THIS Map IS THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE ( the April issue "Climate Change" published in 2009 . This is a Temperature increase map. Actual temperatures vary wildly .Map shows an average increase of 3.6 deg.F.  Some Arctic areas increased 26 deg F five years ago. The world average is estimated at 1deg Celsius (1.5 F). Oceans affect land mass temperatures and cool the planet. Drought status is determined by local opinion about past rainfall and moisture (ground water) planting experience, the present outlook about the snow pack, weather forecasts, and market conditions. Usually county commissioner's information comes from consulting these resources: government agencies, the Weather Bureau, Forest Service, USGS, BLM, Dept of Agriculture, other state and federal inputs, and Farm Bureaus etc. Drought policy emerges. ( more on this later).

Background

CEEI has written to the UNEP to do 190 nation survey that would compile national drought  documents all those countries experiencing drought during the 2005 period. It's publication for all students would be revealing about their own country and everyone else's too. The UNEP said yes. but can't afford it. CEEI will publish this drought information. It should help bring all nations together to help solve this huge planet problem. CEEI sharing .http://www.ceei-news.org/contents.php CEEI web sites: www.apsrs.org   www.esew.org   www.ceei-climate.org  www.ceei-news.org  www.eco-pedia.org  CEEI sees the need for all communities to share this kind of climate information.

To accomplish this, there are two tasks. One:  To see if there is enough interest to gather climate change knowledge AND PUT IT into local areas, counties, parishes, and burroughs within reporting weather regions. The other is to build a reporting tree through existing networks.CEEI sees this is a way to connect to these communities with local info. its up to the schools and the colleges and universities and their students to to do this. ( the equivalent in provinces)

CEEI believes that any climate world agreement would be also served by providing drought reports compiled based upon actual local ground ASSESSMENT that reflect the actual drought local reports. that people will understand because they experienced it.

In the mean time Each country is welcome to send their compiled National Drought Reports   to CEEI. PO 1778 Sun Valley 83353,USA  or to Drought Paper  ceei@cox.net  CEEI will send back a compiled copy of all 190 or so, countries .(We have to start some where) In the mean time. . .  .   .   .   .  .  .http://www.ceei-news.org/major.php?majorID=13&name=GOOGLE+STATUS+Drought 

Planet Status

In calendar year 2005, the planet experienced one of the worst drought and climate impacts of the decade. MOST REPORTS cited lost crops and or people being drastically short of rain. Temperatures rose in northern regions AS HIGH AS 25 deg F . WHOLE FORESTS ARE SEVERELY DAMAGED IN SOME PARTS OF ALASKA, AND PERMAFROST IS THAWING and huge amounts of methane is being released, IN THE HIGH REGIONS OF ALASKA AND SIBERIA. ( the size of France and Germany) put together.

 In Eastern Africa right now drought is of major concern with 23,000,000 people now at risk . Kenya farmers have lost their second crop of maze in a row. DAR FUR REGION IS ESPECIALLY HARD HIT. OXFAM MADE AN APPEAL 6 MONTHS AGO. ( LONDON BASED). TO THE WORLD TO PREPARE FOR MORE OF THE SAME CONDITIONS. We have had our droughts in Georgia , floods, on the east coast, and now in Arkansas. SOME INUIT NATIVE TRIBES PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO RELOCATE.  Soon. ! it is clear this planet is under attack. by an stronger imbalance between  primary sources of light/heat  energy , and the planet's propensity to shield itself ( all living plants and animals are affected). These Climate Change forces are on a huge scale . So huge that science is having problems wrapping their arms around it., and these problems and impacts are piling up. The climate scientists need the support of all of the academic community.  Politics and politicians tactics are simply attacking the messenger to discredit the message. But you cannot fool a storm,  and you cannot hide  climate change. BUT  People seem to understand this after the British Petroleum/Gulf oil blow out disaster.

The ACIA Arctic Climate impact Assessment funded by Congress,  was ignored 5 years ago. SEE the ( www.ceei-climate.org. and http://www.acia.uaf.edu/pages/scientific.html )  Climate scientists were ridiculed, and academic communities, became fearful that the last administration saw the climate problem  as a nuisance that got in the way of national security (oil procurement, and associated political problems from middle-east). In the mean time planet impacts have been building  (the Katrina Hurricane hit the Gulf area). Its turns out that our country was the least prepared for natural disasters despite a new reorganization  by Congress. Home land Security was formed to protect America from terrorists, and hardly a nickel for climate science. In the mean time the Pentagon was studying the threats of Climate Change.

