Tackling Climate change is Good for Business: U.N. Secretary General

As Secretary-General, it’s my job to strive for a secure and peaceful world. This means addressing threats -- not only to those of us who inhabit the planet today but to future generations.

There is perhaps no greater threat to the global community than that of climate change. It represents a clear danger to us all here and now, and in years to come.

Climate change is the single greatest threat to development, and can undermine the progress already achieved in reducing poverty. It is a risk to economies large and small, and to the stability of the global financial system. It raises risks of diminished supplies in much of the world, and it can threaten peace.

Visiting Antarctica with my wife, Yoo Soon-taek, we saw first-hand the effects of climate change on melting glaciers.

Without taking urgent measures, the world is on a trajectory towards warming well above two degrees centigrade Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial temperatures by the end of this century – the point where the most dangerous impacts of climate change are expected to take hold.

Last month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported that climate change is affecting the global water cycle, which leads to irregular rainfall, more floods and more droughts. The report clearly demonstrated that human influence on the climate system is now evident in most regions of the globe. It is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century.

This is deeply disturbing. Yet too often, one important fact gets lost amid the fear: addressing climate change is also one of our greatest opportunities.

We can create decent jobs, improve public health, empower women, and protect the environment with enlightened action on climate change. We don’t need to wait for the breakthroughs of tomorrow. The technologies, policies and practices in our hands now can help speed and scale up climate mitigation and adaptation today.

The private sector has a vital role to play. Businesses can lead by example within industries and networks. Industry leaders can actively align their business needs while creating a sustainable future.

Addressing climate change is the right thing to do, and I firmly believe that the results will also be plain to see on the bottom line. Businesses can benefit by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and by using energy cleanly and efficiently. Building resilient infrastructure and providing climate-smart services is forward-thinking business.

Energy is a prime example. Around the globe, nearly one person in five still has no access to electricity. More than twice that number -- 2.8 billion, or 40 per cent of the world’s population -- rely on wood, charcoal, animal and crop waste or other solid fuels for cooking and heating. The negative impact on the environment is tremendous, as well as on people’s health and time.

Those of us who have access to modern energy often waste it – knowingly or unknowingly. We must use energy more efficiently and focus on cleaner, low-carbon solutions and save resources and money in the process.

Flying over the Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands, in 2011, I saw the effects of deforestation, climate change and natural disasters on the area.

We are seeing progress. Clean energy investment has quadrupled over the last decade and last year saw a dramatic shift in the balance of renewable energy investment.

The growth of renewable energy markets over the past decade has also brought technology improvements and cost reductions that mean projects can generate attractive returns. Investors are opening new markets, facilitating new business models and supporting entrepreneurs in the developing world where demand for sustainable energy for all is greatest.

Opportunities abound. To seize them, we need to scale up our efforts. The longer we delay, the greater the costs -- to communities, to businesses, to economies and to the planet. The sooner we act, the more we all will benefit.

To add momentum, I have invited world leaders and leaders from business and civil society to a Climate Summit in September next year to mobilize political will for a legal agreement on climate change in 2015, deliver concrete new commitments and spark a race to the top in climate action.

I am calling on everyone to be a leader on climate change. Take decisive action while we still can. It’s good for the planet -- and good for business.

IPPC Predicts Upheaval of Sea Level & Drowning of Sea Shores

UN IPCC Assessment Report: Sea Level Max. 91.4cm Up, 33 folds of Yeouido disappearing in Korean Peninsular

 " In the worst case, the sea level will be upraised 91.4cm higher than now. The fact the prime cause of the climate change is of the human is 95% true."

 This is the major contents of the 5th Assessment Report that Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of U.N. will announce at International Climate Conference in Stockholm, Sweden next month. According to Reuters and New York Times that has acquired the draft of the 5th Report, IPCC assessed the sea level of the earth will rise 29~91.4 cm in the end of the 21st century as long as the current emission of the greenhouse gases continue. In the worst case, the major cities such as New York, London, Shanghai and Sydney will be drowned in the sea. The major seashore cities such as Incheon in Korea also will be put at peril.

  IPPC had foretold the rise range of the sea level of 2100 would be 18~59 cm in its 4th Assessment Report in 2007. According to Reuters, IPPC has concluded that will be min. 29 cm and max. 82 cm, adjusting the prospect of 6 years ago upwards. The maximum possible increase value becomes 23 cm higher. NYT has introduced some sceince panel of IPPC has the gloomier prospect that the sea level would be heightened min. 53 cm and max. 91.4 cm.

 According to the simulation of Korea Marine Environment Corporation, 50 cm upheaval of the sea level brings the drowning of 49 square kilometers that reaches to 11 folds of Yeouido in Korean Peninsular. If the sea level rise nearly 1 m as the worst scenario, 33 folds of Yeouido will perish. The economic damage will be huge. Korea Environment Institute  has predicted in March the sea level of Korean Peninsular would be 1.36 m higher in 2100. That means the economic damage scale would be about of $2,600 billions at the present value.

 The 5th Report has cleared specifically the main cause of the climate change is ascribable to the human 95% certainly. While in 2007 and 2001, the certainty was 90% and 66% respectively, there remains little doubt the climate change is chiefly due to the human activities such as the consume of the fossil fuel. NYT has said the Report had made clear "It has the strong conviction the human activities is the core reason of the temperature rise of the surface of the earth during 1951~2010 and as the due result, there takes place the extreme climate change such as the upheaval of the sea level."

