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ABRUPT CLIMATE DISASTER THREATRAISES CALL FOR EARLY WARNINGSYSTEM

The threat of sudden

climate change disasterfrom

the poles melting to farmlands

failingis real and requires an

early warning system, an expert

panel suggested on Tuesday.

Looking at "tipping points"

for global warming disasters, theNational Research Council panel

report on "abrupt" climate

impacts finds noteworthy risks of

sharp, sudden sea-level rise,

water shortages, and extinctions

worldwide in coming years and

decades.

"Climate change is real, it is

happening now, and we need to

deal with it," says James White of

the University of Colorado,

Boulder, who headed the panel.

"Step number one is to recognize

the points where we stand on the

t h r e s h o l d o f a b r u p timpacts." (See also "Global

W a r m i n g R e p o r t : 5

Takeaways.")

Ult imately, the report

envisions an abrupt climate

impact early warning system that

would be integrated into existing

warning systems for droughts,

floods, or other disasters and that

would bu i ld o f f current

ecological monitoring networks.

An Intergovernmental Panel

on Climate Change report

released earlier this year

concluded it was "very likely"that burning fossil fuels and

other industrial activities were

responsible for global warming,

most notably more than half of

the 1.3F (0.72C) rise in average

surface temperatures worldwide

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Lets Plan Together

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Earthquakes & Volcano

Activity Around the Globe

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An internationally agreed target to limit rises in global

average temperatures to within 2 degrees Celsius is around

double the threshold that would avoid catastrophic climate

change, a study by 18 eminent scientists said.

Governments decided in 2009 that such temperature

increases needed to be no more than 2 degrees C (3.6

Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels to avoid effects such as

more extreme weather, higher sea levels and ocean

acidification.

They aim to agree by 2015 on a global deal to cut thegreenhouse gas emissions blamed for climate change, but the

reductions will not come into force until after 2020.

Last month, a United Nations conference in Warsaw

kept alive hopes for the 2015 deal but nations made little

progress on committing to ambitious emission cuts to keep

the world on track towards the 2 degree target.

A study published in U.S.-based scientific journal PLOS

One on Tuesday said the 2 degree limit was too high and a

more appropriate target was around 1 degree C.

"Some climate extremes are already increasing in

response to warming of several tenths of a degree in recent

decades; these extremes would likely be much enhanced withwarming of 2 degrees C or more," the report's authors said

in a statement.

The scientists involved in the study are James Hansen

and Jeffrey Sachs of the Earth Institute at Columbia

University, Pushker Kharecha of the NASA Goddard

Institute for Space Studies, and 15 other climate experts from

universities and institutes across the world.

"An appropriate target is to keep global temperature

within or close to the temperature range in the Holocene -

the interglacial period in which civilization developed," they

said.

The Holocene is the current geological epoch that

started around 11,700 years ago and has experienced

relatively stable temperatures.

The world cooled slowly in the last half of the Holocene

but warming of 0.8 degree C over the past 100 years has

brought the global temperature back to near the epoch's

maximum, the study said.

Warming could be held to around 1 degree C if

emissions from burning fossil fuels were cut by 6 percent a

year from 2013 and by reforestation, which would result in

500 billion metric tons (551.16 billion tons) of cumulative

carbon in the atmosphere near the end of the century, the

study said.

However, if emissions continued to grow until 2020, they

would then have to be reduced by 15 percent a year to reach500 billion metric tons.

"The huge fossil fuel energy infrastructure now in place

makes it practically certain that the 500 (billion metric tons)

limit will be exceeded," the study said.

The United Nations' panel of climate experts has said

the world needs to stay within a 1 trillion metric tons "carbon

budget" to meet the 2 degree target.

However, this level would spur slower climate effects such

as ice melt and ocean acidification and result in warming of

3-4 degrees C, the PLOS One study said.

For more on this story visit: www.plosone.org

STUDY: TEMPERATURE LIMIT TOO HIGH TO

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MALAYSIA: WORSENINGFLOODS FORCE MOREEVACUATIONS

CN Asia, 5 December, 2013

The flood situation in Malaysias Pahang, Johor

and Terengganu states has worsened, with morevictims evacuated to flood relief centres (FRCs) on

Tuesday night.

In Pahang, more than 9,000 people were

evacuated to FRCs from five districts as of 8pm on

Tuesday, said a spokesman from the Pahang police

headquarters.

