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Indians' plight reaches crisis stage

The plight of American Indians has reached the crisis stage. An unusually harsh winter in the Dakotas and Montana, bringing misery and hunger to thousands on those bleak reservations, took a heavy toll before spring arrived.

Blizzards isolated many of the old people for days in their flimsy dwellings, without electricity, food, or medical care. Some of the elderly froze to death. Others developed serious illnesses and were unable to travel to distant hospitals. It was a nightmare come true.

And Indians living far to the south felt the wrath of the times, too. The Navajos and Apaches in Arizona and Western New Mexico, who had survived a miserable summer without adequate water supplies, felt the bitter chill in their flimsy hogans, far from towns, schools or medical supplies. Relief agencies did their best to alleviate the suffering, but were overwhelmed.

Strawberry growers in a jam - UPDATED - The North Bay Nugget - Ontario, CA

There’s nothing sweet about the start of this year’s strawberry season in Ontario with a cold spring that has produced more headaches than berries for some growers.

“We lost 50% of our acreage to winter kill,” said Maurice Schlosser of Schlosser Farm in Trout Creek.

Dartford warbler numbers plummet - News - gethampshire

A THREATENED species of bird has seen its numbers plummet following the harsh winter earlier this year.

Initial reports suggest Dartford warbler numbers on important heathland sites in Hampshire and Surrey are down by 80-90% from 2008 due to February’s heavy snowfall.

Krugman's Truth Treason by Stefan M.I. Karlsson

Is it really credible then to claim that after a century when radically higher carbon dioxide emissions was associated (empirically, something which in itself doesn't prove causation) with a temperature increase of only 0.7 degrees, that unchanged emissions will increases temperatures by 9 degrees, as Krugman claims is likely? Even if he is using Fahrenheit, that would be equivalent to 5 degrees Celsius, 7 times larger than the increase the previous century.

And Krugman is simply lying when he claims that the planet is changing even faster than pessimists expected, because again temperatures have been falling since 1998.