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According to the London Guardian, scientists have recorded a massive spike in the amount of a powerful greenhouse gas seeping from Arctic permafrost. The discovery highlights the risks of a dangerous climate tipping point.According to the London Guardian, scientists have recorded a massive spike in the... more
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A research team funded by the British government has found that global warming has caused a seven-fold increase in cases of malaria on the slopes of Mount Kenya.A research team funded by the British government has found that global warming has... more
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The scientist who convinced the world to take notice of the looming danger of global warming says it would be better for the planet and for future generations if the Copenhagen climate change summit ended in collapse.The scientist who convinced the world to take notice of the looming danger of global... more
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Four protesters were arrested after locking themselves to a 1.5 million pound generator on its way to a Duke Energy coal plant in Rutherford County, North Carolina. The protesters were aiming to prevent the generator, which had been traveling on a flatbed trailer from reaching the coal plant.Four protesters were arrested after locking themselves to a 1.5 million pound... more
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Three leading scientists who have just released a report documenting the accelerating pace of climate change say the so-called scandal that has erupted over hacked emails from climate scientists is nothing more than a smear campaign aimed at sabotaging climate talks in Copenhagen in December.Three leading scientists who have just released a report documenting the accelerating... more
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A new study has come out which has found that humanity would need the equivalent of five planet Earths to produce the resources needed if everyone consumed as much as Americans.A new study has come out which has found that humanity would need the equivalent of... more
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Leading scientists said this week that the world is now firmly on course for the worst-case scenario in terms of climate change, with average global temperatures rising by up to 6°C by the end of the century. Such a rise would have cataclysmic and irreversible consequences for the Earth, making large parts of the planet uninhabitable and threatening the basis of human civilization itself.Leading scientists said this week that the world is now firmly on course for the... more
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The word "REAL" has almost become an antiquated notion as we continue pushing forward into a culture of bloated, insatiable mass consumption. As it turns out, we kinda dig fake stuff. This fact comes in handy to scientists who are now singing the praises of mega fly swatter like objects called "synthetic trees." They claim that forests of these eyesores will be the answer to all of our excess atmospheric carbon dioxide woes, but it's hard to imagine the general population ever snubbing the real thing.The word "REAL" has almost become an antiquated notion as we continue... more
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You may think that you've considered the absolute MOST eco-friendly way to say buh-bye once you reach your final curtain call, but there's a crazy little thing called "promession" waiting in the wings...jumping up and down and screaming "pick me! pick me!" You might as well take a peek inside this article to see what all of the hullaballoo is about.You may think that you've considered the absolute MOST eco-friendly way to say... more
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Freshmen rapper Asher Roth releases music video to his instant classic debut song, “I Love College” on MTV.Freshmen rapper Asher Roth releases music video to his instant classic debut song,... more
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The greenhouse effect is the natural process by which the atmosphere traps some of the Sun's energy, warming the Earth enough to support life.
Most mainstream scientists believe a human-driven increase in "greenhouse gases" is increasing the effect artificially.
These gases include carbon dioxide, emitted by fossil fuel burning and deforestation, and methane, released from rice paddies and landfill sites.The greenhouse effect is the natural process by which the atmosphere traps some of the... more
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A Brief Summary of the Uses of Hemp
Our Challenge to the World: Try to Prove Us Wrong
If all fossil fuels and their derivatives, as well as trees for paper and construction were banned in order to save the planet, reverse the Greenhouse Effect and stop deforestation;
Then there is only one known annually renewable natural resource that is capable of providing the overall majority of the world’s paper and textiles; meeting all of the world’s transportation, industrial and home energy needs; simultaneously reducing pollution, rebuilding the soil, and cleaning the atmosphere all at the same time…
And that substance is—the same one that did it all before—
Cannabis Hemp…Marijuana!
Ships & Sailors
Ninety percent* of all ships’ sails (since before the Phoenicians, from at least the 5th century B.C. until long after the invention and commercialization of steam ships, mid-to late-19th century) were made from hemp.
*The other 10% were usually flax or minor fibers like ramie, sisal, jute, abaca, etc.
(Abel, Ernest, Marijuana: The First 12,000 Years, Plenum Press, 1980; Herodotus, Histories, 5th century B.C.; Frazier, Jack, The Marijuana Farmers, 1972; U.S. Agricultural Index, 1916-1982; USDA film, Hemp for Victory, 1942.)
The word “canvas”1 is the Dutch pronunciation (twice removed, from French and Latin) of the Greek word “Kannabis.”*
*Kannabis, of the (Hellenized) Mediterranean Basin Greek language, derived from the Persian and earlier Northern Semitics (Quanuba, Kanabosm, Cana?, Kanah?) which scholars have now traced back to the dawn of the 6,000-year-old Indo-Semitic European language family base of the Sumerians and Acadians. The early Sumerian/Babylonian word K(a)N(a)B(a), or Q(a)N(a)B(a) is one of man’s longest surviving root words.1 (KN means cane and B means two, two reeds or two sexes.)
In addition to canvas sails, until this century virtually all of the rigging, anchor ropes, cargo nets, fishing nets, flags, shrouds, and oakum (the main protection for ships against salt water, used as a sealant between the outer and inner hull of ships) were made from the stalk of the marijuana plant.
Even the sailors’ clothing, right down to the stitching in the seamen’s rope-soled and (sometimes) “canvas” shoes, was crafted from cannabis.*
*An average cargo, clipper, whaler, or naval ship of the line, in the 16th, 17th, 18th, or 19th centuries carried 50 to 100 tons of cannabis hemp rigging, not to mention the sails, nets, etc., and needed it all replaced every year or two, due to salt rot. (Ask the U.S. Naval Academy, or see the construction of the USS Constitution, a.k.a. “Old Ironsides,” Boston Harbor.)
(Abel, Ernest, Marijuana, The First 12,000 Years, Plenum Press, 1980; Ency. Britannica; Magoun, Alexander, The Frigate Constitution, 1928; USDA film Hemp for Victory, 1942.)
Additionally, the ships’ charts, maps, logs, and Bibles were made from paper containing hemp fiber from the time of Columbus (15th century) until the early 1900s in the Western European/American World, and by the Chinese from the 1st century A.D. on. Hemp paper lasted 50 to 100 times longer than most preparations of papyrus, and was a hundred times easier and cheaper to make.
Incredibly, it cost more for a ship’s hempen sails, ropes, etc. than it did to build the wooden parts.
Nor was hemp use restricted to the briny deep…A Brief Summary of the Uses of Hemp
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HOW THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT WORKS
CU Salon Series
How Serious Is Climate Change?
April 17, 2008 - Moderated by: Richard Brenne
Featured Panelists:
NCAR Social Scientist and IPCC Report author Dr. Patricia Romero Lankao
CU Atmospheric Science Department Chair Dr. Brian Toon
NCAR Social Scientist and IPCC Report author Dr. Kevin Trenberth
produced by OnSight Media
www.onsight-media.comHOW THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT WORKS
CU Salon Series
How Serious Is Climate Change?... more
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