The rising water level has also forced

RapidKuantan, which operates 46 bus services in 13

routes in and around Kuantan, to stop its services

temporarily.

RapidKuantan chief executive officer Zainurul

Hakim Mohamad said due to the worsening floodconditions in and around Kuantan, operations were

fully suspended on Tuesday afternoon.

"People living in high-risk flood prone areas and

those living near rivers must be prepared for any

eventuality and follow instructions from the

authorities when necessary," he said.

Fore more on this story visit:

www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific

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EUROPE: EXTREME WEATHERBECOMING MORE FREQUENT

The Independent (Ireland), 5 December 2013

Droughts, floods and storms are becoming increasingly

frequent in global weather, a report has warned.

The new report from the European Academies Science

Advisory Council declared there is an urgent need for

action from governments and at EU level.

The report on extreme weather events highlights a rise

of 60 percent in the cost of damage caused by extreme

weather across Europe in the past three decades.The report said it was vital that Europe's policymakers

devise common strategies to help mitigate the physical,

human and economic costs.

To obtain a copy of the report which is based on a

collection of scientific data from the last 20 years visit:

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EARTHQUAKES AROUNDTHE GLOBE THIS WEEK

5.1 TONGA

5.1 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS

5.3 SULAWESI, INDONESIA

5.7 SOUTH OF FIJI ISLANDS

5.0 KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION

5.4 ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE

5.4 ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE

5.6 MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES5.3 VOLCANO ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION

5.2 NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN

5.0 KEPULAUAN TALAUD, INDONESIA

5.0 EASTER ISLAND REGION

5.5 SOUTH OF AFRICA

5.3 SIMEULUE, INDONESIA

5.7 SOUTHEAST OF LOYALTY ISLANDS


5.7 SOUTHEAST OF LOYALTY ISLANDS5.4 FIJI REGION

5.0 SOUTHERN XINJIANG, CHINA

5.1 DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

5.1 GUERRERO, MEXICO

5.5 OFF COAST OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

5.8 SIMEULUE, INDONESIA6.5 KEPULAUAN BARAT DAYA, INDONESIA

5.1 SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS REGION


6.5 KEPULAUAN BARAT DAYA, INDONESIA5.1 GUERRERO, MEXICO

5.0 SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS REGION

5.4 DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

LIPPO GROUP AIDSREFUGEES OF MT.SINABUNG VOLCANICERUPTION

Jakata Globe, 5 December 2013

The Lippo Group handed out the

aid to refugees in Kabanjahe, North

Sumatra, who have been evacuated

following a series of eruptions by the

Mount Sinabung volcano.

Lippo Group hopes the aid that

we bring can ease the suffering

experienced by people who have toevacuate because of Mount Sinabung

eruption, Lippo Group president

director Theo L. Sambuaga said on

Thursday.

The company handed food,

medicine, blankets and sanitary

products to the evacuees.

The Center for Volcanology and

Geological Disaster Mitigation

(PVMBG) has recorded Sinabungs

increasing volatility since Nov. 1

raising the alert level from normal to

high on Nov. 3.

Between Saturday evening and

Sunday morning, the volcano became

significantly more unstable, with at

least nine eruptions in the short period

prompting the alert level change. The

PVMBG has urged the evacuation ofthousands of residents of 19 villages

within a 5-kilometer radius of the

crater, as well as four other villages

outside the range, to the southeast,

citing the direction of the eruption.

In its latest update, the National

Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB)

said at least 6,300 people had been

evacuated from around the 2,640-

meter-high volcano, but that thousands

more still had to be evacuated.

Torrential rain in Berastagi aroundSinabung led to tragedy on Saturday

after the buildup of surface water

triggered a landslide that killed nine

people as authorities continued to

patrol villages in the area.

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Last weekend, the United Nations Framework

Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

wrapped up its 19th Conference of the Parties

(known as COP 19) in Warsaw, Poland. Theconference was the international communitys

latest attempt to build toward meaningful solutions

to climate change and brought together 190

nations to develop a roadmap for international

climate action through 2015. The primary

objective of the conference was to prepare for

COP 21 in Paris in 2015, when current plans call

for a major new global deal to replace the Kyoto

Protocol. This deal would serve as a binding

agreement on emissions reduction and climate

action for the international community and go

into effect in 2020. Numerous setbacks at COP

19, however, slowed and shifted much of the

preparatory work to next years COP 20 in Lima,

Peru. Despite this, there was also some significant

progress, particularly in climate finance, that left

observers with cause for optimism going forward.

