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Category Archives: Environment
Jared Diamond on The Most Important (12) Environmental Problems
If no video showing, click here. “We are working so hard for our children and grandchildren. All of us parents …
Climate of Denial — Al Gore
Al Gore has a very good article in the current Rolling Stone. Get it! Get 5 and leave them around …
The Ocean is Breaking – and That’s Not A Good Thing
The changes to the world’s oceans from warming, acidification and the resultant hypoxia are far greater in magnitude than previously …
Don’t Go Near the Water — Johnny Cash
Don’t know how I missed this back when the old man was with us and singing it. Amy Goodman played …
Food, Floods and Drought
Krugman looks at Egypt, food prices and the fast changing world climate: We’re in the midst of a global food …
Greenland Ice Sheet Melting Fast
New research shows that 2010 set new records for the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet, expected to be a …
GOP Wants to Withdraw from Climate Panel
The Republican Study Committee last week released a list of proposed budget cuts totaling $2.5 trillion, including a recommendation to withdraw …
2010 Wettest Year on Record – and Tied for Hottest
2010. What more can be said? Queensland, Australia and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil are being swamped from unprecedented rains. In …
Weather Weather Everywhere and Not A Plan in Sight
It is hard to get people impressed with the size of the disaster flooding over Australia’s north east province of …
More Warmth More Snow
From Wunderground: The remarkable Post-Christmas blizzard of 2010 has ended for the United States, as the storm has trekked northeastward …
De-ratting the Islands
Invasive species stories read like 1950s horror films – The Blob, The Think, The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Rabbits …