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"Vital algae were being killed off as a result of global warming. Scientists have discovered an inexorable rise in ocean temperatures over the past century. For the past 30 years, coral reefs, the centerpiece of the sea's ecosystem, have been vanishing from the Earth. When oceans warm, the algae hugging coral reefs get sloughed off, and without this protective layer, the coral reefs themselves die. About 97 percent of a certain species of coral has disappeared in the Caribbean alone, and the U.S. government has recently declared elkhorn and staghorn coral to be endangered species." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Are we witnessing a dry run of climate changes caused by global warming? Or was the Southern Oscillation just being its usual unpredictable self with its more frequent El Ninos of recent years? What causes the protean swings of the ENSO pendulum so convincingly modeled by today's computer simulations? Why do these models always evolve in different ways? Is El Nino a purely tropical phenomenon, or do some still-unknown external forces move the atmosphere and ocean, that George Philander calls "partners in the dance"? Who leads, the agile atmosphere or the more ponderous ocean?" - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"In addition, a report by the United Nations (2006) concluded that cattle-rearing generates more global warming greenhouse gases than even transportation. Anyone who has seen the documentary film An Inconvenient Truth is aware of the serious repercussions of this environmental issue. Finally, raw plant food simply tastes betterl Even if it were discovered that raw meat were definitely healthful and better for the ecology, I would remain a vegetarian because of the sheer pleasure of eating fresh raw fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"THINK GLOBALLY, ACT LOCALLY" Today's concerns with regard to global warming as a result of a stronger greenhouse effect (the rise in the earth's temperature when certain gases in the atmosphere trap energy from the sun) highlight the negative planetary effects of large-scale industrial production. The greenhouse effect is a normal part of earth-sun dynamics; without it the earth would be too cold for humans (and many other species) to live. Certain gases in the atmosphere, including water vapor, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane, trap heat from the sun to keep the earth warm." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"These industrial emissions threaten our health and the health of our planet. global warming and chronic health problems are triggered by the same emissions. How can these known neurotoxins not affect our brains? How exactly do they harm our brains? What can we do to protect and detoxify ourselves? These are questions that medicine must face and answer. Each person responds differently to toxins. Some are great detoxifiers; others, like me and those with autism, ADHD, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and depression, are often not." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Another, increasingly vociferous, school of thought argued that humanity's promiscuous use of fossil fuels and other pollutants was triggering unprecedented global warming. Could the Ice Age end precipitously within a few centuries with the wholesale melting of arctic and antarctic ice sheets, dramatic rises in world sea levels, and widespread desertification of now fertile lands—at a time when the world's population would be several times larger than today?" - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "The potential villains are in place—rapid global warming, cascades of melting freshwater, northward-flowing ocean currents, and salt downwelling. The Great Ocean Conveyor Belt may have flipped suddenly and triggered a millennium of renewed Ice Age climate. The NAO and ENSO are two parts of a single, complex world climatic system. This climatic system oscillates on many time scales, confronting humanity with unusual and challenging weather at every season of the year. These oscillations—hot and cold, wet and dry-have always forced humans to adapt to rapid climatic change." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"The age of the microchip, rock 'n' roll, nuclear power, moon walks, global warming, and the Internet is a layer almost too thin to measure. One thing is clear: Wherever we are going, we are going there faster and faster. But where are we going? What does the future hold in store? The Quickening of Spirit If the pace of development continues to increase—and we shall see shortly that there is every reason to believe it will—then the amount of change that we have seen in the last twenty years will be compressed into the next ten years, or less, and after that into an even shorter time." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) "A Warmer World The second price we have had to pay for fire has been a warming we did not intend: global warming. The principal waste product of fire is carbon dioxide. This is not in itself a dangerous gas; indeed, it is crucial to the life of plants, and, given time, the biosphere could absorb all the carbon dioxide that we produce. The problem is that we are now producing this gas far faster than the oceans and plants can absorb it." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) "At this time, however, we simply do not know enough about the planet's climate to tell exactly what repercussions global warming will have. It has even been argued that a warming in the tropics may flip the climate near the poles into an ice age. As tropical air warms, it takes up more water from the oceans. When it arrives in Arctic regions, this moister air could result in greater cloud cover. The ground beneath, being shielded more from the sun, would cool, while the increased moisture would fall as more snow. Rather than melting, the ice caps could begin to grow." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) "Even a modest global warming could trigger a runaway effect. Frozen in the tundras of northern Canada and Russia are vast amounts of methane, which is an even more potent greenhouse gas. If these areas thawed, releasing their methane into the atmosphere, the world would warm much faster. This is without the current doubling in methane produced by all the cows we keep, by the rice paddies that are growing in step with our population, by decomposing swamps, and by the termites that feed on the dead wood in our dying forests." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"The facts have been settled, global warming is real, it's dangerous, and it's cooking a neighborhood near you. Experts the world over have documented in exacting detail (not guesses or estimates, but actual scientific measurements) shrinking ice shelves, receding mountain glaciers, eroding beaches, rising temperatures, and a dramatic increase in the number, size, and force of natural disasters. In December 2004, a devastating tsunami in the Indian Ocean killed an estimated 283,000 people." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"Recently it has been discovered that large increases in the number of asthma sufferers in the American Southwest, the Caribbean, and Central American regions seem to have been brought on by drought-caused sub-Saharan dust and mold spores being swept across the Atlantic by prevailing winds—winds that have recently changed due to the effects of global warming. Asthma specialists speculate that rising levels of environmental pollution also lead to higher incidences of asthma." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"Pew is a philanthropic foundation established by the family of the founders of Sun Oil; it spent about $177 million in 2005 on projects "supporting civic life," among them environmental programs focused on global warming, wilderness protection, and promotion of sustainable seafood policies. The Packard Foundation (of the Packard side of Hewlett-Packard) granted about $200 million in 2005 to groups focused on population, children, and communities and on conservation, with a special focus on northern California." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"Other factors, such as global warming, may be linked to unusually long-lasting periods of drought or floods, as well as sudden climate changes. global warming in winter, specifically at the higher latitudes and at greater altitudes, reduces the size of glaciers and thus the stability of the climate. The climate in turn, specifically through extreme changes such as drought followed by extreme rainfall, leads to infestations by mosquitoes and rodents." - Jaap Goudsmit M.D., Viral Fitness: The Next SARS and West Nile in the Making (Get the book.)