To prepare for the 2015 deal, negotiations at

COP 19 focused on the key topics of finance,

equity, and loss and damage (L&D). The latter

proved a particularly contentious issue as

developing nations pushed for L&D, including

provisions for compensation and reparations, to be

added alongside mitigation and adaptation as a

pillar of the UNFCCC. Developing nationssought a binding agreement committing richer

countries to bear the brunt of financial

responsibility for climate impacts. Richer

countries, meanwhile, resisted this move and

wanted to delay further L&D discussions until

after 2015. This impasse led China and the G77

group of 133 developing nations to walk out of

L&D negotiations at one stage. Negotiations later

continued, ultimately leading to the creation ofthe Warsaw Mechanism on Loss and Damage,

which will address the issue within an adaptation

framework for at least three years.

Climate ambition was also a driving force in

the talks. Countries were expected to outline their

targets for reducing climate pollution in detail, but

many developed countries resisted doing so. In

part, this was because of concerns about related

costs and economic impact, and in part because

they were reluctant to define these targets unless

large carbon polluters like China and India did

the same. Developing countries were equally

hesitant to provide clearer targets without

wealthier and higher emitting nations taking the

first step.

Meanwhile, parallel external events were

adding both urgency and controversy to the talks.

Just before COP 19 began, Super Typhoon

Haiyan hit the Philippines with devastating force,

killing over 5,000 people. Naderev Yeb Sao,

the Philippines delegate, began a voluntary fast in

protest of climate inaction for the duration of the

COP. The move spurred a lot of support around

the world, including a cross-platform petition

calling for swift emissions reductions and adequateadaptation and mitigation financing. The petition

has exceeded 700,000 signatures.

F o r m o r e o n t h i s s t o r y v i s i t :

www.theclimaterealityproject.org

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ABRUPT CLIMATEDISASTER THREAT

Worries about tipping

points in the climate and

resu l t ing abrupt c l imatedisasters, such as ocean currents

halting or "runaway" global

warming, have figured in

climate science for more than a

decade, most notably in a 2002

NRC report and in warnings

from Columbia University

climate scientist James Hansen.

The new report differs from

past ones in taking continued

global warming as inevitable

and looking for impacts onhumanity and animals, not just

geophysical and weather effects

like melting glaciers or drought.

"The report is a break from

the past in that it includes

a b r u p t c h a n g e s i n t h e

environment that can result

f rom even smal l , s teady

increases in temperature orother climate change effects,"

says geoscientist Peter Clark of

Oregon State University in

Corvallis, who was not on the

report panel. "I think that is an

important point [that] the

report is making."

Panelists examined a wide

range of abrupt climate

impacts, ranging from the

collapse of the West Antarctic

Ice Sheet to sharp drops inocean oxygen levels.

For more on this story visit:

news.nationalgeographic.com

3 6 , 0 0 0 T I M E SPERMISSIBLE LEVELSFOUND IN WATER ATFUKUSHIMA PLANT

Manchini.jp, 3 December, 2013

The operator of the disaster-hit

Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plantsaid on Dec. 2 that it has detected

radioactive materials that topped

36,000 times the permissible level in

underground water extracted in the

area.

According to plant operator Tokyo

Electr ic Power Co. (TEPCO),

strontium-90 and other radioactive

substances that emit beta rays were

detected at a level of 1.1 million

becquerels per liter in underground

water pumped up from an observatorywell on Nov. 28. The well is located at

a sea bank east of the No. 2 reactor,

about 40 meters from the ocean.

T h e a m o u n t o f d e t e c t e d

radioactive materials hit the highest

level since Nov. 25, which marked

910,000 becquerels per liter of

underground water. The national

a l l o w a b l e e m i s s i o n l e v e l f o r

strontium-90, a typical radioactive

isotope that emits beta rays, is less than

30 becquerels per liter of water.TEPCO said radioactive levels in

seawater within the harbor around the

plant do not show any major change.

It has been feared that highly

contaminated water is leaking to the

ground from a trench that stretches

from the No. 2 reactor building to the

sea bank. The radioactive isotope

detected this time suggests the

possibility of radioactive materials

remaining outside the trench.

