Foogle Business - What is Global Warming - Greenhouse Effect - Polution - Sahara Supposition for the Global Environment

Greenhouse Effect - An effect occurring in the atmosphere because of the presence of certain gases - Greenhouse Gases - water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, and nitrous oxide, that absorb infrared radiation. Short-Wave Light and ultraviolet radiation from the sun are able to penetrate the atmosphere and warm the earth’s surface. This energy is re-radiated as infrared radiation, which, because of its longer wavelength, is absorbed by such substances as carbon dioxide, instead of passing through. The overall effect is that the average temperature of the earth and its atmosphere is increasing - the so-called Global Warming or ultimately the Global Ending Syndrome.

The effect is similar to that occurring in a greenhouse, where light and long-wavelength ultraviolet radiation can pass through the glass into the greenhouse but the infrared radiation is absorbed by the glass and part of it is re-radiated into the greenhouse.

The greenhouse effect is seen as a major environmental hazard. Average increases in temperature could change weather patterns and agricultural output. It might also lead to melting of the polar ice caps and a corresponding rise in sea level. Carbon dioxide, from coal-fired power stations and car exhausts, is the main greenhouse gas. Other contributory pollutants are nitrogen oxides, ozone, methane, and chlorofluorocarbons.

The futility of waste. Deserts are basically wastelands; most were once green and flourishing rainforests. All deserts grow a bit more each year. In theory, they may one day take over the whole planet, that is if other catastrophes do not beat them to it.

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TheSahara.Net is a PROPOSAL to try and Terraform the Sahara Desert; to reclaim it for the benefit of the Planet. To produce a new Rainforest and Ocean.

Desertification of the world spreads every day. This will attempt to redress the balance, by replacing lost natural habitats.

The Rainforest Planting Program

The most frequent example in this publication is the Luquillo Experimental Forest, which could be a model for protecting and managing tropical forests worldwide.

Greenhouse Effect - An effect in which radiation from the sun is transmitted through the atmosphere to the earth’s surface, where it may be reradiated as longer wavelength infrared radiation. As some of this infrared is absorbed by carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, a heating effect occurs (global warming). A similar effect occurs in greenhouses. See also pollution.

Forests of the Tropics

One of the biggest dilemmas concerning Global Warning is the cutting down of the Rainforest. The Sahara Supposition recognizes this fact and clearly acknowledges that THREE thousand acres of life-giving plants are still eaten away by some circumstance every single hour of every single day, and even though there has been over TWENTY years of serious debate and concerned lobbying against such actions, IT STILL CONTINUES. AND WILL CONTINUE ! ! !

We fervently believe that the cutting down of the Rainforest will not stop and will not slow either. It will continue until some point where there is such a significant incident, like simply the trees will run out, or perhaps maybe, a 90% annihilation of humankind, will occur, before it does. Whichever scenario comes first will stop it.

Therefore, the Sahara Supposition recommends that its PROPOSAL to try and Terraform the Sahara Desert; to reclaim it for the benefit of the Planet; to produce a new replacement Rainforest and Ocean, is strongly considered by all concerned.

Rainforest

The planet Earth's tropical forests encircle the globe in an area either side of the Equator The equatorial forest is surprisingly diverse, ranging from abundant rainforest to waterless savannas and includes millions of species of plants and animals. The tropical forest once covered over 15 billion acres. In recent times, however, they have been cropped at a brisk rate to make room for agriculture and to obtain valuable hardwoods and their many valuable by-products.

Between 1985 and 1990, over 210 million acres of tropical forest were destroyed in the name of commerce and human greed and ignorance. Some chopped trees have been found to be up to 1000 years old; such huge trees will not be seen again for many generations.

TRUTH

Three thousand acres of life-giving, oxygen producing plants are eaten away by some circumstance every hour of every day. That is FIVE acres destroyed for financial gain every time this clock sweeps by. And it will NEVER Stop !!!!

