Rising sea levels pose a far bigger eco threat than previously thought. This week’s climate change conference in Copenhagen will sound an alarm over new floodings – enough to swamp Bangladesh, Florida, the Norfolk Broads and the Thames estuary Robin McKie, science editor Scientists will warn this week that rising sea levels, triggered by global […]
From Calculated Risk: One more stunning graph from the employment report… From the BLS report: In February, the number of persons who worked part time for economic reasons (sometimes referred to as involuntary part-time workers) rose by 787,000, reaching 8.6 million. The number of such workers rose by 3.7 million over the past 12 months. […]
Oceanographer Charles Moore Talks About The Pacific Garbage Patch Speaking at the recent TED Conference in California, oceanographer Charles Moore – who discovered and publicized the huge oceanic gyre of plastic waste known as the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” — outlined the toll taken on marine life by plastic bottles and caps. Moore, founder of […]
Researchers have noticed an exceptional number of white snowshoe hares on brown earth. They contend that climate change and the color mismatch are causing much more hare mortality. On an unseasonably warm May afternoon, University of Montana wildlife biology Professor Scott Mills treks into the shadowy forests above the Seeley-Swan Valley in pursuit of his […]
By ROBIN McDOWELL JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Time and space are running out for the Javan Rhinoceros — the most endangered mammal in the world. There are fewer than 60 left in the wild — almost all in a single Indonesian national park — and numbers appear to be declining for the first time in […]
Severe fires in Indonesia — responsible for some of the worst air quality conditions worldwide — are linked not only to drought, but also to changes in land use and population density, according to a new study. "During the late 1970s, Indonesian Borneo changed from being highly fire-resistant to highly fire-prone during drought years, […]
By Gerald Celente Kingston, NY — “The Greatest Depression,” that is The Trends Research Institute forecast, well before Wall Street or Washington would acknowledge recession, is upon us. The global financial markets are collapsing. All the experts’ cautious predictions and business media’s hopeful expectations at the New Year for an economic turnaround and imminent market […]
From Calculated Risk: And from CNN: Unemployment hits 25-year high Jobless rate hits 8.1% in February as a record-high 12.5 million people are unemployed. By Chris Isidore, CNNMoney.com senior writer NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The U.S. economy continued to hemorrhage jobs in February, bringing total job losses over the last six months to more than […]
By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) – The Arctic is warming up so quickly that the region’s sea ice cover in summer could vanish as early as 2013, decades earlier than some had predicted, a leading polar expert said on Thursday. Warwick Vincent, director of the Center for Northern Studies at Laval University in Quebec, […]
I love the smooth nonlinearity of the curves since 2006. From Calculated Risk: The DOL reports on weekly unemployment insurance claims: In the week ending Feb. 28, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 639,000, a decrease of 31,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 670,000. The 4-week moving average was 641,750, […]
