Month: April 2010

Global warming, climate change, weather extremes

GLOBAL WARMING THE COMPLETE BRIEFING JOHN HOUGHTON Co-Chairman of the Scientific Assessment Working Group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS            REPRINTED 1999 PART II Chapter 4: Climates of the Past (continued) The past million years Deep cores have been drilled out of the ice at several locations in both Greenland and …

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Spring in Lakkia

Lots of fresh salad to eat! Enjoy the peace and tranquility of life in Lakkia.  We feel so blessed to be stewards of this land and to be able to share the bounty with our family and friends.

Volcanic eruptions, global warming, climate change, weather extremes

GLOBAL WARMING THE COMPLETE BRIEFING JOHN HOUGHTON Co-Chairman of the Scientific Assessment Working Group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS            REPRINTED 1999 PART I Introduction to the First Edition It is only during the last thirty years or so that human activities have been of such a kind or on a …

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Volcanic eruptions, global warming, climate change, weather extremes

2010 Diary week 16 Book Review Volcanic eruptions, global warming, climate change, weather extremes This week there will be a break in book reviews on gardening, farming and food production to move on to books dealing with volcanic eruptions, global warming, climate change, weather extremes. Global Warming: The Complete Briefing provides the basic information required …

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Food from dryland gardens

FOOD FROM DRYLAND GARDENS AN ECOLOGICAL, NUTRITIONAL, AND SOCIAL APPROACH TO SMALL-SCALE HOUSEHOLD FOOD PRODUCTION DAVID A. CLEVELAND & DANIELA SOLERI CENTER FOR PEOPLE, FOOD & ENVIRONMENT                1991 Preface by James P. Grant, Executive Director, UNICEF Household gardens are an important part of the indigenous agricultural production system in almost all developing countries. For …

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