 The Guardian of U.K. has analyzed IPPC seems to refute strongly the hold the speed of the global warming is lessening of late with this Report. Recently, there was arisen some disputes the global warming happens slowly and the prediction of the scientists is exaggerated.

 IPPC with being founded in 1988 is composed of over 2,500 scientists from over 130 countries of the world and accomplishes the role to converge the newest research performances on the climate change. The reports published every 5~6 years greatly influences the policies of the world environment. Among the organizations about the climate change, it is of the largest scale and authoritative. It was rewarded the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore, the ex vice president of U.S.A. in 2007. The 5th Report will be public 3 times from the 23rd next month to 2014.

유엔 IPCC 평가 보고서

해수면 최대 91.4㎝ 상승
한반도, 여의도 33배 사라져

“최악의 경우 해수면이 현재보다 91.4㎝ 상승할 수 있다. 기후 변화의 주된 원인이 인간이라는 사실은 95% 확실하다.”

　유엔 산하 정부간기후변화위원회(IPCC)가 다음 달 스웨덴 스톡홀름 국제 기후회의에서 발표할 5차 평가 보고서의 주 내용이다. 5차 보고서의 초안을 입수한 로이터와 뉴욕타임스(NYT) 등에 따르면 IPCC는 현재 수준으로 온실가스가 배출될 경우 21세기 말 지구 해수면은 29~91.4㎝ 상승할 수 있는 것으로 평가했다. 최악의 경우 뉴욕이나 런던·상하이(上海)·시드니와 같은 세계 주요 도시가 모두 물에 잠기게 된다. 한국에서도 인천 등 주요 해안 도시들이 위험에 처할 것으로 보인다.

　IPCC는 2007년 4차 평가보고서에서 2100년의 해수면 상승치를 18~59㎝로 예측했다. 로이터에 따르면 IPCC는 6년 전 전망을 상향 조정해 최소 29㎝, 최대 82㎝까지 오를 수 있는 것으로 결론 내렸다. 최대 상승 가능치가 23㎝나 높아진 것이다. NYT는 19일 IPCC 과학 패널 중 일부는 해수면이 최소 53㎝, 최대 91.4㎝까지 상승할 것으로 보는 더욱 어두운 전망도 있다고 소개했다.

　해양환경관리공단 모의실험에 따르면 해수면이 50㎝만 올라가도 한반도에선 여의도 면적의 11배에 달하는 49㎢가 물에 잠긴다. 최악의 시나리오대로 1m 가까이 상승한다고 가정할 때 여의도의 33배에 달하는 면적이 사라진다. 경제적 피해도 막대하다. 3월 한국환경정책평가연구원은 2100년 한반도 해수면이 1.36m 상승할 것으로 예측했다. 이럴 경우 경제적 피해 규모는 현재가치로 286조3721억원에 달한다.

　이번 IPCC 보고서는 특히 기후 변화의 주범이 인간이라는 사실이 95% 확실하다고 밝혔다. 2007년엔 90%, 2001년엔 66%였지만 이젠 화석연료 사용과 같은 인간의 활동이 주된 원인이라는 사실에 별 의심의 여지가 없어진 것이다. NYT는 보고서가 “인간의 활동이 1951~2010년 지구 표면 온도 상승의 주된 원인이며, 이로 인해 해수면 상승 등 극단적인 기후 변화가 발생했다는 데 강한 확신을 갖는다”고 명시했다고 전했다.

영국 가디언은 IPCC가 이번 보고서를 통해 최근 지구온난화 속도가 둔화되고 있다는 주장을 강하게 반박할 것으로 보인다고 분석했다. 최근 일각에선 지구 온도 상승이 더디게 진행되고 있다며 과학자들의 예측이 과장된 것이라는 주장도 제기돼 왔다.

　88년 결성된 IPCC는 세계 130여 개국 과학자 2500여 명으로 구성돼 있으며 기후 변화와 관련된 최신 연구를 수렴하는 작업을 한다. 5~6년마다 발표하는 보고서는 세계 환경 정책에 막대한 영향을 미친다. 기후 변화와 관련된 기구 중 가장 규모가 크고 권위가 있다. 2007년 앨 고어 전 미국 부통령과 함께 노벨 평화상을 받았다. 5차 보고서는 다음 달 23일부터 2014년까지 세 차례에 걸쳐 공개된다.

Reminiscence of Jiaxing Techno Mart

 I have had the opportunity to visit Jiaxing, where Sino Korea Zhejiang International Techno Mart and Technique Exchange Fair was held during May 26th ~ 29th 2008.

 This district including Hangzhou is famous for the silk industry. I was surprised at the vast and endless plants of the silk mulberry along the express way from the outskirts of Shanghai to Jiaxing and was reminded of the fact the region provides over 70% of the whole cocoon of the earth. So to speak, this district has been the major supplier of the silk, that has been distributed throughout the world, then Asia, Europe and the northern Africa across the silk road for thousands years.

