Georgia Judge Yanks Coal Power Permit on Climate Concerns:
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/01/10017/
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Category: RT Newswire
USE ME! Essentially, this is a catch all for everything. This is probably the ONLY category where things that are not directly related to Rising Tide affiliates/allies should go. For example if a coal company goes out of business (and we didn’t directly cause it) it should probably only go here.
Property Insurers Confront Rising Catastrophe Losses
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“Bad weather has cost U.S. property insurers more than $5 billion so
far in second-quarter catastrophe-related claims — equal to about
three-quarters of all catastrophe claims during 2007 — and could
push the industry to an underwriting loss.”
“The Insurance Services Office defines a catastrophe as an event that causes
more than $25 million in insured losses and causes a major disruption.”
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The Wall Street Journal
June 30, 2008
Property Insurers Confront Rising Catastrophe Losses
By LAVONNE KUYKENDALL
Bad weather has cost U.S. property insurers more than $5 billion so
far in second-quarter catastrophe-related claims — equal to about
three-quarters of all catastrophe claims during 2007 — and could
push the industry to an underwriting loss.
Bill McKibben Editorial: When Words Fail
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“We haven’t come up with words big enough to
communicate the magnitude of what we’re doing.”
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Orion Magazine
June 29, 2008
When Words Fail
by Bill McKibben
I almost never write about writing-in my
aesthetic, the writing should disappear, the
thought linger. But the longer I’ve spent working
on global warming-the greatest challenge humans
have ever faced-the more I’ve come to see it as
essentially a literary problem. A technological
and scientific challenge, yes; an economic
quandary, yes; a political dilemma, surely. But
centrally? A crisis in metaphor, in analogy, in
understanding. We haven’t come up with words big
enough to communicate the magnitude of what we’re
doing. How do you say: the world you know today,
the world you were born into, the world that has
remained essentially the same for all of human
civilization, that has birthed every play and
poem and novel and essay, every painting and
photograph, every invention and economy, every
spiritual system (and every turn of phrase) is
about to be . . . something so different? Somehow
“global warming” barely hints at it. The same
goes for any of the other locutions, including
“climate chaos.” And if we do come up with
adequate words in one culture, they won’t
necessarily translate into all the other
languages whose speakers must collaborate to
somehow solve this problem.
North Pole Ice Free in 2008?
No Ice At The North Pole: Polar Scientists Reveal Dramatic New
Evidence of Climate Change:
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/27/9920/
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