Reduce CO2 and save our planet

Since the nations of the world converged in bali to try and acquiescent an agreement on how to reduce the trigger of global warming, the scientist of climate detected for many years that humanity life style are affecting the earth temperature and predicted dangerous consequences if we do nothing.

Indonesia as an archipelago islands particularly threatened, so we can`t afford to ignore this.

The serious trigger is carbon dioxide, if we continue to burn fossil fuels such as oil and coal, its mean we contributed irreversible damage to our precious environment.

Although we worrying it might be, the situation is far from hopeless, while the challenge needs to be faced by government and industry, but there are many things we can all do to alleviate the threat of climate change and many of the actions we can take to reduce CO2 emissions can save us money as well as helping save the earth.

But what exactly can we do to reduce our carbon footprint?

Here are few ideas to do that.

1. Recycling : product made from recycled materials will reduce, carbon emissions because they use less energy to manufacture than products made from new materials. As an example: recycling paper saves tree and lets them continue to reduce climate change naturally.
2. Lighting : the energy efficient bulbs help fight climate change because they reduce the amount of fossil fuels that utilities burn and we can save 45 kg of carbon for each incandescent bulb you replace with energy saver bulb.
3. Shopping : when we shopping preferable we buy local product because if we buy product from other side of the world , we can imagine how much fuel fossil burn to distributing the stuff.
4. Air conditioning : we can easily install a programmable thermostat that can save money and carbon and also turn off the AC when we go on bed or leave the house.
5. Travel : aeroplane are heavy emitters of CO2 and the airline industry development impacting of global warming, so if you skip one round trip flight a year, you do your bit to help.

So do you think, we can help and save our planet?

W H Y

Why is the air so polluted?

Why is the weather going crazy?

Why is it getting hotter and hotter?

Mostly people don’t realize that their activities triggered to those questions, and how their activities affect the earth and contribute to global warming?

Actually, many wasteful habits always they do, such as watching three television sets with the radio, fan and air condition on and than devise to buy new car again, that will only add to the pollution and long traffic jams.

Conclusion is bad habits related to global warming “do we agree with it”.

Can we imagine there are many people leaving the air condition and TV sets on, when not in use and letting the water run when brushing teeth ?.

So if we aware with our earth could we start from now to changing little thing and leave bad habits?

Let’s, we inform and involve our children and friends, to do the best for the earth.

Relation Climate Change on Health

Indonesia government was launch a campaign to protect and secure natural resources, climate change is seriously affecting Indonesian health and becomes a burden on the national health system.

Climate change was directly affecting people’s health, there are more disease outbreaks and other problems due to the imbalance of the ecosystem and climate change also contribute to natural disaster such as heat waves, floods, drought and changing temperatures and precipitation might also increase outbreaks of sensitive diseases such as dengue, malaria, malnutrition and diarrhea as well.

So the efforts to improve basic sanitation facilities are needed in dealing with immediate and future health consequences and the availability of clean water supplies also could prevent infectious diseases and secure food production.

Many potential health problems could be controlled through health system interventions, including disease surveillance, disaster preparedness and primary healthcare.

We also can participate

The climate change has become a global issue, but it doesn`t meant we couldn`t participate to solve the matter, we don`t have to thinks a big problems, but we could start from the small things and start from now.

Ther are many our typical day impacting to climate change, and sometimes we don`t realize that.

Many points we could do to contribute and reduce the climate change fenomena.

Description congruent by alphabet A-Z are:

A ct, now
B uy, energy efficient appliances
C alculate, your personal foot print and cut your green house emmision
D ebate, discusse and distribute leaflets, brochures and posters on climate change and health
E njoy the sun, use sun energy water heater
F ridge, don`t allow your refrigerator open in long time
G o green use, enviro friendly equipment
H alf, your emission
I nvolve, your family, friends, children and neighbours
J oin, an eviromental groups and find know what they act to reduce climate change
K eep going and consist to give information about climate change to other people
L amps, use energy saver bulb
M inimize, chemicals and poison materials
N etwork
O ff, your electronic devices when not use
P lant, trees
Q uit, plastic bag stop using poly bag when you shopping
R ecycle, reduce, repair and reuse
S ave, paper
T ravel, smart, wisely traveling by aeroplane, its significant contribute at carbon dioxide gas.
U se less, energy and conserve more it
V alue waste, by sparate organic and un organic rubbish
W rite letters, about health impact of climate change to the local news paper
X press, your concern on environment health issue and solutions and stay informed
Y our, president, parliementarian needs to know about the impact of climate change on health
Z oom, in reducing emission