The Sahara Supposition Proposal

May we respectively suggest that the "World Governments" obtain funds to purchase a large amount of Desert to ecologically manage it for the benefit of the whole planet? The idea is to take this area, and through terraforming, turn it into a new State, a new Country; one that is made up of a vast new Rainforest and a vast new Ocean of Fresh Water.

A New Habitat for all Endangered Species.

"Sahara" is an old Sanskrit word - Sagara - meaning Ocean.

Take the Test to see if you are an Environmental Taker !

This is how the TAKERS treat our planet. One dumped car is nothing. In the scheme of things it does not matter, but if all the millions of cars that are scrapped each year ended up like this where would we be? The irony is that this vehicle is so old it is probably worth ten times more than when it was abandoned.

Sahara Supposition Facts and Information

This site is about a PROPOSAL to try and Terraform the Sahara Desert; to reclaim it for the benefit of Humanity.

Desertification of the world spreads every day.

This supposition will attempt to redress the balance.

Click on AFRICA to see a really good MAP

Click HERE to see the OLDEST MAP of AFRICA.

Sahara Supposition Facts and Information

TheSahara.Net is a PROPOSAL to try and Terraform the Sahara Desert; to reclaim it for the benefit of the Planet. To produce a new Rainforest and Ocean.

Desertification of the world spreads every day. This will attempt to redress the balance, by replacing lost natural habitats.

FIVE ACRES OF RAINFOREST GONE AT EVERY SWEEP

Sahara Supposition Facts and Information

The Earth's largest satellite, the Moon. The way the environment is continually ravaged maybe in one thousand years time Earth will become more like the Moon.

Let us imagine, that say in one million years time, and if desertification continues on its same path. Will most of the planet Earth look like this? And that there is scarcely, any actual evidence that the primitive human animal had ever existed.

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Let us imagine, if we can, how poignant it would be, if say in one million years time, some advanced alien culture was to visit this third rock from the Sun. Simply to explore a most insignificant solar system to find that there was scarcely, any actual evidence that the primitive human animal had ever existed.

The Sahara Supposition is a Proposal to produce an exciting New Rainforest, that will effect the whole Global Environment. A Plan that may, with the help of everyone, reverse the present environmental damage.

Pictures of the Rainforest

The Sahara Supposition is a Proposal to produce an exciting New Ocean of Fresh water, that will effect the whole Global Environment. A Plan that may, with the help of everyone, reverse the present environmental damage.

Without Photosynthesis we would not have oxygen to breathe OR proteins to eat. In sunlight green plants use this energy to produce oxygen and proteins through Photosynthesis.

It is said that a football pitch size, of healthy life-giving green is being destroyed every second and that during any year, a Rain Forest the size of Great Britain itself, is laid waste. This is mainly due to logging.

Great Britain presently releases up to 300 million tons of raw sewage into the seas around its coast each year. This Sahara strategy could be negotiated as an initially free service to encourage the halting of pollution to the Mediterranean Sea, local water tables and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans et al. However, an eventual charge for this disposal could go some way in paying for this facility in the long term.

Almost 90% of the world’s fresh reservoirs are essentially locked away in the ice caps and there they must stay.

In the major cities of India, due to rising population and ageing infrastructure, drinking water-pressure has halved in the last five years. It is predicted by some that it will run out, especially in Delhi, in the next ten years. This means that a city with millions of citizens will have NO water. No water to wash with, no water to process food and serve industry, let alone to drink to stay alive.

The UK Lottery Organizers, Camelot have worked out that from the year 2000 to 2100 the British public will spend up to £530,000 Billion, ( Nearly $800,000 Billion), on the National Lottery.

What would the cost of Terraforming the Sahara Desert Cost ?

New York uses one and a half billion gallons of fresh clean water every single day, and this consumption rises every single day. The United Nations proclaims that by 2025 over 5 billion people will face fresh clean water problems and shortages. This compounds all the other ills that go with the intake of tainted drinking water. Nevertheless, you might say that 25 years is a long way away, so why worry.

