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The international Red Cross/Red Crescent is rethinking its disaster relief plans in light of global warming. The number of geophysical disasters, such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, has remained fairly steady over the past decade. But disasters caused mainly by weather — including avalanches, landslides and extreme temperatures — have more than doubled in the second half of the last decade.

In its World Disasters Report 2001, the Red Cross says that rather than concentrating on rebuilding damaged infrastructure, aid efforts should be directed at ?rebuilding people?s livelihoods.?
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On July 3rd at around 11 a.m., dozens of people in England saw what they described as a long silvery cigar shaped flying object. Most of the witnesses said the object appeared out of nowhere. One woman said she saw the shadow of the object first, because it was a bright sunny day, when suddenly a huge shadow swept over the nearby streets. People looked up and saw what was described as a Zeppelin or an airship.
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In a hearing last week of the House space science subcommittee, lawmakers applauded efforts to find evidence of life elsewhere in the universe and to search for other Earthlike worlds, just seven years after some lawmakers dismissed their efforts as a search for ?little green men.?

?The discovery of life in the universe would be one of the most astounding discoveries in human history,? said Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas). ?Funding should match public interest and I don’t believe it does.? Smith said that since funds for the search for extra terrestrial intelligence (SETI) were dropped from the federal budget in 1994, ?the SETI credibility has been enhanced.?
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Scientists have discovered that the same massive release of methane into the atmosphere that caused sudden climate change 14,000 years ago has already started to happen again.

At that time, there was a sudden, devastating change in earth?s climate. It took place when dramatic drops in temperature followed an equally dramatic temperature spike. Naturally occurring global warming had been taking place for some time, when a massive release of methane into the atmosphere sped the process up, causing a worldwide spike in temperatures.
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