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Effects of Global Warming-Today's News

Here's today's news on effects of Global Warming! Scary, but it is happening now. You may not have to wait for December 21, 2012 for Armageddon!

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NASA flies over Antarctica to measure ice melt

MAURICIO CUEVAS, AP

ABOVE ANTARCTICA — Hoping to better understand how a melting Antarctica could swamp the planet, a NASA plane outfitted with lasers and ground-penetrating radar made its first flight over the icy continent on Friday.

The DC-8 left Punta Arenas, Chile, on a mission to fly as low as 1,000 feet (300 meters) over Antarctica. Like the NASA satellite that has provided shocking data on how quickly Antarctic ice is disappearing, this plane will measure snow cover and ice thickness. But it also has equipment that will enable scientists to see under the ice shelves, measuring the water below.

The goal is to understand just how warm ocean currents may be pulling the ice sheets seaward, melting their undersides. These ice sheets are rapidly collapsing — as fast as nine meters (27 feet) a year according to a study published in the journal Nature last month. If they disappear, far greater ice masses that lie on Antarctic bedrock could then melt into the sea, submerging coastal communities around the globe.

Until now, the U.S. National Aeronautic and Space Administration has used satellites to track the impact of climate change in the Antarctic, but the satellite will be phased out at year's end. Friday's flight is the first of many planned as part of Operation Ice Bridge, to bridge the gap in data that would otherwise result before the next satellite goes up in 2015.

Investigators from the Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, the University of Washington and the University of Kansas also are on board for the 11-hour flights, running their own sets of instruments.

Blue or a Shade of Blue is My Favorite Color

I have several hundreds of pictures in my collection. But the top ten pictures that I love, because the they have the blue color as the dominant theme in the photograph. If you like the color blue, by all means, spent a few minutes looking at the following pictures.




Two Pictures of Carenna (My Pangga) in Purple-a shade of Blue indeed


Blue Seas and Sky of Balanacan Harbor, Mogpog, Marinduque

My Blue Orchid- My Princess Mikasa

Blue Starfish in Amoingon Beach, Boac, Marinduque


Ditas, Dinah, Elaine and Carenna in Blue at our Golden Wedding Anniversary

Chiqui's Jambalos Wedding and her entourage in blue

Dinah Katague King in her blue jacket during her pottery Show


Blue Skies at Grand Canyon


The Coral Reefs in the Philippines

Today is Blog Action Day, 2009

I am re posting my article on Global Warming I wrote about a year ago to celebrate Blog Action Day, 2009.

The Coral Reefs of the Philippines
Recently,I was reading the Philippine Inquire on line, my daily habit after retiring. There was a news item that Dr. Joey Comiso, a NASA physicist emphasized that global warming will affect the Philippines more because of our biodiversity both flora and fauna particularly our coral reefs. I can not agree more. Dr Comiso said that even a small rise in the ocean temperature will have a catastrophic effect on our coral reefs which could led to a chain of reaction until all the fish and others living creatures in the ocean perish. Scary but possible!.

So what can we do as ordinary citizens? There are several suggestions from several authors of what we can do as an individual. But the most important one that I always remember is to reduce our carbon emissions, by helping clean our environment, and used less fuel. The government however, has a major role in reducing carbon dioxide emissions in the environment. For example by regulating emissions from tricycles, and diesel buses , requiring catalytic converters or more efficient engines will definitely reduce the pollutants in big cities as Manila, Cebu, Baguio or Davao. Polluting the environment should be punished by monetary fines. The fines earned should be allotted to the clean-up of garbage, wastes and the environment.

Here's a short article on Blog Action Day.

"For those of you who don’t know, Blog Action Day is an annual event held every October 15th where bloggers across the world unite to write about a single issue on a single day. We like to think of it as one big blogfest for good, and our goal is to spark conversation on an issue of importance across the web.

This year’s topic is climate change, and we’ve thus far had more than 4,000 bloggers from 123 countries register, including many of the world’s largest blogs.

Our aim is to make Blog Action Day 2009 the largest social change event on the web as a demonstration of global concern about the climate crisis. To achieve this, we want to invite the entire Blogger community to get involved and commit to writing a single post about climate change on your blog on October 15th.

In addition to joining thousands of other bloggers, you’ll also be supporting the work of the dozens of leading nonprofits who are also participating – including Oxfam, 350.org, The Nature Conservancy, Greenpeace, The United Nations Foundation, and more than forty organizations affiliated with the TckTckTck campaign.

