|
AR2 Fine Arts Exclusive Representative of the Art of Visual Artist - F. A. Rodríguez
|
| TwinTowersRemembered |
Notice to our friends, the book titled:
'Twin Towers Remembered' by F. A. Rodríguez, has been published by the Outskirts Press and is available at: www.amazon.com hard cover and kindle, also at: Barnes & Noble www.barnesandnoble.com in the Nook format and hard cover. www.outskirtspress.com/twintowersremembered in the hard cover edition and ebook format. The book is a visual essay about the Twin Towers, starting
in the early 1970's to the year 2000. Photographs of the Twin Towers from different angles and lighting conditions as well
as years. On the 10th Anniversary of the attacks on September 11, 2001 we remember the World Trade Center. This book is dedicated
to all the victims and their families. The book is now part of the permanent collection of the National September 11
Memorial & Museum. Please, contribute to the Museum, let's never forget.
|
|
| TwinTowersRememberedVolume2 |
Notice to our friends the book titled:
Twin Towers Remembered - Volume Two, has been published by Barnes and Noble, in the hard cover format: www.barnesandnoble.com. On the 20th anniversary of the attacks on September 11, 2001, we remember the World Trade Center, all the victims and their
families. May God blessed them.
|
| 9/11 Memorial Explored - 2013-2016 |
Notice to
our friends the book of photographs titled: '9/11 Memorial Explored 2013-2016' by visual artist F. A. Rodriguez has been published
by Barnes and Noble in the hard cover format, and it is avalaible a: www.barnesandnoble.com.
Monday,
November 13, 2023 Associated Press Reports: Past 12 Months on Earth were the hottest ever recorded,
analysis finds The last 12 months
were the hottest Earth ever recorded, according to a new report by Climate Central, a nonprofit science research group. The
peer-reviewed report says burning gasoline, coal, natural gas and other fossil fuels that release planet- warming gases like
carbon dioxide, and other human activities, caused the unnatural warming from November 2022 to October 2023. over the course
of the year, 7.3 billion people, or 90% of humanity, endured at least 10 days of high temperatures that were made at least
three times more likely because of climate change.
Wednesday, January 11, 2023 The Washington Post reports: The last eight years have been the warmest on record, researchers
say Last year was the fifth hottest ever recorded on the planet,
the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service announced Tuesday.It was part of a broader warming trent as humans
continued to pump massive amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The records show that the last eight years have
been the hottest recorded in human history. Extreme heat waves in Europe, Asia and the U.S. helped drive 2022's warmth, researches
found. The heat stemmed, in part, from more of a century of burning fossil fuels. In February, Antartic Sea ice reached its
lowest minimum amount in 44 years of satellite records. A U.N. report las fall found that despite promises to boost climate
targets, nations have shaved just 1% off their projected greenhouse-gas emissions for 2030. Scientist have said the world
heeds to cut emissions roughly in half by the end of the decade to be on track to meet its most ambitious promises.
Wednesday April 20, 2022 Washington Post Reports Biden restores climate safeguards in key environmental law Washington: The White House on Tuesday Announced it has restored
key protections to a landmark environmental law governing the construction of pipelines, highways and other projects. Then
President Donald Trump had swept away the safeguards as part of an effort to cut red tape. The new rule will require federal
agencies to scrutinize the climate impacts of major infrastructure projects under the National Environmental Policy Act, a
1970 law that required the government to assess the environmental consequences of federal actions, such as approving the construction
of oil and gas pipelines.
|
| 3 DaysInNewYorkCityApril5-7-2022 |
Notice to our friends the book
of photographs '3 Days In New York City - April 5-7 2022' -By Visual artist F. A. Rodriguez, has been published in the hardcover
format by: Barnes and Noble, and is available at: www.barnesandnoble.com
The New York Times reports:
Sunday, November 14, 2021 Climate Summit Reaches
Accord Amid Contention Urgin More Help for Vulnerable Nations and
Delaying Details on Emissions Diplomats
from nearly 200 countries on Saturday struck a major agreement aimed at intensifying global efforts to fight climate
change by calling on governments to return next year with stronger plans to curb their planet-warming emissions
and urging wealthy nations to "at least double" funding to protect poor nations from the hazards of a hotter planet.
Architects of the agreement hoped it would send a powerful signal to capitals and corporate boardrooms around the globe that
more ambitious action on climate change is inevitable, which could in turn would empower civil society groups and lawmakers
working to shift countries away from burning oil, natural gas and coal for energy in favor of cleaner sources like wind, solar
and nuclear power.
Associated Press reports: Tuesday, August 10,
2021 'Code Red': U.N. warns of worsening global warming Earth is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past a level of warming
that world leaders have sought to prevent, according to a report released Monday that the United Nations called a "code
red for humanity". The authoritative Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, which calls climate change
clearly human-cause and "unequivocal" and "an established fact," makes more precise and warmer forecasts
for the 21st century than it did last time it was issued in 2013. With crucial international climate negotiations coming
up in Scotland in November, world leaders said the report is causing them to try harder to cut carbon pollution. The 3,000-plus-page
report from 234 scientists said warming is already accelerating sea level rise and worsening extremes such as heat waves,
droughts, floods and storms. Tropical cyclones are getting stronger and wetter, while Artic sea ice is dwindling in the
summer and permafrost is thawing. All these trends will get worse, the report said. Nearly all of the warming that has happened
on Earth can be blamed on emissions of heat-trapping gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.
Notice to our friends: The book of photographs
'A Day in Deadwood S.D - September 12, 2021'. Introduction by F. A. Rodriguez, has been published by Barnes and Nobles. And
is available at: www.barnesandnoble.com
World News - Wednesday, March 10, 2021
The U.S. has recently
agreed to rejoin the Paris climate accord - Kerry, EU Discuss More Cooperation. Brussels- Renewed trans-Atlantic cooperation on addressing climate change will prompt other
countries to take more action and improve prospect for coming global meetings on the issue, said President Biden's special
envoy for climate change, John Kerry, after meeting with allies here. Mr. Kerry, is meeting with leaders this week in London,
Brussels and Paris, following the U.S. return to the Paris climate accord. Mr. Biden has made tackling climate change one
of his top priorities, signing an executive order returning the U.S. to the 2015 agreement hours after taking office. The
U.S. officially rejoined on Feb. 19.
U.S. News - Friday, January 15, 2021 World Climate Grew Warmer in 2020 Rising temperatures
last year capped the world's warmest decade in modern times, federal climate scientist said Thursday. In a new climate study,
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ranked 2020 in a dead heat with 2016 as the warmest year since official
record-keeping began in 1880. NASA and NOAA scientists labeled 2020 a year of extremes, driven by rising levels of greenhouse
gases such as carbon dioxide and methane that rrap heat in the atmosphere. In the Northern Hemisphere, last year's averaged
land and ocean surface temperature was the highest in the 141-year record, at 2.30 degrees Fahrenheit (1.28 degrees Celsius)
above the 20th century average, according to NOAA. The annual Southern Hemisphere land and ocean surface temperature was the
fifth highest on record.
|
|
| JimiHendrixGuitarGilaMonster6-5-2008ink11x15in |
The Associated Press reports February 28,
2021 Monarch butterflies down 26% in Mexico wintering grounds: The number of monarch butterflies that showed up at their winter resting grounds in central Mexico
decreased by about 26% this year, and four times as many trees were lost to illegal logging, drought and other causes,
making 2020 a bad year for the butterflies.
The Associated Press reported on Saturday,
November 28, 2020: Protection for
Birds To Be Curtailed: The Trump administration moved forward Friday on rolling back a longstanding federal protection
for the nation's birds, over the objections from former federal officials and many scientists that billions more birds
will likely perish as a result. The US Fish and Wildlife Service published its take on the proposed rollback in the Federal
Register. It is a final step that means the change-greatly limiting federal authority to prosecute industries for practices
that kill migratory birds-could be made official within 30 days. The American Bird Conservancy said the change would accelerate
bird population declines that have swept North America since the 1970s.
The New York Times, reports:
Friday, June 5,2020 Citing Pandemic, Trump Rolls
Back Regulations On Climate Protections. Washington - The Trump administration,
in twin actions to curb environmental regulations, moved on Thursday to temporarily speed the construction of energy projects
and to permanently weaken federal authority to issue stringent clean air and climate change rules. President Trump signed
an executive order that calls on agencies to waive required environmental reviews of infrastructure projects to be built
during the pandemic-driven economic crisis. At the same time, the Environmental Protection Agency has propose new rules that
changes the way the agency uses cost-benefit analyses to enact Clean Air Act regulations, effectively limiting the strenght
of future air polutions controls. Together, the actions signal that Mr Trump intends to speed up his efforts dismantle environmental
regulations as the nation battles the coronavirus and a wave of unrest protesting the death of black Americans in Georgia,
Minnesota and Kentucky.
Associated Press reports:Thursday, January
16, 2020 Earth had its hottest decade on record in 2010s Washington. The decade that just ended was by far the hottest
ever measured on Earth, capped off by the second-warmest year on record, two U.S. agencies reported Wednesday. And scientists
said they see no end to the way man-made climate change keeps shattering records. The 2010s average 58.4 degrees Fahrenheit
world-wide, or 1.4 degrees higher than the 20th century average and more than one third of a degree warmer than the previous
decade, which had been the hottest on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The
decade had eight of the hottest year on record. The only other years in the top 10 were 2005 and 1998. The United States which
had only its 34th-warmest year, was nevertheless hit by 14 weather disasters that caused $1 billion or more in damage last
year. According to NOAA.
|
| TheCosmicBallet-ElBalletCosmico-F.A.Rodriguez |
Notice to our friends: The book of: Oil
Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, 'The Cosmic Ballet - El Ballet Cosmico' by F. A. Rodriguez has been published by Barnes
and Noble in the hard cover format. With an introduction by the late Dominican intellectual Don Humberto Soto-Ricart. Art
critic, translator and writer. A foreword by the Puerto Rican artist Luis Carrasquillo. The art explores the movement
of enegy and dance. www.barnesandnoble.com
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports: Friday,
Sept. 20, 2019 Study puts bird losses in the billions Across North America, hundreds of species have been hit hard over the
last 50 years, researches say. Slowly, steadily, and almost
imperceptibly, North America's bird population is dwindling. The sparrows and finches that visit backyard feeders number fewer
each year. The flute like song of the western meadowlark- the official bird of six U.S. states- is growing more rare. The
continent has lost nearly 3 billion birds representing hundreds of species over the last five decades, in an enormous
loss that signals an "overlooked biodiversity crisis," according to a study from top ornithologist and government
agencies. This is not an extinctions crisis- yet. It is a more insidious decline in abundance as humans dramatically alter
the landscape: There are 29% fewer birds in the United States and Canada today than in 1970, the study concluded.
|
|
| F.A.Rodriguez-London9-25-2018 |
The New York Times International reports:
Saturday, August 31, 2019 Amazon Forests Vanishing Fast, Not Just
in Brazil Deforestation at breakneck rate
is depleting vast expanses of Amazon forest contained in South American countries neighboring Brazil. Forest loss in those
nations, which host roughly 40 percent of the Amazon, underscores how the fires now ravaging parts of Brazil and provoking
global alarm are just one piece of a broader regional crisis. The push by land speculators, ranchers and miners into forest
around the Amazon basin also shows how advances in political stability and economic integration can drive deforestation, especially
when safeguards remain weak. Researches are just beginning to reckon with the consequences of this year's fires. From January
through July, deforestation and subsequent fires in the Brazilian Amazon released between 115 and 155 million tons of climate-warming
carbon dioxide emissions, according to an analysis released Friday.
