Celebrate Earth Day by picking your free Organic Flowers and Apples at Alphar Ranch. Readings from new novel "Last Warning about Global Warming" by Dr. Thomas Moore
Dunedinites will be able to celebrate Earth Day with free organic hydrangeas and apples for the week beginning 22 April, in an event being coordinated by Thomas Moore and Alphar Publishing.


NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA, April 24, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Alphar Publishing and the Thomas Moore Foundation will be giving away free organic hydrangeas (a variety of colors) and apples, along with information about the environmental benefits of organic farming, at the Alphar Ranch, 101 Blanket Bay Road, Dunedin, on Earth Day, Wednesday 22 April, and the rest of the week. Email Elsinoretimes@gmail.com or tom.moore@xtra.co.nz

"Conventionally grown flowers and fruits are among the most sprayed crops in the world, with potentially devastating impacts on the health of the farmers and their environment. Organic farms have a greatly reduced impact on waterways as a result of avoiding the use of artificial fertilizers and pesticides.

The healthy soils and whole-system approach to farming encouraged by organic production has benefits for biodiversity, climate change, water quality and energy use - issues of key concern for sustainability-conscious Dunedinites.
"Enjoying organic flowers and fruits while finding out about the environmental benefits of organic products will encourage people in the heart of New Zealand's Green culture to think about where our produce comes from, and the wider costs of producing it", Dr Thomas Moore said.

Al Gore puts it staright in the introduction to his book "An Inconvenient Truth":
"The climate crisis also offers us the chance to experience what very few generations in history have had the privilege of knowing: a generational mission; the exhilaration of a compelling moral purpose; a shared and unifying cause; the thrill of being forced by circumstances to put aside the pettiness and conflict that so often stifle the restless human need for transcendence; the opportunity to rise."

Or the philisopher who said: "And there wasn't such a thing as a single flower suddenly appearing on Earth as a result of random mutations, but rather humans or order intelligent beings seeing flowers in the unmanifest and materializing them in great numbers all at once. This makes more sense if you believe that Spirit comes first: "In the beginning was Intelligence".
The most revered force of William Shakespeare and his most famous play "King Lear," is reinforced by Dr. Thomas Moore in his new novel, "The Last Warning about Global Warming" (www.AlpharPublish.com) where he demonstrates that Shakespeare was probably strongly influenced by the Biblical creation story where the family figurehead, Mr. G (God), delegates his inheritance and 2IC authority to three sons (Lucifer the satanic force, archangel Gabriel, and the healer and redeemer; Jesus of Nazareth.)

Or, as Edgar Poe wrote: "And, here and there, in groves about this grass, like wildernesses of dreams, sprang up fantastic trees, whose tall slender stems stood not upright, but slanted gracefully toward the light that peered at noon-day into the centre of the valley. Their mark was speckled with the vivid alternate splendor of ebony and silver, and was smoother than all save the cheeks of Eleonora; so that, but for the brilliant green of the huge leaves that spread from their summits in long, tremulous lines, dallying with the Zephyrs, one might have fancied them giant serpents of Syria doing homage to their sovereign the Sun."

Alan Marshall's article to be published in Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy and Alan's website http://alanmarshall.org/index.htm also soberly provokes urgent attention to our environmental deadline:
"The next major impact of our environmental mismanagement is loss of (human, ed.) habitat. Many creatures have been driven to extinction, and hundreds of species are endangered. "Biodiversity" may be a catch-cry of today's greenies, but it is something God cares about. There are profound lessons from the biblical flood story, whether or not one views it as a literal account. In fact, this story is also in the Koran, the Hindu sacred texts, and the folklore of numerous indigenous peoples.

In the biblical account of the flood, God was careful to instruct Noah to preserve seven pairs of the clean animals, which were later to be bred for food. Yet He was careful to preserve one pair of every species, regardless of its utility to man. God understood the purpose for which those creatures not intended for food were created, and He did not want them to be destroyed. How dare we thoughtlessly drive to extinction species which God created for a purpose!

