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(Gallery: Study: Arctic ice cap to melt in 10 years)

sunspotsSince global warming is actully caused by the Sun and not man. I am sure the reduced sunspot activity we are now experiencing will allow the artic to refreeze.RE: (Gallery: Study: Arctic ice cap to melt in 10 years)Best ViewSo you can choose listen radio streaming from worldwide.Just Click...

Tags: ice cap, Arctic, Gallery

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Maldives taking their final dive?

Will the island nation of Maldives disappear? Even Rupert Murdoch's Sky TV has reported on the uncertain future of the low-lying islands. And now the Maldives' president is asking the world to take action to save his tiny nation. Of course, Maldivians see their homeland threatened not...

Tags: Sea Level, Global Warming, Maldives, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-24

Political gaming around the Waxman-Markey bill

Political gaming around the Waxman-Markey billEvidence for your assertions, pleaseWhile there is at least weak scientific evidence that man contributes to global warming (I do not trust it, but at least some studies try to make the point), there is none for climate change causing weather events like hurricanes. ...

Tags: Messiah, hurricane, global warming, Waxman-Markey, life saving, sea level, game, Katrina

Discussion threads 2009-06-30

Ready for a rise?

Ready for a rise?Clear-eyed?*snort*More clear-eyed than the U.S., certainlyWe still can't convince the old-farts running the U.S. that climate change is real, much less get them to deal with ramifications like rising sea levels. Our lawmakers all have their heads too far up the butts of rich special interest groups...

Tags: sea level, Spelling Error

Discussion threads 2009-06-29

Ready for a rise?

Here's a book review at nature.com--it's a new book on sea level rise. This book does point to the public policy debate that is needed: what to protect, where to retreat? Of all the mainland nations on earth Netherlands has the most to lose...to rising oceans. How...

Tags: Sea Level, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-29

Who has the most to lose from rising sea levels?

Who has the most to lose from rising sea levels?Should the Feds stop selling flood insurance in these areas?One of the ripoffs to the American peopleis that the Federal Government sells floodinsurance to people who decide to live inareas overcome by periodic flooding once adecade or more often.I'll grant that...

Tags: Financial Planning, sea level, insurance

Discussion threads 2009-04-20

Who has the most to lose from rising sea levels?

Sure, Bengladesh is a low-lying country. We've seen what water does in New Orleans. There are entire low-lying COUNTRIES in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. High water would take a toll on atolls, of course. Amsterdam and much of northern Netherlands are famously threatened by high...

Tags: Sea Level, VENICE GOES GREEN Venice, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-20

Polar meltdown both north and south

Arctic Ice Cover maps. Courtesy University of Washington/NOAA. That's the March ice cover on the left, September on the right. The top pair show current conditions, the bottom maps show thirty year model: ice free summers. The U.S. Geological Survey has compiled data confirming...

Tags: Earth, Meltdown, Glacier, Sea Level, Ice Sheet, Sea Ice, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-04

Bob the apple?

Looks like Mother Nature may be getting ready for a little brutal game of bob the apple. That would be the Big Apple. Researchers in others states say America's largest metro area is in danger from global warming and rising sea levels. The Florida State/Illinois/New...

Tags: Sea Level, Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-16

Global warming and coastal real estate

Even if the real estate market eventually returns to pirce increases, you'd be wise not to invest in sea level properties. At least not this century. In a conference in Denmark this week, climate scientists warn the rising sea levels could go twice as high as previous projections...

Tags: Scientist, Sea Level, Global Warming, Real Estate, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-10

Climate change: less could mean more. That's not good

An update to the most recent IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] report warns that even smaller temperature increases could mean even larger real life changes than earlier IPCC projections. This study was authored by a panel of scientists whoare members of the IPCC. Apparently the IPCC formal...

Tags: Scientist, Sea Level, IPCC, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-02-24

Good news: Washington D.C. may be doomed to inundation

New projections of the effects of melting Anarctic ice caps: sea waves above Washington D.C. The researchers project sea level variation will not be uniform around the globe. It will be much higher in North America and the Indian Ocean. And, they say, if the entire West...

Tags: Washington D.C., Sea Level, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-02-07

Feeling low? So's Indonesia

Indonesia is hosting this week's climate change conference...and it's one of the nations most likely to feel the pain. At the conference in Bali international leaders and scientists are supposed to be looking for the next step in co-operative effort to curb global warming. That's after...

Tags: Conference, Indonesia, Sea Level, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-12-03

Greenland's ice belly is growing

Greenland's ice belly is growingWhat about displacement?"The influx of freshwater into the North Atlantic from any increase in melting from the Greenland Ice Sheet"One thing I never understood is why melting matters. The ice is displacing water anyway, so why should it cause ocean levels to rise when icebergs...

Tags: ice, global warming, sea level

Discussion threads 2005-11-08

Is administration to blame for comm failures during Katrina?

Is administration to blame for comm failures during Katrina?AdministrationSure, it,s got to be Bush, doesn't it?You guys really scrape to cover up problems caused by that wonderfull,honest,upright etc.etc.Clinton.blame,blame, blamethe first thing that happens after a disaster is the blame game. in this case blame the current administration in washington,d.c....

Tags: Workforce management, Financial Planning, sea level, Katrina, C.B., administration, insurance

Discussion threads 2005-09-01

WorldMage 1.0 (Windows)

WorldMage generates random world maps for use in role-playing games such as Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. WorldMage will instantly generate re-creatable maps of islands or whole worlds. Worlds can range through Small, Medium or Large. You can zoom in to get a better look at the geography and manually adjust...

Tags: Sea Level, VIO Systems, WorldMage, Microsoft Windows, Games, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2002-02-20

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Kerry-Boxer bill battle set for Tuesday

That is just the bipartisanship ........ President Obama campaigned on. Not!!!Harry leaves and we're all better offWhy don't you go somewhere else to blow off all this hot air and perhaps the U.S. emissions will be cut in half? :-)Harry's blogs: e-pollution on this IT tech site.ntLeveling the playing field...The...

Tags: Blogging, Arctic

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Another flashpoint in global warming warnings

"The sky is falling, the sky is falling"Chicken Little date unknownNo, the sky is not falling, but, there are wide ranging problems caused by global warming that people have to deal with right here, right now. Somebody actually has to deal with overflowing lakes. The eco system on our planet...

Tags: global warming, Sun Microsystems Inc., global warming warning, flashpoint

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Global warming? No, no, no, it ain't me, babe

Harry, cut the BS. Write about tech some time.or get a job.Stop Preaching...and writing in a condescending tone. You and Blanchenwhatshisname should start your own site and stop posting this junk to a TECH site. Throwing in a line at the end about Green Jobs doesn't mean your...

Tags: Gender and diversity, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-10-25

Americans are impatient with global warming

We Americans are rightfully known the world over for being impatient. Why haven't we won the war, it's been six weeks already? Where's my burger, I've been standing here fifteen seconds? Fast food. Fast cars. Fast lanes. Fast forward. Fast tweets from...

Tags: Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-22