Climate Change - Global Warming - Global Warning

WOW

WARNING CO2 says the sign -
could this be the first warning sign of Global Warming?

Perhaps this is a sign to remind us to
turn down the central heating,
turn off the air conditioning, and
turn off electrical equipment on standby.

This has been processed to deliberately warm the colours by increasing the saturation by 60%.

Perhaps this gives some idea of what it will be like in 20 years time with climate change.
Well, there's nothing like a bit of exaggeration to get a point across.

The background facts:
Carbon dioxide levels have been rising steadily in the atmosphere,
at a rate faster than that documented during the last 60 million years, and probably more.

The rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide is mostly related to the burning of carbon in fossil fuels: coal, oil, gas and lignite, as well as wood.

Burning peat and draining wetlands also contributes to the increase in CO2
.
Deep water in the oceans removes some of the carbon dioxide produced, which slowly acidifies the sea.
Eventually, as the deep cold ocean water slowly warms up, it will start to release the stored carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

At present, a small amount of carbon dioxide is removed from the carbon cycle by the additional growth of forests in Scandinavia and eastern North America.

Biofuels, particularly those made from forestry waste, may be part of the solution.
Growing biofuels on agricultural land has no net benefit, as carbon dioxide is produced by the cultivation with oil based chemical fertilisers and tranpsort of the raw materials. Biofuels including ethanol is much better produced from wood waste than sweetcorn. Oilseed rape and sunflower seed oil to produce substitutes for deisel also require energy for fertilisers, transport and extraction.

The rise in global temperatures leads to more extreme weather,
as well as climate change producing hotter and in places a colder , as well as wetter and drier climatic patterns in different parts of the world: the long term concerns are that will lead to major changes in population.

This year (2006), England has had the warmest July and September since records began.
September 2006 has been on avarage 3 degrees centigrade warmer than normal.
The winter of 2006-7 has been exceptionally mild, as across most of the northern hemisphere.
The spring of 2007 has seen warm tempteraures producing plant growth and flowering two to three weeks earlier than normal, followed by exceptionally high rainfall and floods in June.

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I have had several requests to publish this image:
It has been used by Oxfam UK in an information leaflet to promote thier camgaigns.
Christine Gable, a writer specializing in alternative energy, food and nutrition has used it to illustrate a web article. on Alternative Fuels.
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SorbyRock says:

Posted to the Sheffield Guesswhere group.
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

digitalVerve says:

Ouch... those are intense colors.

--
Seen in 1-2-3
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

Neville_S says:

Neat shot

3-2-1
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

deephalo says:

I like vivid colours but if the wall were red it would be better (for my taste.)
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1-2-3
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

cobalt123 says:

Great sign and comment here! Seen in 3-2-1 just now.
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

Janet Leadbeater says:

fabulous photo, excellent message
(have you seen the website, Breathing Earth?)
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

isa13 says:

Thanks for reminding us of the great dangers of Global Warming. Very needed message. have you seen the film by Al Gore ?
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

dreamymo says:

this is great-- would you consider adding this picture to the LIVE THE CHANGE group (www.flickr.com/groups/livethechange)
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

km6xo says:

Thanks for picking my photo of the Dendrite, I like your's also.
We just moved here to Missouri and I would call the weather here global cooling compared to California.
John...
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Merkur* says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Global warming - we CAN stop it !!!, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

Merkur* says:

You have been awarded a Polar Bear Award

for contributing to global warming awareness
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

melcir.meri says:

What a great image!! -- You have been awarded the
"FIRST - THE EARTH!" Photo-ART Competition Exhibition" />
Green Gecko Award

for helping raise awareness of The State of the Planet, and our future!
-- You are invited to join us, in CAT. # 2 - 'EARTH'S GROWING CRISES', or just add your image to the group. Please enter TAG, "FIRST - THE EARTH!", and leave TAGS open. - Mel [Group Admin]
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

pericoterrades says:

Ya nos vale!! En ese lugar por lo menos avisan. Y dónde nos vamos?
polarbear
for contributing to global warming awareness
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

Charles Machado says:

Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Kat Jewell says:

Love this one!!! It should be on a poster beside a shrinking glacier or a polar bear.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

net_efekt says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Oxfam GB, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

laurent jung says:

