Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Why not a few lentils instead of Roast Beast: Festive feasts allegedly 'contributing to climate change'
Wasted food at Christmas time is now being highlighted as an environmental problem.

Jon Dee, the chairman of Do Something, says gases from leftover food rotting in landfill are 20 times more potent than the carbon pollution from car exhausts.
Since carbon dioxide clearly causes lengthier blizzards: Prepare for longer emergencies due to climate change
MacGillivray said climate change is making itself felt in New Brunswick, pointing to several high-profile events in the last year. Many parts of the province were digging out from the first blizzard of the year on Monday that dumped as much as 37 centimetres of snow.
An Instant See, I Told You So: Water Main Equals Infrastructure
RUSH: PMSNBC this afternoon on their program called It's the Economy. We have a montage here of an exchange between the anchors Contessa Brewer and Melissa Francis.

BREWER: Freezing temperatures caused a big pipe in Bethesda, Maryland, to burst. It happened during the morning rush hour, and that, of course, caused icy waters rushing into a nearby roadway. More than a dozen people were trapped in their vehicles.

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