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Why Working Less is Better for the Globe:
Americans are working harder than ever before. The dogged pursuit of the
paycheck coupled with a 24/7 economy has thrust many of us onto a never-ending
treadmill. But of workaholism's growing wounded, its greatest casualty has been
practically ignored -- the planet.
http://www.alternet.org/environment/52077/?page=1
ICH - 2007 05 22
Study Shows Southern Ocean Saturated with
Carbon Dioxide:
"We thought we would be able to detect these only the second half of this
century, say 2050 or so," she said. But data from 1981 through 2004 show the
sink is already full of carbon dioxide. "So I find this really quite alarming."
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=12793
ICH - 2007 05 19
Starving The Poor
By Noam Chomsky
Increasingly, bio fuels are likely to "starve the poor" around the world,
according to Runge and Senauer, as staples are converted to ethanol production
for the privileged - cassava in sub-Saharan Africa, to take one ominous example.
Meanwhile, in Southeast Asia, tropical forests are cleared and burned for oil
palms destined for bio fuel, and there are threatening environmental effects
from input-rich production of corn-based ethanol in the United States as well.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17722.htm
ICH- 2007 05 18
US trying to weaken G-8 climate change
declaration:
Negotiators from the United States are trying to weaken the language of a
climate change declaration set to be unveiled at next month's G-8 summit of the
world's leading industrial powers, according to documents.
http://snipurl.com/1kqjd
ICH - 2007 05 16
Climate change to force mass migration:
A billion people - one in seven people on Earth today - could be forced to leave
their homes over the next 50 years as the effects of climate change worsen an
already serious migration crisis, a new report from Christian Aid predicts.
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2078954,00.html
ICH - 2007 05 15
Stifling
summers forecast by Nasa for US east
coast :
Researchers at NASA have warned that unless growth in greenhouse gas emissions
can be successfully curbed, large areas of the eastern United States, from
Washington DC to Florida, can expect to suffer through catastrophically hotter
summers within just a couple of generations
http://snipurl.com/1k97q
ICH - 2007 05 12
Apocalypse Of The Honeybees:
How poetically appropriate that the End of Humanity should come from such a
tiny, sweet source
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2007/05/09/notes050907.DTL&nl=fi
ICH - 2007 05 12
UN scientists warn time is running out to
tackle global warming:
Scientists say eight years left to avoid worst effects
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2073006,00.html
ICH - 2007 05 09
Channel 4 accused of falsifying data in
documentary on climate change :
The makers of a Channel 4 documentary which claimed that global warming is a
swindle have been accused of fabricating data by one of the scientists who
participated in the film.
http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article2521677.ece
ICH - 2007 05 09
Arctic ice cap melting 30 years ahead of forecast
:
This means the ocean at the top of the world could be free or nearly free of
summer ice by 2020, three decades sooner than the global panel's gloomiest
forecast of 2050.
http://snipurl.com/1j4zo
ICH - 2007 05 03
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