Nor iyuk i Ima izumi , a c t ing

manager of TEPCO's Nuclear Power

and Plant Siting Division, told a news

conference that the company needs to

investigate the matter in relation to

other radioactive substances that leaked

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This is an ethical and moral issue of the first

order. If animals are so like us that we can

substitute them for testing instead of using

humans, then surely those animals have the very

attributes (ability to suffer physically and

psychologically, conscious awareness) that mean

they deserve to be respected and protected from

harmas we would wish for ourselves.

It is easy to think that animal experimentation

has nothing to do with the average Australian

but it does. Any person who donates to a medical

charity is potentially assisting to fund research

involving animals. Therefore it is necessary to

have a basic understanding of the issues, the

impacts on animals and the alternatives, to allow

an informed decision to be made as to whether it

is appropriate to financially support what has

become a multi-billion dollar industry.

Animal experimentation and the invasive useof animals for teaching, is inherently wrong. The

use of animals in research and teaching is more

about tradition and history than it is about

science. Animals Australia is not opposed to

scientific progress, but we are opposed to the use

of animals in the pursuit of that progress.

Animal research has become big business

Today it is a multi-billion dollar industry,encompassing the pharmaceutical and chemical

industries and university and government bodies.

There is also a significant industry providing

support services in relation to animal research,

including animal breeding, food supply, cage

manufacture, etc.

More than six million animals are used

annually in research and teaching in Australia and

New Zealand. Many (but not all) those animals are

subjected to some degree of pain and/or stress

during the experimental procedure or as a result

of the environment in which they are kept prior to

and/or after the procedures. Australia does not yet

publish national animal research and teaching

statistics, but most States now gather them and

publish them separately. See the statistics at

Humane Research Australia.

Research and teaching using animals cover

wide areas of activity. The public perception that

animal-based research primarily takes place in the

field of medicine is false. Animal-based research is

widely used in agriculture and basic scientific

research in relation to which the argument animal

research saves (human) lives does not apply. Find

out more about the types of research involvinganimals.

To read more: www.animalsaustralia.org

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THOUGHT ABOUTEATING SUSTAINABLY?

The very building blocks of the

current global food system arable

land, water, fuels and chemical

fertilisers are close to reaching their

limits. We must build an alternative

food future which produces enough

food to feed the world, whilst reducing

demand on these scarce resources.Luckily, there are alternatives. We can

all focus on eating sustainably, restoring

our land and water systems to health,

reducing reliance on chemical fertilisers

and pesticides and trying out long-

forgotten seeds and breeds.

Here are some ideas from Oxfam:

Support Organic Farmers

Eat Sustainable Seafood

Reduce Packaging

Eat Less Processed Foods

Grow Sustainably At Home

Eat on the Wild Side

Shop Ethically

For more visit: www.oxfam.org.au

THOUGHT ABOUTBEING A VEGETARIAN?

For those of us who were brought

up by our parents to eat meat, it can be

difficult to imagine enjoying a dinner of

'meat and three veg' minus the meat!

But the truth is, vegetarian cuisine

opens up a whole new world of exciting

ingredients, tastes and flavours. Many

people report losing excess weight, and

having more vitality and energy as

added advantages of making the switch.

And the best news is, it's easy!

Kicking the Meat Habit

Some people kick the meat habit

cold 'turkey'. Others need time to make

the transition. Find what is right for you.

Here are some suggestions to get

started:

Start with one animal, and takethem out of your diet (try starting with

chickens, or pigssome of the most

abused animals raised for meat).

Substitute with vegetarian alternatives

such as tempeh, tofu, or mock meats.

Continue removing different animals

until you have adopted an entirely

animal-free diet.

Pick one day each week to eat only

vegetarian meals. Increase the number

of meat-free days each week over time.

Start with your favourite dish, andadjust the recipe to make it vegetarian.

With many meat-free substitutes

available, this should be easy. Work your

way through your culinary repertoire

until all your meals are vegetarian.

Switch to vegetarianism with a

friend! Sharing the experience can be

fun and you will have someone to share

recipes with.

While a varied and balanced

vegetarian diet will contain all the

necessary nutrients for good health

(including ample protein and iron),

some people may still need help shaking

the meat addiction. Fortunately there

are an increasing number of 'mock

meats' available with a taste and texture

remarkably like the 'real' thing, but

without the saturated animal fats, heart-

clogging cholesterol and cruelty. You'll

find a variety of veggie sausages at your

supermarket, as well as luncheon, veggie

mince, meatless schnitzel and more.Visit your health food store or Chinese

supermarket for an even larger range of

meat alternatives.

