Showing posts with label climate change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label climate change. Show all posts

Friday, June 13, 2008

Midwest floods - help needed, but not just Band-Aids

Looking at the unbelievable photos of the floods in Iowa and Wisconsin, you have to wonder about such extreme weather events. The Capital Times, based near some of the worst of the Wisconsin flooding, posted a thoughtful editorial yesterday, saying,

Floods are characterized as natural disasters.

But what man does defines the extent of the disaster.

They list a number of steps on the local, state and federal level that everyone should think about. Read the whole editorial
here.

And here's a pretty startling video showing the flooding near Lake Delton, Wis.:







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Thursday, May 29, 2008

War and warming - toxic in so many ways

“Projected total US spending on the Iraq war could cover all of the global investments in renewable power generation that are needed between now and 2030 in order to halt current warming trends.”

This and other useful information is contained in a recent report by Oil Change International. Read it here: A Climate of War.


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