CLIMATE, WEATHER, SEA ICE
Sea Ice at 2nd Lowest Level; Polar Bears in Open Water; Fay Floods FLA;
Glacier Melting in Greenland
http://www.commondreams.org/news-2008/0826-31800.htm
Arctic ice melt seen as ‘tipping point’ in global warming
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/printDS/254885
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Carter F. Bales and Richard D. Duke.
“Containing Climate Change.”
Foreign Affairs
September/October 2008
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Aug 25, 2008
Analyst warns of looming global climate wars
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/25/2345829.htm
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” … governments in the US and UK are already being briefed by their own military
strategists about how to prepare for a world of mass
famine, floods of refugees and even …”
” … if the world does not decarbonise by 2050, you don’t want to be there,
according to Dr Dyer.
“My kids will and I don’t think that is going to be a pleasant
prospect at all, because once you go past 2 degrees – and you could get past 2
degrees by the 2040s without too much effort – things
start getting out of control,” he said.
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The prospect of global wars driven by climate change is not something often
discussed publicly by our political leaders.
Global Carbon Emissions Map
Here’s a nifty website:
<http://www.carma.org>.
CARMA reveals the carbon emissions of more than 50,000 power plants and 4,000 power
companies in every country on Earth. You can type in a zip code and get facts on
emissions and source of energy, e.g., coal, hydro, of every power plant. There are
interactive maps and you can search by region, etc.
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Rising Tide folks with a lot of support from others have set up a new website with information from the grassroots, for the grassroots radical and progressive response to Hurricane Gustav. We are currently receiving or collecting information from a dozen or so groups in the area.
Please spread the word: http://gustavsolidarity.org
The site features:
Keep in mind: