Posts Tagged ‘climate change’
The Earth Day Poetry Slam
THE Earth Day Poetry Slam in Washington, DC is slammin’ global warmin’ – tribute to how the heat will come and with it lots of, er, flood water:
I am earth…
In tune with her Nature
From achy knees on rainy days to
Mesopotamian clay colored hue
Marking spring with swollen eyes and stuffed nose
I am earth…
From Untitled, by “2Deep the Poetess”
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Vanity Fair Declares Climate Change War Over
HURRAH! Vanity Fair declares that Global Warming – “a threat graver than terrorism” – over! We win!
As the Indy reports Vanity Fair (Weather) has scrapped its annual green issue:
For the past three years, the monthly glossy has made much of dedicating its May issue to the environment: from Leonardo DiCaprio [her hi-flyin’ lover] posing on an iceberg to last year’s open letter from Robert Kennedy Jnr to the next president calling for action on global warming. This year, the incipient tradition has been quietly dropped.
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Australian Minister Offers Free Nintendo Wii For Climate Change Advice
PENNY Wong, Australia’s Climate Change Minister, is running a competition for Climate Cops:
The competition “Think Climate, Think Change,” asks students in years 3 to 9 to use short stories, poems and art work to answer the question ”what does climate change mean to me?”
First prize is a trip for two to Canberra (the winner and a parent), a Nintendo Wii console, sports kit and Wii Fit pack, and books for the winner’s school.
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Posted: 7th, April 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Gordon Brown Praises Iran’s Work On Climate Change
GREAT news that Iran will use its nuclear power to combat climate change, says Gordon Brown.
Iran will be looking to change the climate over Israel, Lebanon and Iraq. On the BBC:
Gordon Brown will challenge Iran to join a new international effort to combat climate change by expanding peaceful nuclear energy. But Iran must also agree to stringent UN controls to ensure it does not develop nuclear weapons, or it will face tougher sanctions. Defence Secretary John Hutton explains why the prime minister is “engaging” with Iran.
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Posted: 17th, March 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Obama Rules The Warmed World As The End Day Approaches
TIM Flannery writes on Perth, the dying city:
Speaking last night at the State Government’s Sydney Futures forum, Dr Flannery warned of a city grappling with up to 60 per cent less water. As temperatures around the world warmed by 2 to 7 per cent, Sydney could glimpse its future by looking at the devastating impact that global warming had already had on Perth… ”I think there is a fair chance Perth will be the 21st century’s first ghost metropolis,” Dr Flannery said.
The ABC reported yesterday:
Record rainfall in Perth has led to the November average being reached just six days into the month; it’s the wettest start to November since 1969.
Of course, it’s not too late. One man can stop the weather. No, not Tony Blair. Well, not only him. But Barack Obama.
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Posted: 6th, November 2008 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
Carbon Cuddling The Human Virus: The Climate Change Delusion
AFTER climate change delusion, and bi-polarism, comes Carbon Cuddling:
Psychiatrists in America have identified a new mental illness that threatens the very fabric of society: an obsession with saving the planet. Some people are so addicted to cutting their carbon emissions that they seem to have gone quite mad.
It’s the sun that drives them crayzee..
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Posted: 25th, October 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Reviews | Comments (2)
2013 And The Climate Crunch Will Squash Us All
IT’S not when the ice will melt and drown us all that triggers any debate, but why we are being made to wait so long for the big flood.
The Indy’s Johann Hari looks into this crystal ball:
We are living through two great meltdowns – the credit crunch, and the climate crunch. The heating of the planet is now happening so fast it’s hard to pluck a single event to fix on, but here’s one. By the summer of 2013, the Arctic will be free of ice. How big an event it [sic] this?
Climate crunch…
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Polar Bears Take Manhattan And Britain Drowns
THE WWF says we are going to start swimming earlier than expected. Say the nature wrestlers:
Arctic sea-ice in September 1979 and 2007, showing the biggest reduction since satellite surveillance began.
Or as the Telegraph puts it:
Climate change is happening much faster than the world’s best scientists predicted and will wreak havoc unless action is taken on a global scale, a new report warns.
On the other side of the debate is the news that the Alaskan ice is growing.
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Posted: 20th, October 2008 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
How To Spot A Paedophile In The Park
YOU join us in Telford town park, Shropshire, where a man is striding out across the open space. A park ranger approaches…
RANGER: “Excuse me, Sir…”
MAN: “Ye-es…”
RANGER: “ARE YOU A PAEDOPHILE…”
The Mirror does not take the conversation any further.
All we say is that if a man wants to wear five-inch high heels on his boots, a silver sequinned jumpsuit and a large expanse of jet black wig hair and asks kids if they want to be in his gang, then who are we to judge?
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Posted: 10th, September 2008 | In: Tabloids | Comments (10)
