- Julian Hector
- 25 Oct 06, 11:36 AM
If you want to know what is the most mind blowing little angel that dances across the open ocean is - it's the diminutive giga bird, the . These belong to the seabird group Procellarformes, who are the tube noses (nostrils on their beak). The storm petrel is the smallest seabird in the world and the wandering albatross (in this group) is the largest flying seabird in the world. The Storm Petrels are rocking science and they are showing some grit living with climate change and oceanic warming.
Continue reading "Stormies Rock - Yeah Baby!"
- Julian Hector
- 23 Oct 06, 01:45 PM
Palaeontologists say that one species evolves per million species per million years - And conversely, one species goes extinct for every million species about once every million years. So it cancels and life on Earth moves on. Ecologists specialising in extinction rates, when all human activity is added up, are finding that the rate of extinction today is 100X that, probably 1000X and in the future is likely to be about 10,000X. By the end of 2100 50% of life on Earth might have vanished: that's plants, especially flowering plants, insects, birds, amphibians, mammals - groups that we know about. Little is known about the "little things that run the world" - no one knows how many bacteria, mini beasts, fungi etc might have popped it. All of this will take millions of years to evolve again (assuming we weren't on Earth). Not good.
Continue reading "What's up with Extinction? Well, it's because we're causing it and the next generation are going to be Peeved"
- Julian Hector
- 19 Oct 06, 10:16 AM
I've got to write something that makes me feel good. I'm concerned that my recent blogs have been really cage rattling. So read on.
Continue reading "We Just Wanna feel Good - Let us!"
- Julian Hector
- 18 Oct 06, 10:19 AM
There are vast amounts of frozen methane sitting beneath the seabed. Methane is 60X as potent a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide and there is twice as much methane ready to blow as all the carbon dioxide contained in the global reservoir of crude oil and coal. How are we supposed to think about this planetary bomb shell?
Continue reading "Eden to Hell and back Again"
- Julian Hector
- 12 Oct 06, 05:04 PM
The second show in our series is looking good with some big stories coming out. This show is about how wildlife is shifting about in response to climate change. On land, life is certainly on the move - it's not all bad news, so read on. But the trend is not good. What comes out of this is the value of long term observations, only then can the trends be seen.
Continue reading "A Call to Amateur Naturalists - your note books are Needed"
- Julian Hector
- 9 Oct 06, 03:29 PM
Where did the expression "The World is your Oyster" come from? For those of us who use the phrase it means the world out there is yours to go and get. But surely now, it's time out.
Continue reading "The World is your Oyster - Like hell it Is"
- Julian Hector
- 6 Oct 06, 09:42 AM
The tragedy within the Amish Community of Lancaster County Pennsylvania this week brought with it images of their life style. The pictures reminded me of a community of people who for countless years have been content living without the conspicuous . What can we take from this in the context of our lives and living with climate change?
Continue reading "A Compass Bearing"
- Jody Bourton
- 5 Oct 06, 12:15 PM
Hi all heres another guest entry from our reporter
Its confirmed in the . 2006 has been the hottest summer since the 18th Century. Also here's another one, . Two weekends ago I tried digging my garden, now if there was ever an excuse not to garden this is the best one. The ground was so hard the handle of the spade broke, but its true! A road digging drill would not have got through the ground. However last weekend the heavens opened and thunder storm after storm rolled into the garden, at one point the ground could not take anymore rain and a flood began to appear. During one of these storms the wind felt really warm for the 1st of October. The wind got so strong at one point I guessed somewhere should have had a tornado, and sure enough on the national news a Tornado was reported, is it just my imagination or are Tornados really becoming more frequent in the UK? Have a look at the picture of a Tornado I took forming in Cumbria.
Continue reading "Chris Sperring reporting from his back garden"
- Julian Hector
- 4 Oct 06, 09:33 AM
Climate change is something that is going to effect every single one of us on the surface of the Earth. To maintain this unique planet as something fit to live in we need a global environmental leader who can connect the voyeurisitic images of the future to the ordinary people of our global community. This person I suspect doesn't know it's them. Their qualities will need to give us a fear of heights (read my last blog) and be able to show us how our individual interests need to be the same as humanity its self. Above all they will need to tell us we can fight back and win. What is the profile of this person?
Continue reading "Profile of a Global Environmentalist"
- Julian Hector
- 3 Oct 06, 03:14 PM
For this series we've put teams of people in North America, Greenland, Madagascar, The Pacific, Europe and the UK. We've been talking to academics from some of the worlds great institutions and we've been talking to people on the ground. The big wigs think we're heading for catastrophe, those on the ground are mixed. It's the twice Pulitzer Prize winning Harvard academic who thinks we're heading for an age of loneliness, a planet with just us and not much else - also echoed by research from the for Climate Protection & Research in the UK. And in EO Wilson's latest book he believes we must all pull together and save life on Earth. Save The Creation.
Continue reading "An Age of Loneliness"
- Julian Hector
- 2 Oct 06, 08:57 AM
The Pacific is a vast ocean peppered with island nation states. Both the sea and the coral islands are home to brilliant wildlife - And on this many peoples depend. But the corals can fight back - But can species such as turtles? Turtles have a profoundly important ecological role in the shallow seas and their conspicuous plight due to climate change can only further weaken the coral reefs on which so many species and people depend.
Continue reading "Just back from the Pacific"
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