Experts predict that although water may eventually be our downfall, in that most of us may drown, they also envision that if there is a World War III, it could be waged over fresh supplies of the substance. Within twenty years, we foresee that most modern western homes will have some kind of purifying desalination system in their homes. The main wedding gift will traditionally become one of these units because people will soon realize that without clean drinking water we have nothing

In 1997, it was recorded that over 50% of the world’s population lacked proper sanitation and. over 20% lacked good drinking water The correct and moral use of this human waste will change this statistic forever and be a blueprint for the future.

Experts predict that water may eventually be our downfall, because we have too little to drink or that we will drown in it, you chose. But how do we treat it? We treat it with total disrespect and take it totally for granted.

“We ask, who is responsible for the destruction of our lives, our resources and the life of the next generation?”

-- Benyamin Tawaakng, indigenous Dayak leader jailed for organizing protests against oil palm plantation multinational PT London Sumatra (LonSum)

When World Wildlife Fund researchers discovered the world’s most biologically diverse area in a Sumatran lowland rainforest last February, their awe quickly gave way to outrage. The Indonesian government has designated this area a “production forest,” and logging there is already underway.

Throughout the 17,000-island Indonesian archipelago, forests are being felled at the record-setting rate of 2 million hectares (5 million acres) per year. Lowland tropical forests, which are richest in biological diversity, are going fastest. On the large island of Sulawesi, all lowland tropical forests are gone; if current trends continue Sumatra’s will be cleared by 2005 and Kalimantan’s by 2010.

What’s driving this unprecedented destruction? According to a new report by World Resources Institute, “Deforestation in Indonesia is largely the result of a corrupt political and economic system that regarded natural resources, especially forests, as a source of revenue to be exploited for political ends and personal gain…Indonesia today is a major producer of logs, sawn wood, plywood, wood pulp and paper as well as such plantation crops as palm oil, rubber and cocoa. This economic development was achieved with virtually no regard for the sustainable management of forests or the rights of local people.”

As many as 65 million people (population estimates vary) live in Indonesian forests and depend on them for their livelihoods, combining shifting cultivation of rice and other food crops with fishing, hunting, and gathering of non-timber forest products such as rattan, honey and resins. They rely on the forests for medicinal plants and herbs, and their knowledge of local ecosystems is unique and irreplaceable.

Forest-dwelling peoples throughout Indonesia are organizing to defend the forests and their communities from a government that wants to turn all forests into sources of capital. One of the government’s main schemes to accomplish this is by converting natural forests into oil palm plantations. Oil palm plantations already cover more than 3 million hectares (7.5 million acres); a total of 30 million hectares (75 million acres) of natural forest are slated for conversion. This is almost 1/3 of Indonesia’s remaining forests.
“Conversion” is a euphemism for massive deforestation rife with corruption and human rights abuses. Some national and multinational companies have obtained licenses to plant oil palm having no intention to do so; they clear the forest solely for the timber profits and move on to clear more. After the disastrous forest fires of 1997-98 that sent smoke clouds around the globe, the Indonesian government accused 176 companies of illegally setting fires to clear brush; of these, 133 were oil palm companies.
Typically, forest peoples are not consulted or informed about company plans; bulldozers suddenly tear through their forests and farms, wiping out rich biological and cultural diversity to establish huge monoculture plantations. As a crop, oil palm requires massive amounts of fertilizer and insecticides. Soil erosion, loss of soil nutrients and watershed disruption result as the land is carved with drainage ditches. Threatened, harassed and jailed for their protests, indigenous Indonesians are appealing to world citizens to help them stop the injustices and the expansion of the oil palm plantations by cutting off the flow of international funds to the most abusive companies. Who is the primary financial backer of these companies? The world’s largest financial institution and one of the most powerful corporations on the planet: Citigroup. While major European banks have adopted investment criteria proposed by Indonesian and international NGOs, Citigroup has refused to do so. At Citigroup’s annual meeting in April, indigenous Indonesians sent a message stating, “We have told you before, but no one from Citigroup has done anything to stop the bulldozing, the fires, the imprisonment of the people, the military abuse, or the loss of our lands and livelihoods.”

