Showing posts with label Global Security. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Global Security. Show all posts

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Global warming threatens US water supply NewsOK.com


Global warming threatens US water supply

NewsOK.com - 
Researchers warned that global warming threatens the water supply for urban communities in Arizona, in a new report funded by the Department of Commerce.

Monday, April 16, 2012

SUICIDAL INSANITY: DRILL BABY AND WAR IN THE ARCTIC!


The new Cold War? As climate change melts polar ice cap, militaries vie for ...

Washington Post - 
YOKOSUKA, Japan - To the world's military leaders, the debate over climate change is long over. They are preparing for a new kind of Cold War in the Arctic, anticipating that rising temperatures there will open up a treasure trove of resources, ...

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Nigeria Tested by Rapid Rise in Population New York Times


Nigeria Tested by Rapid Rise in Population

New York Times - 
LAGOS, Nigeria - In a quarter-century, at the rate Nigeria is growing, 300 million people - a population about as big as that of the present-day United States - will live in a country the size of Arizona and New Mexico.

Friday, April 13, 2012

Rapid climate change putting Asia`s rice production at Risk Zee News


Rapid climate change putting Asia`s rice production

Zee News - 
Washington: Rapid climate change and its potential to intensify droughts and floods could threaten Asia's rice production and pose a significant threat to millions of people across the region, leading climate specialists and agricultural scientists ...

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Water Risk Threatens Businesses, National Security Forbes


Water Risk Threatens Businesses, National Security

Forbes -
One of climate change's biggest impacts is on water systems. Unreliable water can impact both corporate bottom lines and jeopardize natural security, as two recent reports point out.
Water wise

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

March Heat Records Crush Cold Records by Over 35 To 1, Scientists Say Global ... ThinkProgress


March Heat Records Crush Cold Records by Over 35 To 1, Scientists Say Global ...

ThinkProgress -
I like the statistical aggregation across the country, since it gets us beyond the oft-repeated point that you can't pin any one record temperature on global warming. A 2009 analysis shows that the average ratio for the 2000s was 2.04-to-1, ...

Friday, March 30, 2012

***** vid Chinese Businessman Gives Anti-Desertification Demo at UN NTDTV


Chinese Businessman Gives Anti-Desertification Demo at UN

NTDTV - 
Chinese businessman Li Jinglu presented an anti-desertification power plant at a meeting on sustainable development at the United Nations in New York City on Monday.

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Food, not war, is the biggest threat to world security, argues Lester Brown Scientific American

Food, not war, is the biggest threat to world security, argues Lester Brown

Scientific American (blog) -
By Fred Guterl | March 29, 2012 | Even as Iran's nuclear program raises the likelihood of yet another conflict in the middle east, the bigger threat is a potential food crisis in the making, says Lester Brown, founder of the Earth Policy Institute.

Climate change to inflict major crises, panel says San Francisco Chronicle

Climate change to inflict major crises, panel says

San Francisco Chronicle -
The 594-page report blames the scale of recent and future disasters on a combination of man-made climate change, population shifts and poverty.
Climate change to drive weather disasters
Climate change report: time to start preparing for the worst