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tomdispatch.com
Now, it's true that the industrial revolution, which led to the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere at historically unprecedented rates, was also, in a sense, "without historical precedent"; but most natural events -- unlike, say, the present staggering ice melt in the Arctic -- have been precedented (if I can manufacture such a word).
Civilization's last chance
latimes.comFound 4 days, 7 hours, 18 minutes, and 46 seconds agoThe planet is nearing a tipping point on climate change, and it gets much worse, fast. Even for Americans -- who are constitutionally convinced that there will always be a second act, and a third, and a do-over after that, and, if necessary, a little public repentance and forgiveness and a Brand New ...
A Swiftly Melting Planet
homerdixon.comFound 4 days, 4 hours, 20 minutes, and 58 seconds agoTHE Arctic ice cap melted this summer at a shocking pace, disappearing at a far higher rate than predicted by even the most pessimistic experts in global warming. But we shouldn't be shocked, because scientists have long known that major features of earth's interlinked climate system of air and water ...
crooksandliars.com
Prairie Weather : It's all about timing
The Smirking Chimp : Lobby This, John Sidney: Another McCain aide out over Myanmar ties.
Tomgram : The defining moment for climate change
Cranky Cindy Changes the World : Helen Thomas is my hero.
The Poor Man Institute : The Amazing League of Pundits!
The Opinion Mill's Bookchat : George F. Will refutes himself while trying to refute Rick Perlstein's Nixonland. How a government attempt to silence a wartime dissident created an uproar -- and sparked the American Civil Liberties Union.
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juancole.com
McClatchy reports on the precarious position of Sadr City residents whose homes are near to the Green Zone that houses the US embassy and other US offices.
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thismodernworld.com
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The World at 350
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smirkingchimp.com
- from TomDispatch
Already climate change -- in the form of a changing pattern of global rainfall -- seems to be affecting the planet in significant ways. Take the massive, almost decade-long drought in Australia's wheat-growing heartland, which has been a significant factor in sending flour prices , and so bread prices, soaring globally, leading to desperation and food riots across the planet.
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LA Times ^ | May 11, 2008 | Bill McKibben
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By Bill McKibben
Even for Americans -- who are constitutionally convinced that there will always be a second act, and a third, and a do-over after that, and, if necessary, a little public repentance and forgiveness and a Brand New Start -- even for us, the world looks a little terminal right now.
It's not just the economy: We've gone through swoons before. It's that gas at $4 a gallon means we're running out, at least of the cheap stuff that built our sprawling society. It's that when we try to turn corn into gas, it helps send the price of a loaf of bread shooting upward and helps ignite food riots on three continents.
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By Bill McKibben
Even for Americans, constitutionally convinced that there will always be a second act, and a third, and a do-over after that, and, if necessary, a little public repentance and forgiveness and a Brand New Start - even for us, the world looks a little Terminal right now.
It's not just the economy. We've gone through swoons before. It's that gas at $4 a gallon means we're running out, at least of the cheap stuff that built our sprawling society. It's that when we try to turn corn into gas, it sends the price of a loaf of bread shooting upwards and starts food riots on three continents.
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Bill McKibben, known to many of you as an environmental writer [ The End of Nature and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future ] and activist has a new initiative: 350.org
That would be 350 parts per million [ppm] of CO2, the upper safe limit of the greenhouse molecule in the atmosphere -- which we have already passed, at 383, and are heading much higher. James Hansen, one of the earliest high profile scientists to raise loud warnings about CO2 and global warming has said we must drive the the numbers down.
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Scientist Sergei Zimov studies organic matter exposed by melting permafrost in the Arctic tundra, as recorded in a Reuters photoshoot in 2007
".. if humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm to at most 350 ppm."
That is James Hansen and co-authors, in the abstract to a new paper for Science . He runs the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, among other things.
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psychoanalystsopposewar.org
By Bill McKibben
Even for Americans, constitutionally convinced that there will always be a second act, and a third, and a do-over after that, and, if necessary, a little public repentance and forgiveness and a Brand New Start -- even for us, the world looks a little Terminal right now.
It's not just the economy. We've gone through swoons before. It's that gas at $4 a gallon means we're running out, at least of the cheap stuff that built our sprawling society. It's that when we try to turn corn into gas, it sends the price of a loaf of bread shooting upwards and starts food riots on three continents.
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makethemaccountable.com
Tornado season deadliest in a decade
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skookumgeoduck.blogspot.com
clarifies the climate change crisis: live simply or die--now. No new coal-fired plants, no more gas guzzlers; trains, not planes. And we have two years to change, or it's all over. After that it's
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blogrevolution.com
Tomgram: Bill McKibben, The Defining Moment for Climate Change
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dailymantra.com
In order to publicize the 350 ppm bar that Hansen has set, Middlebury College scholar and author Bill McKibben co-founded Project 350. McKibben calls 350 "the red line for human beings" and "the most important number on the planet."
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thebluevoice.blogspot.com
To add to Tanker's recital of global catastrophe last night, we now have a major earthquake in China that has killed thousands, and buried hundreds of others whose fate is yet unknown. It's a planet that's tired of us all, I'm afraid. As Tom Engelhardt says in his introduction to the Bill McKibben essay I'm about to link you to: given the possibility of millions or tens of millions of years to recover, the planet itself may not be in danger, but much life on it, certainly including human, already is.
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- Bill McKibben is a scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College and co-founder of 350.org . His most recent book is The Bill McKibben Reader.
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walled-in-pond.blogspot.com
Via Jon Shwarz's brilliant "A Tiny Revolution." TomGram (by Bill McKibben --by the way: We Are SOOOO Fucked): Even for Americans, constitutionally convinced that there will always be a second act, and a third, and a do-over after that, and, if necessary, a little public repentance and forgiveness and a Brand New Start -- even for us, the world looks a little Terminal right now.
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commondreams.org
Published on Sunday, May 11, 2008 by the Los Angeles Times
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Source. / The Guardian, UK
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vaguelylogical.blogspot.com
It's good to hear McCain acknowledge climate change is real and say we need to do something. It's clear the current de facto Bush Administration will finish its disastrous term as it began: by doing nothing. That means that Obama or McCain will need to act immediately and effectively, in concert with the private sector and other countries to begin reducing emissions immediately. We might already be screwed - but we should not just fiddle while Rome burns, as Nero Bush and Nero Cheney have done.
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