
Burning Earth: Linking Wildfires to Global Warming
As the earth warms, a growing number of researchers are investigating the far-reaching consequences of the increasing average temperature. One of these consequences is the effect on wildfires.
As the earth warms, a growing number of researchers are investigating the far-reaching consequences of the increasing average temperature. One of these consequences is the effect on wildfires.
It is hard to shock journalists and at the same time leave them in awe of the power of nature. A group returning from a helicopter trip flying over, then landing on, the Greenland ice cap at the time of maximum ice melt last month were shaken. One shrugged and said: "It is too late already."
The author talks about the origins of his book, The Darker Nations, the Third World Project, anti-imperialist movements, Hugo Chavez and lessons for the future.
At the US Social Forum 2007, in the city that hosts CNN and Coke, in hotel venues where debutantes ironically were on parade, the progressive community stood tall and steadfast, proud and capable. The forum's over 900 sessions were truly diverse in those presenting and those attending. Indeed, I cannot remember - going all the way back to an also highly diverse Black Panther Party Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia in September 1970 - any other large leftist event in the U.S. as consistently multi-cultural as USSF 2007.
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