 MINUTES, Michel Despratx tells the story of a secret study on GM corn. Under the guise of trade secret, the French Ministry of Agriculture would not make public the results, as they are disturbing. This study shows that the GM maize has caused lesions on the organs of laboratory rats which have eaten. How a French government agency responsible for ensuring the health of citizens and the European institutions, could they give the green light to GMO knowing that this study?

90 MINUTES conducted the survey in France, Germany, Luxembourg and the European Commission in Brussels.

The investigation revealed that another study on a GM soya made by Italian researchers Independent revealed that the mice suffered damage to their pancreas cells.

Pour en savoir plus :
1. Les OGM sont ils dangereux pour la santé ? L'étude qui accuse (90 minutes - 2003)
2. OGM : URGENT ! (Gaïa - avril 2006)

Crédit vidéo : transnationale.org

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Rape is in bloom in Tokyo



La photo que vous voyez ci-dessus a été prise à Tokyo le 11 février 2007. On peut y voir du colza en fleur.

A Tokyo, il n'est toujours pas tombé de neige ce 11 février. C'est du jamais vu, au moins depuis qu'on tient des registres à jour, c'est à dire au moins depuis 1876. Le dernier record date de 1960 when the first snow fell on a year was February 10.

In Tokyo, average temperatures in January was 7.6 ° C, the third month of January the warmest ever recorded.

For more information:
1. Snow breaks no-show record in Tokyo (stuff.co.nz)
2. Tokyo sets record Snowless (Yahoo news)

Credit: Kazuhiro Nogi