IMPORTANT CEEI PROJECTS


CEEI started 6 years ago,  researching the climate and associated environmental impacts . CEEI uploads 5000 line items a day from 200 sources, into 1071 climate categories which now total 13,000,000 archives.  In three months  the CXCSAS  CEEI X Climate Status Assessment System will be  be ready. (its 99% done). 

Purpose to allow students  9th grad on up. access to the internet climate and solid associated information. to produce research and assessment papers  They can download soon up to 30,000 line items, run their own search terms, get a print out of further links, an out line, more links,  and finally come out with  current info (that can be checked,)  for a current paper for any classroom. No more goose chases for information 80% of their time is saved. We deal at the moment with the climate. The potential for solving one problem by 10,000,000 students would generate  2 trillion search connections.

 Whether students are into in art, history, law, sociology, foreign relations, or science and engineering career. They save *80% of their time, cover twice as much territory, and they can share all this new information with all other students. ( in effect their teachers could be teaching to 20,000,000 other kids everywhere via the papers that these kids are now producing. (The students can  share their information with local papers, school publications and the CEEI eco-pedia ( another CEEI web site).  School Boards need to update their thinking will have to pay attention. What is happening right now in education ? Our government structures are falling apart anyway. LA schools have 50% drop out rates.National dropout rates are reported at 27%. What a mess ! Studies say that students are bored . The other reasons stated seem to be reasonable. Parents need to understand their responsibility to see their kids get a trade and  if not,  promote their kids interests and passion to learn.

CEEi has one project lined up in Kenya to help Maasai Mara schools and territories survey their drought areas. Ten teams with digital cameras and text, with solar chargers, battery, transceivers. and laptops. Students with teachers,  will do phenology studies on animals, plants, streams etc.  Reports will focus on Kenya, students needs, and look like a CEEI-news web site headline except it will say "Kenya Students" . Server computer service and satellite service is free.

Education now is treated as if information is scarce. This is no longer true. US education  and (all bricks and mortar institutions) are out of date. Check out the University of Illinois Springfield campus. The entire catalog is now on the internet.( you can have a conference  with your professor who lives in Florida,  even if you live in Las Vegas. Tax rates will plummet Many people see this future, many don't. Congress clearly doesn't get it. .They still want subsidies for bankers, insurance companies, oil companies.schools, farmers, almost everybody, which is killing our form of democracy and our economy. 

CEEI is hoping by direct communication to connect with the information the media refuses to print. Mainly they gave up on the Clean Water Act 20 years ago. Not one stream name was mentioned in news articles when the 1994 polluted stream lists were first published on the net. They found out early that too many people would pull advertising and stop subscribing if they talked about, and printed, the 303d polluted stream lists.  Only dog and pony show news  were permitted.( Most schools get their info from the local papers).

 STUDENT PARTICIPATION SUPER IMPORTANT.   3 Options

1.  CEEI is APPEALING to all STUDENTS . . . . . . to help CEEI to compile all your countries regional drought info reports  ASAP  and to help  establish 2009 benchmark info based on local and regional information and impacts on the local communities That will be the essence of what is in your research paper. Your state or REGION AREA should have a Regional drought REPORT Send them an e-mail !   US , CANADA AND MEXICO NOW HAVE A PROGRAM THAT IS VERY COMPREHENSIVE ADMINISTERED BY NOAA, NASA, USDA, THE DROUGHT Monitor SURVEY, AND THE NCDC National CLIMATE DATA CENTER, US DEPT OF COMMERCE. See a search engine. Most Agriculture and commerce Govt offices will have this information.  Many countries are listed that  combine this info in their eco systems report. with their eco systems.

http://www.ceei-news.org/major.php?majorID=13&name=GOOGLE+STATUS+Drought 

2, Students can simply send their environment or climate papers  to Drought paper ceei@cox.net

Papers already on your hard drive  post it  to CEEI's website www.eco-pedia.org  or e-mail to eco paper ceei@cox.net  Name,  school, college, country and subject of your paper. (in the subject column) do it now . 