The Associated Press reports: Friday, August
16, 2019 Scientist confirm July set new global heat record July was the hottest month measured on Earth since records began in 1880, the
latest in a long line of peaks that scientists said backs up predictions for man-made climate change. The U.S. National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday that July was 0.95 degrees Celsius warmer than the 20th century average
of 15.8 C for the month. According to NOAA's records, 9 of the 10 hottest Julys on record have occurred since 2005 and last
month was the 43rd consecutive July above the 20th century average.
|
|
| GretaThunberg&HerGenerationHopeForTheFutureOfOurPlanet11-21-2019WC39x59in. |
The New York Times reports: Tuesday,
May 7, 2019 Civilization is accelerating extintion and altering
natural world at 'unprecedented' pace, U.N. says Humans
are transforming Earth's natural landscapes so dramatically that as many as 1 million plant and animal species are now at
risk of extinction, posing a dire threat to ecosystems that people depend on for their survival, a new U.N. assessment has
concluded. The 1,500-page report, compiled by hundreds of international experts and based on thousands of scientific
studies, is the most exhaustive look yet at the decline in biodiversity across the globe and the dangers that creates for
human civilization. A summary of its findings, which was approved by representatives from the United States and 131 other
countries, was released Monday in Paris. The full report is set to be published this year.
The Associated Press reports
on Wed. August 7, 2019: Latest deforestation data in Brazil show significant surge. Figures of the National Institute for Space research, a federal agency, show
that more forest was lost between May and July this year than during the same period in 2018, 2017 and 2016. In July alone
the rainforest lost 2,254 square kilometers (870 square miles) of vegetation, between three and five times the surfaces lost
the same month in the past four years. This is the biggest surge in deforestation rates since the institute adopted its
current methodology in 2014.
|
|
| GilaMonsterRoyalPoincianaFlower-1-8-2009ink28x40in. |
The Miami Herald reports on June 20,
2019 EPA finalizes its plan to replace Obama-era climate rules:
Washington- The Trump administration on Wednesday replace former President Barack Obama's effort to reduce planet-warming
pollution from coal plants with a new rule that would allow plants to stay open longer and slow progress on cutting carbon
emissions. The new rule is also likely to prompt a flurry of legal challenges, this time from environmental groups.
Miami Herald reports on November 24,
2018 The Environment - Climate study warns of worsening U.S. disasters A major scientific report issued by 13 federal agencies presents the starkes warnings to date
of the consequences of climaate change for the United States. As California's catastrophic wildfires recede and people rebuild
after two hurricanes, a massive new federal report warns that these types of disasters are worsening in the United States
because of global warming. The White House report, which was quietly issued on Friday, also frequently contradicts President
Donald Trump. The National Climate assessment was written long before the deadly fires in California this month and before
Hurricanes Florence and Michael rake the East Coast and Florida. It says warming-charged extremes "have already become
more frequent, intense, widespread or of long duration." The report notes the last few years have smashed U.S. records
for damaging weather, costing nearly $400 billion since 2015.
Notice to our friends, the book of photographs
titled: 'United Kingdom Vacation-September 13-26 2018' by F. A. Rodriguez. Has been published by Barnes and Noble and
is available at www.barnesandnoble.com in the hardcover format.
The New York Times reports on Friday,
August 10, 2018 The Year Global Warming Turned Model Into Menace Crops Wilt, Fires Rage and a Scorching Summer Tell Us: We're
Not Ready This summer of fire and swelter looks a lot like the
future that scientists have been warning in the era of climate change, and it is underscoring how unprepared much of the world remains
for life on a hotter planet. Globally, this is shaping up to be the fourth-hottest year on record. The only years hotter were
the three previous ones. That string of records is part of an accelerating climb in temperatures since the start of the industrial
age that scientists say is clear evidence of climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions. For many scientists, this
is the year they started living climate change rather than just studying it.
The Associated Press reports on April 23, 2016 175 Nations sign landmark deal on climate change - United Nations Leaders
from 175 countries signed the Paris Agreement on climate change Friday as the deal took a key step forward, potentially entering
into force years ahead of schedule. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, holding his granddaughter, joined dozens of world
leaders for a ceremony that set a record for international diplomacy: Never have so many countries signed an agreement
on the first available day. States that didn't sign on Friday have a year to do so. "We are in a race against time",
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the gathering. "The era of consumption without consequences is over."
Many now expect the climate agreement to enter into force long before the deadline of 2020. Some say it could happen this
year. Ban warned that the work ahead will be enormously expensive. "Far more than $100 billion-indeed, trillions
of dollars is needed to realized a global, clean energy economy," he said. Already, states face pressure to do more.
Scientific studies show the initial set of targets that countries pledged before Paris don't match the agreement's long-term
goal to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) compared with pre-industrial times. Global
average temperatures have already climbed by almost 1 degree Celsius. Last year was the hottest on record.