This Global Response Action was issued at the request of and with information provided by Sawit (Oil Palm) Watch (www.sawitwatch.org); Telapak (www.telapak.org); and Rainforest Action Network (www.ran.org).

Countless Billions of tons of carbon dioxides are stored in a myriad of ways, one of the most significant is in the vegetation of the rainforest. But the gradual increase of the greenhouse gases will raise the temperature of the planet.

[The year 2000 was a warmer year than 1998, which was the record then.]

As the Earth's climate warms there is a great danger that the Rainforest will get less seasonal rain and actually go through a yet unforeseen unprecedented dry season.

If this happens the carbon-dioxide absorption process will stop; the vegetation Photosynthesis will stop and leaves will fall and carbon dioxide levels will increase significantly, increasing Global Warming that will again make this new dry season longer, and BANG!!! The balance will tip.

By 2051 we now believe, informed by scientists around the World who have declared that the balance will be overturned and our home world will be thrust into a time when temperatures will be some 10 degrees hotter than now. Ice at the poles will melt and methane that lies at the bottom of deep cold oceans in a billion tons of sediment will be released adding to the increasing problem. In geological terms this consequence has been expressed as being INSTANTANEOUS.

Due to the raised temperatures, millions of liters of fresh water will flow into the North Atlantic and the Ice-Caps melt. Fresh water is much different than salt-water, and ocean currents, especially the Gulf Stream, will slow to nothing and this will ironically place us into an Ice Age within 30 years. And Humanity will almost be wiped out, as it suffers it first Ice-Age for over 20,000 years.

DIFFERENT TYPES OF TROPICAL FOREST

Roughly two thirds of all the world's forests are in the Tropics, the area between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. Abundant growth is generally more prolific in the areas furthest away from the frozen poles. This huge area that encircles our planet is best known for its rainforests with the green flourishing, steamy jungles and towering trees, with dense lower levels of smaller trees, shrubs, and vines.

Tropical forests are surprisingly assorted. In addition to the rainforest there are also mangroves, wet forests, dry forests, swamps and savannas and wetlands. This long list however, gives only a slight indication of the true multiplicity of the Natural World of vegetation. One study by the Food and Agriculture Organization, [ FAO ], a department of the the United Nations, considered over 20 countries in tropical America, and nearly 40 tropical Africa, and 15 in tropical Asia. They recognized a myriad of different types of tropical forests, such as, broadleaved trees, open and closed canopy forests, and conifer forests, with closed forests and mixed forest grasslands, and declining forests where crop growing agriculture has made substantial inroads.

Pictures of the Rainforest

The major remaining areas of Tropical Rainforest are in Brazil, Indonesia, Congo and Malaysia. Rainfall generally exceeds 60 inches, that is about150 cm each year and can be as high as 400 inches or 1000 cm. Lowland rainforest are among the world's most fruitful of green plant natural production. Enormous trees can grow to 200 feet, that is 60 m in height, whilst supporting thousands of other species of plants and small animals. Mountain rainforest grows at high elevations where the climate is too windy and wet for most advantageous tree growth.

Mangrove forests grow in the swampy, tidal-regions; a no-man's land between water bodies and the shore. They are regularly considered part of the rainforest composite. Roots of mangrove trees help also to stabilize the shoreline and trap sediment and decaying foliage that play a part in this ecosystem production.

Dry Forests

Most huge areas of tropical Dry Forests are found in Australia, India, Central and South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Africa, and Madagascar. Dry forests by virtue of their name receive low rainfall each year and this is around 15 inches or 38 cm. They are thus so named and accommodate species evolved to be acclimatized to meager rainfall. Trees of dry tropical forests are usually smaller than those in rainforests, and many lose their leaves during the dry season. Although they are still remarkably varied, dry forests often have fewer species than rainforests per se and plants are miniatures of larger cousins. We must ask ourselves what are the best conditions for well sustained life.

Pictures of the Rainforest

Savanna is a transitional group of trees between forest and grassland; the Savanna replaced many forests when the climate changed after the last ice-age. Here, vegetation struggle for moisture and nutrition and are often quite scattered and tend to be evolved to cope with grazing, dry periods and sporadic bushfires.

