Three farmers in MP commit suicide due to crop failure - MSN India

Chhatarpur (MP), Jan 22 (PTI) Three farmers allegedly committed suicide following damage to their crop due to frost and extreme cold wave conditions in Chhatarpur and Vidisha districts of Madhya Pradesh.

'Hot,' by Mark Hertsgaard: review

Hertsgaard warns that the world she and all her generation must confront as adults will be virtually unlivable unless the United States, China and the other major industrialized nations begin to deal with global warming with the extreme urgency most have rejected so far.

Hertsgaard has traveled far, from Western Europe to Bangladesh, to Africa and China, and he has found clear evidence that the effects of climate change are already pervasive everywhere. He has delved deeply into the most recent scientific evidence from the U.N. International Panel on Climate Change, and relies heavily on the conclusions of James Hansen at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, who, however passionate he may be, is one of the finest climatologists in the world.

Right now, Hertsgaard notes, the consensus of climate scientists is that if the world's emissions of greenhouse gases persist unchecked, global temperatures will increase by 9 degrees Fahrenheit over the preindustrial era before 2100 - and "the Earth will be hotter than at any time in the past 50 million years."