Climate Emergency

Indonesia's environmental minister warned that rising sea levels stand to swallow up some 2,000 of his country's more than 18,000 islands by 2030. - ABC

The Hard Rain That's Falling on Capitalism

Op-Ed by Ben Stein in the NYTimes...
You see? even the conservatives are starting to worry.

When yeoman farmers sent their savings to banks in London and Glasgow and Paris, they had to be able to count on it not being stolen. That was what allowed capital to be accumulated and deployed, and for the entire world economy to take off.

When I see what the top dogs at all too many corporations are now doing to that trust, I feel queasy. Outrageous — yes, obscene — pay. Greedy backdating of stock options, which in my opinion is straight-up theft. Managers buying assets from their trustors, the stockholders, at pennies on the dollar, then forestalling competing bids with lockups and insane breakup fees.

These misdeeds and many, many more are hammer blows at the granite foundation of trust we built in the 1940s and ’50s. How long democratic capitalism can survive these blows before it gives in and gives birth to revolution or to an out-and-out aristocracy, I am not sure.

Gore is the Dems' Best Chance

Why he shound run, and how he can win. - Rolling Stone

Vegetarian is the new Pruis

Want to reduce CO2? - via Common Dreams

Great piece on Chavez

Letter from Venezuela - The International Herald Tribune

The Financial Times

Great article about how we were right, you know...us crazy climate doomsayers. - The Financial Times

Anybody but Bush or Clinton

from the LATimes:
If Washington's caustic, partisan atmosphere is to change, the era of Bushes and Clintons needs to end in 2008.

The Socialist Senator

NY Times piece on Bernie Sanders.

They're Here!

Unedited Chicago Tribune News Video.

European Hurricane in January?

I don't think we have the 10 years that Gore and Hansen think we do...
25 dead in this recent European storm.

In Amsterdam, cyclists who ventured out despite warnings from the fire department were blown over or, in some cases, blown backward.

UPDATE: Atleast 46 killed. Hurricane-force winds severly damage steel at Berlin train station.

Climate Emergency

Climate chaos brings the "Doomsday Clock" two minutes closer to midnight. - BBC/UK

Bernie Sanders

The U.S.'s only Socialist Senator introduces a bill that will fight Climate Change.
Read about it here. This one might actually save us - its that good.

Aaron Russo on 9/11

40 degress above normal

Yes, its 70 degrees in New York in January.
Imagine 40 degrees above normal in June.

Happy New Year

Giant Ice Shelf Breaks Off in Canadian Arctic - National Geographic

A huge Canadian ice shelf 500 miles (800 kilometers) from the North Pole has disintegrated, leaving a large floating island of ice stranded 30 miles (48 kilometers) offshore, scientists reported yesterday.

"It's like a cruise missile came down and hit the ice shelf," Vincent said. "It no longer exists.