Hi all you good folks :) just want to apologise for not getting back to you, and to say thanks for the nice comments and great pictures! :)
My son whose internet I network thru is using a download program to d/load in bulk, ... it's such a net hog!! and is painful to sit waiting 10mins or so for every screen update :-{} so I havn't been on much lately. Latest report is that his work is almost half done :-S I'll get back to you all hopefully soon-ish :) luvs ya!

Recently there is a new report about the seriousness of Global Warming from the UN. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [ICPP] this from the German "Spiegel" ..two post please read both.
'Climate Protection is a Question of Our Self-Respect'
German chancellor Angela Merkel, who currently holds the European Union's rotating six-month presidency, is in the front line in calls for action on climate change. She issued yet another wake-up call on Wednesday evening. "It   more...is not five minutes to midnight," Merkel, who has made action on climate change one of the priorities of her EU presidency, said on German television. "It's five past midnight."
"The Europeans are caught in a trap. Without the Chinese, Indians and Americans, they won't be able to save the world's climate. If they try to do it nevertheless, through excessive voluntary commitments, then they will damage their economic basis -- which, however, creates the material preconditions for environmental protection. ...

"What are the biggest polluters, the USA, Russia and China, doing to save the planet?"
The US and China are the world's largest and second largest CO2 polluters respectively and both have said their CO2 emissions will continue to grow in coming years. In the near future China and also India will become the biggest polluters, China outstripping the USA. but this unfortunately will not be because the USA has decreased it's output.

Is the world's weather already out of control? Is the pollution of the past decades having an impact on the present? That's exactly what the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change fears: Human influences over the last 30 years "have had a recognizable effect on many physical and biological systems," write the authors of the as yet unreleased second part of the 2007 global climate change report.
Rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the Earth's atmosphere will at first help the plant world, but there will be more incidences of natural/weather disasters everywhere. Vegetation growth will be stronger and the planet will become greener. The absorption of CO2 by plant life will to a certain extent work against climate change, but not forever. "In the second half of the century terrestrial ecosystems will become a source of carbon which will then accelerate climate change," the IPCC report warns.
The ability of the world's oceans to absorb CO2 is also expected to be depleted by the end of the 21st century. By then rising ocean temperatures could force them to begin to release greenhouse gases instead of absorbing them.
Just as they did in the first part of the IPCC report released in February, the climate experts warn that air pollution and greenhouse gases are likely to have long-lasting effects since the planet's climate reacts slowly to changes. It's already a "fait accompli" that average temperatures near ground level will rise a further 0.6 degrees Celsius by 2100, according to the report. Humanity will have no choice but to adapt to the global changes. NB:[0.6? I think that's a misprint because the graphs I saw showed between 6-7degreesC by 2100]

According to information obtained by SPIEGEL ONLINE at the end of February, the climate panel will demand radical changes and massive investment against global warming in the third part of the IPCC report expected to be released in May in Bangkok. Some $16 billion (€12.1 billion) will be required by 2030 and humanity only has until 2020 to turn back the trend.  less

What I want to make clear to all is that the pollution in the air at present is already enough to produce these results, there will be no turning back on this but! That same pollution will also continue to increase the effects through the continuation of heat being trapped because of it's continued presence. In the longer term we not only have to reduce the amounts of CO2 we add annually to the air but we WILL inevitably have to decrease the amounts actually present in the atmosphere before 2050,   more...when there will be a great risk that the oceans start to release the Co2 that is dissolved within it at present. I believe by that time if we have not halted the increase of emissions or decreased the actual concentration of atmospheric CO2 and other G/H pollutants, we face a real risk of a run-away G/H as more trapped heat will intensify water evaporation into an already warmed atmosphere, which will not return to the ground because of lack of sufficient cooling to produce rains, this extra moisture then will again trap more heat into the atmosphere exacerbating the effects further! Nowhere! have I seen evidence that any increase in atmospheric CO2 will not continue to trap more additional heat indefinitely, there is no ceiling from what I can see!
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Another point to consider.

A special report prepared earlier this year by the German Federal Scientific Advisory Committee on Global Climate Change (WBGU), found that "a sea level rise is part of the inescapable physical consequences of global warming." Some of the key points made in the report include:

At the peak of the last ice age some 20,000 years ago, the sea level was roughly 120 meters lower than it is today; the global climate was colder by four to seven degrees Celsius.
During the last warm period, the Eemian interglacial era of 120,000 years ago, the world was roughly one degree warmer than it is today; the sea level was approximately two to six meters higher.
Three million years ago in the Pliocene era, when the earth was two to three degrees warmer than it is today, sea levels were 25 to 30 meters higher.

We are still far away from anything close to a 30-meter increase in the water line. But on the flip-side, there is a considerably greater danger of storms and floods in London, New York and other cities in the coastal regions of the North Atlantic. Some coastal cities could even sink completely this century, a study found early in March this year.

Here's a link to a "Flood projection Toy" by Google, you can toggle the desired rise in sea levels to suit your own tastes! ;) http://flood.firetree.net/ ..not as cool as I expected sorry but still fun... cheap travel :))  less

Hey thanks to all for the subscriptions and all ...not that I know why but hehe is all good, and the comments makes ya feel all warm and fuzzy in the ... head? ...hmm.

Well I did get me photo up .. Yikes! :))
Love this site am not getting enough sleep and am trying to check every-ones' vids as often as I can but my son goes to bed at around 12pm and I'm a late riser. I share the internet thru him, his comp. so don't actually get much more than 2-3hrs. at times Wahhhhhhh! so don't be discouraged if I don't get back often.
Another thing I notice is everywhere I go I find other things of interest or fun and I can get lost for days here! :)
I keep clicking on browse   more...country looking for some Australian vloggers but I haven't found any yet .... Where are they? ...... looks around ..... shrugs. :-s  less