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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (224448)	3/16/2007 3:53:58 AM
From: kumar	Respond to of 281500

Homes 'dumping a third of food' Homes across Britain throw away a total of 6.7m tonnes of food a year, a report is expected to reveal. The study, by the government's waste body Wrap, will say that households in the country throw away just under a third of all the food they buy. Most of the waste food goes into landfill sites, where it breaks down and causes greenhouse gases. Half of it is inedible items, such as teabags. But it means more than 15p of each £1 spent on food is wasted. Focusing on combating climate change, the report will remind people that about one-fifth of our carbon emissions are related to the production, processing, transport and storage of food. Wrap's Jenny Price told BBC Radio 4's Today programme there were lots of things people could do to prevent wasting food. "Just simple things like looking in the fridge, looking in the cupboard, before you go shopping. "Seeing 'I've got a lettuce, that's fine, I don't need another one.'" Landfill shortage Wrap also asked 1,800 people about their attitudes to waste - with just 10% believing they throw away a substantial amount of food. The organisation said the survey suggested people were in a state of denial about the amount of food they were wasting. The BBC's environment analyst Roger Harrabin says the government is keen to reduce the amount of waste because the country is running out of landfill sites to use as dumps. Ministers are also keen to reduce waste as part of their combating climate change, as landfill sites produce a lot of methane - a powerful greenhouse gas. There are also several European directives designed to encourage governments to reduce waste. Wrap said it was becoming too easy to buy lots of food, and have called on supermarkets not to encourage consumers to buy too much. Among the problems Wrap identified were people keeping food in fridges which were too warm, allowing food to go out of date as well as catering for fussy children. Other causes may be that ready meals are the wrong size, that food gets put into the back of the fridge or that we may not feel like eating it after buying it. Story from BBC NEWS: news.bbc.co.uk Published: 2007/03/16 07:36:58 GMT © BBC MMVII

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (224448)	3/16/2007 7:15:07 AM
From: Noel de Leon	Respond to of 281500

Here are some results from a Danish review article of the 4th UN Climate Report(IPCC). 1) CO2 levels in ice cores over 650,000 years correlate highly with relative amount of Deuterium in the ice cores. Deuterium levels are correlated to temperature at the time of snow fall. 2) present levels of CO2(380ppm) are far above the natural level(range 180-290 ppm). 3) Since 1750 CO2 levels have been rising, mostly because of human activity. HH4 levels are at 1774 ppm(mostly due to agriculture). CO2 equivalent is 430 ppm. 4) Sea levels are up, from 1961-2003 the rate of sea level change is 1.8 mm/year, from 1993-2003 the rate is 3.1 mm/year. About half of the change is attributed to expansion due to a rise in temperature. An important factor is glacial and ice cap melting. This varies world wide, in Europe it is 0 due to a balance between melting glaciers in mid Europe and increased rainfall on Scandinavian glaciers. 5) Latest studies of Greenland and the Antarctic ice caps indicate a 0.21 mm/year contribution to rises in sea levels. 6) Snow cover for the period March-April 34 million square km. as opposed to an average of 37. 7) Computer(AOGCM) simulations show that global heating will increase over the next 20 years by 0.2 degrees C/year. Even if CO2 levels are stabilised to 2000 levels the temperature will increase 0.1 degrees/year due to delayed effects and feedback. Rises in sea levels predict 0.18-0.59 meters by 2090-2099. The model does not include ice cap melting from Greenland and the Antarctic since these effects aren't simulated well enough. So the model does not predict the present rise in sea levels in relation to previous periods well enough. Extrapolation models indicate that total sea level changes will be increased by 0.1-0.2 meters by 2090-2099. The report presents no new information. It is based on published scientific literature(800 authors, 2500 experts have commented on the articles on which the report is based . KVANT, marts 2007, www.ipcc.ch and www.unfcc.com are sources.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (224448)	3/16/2007 8:48:40 AM
From: Suma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Here's another head's up for what I purport is an actual on going possible disaster. U.S. says this was world's warmest recorded winter Thu Mar 15, 2007 11:51PM GMT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - This has been the world's warmest winter since record-keeping began more than a century ago, the U.S. government agency that tracks weather reported on Thursday. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said the combined global land and ocean surface temperature from December through February was at its highest since records began in 1880. A record-warm January was responsible for pushing up the combined winter temperature, according to the agency's Web site, noaa.gov. uk.reuters.com