CorpWatch : Index. A Crisis Foretold: Studies Warned New York Infrastructure Critically Threatened by Climate Change. This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! , democracynoworg, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. We’re usually in New York, but our studios are blacked out; they have no electricity. And so we are continuing our 100-city tour in St. Louis, Missouri. Well, as the floodwaters recede across the region, the death toll from Superstorm Sandy has reached 74 across eight states. On Wednesday, the Democracy Now! But first, the massive damage that Superstorm Sandy has caused to New York City and its infrastructure has not come as a surprise to everyone.
Cynthia Rosenzweig, we welcome you to Democracy Now! CYNTHIA ROSENZWEIG: Actually, our first report on climate change in New York City came out over 10 years ago. But first, Amy, I need to make something very clear: any one storm cannot be associated directly with climate change; climate is long-term weather events and weather—and weather conditions. CYNTHIA ROSENZWEIG: So—sure. Who Owns the World? Noam Chomsky on U.S.-Fueled Dangers, from Climate Change to Nuclear Weapons. Environment. It's Eerie -- The Global Climate Disaster Is Happening Right Now... and Humanity Is Just Pretending It's Not Happening.
August 28, 2012 | There are no comparisons to be made. This is not like war or plague or a stockmarket crash. We are ill-equipped, historically and psychologically, to understand it, which is one of the reasons why so many refuse to accept that it is happening. What we are seeing, here and now, is the transformation of the atmospheric physics of this planet. (Image taken from Arctic Sea-ice Monitor) The Arctic has been warming roughly twice as quickly as the rest of the northern hemisphere. This great dissolution, of ice and certainties, is happening so much faster than most climate scientists predicted that, one of them reports, “it feels as if everything I’ve learned has become obsolete.” As I’ve warned repeatedly, but to little effect, the IPCC’s assessments tend to be conservative.
The melting disperses another belief: that the temperate parts of the world – where most of the rich nations are located – will be hit last and least, while the poorer nations will be hit first and worst. Health & Medicine News. Life on Mars found but destroyed by mistake - Sci/Tech. Bungling NASA scientists are believed to have found tiny live microbes on Mars - but mistakenly killed them by boiling them alive, a media report said. Bungling NASA scientists are believed to have found tiny live microbes on Mars - but mistakenly killed them by boiling them alive, a media report said Saturday. Two spacecraft that landed on the Red Planet in 1976 are now thought to have detected microbes in Martian soil. But scientists at the time failed to spot the signs of life - and cooked the bugs at 160 degrees Centigrade during experiments, The Sun reported.
Now an international team has used modern techniques to re-examine data collected by the two unmanned Viking probes. Biologist Joseph Miller, of the University of Southern California, said: "I'm 99 percent sure there's life there. To paraphrase an old saying, if it looks like a microbe and acts like a microbe - then it probably is a microbe. " During the 1976 mission, nutrients were added to the Martian soil. CBC.ca - Canadian News Sports Entertainment Kids Docs Radio TV. CTV Atlantic | Canadian television's online home for news about the Martime.