Kilimanjaro Snow May Vanish In 20 Years

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The "Snows of Kilimanjaro" will then exist only as a memory - and the title of a short story by Ernest Hemingway. Scientists at the Ohio State University predicted that the ice sheets of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's tallest mountain peak, will melt in the next twenty years due to global warming. Scientists made their forecast after combining data from aerial photographs and ground measurements of ice thickness.
The ice that was present in 1912 gradually decreased by 85% by 2000, and by 2007 another 26% of the amount in 2000. This was the first time that the volume of the ice in Kilimanjaro was measured. The tests were conducted by Lonnie Thompson, a professor at Ohio State University. Professor Thompson said that the scientists have also detected elongated bubbles in the surface of the ice field, which occur when the ice melts and refreezes. There is no evidence this melting and refreezing has occurred at any other period going back 11,700 years.
"The fact that so many glaciers throughout the tropics and subtropics are showing similar responses suggests an underlying common cause," Thompson said.
Change in cloudiness and weather could have also been factors in the retreat of the ice, especially in recent decades, scientists said. These findings were first published in the journal proceedings of United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS) on November 3, 2009.

Japan Promises Reduce 25 Percent Their Carbon Emission

New chosen Japan Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama, who will inaugurate on September 16, 2009 has brings changed connected with climate change regulation. He promises Japan will reduce their carbon emission till 35 percent in 2020 from emission in 1990 based. This is very big reduce compared with 8 percent that promised by business partner society of former Japan Prime Minister Taro Aso. Hatoyama stressed, his government will take aggressive movement about climate change problem. He shows this attitude in New York, United States of America, when met with another countries leader.

Climate Change Cause Bird Smaller

Australian birds had been smaller size in the last 100 years cause global warming effect. That explained by some experts. With used specimen at museum, researcher measure eight bird species body sizes. The result, that found that birds body size is smaller, looks like respond from climate change phenomenon. A biology expert from Australian National University (ANU), Janet Gardner, said that modern bird sizes smaller about 4 percent than then previous generation – changed according to researchers is significant enough. “Bird, like another animal, have tendency to smaller their size if they life in warmer climate because with small size make easy to lose heat temperature from body than bigger body animal,” says Gardner. “Animal individual from the same species, body size bigger from animal that life in pole than animal life in nearly equator.

Enjoying Garden on the Roof

Garden on the roof was phenomenon in some enviromental care countries, before global warming issue released. Garden in the roof commonly can we finded in Japan, and some Europe countries, New Zealand, and United States of America. Lately is followed by Hongkong SAR and Malaysia. This garden not width, only take averange 100-2,000 squre meter. However, don’t you see from their width but see from spirit to build garden in the roof and spread spirit to build garden. In Hongkong SAR, avaranged citizen who don’t have yard dilligent to build mini garden in their roof or apartment. Some of them have spirit to put plant pot in the apartement or flat windows. They take care with the best effort of plant, and happy smile if they see their plant spread fragrance. Growing flower is relaxation and beutiful view for eyes. In Kuala Lumpur, they like to gardening in garden because make air more fresher and the temperature in their house not really hot like before. I hope this hobbiest can be spread in Jakarta. Makes Jakarta fresh....

New Loan Rp 3 Trillion from France

France government gove loan by Climate Change Program Loan (CCPL) mechanism with nominal Rp 3 trillion (US$ 300 million) or totally is Rp 5 trillion (US$ 500 million) for two last years. This addition budget hope can increasing Indonesia ability to decrease negative impacts by global climate change. This loan loan transfer do by credit facility agreement assignment between Director General of Loan Management, Departement of Finance, Rahmat Waluyanto and France Associated for Development representative , Joel Daligault in Jakarta. CCPL Stage 1 will clearane in 2008 worth US$ 200 million or Rp 2 trillion. Rahmat said for the same purpose, Indonesia also get loan from Japan International Corporation Agency (JICA) worth US$ 400 million or Rp 4 trillion, so total loan for climate change reached US$ 900 million.

Reduce Global Warming From Working Place

At least 1/3 of ourtime in a day spending to do job in office. Many person not aware that make our working mindset on our head and have impact to our life style, healthy, and satisfied. Unfortunately, awareness of the impact for enviroment frim our working activities is lack. Office building and the activities doing by employee everyday use electric energy, water, papaer and other resourses making contribution to carbon gas emission. This emission is to be the main cause of global warming.
For example, environment scientist said that averange paper use in an office is 0,5 kg each employee per day. Ans total employees in Jakarta approximately 4 million, so take a half pf this number use paper for their jobs. So that more than 1 million kg of paper consumption to this working activites each day. To produce 1 ton paper need 10 trees. Than on one day employees in Jakarta need averange 10.000 trees. Survey from MARS Indonesia said 78,4 percent emloyees in Indonesia is more comfortable to use private vechicle to office than use public vehicle like bus or train.How many gasoline needed for this and how many air pollution makes from this vehicles. Can you imagine how much emission must be burden by our atmosphere. This is bad news. But the good news is we can change our bad habit in office and starting to give contribution to slow down the destroyer effect for our earth. Many little thing in office that we can do. Like using used paper, shutdown computer and lamp after finished our working hours, hybernate the computer to help reduce electric energy. Corporation also can following to reduce global warming effect by provide bus for employee, use technology teleconference to reduce travel cost. Beside make reduce of pollution, this action also hgve efficiency for corporation.

World More Warmer, Star More Smaller

Climate change make impact to some species in every place on earth. From polar bear in the Artic to ridge of rock in tropic sea. Two ecology changes was recorded is some species – animal and plant – moving to higher places and also moving to different diagonal places for searching suitable temperature. The other changed is life cycle of some species and flower season and bird migration had already time changed. Now is third changed, that is increasing Earth temperature following with smaller size of organism – even community or individual size. This is declared by team leader of Martin Dauftesne reasearcher from cemagref Aix-en-Provence, researcher institute owner by France govenment. Result from this study will be exposed in scientist journal Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences. This research had taken the long time studies in water community – including bacterium, fitoplankton, and fish in river, lake, and ocean, based Daufresne, fish group in rivers in France is decrease of amount more than 60 percent in the study for two decades.

Climate Change

There are warning from scientists that surface of Earth temperature is not allowed increase more 2 Celcius degrees. If this condition happened, more than 300 million people will be moving from their home living area right now. Beside that, thousand of islands will be sink, the land will be dry, and spred of many new diseases. At this time, I feel Jakarta is hotter than three of four years a go, altough ten year is still hot too. This condition make fisher and farmer more difficult and their in the front line faces the climate change. They will be loses their job. Preventive effort to avoid the raising of world temperature must have commitment from government. Without that is difficult to moblization ot arranged their citizen or people make it change. People needs model. For developed country gather together in Annex I makes commitment to decrease emition from glass house effect. However this is effort run so slowly. The G-8 meeting in the middle of this month also no bring the new era for decrease climate change when the developed country facing the obligation they must help the developing and poor country with give them budget. The developed country dont wanna give their budget to another country.
Based UNFCCC mention at least four target must be raeched in COP-15 n Copenhagen, Denmark. They must have progress in four field so that wat yo make new deal to change Tokyo Protocol will be finished in 2012, running smoothly. Now there is three countries