Endless Summer
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 21st, 2011 4:50 am by HL
Endless Summer
More information on the rapid decline of the arctic…for most of us to ignore.
It’s the first day of Summer so good to know the latest bad news as Republicans try to out strip-mine each other on climate change and Democrats shrug their shoulders while our environment continues to fall apart.
Surface temperatures in the Arctic since 2005 have been higher than for any five-year period since record keeping began in 1880, according to a new report from the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program, an international group within the Arctic Council that monitors the Arctic environment and provides advice on Arctic environmental protection…Temperatures in the Arctic permafrost have risen by up to 3.5 degrees in the past two to three decades
There’s a lot of methane in permafrost which is released as it the temperature rises, which only makes climate change accelerate.
If the current actions contributing to a multifaceted degradation of the world’s oceans aren’t curbed, a mass extinction unlike anything human history has ever seen is coming, an expert panel of scientists warns in an alarming new report.
So awesome, I’m waiting for John McCain to blame immigrants.
Late, Late Night FDL: The Boys Are Back in Town
Thin Lizzy – ‘The Boys Are Back In Town’ The Boys are back… on the road! Thin Lizzy, Alice Cooper, and Def Leppard just kicked off the Mirrorball: Live and More tour in Ireland.
Thin Lizzy – ‘The Boys Are Back In Town’
The Boys are back… on the road! Thin Lizzy, Alice Cooper, and Def Leppard just kicked off the Mirrorball: Live and More tour in Ireland. Interestingly, I think the three new tracks on Def Leppard’s new album are Walmart quality indeed…! As it’s being sold exclusively at Walmart…
Undefeated is the best of the trio, but it’s a feeble attempt at recapturing the ‘Pour some Sugar’ enthusiasm… It’s All About Believin’ is pretty pedestrian… But, ‘Kings Of The World’ is an atrocious attempt at emulating Queen…! One commenter summed it up best… “Good grief, can we get some old school Def Leppard, and NOT old school? Queen?”
What’s on your mind tonite…?
How the Mayors Debated and Passed an Antiwar Resolution
The U.S. Conference of Mayors has just done something it hasn’t done since Vietnam, passing a resolution that supports efforts to speed up the ending of our current wars and calls on the President and Congress to “bring these war dollars home to meet vital human needs.
The U.S. Conference of Mayors has just done something it hasn’t done since Vietnam, passing a resolution that supports efforts to speed up the ending of our current wars and calls on the President and Congress to “bring these war dollars home to meet vital human needs.”
Here’s a page that organized this: http://www.wardollarshome.org
Activist groups are already taking the opportunity to ask Congress and the President to finally listen to what has, after all, been majority public opinion for a long time.
The President is about to announce whether he will violate his commitment to a significant withdrawal from Afghanistan in July. The House of Representatives is passing amendments blocking funding for the Libya War, and 10 congress members have sued the president in court to end it. Iraq, we are told, may soon “request” a continued occupation into next year. A CIA war in Yemen is ramping up, along with that in Pakistan. Congress will soon vote on $530 billion for the Department of “Defense” and another $119 billion for the wars. Meanwhile, Robert Gates just told the New York Times these are wars of choice. The American people and the U.S. Conference of Mayors seem to want a different choice made.
Here’s the resolution’s key language. There are two “resolved clauses.” The first reads: