Why a bigger airport for a drowning nation? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Hmm. Do we believe the Maldives Government when it claims its islands will drown?
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Or do we believe the Maldives Government when it claims its airport won’t?

Tianjin Failure – No Hope For Cancun Climate Deal. It’s Over!

UN Climate Chief Christiana Figueres says a general framework will have to be hammered out in Cancun, one that will lead to a treaty later in the future. Efforts to sign a treaty in Cancun will not be attempted.

ND trailer parks fill up amid concerns over winter | WDAY | Fargo, ND

"I'm not sure how long those people are going to try to make a winter in North Dakota or if they have other housing arrangements lined up for when the weather does turn poor I can't imagine surviving in a tent in North Dakota in January," Kessel said.

Concerns include frostbite, asphyxiation from excessive snow and emergency plans or lack thereof.

"We understand that there's many housing alternatives and they're all appropriate at certain points in time, but surviving a North Dakota winter is much different than winters in the southern states where a lot of these people have come from," Kessel said.

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN - An X-Ray of Dysfunction - NYTimes.com

If you want to see in stark relief all the forces undermining our system’s ability to make smart, strategic, long-term decisions, read Ryan Lizza’s article in the Oct. 11 issue of The New Yorker, explaining just how the bipartisan effort by Senators John Kerry (D), Lindsey Graham (R), and Joseph Lieberman (I) to produce an energy-climate bill and enhance clean-tech innovation was killed this year. Entitled “As the World Burns,” Lizza’s piece is an X-ray of the dysfunctions eating away at our future...