Natural Disaster 1

Don’t you feel that there are a lot of unexpected natural disaster happened recently?
Why it can be happened? It is because the earth is sick and calling us!!!!
Let me review some of that,


Tsunami
Dec. 26, 2004, 9.0 magnitude earthquake—the largest earthquake occurred. The earthquake triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean. More than 226,000 died and twelve countries felt the devastation.

http://news.sina.com.cn/z/sumatraearthquake/index.shtml









Snow Storm in China
This only happened recently in Chinese New year. A big snow storm happened in China. The unusually low temperatures, ice and heavy snow have continued to plague 20 out of 31 provinces of China since 10 January. This is China's worst winter storms in five decades. The storms have caused economic losses of $3 billion.
湖南郴洲 have no water and electric for ten days.

http://www.chinatravelguide.com/ctgwiki/2008_China_Snowstorm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr-B9ZN7zRU






Mexico flood (More than a million affected by floods in southern Mexico)

Nov. 3 2007, heavy rains and flooding have forced hundreds of thousands of people from homes in southern Mexico's state of Tabasco. Almost 80% of the Tabasco was flooding. The flooding was caused by a cold front that brought five days of torrential rain
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i9Pnm_aUCKDOmq-RwCiqaajozzqw
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7074271.stm




2007 South Asian floods
The 2007 South Asian floods are a series of floods in India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh between July 3 and August 15 2007
By August 3, approximately twenty million had been displaced and by August 10, some 30 million people in India, Bangladesh and Nepal had been affected by flooding and more than 2,000 would die in the floods.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6927389.stm





Earthquake in Peru
An 8.0 magnitude temblor hit the central coast of the South American nation on Aug. 15, leaving more than 500 people dead and 1,366 injured, and more than 50,000 homes destroyed. Much of the worst damage occurred in the city of Pisco, which was 80% destroyed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Peru_earthquake
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/16/AR2007081600426.html



Help the world…….plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Stop Global warming organization

There are a lot of organizations which working hard on global warming issues.

The most famous organizations are
http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/
This website provide a lot of infomation and that is a channel for you to make a donation or selling some products suited to a healthy lifestyle and reflecting an environmental sensibility. http://usa.roots.com/default.aspx (Root Direct) is one of their partner who offering the products.

http://www.wwf.org/ (donation is tax deductible for Malaysian)
A worldwide organization, WWF conserve Malaysia’s natural resources to protect our good quality of life and our children’s bright future by leaving them a living planet
Hi all, please sign up and be a part of the supporter to help the world.



I think most of us who always access to internet should have an msn messenger account.
There is a way to for you to make donation while chit chat with your friends.
Go to http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Home/ (i’m MAKING A DIFFERENCE)

Upgrade your msn to live messenger. Place a text code into your display pic.
*help - StopGlobalWarming.org

After you add the text code, you will see the icon as below shows in your display name.

Then you can start to help the world while chit chats with your friends. :P
This is because Microsoft will donate a portion of the program's advertising revenue to the organization. Starts do it now because it won’t “eat” your money, you just continue your IM with friends but you did a good job as well.

Although this activities is only for US resident, but we are hopping it can spread to around the world.
By the way, I saw a blog before which telling us the “trick” to become US resident which is change your info in msn account to US country. Actually I’m don’t know this is work or not and I’m not teaching you lie to Microsoft. It is just a sharing :P



Another one...search engine:
http://friendsgreen.com

The FriendsGreen Search Engine (friendsgreen.com) is an online activism site that gives Internet users a free and easy way to help fight Global Warming and to save the Rainforests. Merely by getting in the habit of using friendsgreen.com to search the internet, users can donate proceeds from their searches to fund a portfolio of reforestation projects.
Try offen to use it if you can.

Thanks

Arctic sea ice could be gone by 2012!!

Two years ago, Scientist was estimated the Arctic summer will become ice free at year 2040.
After some pictures taken by NASA satellite last year, the volume of ice in Arctic has been drop 50% compare with year 2004.

September of 2007, summer Arctic has been reached 22 Celsius. The average of the temperature in Arctic is around 10 Celsius but it increase 12 Celsius last year.
http://www.ettoday.com/2007/10/04/11440-2167090.htm

What will be happened if all of the ice melted? Sun light cannot be reflected back to the space, temperature will become higher and higher. All the sea level will increase 6.7 meter, methane bubbling up from Arctic lake will be released to the atmosphere. The gas will poison everyone and kill everyone in the world, is END OF THE WOARD!!

Year 1979 and Year 2003

Year 2005 and Year 2007

Article in English version
http://www.suprememastertv.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=sos&wr_id=43&sca=sos_3&sfl=wr_subject%7C%7Cwr_content&stx=2012&sop=and&url=link1_0 (with video)

Article in Chinese version
http://blog.sina.com.tw/global_warming/article.php?pbgid=56084&entryid=574575 (with video) <--- a super nice video inside
http://www.ettoday.com/2007/12/12/91-2200910.htm

The earth is crying, help!!!
According to James Hansen, top climate scientist at NASA : “we have passed tipping points. We have not passed a point of no return. We can still roll things back but it is going to require a quick turn in direction.”

Stop Global Warming

Hot topic for 2008 (from me)...
Global warming!!!!
seems like still not so many Malaysian aware of this...hope my blog here can wake Malaysian, and also other people around the world up.

Firstly, thanks for the US, canada, Australia, and other country and other peoples who had joined the "early hours" this 29 Mar 08. Thanks a lot!
For those who don't know what is "earth hour", let me briefly bring it out.

Earth hour is an international event that every one turn off the light for one hour on 29 Mar 08, 8pm to 9pm. Even that is only one hour but you already help the world with reducing the carbon dioxide, electric polution and save the energy as well.
For more information, you can refer to the links below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_hour
http://www.reuters.com/article/wtMostRead/idUSSP28389220080330

A starting post of awareness for global warming...I will keep posting new info and knowledge for all peoples.

Please help the world!! Thanks :)