Catastrophic Weather Events....

[Bigmack]

Catastrophic Weather Events Are Becoming the New Normal -- Are You Ready for Life on Our Planet Circa 2011?
Bill McKibben

For two decades now we've been ignoring the increasingly impassioned pleas of scientists that our burning of fossil fuels was a bad idea. And now we're getting pinched.
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We've been able to forget that fact for the last ten thousand years, the period of remarkable climatic stability that underwrote the rise of civilization. But we won't be able to forget it much longer. Days like yesterday will keep slapping us upside the head, until we take it in. The third rock from the sun is a very different place than it used to be.

http://www.alternet.org/environment/149774?page=entire

[northoftheborder]

1. Another book I have - need to read: Eaarth

[pscot]

2. Mene, mene

tekel upharsin.

[Bigmack]

4. The words of the prophets...

were always written on the (subway) Wall.

[malaise]

3. Are you watching Cat 5 Cyclone Yasi

as it destroys sections of North East Australia.

[Paper Roses]

6. Do you have a good link? I have been trying to watch on

abc.au and it is very sporadic.

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Bigmack.

[applegrove]

7. I just wiped 6 inches of snow off my car. Driving is horrible.