We have the strong rising trend in annual average temperatures, the witness of a rising sea level which is now accelerating, the witness of retreating glaciers and melting polar ice, the witness of spring flowers blooming early, and the witness of other disruptions to the Earth's ecosystems. There are sources available to you which will describe in detail all of this evidence.

Much of the controversy over global warming has related to the complexities of the Earth's weather systems. Ocean currents, precipitation over Antarctica, and other factors may indeed modify the rate at which the Earth warms, so I think it is more helpful to readers to focus on the final outcome. Therefore, rather than attempt to predict what the temperature will be in ten, twenty, or fifty years, I will discuss what the full temperature rise will be once the climate reaches a state of equilibrium. At the moment, the Earth is warming because the solar energy entering the atmosphere exceeds the infra-red energy that is radiated back into space. If the concentration of greenhouse gases can be stabilized, a certain equilibrium temperature will eventually be reached where the radiated infra-red energy will balance the incoming solar radiation. Just as your home air conditioner takes time to readjust the temperature of your home after you adjust the thermostat, the Earth takes a considerable period to rise to a new equilibrium temperature after its thermostat has been turned up by increasing emissions of greenhouse gases.

The change in the equilibrium temperature due to a given change in the concentration of greenhouse gases is known as the "climate sensitivity," and you may find it useful to search for this term when doing your own research. There are two approaches scientists take when attempting to calculate climate sensitivity. The first uses computer modeling using the known properties of CO2 and other greenhouse gases, combined with estimates of the feedback loops which amplify the temperature rise. Because of the difficulty in estimating the latter, there are large variations in the projections. For a doubling in CO2, the projected rise in temperature varies from 1.5 to 5.2°C. These are only medium-term models, however, and the long-term model, on which I focus, projects a rise in temperature of 4.7°C (8.5°F).

The second method of calculating climate sensitivity is more empirical. At the Vostok base in Antarctica, under a program of the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), scientists have drilled into the ice to a depth of two miles. The ice samples they have retrieved show layers produced by seasonal differences in precipitation. As a result the scientists have a record of the Earth's climate for the past 420,000 years. Gas bubbles and isotopes within the ice layers reveal the relationship between the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere and the temperature over that time.

In his film, Al Gore noted the close correlation between changes in CO2 and changes in temperature. In fact, the graphs fit almost perfectly. We need to consider the actual numbers, so I refer you to the graph in the online article "New Antarctic Ice Core Data." This graph plots the results through four ice ages and five interglacial periods. The pattern is consistent with the increase in CO2 from 180 to 280 parts per million (ppm) associated with a rise in temperature at the poles of about 12°C 10°C, or 21.6°F 18°F. Notice that the increase in CO2 is less than double, yet the increase in temperature is greater than projected in the computer models above. This indicates that the estimates for climate sensitivity above are likely to may be conservative.

The online article "New Antarctic Ice Core Data" demonstrates that the pre-industrial concentration of CO2 determined by NOOA was 278 ppm. The current concentration of CO2 is 381-385 ppm, so the pre-industrial level was 103-107 ppm lower than today's levels. If you then factor in the contribution of the other greenhouse gases, most of which are man-made, our predicament becomes worse. The combined concentration of all greenhouse gases is currently back in 2006 was 433 ppm of CO2 equivalent, so we are well on the way to the doubling in CO2.

If all this is starting to sound rather scary, then you are beginning to understand the magnitude of the problem we face, and will see that as we respond to this challenge, the industrial, economic, and political landscape of the world will fundamentally change. The world was transformed in the industrial revolution from dependence on animal power to dependence on coal, and with the later invention of the motor car, to dependence on oil. The industrial, economic, and political changes will be just as great as we move into a world freed from its addiction to fossil fuels, and powered instead by sustainable energy.

As the leaders of tomorrow, your generation has the challenge and opportunity to manage this change in such a way that the outcomes are effective, environmentally and economically sound, equitable, and democratic."



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