ECOLOGY/ WATER, ICE & AIR

ECOLOGY/ WATER, ICE & AIR

Here are 3 interesting articles that you should read. They all revolve around 1 basic issue, WATER!!!!!!!!!!!!! Water is, as the indigenous people of Turtle Island put it, the "blood of the mother". We already are seeing water rights fights in many areas. This is an issue that will not be going away. Fresh water will be more valuable than gold at some point in the future. Drink hearty my friends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...................PEACE.......................Scott

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For Thirsty Farmers, Old Friends at Interior Department

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/030306EA.shtml
For more than 10 years, Jason Peltier was a paid advocate for the

irrigation-dependent farmers here in the Central Valley of California, several

hundred landowners who each year consume more water than the city of Los Angeles

does. Now Mr. Peltier works for the Bush administration, and he helps oversee

the awarding of new water contracts for the people he used to represent as head

of the Central Valley Project Water Users Association.

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Loss of Antarctic Ice Increases

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/030306EB.shtml
Two new satellite surveys show that warming air and water are causing Antarctica

to lose ice faster than it can be replenished by interior snowfall, and thus are

contributing to rising global sea levels. The studies differed significantly in

estimates of how much water was being added to the oceans this way, but their

authors both said that the work added credence to recent conclusions that global

warming caused by humans was likely to lead to higher sea levels than previous

studies had predicted.

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Pollution From Planes May Render Astronomy Extinct

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/030306EC.shtml
Ground-based astronomy could be impossible in 40 years because of pollution from

aircraft exhaust trails and climate change, an expert says.