 Notice to our friends: The book titled,
'Visual Social Commentary' by: F. A. Rodriguez, has been published and it is available at www.barnesandnoble.com and www.amazon.com This series of artworks, are in reference to some of the most outrageous acts of abuse of power I have witness
in my lifetime. This social commentary, are the impressions I received as a human being and observer of humanity,
and its behavior towards each other. Starting with the human race, with all the different shades of colors and shapes, languages,
customs and believes. We must remember that perhaps, humans are the only species on this planet that at an early age
knows the fact, that humans die as well as all life forms. (Except from introduction) F. A. Rodriguez.
The Philadelphia Enquirer reports on
Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018 Facts about the agency behind climate report: The report was written by 91 authors
from 40 countries, members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC). It had 6.000 scientific references and tens of thousands of expert reviewers, including governments, worldwide.
The report found that the world is already seeing consequences from a single degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) of global
warming, with more weather extremes, rising sea levels, and melting Arctic sea ice. The document looked at what would happen
at 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels. The report was release Monday, Oct. 8, 2018.
The goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement was to cap temperature rise at 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit). The scientists
projected that 1.5 degrees would be bad enough, but that a 2-degree rise would be catastrophic. The report's conclusion is
that the world is rapidly running out of time to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
was founded in 1988 by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to assess
what was then an emerging worry about global warming cause by the burning of fossil fuels.
|
|
| TheReturnOfTheGilaMonster-6-1-2007oil45x48in. |
The New York Times reports
on Sunday, December 13, 2015 Nations Aprove Landmark
Climate Deal In France, Consensus
on a Need to Lower Carbon Emissions LE BOURGET, France- With
The sudden bang of a gavel Saturday night, representatives of 195 nations reached a landmark accord that will, for the first
time, commit nearly every country to lowering planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions to help stave off the most drastic effects
of climate change. The deal, which was met with an eruption of cheers and ovations from thousands of delegates gathered
from around the world, represents a history breakthrough on an issue that has foiled decades of international efforts to address
climate change. The accord, which United Nations diplomats have been working towards for nine years, changes that dynamic
by requiring action in some form from every country, rich or poor. "This is truly a historic
moment", the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, said in an interview. "For the first time, we have a
truly universal agreement on climate change, one of the most crucial problems on earth."
|
| MyNewYorkAVisualMemoir |
Notice
to our friends: The book titled: My New York A Visual Memoir - by F. A. Rodriguez - Oil Paintings,
Watercolors, Prints and Drawings - Has been published in the hard cover format by Barnes and Noble: www.barnesandnoble.com
Miami Herald reports on June 22, 2018 Trump plan to expand Gulf drilling ignores impacts on wildlife,
lawsuit claims A handful of environmental groups sued the
Trump administration Thursday for failing to protect whales, sea turtles and other marine life in the Gulf of Mexico even
as it pushes to expand drilling amid safety cutbacks. In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Tampa, Earthjustice claimed the
administration has yet to complete a long overdue study of hazards to wildlife from drilling following the 2010 explosion
of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig. The explosion, which left 11 workers dead, dumped at least three million barrels of oil
into the Gulf, killing baby dolphins, causing heart problems in mahi mahi and leaving trail of damage to marine life,
from plankton to shrimp to oysters, that scientist are still trying to understand. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the Center
for Biological Diversity, The Sierra Club and the Gulf Restoration Network, asks the court to order the National Marine Fisheries
Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to complete a new study in three months. The study would likely lead to new protections
for endangered species given the breadth of the 2010 spill, Earthjustice said.
|
|
| GuitarPianoGilaMonsterObserving-11-4-2008oil20x36" |
The Associated Press reports on Saturday,
July 14, 2018 4-mile-wide iceberg breaks off from Greenland glacierl London An iceberg
four miles wide has broken off from a glacier in eastern Greenland and scientists have captured the dramatic event on video.
In northwestern Greenland, another large iceberg was apparently grounded on the sea floor near the village of Innaarsuit which
has a population of 169. Innaarsuit is about 620 miles north of Nuuk, Greenland's capital and largest city. Earthquakes and
tsunamis have created major floods in Greenland in the past year.'
Miami Herald reports on Friday, June 2, 2017 Trump withdraws U.S. from Paris climate accord Washington.
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he would make good on a top campaign promise to withdraw from the so-called Paris
climate agreement, a global pact to combat global warming. "One by one, we are keeping the promises I made
during my run for president," Trump said. But Trump quickly said he would immediately begin to negotiate reentering
the deal, which is supported by more than 190 nations.
|
|
| 3GilaMonsters-2-15-2008oil10x17in. |
January 18, 2017 NASA - NOAA Report: Global heat sets
record for 3rd straight year. Earth sweltered under the hottest temps in modern times for a third straight year in a row, raising concerns about
the quickening pace of climate change. The main reason for the rise is the burning of fossil fuels like oil & gas, which
send carbon dioxide methane and others pollutants known as greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere and warm the planet. Glaciers
and polar ice caps melt, accelerating sea level rise that will eventually swallow many of the globe's coastal communities,
home to some one billion people.
|
|
| GilaMonsterOnFlowers-4-3-2012-ink-8x14in. |
The Miami Herald reports on Thursday, May 9, 2018 Miami now nation's top importer of shark fins; many states have bans Since 2015, Miami has led the nation in the amount of shark fins imported from Hong Kong, the
historic hub for the fin trades blamed for killing about 73 million sharks every year. According to a review by
the nonprofit Oceana, the number of fins arriving at PortMiami from Hong Kong, the historic center of the fin trade, was dwindling
between 2010 and 2014. But after California and New York banned imports in 2011 and 2013, fin shipments began rising.
