Doomsday Watch
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Massive Methane Melt off Siberia
Written by Julia Whitty Friday, 05 March 2010 06:23
Arctic seabed stores of methane are now destabilizing and venting vast stores of frozen methane—a greenhouse gas 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide. The paper, in the prestigious journal Science, reports the permafrost under the East Siberian Arctic Shelf—long thought to be an impermeable barrier sealing in methane—is instead perforated and leaking large amounts of methane into the atmosphere. Melting of even a fraction of the clathrates stored in that shelf could trigger abrupt climate warming.
Snowmaggedon Backs All Climate Change Views
Written by Emily Badger Friday, 12 February 2010 07:05
Freakish snow storms warm the hearts of both believers and skeptics of global warm … err … climate change.
Federal government offices in Washington, D.C., closed for the third straight day today as back-to-back winter storms pushed the region toward the heaviest single season of snowfall on record. The U.S. House of Representatives has bailed on the entire week of legislating. The Postal Service has given up delivering the mail. And in the streets, officials have started rationing salt.
The United States of Corporate America: From Democracy to Plutocracy
Written by Prof. Rodrigue Tremblay Saturday, 23 January 2010 08:03
On Thursday January 21 (2010), a Republican-appointed majority on the U.S. Supreme Court took it upon itself to profoundly change the U.S. Constitution and American democracy. The Roberts Court's decision must have made President Lincoln turn in his grave, because that decision, in effect, transfers political power from the living “people” to artificial corporate entities, with tons of money to spend.
Environmental Coverup: Radioactive Groundwater Contamination in the Chesapeake Bay
Written by Cathy Garger Saturday, 09 January 2010 07:10
Not far from the political wheeling and dealing, hidden from view outside Washington, DC, one of the most stunning cover-ups in environmental criminal history quietly gurgles below our feet. For outside the awareness of nearly 17 million residents exists a total news blackout of nuclear power plants that have leaked radioactive chemicals into the groundwater of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
The Decade of Fraud, Fear, Hate and Permanent War
Written by Roberto Rodriguez Tuesday, 05 January 2010 08:28
It has been said that the march of history, particularly in the realm of human rights, is always forward. Embedded within this concept is the idea that despite tragedies and war, the human condition always progresses. Unquestionably, whoever created the expression did so long before our just completed decade.
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