Monday, January 5, 2015

FROM THE NASA EARTH OBSERVATORY.

Hello gentle readers, Australia is burning again! I feel terrible for the slow moving animals who won't be able to escape the wildfires. Check out the Earth Observatory below.

 Shades of Pompei! In other news a volcano has erupted and buried a town in Fogo. I have not seen anything on my local news stations and so visit this web site..http://www.mrietze.com/web13/Fogo14.htm

 [nh-weekly] 05 January 2015 -- Natural Hazards Updates
The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days.
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-- FIRES (2 updated events, 2 new images) --

BUSHFIRE IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA
High temperatures and strong winds fueled destructive wildfires near Adelaide, Australia, in January 2015.
* http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=85020&src=nha
*** Image from Jan 03, 2015 (Posted on Jan 05, 2015 10:06 AM)

OIL FIRE, LIBYA
An oil fire in As Sidr sent plumes of thick plumes smoke drifting over the Mediterranean Sea and the Sahara desert in December 2014.
* http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=85009&src=nha
*** Image from Dec 29, 2014 (Posted on Dec 31, 2014 4:53 PM)

-- SEVERE STORMS (2 updated events, 2 new images) --

SNOW IN THE U.S. WEST
Much of the U.S. West entered 2015 under a blanket of snow.
* http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=85017&src=nha
*** Image from Jan 01, 2015 (Posted on Jan 02, 2015 7:17 PM)

SNOW IN GREAT BRITAIN
A storm brings high winds and snow to England and Wales.
* http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=85013&src=nha
*** Image from Dec 28, 2014 (Posted on Dec 31, 2014 6:49 PM)

-- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (2 updated events, 2 new images) --

UNDERSEA ERUPTION NEAR TONGA
In late December 2014, an undersea volcano began erupting near Hunga Tonga and Hunga Ha'apai in the Polynesian islands.
* http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=85000&src=nha
*** Image from Dec 29, 2014 (Posted on Dec 31, 2014 3:02 PM)

ERUPTION AT FOGO
On November 23, this volcanic island in the Cabo Verde archipelago began erupting lava and volcanic gases.
* http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=84987&src=nha
*** Image from Dec 24, 2014 (Posted on Dec 29, 2014 3:34 PM)
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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

SHHHH SHHHHHH KEEP QUIET! DON'T TALK!

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh Shhhhhhhhhhhh

"Keep quiet! Don't make waves! Do not disturb the powers that govern over us or they might take revenge and whatever you do don't go to the U.S. Supreme Court! It is controlled by lawyers who work for large self serving companies!" Check out the Reuters story at the bottom of this page.

 O.K.!  O.K!  For the last few months I kept to a minimum my comments about global warming AND the horribly polluting Alberta Canada Tar Sands project and the XL Keystone Pipeline that will perpetuate the Oil industry for decades into the future along with the corruption within both our Canadian and U.S. federal governments. I also kept quiet about the Billions of Dollars wasted on military engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan and for what...for OIL to benefit a few top dogs in the food chain! I dare not mention the Bush family, the Koch brothers, the Chinese government's owned percentage of the Tar Sands or the Wall street Banks now back in the gambling business.

 I also kept quiet about the lives lost and the soldiers wounded and maimed for life and the cost to low income tax payers war has created within both our countries. I did mourn the loss of Canada's world reputation as peace keepers and because of that I helped the N.D.P. win a local Canadian federal election but enough is enough! I will remain quiet no longer!.

 In the past I used my computer ability to help a United States Senator win his election and thankfully he did some good work! He pushed through a Medicare insurance plan that has helped millions of U.S. citizens obtain medical insurance coverage and he passed Bills to stop Wall street from gambling with the life savings of average people. With a little persuasion Obama also helped a genius by the name of Elon Musk create a wonderful new machine known as the Tesla and that car is spreading around the world. It is so popular that Republican Congress leaders, backed by thir super rich friends, have reacted by slipping a dirty little Bill into the U.S. government budget that will give Wall street back the ability to once again gamble with other people's money. The first time the Banks did this the U.S. economy went down the tubes for years and thousands of people lost their homes.

 Corruption continues to exist today within both our governments and the new U.S. Bill allows private investors to buy elections for hand picked local politicians. Within the U.S. government powerful Senators have  promised to push through an Oil pipeline that will continue the use of fossil fuels here and around the world in spite of the fact that global warming is slowly changing the climate of our planet. Today, December 31, 2015, powerful self interest groups are winning within the U.S. government, however, they are not winning in Canada and they will lose the Tar Sands project and the XL pipeline when soon the Canadian federal Conservative government is deservedly kicked out of office. What I would like to see is Hilary Clinton win the White House and maintain and protect the laws that have protected average Americans from predatory Banks during the last few years. Gambling with life savings and pension funds is a crime and must remain a crime. I would also be over joyed if Hilary finally rid the world of fossil fuels and the dirty political influence they continue to exert on our governments. May the New Year bring you peace and a better way of life!
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Reuters has an interesting story! It is how corporate America dominates and controls the U.S. Supreme Court. http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/scotus/


Monday, December 22, 2014

Solid Proof Of Global Warming.