 Our company participated in this fair with the novel technique of non woven silk producing method with the anticipation to encounter with the historical silk big shots who aspire to adopt the revolutionery innovation to rejuvenate the traditional business which is considered too cliche and old for us to pay the attentions. The disregard to it was arisen firstly in Japan some fifty years ago and in the next place in Korea, where the sericulture department of  the college of agriculture and forestry of Seoul National University was abolished and merged into agri-bio material one in 1990. When I had visited the professor of the department with the recommendation in 2005 or in 2006, I unexpectedly met the unwelcome treatment with the brief comment that he had majored in the synthetic fabric and had not have any interests in bio one, though he was working in the agri-bio material department.

 In spite of the ardent supports from the officals and staff of Korean Techno Park, Torch High-Tech Industry Development Center of Ministry of Science and Technology of China, Jiaxing Science and Technology Park Management Committee,  Science and Technology Bureau of Zhejiang, Science and Technology Bureau of Jiaxing and Nanhu of Jiaxing local government, our technique had attracted little notices from the silk manufacturers. On the contrary, some chemical non woven companies had shown concerns with the caution.

 In retrospect, the average persons of that time felt far less problematic at the deterioration of the ecological environment and the climate change of the planet than ones of nowadays, even though only 5 years elapsed.

Worldly CO2 Emission Breaks Historical Record in 2012

 International Energy Agency made clear the global carbon dioxide emission had recorded the ever highest 31.6 billion tons with the increase of 1.4% over the previous year in 2012 in its annual world energy prospect report on the 10th inst. It worried the future earthly temperature would be 3.6~5.3 degrees C higher than pre-industrialization, if this trend continue. Scientists have warned the heightening over 2 degrees Cellcius of the earth from that of the pre-industrialization would put it at the high peril in the point of the climate change. The CO2 emission of China has increased 0.3 billion tons(3.8%) than the year before, while U.S.A. and Europe showed the decrease of 0.2 billion tons(3.8%) and 0.05 billion tons(1.4%) respectively. 


국제에너지기구(IEA)는 10일 연례 세계 에너지 전망보고서에서 작년 세계 이산화탄소 배출량이 전년보다 1.4% 늘어 사상 최고치인 316억 t을 기록했다고 밝혔다. 이런 추세라면 향후 지구 온도가 산업화 이전 대비 섭씨 3.6∼5.3도 높아질 것으로 예상된다고 IEA는 우려했다. 과학자들은 산업화 이전보다 지구 온도가 섭씨 2도 이상 상승하면 기후변화 측면에서 매우 위험할 것이라고 경고해 왔다. 중국은 이산화탄소 배출량이 전년에 비해 3억 t(3.8%)이 늘었고 미국과 유럽은 각각 2억 t(3.8%)과 5000만 t(1.4%) 감소했다.

Sustainable Consumption Cited from UNEP on World Environment Day

 Our planet’s regenerative capacity is being greatly exceeded as the world’s population is now producing and consuming more resources than ever. In fact, in developed and developing countries, people are acquiring much more than what they actually need and therefore producing an enormous amount of waste.

 Our growing population puts so much pressure on the environment that nowadays the natural resources are no longer as abundant as they used to be. How we use and dispose of non-renewable resources is radically altering our ecosystems and even the planet’s renewable resources (such as water, timber or fish) are rapidly being exhausted. We have now reached a tipping point where the quality of air and water needs to be improved, the level of production needs to be balanced and the amount of waste generated needs to be reduced.

 Sustainable consumption is all about ‘doing more and better with less,’ through reducing resource use, degradation and pollution while increasing the quality of life for all.
 The massive consumption of both renewable and nonrenewable resources contributes to a massive loss of biodiversity – with current extinction rates of birds, mammals and amphibians estimated to be at least 100 times, but possibly over 1,000 times, higher than pre-industrial rates. The poorest population is most affected by such changes giving that they rely directly on natural resources — such as fishing, small-scale agriculture or forestry — for their livelihoods.

 Pollution and over-exploitation of the world’s resources are increasingly compromising our own wellbeing and quality of life. The planet cannot afford to continue taking this path. A transition towards a more sustainable lifestyle is crucial to enable future generations to have access to their fair share of resources.

 There are many possibilities as for how we can change our unsustainable consumption habits while also improving our quality of life. To do more with less is essential for us to live within the resources the planet has to offer. Changing our current living standards requires us to adopt innovative and creative solutions on the way we use and dispose the products and services we own and consume.

 This could enable a transition to more sustainable activities and lifestyles while also protecting the world’s natural resources.

 So orient your action for World Environment Day this year to an activity that promotes sustainable consumption and be the one to reshape our future!                          

 Source from UNEP

Detriments of Vinyl Material for Agriculture

Harms of Vinyl or similar Material for Agriculture

 Nowadays when we look around the farms, we can find much a vinyl or simililar material is used for the agriculture. Starting from the vinyl of the literary vinyl or green house, the vinyl wrapper that protect the transplanted budlet from the chill, the chemical non woven used as the various sun shades and the thermal covers are those and as these chemical materials aren't easy bio degradable, they has contaminated the soil for a long time.

 Besides that, according to what has been cleared as the results of the latest research these vinyls or similar materials are revealed to have blocked the necessary communications among the agricultural plants and to have hindered the healthy growth of them as below.

