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Discussion in 'The RoundTable' started by Cajun Sensation, Jan 19, 2014. |
1. Cajun Sensation |
Cajun Sensation I'm kind of a big deal |
2. ragincajun1987 |
ragincajun1987 Veteran Member |
The bowl!!!!!! :D |
3. fanatic |
fanatic Buckle your seatbelts... |
SOO glad SF got beat. I can't stand whiney ass JH. The only team I hate worse is ATL and only by a small margin. That said, I'm going with NOLA boy Peyton Manning and the Broncos. Maybe they can knock that smug smile off of Petey's face. |
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4. LSUDad |
LSUDad Senior Member |
Glad to see Denver in. Was pulling for 9'ers due to the former LSU players. |
The WR coach at Denver is former LSU player Tyke Tolbert. He spent three years coaching at Ulaff. I was there one time having lunch, I found an old recruiting guide that had a write-up with Tyke in it. He had never seen it before, an was shocked. In there it had him as "Too Tuff Tyke." Out of Conroe, Tx. Glad to se... |
5. LaSalleAve |
LaSalleAve when in doubt, mumble |
The motha fuckin weed bowl baby. Legalize the shit and make it to the big one. |
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6. ParadiseiNC |
ParadiseiNC don't worry, be happy |
This. My thoughts exactly. |
7. Cajun Sensation |
Cajun Sensation I'm kind of a big deal |
I'm pulling for Denver, too. |
I used to kinda like Seattle, but after getting beat by them twice and the whole Pete Carrol thing, I will be rooting against them. |
Oh, and the whole, throwing food at Navarro Bowman after his leg was torn off..... |
...and of course the Richard Sherman thing. |
Fuck Seattle. Geaux Bronceauxs. |
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LSUMASTERMIND Veteran Member |
you mad at Sherman bro? |
that was great and Im not a Seattle or Sherman fan, but that interview was entertainment and thats pretty much why we all watch. |
dude is right he probably is the best CB in the league and plays like it. |
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9. Cajun Sensation |
Cajun Sensation I'm kind of a big deal |
I'm not mad at him at all. I think he embarrassed himself. |
I would also say that he is NOT the best CB in the league. That, my friend, would be none other than Patrick Peterson. |
Yes, it was very entertaining, but it was also very WWE-ish. He's pretty lucky that Crabtree didn't beat the brakes off of him after the game. |
He has gotten his block knocked off before for talkin shit to the wrong guy.......and I can only assume that it will probably happen again at some point in the future. |
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10. LaSalleAve |
LaSalleAve when in doubt, mumble |
I'm pulling for Seattle. |
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Climate change and deltas -- seminar in Italy, 8-9 October 2003 |
"Climatic change and foreseeable impacts on deltas: a new challenge for the conservation of protected areas" |
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Climate change and wetlands: impacts, adaptation, and mitigation |
by Dr Tobias Salathé, Convention on Wetlands |
Ramsar Bureau, 28 rue Mauverney, CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland, salathe@ramsar.org |
This presentation conveys some key messages elaborated over the last few years by the contracting parties (currently 138 countries throughout the world) to the Convention on Wetlands (adopted in Ramsar, Iran, 1971). So far, managers of water and protected areas have paid little attention to the expected impacts of clim... |
Goods and services that wetlands provide |
Wetlands, i.e. marshes, fens, peatlands, rivers, lakes, lagoons and coastal aquatic ecosystems, provide goods and services essential for the survival of humans such as: food, fibre, clean water, clean air, carbon and other nutrient stores or sinks, flood and storm control, groundwater recharge and discharge, pollution ... |
The role of wetlands in global biochemical cycles |
Terrestrial wetlands have a major role in the carbon, nitrogen and sulphur cycles. All these cycles are driven by the hydrological (or water) cycle. Since the 1750s, human activities, e.g. burning fossil fuel and land use change, have increased the atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases (e.g. water vapour, carb... |
The concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, along with nitrous oxide, has acted as a fertilizer and has affected the uptake of carbon by some terrestrial ecosystems, including wetlands. Peat accumulating wetlands are especially important in the carbon cycle because of the large carbon store accumulated in them over mil... |
Impacts of climate change on wetlands |
Climate change can directly or indirectly affect many ecosystem functions and thus the goods and services they can provide. Some of these impacts are: |
- A potential for significant disruption of ecosystems productivity and decomposition. |
- Increasing CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere increasing net productivity in vegetation systems, causing carbon to accumulate in vegetation over time. |
- Increased risk of extinction of vulnerable species for very minimal changes in climate. |
- Impacts induced by climate change where weather-related disturbance regimes and nutrient cycling are primary controls on productivity. |
- Reduced average annual water runoff in some areas, and increased annual runoff in others, affect many ecosystem functions. In snowmelt dominated watersheds, earlier snowmelt and a smaller proportion of winter precipitation falling as snow is projected to shift peak river flows toward winter from spring and may thus c... |
- Climatic change and other pressures make small inland waters vulnerable that are downstream from many human activities. |