publis by indonesia health department and W H O

Influence of climate change to human health quality

WHO ( World Health Organisation) declared the 7 april as world health day, the commemoration meant to awaken awareness of global health issue as a consequences of climate change.

In 2008 theme selected by WHO is "Protecting Health from Climate Change", why They lifted topics about climate change? , cause this issue heating to be discussed by international member.

Recently the world surprised by slided a huge ices block in antartik which is broadness 2/3 of jakarta (metropol in indonesia), it`s mean the natural phenomenon prove that anxiety of climate change dispited by global warming happened.

Other natural phenomena detected by scientist is increasing temperature on the earth, as effect of increas carbon dioxide gas in the athmosfer as a result usage of fossil fuel by factories and vehicles uncontroled, so sun ultra violet radiation which step into earth snared and cannot return back, and known as green house effect.

The estimated carbon dioxide gas rate in athmosfer reached 385 ppm in 2006, its shown significant increases currently 650.000 years, and in last 12 years (1996-2007) noted as hottest year pursuant to report measurement of global surface temperature and IPCC (International Panel of Climate Change), in 2100 global temperature predicted will grow up 1,8-4 degree celcius.

Increasing of sea water temperature also effected to tidal wave dispite by insrease of sea surface.

no sun link to climate change

By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website

Cloud cover affects temperature - but what determines cloud cover?

Scientists have produced further compelling evidence showing that modern-day climate change is not caused by changes in the Sun's activity.

The research contradicts a favoured theory of climate "sceptics", that changes in cosmic rays coming to Earth determine cloudiness and temperature.

The idea is that variations in solar activity affect cosmic ray intensity.

But Lancaster University scientists found there has been no significant link between them in the last 20 years.

Presenting their findings in the Institute of Physics journal, Environmental Research Letters, the UK team explain that they used three different ways to search for a correlation, and found virtually none.

This is the latest piece of evidence which at the very least puts the cosmic ray theory, developed by Danish scientist Henrik Svensmark at the Danish National Space Center (DNSC), under very heavy pressure.

Dr Svensmark's idea formed a centrepiece of the controversial documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle.

Wrong path

"We started on this game because of Svensmark's work," said Terry Sloan from Lancaster University.

"If he is right, then we are going down the wrong path of taking all these expensive measures to cut carbon emissions; if he is right, we could carry on with carbon emissions as normal."

Cosmic rays are deflected away from Earth by our planet's magnetic field, and by the solar wind - streams of electrically charged particles coming from the Sun.

The Svensmark hypothesis is that when the solar wind is weak, more cosmic rays penetrate to Earth.

That creates more charged particles in the atmosphere, which in turn induces more clouds to form, cooling the climate.

The planet warms up when the Sun's output is strong.

Professor Sloan's team investigated the link by looking for periods in time and for places on the Earth which had documented weak or strong cosmic ray arrivals, and seeing if that affected the cloudiness observed in those locations or at those times.

"For example; sometimes the Sun 'burps' - it throws out a huge burst of charged particles," he explained to BBC News.

"So we looked to see whether cloud cover increased after one of these bursts of rays from the Sun; we saw nothing."

Over the course of one of the Sun's natural 11-year cycles, there was a weak correlation between cosmic ray intensity and cloud cover - but cosmic ray variability could at the very most explain only a quarter of the changes in cloudiness.

And for the following cycle, no correlation was found.

Limited effect

Dr Svensmark himself was unimpressed by the findings.

"Terry Sloan has simply failed to understand how cosmic rays work on clouds," he told BBC News.