Twelve states, not including Florida, currently ban imports.
'The Art of the 21st
Century Must Address Our Environmental Challenges'
|
|
| F.A. Rodriguez - Athens, Greece-1973-Photo:Angeline Rodriguez |
In the background, the Acropolis in Athens, ancient
meeting place of the Greek philosophers and intellectuals. En la parte
posterior el Acrópolis, el lugar de reunión de los antiguos filósofos Griegos.
The New York Times reports on Saturday,
January 17, 2015 2014 Breaks Heat Record, Challenging Global Warming
Skeptics Last year was the hottest on Earth since record-keeping
began in 1880, scientists reported on Friday, underscoring warnings abouth the risks of runaway green-house-gas emissions
and under-mining claims by climate-change contrarians that global warming had somehow stopped. Extreme heat blanketed
Alaska and much of the Western United States last year. Records were set across large areas of every inhabited continent.
And the ocean surface was unusually warm virtually everywhere except near Antarctica, the scientists said, providing the energy
that fueled damaging Pacific storms. In the annals of climatology, 2014 surpassed 2010 as the warmest year. The 10 warmest
years have all occurred since 1997, a reflection of the relentless planetary warming that scientist say is a consequence of
human activity and poses profound long-term risks to civilization and nature. Several scientist said the most remarkable
thing about the 2014 record was that it had occurred in a year that did not feature a strong El Nino, a large weather pattern
in which the Pacific Ocean pumps an enormous amount of heat into the atmosphere. Skeptics of climate change have long
argued that global warming stopped aroung 1998, when an unusually powerful El Nino produced the hottest year of the 20th
Century. Some politicians in Washington have seized on that claim to justify inaction on emissions'.
|
|
| BookOnTableWithGilaMonster-6-16-2009Oil22x46in |
AR2 Fine Arts, Inc.
Presents - Presenta
F. A. Rodríguez
|
|
| F.A.Rodriguez-Athens,Greece1973-Photo:AngelineRodriguez |
Selections from the series: 'From Death to Birth' For the protection of our planet Obras selectas de la serie: 'De la Muerte al Nacimiento' Por la protección de nuestro planeta
|
|
| TheGilaMonsterVisitsTheSeashore 4-2-1998drawing53x53in. PrivateCollection |
Tribune Washington Bureau Reports: Climate Change
2012 one of 10 warmest years on record.
Wednesday, August 7, 2013 Temperatures
are rising and the planet we know is transforming, according to a report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "The State of the Climate in 2012," released Tuesday,
paints a sobering portrait of swaths of the planet transformed by rising temperatures. Artic sea ice reached record lows during
the summer thaw. In Greenland, about 97 percent of its ice sheet melted in the summer, far greater than in years before.
'Greenhouse emissions continued to rise.
Heat-trapping greenhouse gases emitted by the burning of fossil fuels are the primary cause of higher global temperatures'.
The NOAA report underscored the effect that oceans have on temperatures. Oceans store much of the planet's heat, but
ocean heat storage is at near-record levels, the report said, and increases were detected even in the ocean's depths.
At the end of the page links to other exhibitions
by F. A. Rodriguez About the artist on link to 'Analysis In Variation'- Note: the art on this site is not
for sale.
|
|
|
|
| LizardMiltiplicityII-8-23-2007oil36x40in |
Dear Friends...
All the news and satellite photographs are showing a very fast melting of the poles, north and south. We were glad
when Vice President Al Gore released to the public his documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth'. It was well received and has been
very helpful in calling to the attention of the world this very eminent disaster, which will happen sooner than predicted
if we don't do anything about it. We must help to protect the oceans and the forests.
|
|
| GuitarPianoGilaMonsterObserving-11-1-2011ink9x12in. |
Miami Herald wire services report: Sunday,
May 10, 2015 Climate Change-Hollande Touts Green Fund French President Francois Hollande
told Caribbean leaders on Saturday that a planned international fund could help the vulnerable, tourism-dependent region
mitigate the effects of climate change. Hollande headline the Caribbean Climate Summit, which drew about 40 leaders or top
officials from regional nations including the Bahamas, Trinidad and Cuba, as well as experts talking about renewable energy,
waste and water management. The summit was held in Martinique. The meeting came ahead of a global climate conference
in Paris that activists hope will mark the first time that all countries take collective action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
globally. Hollande said the Paris session would highlight the importance of the U.N. climate fund, which is struggling to
find donors.
|
|
| Gila Monster Multiplication-10-26-2007-WCink-38" x 42" |
Miami Herald Wire Services reports: Tuesday,
June 23, 2015 Climate Change Failure to act on climate change could cause an estimated 57,000 deaths a year in the United States
from poor air quality by 2100, the Obama administration argued in a report. The report also said inaction could cost billions
of dollars a year in damage from rising seas, increased wildfires and drought, as well as higher costs for electricity
to cool homes and businesses due to hotter temperatures.