3    Question why it is that after thirty years there is no mention of mercury (contaminated fish) in the  the EPA 30,000 polluted streams list ?CEEI believes that there are 200,000 to 400,000 polluted streams that are missing from these Clean Water Act lists. www.apsrs.org

Right now there is a law suit pending against the EPA citing the Clean Water Act and the Clean air Act. it is believed that mercury reported on NPR, has been used by 26 gold mines in Nevada for twenty years sending 300 tons of airborne mercury into 5 surrounding states. These states in turn have sued Nevada to stop. CEEI is wondering why no mercury listing was found on the Idaho 303d lists  (and all the others)CEEI Clean Water Act.See  www.apsrs.org the mining has not stopped.

http://www.ceei-news.org/major.php?majorID=241&name=*+BULLETIN+CEEI+STANDS+BY+IT%27S+REPORT

See the CEEI www.apsrs.org for polluted streams as well as drought and mercury conditions./ See the EPA 303d polluted stream reports.at Ceei's www.apsrs.org they are filed by state. Mercury problems are discussed at www.apsrs.org and under "CEEI
Stands by it's Report". There is a whole body of info that is not being reported by either EPA  the Clean Air Act or the Clean Water Act. The entire coal fired plant emissions east of the Mississippi, ( 0ver 200 plants) there are no streams reported with mercury ! WHY ?
Consult public heath records that apply to your region. and area for the Giarda omissions and mercury poisoning.
 Unique research about the mercury status in your state and the Clean Water and Clean Air Acts in your state and local area
(Mercury testing is expensive unless you have fish samples). www.apsrs.org
 Finally CEEI believes that that if  students decide to do this paper  You can add your paper to your resume a big plus. and include a copy of your paper to your congressman or woman. Where do you see a page labeled "climate",  and what paper wants to print 5000 climate stories a day ?

PEP TALK

The future of this planet depends on whether you get it right. Global climate change  is no longer debatable. The evidence is in. CEEI wants to empower you to do this for yourself. Remember it is also  a people problem as well as a scientific one. Most businesses are waiting for some one to say the future is now  in energy,  food,  and health care ,and  transportation systems and everyone has a piece of it. Many people don't realize this. Many are hanging on to fear. they don't want to upset the apple cart they know. It's time to Take charge ! 


PHILOSOPHY INCLUDES SOLUTIONS Ask your professor for some guidance.

CEEI suggests  write up what you want to do.( an outline and strategy) Get  additional  get help from your professor. He or she can guide you and suggest short cuts and over all strategy.  Help you navigate through the do's and don'ts. CEEI has tried to keep it simple by building on each weather region. sticking to published info for reference etc but still with the objective to coming up with a bench mark year that will make sense. The 2006 should be done to see if 2006 info is valid. 2009 a good year  to  establish new bench mark ( it is now published)  info that will  make it easier the  next time. and give a lot of info that  students and the public can use and understand. 

http://www.ceei-news.org/major.php?majorID=13&name=GOOGLE+STATUS+Drought 

The fact that not only do coal fired plants produce co2 but they are producing unheard of and unreported amounts of mercury ! the EPA has a problem. Does public health or the planet come first ! This EPA needs to act ! The President needs to be told of the 20 years that the EPA allowed mercury to be airborne over 5 western states from Nevada spreading 300 tons of mercury from 26 Nevada gold mines.( at the moment Nevada faces 5 lawsuits, EPA faces two. more.

News of six state law suits against Nevada and another against the EPA are just surfacing.

http://www.ceei-news.org/major.php?majorID=241&name=*+BULLETIN+CEEI+STANDS+BY+IT%27S+REPORT

The ICL Idaho Consrvation League filed against the EPA in March 2010. Get a copy of that suit from CEEI.

Mercury changes  structure at high temperatures and can freely circulate. it is also highly toxic to all life ! The suit maintains that EPA has allowed gold mining spreading 300 tons mercury for 20 years in Nevada. This material drifted over all the neighboring states.

Mercury can be emitted to the atmosphere in 3 forms: gaseous elemental
mercury (GEM), reactive gaseous mercury (RGM), and particulate mercury
(HgP). These 3 forms can also inter convert in the atmosphere. On time scales
of 0.5-1.5 years, there is a net oxidation of GEM to RGM in the atmosphere
(some of which goes onto particles to create HgP). The RGM and HgP are
scavenged very efficiently by rainfall while GEM is not (since it isn't very
soluble in water). RGM and HgP can also "dry deposit", which happens when
those species contact surfaces and "stick". Dry deposition is very hard to
measure compared to wet deposition, but is estimated to account for less
than 50% of total Hg deposition. So, wet deposition is the biggest term, and
is mostly RGM that was scavenged during rain events.

