Night Owls Chatterbox - Part LIX!
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Originally posted by av98m:
did fudgie visit you recently? did he?
maybe he was jogging ard bear's estate? -
ahahaha.. not that bad lah
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oh yeah
days back Zaobao, they took a pic of e SMRT team tat 'successfully' bought in 66 new Environmentally Euro 5 diesel buses
thing is, they talked abt e purchase since 2006... but e buses are yet on e road even at tis moment!
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give them abit more time..
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Originally posted by tare:
maybe he was jogging ard bear's estate?
I'm sure he wasn't. If he was my TV will be fried too. -
Originally posted by av98m:
I'm sure he wasn't. If he was my TV will be fried too.
urs not ground lvl so safe.... hahahahah -
oooo.. Humbolt or Jumbo Squid on Nat Geo..
they are starting to harvest them for food.. imagine, a 6-ft squid!
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holy crap!
an octopus just ambushed and ate a shark!
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check out the size of a medium-sized squid
=> Jumbo Squid
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Originally posted by the Bear:
holy crap!
an octopus just ambushed and ate a shark!
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Originally posted by tare:
just how big is the octopus?! o.Osquid... around 2 metres
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hello night people
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Originally posted by the Bear:
squid... around 2 metres
tat can make TONS of octopus balls!!!! -
the squid head must be damn big ...
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that's why the local people are catching the things and selling them to asia
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time to sleep.. goodnight everyone
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knn..farking open house...puiiii...
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Back. Din now in between sgf, papers and mails. My world.
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dinner eaten
now to wait and stretch
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Cry I wanna go home
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why don't you just put a hit out on HM?
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Looks like very soon it's bye bye to the North Pole and bye bye to Polar Bears and most likely Singapore will sink with all the excess water. LOL
North Pole ice cap melting faster than ever
AFP - Thursday, August 28WASHINGTON (AFP) - - The Arctic ice cap keeps melting under the effects of global warming and in August saw its second largest summer shrinkage since satellite observations began 30 years ago, US scientists said.
Measurements on August 26 showed an ice cap of 5.26 million square kilometers (2.03 million square miles), just below the 5.32 million square kilometers (2.05 million square miles) observed on 21 September 2005, making it the second biggest summer Arctic ice-cap melt in history, said the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).Since the start of August, the Boulder, Colorado-based center said, the Arctic polar cap shrank by 2.06 million square kilometers (0.8 million square miles).
The melting is so fast and extensive it could shrink the ice cap to below the 4.25 million square kilometers (1.64 million square miles) reached in the summer of 2007, the smallest it has ever been observed by satellites, the center said.
Since the end of the Arctic summer and the start of the freezing autumn is several weeks away, it said, the ice cap could dwindle even more than it did in 2007.
At the end of northern hemisphere summer 2007, the Arctic ice cap was 40 percent smaller than the average 7.23 million square kilometers (2.8 million square miles) observed in 1979-2000, the NSIDC said.
The North Pole melting season begins in mid-June. The ice cap shrinks to its smallest area by mid-September and grows the most in winter by mid-March.
"The bottom line, however, is that the strong negative trend in summertime ice extent characterizing the past decade continues," the Center said in a report.
The North Pole itself could even become free of ice by September for the first time in modern history, setting a new milestone in the effects of global warming on the Arctic ice shelf, NSIDC glaciologist Mark Serreze told AFP in late June.
"We could have no ice at the North Pole at the end of this summer. And the reason here is that the North Pole area right now is covered with very thin ice, and this ice we call 'first-year ice,' the ice that tends to melt out in the summer," he explained.
Serrreze said the possibility the ice cap could vanish stood at 50 percent.
If it does happen in September, he added, "it's possible that ships could sail from Alaska right to the North Pole".
The Arctic has been free of ice in the geologic history of the Earth, but never in modern history, Serreze said.
"Clearly, if you look over what we have seen in the past three years and where we were headed, we are in ... this long-term decline and we may have no ice at all in the Arctic Ocean in summer by 2030 or so," he added.
Not long ago, he said, the summer disappearance of the Arctic ice was predicted to happen between 2050 and 2100.
The NSIDC said the receding North Pole ice sheet was chiefly caused by the melting of ice in the Chukchi Sea, off the Alaskan coast, and the East Siberian Seas, off the coast of eastern Russia.
The Chukchi ice sheet is one of the natural habitats of the polar bear, where it hunts for seals, and its disappearance is a direct threat to the animal's survival.
The vanishing summer polar ice cap, however, also opens up the fabled Northwest Passage that winds through the northern Canadian islands and links the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Shipping routes using the Northwest Passage would spare very long detours through the Panama Canal and around South America's Cape Horn.
An ice-free North Pole would also expose untold wealth of natural resources, including oil and natural gas, locked up beneath the Arctic Ocean waters, which Canada and Russia are already eagerly preparing to exploit.
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Originally posted by the Bear:
why don't you just put a hit out on HM?
It's not HMMy boss is travelling soon and I have tons of work to do
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Originally posted by elindra:
Cry I wanna go home
me too! think i'll just brave it and leave in 20-30 min. am not gonna make a habit of having din at 11 pm.how late are you staying?
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I wonder if this is some kind of news by PETA
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080826/tts-lifestyle-germany-climate-agricultur-509a08e.html
Going veggie can slash your carbon footprint: study
BERLIN (AFP) - - Giving up meat could drastically reduce your carbon footprint, with meat-eaters' diets responsible for almost twice the emissions of those of vegetarians, a German study said on Tuesday.
A diet with meat is responsible for producing in a year the same amount of greenhouse gases as driving a mid-sized car 4,758 kilometres (2,956 miles), the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IOeW) said.But the food a vegetarian consumes in 12 months is responsible for generating the same emissions as driving 2,427 kilometres, the IOeW said in a study commissioned by independent consumer protection group Foodwatch.
The calculations are based on emissions of greenhouse gases, including methane produced by the animals themselves, as well as emissions from food production including manufacturing feed and fertiliser and the use of farmland.
Going vegan -- giving up meat and dairy products -- would cut the emissions released in making what you eat more than seven-fold, to the equivalent of driving 629 kilometres, it said.
And if it is all organic, your food footprint is almost a 17th of that of a meat-eater -- the equivalent of driving 281 kilometres.
Beef is particularly environmentally unfriendly, it said, with producing a kilo (2.2 pounds) the same as driving 71 kilometres compared with 26 kilometres for pork.
Switching to organic farming can cut emissions dramatically, "but what counts is the way we feed ourselves ... production and consumption first and foremost of beef and milk must be cut drastically," the study said.