A couple of pieces to review regarding global warming

September 7, 2010 by mike.

Dahr Jamail has a piece on the threat of global warming on Truthout.   Erika Blumenfeld is the photographer for the Jamail piece and has done a great job of capturing the devastation of the BP gusher in the Gulf.  Here is a link to a sample of Blumenfeld photography called The Polar Project.  

That’s a Blumenfeld photo to the right of an iceberg calved from Antarctica.

Climate Progress has this piece: Newark Star Ledger Editorial Board - Face facts: Climate change is unfolding as predicted. It’s worth a couple of minutes to read.

Finally, we have Bill McKibben calling for direct action.  Grist has that piece.

Here are some facts from the Dahr Jamail piece.  And noting that Jamail is reporting on the work of Derrick Jensen.

Read’em and weep.

clipped from www.truth-out.org Life vs. Productivity: “What Would You Live and Die to Protect?” Here are some recent headlines from this summer: Greenland Ice Sheet loses 100 square miles, biggest loss since 1962 (Aug. 2010) Russia’s drought-driven halt to wheat exports panics world grain markets (Aug. 2010) Pakistan’s worst flood in recorded history claims some 1,100 lives (July, 2010) International study confirms accelerating warming trend (July, 2010) Rapid decline in phytoplankton population stuns scientists (July, 2010) Flash floods seen increasing as Milwaukee gets eight inches in two hours (July, 2010) �Senate climate bill collapses (July, 2010) Coral reef deaths soar in record ocean heat (July, 2010) First half of 2010 was hottest such period on record (July, 2010) Carbon lobby launches “CO2 is Green” campaign (July, 2010) Massive Greenland glacier retreats one mile in one night (July, 2010) Military declares climate change “a catalyst for conflict” (June, 2010)

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