Green Party candidate arrested outside debate site

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and running mate Cheri Honkala were arrested outside Long Island’s Hofstra University ahead of tonight’s debate.

After being denied entrance to the campus because they lacked credentials, the two candidates sat down in the street in front of the university with an American flag on their laps, the Long Island Report explains. They were led away by police officers after refusing to move.

San Francisco Joins Dozens of Cities Calling for Climate Change Action

SAN FRANCISCO— San Francisco has joined more than three dozen other cities in urging national leaders to use the Clean Air Act to reduce greenhouse gas pollution to head off catastrophic climate change. The city’s board of supervisors unanimously passed a resolution sponsored by Supervisors David Chiu and Jane Kim Tuesday afternoon, making San Francisco the 38th U.S. city to join the Center for Biological Diversity’s national Clean Air Cities campaign.
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San Francisco is extremely vulnerable to the effects of sea-level rise driven by climate change. Most of the California coast will experience more than three feet of sea-level rise within this century, according to a recent report from the U.S. National Research Council; a large earthquake could cause sea level to rise suddenly by another three feet or more.

How many cities are in the United States of America

In 2002, there were 19,000 municipal governments throughout the US, but as many as 30,000 incorporated cities.

Warming 'not direct species threat' - Environment -MSN News UK

They reviewed 136 studies that suggested a link between climate change and local loss of species. In only seven cases focusing on extinction could a primary cause be identified.

Of these, none showed a straightforward link with higher temperatures. Instead, most pointed to interactive factors such as loss of prey species or increased disease spread.