- Wireless communication; Emitting the warning material in time of assaults from the harmful bugs and making the nearby plants ready against it

- Wired communication; Connecting the mycelia of the fungi at the roots and relaying the informations up to the plants far away

 There is established a gignatic information network as a brain neural organization with all the roots of the plants connected each other as in the Pandora planet of the movie 'Avatar'.  The tree of souls that has heard the desperate pray from Navi race calls for allout mobilization of all the animals to resist against the human troops that attemp to destroy the Pandora through this network.

 

비닐 등  농업 자재의 해악성

오늘 날 농가의 주위를 둘러보면 비닐 등을 농업용 부자재로 많이 쓰고 있음을 볼 수 있다. 문자 그대로인 비닐 하우스의 비닐을 비롯하여, 묘종의 보온용으로 어린 묘종을 싸고 있는 비닐 보온막, 각종 차양막, 보온 덮개로 사용하고 있는 화섬 부직포 등이  그것인데 이러한 화학 자재들은 잘 알다시피 쉽게 자연 분해되지 않아 두고 두고 토양을 오염시켜 왔다.

뿐만 아니라, 최근에 밝혀 진 다음과 같은 연구 결과에 의하면 이러한 비닐 등은 농작물 간에 필요한 소통을 봉쇄하여 농작물의 건강한 성장을 방해하고 있는 것으로 드러났다.

 

- 無線통신
해충 공격 받으면 경고물질 방출, 옆에 있는 나무들 대비하게 해

- 有線통신
뿌리에 사는 곰팡이들 균사 연결, 멀리 있는 나무까지 정보 전달

영화 '아바타'에 나오는 판도라 행성에서는 모든 식물 뿌리들이 연결돼 뇌 신경망처럼 거대한 정보 네트워크를 이룬다. 나비족(族)의 간절한 기도를 받은 '영혼의 나무'는 이 네트워크를 통해 모든 동물에게 판도라를 파괴하는 인간 군대에 대항하라는 총동원령을 내린다.

지구에서도 판도라 행성에서처럼 식물들이 서로 정보를 주고받는 땅속 네트워크가 있다는 연구 결과가 잇따라 나왔다. 네트워크 회로는 뿌리 끝에 공생(共生)하는 곰팡이와 같은 미생물. 식물이 해충의 공격을 받으면 곰팡이가 다른 식물들에 경고 신호를 보낸다는 것이다.

◇뿌리 곰팡이 통해 해충 알려

식물은 해충의 공격을 받으면 공중에 경고 물질을 방출한다. 주변 식물들은 경고 물질을 탐지해 미리 해충에 대비한다. 일종의 무선(無線) 통신인 셈. 그렇다면 공기를 통한 신호 전달이 불가능해지면 어떻게 될까.

▲ 이미지를 클릭하시면 그래픽 뉴스로 크게 볼 수 있습니다. / 조선닷컴

영국 에버딘대 연구진은 공기를 통한 물질 이동을 막기 위해 콩과식물인 잠두를 각각 비닐 봉지로 모두 감쌌다. 그러고는 비닐 봉지 하나를 열고 해충인 진디를 넣은 뒤 다시 막았다. 이 잠두는 진디의 천적인 기생벌을 부르는 화학 물질을 방출했다. 그런데 비닐 봉지로 둘러싼 다른 잠두들도 똑같은 화학 물질을 방출했다.

연구진은 잠두 뿌리에 있는 공생 곰팡이인 균근(菌根)이 새로운 정보 전달자 역할을 했다고 설명했다. 광합성을 하지 못하는 곰팡이는 식물 뿌리를 통해 탄수화물 같은 영양분을 얻는다. 식물은 뿌리보다 훨씬 멀리 뻗어 있는 실 같은 곰팡이 균사(菌絲)를 통해 성장에 필요한 인과 미네랄 등을 얻는다.

실험에서 처음 진디 공격이 일어난 주변의 잠두에서만 같은 방어 행동이 나타났다. 조금 떨어진 잠두는 변화가 없었다. 연구진은 "인접한 식물들만 뿌리에 사는 곰팡이들이 균사로 서로 연결돼 있기 때문"이라고 설명했다. 이를테면 공기를 통한 식물의 '전시(戰時) 무선 통신망'이 차단되자, 곰팡이 균사들의 '지하 유선 통신망'이 대신 가동된 셈이다. 연구 결과는 이달 초 국제학술지 '이콜로지 레터스(Ecology Letters)' 인터넷판에 실렸다.

◇곰팡이는 식물 세계의 인터넷

곰팡이가 식물의 통신망이 된다는 주장은 2010년 중국 남중국농업대 연구진이 국제학술지 '플로스 원'에 처음 발표했다. 연구진은 토마토를 한 쌍씩 붙여 심어 뿌리의 균근이 서로 연결되도록 했다. 한쪽에 줄기마름병을 일으키는 병원성 곰팡이를 뿌리자, 곧 토마토가 병에 걸렸다. 한참 지나 바로 옆 토마토를 봤더니 줄기마름병이 훨씬 덜했다. 병원체에 저항하는 유전자와 효소도 활발하게 작동하고 있었다.

중국 연구진도 각각의 토마토에 비닐 봉지를 씌워 공기를 통한 경고 물질 전달을 차단했다. 연구진은 처음 마름병 곰팡이에 감염된 토마토가 뿌리에 연결된 균근을 통해 경고 신호를 바로 옆 토마토에 전달했다고 주장했다.

연구진은 "균사는 땅속 멀리까지 뻗어가 다른 식물에서 나온 균사와 엉켜 신호물질 전달에 안성맞춤"이라고 밝혔다. 공기를 통한 경고 물질 전달은 느리고, 바람과 같은 날씨 상태에 크게 좌우된다. 식물 뿌리 자체도 화학 물질을 분비할 수 있으나 멀리 가지 못한다. 연구진은 균근을 '식물 세계의 인터넷'이라고 불렀다. 한국생명공학연구원 류충민 박사는 "맞닿은 뿌리를 통한 경고 물질 전달은 확인됐다"며 "뿌리를 넘어 균근으로까지 신호전달 체계가 확대되려면 전달되는 물질이 무엇인지 밝혀내야 할 것"이라고 말했다.

◇천연 살충제로 활용 가능

캐나다 브리티시 컬럼비아대 연구진은 2009년 캐나다의 숲 전체를 연결하는 거대한 균근 네트워크를 발견했다. 나무 하나는 균근을 통해 30m 이상 떨어진 주변 수십 그루의 나무와 연결된 것으로 나타났다. 곰팡이는 심지어 종이 다른 나무에도 연결돼 있었다.

하지만 현대 농업은 곰팡이 네트워크를 망가뜨리고 있다. 브리티시 컬럼비아대 수잔 시마드 교수는 "비료를 많이 쓰면서 농작물이 뿌리에서 곰팡이를 필요로 하지 않게 됐다"며 "이는 농작물 자체의 질병 저항력을 잃어버리는 것"이라고 주장했다.

에버딘대 연구진은 균근 네트워크를 이용한 일종의 '희생 식물' 전략을 제안했다. 진디 피해가 큰 작물 중간에 일부러 진디에 취약한 식물을 심는다. 희생 식물은 진디에 당하겠지만, 땅속 균근으로 연결된 다른 작물들은 경고신호를 받고 사전에 대응 태세를 취할 수 있다는 것이다.

Marine Rubbish Tail Tangled Whale

A whale was found at peril neat Maui, Hawaii ult. The fishery equipments of the rope and the buoy e.t.c. had twisted his tail and body. He would have been dead soon, if he were to remain in this state.

The pros of  National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration U.S. and Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary have succeeded in getting rid him of the fishery equipments that had reached over 20 meters after the deadly struggle. The netizens from the world commented as he were tailed with 'the man made tail of the death'. Though the news the whale that was gone almost to death due to the marine rubbish was saved is the heart warming story, it's severe realities for lots of  the ocean animal to lose their lives from the fishery equipments or the marine rubbish.                      

 

 지난 달 미국 하와이 마우이섬 부근에서 위기의 고래가 발견되었다. 밧줄과 부표 등 어업용 장비가 숫고래의 꼬리와 몸통을 감고 있었다. 고래는 이 상태로라면 곧 죽었을 것이다. 미국 국립해양대기청과 하와이혹등고래보호소의 전문가들이 사투를 벌여 20미터에 이루는 어업 장비를 제거해냈다. 사진을 본 해외 네티즌들은 인간이 만든 '죽음의 인공 꼬리'를 단 것 같다고 말한다. 해양 쓰레기 때문에 죽을 뻔한 고래가 살았다는 소식은 훈훈한 미담이지만, 많은 해양 동물들이 어구나 쓰레기 때문에 생명을 잃고 있는 게 현실이다.

(사진 : 죽음의 꼬리를 가진 고래) (picture: the whale tailed with the death)

8 Shaped Turtle out of Plastic Wrapper

 According to Korea Herald Business of the 18th ult., there was shown the malformed turtle shaped '8' instead of the ordinary oval due to the plastic scraps.

 It has reported Earth Picture, the photographs on the nature put a picture of the deformed turtle on it's
Twitter lately. The back of the turtle in the picture is neither oval nor hexagonal, but '8' shaped. As you see, the vinyl cans wrapping strap was inserted amidst the waist that is the middle of 8 character.

 This is 'the 8 shaped deformed turtle' which was found in Branson, Missouri in June, 2006. Though the strap was gotton rid of immediately upon the finding, the odds of the recovery remained very scarce. According to the news, the age of the turtle was assumed of 20 by the result of X-ray examination. As the bowels including the lung was grown in the malformation, the turtle being poor at swimming, there was known the big probability of being drowned.

 The netizens at seeing the picture responded "how ackward was the turtle", "the deformed turtle is shocking" e.t.c.

From Online Joongang Ilbo


인간이 버린 쓰레기 때문에 타원형이 아닌 ‘8자형’ 몸을 가진 기형 거북이가 등장했다고 헤럴드경제가 18일 보도했다.

헤럴드경제에 따르면 자연 사진 전문인 어스 픽처는 최근 자신의 트위터에 기형으로 변한 거북이 사진을 게재했다. 사진 속 거북이의 등은 둥그런 타원형도 육각형도 아닌 ‘8자형’이다. 8자로 나뉘는 중간엔 음료수 캔을 포장할 때 사용하는 비닐이 끼워져있다.