Superbe photo qui pose une question essentielle
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

sabin_2136 [deleted] says:

Wow, fantastic shot...
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

Donna62 says:

A great image, much admired by Donna62 --,
a "FIRST - THE EARTH!" member - www.flickr.com/groups/first-the-earth/
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

seitlich says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called throwaway society, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

davidad64 says:

Sorry to introduce a cynical note into all these green comments. If any of you as individuals really want to do something about Global Warming - Stop eating-stop breeding- stop breathing in any order you choose.
My big 3l car creates CO2 only when I drive it (less than 5000m/annum) on the other hand I have been producing CO2 for the last 73 years, day and night without stopping In that time think how many trees have been felled worldwide, how many domestic animals have been bred and killed for food by how many millions of people and they all unceasingly produce CO2 and other gasses. People not power stations are the problem. IF YOU CARE PRAY FOR A GLOBAL EPIDEMIC THAT KILLS US ALL OFF! (except me of course)
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

green cars says:

Great picture can i use it on my blog it`s about global warming
www.220kg.com/blogs/Globalwarming/
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

R-Rated Birdman of Hell Paso says:

LOL! Global warming. Too funny.
The chicken little groups favorite boogey man for now.
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

89AKurt says:

People better start killing themselves now to save the earth!
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

Gert Stobbe (infinity.club) says:

"The rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide is mostly related to the burning of carbon in fossil fuels: coal, oil, gas and lignite, as well as wood."

Wrong... More than 70% of all the CO2 in the atmosphere is there as a direct and indirect result of land clearing and deforestation!

Also, more than 70% of the increase in temperature is a direct and indirect result of land clearing and deforestation!

We can't stop global warming by cutting carbon emissions before all animal life is extinguished by methane emissions emanating from methane hydride deposits at the bottom of the ocean... These methane hydride deposits are destabilising as a result of rising temperatures.

The only way to stop the methane (CH4) -- is by cooling the ocean by 1.5 degrees centigrade.
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

SorbyRock says:

In reply to Gert Stobbe at the infinity.club, I should perhaps clarify that not all the harmful burning of wood carbon is for energy, and that clear burning as a method of deforestation for land clearance can be also be seen as "burning wood". As with the bonfire in your backyard, all this wasteful burning contributes to the rise in atmospheric and oceanic CO2.

Planting extensive areas with trees, pollarding urban trees rather than felling and encouraging permaculture (fruit trees and shrubs rather than annual crops) will also help slow the current rise in CO2 levels.

The methane trapped in methane hydride is indeed a potential, second phase problem. It is the rise in surface oceanic water temperatures that is the main problem, rather than the deep ocean water.
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

Carbonfund says:

A sign of the times. Such vibrant colors!

Jen Hawse
jhawse@carbonfund.org
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Ricky Cabrera says:

I like your picture it really shows what global warming is.
My name is Ricardo Ortiz and I am working in a enviromental campaing. Dont you mind if I can borrow your picture for this cause.
I will be still in contact with you
thanks
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

OrangUtanSam says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

dvness says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Found Typography, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

:s:k:y:clark:i:n:g: says:

isn't that the basis of ALL life?......
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

:s:k:y:clark:i:n:g: says:

no worries..... barry obama has a plan to block the sun's strong rays...

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! ..... boy, what a shameful group of leaders we have...
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

Gert Stobbe (infinity.club) says:

@ Clark Norris: As all life on Earth is carbon based... carbon not CO2, is most certainly the basis of all life on Earth... CO2 is the source of the carbon that all forms of vegetation (plants) use to make the building blocks and fuel (food) that sustains all life on Earth.

“Photosynthesis” – is the process by which all plants capture sunlight and use this solar energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen and split carbon dioxide into carbon and oxygen... Carbon and hydrogen are then re-combined to make hydrocarbons – and carbon, hydrogen and a little oxygen are re-combined, to make carbohydrates and the remaining oxygen is released into the atmosphere, maintaining the oxygen level that is needed by all animals... Hydrocarbons and carbohydrates are the building blocks and the fuel of all life on Earth... Only plants can make this food and fuel and they need CO2 to make it... Hydrocarbons and carbohydrates are like a battery that is charged with solar energy and stores solar energy.