- Peatlands underlain by permafrost could become net carbon sources rather than sinks. With climate warming, drainage of tropical peatlands could lead to increased risk of fires and affect the viability of tropical wetlands. |
Examples of projected changes due to sea level rise and climate change include: |
- Many coastal systems will experience increased levels of inundation and storm flooding, accelerated coastal erosion, seawater intrusion into fresh groundwater, encroachment of tidal waters into estuaries and river systems, elevated sea surface temperatures and ground temperatures prevailing wave activity and storm wa... |
- Sea level rise of about half a meter would inundate significant portions of some small, low lying islands and their coastal ecosystems. Resources critical to island societies and economies such as freshwater, fisheries, coral reefs and atolls, beaches and wildlife habitat would be adversely impacted. |
- Adverse impacts on coral reefs through increased bleaching and reduced calcification rates due to higher carbon dioxide levels and increased sea water temperatures. |
- Traditional indigenous societies in coastal areas and/or small islands are vulnerable due to their dependence on climate sensitive resources four subsistence hunting and gathering and sometimes low capacity to adapt to changes in the productivity, abundance or geographic distribution of these resources. |
- A number of marine mammal and bird species may be adversely affected as they are dependent on coastal fish that are sensitive to inter-annual and longer-term variability in oceanographic and climatic parameters. |
- Migratory bird populations that rely on suitable foraging habitat whilst en-route and or those dependent on coastal sites for nesting may be adversely affected by climate. |
Extreme climatic events have and will continue to have major impacts on wetlands; examples include: |
- Projected higher maximum temperatures, more hot days and heat waves could lead to increased heat stress and increased susceptibility to pest and disease attack in many wetland plants and animals. |
- Projected increased summer drying over most mid-latitude continental interiors and associated risk of drought could lead to decreased water resource quantity and quality, physiological stress on animals and plants, decreased wetland productivity in some areas and increased risk of fires. |
Impacts of potential changes in wetlands on climate change include: |
- In the Arctic, changes in the extent of forests, grassland, shrubland, wetland and their boundaries could enhance projected regional warming. |
- In semi-arid or arid areas without surface water, evapotranspiration and the albedo coefficient affect the local hydrological cycle; thus a reduction in vegetative cover could lead to reduced precipitation and change the frequency and persistence of droughts. |
Human responses to climate change could further exacerbate the negative impact on many wetlands. For example, human responses to a warmer climate are likely to place greater demands on freshwaters to meet water needs for urban and agricultural use. This could potentially result in decreased flow in rivers and streams a... |
Difference between wetland types |
Like any ecosystems, some wetlands can be considered to be resilient to climate change and others more sensitive, either because they are near their moisture or temperature tolerance and/or because their species and their functions have very narrow limits. Wetlands in high latitude and/or high altitude areas and coral ... |
Other wetlands that could be impacted by climate change are those located in the continental interiors and downstream areas, likely to be influenced much by changes in their catchment hydrology. In near-shore marine and coastal systems, many wetlands could be impacted indirectly due to changes in storm surges and saltw... |
Climate change vs other human pressures |
The earth is being subjected to many human induced and natural changes, often referred to as global change. These include pressures from increased demand for resources, increase in human consumption patterns leading to land use change (including urbanization), accelerated rate of anthropogenic nitrogen production/depos... |
Over the next two or three decades, the land use change resulting in drainage and clearance of wetlands, changes in their hydrology, are likely to dominate the changes due to projected climate change. However, changes listed above interact with each other and affect the ecosystem functions. For wetlands in particular, ... |
Options to adapt to climate change |
Human adaptation options to climate change are dependent on institutional capacity and infrastructure. In general, the potential for adaptation is more limited for developing countries which are also projected to be the more adversely affected by climate change. Adaptation appears to be easier if the climate changes ar... |
Most of the wetland processes are dependent on the hydrology of their water catchment. Thus, adaptations for the projected climate change have to be operational at catchment level. This may often be practically difficult or limited. There are a number of potential adaptation options contributing to the conservation and... |
- Designing multiple-use protected areas which incorporate corridors that would allow for migration of organisms as a response to climate change. |
- Expanding aquaculture to relieve stress on natural fisheries. |
- Specific management in some ecosystems could reduce pressures on wetlands, e.g. in the Arctic. Economic diversion could reduce the pressure on wildlife, rotational use of marginal wetlands in semi-arid areas could wetland and wetland biodiversity loss. |
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