Information about F. A. Rodriguez award winning documentary:
'Freewheeling, Bicycling in New York City', on link to The Spirit of the Butterfly.
|
|
| StillLifeWithGilaMonster-3-14-2008ink30x42in. |
The exhibition we are bringing to you is part of the series
'From Death to Birth', this segment represents the surface section of the series and it is comprised of: prints, etchings,
monoprints, digital photographs, relief prints and drawings. The series is divided in two parts, the surface which is represented
by the lizard, and the underwater section which is represented by the fish. The underwater segment is a series of watercolors
and oil paintings on canvas; they are studies in abstract form of the colors of fish from different parts of the world. These
incredible color combinations and existing documentation is all that is left of many species of animals and trees, which shared
this planet with us in the endless universe.
|
|
| MosaicLizard-8-26-2009-PapierCollage-32x40in. |
New York Times reports on Thursday, July 17, 2014 White House unveils climate change initiatives President Barack Obama announced a series of climate change initiatives Wednesday aimed at guarding the electricity
supply; improving local planning for flooding, coastal erosion and storm surges; and better predicting landslide risks as
sea levels rise and storms and droughts intensify. The actions, involving a variety of federal agencies, were among the recommendations
of the president's State, Local and Tribal Leaders Task Force on Climate Preparedness, a group of 26 officials who have
worked since November to develop the proposals. The plan takes direct aim at coal-fired plants, the nation's largest
source of carbon pollution, and lawmakers from coal-dependent states have called it a "war on coal." The plan is
expected to curb demand for coal, shutter coal plants and reduce coal mining jobs.
|
|
| Dragon & Beetle-4-1-1998 Etching 22" x 30" |
The New York Times reports Tuesday, October
14, 2014 Climate-
Pentagon: Global warming security issue Washington- The Pentagon on Monday released a report asserting that climate
change poses an immediate threat to national security, with increased risks from terrorism, infectious disease, global poverty,
and food shortages. It also predicted rising demand for military disaster responses as extreme weather creates more humanitarian
crisis. The reportlays out a road map for how the military will adapt to rising sea levels, more violent storms, and widespread
droughts. The Defense Department will begin by integrating plans for climate-change risks across all of its operations. If
the Pentagon requests funding from Congress for its initiatives, it will clash directly with congressional Republicans, many
of whom question the established scientific evidence that human activities are causing climate change.
|
|
| F.A.Rodriguez-June, 1974- NYC- Photo: Angeline Rodriguez |
Miami Herald reports on Friday,
September 26, 2014 - Science- Some Water Is Older
Than The Sun-
Some of the water molecules in your drinking glass were created
more than 4.5 billion years ago, according to new research. That makes them older than the Earth, older than the solar system-even
older than the sun itself. In a study published Thursday in Science, researches say this primordial water makes up 30 percent to 50 percent of the water on
Earth. The discovery bolsters hopes of finding life on other planets.
|
|
| 4Lizards-6-3-1998Monoprint19"x24" |
On April 20, 2007 ABC News reported that: '50.000.000
acres of rainforest is destroyed every year on planet earth.' El 20 de Abril, 2007 la cadena de televisión ABC reporta que:
'50.000.000 de acres de selvas tropicales estan siendo destruidos anualmente.'
|
|
| GilaMonsterRoyalPoinciana-64Hexagrams-9-10-2009WCink32x42in. |
The Washington Post reports Thursday, May 21, 2015 The Environment: Obama: Climate change is a 'serious threat' to national security President Barack Obama warned Wednesday that climate
change is a growing and "serious threat" to national security, tying severe weather to the rise of the extremist
group Boko Haram in Nigeria and the civil war in Syria. Obama challenged 218 newly commissioned officers at the U.S. Coast
Guard Academy to take the threats of climate change as seriously as they would a cutter in peril. "You don't sit back;
you take steps to protect your ship," Obama said. "Anything less is a dereliction of duty. The same is true for
climate change". "Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national
security," he told the graduates. "And, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country. And
so we need to act now."
|
|
| Picasso's Chapel At Vallauris-7-27-2009-Oil-30" x 32" |
Associated Press reports: Tuesday,
February 18, 2014 - Climate Melting Arctic ice warming Earth The Arctic isn't as bright and white as it used to be because of more ice
melting in the ocean, and that's turning out to be a global problem, a new study says. With more dark, open water in
the summer instead of ice, less of the sun heat is reflected back into space. So the entire Earth is absorbing more heat
than expected, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The Arctic grew
8 percent darker between 1979 and 2011, measuring how much sunlight is reflected back into space. The North Pole region
is an ocean that mostly is crusted at the top with ice that shrinks in the summer and grows back in the fall. At its peak
melt in September, the ice has shrunk on average by 35,000 square miles- about the size of Maine- per year since 1979.
|
|
| Lizard Cutout - 4-2006 - Digital Photograph |
Miami Herald reports Wednesday, September 10, 2014 Florida critical to birds at risk from climate change Climate change will likely threaten the survival of half of North America's birds in the coming decades
and no place will play a more crucial role in saving them than Florida, the National Audubon Society said Monday after releasing
a seven-year study. Rising temperatures and changes in rainfalls could shrink ranges for about 21 percent of the continent's
birds by as much as half by 2050, the report found. Of the 588 species examined, Audubon scientists found 314 risked sharp
declines in populations. That puts Florida, the continent's great way station for many migrating birds, in a unique position,
said Julie Wraithmell, director of wildlife conservation for Audubon Florida. Because Florida gets a combination of birds
nesting, breeding and migrating, saving conservation land is important not just to native birds, but the hemisphere's birds,
Wraithmill said.
|
|
| LizardsSeagrapeLeaf-5-20-1998Monoprint19"x24" |
2015 the hottest year in recorder history. NOAA
New York Times reports Sunday October 16, 2016 170 nations agree to cut use of harmful coolant Kigali, Rwanda - Negotiators from more than 170 countries Saturday reached a legally binding accord to counter climate change
by cutting the worldwide use of a powerful planet-warming chemical used in air-conditioners and refrigerators. The talks in
Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, did not draw the same spotlight as the climate change accord forged in Paris last year. But
the outcome could have an equal or even greater impact on efforts to slow the heating of the planet. The new Kigali deal has
a single target: chemical coolants called hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, used in air-conditioners and refrigerators. So,
narrow as it is, the new accord may be more likely to yield climate-shielding actions by industry and governments, negotiators
say. And given the heat-trapping power of HFCs, scientists say that the Kigali accord will stave off an increase of atmospheric
temperatures of nearly 1 degree Fahrenheit. Overall, the deal is expected to lead to the reduction of the equivalent of 70
billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere about two times the carbon pollution produced annually by the entire world.
