Friday, February 10, 2012

Most winter grain destroyed in southern and eastern Ukraine

Turkish quake survivors brave cold weather, snow in tents | CTV News

ANKARA, Turkey — The harshest winter in decades has added to the woes of more than 140,000 quake survivors who are braving record low temperatures and heavy snowfall in tents or temporary homes in eastern Turkey.

Why Stephen Harper is probably incapable of recognizing the reality of climate change | Vancouver, Canada | Straight.com

Anyone with an ability to do some routine arithmetic should realize that we’re facing a looming international emergency.

You need look no further than the monstrously large forest fires have scorched Russia, Greece, Spain, and Australia.

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Full data? Clear human impact.  [Starting when?  How, specifically, is it "clear"?]

Young people expect the future to look like Thunderdome

The image above is, increasingly, how young people view the future, even as their elders seem oblivious to the triple threat of climate change, resource scarcity, and growing inequality.

There's plenty to celebrate about a future that could be significantly more livable than the present, and we try to talk about those solutions here on Grist. Sometimes they’re even easy. And yet this view of the future persists. Why is that?

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