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11-20-2008, 11:24 AM
dear friends,
another great flood: time to build an ark?
19:27 | 13/ 11/ 2008
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20081113/118296502.html
be well, be love.
david
moscow. (andrei kislyakov, scientific commentator, for ria novosti) - the world geological community is warning that today's seismic activity on our planet is nothing compared with what's to come.
over the past three years, pakistan, for example, has been hit by dozens of earthquakes. in march 2005, 80,000 people died under the rubble there. on october 30, the last time nature went on the rampage, there were hundreds of victims. tens of thousands of people drowned during an overwhelming asian tsunami at the end of 2004. china and afghanistan have been rocked by quakes again more recently.
these natural disasters, which have swept our planet in recent years, indicate that the world has entered an era not only of a political, but also of climatic instability. most scientists - biologists and environmentalists - tend to blame the human race for the catastrophic climate change on the earth. no doubt, the greenhouse effect due to industrial activity plays a considerable role in global warming, but there are other reasons worth considering.
the earth is rotating around its own axis slower. the international earth rotation service has regularly added a second or two to the length of a 24-hour day in recent years.
this is the main reason, according to igor kopylov, professor at moscow energy institute, why the planet - a gigantic electrical machine - has had its energy balance upset. he expressed this viewpoint in 2004. kopylov is convinced that the earth has entered the first phase of a global change. a weakening of the earth's magnetic field was first registered early in the 20th century, and a consistent drop in the speed of rotation, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. it has been established that when the earth's rotation slows by one second a year, it releases a tremendous amount of heat, hundreds of times the volume of energy released by human industrial activity.
another great flood: time to build an ark?
19:27 | 13/ 11/ 2008
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20081113/118296502.html
be well, be love.
david
moscow. (andrei kislyakov, scientific commentator, for ria novosti) - the world geological community is warning that today's seismic activity on our planet is nothing compared with what's to come.
over the past three years, pakistan, for example, has been hit by dozens of earthquakes. in march 2005, 80,000 people died under the rubble there. on october 30, the last time nature went on the rampage, there were hundreds of victims. tens of thousands of people drowned during an overwhelming asian tsunami at the end of 2004. china and afghanistan have been rocked by quakes again more recently.
these natural disasters, which have swept our planet in recent years, indicate that the world has entered an era not only of a political, but also of climatic instability. most scientists - biologists and environmentalists - tend to blame the human race for the catastrophic climate change on the earth. no doubt, the greenhouse effect due to industrial activity plays a considerable role in global warming, but there are other reasons worth considering.
the earth is rotating around its own axis slower. the international earth rotation service has regularly added a second or two to the length of a 24-hour day in recent years.
this is the main reason, according to igor kopylov, professor at moscow energy institute, why the planet - a gigantic electrical machine - has had its energy balance upset. he expressed this viewpoint in 2004. kopylov is convinced that the earth has entered the first phase of a global change. a weakening of the earth's magnetic field was first registered early in the 20th century, and a consistent drop in the speed of rotation, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. it has been established that when the earth's rotation slows by one second a year, it releases a tremendous amount of heat, hundreds of times the volume of energy released by human industrial activity.