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Featuring the Four Horsemen of Global Warming 
Drought, Flood, Heat, & Pestilence
Top Story - I have written repeatedly about problems with the CDM, the Kyoto carbon offset trading mechanism, which has been plagued with allegations of fraud and waste in the projects it is supposed to oversee and certify. Now the European Union’s trading program is […]

 Featuring the Four Horsemen of Global Warming 
Drought, Flood, Heat, & Pestilence
Top Story - Time to focus on another of my horsemen, Heat, which is causing havoc in the U.S. and Japan with record breaking temperatures.
First, the US: 37 Die In South, Midwest Heat Wave.
Unrelenting heat that has baked the Midwest and South for the past […]

 Featuring the Four Horsemen of Global Warming 
Drought, Flood, Heat, & Pestilence
Top Story - The Small Island Nations of the Pacific are at extreme risk due to sea level rise. Most of the time I concentrate on the most dramatic effects of sea level rise - the more powerful storms and storm surges - so it is […]

 Featuring the Four Horsemen of Global Warming 
Drought, Flood, Heat, & Pestilence
Top Story - Although it might seem like the top story should be something about floods with all the breaking news, I thought I have covered floods enough to make my major points clear; that we need to prepare for similar problems here, that we have […]

Featuring the Four Horsemen of Global Warming 
Drought, Flood, Heat, & Pestilence
Top Story - Time recently blasted the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) for the problems in preparing New Orleans for Katrina and the repair effort afterwards, and now the Corps is firing back: Response to Aug. 13 Time Cover Story: “The Threatening Storm”.
TIME magazine’s […]

 Featuring the Four Horsemen of Global Warming 
Drought, Flood, Heat, & Pestilence
Top Story - You know I believe that Sea Level Rise is going be faster and higher than predicted by the IPCC, and this next article provides more proof, with a great moral tale - the sea doesn’t care how much money you make, it […]

Featuring the Four Horsemen of Global Warming 
Drought, Flood, Heat, & Pestilence
Top Story - Now that the flood waters are starting to recede from India and Bangladesh, the world can more clearly assess their impact and the news is very bad. These two articles clearly illustrate the challenges that lie ahead of us: first in dealing […]

 Featuring the Four Horsemen of Global Warming 
Drought, Flood, Heat, & Pestilence
Top Stories - Today was a huge news day and it was tough picking a top story, so please excuse the skimpy commentary in this section. These two climate change related articles were chosen because they discuss two areas that concern me the most - […]

Featuring the Four Horsemen of Global Warming 
Drought, Flood, Heat, & Pestilence
Top Story - In a preview of what is going to become a more frequent problem thanks to global warming New York City’s subway was flooded by a storm: NY subway flooding causes chaos.

Flooding in New York’s subway lines ground the city’s transport system to […]

Top Story- There are two entries today, both about Global Warming. The Global Warming debate is settled for most of the world, but it still lingers on in the U.S and the first article provides some valuable insight into why that is occurring: Gore: Polluters Manipulate Climate Info. The second article provides shocking new information on the consequences […]