The Hg in the atmosphere is mostly GEM (>90%) with some RGM and HgP.

A coal-fired power plant emits mostly RGM (50-75%) and GEM (25-50%) and very
little HgP. Other industrial activities emit different proportions of RGM
vs. GEM. The RGM from any source can deposit locally (within 10-200km) while
the GEM joins the "global" pool of GEM and is transported around the
hemisphere within a few weeks. Atmospheric mixing across the equator is
slow, so Hg emitted in the northern hemisphere (where most industry takes
place) does not mix across the equator very effectively.

Natural sources of Hg to the atmosphere (volcanoes, emission from Hg rich
deposits, etc.) are mostly GEM.

Hope this helps.
William Landing   PhD Florida state 

Suggested Resource Links  For papers on local drought, or  community, Mercury, suggest you build your own build your own local resource list.


http://www.ceei-news.org/major.php?majorID=13&name=GOOGLE+STATUS+Drought this link should get you to your country Eco systems with a second search, and a third would be  your country, and then add drought. on either Google or Yahoo or any large search engine in Europe,.Africa,   Asia  or the Pacific Rim. Need help email drought papers: write: Drought paper  <ceei@cox.net>

US Drought Monitor
http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html

Climate Prediction Center
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/expert_assessment/drought_assessment.shtml

Snow Survey
http://www.id.nrcs.usda.gov/snow/
Ron Abromavich is a contact from Boise who runs the program

River Forecast Center
http://www.nwrfc.noaa.gov/

Western Region Climate Center
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/

A host of climate resource links
http://www.weather.gov/climate/climate_resources.php?wfo=pih
http://www.ceei-news.org/major.php?majorID=291&name=*+A+BULLETIN+Food+Production+needs+to+go+up+by+70%25


http://www.id.nrcs.usda.gov/snow/watersupply/swsi-main.html#wood
 
 
http://www.id.nrcs.usda.gov/snow/watersupply/peakflow.html
 
Adopt a SNOTEL programs at bottom of our home page:
 
http://www.id.nrcs.usda.gov/snow/
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NOTICE TO STUDENTS WHO ARE WANTING ADVANCED DEGREES. Take advantage of this job slack time now ! SEE 

 http://www.ceei-news.org/major.php?majorID=180&name=CEEI+STUDENTS%2C+GRADUATES+INVESTIGATE+CEEI+OPPORTUNITIES 

http://www.ceei-news.org/major.php?major http://www.drought.unl.edu/gallery/gallery.htm 

More Projects


There are hundreds of projects. check the 1071 CEEI Google alerts  already posted as
minor categories via  the Major CATEGORIES  page !
There are 1071 categories. to investigate.  check out the Energy page under Google Alerts,( major CATEGORIES http://www.ceei-news.org/contents.php

CEEI suggests they look for enviro- climate impacts Mercury on the www.apsrs.org (Not one mercury listing in ten years) yet over two hundred coal plants.( east of the Mississippi river spreading mercury). There are 30,000 vetted polluted streams to check into at CEEI www.apsrs.org    

http://www.ceei-news.org/major.php?majorID=241&name=*+BULLETIN+CEEI+STANDS+BY+IT%27S+REPORT

CEEI estimates between 200.000 to 400,000 polluted streams are missing. Nobody knows.  Another survey  Under the Clean Water Act 303d section could put students to work . Every state needs a mercury report. and a Giardia report. They are missing or closed down due to" budget reasons".

.Phillip Wylie once said at Princeton: " People would rather believe than know and guess than learn". He was right 60 years ago, and right today!
To change that. make a decision and send in a paper. Get a piece of this climate problem AND ACTION. Its your planet too. Your participation to connect  to your community. This is key for people connect to is important you will find this out. Share, its works.

CEEI's climate alert search terms  48 pages are available on request.

addendum

This brings up what to do about coal fired power plants in india and China, They are sending mercury via the wind to North America, where is there a place that is free of mercury ! Perhaps  10 to 15 degrees above and below the equator ? And we tolerate coal that is blasting our own people. Not one listing of mercury in the 303 reports of polluted streams in Idaho. www.apsrs.org is a ceei web site. The EPA says we have 300 tons of mercury, over 20 years, in the Idaho Rockies and 6 other states. Yet there is none in Idaho according to the EPA  303d reports in Idaho and in the rest of the country. Yet we know that coal at combustion temperature produces mercury and lots of it. Those lists have been vetted 3 times. Why is this.? What is going on in Wash DC for 30 years ? Does Congress deliberate lie to its self ? How do they account for 200 coal plants belching mercury for a hundred years ? ( let alone the c02)

http://www.ceei-news.org/major.php?