Gentle Readers: The following articles are  from http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/?eocn=topnav&eoci=blogs

If you want solid proof of global warming simply look at the Greenland glacier which has retreated two Kilometers or the 11 trillion gallons of water needed to stop the drought in California.

AGU 2014: The Buzz

December 16th, 2014 by Kathryn Hansen
A record 25,000 researchers and exhibitors descended on San Francisco this week for the 2014 meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). That number of attendees translates to a tremendous amount of Earth science being discussed via presentations and posters, and we can’t possibly cover it all in this blog. Fortunately, this buzz word graphic posted by @AGU_Eos helped us sort what attendees are talking about, at least on twitter at #AGU14.
agu buzz words
Drought was certainly a hot topic, particularly California’s multi-year episode. NASA scientists announced at a press briefing that it would take about 11 trillion gallons of water (42 cubic kilometers)—or 1.5 times the maximum volume of the largest U.S. reservoir—to recover from the current drought. The calculation, based on data from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites, is the first of its kind. Read the full story here.
The buzz word “ice” probably stems from the abundance of research on Greenland that was presented on December 15. Scientists using ground-based and airborne radar instruments found that liquid water can now persist throughout the year on the perimeter of the ice sheet; it might help kick off melting in the spring and summer. Read more about those studies here. Look, too, at this new study that used satellite data to get a better picture of how the ice sheet is losing mass.
And finally, take a minute to browse some of the cool photos presented by Anders Bjørk of the Natural History Museum of Denmark, which included the portrait of Arctic explorers (below) and this image pairdemonstrating glacial retreat in Greenland.

Intelligence is a wonderful thing!

Gentle Citizens of the World: 

 Intelligence is a wonderful thing! It allows human beings to compete for food and territory with each other and with the other species on this planet. Also, and because of our intelligence, we survive better and more comfortably than do animals who are living in the wild and who are attempting to co-exist with us. Unfortunately because of our intelligence, we have beaten and killed and dominated the other species into near extinction!  Many species including our beautiful Lions and Elephants and Tigers are losing the struggle for basic survival while we humans proliferate into the billions. The few solutions we have attempted to create in order to slow our human birth rate have been disallowed by our prolific religious world leaders and a majority of our world politicians who unfortunately are not, in most part, educated in basic science. All the other species are now subject to us! The trees and plants and microbes and germs and viruses are no exception. Humans are masters of the planet!  I am ashamed to be a human who is forced to witness the destruction of other life forms because I am willing to share this planet and to help protect all life forms on this planet. I refuse to be pushed off this planet by polluters and pollution!

 We Homo Sapiens have created tools and guns and ways to murder each other and as many other species as have the temerity to exist or stand in our way! We are foolishly and ignorantly proud of our so-called "industrial progress" and that industrial progress has been destroying and not enhancing life on Earth. If it were the other way around I would not feel the need to write these words!

 I now ask you, on behalf of the other species who cannot ask, to please create and enforce stronger anti-pollution laws and to actively work to save the natural environment of this planet!
 Please create and place economic value on products that help nature and do not destroy nature. Please reward those humans who create life enhancing products and stop economically rewarding those who create products that pollute and harm life on Earth! That would include guns and bombs, fossil fuels and gas burning cars and destructive chemicals and industrial products that do us all harm! Please slow or stop the Media advertising of such destructive products! 

 We humans are highly intelligent and we can use our collective imaginations for creating cities filled with flower gardens and trees and roof-top green houses. Cities filled with Bicycle paths and Electric vehicles and quick non-polluting mass transit systems. We certainly can use our half empty office buildings at night for creating living spaces for homeless people and for plants and even for small animals. We must ban the internal combustion engines from our city streets and destructive fossil fuels and polluting chemicals from our lives. We do have wonderful alternatives ready for use.

 We can improve our mass transit systems and we must lower Electric Bus fares for the poor and elderly who are the ones  left out and behind when you speak about growing the middle class.
We can create buildings that allow for quiet rooms where people could go and sit and relax without the mind disturbing incessant noise now permeating large shopping malls.
You can even place shopping-malls under ground and place large Geodesic Domes filled with plants and trees and small animals above the shopping malls.
You can do all of these wonderful things or you can do nothing and watch as nature, now polluted by humans, silently turns against life on Earth. 
Thanks for reading this letter!

Joseph Raglione
Executive director: The World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement.


Sunday, December 21, 2014

The World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement presents:

Our international web site index. 
Freedom with honesty and justice and courage…
Compassion with dignity, tolerance and humour…
Peace with love and harmony towards all life on Earth.
All that ever was still is constantly changing within the eternal energy of the
universe and the only constant within eternity is constant change.  Author: Joseph Raglione.
Gentle People:
Welcome to my index of fun web sites and return as often as you like. Joseph Raglione/
18. = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhLa6O1OP0Y
30.= http://www.iTooch.com  How to greatly improve our school systems.
49.  http://eol.org/
50. http://www.seedsavers.org/onlinestore/
51. http://www.human4us.net/
52. https://plus.google.com/u/0/+PopularScience/posts

Monday, December 15, 2014

Hello Gentle Readers:

 I have a new web site you may like:
http://www.human4us.net/

It is filled with great pictures of beautiful flowers and they are all free to copy.
Have Fun and
Happy Holidays. 

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