Posts Tagged ‘environmental disasters’

New alarming reports on global warming

Posted March 2nd, 2006 in Blog 0 Comments

What will it take to get governments to spring into action appropriate to the real threat of global warming (which some prefer to call œclimate change, but is about warming, nonetheless).?    In yet another instance of the bad news in front of us, London’s The Guardian reports that scientists doing research for the Intergovernmental [...]

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Beetles destroying Canadian forests – global warming the culprit

Posted March 1st, 2006 in Blog 0 Comments

Today’s Washington Post contained a very sad article about the voracious beetle destroying forests in British Colombia:  www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/28/AR2006022801772.html.  The beetle is not new.  What is new is that Canadian winters are no longer cold enough to kill them off, which is crucial for keeping their population under control.  The result?  Read the article.  It is [...]

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