Climate Change
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Errant Climate May Be Sign of Breakdown, Scientists Say (Charles J. Hanley)
Heat waves, fires, and floods fit their predictions Aug. 13, 2010 -- NEW YORK (AP) -- Floods, fires, melting ice, and feverish heat -- from smoke-choked Moscow to water-soaked Iowa and the High ...
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Greenland Ice Sheet Faces 'Tipping Point in 10 Years'; (Suzanne Goldenberg)
Scientists warn that temperature rise of between 2C and 7C would cause ice to melt, resulting in 23ft rise in sea level Aug. 11, 2010 -- WASHINGTON (Guardian) -- The entire ice mass of Greenland ...
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Calling All Future-Eaters (Chris Hedges)
July 19, 2010 -- The human species during its brief time on Earth has exhibited a remarkable capacity to kill itself off. The Cro-Magnons dispatched the gentler Neanderthals. The conquistadors, with ...
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From Despair To Impassioned Inspiration (Carolyn Baker)
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty ...
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Waltzing At The Doomsday Ball -- Joe Bageant
Predator drone firing a hellfire missile. (Public domain)Capitalism is dead, but we still dance with the corpse Joe Bageant -- World News Trust July 6, 2010 -- AJIJIC, JALISCO, Mexico -- As an ...
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Vulnerable Nations at Copenhagen Summit Reject 2C Target | John Vidal
Alliance of Small Island States say any deal that allows temperatures to rise by more than 1.5C is 'not negotiable' Dec. 10, 2009 (Guardian) -- More than half the world's countries say they are ...
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The editorial seen around the world | Mark Leon Goldberg
A version of the same editorial calling for action in Copenhagen ran in 56 newspapers in 45 countries today. Many on the front page. This unprecedented effort was spearheaded by the Guardian. Good ...
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Scientist Says Warming Will 'Wipe Out Billions' If Political Leaders Fail To Act (Jenny Fyall)
Nov. 29, 2009 -- Most of the world's population will be wiped out if political leaders fail to agree a method of stopping current rates of global warming, one of the UK's most senior climate ...
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Antarctica: Collapse of the ice bridge supporting Wilkins Ice Shelf appears imminent
April 3, 2009 (European Space Agency) -- The Wilkins Ice Shelf is at risk of partly breaking away from the Antarctic Peninsula as the ice bridge that connects it to Charcot and Latady Islands looks ...
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I Love a Planet with a Happy Atmosphere (Michael Greenwell)
March 24, 2009 (World News Trust) -- The newspapers and TV like natural disasters. They provide countless emotional and, on the whole, non-controversial scenes (with the exception of New Orleans as ...
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Future Scenarios, By David Holmgren -- A Review By Carolyn Baker
Future Scenarios offers fascinating and fertile challenges for engaging Peak Oil and climate change and confronts us with the question that will not die: Will our journey to a post-petroleum world ...
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