You can learn more about the issue of climate change and see sample topics you might write about at www.blogactionday.org. There you can also find additional ways to get involved by taking action with leading nonprofits and posting a snazzy widget to your blog.

Thanks so much for your support – we hope to have you all as part of the event!"

Rally for Truth and Transparency-Marinduque Power Crisis

Bishop Rey Evangelista at the Rally-photo by Toby Jamilla

I found this video on you Tube today. It is about time that Marinduquenos find out the truth on the reasons behind this Power Crisis in our beloved province. I salute Bishop Rey Evangelista, D.D. for his concerns and dedication to the welfare of all Marinduquenos.

For the last six months, I had been posting on my blogs to find out the truth on this crisis. Finally, some of the truth had come out. However, we still need more transparency on how our government conducts and awards projects to private corporation such as 3i Powergen.

What is the real reason why 3i Powergen was not able to fulfill its contract? Was there bribery involved? We need the truth! I do smell rotten eggs on the failed contract between the former Reyes Administration and 3iPowergen and Marelco. Marinduquenos need the TRUTH!

Cloyne Court, Episode Sixteen

Cloyne Court, Episode 16 By Dodie Katague Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Rated "R" by the Author. Based on a true story that took place in Berkeley, California in the late 1970s. _________________________________ "What is it with men and their need to overpower their natural environment?" Carrie, the lesbian, asked the day after Alan went on a Saturday afternoon marathon of loud music in the backyard. I said, "The only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.[1]" She huffed. "You men are all alike. You stick together even when you know you're wrong." "Wrong about what?" "His choice of music. Making fun of transvestites just leads to violence against transgender people. Besides, the Kinks are so passé." "Lola was only one song out of the dozens he played," I replied. I thought she should have objected to Alan's airing of Village People's Macho Man, which he played repeatedly. I was humming the chorus for days afterward. I told Alan what Carrie had said. The next Saturday he proclaimed it "Transgender and Cross-Dresser Appreciation Day" and recorded a cassette tape of songs that included Pink Floyd's Arnold Layne, Little Richard's Long Tall Sally, Led Zeppelin’s Royal Orleans, David Bowies's Rebel, Rebel, Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side and Monty Python's The Lumberjack Song, which he played repeatedly all afternoon. * * * Our third roommate was Mark or Mike or Matt. I never actually knew. Alan and I hardly saw him. When we did, he was asleep. He was an engineering student from the San Jose area, not far from Berkeley, so he went home most weekends. He may have had a girlfriend back home, but he was shy, didn’t talk much, and Alan and I didn’t get to know him well enough to learn anything about him. One weekend, Alan came into the room looking worried. He said, “I met some homeless dude downstairs. He doesn’t live here, but I think he sleeps in the basement. He knows I have some cool stereo equipment. I think he’s been peeking in our window.” “Alan, everyone with ears knows you have expensive stereo equipment. I think everyone within six blocks of this house knows you have loud, expensive stereo equipment.” “Well, I think we need to take some precautions. Someone may want to steal it." “What do you want to do?" “Let’s take a bed sheet and cover the window, so thieves can’t look into the room." We looked at all the possessions we owned in the world. We did not have a spare bed sheet to cover the window. Our absent roommate did. It was on his bed, neatly made. “Let’s use our roomie’s bed sheet. We’ll have to put it back on his bed when he returns Sunday night,” he said. He pulled the sheet off the bed. "We should use duct tape to hang that up," I said. "Naw, these thumbtacks will do just fine." For weeks, after Mark or Mike or Matt left for home on Friday afternoons, Alan removed the bed sheet from his bed and thumb tacked it over the window. Every Sunday afternoon, we would have to remember to take it down again and put it back on his bed. This worked fine until the end of the quarter during finals, when both of us forgot to remake his bed and Mark or Mike or Matt returned to find his property covering the window. He didn’t say a word. He took it down, made his bed and moved out at the end of the term. His only complaint, which he left in a written message in my telephone message box at the front switchboard, was there were thumbtack holes in his bed sheet. (I knew we should have used duct tape!) [1] However, as I was to discover in my mid-forties, the price of a sports car is inversely proportional to the amount of hair remaining on your head.

Note: We could have provided Dodie with bed sheets if he asked~ Dave and Macrine Katague