News from Australia ~ Roo tries to drown dog, attacks owner
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/23/2750892.htm?section=australia
A man has been attacked by a kangaroo while trying to rescue his dog
from a dam at Arthurs Creek, north-east of Melbourne.
The 49-year-old man dived into the dam to rescue his dog, which was
being held down by the kangaroo.
But the kangaroo turned on him, leaving the man with deep cuts and
scratches to his upper body.
"He suffered a deep cut across his abdomen, a deep cut across his face
and eye and a number of scratches to his chest, face and arms,"
paramedic Michael Vosbergen said.
"We covered the wounds with pads and bandages and treated him with
pain relief through an inhaler."
The man was taken to the Austin Hospital and is in a stable condition.
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UNCLE WALLY
Werewolfy
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> Roo tries to drown dog, attacks owner
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MARIAN WILKINSON
November 26, 2009
THE Earth's temperature is continuing to rise, the Greenland and the
Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an increasing rate and the
global warming could reach as high as 7 degrees by the turn of the
century if greenhouse gases grow unabated, a r review of climate
science over the past three years has found.
A temperature rise on this scale would wipe out much of the
agriculture in the Murray-Darling Basin, cause thousands of heat-
related deaths and bring sea level rises that would dislocate coastal
cities of Australia and Asia.
Just weeks before the Copenhagen climate conference, 26 scientists
from eight countries have published the most up-to-date review of
climate data since the UN's peak scientific body, the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published its report in
2007.
''The message is the warming hasn't stopped,'' said Matthew England of
the University of NSW and one of the authors of the report, The
Copenhagen Diagnosis. ''Every year this century has been among the top
10 warmest years since instrumental records began.''
This warming trend has continued despite solar brightness being
relatively weak over the past three years and the impact of the
cooling La Nina event last year.
''While there has been natural short-term fluctuations in temperature,
the warning trend has continued,'' the report finds. It underscores a
warming trend since the 1970s of a 0.6 degree temperature rise.
The report is confirmation of the scientific case for climate change
despite the claims by sceptics of a ''global cooling'' and that
climate scientists have suppressed sceptical views.
March last year had the warmest global land temperature of any March
measured, and June and August this year had the warmest land and ocean
temperatures recorded in the southern hemisphere for those months.
Global ocean surface temperatures this year broke records for three
consecutive months, June, July and August.
Among the report's more disturbing findings is that several elements
in the climate system could pass a ''tipping point'' this century
because of human activities leading to abrupt and/or irreversible
climate change.
Most of the report concentrates on growing evidence of sea level rise
since the last IPCC report. The melting of glaciers and ice caps has
greatly increased since the mid-1990s, and the surface of the
Greenland ice sheet experiencing summer melt has increased by 30 per
cent since 1979.
The authors include one of the leading Australian polar experts, Ian
Allison, and among its findings is that ''Antarctica is not cooling:
it has warmed overall over at least the past 50 years''.
At the North Pole the ice melt in summer has ''far exceeded the worst-
case projections from climate models of the IPCC''.
''Unfortunately, the data now show us that we have underestimated the
climate crisis,'' the report finds.
The World Meteorological Organization yesterday reported that
atmospheric carbon dioxide had increased by about 38 per cent since
the Industrial Revolution.
If global warming was to be kept to 2 degrees above pre-industrial
levels, Professor England said, emissions needed to peak between 2015
and 2020.
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UNCLE WALLY
Saint Isadore Patron Saint of the Internet
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> Planet approaching point of no return, experts warn
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> MARIAN WILKINSON
> November 26, 2009
>
Uncle - that's all correct and totallt accurate and also a bit of a
bonus
for me - where I live in Northern California the temp. was a nice 67F
and
by the beginning of 2012 in Jan.-March my area will have a climate
with
temps. in the range of what they now have in the Hawaii area.
That will give me about 9 months to live in a wonderful climate here
in
Laytonville before the aliens come to take me away with the other
143,999
good folks - to live in Inner-Adgartha forever.
WOMP WOMP & HOOROO -> to Uncle Wally
PLU
Tom
PS: I got you booked in a suite right next to mine so we can party
together.
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Looking forward to it, Little Buddy ~!!!!
HOOROO
UNCLE WALLY
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