Climate change

Climate change is already happening and represents one of the greatest environmental, social and economic threats facing the planet. The warming of the climate system is unmistakable, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global mean sea level.

Hon Makhosini Hlongwane M.P Zimbabwe (far right) in a light conversation on climate change with Mr. Samuel Njoroge.

Factors that can shape climate are often called climate forcings. These include such processes as variations in solar radiation, deviations in the Earth's orbit, mountain-building and continental drift, and changes in greenhouse gas concentrations. There are a variety of climate change feedbacks that can either amplify or diminish the initial forcing. Some parts of the climate system, such as the oceans and ice caps, respond slowly in reaction to climate forcing because of their large mass. Therefore, the climate system can take centuries or longer to fully respond to new external forcings.

As part of global effort to contain these climate forcings, an African Parliamentarians Summit on Climate Change entitled 'Climate Change: One Africa, One Voice, One Position', hosted by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Nairobi was launched by Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki at the headquarters of the UNEP in Nairobi, Kenya.

Co-organized by the Kenyan Parliament, the Pan African Parliamentarians Network on Climate Change and the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance, the two-day meeting is aimed at consolidating past and ongoing efforts and initiatives by Parliamentarians in Africa in the run-up to the AU-AMCEN special session in Addis Ababa, 19-23 October 2009, and the climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December.

Honorable members, all the very best in this endeavour and this time keep your words for once :)

Microblogging platform

Meet David Karp, only 23 year old and making real money with his own founded Microblogging platform, Tumblr. Visit its website in my blog specials.

Believe it or not, Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything! It's pretty cool, a combination of a blog and Facebook, which is perfect if you are a chronic exhibitionist like me :)

He says his Goal No. 1 is growth is aiming the blog for a mainstream audience. Click to begin this magnificent tour! Should i say blogging and Money are inseparable or what!

In 2005, David Karp was running his software consulting business, developing new media for big media companies. He got the idea for Tumblr after becoming captivated by a new form of blogging known as "tumblelogging" that presented material of various formats (such as text, photo, and video) in a stream. While building a tumblelog for himself, the programmer realized other fans of the form would want to use a simple tool that would allow them to create their own.

So during a two-week window between consulting jobs, Karp, who first started coding when he was 11, created the first iteration of such a tool designed with speed, ease of use, and customization in mind.

Launched in 2007 for general consumption, the Tumblr platform now has 1.8 million users and has landed $5.5 million in venture capital from two rounds of funding with Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital. Karp, 23, says the 10-person company is not making money yet but will be experimenting with revenue-generating features this quarter.

Believe it!

NEW Webpage: Kenya Wildife Service

Yay!! Meet the new site for Kenya Wildlife Service.

In comparison to the former official webpage, which in my personal opinion it had seen better days, the Kenya Wildlife Service has a beautiful site and yet more interactive. Kudos to the men and women behind this success, it was really wild! Hey, check it out. Or you can visit nmy blog specials to view the page.

The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) conserves and manages Kenya’s wildlife for the Kenyan people and the world. It is a state corporation established by an Act of Parliament Cap 376 with the mandate to conserve and manage wildlife in Kenya, and to enforce related laws and regulations.

The challenges facing wildlife and biodiversity conservation in Kenya are many and varied. They include climate change, habitat degradation and loss, forest depletion, tourism market volatility, human wildlife conflict brought on by population growth and changing land use habits of communities that co-exist with wildlife as well as wildlife crime.

To tackle these issues, KWS has employed a multi-pronged approach and strategies and engage different interest groups, stakeholders and partners.KWS undertakes conservation and management of wildlife resources outside protected areas in collaboration with stakeholders. It is our goal to work with others to conserve, protect and sustainably manage wildlife resources.

The community wildlife program of KWS in collaboration with others encourages biodiversity conservation by communities living on land essential to wildlife, such as wildlife corridors and dispersal lands outside parks and reserves.

Lets all help to conserve!