EurActiv.com - Fresh doubts raised over December EU climate deal

...supporters of the climate package are nervous that failure to reach a deal before the end of 2008 could put the EU in a tight spot, since the negotiating process will grind to a halt in March 2009 when the legislature of the current Parliament ends.

IS CLIMATE CHANGE THE "DEFINING CHALLENGE OF OUR AGE"?

"Climate change, some claim, is this century's most important environmental challenge. Mortality estimates for the year 2000 from the World Health Organization (WHO) indicate, however, that a dozen other risk factors contribute more to global mortality and global burden of disease.

Safe to shoot polar bears? | IceNews - Daily News

A specialist working group convened by Environment Minister Thorunn Sveinbjarnardottir has come to the conclusion that there is no reason why polar bears that step foot on Iceland should not be shot if this is thought necessary. The conclusion is interesting in the light of discussion that the bears are in danger of extinction because of climate change, as melting ice threatens their territory – the ice throes of the north.

Disaster looms in imaginary diary of new US President

Washington, Nov.21 (ANI): The National Intelligence Council (NIC), America’’s leading intelligence organization, has forecasted an unpredictable world in which the advance of western-style democracy is far from guaranteed. In an imaginary “presidential diary entry” from October 1, 2020, it recounts a devastating hurricane, fuelled by global warming, hitting New York in the middle of the UN’’s annual general assembly.
“I guess we had it coming, but it was a rude shock,” the unnamed president writes.

A History of Hurricanes in New York

A history of hurricanes in New York—including the day in 1893 that Hog Island disappeared for good.
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Statistically, the New York area is hit by one of these monster storms every 75 years or so; “it’s just a matter of time,” says Lee. After Hog Island, the next big one came a little ahead of schedule, the “Long Island Express” of 1938, with 183-mile-per-hour winds.