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The ethical dimension of tackling climate change
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Blogging the End of the World™. Click below to search. The ethical dimension of tackling climate change. Posted by Jim at Wednesday, November 02, 2011. In my view, at the heart of the matter is the fact that humanity is in the grip of a profound ethical challenge that our current institutions and theories are ill-equipped to meet. Sebastian Junger’s book. Even more importantly, the traditional model obscures the temporal aspect of the perfect moral storm. Once emitted, a substantial proportion of cli...
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State of emergency declared as worst locust swarms in more than 30 years plague southern Russia – ‘There is nothing left of the corn. The locusts ate it all, from the leaves to the cobs.’
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Blogging the End of the World™. Click below to search. State of emergency declared as worst locust swarms in more than 30 years plague southern Russia – ‘There is nothing left of the corn. The locusts ate it all, from the leaves to the cobs.’. Posted by Jim at Wednesday, August 05, 2015. Moscow (CNN) – Millions of locusts have descended on farmlands in southern Russia, devouring entire fields of crops and causing officials to declare a state of emergency in the region. Officials from the Russian ministry...
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The Point of No Return: Climate change nightmares are already here – ‘I used to think it was kind of hard to make things in the ocean go extinct. But this change we're seeing is happening so fast it’s almost instantaneous.’
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Blogging the End of the World™. Click below to search. The Point of No Return: Climate change nightmares are already here – ‘I used to think it was kind of hard to make things in the ocean go extinct. But this change were seeing is happening so fast it’s almost instantaneous.’. Posted by Jim at Thursday, August 06, 2015. Water temperatures this year in the North Pacific have never been this high for this long over such a large area — and it is already having a profound effect on marine life. Last fall, i...
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World’s glaciers melting at fastest rate since record-keeping began – ‘Globally, we lose about three times the ice volume stored in the entirety of the European Alps every year’
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Blogging the End of the World™. Click below to search. World’s glaciers melting at fastest rate since record-keeping began – ‘Globally, we lose about three times the ice volume stored in the entirety of the European Alps every year’. Posted by Jim at Tuesday, August 04, 2015. According to the international author team, the current rate of glacier melt is without precedence at global scale, at least for the time period observed and probably also for recorded history, as indicated also in reconstructions f...
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Drought, heat wave kill 80 percent of Mongolia’s crops – ‘The people will feel what it’s like to live in a country with no reserve this fall’
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Blogging the End of the World™. Click below to search. Drought, heat wave kill 80 percent of Mongolia’s crops – ‘The people will feel what it’s like to live in a country with no reserve this fall’. Posted by Jim at Tuesday, August 04, 2015. UB Post) – Approximately 80 percent of Mongolia’s crops have died this summer due to extreme drought across the country, according to board member of the Mongolian Plantation Union B. Erdenebat. 8220;Almost 80 percent of the cloud seeding cartridges were used to put o...
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Swiss customs seize 578 pounds of ivory in suitcases dispatched from Tanzania to Beijing – Pieces came from 40 to 50 elephants – 21 fangs and 35 claws from poached lions also found
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Blogging the End of the World™. Click below to search. Swiss customs seize 578 pounds of ivory in suitcases dispatched from Tanzania to Beijing – Pieces came from 40 to 50 elephants – 21 fangs and 35 claws from poached lions also found. Posted by Jim at Tuesday, August 04, 2015. The ivory was found during a security check on July 6 and packed in eight suitcases, Switzerland's customs authority said. It put the estimated black market value at about 400,000 francs ($413,000). The suitcases also contained 1...
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Image of the Day: Satellite view of algae bloom in Lake Erie
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Blogging the End of the World™. Click below to search. Image of the Day: Satellite view of algae bloom in Lake Erie. Posted by Jim at Tuesday, August 04, 2015. NASA) – On July 28, 2015, the Operational Land Imager. OLI) on Landsat 8. Captured these images of algal blooms around the Great Lakes. The bloom is visible as swirls of green in western Lake Erie (top) and in Lake St. Clair (bottom). Earlier in July, NOAA scientists predicted. As of July 30, 2015, drinking water was reported. To develop an early ...
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Greek stocks, economy collapse, suffer worst declines in history – ‘July saw factory production in Greece contract sharply amid an unprecedented drop in new orders’
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Blogging the End of the World™. Click below to search. Greek stocks, economy collapse, suffer worst declines in history – ‘July saw factory production in Greece contract sharply amid an unprecedented drop in new orders’. Posted by Jim at Monday, August 03, 2015. ZeroHedge) – The Athens Stock Exchange reopened on Monday and unsurprisingly, some folks were selling. Which makes sense because they are, after all, largely insolvent. Here’s. Asked about the harrowing decline, European Commission spokeswoman Mi...
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My Life in France - Alex Prud'homme
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My Life in France. Q A with Alex Prud’homme. Media & Downloads. Guestbook, questions and comments. Water in the 21st C. My Life in France. Q A with Alex Prud’homme. My Life in France. By Julia Child and Alex Prud’homme. Alfred A. Knopf. On November 3, 1948, Julia and Paul Child arrived in Le Havre, France, aboard the. Driving to Paris in their Buick, they stopped to lunch in Rouen, at La Couronne, a restaurant built in 1345. They ordered. Mastering the Art of French Cooking. The first two-thirds of.
