Climate change news:
WHO says climate change killing 150,000 a year , Reuters-India. And this is just the human death toll.
Extreme weather of climate change gives insurers a costly headache, The Guardian, UK. Deaths, schmeaths. This is costing real hard currency!
Inuit threat over global warming, from the BBC. Arctic natives from at least four separate countries threaten human rights suits against nations that don't abide by global climate treaties.
Scientists Criticize U.S. Reluctance To Acknowledge Climate Change, Deutche Welle, Germany. Asia and Africa drown. The U.S. emits one-third of greenhouse gas emissions. Must be the Bush administration calling for more research into climate change.
Bush's Most Disastrous Policy, from Republicons.org. I don't know anything about this site or who puts it up, but it's gratifying to read. Don't I deserve a few minutes of self-satisfaction?
Shafted, Salon, U.S.A. The U.S. Department of the Interior oversees uses (and abuses) of the nation's wildlands, including coal, oil and gas extraction. Bush appointee J. Steven Griles, Interior's deputy secretary, regularly meets with 20 years worth of friends and former employers in the energy industry. Now he's being investigated for ethics violations. Ya think?
Posted by Emily at December 13, 2003 01:59 PM