Category Archives: disasters

calamities; catastrophes; tragedies; cataclysms; force majeure; vis major; really, really bad news

Siberian permafrost thaw warning

2013-2-23 – 2:53 pm

“Such a thaw could damage this infrastructure with obvious economic implications.”

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5 Most Dangerous Climate Change Myths

2012-8-16 – 6:03 pm

“To head off the worst effects of climate change, we need to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to no more than 350 parts per million.” (On the right hand side of my weblog, the meter reads 394.49.) For the sake of future life on our planet, “the United States can’t delay any longer.”

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(Cryosp)here today, gone tomorrow

2012-8-11 – 7:09 pm

“The alarming fact is that this year’s minimum sea ice extent is already the 6th-lowest on record — and there’s still about a month to go in the melt season.”

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Billions Starving in the Future

2012-8-9 – 12:32 pm

Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy Becomes Everyday Reality — The Race for What’s Left

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Stunning Greenland Ice Melt

2012-7-24 – 8:46 pm

“unprecedented heat leads to unprecedented melting”

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Largest natural disaster in U.S. history declared today

2012-7-22 – 3:55 pm

“a natural disaster in more than 1,000 drought-stricken counties in 26 states”

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Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math

2012-7-19 – 7:26 pm

End of Life on the Planet as We know It, The Rolling Stone lists some of the companies bringing us this consequence,

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Smoking Causes Cancer. Carbon Pollution Causes Extreme Weather.

2012-7-13 – 3:45 pm

Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air, Washington, D.C., “Smoking Causes Cancer. Carbon Pollution Causes Extreme Weather. “It really doesn’t have to be more complicated than that.” We dump billions of tons of carbon pollution into the atmosphere each year. As a result, the concentration of carbon dioxide has increased by 40%. Excess carbon [...]

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Northeast India Flood

2012-7-9 – 8:32 pm

“Twenty-six of the 27 districts in the tea-and-oil-rich state have been hit by flash floods since June 24 as a result of the torrential rains while the Brahmaputra river has breached its banks in at least nine places.”

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The Wall Street Scandal of all Scandals

2012-7-7 – 3:56 pm

Robert Reich’s take on the financial failure… Just when you thought Wall Street couldn’t sink any lower – when its myriad abuses of public trust have already spread a miasma of cynicism over the entire economic system, giving birth to Tea Partiers and Occupiers and all manner of conspiracy theories; when its excesses have already [...]

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