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 [...]
THE “BIGGEST CLIMATE FIGHT” OF THE YEAR MAY ALREADY BE HERE, AND IT COULD HAVE BIG CONSEQUENCES FOR THE HEALTH OF OUR PLANET. A tiny Oregon town is at the center of a brewing struggle over big profits for the coal industry and whether simply “offshoring” the dirtiest of fossil fuels will negate any [...]
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 [...]
THE EURO-ZONE IN TROUBLE? PUT THE BLAME ON THE SOUTH OF ITALY. A New York Times article highlights this take on European Union economic troubles, in which northern members of the European Union tend to blame delinquencies in countries the like of Greece, Italy and Spain for their “Euro” troubles. The article describes the [...]
SOUTH SUDAN: A NEW NATION CONCEIVED BY A BUNCH OF POLICY WONKS HANGING OUT AT A STARBUCKS COFFEE HOUSE. Abetted by allies in neighboring African countries like Rwanda, a group of “policy wonks” have engaged in a long term effort to create a new country based on a civil war in Sudan that they [...]
The supposedly “cheap” energy produced from American coal has come with a price no one imagined would still be plaguing mining regions; decades after federal regulations were supposed to eradicate it, the gruesome and deadly black lung disease is spreading across Appalachia. Officially known as coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, the affliction is killing thousands of miners, mostly [...]
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