Showing posts with label Quality of Life WMD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quality of Life WMD. Show all posts
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Climate challenges undermine a fragile Maasai culture.
Climate challenges undermine a fragile Maasai culture.
Pastoral Maasai have thrived for centuries in
East Africa's Savannah. But western pressures are undermining that
semi-nomadic lifestyle, and increasingly erratic weather – droughts one
year, downpours the next – threaten to erode their culture.
Daily Climate
Coal's high public health cost: Canadian study. Seattle Post Intelligencer
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Climate change making extreme events worse in Australia – report. The Guardian
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Monday, April 8, 2013
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
World Bank chief says global warming threatens the planet and the poorest. Washington Post
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World Bank President Jim Yong Kim on Tuesday said climate change was a “fundamental threat” to global economic development as he called for a major new push to reduce extreme poverty over the next 17 years.
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Sunday, March 31, 2013
(detail) FACT: YOUR 'NIGGER SLAVES' TODAY: YOUR KIDS, GRANDKIDS, to whom, 3X $ OUR GLOBAL ANNUAL FOSSIL FUEL BILL. EVERY YEAR. 75%. TO YOUR KIDS, AND GRANDKIDS. YOUR NIGGER SLAVES ON WHO'S BACKS YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE. UOK WITH THAT (OR FOR YOU IS IT - "HOW COOL IS THAT!!!)?
Nicholas Stern, consensus voice for world economists - HERE. (<<<< CLICK FOR WORLD-LEADING ECONOMIST STERN WHO SPEAKS FOR 95% OF ALL ECONOMISTS) <<<<<
Nicholas Stern, consensus voice for world economists - HERE. (<<<< CLICK FOR WORLD-LEADING ECONOMIST STERN WHO SPEAKS FOR 95% OF ALL ECONOMISTS) <<<<<
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Report: Human 'Progress' May Be Reversed By Climate Change. CleanTechnica
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The report notes that while climate change
will affect the whole world, the more equatorially located developing
world will experience the worst of it, within the near future anyways.
***** Report: Human 'Progress' May Be Reversed By Climate Change. CleanTechnica
The Poor and Climate Change
| Energy Collective | - |
"Environmental inaction, especially regarding climate change, has the potential to halt or even reverse human development progress.
See realtime coverage »
| CleanTechnica | - |
The report notes that while climate change
will affect the whole world, the more equatorially located developing
world will experience the worst of it, within the near future anyways.
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
The Earth Is Warming Faster Now Than It Has in 11000 Years. Slate Magazine
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Mind you, this is the rate of warming, how quickly the global temperature is increasing. But they also showed the actual temperature of the planet is warmer now than it has been for 70-80 percent of the past over that time period. There have been times ...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
US utilities seen burning more coal as prices decline. Reuters
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Energy traders however noted many coal plants
remain more expensive than gas units by about 25 to 50 cents per mmBtu
because gas plants are about 25 percent more efficient than coal plants, and it costs about $1 per mmBtu to transport coal from the ...
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Global warming could corrode shallow reefs sooner than forecast. Phys.Org
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(Phys.org)—Shallow
coral reefs may be even more susceptible to increasing acidity caused
by heightened levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and oceans than
previously recognised.
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Wiping out top predators like lions, wolves and sharks ....
Wiping out top predators messes up the climate.
Wiping out top predators like lions, wolves
and sharks is tragic, bad for ecosystems – and can make climate change
worse. Mass extinctions of the big beasts of the jungles, grasslands and
oceans could already be adding to greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
New Scientist
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