이는 2006년 6월 미국 미주리주 브랜승에서 발견된 바 있는 ‘8자 모양 기형 거북이’다. 발견 즉시 비닐이 제거됐지만 회복될 가능성은 작아 보인다. 외신에 따르면 엑스레이(X-ray) 검사 결과 거북이의 나이는 20세다. 폐를 포함한 장기가 기형적으로 자랐고 수영도 능숙하지 못해 익사할 위험이 크다고 한다.

해당 사진을 본 네티즌들은 “거북이가 얼마나 거북했을까”, “기형 거북이 충격적이다” 등의 반응을 보였다.

 

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Plastic Scraps found at the Stomach of Whale

 The Whale Research Center of National Fisheries Research & Development Institute has cleared the lethal cause of the Steno bredanensis, a dolphin that had died during the cure after being found grounded in the fore sea of Jeju Island was due to the intake of the ocean rubbish the 12th inst. The pictures are about the dead whale tide landed on the frontal sea of Jeju the 26th August of the last year and the vinyl materials of 80 cm horizontal 50 cm vertical found out at the stomach. 2013 March 12th << Whale Research Center>>





국립수산과학원 고래연구소는 제주 앞바다에서 좌초된 채 발견돼 이후 치료받다가 폐사한 '뱀머리돌고래'(Steno bredanensis)의 사인이 해양쓰레기 섭취 때문이라고 12일 밝혔다. 사진은 지난해 8월 26일 제주 앞바다로 떠밀려 왔다가 폐산한 고래모습과 고래 위장에서 검출된 가로 80cm 세로 50cm의 비닐물질. 2013.3.12 < < 고래연구소 > >

Production Base in Bangalore, India

 The company has decided to establish her first production base at Bafna Silk Creations Pvt. Ltd., 1/2 Puttanna Road, Gandhi Bazar, Basavangudi, Bangalore, Karnataka 56004 India as the attached images with the following equipments and manpower.

 

 

 

* Processes and facilities

(1) raw materials storage(120 square M); stacks, racks and cold storage cabinet for adhesive cans, lift car

(2) cocoon shattering(60 square M); 2 sets of fiber swarf shredder and crusher

(3) fiber swarf boiling(60 square M); 2 sets of high pressured cauldron and furnace

(4) washing at laundry(60 square M); 2 sets of laundry

(5) washing at running water(60 square M); water tank with purifier, pipe, tub and pump

(6) hot air drying(60 square M); hot air dryer

(7) web transferring; air blower

(8) web beating(288 square M);12 sets of vertical and horizontal beater

(9) needle punching(300 square M); 2 sets of needle puncher
(10) jetting of adhesive agent(167 square M); 2 sets of pulverizer

(11) drying of non woven fabric(556 square M); 2 sets of hot iron tubing device

(12) calendering of non woven fabric(206 square M); 2 sets of ironing device

(13) trimming of non woven fabric(247 square M); 2 sets of trimming device

(14) roll goods storage(120 square M); stacks, racks and lift car

(15) factory office; 30 square M

                                                                 * Manpower

(1) preparatory processes; 2 personnel per process(team head & team mate), total 12 persons

(2) prime process; 7 personnel per 1 set of proper machinery system(team head 1 & team mates 3 & assistant team mates 3 for 3 shift per day) x 4 sets = total 28 persons

Ban Ki-moon urges leaders to move on 2015 climate deal

The following article is transcribed from "Carbon Finance".

  The UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has called on world leaders to agree a global climate agreement by 2015, as he identified climate change as one of their most urgent challenges.

  “It is time to move beyond spending enormous sums addressing the damage [caused by climate change], and to make the investments that will repay themselves many times over,” Ban told US think-tank the Council on Foreign Relations yesterday.   “A global climate change agreement would give us the engine we need to advance us decisively on this path,” he added.

  He called for governments and business leaders to mobilise the political will for a global legally-binding climate change agreement by 2015, saying: “World leaders have pledged to reach an agreement, and we must hold them to that promise.”

  Ban welcomed US President Barack Obama’s recent speeches on climate change, which he called a “new resolve” to address climate change and give it high political priority. Climate change is one of the two biggest issues – equal to the situation in Syria – currently facing global leaders, threatening “huge global consequences” and risking “the harsh judgment of history should present trends continue”, Ban said. Both these threats require collective action and must involve the US to be solved, he added.

  Elza Holmstedt Pell

Green Climate Fund(GCF) in Songdo

 The Green Climate Fund (GCF), which will distribute climate finance to developing countries, has appointed Ajay Mathur as director ahead of the UN climate conference in Doha.
 Mathur was until recently director general of the Indian government’s Bureau of Energy Efficiency, where he set up a host of programmes over the past six years, including market-based mechanisms, specialised funds, and a system of tradable certified energy savings.
 He will head the interim secretariat until a permanent secretariat is created – expected before the end of 2013 – with its own executive director.
 The GCF was launched at the last round of UN climate-treaty talks in Durban, South Africa, to help channel the promised $100 billion per year by 2020 to developing countries to support climate change mitigation and adaptation activities.

 After months of delay, it was agreed in October that the GCF should be based in Songdo, South Korea, and the proposal was endorsed at Doha afterward.  The GCF headquarter building completed in Songdo, an economic free zone of Incheon is now ready to welcome the staff and the guests from all of the world whole heartedly.

US Congress Launches Bicameral Climate Change Task Force

 (The following article is cited from 'Carbon Finance'.)

 The US Congress has launched a task force to address climate change, but doubts remain that politicians will agree on comprehensive legislation to help address the issue.
Following President Barack Obama’s strong statement about the threat of climate change last week, Congressman Henry Waxman (D-California) and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) have formed a bicameral Task Force on Climate Change.

 “We intend this new group to bring the attention and energy to the issue necessary to get something done,” Whitehouse said.

 Waxman and Whitehouse will co-chair the task force, which will focus on climate change and developing effective policy responses.

 “Congress and the public need to understand that climate change impacts are turning out worse than expected and our window to act is closing,” Waxman said. “This threat is not waiting until we are ready to deal with it.”

 The task force will seek relevant information and release periodic reports, memoranda and correspondence to advance its goals.

 “First and foremost, I hope they will elevate the issue even more than it otherwise would be,” said Nathan Willcox, federal global warming programme director for Environment America. “Global warming is not discussed as often as it should be.”

 Waxman was the co-sponsor of the comprehensive climate legislation – including a cap-and-trade programme to reduce carbon emissions – that barely passed the House of Representatives in 2009, and failed to gain traction in the Senate.

 “Sure, it's a sign of how far expectations have fallen since Waxman's last major foray into climate change legislation,” said Cara Horowitz, Andrew Sabin Family Foundation executive director at the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA.
“But nevertheless, it's nice to see the phrases ‘urgency,’ ‘carbon pollution,’ and ‘havoc’ coming from Congress, along with any political acknowledgment of what scientists have been telling us – that our window to act is closing,” she said. “So let's take it and push.”

 The chances of passing comprehensive climate legislation in the near term are “pretty slim,” but the legislators could consider smaller pieces of legislation that could promote clean energy such as the production tax credit for renewable energy, Willcox said.

 “At this point unfortunately, we do not have the votes to pass [broad] climate legislation,” he said. “I hope that will change before too much longer.”

 Through executive action, Obama can lay out specific steps that federal agencies will take to ensure the US meets its pledge made at the UN climate talks in 2009 in Copenhagen to reduce its emissions by 17% by 2020 from 2005 levels, according to a letter the legislators sent to the president on Thursday.

 The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can set emissions standards and the Department of Energy can set tighter energy efficiency standards, the legislators said.

 “EPA both legally and logically has an obligation to set emissions limits on power plants,” Willcox said. “I do expect the administration to move ahead with standards for power plants.”

The need for executive action is highlighted by the fact that virtually all Republicans opposed comprehensive climate legislation and voted to strip the EPA of its regulatory authority in the last Congress, according to the letter.

 “Progress in Congress may be so difficult or protracted that you should not hesitate to act,” the legislators said.

 Movement by the EPA could encourage legislators who feel like it’s their job to address carbon emissions to advocate more forcefully for a legislative solution, Willcox said.

 “Action by the administration will only help bring more support in Congress,” he said.

Gloria Gonzalez

The 8th Annuity for Chinese Patent Paid

On the 16th inst., the company has paid the 8th annuity and some additional surcharge, CHY3,060(USD 487.52 equivalent in the arbitration rate of the foreign exchange market of Korea as of that day) to the State Intellectual Property Office of P.R.China through CN-KnowHow Intellectual Property Agent Ltd. for the patent no. 200580049333.2 of producing method for non woven silk fabric. EasyHits4U.com - Your Free Traffic Exchange - 1:1 Exchange Ratio, 5-Tier Referral Program. FREE Advertising!

Nonwoven Silk Fabric by Needle Punching

 The following is a remarkable article about the manufacture of nonwoven silk fabric in the way of needle punching that is one of the major production methods of nonwoven fabric with bonding with the adhesive. (Quoted from Fibre2fashion, World of Garment-Textile-Fashion)

 Silk non-woven fabrics – a potential trend setter By: Shankar S. Kotrannavar, P.M. Damodhara Rao, T.H. Somashekar & G. Shreekanth

Abstract

 The silk waste generated during conversion of cocoon to fabric, presently being used for
manufacture of yarns of spun silk, noil, throwster and carpet, besides hand spun, can be more
effectively utilized for development of silk Nonwoven fabrics for increased value addition and
diversified applications.

Introduction

 Non-woven fabric is manufactured by putting small fibers together in the form of a sheet, and then binding them either with chemical, thermal or mechanical bonding to form a fabric. These fabrics are not strong unless reinforced by a backing and do not stretch. Non-woven materials are mainly produced from manmade fibers viz., rayon, polypropylene and polyesters and used in areas like hygiene (baby diapers, feminine hygiene and adult incontinence products, wipes, bandages and wound dressings); medical (isolation and surgical gowns, drapes, covers, scrub suits and caps); technical (wall coverings, electric insulation, insulation backing, circuit board reinforcement); filters (gasoline, oil, air, water, coffee, tea bags) and others (carpets, pillows, cushions, upholstery padding, consumer and medical facemasks).

