Keystone XL: a line in the sand for Obama | Amy Goodman | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Nasa scientist James Hansen, wrote the Keystone pipeline is "a fifteen hundred mile fuse to the biggest carbon bomb on the continent, a way to make it easier and faster to trigger the final overheating of our planet".
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Bill McKibben summed up:

"It takes more than earthquakes and hurricanes to worry us..."

Dust bowls, water shortages, and toxins drive people from their homes | Grist

Advancing deserts are now on the move almost everywhere.

Scientific American Calls For Category 6 Hurricanes | Real Science

It has been 19 years since the US was hit by a category five hurricane, and 76 years since the most powerful hurricane ever to hit the US struck. Scientific American is turning into a joke.

1890 Shock News : Kilimanjaro Losing Its Snow Cap | Real Science