|
|
| LizardCutout#8-11-2007-DigitalPhotograph |
Associated Press reports on Tuesday, Feb. 26,2008 'Norway is opening a
'doomsday' vault burrowed deep in the Arctic to protect millions of seeds from disasters.' 'It's been dubbed a Noah's Ark
for plant life and built to withstand an earthquake or a nuclear attack.' All the seeds are kept at: 'Just below zero,
a temperature at which experts say many seeds could survive for 1,000 years.'
|
|
| PurpleRainLizards-5-20-1998Monoprint19"x24" |
Environment- Cox
Newspaper Reports on Thursday, May 15, 2014 Climate change
poses national-security risk In a CNA Corp. report. titled " National Security and the Accelerating
Risks of Climate Change", a military advisory board of 16 former admirals and generals for the nonprofit research group
concluded the impact of climate change is already being felt and in some cases faster than expected. The former military leaders
called on the United States to take a more leading role on an international response to the problem. They compared the challenge
of climate change to facing the Soviet nuclear threat in the Cold War and to terrorism in recent years. "The national
security risks of projected climate change are as serious as any challenges we have faced", they said in a signed letter
in the report. Former Air Force Materiel Command leader and retired Gen. Donald J. Hoffman was among those who signed the
document and is a member of the federally funded research and development center's military advisory board. But Michael Breen,
executive director of the Truman National Security Project and the Center for National Policy, said climate change is a threat
to national and global security and that the United States should take a stronger leadership role to address that threat.
He said "This is a real thing in the real world and there's no political difference of opinion here. It's happening whether
you believe in it or not."
June 07, 2008 - The Caribbean Monk Seal becomes extinct from human causes. NOAA's Fisheries
Services southeast region confirmed.
|
|
| BulletHolesInTheLightWithGilaMonsterObserving9-22-2009WCink32x42in |
Miami Herald reports Friday, October 28, 2016 Wildlife Populations, on average, have been halved since 1970, report says London. Global wildlife populations have fallen an average of 58 percent from 1970 levels,
with human activity reducing the numbers of elephants in Tanzania maned wolves in Brazil, salamanders in the United States,
and orcas in the waters of Europe, reasearches say. Deforestation, pollution, overfishing and the illegal wildlife trade,
together with climate change, "are pushing species populations to the edge," according to the Living Planet
report released Thursday by WWF and the Zoological Society of London. "For the first time since the demise of the
dinosaurs 65 million years ago, we face a global mass extinction of wildlife," said Mike Barret, director of science
and policy at WWF-UK. "We ignore the decline of other species at our peril- for they are the barometer that reveals
our impact on the world that sutains us." The assessment predicts that by 2020, populations of vertebrate species
could have fallen by 67 percent from 1970 levels unless action is taken to reverse the damaging impacts of human activity.
One of the actions pushing the decline is the growing number of humans, which is driving overfishing, hunting and the destruction
of habitats. The report detailed the strain that agriculture places on freshwater systems. "Human behavior continues
to drive the decline of wildlife populations globally, with particular impact on freshwater habitats," said Ken Norris,
director of science at ZSL.
|
|
| GilaMonsterUpClose-12-24-2007oil24x44in. |
Associated Press - Reports Wed. March1, 2017 Washington - Trump orders review of Obama rule protecting small streams President Donald Trump has signed an executive order mandating a review of an Obama-era rule aimed
at protecting small streams and wetlands from development and pollution, fulfilling a campaign promise while earning the ire
of environmental groups.The order, signed at the White House on Tuesday, instructs the Environmental Protection Agency and
Army Corps of Engineers to review a rule that redefined "waters of the United States" protected under the Clean
Water Act to included smaller creeks and wetlands. At a White House signing ceremony, the president called the rule, which
has never been implemented because of a series of lawsuits, "one of the worst examples of federal regulation" that
he said "has truly run amok." But Democrats have argued that it safeguards drinking water for millions of Americans
and clarifies confusion about which streams, tributaries, and wetlands should be protected in the wake of decades long uncertainty
despite two Supreme Court rulings. Environmental groups such as the Sierra Club have said they will sue to fight any attempt
by the Trump administration to roll back the rule.
|
|
| LizardCutout#11-1-2007-DigitalPhotograph |
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - The McClatchy News Service reports: 'Global Warming: Mass extinctions
forecast if eco crisis isn't tackled.' The answer from the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was
jaw dropping: 'More than 40 percent of known plant and animal species could become extinct by the end of this century.' Last
month (january), 600 scientists wrote to congress saying that it's time to act.
|
|
| PowerOfNatureWithGilaMonster05-08-2008oil22x36in |
La exhibición que les traemos es parte de la serie 'De la Muerte al Nacimiento', la cual esta dividida
en dos partes, la superficie del planeta y la submarina. La sección de la superficie esta compuesta de trabajos impresos
y dibujos, y esta representada por el lagarto. La parte submarina esta representada por el pescado, es una serie de acuarelas
y pinturas al óleo sobre lienzo. Son estudios en forma abstracta de los colores de peces de diferentes partes del mundo.
