World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/18-4

Don t Ignore the Drought: The One We are Seeing Is Bad, and It Is Not Going Away
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/18-12

Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change: Get the Coal Energy Facts
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/01/31-0

How Vermont Can Lead on Localizing the Climate Fight
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/31-8

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Global warming has increased monthly heat records by a factor of five

Monthly temperature extremes have become much more frequent, as measurements from around the world indicate. On average, there are now five times as many record-breaking hot months worldwide than could be expected without long-term global warming, shows a study now published in Climatic Change. In parts of Europe, Africa and southern Asia the number of monthly records has increased even by a factor of ten. 80 percent of observed monthly records would not have occurred without human influence on climate, concludes the authors-team of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the Complutense University of Madrid.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416817343ms354

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Nicholas Stern: 'I got it wrong on climate change, it is far, far worse'

Author of 2006 review speaks out on danger to economies as planet absorbs less carbon and is 'on track' for 4C rise.

http://is.gd/04uSNo



Bianca Jagger: Deadly Sins in the Brazilian Amazon

Op-Ed

The trampling of indigenous rights, military force used against protesters, impunity, megadams and environmental destruction. Is Brazil returning to the bad old days?

http://is.gd/hqKJvg


From Information Clearing House

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The final call

CounterPunch
by Paul Craig Roberts

01/27/13

Only in science fiction can humans escape the consequences of destroying their own habitat. In Robert A. Heinlein s Time Enough For Love, the 'Great Diaspora of the Human Race' began 'more than two millennia ago' and has spread to more than 'two thousand colonized planets.' The once 'lovely green planet' Earth is a slum planet barely able to support life where only the poorest live, Earth s natural capital having been consumed over two thousand years ago. Humans have found the ability to rejuvenate themselves and to live almost endless lives, but they are unable to rejuvenate the planets whose natural capital they devour...

http://tinyurl.com/babr5ml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=global+warming
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=climate+change
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=drought
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Amazon
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=rainforest
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bianca+Jagger
https://www.google.de/search?q=Nicholas+Stern
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Andrea+Germanos
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Brooke+Jarvis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Paul+Craig+Roberts
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