Sunday, December 10, 2006

On a time-scale of decades and centuries

Global Warming Threatens Marine Food Chain
A new report shows that overall ocean productivity decreases when the climate warms. Global warming is devastating the foundations of the Earth's marine food chain [more | more2] throughout huge swaths of tropical and sub-tropical seas.
Global Warming Threatens Marine Food Chain


Warming world blamed for more strong hurricanes

A massive global increase in the number of strong hurricanes over the past 35 years is being blamed on global warming, by the most detailed study yet. The US scientists warn that Katrina-strength hurricanes could become the norm.
Worldwide since the 1970s, there has been a near-doubling in the number of Category 4 and 5 storms – the strength that saw Hurricane Katrina do such damage to the US Gulf coastline late in August 2005.
Warming world blamed for more strong hurricanes



High temperatures and humidity stress the body's ability to cool itself
What Is Heat Stress?
Heat Stress

Global Warming

The cause is oceans heating, not greenhouse gases.

Global warming occurs exactly the same way every 100 thousand years, as an ice age begins. At the beginning of the previous ice age, 100,000 years ago, the ocean temperature was 0.2°C warmer than now.
As sunshine heats up the earth's surface, that heat is radiated outward as infrared radiation (IR). Infrared means slightly longer wavelength than visible light. Visible light covers the range of 0.4 to 0.8 micro meters (microns or µM) of wave length. Infrared goes from 0.8 to a few hundred microns. All objects emit some types of IR in the same way. The amount depends upon their temperature; and there is a shift to shorter wavelengths at higher temperature.
The Cause of Global Warming is not Carbon Dioxide or Humans


Current Scientific Research
Temperature and Air Pollution as Risk Factors for Heat Stroke
Potential Human Health Risks from Exposure to Toxic Ambient Air Pollutants
Air Pollutants and Lung Cancer
Ambient Particulate Matter and Bioassay
Air Pollution Particle-Induced Inflammatory Mediator Release and Oxidative Stress



The Role of Airway Mucus in Pulmonary Toxicology




Evaluation of a Possible Association of Urban Air Toxics and Asthma
NIH
Risk Assessment of Oxidant Gases and Particulate Air Pollutants: Uncertainties and Research Needs
Air Pollutants on Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases
Ozone and PM2.5 Exposure and Acute Pulmonary Health Effects
The Role of Inflammatory Mediators in the Synergistic Toxicity of Ozone
Temperature and Air Pollution as Risk Factors for Heat Stroke
Particulate Matter Exposure Impairs Systemic Microvascular Endothelium-Dependent Dilation
Impairs Systemic Microvascular Endothelium-Dependent Dilation
Ambient Air Particles Induce Vasoconstriction of Small Pulmonary Arteries in Rats
Pollutant Particles Produce Vasoconstriction and Enhance MAPK Signaling Via Angiotensin Type I Receptor
Inhalation of Concentrated Ambient Air Particles Exacerbates Myocardial Ischemia in Conscious Dogs
Arsenic-Induced Dysfunction in Relaxation of Blood Vessels
The Role of Oxygen Free Radicals in Occupational and Environmental Lung Diseases
Beating the Heat: Development and Evaluation of a Canadian Hot Weather Health-Response Plan
Temperature Extremes and Premature Mortality