Estos colores y la documentación existente, es lo único que queda de muchas especies de animales y árboles
que han cohabitado con nosotros en este planeta, viajando en el infinito universo.
|
|
| LizardsInBlack-6-15-1998Monoprint19"x24" |
New York Times reports Friday, April 7, 2017 Nearly
two million acres of the Brazilian amazon were destroyed between August 2015 and July 2016, according to estimates by the
National Institute for Space Research in Brazil.
|
|
| LizardCutout#18-11-2007DigitalPhotograph |
Miami Herald reports Thursday, March 2, 2017 White
House proposes cutting EPA staff by 20% and eliminating key programs Washington: The Office of Management and Budget has suggested deep cuts to the Environmental
Protection Agency's budge that would reduce its staff by one-fifth in the first year and eliminate dozens of programs,
according to details of a document reviewed by The Washington Post. The proposal also dictates cutting the agency's grants
to states, including its air and water programs, by 30 percent, and eliminationg 38 separate programs in their entirety. Programs
designated for zero include grants to clean up brownfields, or abandoned industrial sites; a national electronic manifest
system for hazardous waste; environmental justice programs; climate-change initiatives; and funding for native Alaskan villages.
The document eliminates funding altogether for the office's "contribution to the U.S. Global Change Research Program,"
a climate initiative that then-President George H.W. Bush launched in 1989. S. William Becker, executive director of the National
Association of Clean Air Agencies (NACAA), said in an email that the proposed cuts would devastate critical federal
financial support for communities across the country. "These cuts, if enacted by Congress, will rip the heart and soul
out of the national air pollution control program and jeopardize the health and welfare of tens of millions of people around
the country," Becker said.
|
|
| Gila Monster Inside My Memories & Influences-12-11-2008ink30" x 42" |
The New York Times
reports Friday, September 26, 2014 Washington- Obama to Expand Marine Preserve
In Pacific, Making It World's Largest
President Obama is carving out a wide swath of the Pacific Ocean for an expanded marine preserve, putting the
waters off limits to drilling and most fishing in a bid to protect fragile underwater life. The expanded Pacific Remote Islands
Marine National Monument will cover 490,000 square miles, an area roughly three times the size of California, an become the
largest marine preserve in the world. Millions of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals live in the biologically rich expanse
covered by the new monument. It will also add protections for more than 130 seamounts, underwater mountains where rare or
undiscovered species are frequently found.
|
|
| Black Dragon Seagrape leaf 2-26-2009 WC Ink 16"x40" |
The Washington Post reports: Sunday, April 16, 2017 The Arctic sets record for low levels of sea ice Floating sea ice at the top of the world has set another troubling record
for its low spatial extent, shattering a prior record set just two years ago for this key component of the planet's climate
system. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, the sheet of Artic sea ice,which expands and contracts
in an annual cycle, probably reached its maximum size this year on March 7, when it spanned 14.42 million square kilometers
or 5.57 million square miles atop the Artic ocean. And this is part of a trend, notes NASA, which funds the National Snow
and Ice Data Center and also hailed the record. "The Artics's sea ice maximum extent has dropped by an average of 2.8
percent per decade since 1979," noted the agency.
|
|
| LizardCutout#13-11-2007DigitalPhotograph |
Associated Press reports Wednesday, September 10, 2014 UN says CO2 pollution levels at a record high Carbon-dioxide levels in the atmosphere reached a record high in 2013 as increasing levels of man-made pollution
transform the planet, the UN weather agency said Tuesday. The heat-trapping gas blamed for the largest share of global warming
rose to global concentrations of 396 parts per million last year, the biggest year-to-year change in three decades, the World
Meteorological Organization said in a annual report. That's an increase of 2.9 ppm from the previous year and is 42 percent
higher than before the Industrial Age, when levels were about 280 parts per million. CO2 emissions are growing mainly in China
and other large developing countries as their economies expand. Top climate scientists are now becoming increasingly skeptical
that countries across the globe will meet the voluntary goals they set at the 2009 Copenhagen climate summit of limiting global
warming to about 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) above preindustrial levels.
|
|
| Split Lizards 5-11-1998 Monoprint 19" x 24" |
Miami Herald reports: Saturday, April
4, 2015 Environment: Study: Climate change may trigger coral
bleaching sooner A new study that sifted through data on sea temperatures
suggest that the fatal change might happen 12 years earlier. Parts
of Florida's vast coral reefs, including a pristine tract in the Dry Tortugas, might get seared by climate change as
early as 2030- about a dozen years sooner than scientists previously projected. And that could mean that coral bleaching-
a whitening that can be damaging and potentially deadly to colorful corals- migh become an annual event in the Tortugas west
of Key West but also in the middle Keys and reefs south of Turkey Point popular with divers. The findings are important because
scientists consider reefs an important indicator of more serious trouble. More information could also improve existing conservation
programs and heighten awareness about the dangers of coral bleaching, which is already a leading killer of Florida's
reefs."
|
|
| GilaMonsterRugRoyalPoincianaFlower2-8-2009WCink30x40in |
AR2 Fine Arts, Inc. From Death to Birth 2
|
 |
|
F. A. Rodríguez - Selected Sculptures 1967-2007
Circular Abstractions - Circulos Abstractos
Miniature Imaginary Landscapes - Paisajes Imaginarios
Link to: Analysis in Variation - Humberto & Silvano - Análisis en Variación
Link to: The Spirit of the Butterfly -El Espiritu de las Mariposas
For the preservation of the environment
and the protection of wildlife. Those are our stated goals. Art is the medium that unites us all.
|
|
| LizardSkin-4-1-1998Etching10"x11" |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