Theo Colburn,  PhD, is one of the authors of this book "Our Stolen Future" that is referenced above.  She heads up a research group at Florida State University. IT is her ideas and basic research that prompted attention. ( it took 10 years for the scientific community to even get around to reading "Our Stolen Future.? it was her Book and her ideas that showed that chemicals were wiping out whole fish populations in the Great Lakes ,( by mimicking hormones !)


CEEI Google climate Status Assessment System is using direct search terms. look up Drought: at the www.ceei-news.org/contents.php
http://www.ceei-news.org/major.php?majorID=13&name=GOOGLE+STATUS+Drought  

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CEEI ADVISORY BOARD CEEI is looking for more advisors. This board has been excellent . CEEI needs help.

David R. Klein Ph.D Professor Emeritus, Environmental Sciences University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Is Chairman. Dr. Klein is responsible for all the bio inputs to the ACIA ( Arctic Climate Impact Assessment Report ) to Congress in November 2004. see www.ceei-climate.org and the ACIA.org

Ron Mitchel .Director of the Idaho Sporting Congress Boise Idaho. Mr. Mitchel founded the ISC with Jack Hemingway and has worked on US forest issues for 25 years. See www,apsrs.org

Ray Sterner, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Lab. Mr. Sterner is responsible for the huge inventory of maps that have been so useful to entire scientific community. see the (www.apsrs.org)

Scott Hughes Ph.D. is the Dean of GEO Sciences at the State University of Idaho At Pocatello.

Anthony Tekaroniake Evans is a free lance writer of Mohawk ancestry has a BS in Cultural Anthropology University of Colorado, He attended the Charles University in the Czech Republic. M. Evans is diverse writer who has reported many environmental stories , articles, nation wide.

Lawrence Barnes BS and soon to be MS . Head of the Science Department

at the Wood River High School, Sun Valley / Ketchum, / Hailey Idaho. see ( www.eco-pedia.org)

Bruce Lium, Ph.D. President .American Water Resources. Hailey Id

Pioneered western stream restoration systems and techniques. see (www.apsrs.org)

Joanna Kirkpatrick, PhD cultural anthropology PhD UC Berkeley

Specialization South Asia, India and Bangladesh .see ( www.ceei-news.org)

Jane Beattie has been in and about the environmental world for several decades. (Her sister was Mollie Beattie head of US Fish and Wildlife who died while in office during the Clinton Administration.See www.esew.org

Neil Wollman Ph.D Psychology Senior Fellow Peace Studies Institute.

Peter Douglas Ward PhD is Professor of Geological Sciences, Professor of Zoology, and Curator of Paleontology at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has written several popular science books. see www,esew.org Prof Ward has written about the 3rd extinction ( the one were in now, extensively.)

Carmen Gonzalez-Gairaud M.Sc. Professor of Geography, University of Costa Rica Planning Environment and Oceanography, in charge of the Geographic Information System Laboratory (Central America, the Caribbean area and South America) Prof Gairaud has dome extensive work documenting the reefs, corals,and species in the Caribbean.

Theresa Grant BS in International Relations, BA in Spanish. Presently heads up Make A Difference Now. Helps empower orphaned children and youth. They do this by providing programs and services that focus on education, health, job skill training and income generating activities at orphanages and community

Schools. main focus is in Zambia and Tanzania, and India . Make A Difference NOW, PO Box 172 Hailey, ID 83333 USA Ms Grant is current working with the CEEI. Tanzania, india and Kenya are in climate drought and facing famine in some areas. Her model is very important. It  works in Haiti too.   http://www.gomadnow.org/about

Max Casebeau Director CEEI founded in 1992, BA business Administration, Systems engineer, computer systems design. Western Development Laboratories Los Altos. Calif. Asst Publisher Silicon Valley Tech News, a world class management and marketing weekly that reported the device, communications, computer, defense, and semiconductor industries. Los Altos, Ca. Founded Penninsula Electronics News in 1970.