"This, moreover, wasn't a figure for global warming but instead for regional warming. Because the Arctic heats up faster than the globe as a whole, this tipping point will be crossed sooner in Greenland than the global average: according to a second scientific team, Greenland warms at 2.2 times the global rate.31 Divide one figure by the other, and the result should ring alarm bells in coastal cities across the world: Greenland will tip into irreversible melt once global temperatures rise past a mere 1.2°C. That's the bad news." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"This has even given rise to an idea to fight global warming that its originator calls the Geritol Solution. The notion is basically this—dumping billions of tons of iron solution into the ocean will stimulate massive plant growth that will suck enough carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to counter the effects of all the C02 humans are releasing into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels. A test of the theory in 1995 transformed a patch of ocean near the Galapagos Islands from sparkling blue to murky green overnight, as the iron triggered the growth of massive amounts of phytoplankton." - Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.) "That philosophy is called uniformitarianism and, as the physicist Spencer Weart points out in his 2003 book The Discovery of global warming, it was the guiding principle among scientists of the time: Through most of the 20th century, the uniformitarian principle was cherished by geologists as the very foundation of their science. In human experience, temperatures apparently did not rise or fall radically in less than millennia, so the uniformitarian principle declared that such changes had never happened in the past." - Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.)

"From the "debate" over global warming to the "debate" over the theory of evolution to the "debate" over occupational causes of cancer, his legacy of selling doubt and using science to undermine any proof of harm is all around us. Little, who once had impeccable scientific credentials as a leading genetics researcher, proved invaluable to this strategy. The former managing director of the American Society for Cancer Control and the first head of the U.S. National Cancer Institute became the founding mastermind of the Tobacco Industry Research Council (TIRC)." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"We knew all about global warming back then and I used to say, 'well why can't we get ahead of this?' The problem is politicians who are trying to override the public's common sense. When I started Citizens for Clean Air, I used to go on radio and TV shows to debate economists from energy companies. They would say, 'Oh no, we can't really afford to do any of the things that this nice lady wants us to do. She's a very nice lady, but she doesn't understand economics." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"What did nicotine withdrawal have to do with the NAS—an institution that most American presidents routinely tap for advice on nuclear weapons and global warming? The motto written on the gold-leafed dome of the academy's Great Hall is an ode to the powers of science: "To science, pilot of industry, conqueror of disease, multiplier of the harvest, explorer of the universe, revealer of nature's laws, eternal guide to truth." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"If we don't find a way to inject rational thinking into our approach to health care soon, the bankruptcy of our society may find a way for us. Clearly the system is broken, and it needs to be fixed. Sadly, in spite of all the energy that has gone into pharmaceutical development, the future of our health looks bleak. Gains in life expectancy made since the nineteenth century have slowed considerably in recent years, largely as a result of the surge in obesity. Obesity has increased by 50% over the last couple of decades, and now two thirds of Americans are obese or overweight." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"There is, however, evidence that global warming is not all the fault of human negligence; a series of photographs taken over the past six years as part of the Mars Global Surveyor mission, suggests that the ice on Mars's south pole is also melting. We are in the midst, it appears, of a cyclical period of rapid climate change affecting our whole solar system. Added to this we have an impoverished Third World suffering deeply from the devastating effects of famine, disease and natural disasters; and the ever-present threats of terrorism borne out of fundamentalist idealism." - Robin, Dr. Kelly, The Human Antenna: Reading the Language of the Universe in the Songs of Our Cells (Get the book.)

