
La società civile tenta ancora una volta di impegnarsi nella sussidiarietà orizzontale che in questo, critico, periodo storico sta divenendo determinante per garantire i diritti costituzionali nel nostro Paese.




*Centro Oceanográfico de Gijón, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Avenida Príncipe de Asturias, 70 bis, E-33212 Gijón, Spain; Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, Plymouth PL1 3DH, United Kingdom; and
AZTI, Arrantza eta Elikaigintzarako Institutu Teknologikoa, Herrera Kaia Portualdea, 20110 Pasaia, Spain
Edited by James H. Brown, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, and approved April 6, 2006 (received for review February 10, 2006)
Oceanic communities are sources or sinks of CO2, depending on the balance between primary production and community respiration. The prediction of how global climate change will modify this metabolic balance of the oceans is limited by the lack of a comprehensive underlying theory. Here, we show that the balance between production and respiration is profoundly affected by environmental temperature. We extend the general metabolic theory of ecology to the production and respiration of oceanic communities and show that ecosystem rates can be reliably scaled from theoretical knowledge of organism physiology and measurement of population abundance. Our theory predicts that the differential temperature-dependence of respiration and photosynthesis at the organism level determines the response of the metabolic balance of the epipelagic ocean to changes in ambient temperature, a prediction that we support with empirical data over the global ocean. Furthermore, our model predicts that there will be a negative feedback of ocean communities to climate warming because they will capture less CO2 with a future increase in ocean temperature. This feedback of marine biota will further aggravate the anthropogenic effects on global warming.
global change | metabolic theory | oceanic carbon cycle
Europe's car industry
Dec 20th 2007 | MUNICH AND STUTTGART
From The Economist print edition
IF BALI failed to produce much besides cop-outs and compromises, at least the European Commission showed that it means business when it comes to tackling carbon emissions. Transport-related CO2 emissions in the European Union grew by one-third between 1990 and 2005 and now constitute 27% of the EU total. Of these, the commission reckons, cars and vans are responsible for about half.
On Wednesday December 19th the commission published its final proposals for cleaning up Europe’s cars. Although it will be at least a year before they become law and there is still scope for some of the details to change there is now little doubt that in only a few years’ time European carmakers will have to meet the world’s strictest CO2-emission standards.
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ARTICOLO 4 - SCOPI E FINI
4.1 - L'attività dell'Associazione è finalizzata alla difesa e tutela della salute, dell’ambiente e della cultura.
A tal fine l'Associazione intende svolgere la sua attività mediante interventi e azioni informative volti alla tutela dell’ambiente quale habitat degli esseri viventi, al miglioramento delle condizione di salute , alla salvaguardia del dialogo interculturale e della cooperazione fra i popoli.