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SAVE OUR PLANET… 2010 is the hottest year on record so far. This year is already on
track to being the hottest in recorded history, according to climate scientists at the US
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). With July temperatures being reported
as the second highest in history, the months of March, April, May, and June were each reported
as the highest ever on record. David Easterling of NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center
also noted the unusual finding in June that land masses across the entire globe were warm.
Moreover, 17 countries, comprising 19% of the Earth’s total land area and including
northern nations such as Finland and Russia, have set new records for the most oppressive
heat. This is the largest surface area of the planet to be experiencing such unprecedented
temperatures in the same year. Remarking on these alarming numbers, Dr. Mark Serreze,
Director of the US National Snow and Ice Data Center stated, “The point of the matter
is that global warming has not stopped.” Kevin Trenberth, head of the climate analysis
section at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), further warned that in such
conditions, we should prepare for increased tropical storms, saying, “The last time
it was this warm was when we had the record-breaking hurricane season that led to Katrina and Rita,
and we ran out of alphabet (characters). This year the temperatures in the Atlantic are
higher than they were in 2005.”
Thank you all researchers and scientists for your detailed efforts to factually document
the climate changes of our planet. We pray that we may stop this dangerous cycle with
our every effort to shift towards sustainable living.
During a November 2009 videoconference in Mexico, Supreme Master Ching Hai spoke of
such adverse global warming effects as temperature increases, highlighting at the same time an
effective and swift way to reverse them.
Videoconference with Supreme Master Ching Hai
Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico – November 16, 2009
Supreme Master Ching Hai: Some of the global warming effects that we hear about are a continued
rise in the Earth’s atmospheric temperature, warming of the ocean, along with acidification,
more frequent and stronger storms, prolonged droughts and intensified heat waves, soil
desertification, plant and animal extinctions, and even melting of permafrost, which could
trigger massive releases of more methane gas! That would be catastrophic beyond an unthinkable
scale.
But the livestock, that is the number one source of global warming worldwide; and methane
is the primary greenhouse gas generated by livestock. So, I repeat: The number one source
of global warming is from our consumption – killing of all the cows, pigs, chickens,
sheep, eggs, dairy. According to calculations they performed, they concluded that eating
a vegan diet for a year is more effective at cooling the planet than driving a hybrid
vehicle for the same period of time. Another good news about this simple dietary solution
is that methane, as a greenhouse gas, also dissipates quickly from the atmosphere. So,
eliminating livestock production as this major source of methane is thus one of the fastest
ways to cool our planet