"Our driving habits contribute to global warming, which is cooking the planet; acid rain, which is killing our forests and polluting the water supply; and dramatic increases in cases of asthma and allergies among all segments of the population. Our children and our elders are especially susceptible to the effects of driving cars and trucks that run on petroleum products. As stated earlier in the food addiction section, the very food we eat has been poisoned for years in the name of profit. Fruits and vegetables are doused with fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"Your stress may be coming from your worry about making the rent this month, global warming over the next few decades, or keeping your job at least until your children are grown. While there may be no life-threatening adversary staring you in the face, no real attack that you need to flee from, if this stress remains unresolved for a long time the effects on your body can be dramatic. For example, after about two minutes of stress the digestive system slows and may even stop until the situation is resolved." - Tom Woloshyn, The Complete Master Cleanse: A Step-by-Step Guide to Maximizing the Benefits of The Lemonade Diet (Get the book.)

"Barry thinks of the day's news—three people murdered in Virginia, an Amber Alert in Omaha, wildfires in Arizona, a diet guaranteed to help you lose weight, devastating natural disaster in Sri Lanka, and a scientific study that proves global warming is accelerating at an alarming rate. Barry's mind is awash in fragmented thoughts and disjointed information. The meeting adjourns. Barry's to-do list just got seriously longer." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"Glaciers shrank rapidly, releasing millions of tons of freshwater into the oceans. Dozens of familiar Ice Age animals large and small, like the woolly mammoth and giant ground sloths, became extinct within a few millennia. The warming shaped continents and enlarged oceans. Sea levels rose rapidly, flooding continental shelves and coastal plains and dramatically changing the world's geography. The Americas became a separate continent by 11,000 B.C., Britain an island five thousand years later." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"However, for the same reason that animal fats cannot possibly be associated with any increase in CHD, they cannot logically be implicated in any real or imagined increases in cancer, diabetes, obesity, teenage acne, falling sperm counts or global warming. In the next chapter, we will examine the relationship between cholesterol and CHD, and find out why efforts to lower cholesterol via dietary means are more likely to cause harm than good." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.)

"No-till agticulture has another advantage; it could provide one of the few relarively rapid responses to help hold off global warming. When soil is plowed and exposed to the air, oxidation of organic matter releases carbon dioxide gas. No-till agriculture has the potential to increase the organic matter content of the top few inches of soil by about i percent a decade. This may sound like a small number, but over twenty to thirty yeats that can add up to 10 tons of carbon per acre. As agriculture mechanized over the past century and a half, U.S." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Beyond the immediate effects on crop yields, global warming scenarios that project anywhere from a i°C to a 5°C temperature rise over the next century carry a far greater risk. The world's three great regions of loess soils—the American Midwest, northern Europe, and northern China—produce most of the world's grain. The asrounding productivity of modern agriculture depends on the climate of these extensive areas of ideal agriculrural soils remaining favorable to crop production. The Canadian and American prairie is already marginal as agricultural land in its western extent." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

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