CO2 is not the cause of global warming and climate change... CO2 only contributes to warming, because we have removed too much vegetation and consequently not enough solar energy is being stored... If we had kept all the trees and allowed the Earth’s vegetation canopy to expand... then the same amount of CO2 that we now have in our atmosphere, would be contributing to the cooling of the Earth, instead of the heating of the Earth.

CO2 is known as a greenhouse gas... and is added to greenhouses... Not, because it warms the greenhouse... but, because it makes the plants grow faster... If you have two identical greenhouses, that contain identical types and volumes of plants and receive identical amounts of sunlight... and you fill one with an oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere (no CO2) and seal it... and fill the second with normal air, to which you add CO2 so that the concentration of CO2 is above one thousand parts per million and seal it... You will find that #1 will warm more than #2 and #2 may even cool, if the concentration of vegetation is dense enough.
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

aardvark. says:

I'd love it if you'd add this to our Climate Change group:
www.flickr.com/groups/kyotoplus/
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

The Guardian on Flickr says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called A message to Copenhagen, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Cheers,
Adam
Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )

Gert Stobbe (infinity.club) says:

WARNING: If we continue with our plans to sequestrate CO2, we will NOT stop global warming... We will only make things worse and eventually make it impossible to ever stop and reverse global warming and climate change.

CO2 is NOT the cause of global warming... CO2 is NOT a pollutant... CO2 does NOT produce any heat... CO2 actually helps to cool the Earth... And things would be much worse, if we did not have the elevated levels of CO2 that we now have.

CO2 is the MOST important gas on Earth... Life would not and could not exist without CO2... ALL life on Earth is carbon based... and the carbon that makes life possible... Is obtained, by plants from CO2 trough the process of photosynthesis... A process that stores solar energy and keeps the Earth cool.

Global warming is the result of depleting Earth's vegetation and reducing the amount of solar energy being stored by plants... Energy that is now simply HEATING the Earth.

My only interest is in resolving the issue of global warming/climate change... We are rapidly running out of time... We urgently need to take the right action before it is too late!

Global warming can only be stopped by storing sufficient solar energy... For this we need to urgently restore all the vegetation that we have lost, plus 20% extra to compensate for the warming that has occurred and the heat that we generate...

This vegetation can only be grown in the desert!
Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )

davidad64 says:

Gert Strobe: If only your assertion that ALL life on earth is carbon based were true. Some is SILICON based - that is why politicians, industrialists and bankers have rocks in their heads
If people would understand that when 'someone in power', the above plus religious leaders, sociologists etc say such and such a policy is for 'OUR GOOD' what they really mean is its for the benefit of their vested interests.
My father said to me shortly after I started school, 'Don't accept on trust what people tell you. Think about it and if you are in doubt, assume it is not true.'
Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )

Gert Stobbe (infinity.club) says:

davidad64: Silicon based life flourishes only in science-fiction... Some scientists speculate the possibility of silicon based life somewhere in the universe... But on Earth, no such thing... and petrified brains don't count as silicon based life.

As for your comment on 'those who are in power'... you are spot-on... that's why they have adopted a failed policy of 'carbon trading and carbon reduction'... because it will generate mountains of revenue...

We can only hope that some of 'the powers that be' will resist the temptation of believing their own hype and have the wisdom and fortitude to use this revenue to do what is really needed to stop global warming... like increasing water evaporation... to increase cloud-cover... and deflect some of the sun's energy that is now simply heating the Earth... to provide the water that is needed to re-grow the lost vegetation that will keep the planet cool... to capture and reticulate the water to where it is needed... to detoxify the ocean and recover the CO2 that has turned to carbonic acid... to seed the ocean with iron and stimulate the growth of plankton... to insure that there is enough CO2 available to do the job of re-vegetating and cooling the Earth.

This is what is needed... but it is expensive... and there is no profit in this... at least, it keeps the planet alive... and insures that profits may again be made in the future.

Let us hope !!!... that they will NOT simply use this money to prop-up and further enrich those that are now pillaging and destroying the planet... What use will that wealth be when there is no life left on Earth???
Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )

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