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A block of ice four times the size of Manhattan has split off from a Greenland glacier and melted–an event so dramatic that it’s shocked the scientists who study the area. I’m sure all of this is due to completely normal fluctuations in temperature and climate and has nothing, I repeat nothing, to do [...] The Agonist, from Don in West Texas, on the current devastating Texas drought, which may continue for another year and even intensify. We raise more cattle than anywhere in these United States. Or we once did, anyway… As I speak, broilers are dying by the droves while farm managers and workers watch helplessly. Cattle, [...] Weather changes can ignite wars for resources, and climate change is certainly a part of this too. Research published August 24 in Nature now demonstrates a link between El Niño years and civil war in 93 tropical countries. Topics Scottish expat and co-host Steve Hynd says “UK riots, yup. As you might imagine, I’ve a lot to say on this topic.” Plus, the financial markets, S&P, Obama’s speech, SuperCongress etc. Let’s call all this “too broke to be exceptional” and add in the looming defense cuts war. Steve lives in Big Spring [...] A new study demonstrates why global surface temperatures defied a decades-long trend and didn’t continue to rise between 1998 and 2008: Pollution-spewing, coal-burning power plants in Asia, while emitting warming greenhouse gases, simultaneously sent cooling sulfur particles into the atmosphere. Climate change skeptics are seizing upon this as junk science being used to explain [...] People on the left instinctively believe in communal action, the role of government and the efficacy of international agencies such as the UN. They were always going to believe in climate change; it’s the sort of problem that can best be solved using the tools they most enjoy using. The right tended to be sceptical [...] Thomas Friedman You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by [...] It’s not because we don’t have the ability. Rather it’s because there is no clear leadership or national policies. Instead, we have the usual squabbling, which leads to paralysis. “If we don’t invest in ways to efficiently produce sustainable energy, then I worry that once we stop importing from the Middle East, we’ll simply find [...] Scientists… measured tree-ring growth from forests that included 800-year-old trees. They learned that snowpack reductions in the late 20th and early 21st centuries were unlike any other period dating to at least the year 1200. But no more than half of the declines can be explained by natural shifts, the study shows. Alarmingly, their studies [...] Topics: Who are the global warming deniers? Greece financial crisis. Irish are 10 billion euros in the red due to fall in tax revenue, now want to be sharia-compliant financial center of Europe (you read that right.) Syria barbarity. Western-backed barbarity in Libya, Ivory Coast. Murder of Syed Shahzad, Asia Times journo, in Pakistan. [...] |  | ||||
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