Global Warming Media Clearinghouse

Greetings Ourmedia users
I am happy to announce that I've just added video chat to my personal blog and collaboration with 123 flash chat. It is a public channel but it is open to all our media users. What better way for video bloggers to collaborate projects than with video chat! Now you will be a community with each other in real time.

It is a flash chat client and requires no download you will be logged on automatically when you access my blog and select the experimental chat room post. The system will assign you a guest name which you may change as soon as you are logged on. It is my suggestion that you add OM to your nickname to identify yourself as a ourmedia user to other oumedia uses

either click on my user name to get to my blog page or follow this link

http://ourmedia.org/node/405876

I hope all organizations and causes will put this feature to good use

Windsong

Tom (aka Spinner), a Stage6 user and an employee of DivX, Inc., the company behind the service, says: I'm writing this message today to inform you that we plan to shut down Stage6 on February 28, 2008. Upload functionality has already been turned off, and you'll be able to view and download videos until Thursday.

Windsong says:

Ourmedia would like to reach out and offer a new home to all you displaces Stage6 users we ARE Divx enabled.

Still, many doubt that hydrogen will ever play a role in the U.S. energy infrastructure. At the Clean Energy Venture Summit, James Woolsey, the former director of the CIA and currently an alternative energy advocate, received a standing ovation when he said hydrogen research was a distraction and largely a waste of time. Instead, he, among others, favor alternative transportation concepts like plug-in hybrids or clean diesel.

Could it be that the bush admi is starting to move to protect the oil interest of all there Republican friends? Who better to do the job than the former head of the CIA. I really didn't know that being head of the CIA would make you a instant expert on green tech.

Now we all know that if hydrogent was derived from oil he would have been singing a different tune.

Today Cnet.com jumped headfirst in the global warming crisis with and new special coverage news section called Green Tech Their you will find some of the best news coverage of green tech I have found on the internet, well worth visiting.

Next week,Greenest Host in San Diego is going to start offering carbon-free Web services to consumers.

This could be one way for you to help cut down on greenhouse gases if you have a videoblooging site.

Running a single server on solar power (rather than conventional grid electricity) cuts roughly the same amount of greenhouse gases you would save if you didn't burn 107 gallons of fuel.

there services will start around $14.95 a month.but it would be worth it to help out.

Wednesday, July 25, 2007 12:25 AM

BUDAPEST (AFP) - The heatwave in central and southern Europe killed an estimated 500 people in Hungary last week, the country's chief medical officer announced yesterday.

Ferenc Falus said that during the week from July 15 to July 22 the heat in central Hungary "contributed to the early death of 230 people, which nationally means about 500 deaths".

The announcement of hundreds of deaths comas as heavy rain and extreme temperatures continue to batter Europe.

Britain was experiencing its worst flooding in living memory, while across the continent in the Balkans people were warned to stay indoors to avoid searing temperatures with deaths reported in Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, and Romania.

Temperatures in the region were recorded at 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) and above, with Greece expecting a high of 45 Celsius on Tuesday and Italy just behind at 44 Celsius, hours after Rome recorded one of its warmest nights ever on Monday at 27.1 degrees.

Bulgaria has also experienced its hottest temperatures since records began with the mercury shooting above 45 degrees Celsius in parts of the country, and more than 860 people reportedly fainting in the streets in Romania.

North Carolina farmers caught in a drought is affecting most of the Southeast are concerned that they may not be able to grow enough feed to sport the over 900,000 cattle to reside in the state.

The western portion of North Carolina, is now under severe drought conditions, falling 10 inches short of the 27 inch yearly rainfall.

The ongoing drought could severely hinder North Carolina's $250 million cattle and hay production industry driving meat prices up in the nation's restaurant and grocery industry.

The state agricultural industry is trying to arrange to have hay shipped in from other states.one cow in the 3000 pounds of hay during the winter months.

when encouraging aspect though, is that the weather service is expecting a very active tropical season, during the months of August and September, which farmers hope will bring the much-needed rain.

More than 170 passengers on Amtrak train were stranded for hours after storms dumped more than a foot of rain in Texas.rescue crews elsewhere were forced to pull at least 50 people to safety.

water covered tracks about 75 miles west of San Antonio, stopping an Amtrak train carrying 176 passengers at around 9 a.m. Saturday, authorities said.

buses were sent in to drive the passengers to El Paso, but could not reach the train until Saturday evening due to flooded roads, Amtrak authorities said.

There was no reported injuries in the latest round of floods, that have recently hit the state.but they did force many roads to be closed and many evacuations.

in this report, our sister nation, Great Britain is also feeling the effects of global warming.

An image of flooding in Great Britain:

It is more than 24 hours since storms swept across the country, dumping huge amounts of rain on already saturated ground, leading to widespread flooding in dozens of towns.

Oxfordshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire and Gloucestershire have been worst hit counties. But other areas were also hard hit.

Around 200 people are still in emergency accommodation in Gloucester after being stranded by the flood waters. That figure is down from 2,000.

reports like this one, of a gargantuan hailstorm, are now starting to come in from all over the world. It would seem that Mother nature is taking matters into her own hands. In convincing politicians around the world that global warming is not a theory, it is fast becoming a fact of life.

These are pictures of a fierce hail storm that pounded the town of Cananea Sonoroa, Mexico, July 19.pictures provided courtesy of Ing. Gardner

citizens dig out from hailstorm:

dangerous flooding hits city:

snowball in July?:

snowed in, in the summer...:

A record 180 millimetres (7.2 inches) of rain pummelled the eastern Shandong province, China Wednesday,