Kerry: Climate change supporters must match tea party intensity - The Hill's E2-Wire

Climate change advocates must match the intensity of conservative “tea party” activists, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) said Wednesday.

“I want you to go out there and to start knocking on doors, and talking to people and telling people, ‘This has to happen,’ ” Kerry said in a speech at a climate and energy forum hosted by labor, farm and environmental groups.

Mongolian families face hunger and poverty in big freeze — Children Charity

An extremely harsh winter risks pushing almost 200,000 people into hunger and deeper poverty in Mongolia, the United Nations warns. Temperatures have fallen below -40C across most of the central Asian country where normal winter temperatures are around -15 to -35C.
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Mongolia’s government has made a world-wide appeal to help the country overcome the continuing disaster, and is asking for food, medicines, heating supplies, warm clothing and funding to buy and deliver feed for livestock. United Nations teams in Mongolia are worried about the poor, particularly those living in the worst-affected villages. "The poor did not have the resources to stockpile food or fuel for heating and the supplies in the now inaccessible villages as a whole are stretched," Ms Flowers said. Heavy snow has frozen into solid ice making the ground impossible to travel on, cutting off pregnant women and the ill from health care, which is a serious worry, because the H1N1 flu has broken out in the country. "We have a population that anyway has a chronic disease burden," Flowers said, adding that tuberculosis and hepatitis are widespread. In 2001, a similar combination of a summer drought followed by a winter freeze triggered a rise in malnutrition and infections in children and pregnant women, the United Nations said.