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Climate
disasters displace millions of people worldwide: More than 32 million people fled their homes
last year because of disasters such as floods, storms and earthquakes - 98% of
displacement related to climate change. Asia and west and central Africa
bore the brunt. Some 1.3 million people were displaced in rich countries, with
the US particularly affected. Floods in India and Nigeria accounted for 41% of
displacement, according to the International Displacement Monitoring Centre and
Norwegian Refugee Council?• Floods, cyclones ... business and governments must
wake up to disaster?• Worst natural disasters of 2012 by numbers displaced - in
pictures (The [UK] Guardian, 5/20/13)
Study: Human Disaster
Looms if Global Temps Rise 4ºC: 'A calamity for large swaths of the planet'
(By Jon Queally, CommonDreams.org, 5/20/13)
Caribbean
Scientist Warms of Climate Change Disaster (By Desmond Brown, Inter Press
Service, 5/19/13)
Climate
Warnings, Growing Louder (By The New York Times Editorial Board, The New
York Times, 5/19/13)
Oil-price
manipulation: the next Libor? (By James O'Toole, CNN - Money, 5/17/13)
Swarthmore
tried to estimate the price of fossil fuel divestment (By Kevin Kiley,
Inside Higher Ed, 5/17/13)
Is
Climate Change Increasing Tornado Intensity? (By Marlene Cimons, Climate
Nexus as reported by The Huffington Post - GreenBlog, 5/18/13)
America's
Most Bikeable Neighborhoods (By Richard Florida, The Atlantic Cities Blog,
5/17/13)
New Report: Reduction in
Driving Likely to Continue (U.S. PIRG, Press Release, 5/14/13)
Kids these days just
don't care about cars (By Claire Thompson, Grist.org, 5/14/13)
Faulkner County:
ExxonMobil's "Sacrifice Zone" for Tar Sands Pipelines, Fracking
(By Steve Horn, DeSmogBlog as reported by CommonDreams.org, 5/16/13)
New
Study: Climate Scientists Overwhelmingly Agree Global Warming Is Real and Our
Fault (By Phil Plait, Slate.com, 5/17/13)
Are
streetcars the future of public transportation? Cities across the country are relying on the retro transit line to
breathe new life into their moribund downtowns (By Jeff
Turrentine, OnEarth.org as reported by Salon.com, 5/16/13)
The
Inequality of Urban Tree Cover (By Emily Badger, The Atlantic Cities Blog,
5/15/13)
Climate
research nearly unanimous on human causes, survey finds: Of more than 4,000 academic papers published
over 20 years, 97.1% agreed that climate change is anthropogenic (By
Suzanne Goldenberg, The [UK] Guardian, 5/16/13)
Not
too late to reverse dramatic declines in biodiversity (By Christine
Lepisto, Treehugger.com, 5/14/13)
'Summer Heat': Our
Bodies vs Industry's Money, Says Climate Movement: 'We need some of you to risk
going to jail, and all of you to show up and speak out.'
(By Jon Queally, CommonDreams.org, 5/15/13)
Media
indifference enables global warming: Carbon
dioxide levels are as high as they've been in millions of years. Why isn't this
a bigger story? (By Marty Kaplan, Salon.com, 5/15/13)
400 PPM: We've Never Been
Here Before - 400ppm of CO2 Measured in the Atmosphere at Mauna Loa (By
Melanie Fitzpatrick, CommonDreams.org, 8/14/13)
Wrong Way Forward:
Growth in Fracking, Tar Sands Sending 'Shockwaves'
New report from
International Energy Agency shows surging oil production from shale oil in the
U.S. and Canadian tar sands (By Andrea Germanos, CommonDreams.org,
8/14/13)
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