Wednesday,
March 21, 2007
The
ANNOTICO Report
While 357 of
Sicilian species are in danger of extinction, Sardinia has 181 endangered
species,
Even
while one realizes that the Earth goes through prolonged Cyclical Temperature
Change, one must consider the immediate effects of Green House Gas Emissions,
and its effect on Global Warming.
Do
we fight it, or adapt, or both?? And
meanwhile consider how the Warm areas will become Desert, and the Mild
become Warm, and the Cold become Mild, and the Frigid become Cold.
Some
Random Thoughts:
That
Species that Adapts to it's changing environment
Survives. That which does Not becomes Extinct.
95%
of all Species having lived on Earth are Now Extinct.
Areas
once Prosperous with agricultural abundance, that did not, or could not change
crops with Climate change, slid into Poverty.
Many
do not realize that
Final
Note: How about your Beach property becoming Submerged
by the rise in ocean level as the result of Melting Polar Ice Caps?
Thanks
to Pat Gabriel
ANSA
March
21, 2007
The
study, prepared by the Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment
(ENEA), showed that 20% of this famously beautiful region is now semi-arid
land.
ENEA said the
regions humid areas, on the other hand, have fallen to 30% of the total as
global warming has hit rainfall levels.
The agency said these indicators suggests desertification is taking hold on
the island.
The experts
stressed that the risks for the regions agriculture are grave. Soil
erosion threatens to make it impossible to grow crops in many parts of the
island.
The report said
that
Indeed, almost a
third of Italian territory is vulnerable to desertification (32%), according to
the report, while 3.7% is classified as highly vulnerable.
Other parts of
southern
It is possible to
combat desertification with good soil fertilization, tree-planting programmes and the construction of barriers to stop the
advance of sand dunes.
But the
effectiveness of these efforts will inevitably be undermined by climate change,
which United Nations scientists say could cause average temperature to rise by as much as five degrees Celsius this century.
Global warming is
battering southern
As a result, 357
of Sicilian species are in danger of extinction, it reported. Sardinia has 181
endangered species,
On Tuesday
Premier Romano Prodi spoke about this problem, which
is taking up more and more space on
He called on
European governments to act decisively to put into practise
the climate-change package adopted by the European Union earlier this month.
The package included the ambitious target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions
by 20% by 2020.
Economy Ministry
Undersecretary Paolo Cento, however, warned that
In my
opinion the plan needs to be revised because it is not up to bringing about the
20% reduction in emissions
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