Already a defining challenge for millions of Americans after several years of unusual and deadly weather events, climate change has taken on new prominence as a political issue thanks to President Obama’s promise in his second inaugural address that he will seek to “respond” to the “threat” posed by a warming planet. But environmentalists argue [...]
New records associated with global climate change are falling at a dizzying rate, and some of the statistics are “astonishing” in their magnitude. It all adds up to more signs than ever before that irreversible and potentially catastrophic changes associated with global warming will push the world’s population to the brink . The year 2012 [...]
WHEN LOCAL NEWSPAPERS DIE, CAN THE DEATH OF COMMUNITY CITIZENSHIP BE FAR BEHIND? This question is addressed by Jessica Bruder in a feature article in the Christian Science Monitor. Her article is keynoted by a mournful style New Orleans funeral on the occasion of the drastic reduction of newspaper publication in favor of more [...]
“THIS WAS A WRETCHED DEBATE, WITH ALMOST NO REDEEMING QUALITIES.” You’d be forgiven if you thought Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were running mates instead of political adversaries if you watched the last of three presidential debate on Monday night. The pair spent much of the nearly two-hour event agreeing with each other on [...]
Inaction and failure to understand basic scientific realities by the two candidates for president and other political leaders is putting Americans at risk from more numerous and intense severe weather events caused by climate change. Scientists and activists are making a public issue out of the “climate silence” of President Obama and Mitt Romney on [...]
“IT DOESN’T MATTER WHETHER A CAT IS BLACK OR WHITE PROVIDED IT CATCHES MICE.” This statement, attributed to former Communist Party leader Deng Xiaoping, reflects the pragmatic combination of private enterprise capitalism and state-controlled communism that set China on its continuing course of rapid economic development. Now, as Ronald Reagan might say about the [...]
Extreme and unpredictable events are leading many scientists to warn that we may be running out of time to check the most devastating effects of climate change. 2012 may well go down as the year when climate change became a pervasive and in-your-face reality for most Americans, with wildfires, severe weather, record temperatures and an [...]
TINY “SUICIDE DRONES” COULD ALLOW THE UNITED STATES TO LAUNCH “PRECISION” ASSASSINATIONS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. 11 years after the attacks of September 11, the arsenal of weaponry that the “war on terror” has justified continues to grow along with the global reach of U.S military and intelligence operations. Drone strikes have become the [...]
“NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT” IS NOT STOPPED BY A HURRICANE IN TEHRAN, BUT ITS MEETING THIS WEEK MAY RAISE A MIGHTY WIND IN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMACY. The “Atlanticist” alliance of U.S., Israel and NATO members that fancies itself as the “international community” is shaking with anger against the meeting of 120 world “non-aligned” nations in Tehran. The [...]
“Big” heat across the United States is leading to serious ecological and economic pressures as the nation and the world face unprecedented weather events that are now unquestionably linked to the phenomenon of global warming. Experts say we are dealing with rapidly escalating and potentially unpredictable consequences of man-made climate change that may soon be [...]
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