Pictures of the Rainforest

Bushfires are obviously much more widespread in the dry season but if fire does not happen, trees eventually will begin to grow again and the savanna is converted back to dry forest. Such is the fine line between survival and death, conversely with too much fire or grazing, dry forest becomes Savanna.

Changes not only in environment but in the different types of environment are caused through a various number of reasons that takes in all elements of evolution. Humanity's hand in the unnatural destruction of the rainforest can only lead to humanity's own possible destruction, or at least a scenario very near to an Extinction Level Event.

The destruction of the Rainforest will vastly increase carbon dioxide levels, polluting the atmosphere . At present the Amazon and other forests along with the oceans just barely soak up all the fossil fuel carbons which we produce as it is.

Extinction Level Event.

[The year 2000 was a warmer year than 1998, which was the record then.]

As the Earth's climate warms there is a great danger that the Rainforest will get less seasonal rain and actually go through a yet unforeseen unprecedented dry season.

By 2050 scientists around the World have declared that the balance will be overturned and our home world will be thrust into a time when temperatures will be some 15 degrees hotter than now. Ice at the poles will melt and methane that lies at the bottom of deep cold oceans in a billion tons of sediment will be released adding to the increasing problem. In geological terms this consequence has been expressed as being INSTANTANEOUS.

Ironically, due to the raised temperatures, ocean currents will slow to nothing and this will place us into an Ice Age within 30 years. And Humanity will almost be wiped out.

On May 13, 2002, Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri called for a temporary moratorium on logging in Indonesia in an effort to halt illegal logging and save what's left of the country's remaining forests. According to the World Bank, Indonesia will lose all of its forests in the next 15 years if the government does not act quickly and strongly against deforestation activities.

Three thousand acres of life-giving, oxygen producing plants are eaten away by some circumstance every hour of every day. That is FIVE acres destroyed for financial gain every time this clock sweeps by. And it will NEVER Stop !!!!

FIVE ACRES OF RAINFOREST GONE AT EVERY SWEEP.

According to the World Resources Institute, Indonesia has lost forty percent, or 64 million hectares, of its original forest cover in the last fifty years. The rate of deforestation is accelerating, from 1 million hectares destroyed each year in the 1980s to a current 2 million hectares' loss per year. Indonesia's lowland forests harbor the country's highest biodiversity and timber value. At current rates of forest loss, the region of Sumatra's lowland forest will be gone by 2005, and Kalimantan's lowland forest will have been devastated by 2010.Citigroup, North America's largest financial institution and RAN campaign target, is a key financial backer of Indonesian rainforest destruction via palm oil plantations and pulp and paper operations. It is business partners with Indonesian palm oil company, London Sumatra (Lon Sum), a company that has been implicated in bulldozing and burning vast areas of forests, as well as violating the human rights of indigenous peoples. Citi-group is also a top investor in Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), one of Indonesia's largest and most destructive pulp and paper operators. American consumers also play a central role in the destruction of Indonesian forests. Major forest products distributors such as Boise, Georgia Pacific, and Home Depot profit from Indonesian forests' devastation. Woods such as Lauan and Ramin from these forests permeate the American market in the forms of plywood, tool handles, flooring, and furniture.

VALUE OF TROPICAL FORESTS

All forests have some value, both economic and ecological. The Global Environment, factored with Ecology, which is the study of the relations of organisms to one another and to their surroundings, is the most important continuing situation that we have to take into account when thinking about the rainforest. But as a whole group, we do not; Humanity's destruction of the world's natural eco-base will be our biggest repentance and it is not that far away when we will all realize this.

In the short term tropical rainforests are very important to the global economy. The rainforest covers just over 5% of the Earth's land area, but contain the greatest majority of the world's plant and animal genetic resources. The multiplicity of life is astounding and species run in the billions worldwide.

It has been discovered that the rainforest of Puerto Rico, to name but one group, includes more than 550 species of trees in 70 different botanical families.