Mass extinction forecast with 6C temperature rise

Dwarfism is again expected to be a successful strategy for the survivors, enabling humans, animals and insects to mature earlier with less food and so reproduce before they starve. The researchers’ findings show that earlier optimism that increased carbon dioxide in...

Her name is Fallujah

https://www.google.com/search?q=Fallujah+birth+defects&hl=en&tbo=d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=KtrAULebOMLFyAHRioGoCg&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAA&biw=1306&bih=842

Study sees 5C warming

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iVT3Ev93k_8sDxo9K7F1CIAa7Nig?docId=CNG.a56e6f89f1c9df135607bfe7f56ddcba.01

South Sudan’s elephants could be wiped out in 5 years

Elkan said the southern rebel army ate much of the country’s wildlife during the 1983-2005 civil war against the Khartoum government in the north. Raiders from the north also massacred wildlife, particularly elephants. http://planetark.org/wen/67316

Wombats hit by killer plants

Animals so sensitive they suck their thumbs if upset, suffer population crash. http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/wombats-hit-by-killer-plants-8373788.html

World Bank fears devastating 4.0 degree warming

“The time is very, very short. The world has to tackle the problem of climate change more aggressively,” World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said on a conference call as he launched a report conducted for the global lender....

“I really don’t give it a thought”

“I really don’t give it a thought,” said Wendy Stewart, a 46-year-old bookkeeper in New York. Although she thinks warmer winters and summers are signs of climate change, she has noticed that political leaders don’t bring up the subject. “I’ve never heard them speak on...

Injection Wells: The Poison Beneath Us

http://www.propublica.org/article/injection-wells-the-poison-beneath-us Over the past several decades, U.S. industries have injected more than 30 trillion gallons of toxic liquid deep into the earth, using broad expanses of the nation’s geology as an invisible...

Senseless Slaughter of Whales

Japan’s appetite for whale meat wanes Three-quarters of the meat from whales caught [killed!] last summer was unsold, report reveals http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jun/14/japan-appetite-whale-meat-wanes Late last year, it was revealed the government...

Rich nations ‘give up’ on new climate treaty until 2020

Ahead of critical talks and despite pledge for new treaty by 2012, biggest economies privately admit likelihood of long delay http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/nov/20/rich-nations-give-up-climate-treaty I guess that does it then.

America’s child death shame

It takes distance to see big, close, ugly things clearly. This one is too close for US media so the BBC shines a small light on Texas: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15288865

Typical behavior

He wants all the beautiful flowers cleared and trashed. Typical of the small, bleak minds that own this country .

Lying

Were just a bunch of poor people pretending to be rich. Born poor, they will die poor.

How do you study a species that is so rare that it will probably become extinct in a few short decades? This is the question confronting those who study chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, in the wilds of Liberia, one of several African nations where the bushmeat trade is...

Global Criminal Enterprise

We pay them to kill us every day. We get up every day and destroy the world. Listen to it. Tailpipes to oblivion. We take part in our our destruction. The ultimate exercise in conformity.

What A Fine Job You Did

These animals are all dead. Drowned in fishing nets. So obese human bodies could eat more fish. Fish is good for you. Fish is healthy. Watch the dead bodies float in the video at 1:32:...

Abuse

What degree of abuse do you accept and why? Why do we allow the rapists of the world, the Dick Cheneys of the world to ruin our only chance?

4.5 billion pounds of fat ~= 30 million people

The nation’s roughly 4.5 billion excess pounds still skew heavily to the Southeast, with eight of the nation’s 10 most obese states clustered near the Gulf and Atlantic coasts and along the southern Appalachian Mountains. Among the top 10, only Oklahoma...

1 million Hiroshima bombs a day

It is just hard to stop the radiative forcing of the CO2 humans have put in the air, which equals 1 million Hiroshima bombs a day. http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/07/05/260177/study-hottest-decade-chinese-coal-plant-sulfr-pollution/

Mutilating Language and Meaning

“Nothing against the [northern spotted owl], but it’s wreaked a lot of havoc in the Pacific Northwest for the past 20 years,” said Ray Wilkeson, president of the Oregon Forest Industries Council, which represents loggers, sawmills and others in the industry. The bird...