Thursday, August 19, 2010

U.N. Steps Up Pressure to Raise Funds for Pakistan - IPS ipsnews.net
But some are willing to look deeper than the immediate emergency. Billionaire philanthropist George Soros noted the donor fatigue "in responding to these disasters because there are too many of them…They are connected. There is climate change and it has a human cause." Soros said governments must act to help Pakistan but "must also do something about the root causes," including reducing fossil fuel emissions.
AccuWeather.com - Weather News | California's Year Without a Summer
It continues to be the summer that never came for many of the coastal areas of California.
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The average temperatures recorded at LAX in August are usually in the low-70s. However, the average temperature this month has been almost 6.5 degrees cooler. Only five days this month have been 70 degrees or hotter.
Camped down and ready to take on RBS - Scotsman.com News
A number of activists, who did not want to be named, said the aim of their protest was to harm RBS financially.

One said: "We want to make a big scene, cause RBS to lose money. You might be looking at what we've done to RBS before - getting in the building, locking ourselves in, superglueing ourselves together, disrupting them."
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Ms Swift, a charity worker, said activists did not intend to accept RBS's offer of a meeting, and said: "RBS is part of the problem, not the solution, there is no point in talking to them."
World Climate Report » The Great Russian Heat Wave of 2010 Part II
Armchair climate analysts can continue to sit back and speculate all they want, but according to folks who study climate dynamics for a living, there is little in the observational record that suggests that global warming had a role in this year’s heat wave in Russia. Nor does it support the inferences that such an event is “consistent” with climate change.
PlanetSKI | News | Swiss try to stop cows burping
It is not April 1st. The Swiss really are making an attempt to prevent their cows, and sheep for that matter, from burping as it is contributing to greenhouse gases and thus global warming.
Redford solicits donations for Boxer's re-election
He also took issue with an ad Fiorina ran during the California Republican primary that dismissed Boxer's view that global warming is a national security concern. Fiorina likened that concern to being worried about the weather.

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