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Senator Daniel Akaka

Senator Daniel Akaka has served the state of Hawaii since the 1970s, he is the first senator of Hawaiian ancestry, and the only member of the senate that is Chinese-American. In my lifetime I've seen Daniel Akaka elected and re-elected many times (despite the fact that he's obviously blowing it) simply out of respect for his position (I'm serious). Daniel Akaka has constantly attempted to pass the Akaka Bill that tries to get Native Hawaiians the same rights as Native American on top of the rights they receive for being of Hawaiian decent. He's been elected amongst America's Five Worst Senators, the article calling him "master of the minor resolution and the bill that dies in committee". He's been a staunch supporter of the democratic party, and has done little more than trying to pass the Akaka Bill.

With a little bit of history on Hawaii's everlasting senator, we can look at what his stance on the environment is. He's been a strong advocate for clean oceans (like most people from the Islands) and has made the point that the protection of the environment isn't a new thing to the islands and its inhabitants, the debate has been going on for nearly 30 years when increased carbon dioxide levels were first detected by Mauna Loa observatory. Senator Akaka has been a constant supporter of technological advancements for the control of green house gases, and has been an ardent supporter of bills that will enable to advancement of alternative energy and the limiting of greenhouse gases.

Senator Akaka has seen most activism towards the islands attempting to combat (with the assistance of Governor Lingle) invasive species, cleaning of debris in the oceans and shores, and helping to preserve the coral reefs. In 2006 he participated in the proclamation ceremony of the NWHI marine sanctuary with President George W. Bush. Akaka has been a strong advocate for the expansion and protection of forests and our national parks, the Senator has had a strong voting record to help our national parks, and has been named a friend of the national parks by the National Park Service.

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Enviro-Issues

Light Someone's Life, Give Them A Free Hug

Free Hugs Campaign

I know that this post isn't about global warming, but it is about something very important:
Improving the world.
Free Hugs is a humanitarian movement that is based on something we all need some times, a hug. It is a movement built around hugging a stranger, to spread good will, and if a single person goes away with a smile it is worth it. This is a worth while campaign because it spreads good will, it spreads togetherness, and it breaks barriers. Sometimes people underestimate the power of a hug.

Help! The Ice is Falling!

According to major news sources, Al Gore, and National Geographic the world is warming to a point that is very beyond the norm, and this is causing enormous amounts of ice to break off from the main parts of the antarctic shelf, which in turn causes the ice on the mainland to melt as well. This is interesting considering the fact that rising water temperatures (largely caused by volcanic activity) are causing ice to melt from the bottom up, not rising atmospheric temperatures, what's also interesting to note is that, while it is reported to the average citizen that very large chunks are coming off the Antarctic peninsula, but what they don't report is the fact that the ice chunks that fall off very rarely only account for roughly 2% of all total ice on the continent, as well that it won't cause anything significant because the ice has already displaced all the water it is going to, melted or not. They also fail to note that in recent years we've had some of the coldest winters ever (people are still reeling from the heating bills!), and the falling snow easily replaces what is lost at the sea on the main land mass. Ice has been cooling and accumulating since the early 1970s. According to Michael S. Coffman, Ph.D, only 2.67% of the Wilkin's ice shelf and only .01% of the entire Antarctic continent, despite the media coverage of it using such powerful words as "collapse", and "explosion". Joseph D'Aleo former director of meteorology at the Weather Channel, and executive director of Icecap.us compared it to "an icicle falling from a snow and ice covered roof".

What else is interesting to note is that for every scientist that favored the IPCC conclusions in any way 792 scientists signed the petition saying that there is not any conclusive evidence for catastrophic man-made global warming. And for every Ph.D who believed it there were 1,800 who signed the petition.





Thermal count is rising
In perpetual writhing
The primordial ooze
And the sanity they lose

Awakened in the morning
To more air pollution warnings
Still we sleepwalk off to work
While our nervous systems jerk

Pretending not to notice
How history had forebode us
With the green house in effect
Our environment was wrecked

Now I can only laugh
As I read our epitaph
We end our lives as moles
In the dark of dawn patrol

Global Warming 101

Video found here, National Geographic.

What, precisely, is global warming? Global warming is the collection and retention of heat. Normally radiation comes from the sun, a small portion of which is absorbed by our atmosphere and land/water masses, but for the most part it is deflected back into space, keeping our Earth at a temperature that allows the environment to remain livable by plants and animals, more importantly it keeps our climate system in check. But what is causing the Earth to retain so much heat? They're called Greenhouse Gases:

On Earth, the major greenhouse gases are water vapor, which causes about 36–70 percent of the greenhouse effect (not including clouds); carbon dioxide (CO2), which causes 9–26 percent; methane (CH4), which causes 4–9 percent; and ozone, which causes 3–7 percent.[19][20] The issue is how the strength of the greenhouse effect changes when human activity increases the atmospheric concentrations of some greenhouse gases.

What the Greenhouse Gases do is let the heat radiation in, but not out, thus warming the Earth. There are several major problems that can stem from this warming, the first and most obvious is that it melts the major arctic regions across the Earth. As Al Gore demonstrated in his film An Inconvenient Truth, when the ice melts in the ice shelves, the water puddles don't refreeze, instead they continue to melt, all the way to the water beneath. What this does is is make a series of holes in the ice, which makes it weak, and causes large chunks of ice to break off from the main mass into the sea. What's the importance of the ice caps? Well the ice arctic regions in our world provide a placenta to multiple species of animals, as well as keeping the environment in check. At first it was estimated that the ice caps would last until 2100, despite global warming, but scientists are now estimating that they will be completely gone by 2030. What will this do? Well it will submerge millions of acres of land, and throw our entire climate out of whack.
In recent years (approximately the last 50) we've witnessed the highest amount of climate change in recorded history. What does this do? Well for one thing is causes more droughts in dry regions and can cause higher amounts of climate phenomena such as hurricanes. In recent years we've seen a very high amount of hurricanes and tornadoes, whether this is caused by global warming remains to be seen, but they've gotten bigger and heavier as the years go on. Global warming is causing our oceans to get warmer, and whether a hurricane starts as a big one, once it hits warm patches of water it speeds up and gets bigger. To conclude this article global warming causes hating of the Earth, which melts ice, which can kill species and change the climate system, and currents, which can cause strange changes in the way the climate works.

-Remix Theory