"He predicts much bigger effects than we would do, as between the equator and the poles, and after solar eruptions; then, because he doesn't see those big effects, he says our story is wrong, when in fact we have plenty of evidence to support it."

But another researcher who has worked on the issue, Giles Harrison from Reading University, said the work was important "as it provides an upper limit on the cosmic ray-cloud effect in global satellite cloud data".

Climate change: No Sun link A cosmic climate connection?

Dr Harrison's own research, looking at the UK only, has also suggested that cosmic rays make only a very weak contribution to cloud formation.

The Svensmark hypothesis has also been attacked in recent months by Mike Lockwood from the UK's Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory.

He showed that over the last 20 years, solar activity has been slowly declining, which should have led to a drop in global temperatures if the theory was correct.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in its vast assessment of climate science last year, concluded that since temperatures began rising rapidly in the 1970s, the contribution of humankind's greenhouse gas emissions has outweighed that of solar variability by a factor of about 13 to one.

According to Terry Sloan, the message coming from his research is simple.

"We tried to corroborate Svensmark's hypothesis, but we could not; as far as we can see, he has no reason to challenge the IPCC - the IPCC has got it right.

"So we had better carry on trying to cut carbon emissions."

global temperatures to decrease

By Roger Harrabin
BBC News environment analyst

La Nina caused some of the coldest temperatures in memory in China

Global temperatures will drop slightly this year as a result of the cooling effect of the La Nina current in the Pacific, UN meteorologists have said.

The World Meteorological Organization's secretary-general, Michel Jarraud, told the BBC it was likely that La Nina would continue into the summer.

This would mean global temperatures have not risen since 1998, prompting some to question climate change theory.

But experts say we are still clearly in a long-term warming trend - and they forecast a new record high temperature within five years.

The WMO points out that the decade from 1998 to 2007 was the warmest on record. Since the beginning of the 20th Century, the global average surface temperature has risen by 0.74C.

While Nasa, the US space agency, cites 2005 as the warmest year, the UK's Hadley Centre lists it as second to 1998.

Researchers say the uncertainty in the observed value for any particular year is larger than these small temperature differences. What matters, they say, is the long-term upward trend.

Rises 'stalled'

LA NINA KEY FACTS La Nina translates from the Spanish as "The Child Girl" Refers to the extensive cooling of the central and eastern Pacific Increased sea temperatures on the western side of the Pacific mean the atmosphere has more energy and frequency of heavy rain and thunderstorms is increased Typically lasts for up to 12 months and generally less damaging event than the stronger El Nino

La Nina and El Nino are two great natural Pacific currents whose effects are so huge they resonate round the world.

El Nino warms the planet when it happens; La Nina cools it. This year, the Pacific is in the grip of a powerful La Nina.

It has contributed to torrential rains in Australia and to some of the coldest temperatures in memory in snow-bound parts of China.

Mr Jarraud told the BBC that the effect was likely to continue into the summer, depressing temperatures globally by a fraction of a degree.

This would mean that temperatures have not risen globally since 1998 when El Nino warmed the world.

Watching trends

A minority of scientists question whether this means global warming has peaked and argue the Earth has proved more resilient to greenhouse gases than predicted.

Animation of El Nino and La Nina effects

But Mr Jarraud insisted this was not the case and noted that 2008 temperatures would still be well above average for the century.

"When you look at climate change you should not look at any particular year," he said. "You should look at trends over a pretty long period and the trend of temperature globally is still very much indicative of warming.

"La Nina is part of what we call 'variability'. There has always been and there will always be cooler and warmer years, but what is important for climate change is that the trend is up; the climate on average is warming even if there is a temporary cooling because of La Nina."

China suffered from heavy snow in January

Adam Scaife, lead scientist for Modelling Climate Variability at the Hadley Centre in Exeter, UK, said their best estimate for 2008 was about 0.4C above the 1961-1990 average, and higher than this if you compared it with further back in the 20th Century.

Mr Scaife told the BBC: "What's happened now is that La Nina has come along and depressed temperatures slightly but these changes are very small compared to the long-term climate change signal, and in a few years time we are confident that the current record temperature of 1998 will be beaten when the La Nina has ended."