Shaking Up the Bali Climate Conference, Literally (Global Warming Problem)

Shaking Up the Bali Climate

Conference, Literally

By Patrick J. Lyons

Whatever their brains may tell them, human hearts are strongly prone to read meaning and intention into what happens around them, and not be satisfied with “coincidence” as an explanation. It’s just natural to anthropomorphise.

So The Lede will perhaps be forgiven by even the most Vulcan of readers for the first thing that came to mind about the news this morning of a moderately strong earthquake just off the island of Bali in Indonesia: Ah! Gaia’s calling card.

You see, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, with thousands of delegates from 180 countres, happens to have just gotten underway there (more on the conference on our sibling blog, Dot Earth). And the earthquake appears to have been just strong enough to give the conferees a good shake, without causing any significant injuries or damage or touching off a tsunami.

Yes, earthquakes are common in Indonesia whether thousands of climate-policy grandees happen to be hanging around there or not, and no plausible case could be made that their arrival or their weighty arguments or their expense-account spending could have somehow nudged the tectonic plates just enough to touch off a temblor. It’s got to be pure coincidence.

Still, one thinks with a smile, if the natural world did have a mind and personality of its own, isn’t it just the kind of thing an earth goddess might do?

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(Jakarta, Senin 18 February 2008, 15.44 siang)

Re-publish by Jacob Paradox from link (www.nytimes.com)

Height of Sea-Water Mount (Global Warming Problem)

Height of Sea-Water Mount

(Global Warming Problem)

By Jacobs Paradox

According to area of meteorology and of geofísica high of sea-water volume progressively this grow up. Is caused by ices mount items which reside in North pole and liquid south, along with earth heat temperature. Inequitable really if only blaming nature if irate them though all that happened the including in it human being natural disasters follow to share in this case either directly and indirectly.

This matter have been estimated hundreds of last year even thousands of last year But all that buried and argued by human being ambitions in searching feather in one's cap, and properties without seeing situation of damage environment and environment of effect is act of him. All this there is reciprocal laws. If human being will and have the kindness to alter and extravagant life style is avaricious to modestly hence earning expectation to the happening of global warm-up can be prevented. But what is going on, more human beings which do not care at environment around from human being taking care of nature. If human being have desire of life and occupy longer earth again mean have to take care of and start to take care of and also care earth condition which going worse.

Many concerning earth which longer become destroyed because deed of human being which do not responsible. How continuity of human life wait if place live and ecology as place tread on there no and have fallen to pieces by our action as his predecessor.

Volume irrigate laun which is high so ought to become attention.

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(Jakarta, Selasa 13 February 2008, 08.10 pagi)