Ways to Get Active

Soyou realise that adopting a

healthy plant-based diet is the single

most powerful way to help end cruelty

to animalsand that it will help to save

the planetbut what are you going to

do about it?

1. Pledge to be Veg!Make thepledge now, if you

havent already! Ask your friends and

family to join you in making the pledge,

to protect animals, the planet, and their

own health.

2. Leave a Trail of WhyVeg.com

Flyers Wherever You Go

Armed with the new WhyVeg.com

flyer, getting the word out couldnt be

easier. Leave some in waiting rooms at

the dentists, doctors and vets surgery

(where people are searching for things to

read!), bulletin boards, on counters at

your local health-food store, or at your

own business if you have one. With very

little effort you can even leaflet to

pedestrians on the street. Got a place in

mind? Click here to order your

WhyVeg.com leaflet pack!

3. Talk to Local Restaurants and

Supermarkets

Its simple. Write to, or talk to the

manager at your local supermarket toask them to stock more alternatives to

animal products. Ask restaurants in your

area to include or expand on their

vegetarian menu.

4. Speak Up!

Most people have no idea that the

global livestock industry is responsible

for more greenhouse gas emissions than

all the worlds planes, trains and

automobiles combinesor that by

eliminating animal products from their

diet they can increase their lifeexpectancy and reduce their risk to

some of themajor threats to human

health. Tell your friends and family!

5. Donate

Help us to spread the word even

further. Your donation to Animals

Australia will help to expose the cruelty

of factory farming, and fund vital public

awareness campaigns.

For more visit: WhyVeg.com

Nothing will benefit

human health and

increase chances for

survival of life on Earth as

much as the evolution to

a vegetarian diet.

Albert Einstein
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Agence France-Presse, 4 December 2013

A comet that grabbed attention worldwide for

being likened to a massive snowball in space didn't

survive its brush with the Sun last week, NASA

has confirmed.

"Though the exact time of ISON's death is

uncertain it does appear to be no more. All that isleft is a cloud of debris without a nucleus," Alex

Young of the NASA Goddard Space Flight

Center told AFP in an email on Tuesday.

Dubbed the "Christmas Comet", the icy giant

described as a massive, dirty snowball skimmed

past the Sun at a distance of just 1.1 million

kilometres around 1830 GMT on Thursday (0530

AEDT on Friday).

It had been estimated that ISON would

undergo temperatures of 2700 Celsius and lose

three million tonnes of its mass per second as it

made its journey around the sun.Most astronomers had predicted the comet,

with an estimated diameter of some 1.2

kilometres, would not survive the flypast.

Still, some observers had held out a sliver of

hope that the 4.5 billion-year-old comet might

have survived.

Karl Battams, a scientist at the Naval

Research Laboratory, wrote a brief obituary for

the comet, formally known as C/2012 S1 (ISON)

after the telescope called the International

Scientific Optical Network used by the Russian

astronomers who spotted it in 2012.

"Never one to follow convention, ISON lived

a dynamic and unpredictable life, alternating

between periods of quiet reflection and violent

outburst," Battams wrote.

"Survived by approximately several trillion

siblings, Comet ISON leaves behind an

unprecedented legacy for astronomers, and the

eternal gratitude of an enthralled global

audience."

SPACELIFE

COMET ISON IS CONFIRMED DEAD

PLANETLIFE

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U F O S I G H T I N G A TF U L L B R O O K W I N D

FARM IN DEVON

International Business Times, 3 December 2013

A mysterious object was caught on camera

hovering above Fullabrook wind farm in Devon,

UK last Saturday. A gray coloured flying saucer

shape was seen floating above West Country

turbines in broad daylight. It is speculated that

aliens are observing Earth and they may evenhave chosen the perfect landing pad, the vast

lush green fields of a West Country wind farm.

The large , ova l - shaped ob ject was

unintentionally captured by a professional

photographer, Rob Tibbles who was taking

pictures of the wind farm between Ilfracombe

and Barnstaple. When he examined his footage

later on, he learned he had captured an

unidentified object floating and hovering above

the turbines. He zoomed in on the object and

was still clueless as to what it could actually be.

For more on this story visit: http://

au.ibtimes.com/articles/526983/20131203/ufo-

s i gh t ing -un ident ified -fly ing -ob jec t -uk -

england.htm#.UqEX5jkrHph.


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