Tag Archives: disasters

Humanity is getting dangerously close to the point of no return

2012-8-21 – 9:04 am

Big Business Ethics: Destroying Life on the Planet as We know It, while making a decent profit.

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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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Hansen, et al

2012-8-13 – 7:35 pm

Global warming makes heat waves hotter and more frequent.

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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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Median Cost of Electricity from Coal

2012-7-27 – 9:27 am

True cost estimate does not include lives taken from extreme weather from human caused climate change

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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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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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Severe weather hits capitals and villages around the world

2012-7-4 – 2:41 pm

In the last week, the world has experienced a series of calamitous weather events. News headlines have painted a grim picture: flooding, drought, landslides and record ice melt in the arctic. These events stretch to every corner of the globe, but their effects are all too heavily felt by the poorest people in the world. [...]

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4 Million Tons of Radioactive Debris

2012-6-5 – 4:21 pm

“Over 90% of that debris is still waiting to be disposed of”

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