  In India, the non-woven industry is evolving. As the price of petro-based materials like polypropylene and polyester continues to be high, and eco-concern is increasing among the consumers, new technologies are emerging; natural fibers are being used, creating non-woven with attributes never seen before.

Silk non-woven

 An attempt has been made to develop silk non-woven fabrics from silk reeling waste and hard waste
generated during twisting and weaving on shuttle-less looms. In the process of conversion of cocoon to fabric, about 4000 MT of silk waste of different forms is being generated, annually. At present, this waste is used for manufacture of spun silk yarn, noil yarn, throwster yarn and carpet yarn, besides hand spun yarn. This waste can be more effectively utilized for development of silk non-woven fabrics for diversified end uses. Also, the hard waste generated to the extent of 300 MT in silk twisting and weaving by 100% export oriented units (EOUs) is not being used for any value added purpose except in manufacture of coarser yarn for carpets. The same may effectively be utilized for development of non-woven silk fabrics.

Process and products

Preparation of the fibre: The hard waste was sorted and separated from other non-silk materials and cotton leno threads. The lengthier yarns were cut into the size of 3 to 4 inches.
Processing (Stripping of colour, degumming and bleaching): The waste was then treated with sodium
hydrosulphite (Hydrose) at 70-800C and pH of 9.5-10, for removal of dyes present in the waste. The waste was degummed with soap and soda for removal of sericin. Further, the material was bleached with Hydrogen peroxide.

Opening and carding: The material, with and without decolouring and bleaching, was processed separately in opening and carding machines. After carding, it was not possible to take out the opened fibre in the web form from carding machine due to smoother surface and absence of crimps in fibre. The web was converted into sliver form.

Web formation and needle punching: Needle punched nonwoven fabrics are created mechanically, orienting and interlocking the fibers of a spun bonded or carded web. This mechanical interlocking is achieved with thousands of barbed felting needles repeatedly passing into and out of the web.

 The sliver collected from the carding machine were fed along with the polyester net fabric on one side, parallel to form sheet extending to full width (45 inch) in to the needle loom. The bonding of the sliver web was done by needle punching where thousands of oscillating needles penetrate the web in the vertical direction. The needles push and pull the fibres in vertical direction causing entanglement and create a stable web. The once punched web was fed again with another layer of slivers on opposite face and punched.  The needle punching was done in two stages in two needle looms with different needle board of coarser (1500 needle) and finer (10000 needle) at a speed of 600 rpm and thus, forming non-woven fabric ranging from 100 to 400 gsm. The polyester net fabric in a sandwich or reinforced fashion in between the layers of silk web, holds it together and supports the entanglement of fibres.


Outcome

 With this, a beginning has been made for the development of silk non-woven from silk reeling waste and hard silk waste generated during weaving on shuttle-less looms for value addition. The other wastes like pierced and cut cocoons are also being tried.  The web formation by air laid method and bonding by chemical/needle punching is being attempted. Based on the end-uses, non-woven fabric of specific weight can be produced for various applications including technical and medical textiles. And, the possible end-use applications are rather unlimited and non-woven silk fabrics could be a potential input in the areas of inner lining for warm garments, head wears, ties, garments and blankets, carpets, furnishing and home apparels, automotive carpeting and insulation, wall coverings, handicrafts like wall paintings, wall hangings, wall coverings, gift tags, purse/wallets, table mats, matting for pictures, journal/book/album covers, greeting/invitation/business cards, lamp shades and many more. Perhaps, the imagination would be the limit.

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Birth of Non Woven Silk Fabric

 The nonwoven silk fabric is born.

 For thousands years, the silk has been used only for the interwoven fabric from the shape of yarn, the raw of which is derived from the coccon, the home of the silk worm. The origin of the woven silk could be traced back even to the prehistroic era when a man or a woman might have picked a tussah cocoon up, dropped it into the hot water by an accident or on the purpose and found a clue melt down from it. Yea, the clue that was unwinding out of  the whole coccon itself as one single line of some kilometer was indeed the prototype of the silk yarn the human kind had ever invented or encountered, more precisely put. As the track of the history of all the natural material yarn such as the cotton, the wool and the ramie one, the silk yarn was interwoven to make the fabric for the cloth.

 Around the World War, surely after the chemical synthetic yarn was invented, nonwoven chemical fabric is known to have been developed from the speedy and cheaper demand for the war time expedient in U.K. Nonwoven fabric in literally costed less than the traditional woven one, since the dear process of weaving could be omitted or replaced by the less costly one of the needle punching or the bonding.

  Afterwards, the chemical nonwoven has repeated the eye opening developments and prevailed in the world to the extent that nowadays, the nonwoven fabric stands solely for the chemical nonwoven fabric. Like the chemical synthetic fabric, it has greatly contributed to the clothing living of people with its affordability and accessibility from its cheapness and character of the democracy of mass production. However, these amazing products have aroused a serious problem to the environment of the earth with the non corruptibility(biodegradability in the professional term), contaminating the air, the soil and the ocean.

 In such a crucial moment, one of the nature compatible nonwoven fabrics is in the advent and that is
the non woven silk, the bearer of which is The Non Woven Silk Fabric Co.

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