By Heidi Blake2 October 2011 The north of England is no stranger to grim weather. As the south enjoyed the hottest October 2nd for more than 100 years, northerners were forced to wrap up warm and put up their umbrellas. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, they were last night warned to brace themselves […]
BBC Speechless As Trader Alessio Rastani Tells Truth, Collapse Coming, Goldman Rules World UPDATE: Trader’s Goldman Sachs comments spark BBC hoax claims By John Plunkett, Tara Conlan and Oliver Laughland, www.guardian.co.uk 27 September 2011 He caused outrage with his comments on the global economic meltdown claiming “governments don’t rule the world, Goldman Sachs […]
By Lewis Smith20 September 2011 Changes in the water temperature have put an end to hopes that the North Sea cod population can return to the levels it enjoyed in the 1970s. Warmer conditions have altered the availability of prey species and driven the cold-loving cod northwards so even if the fishery is managed perfectly […]
By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent26 June 2011 Warming ocean waters are causing the largest movement of marine species seen on Earth in more than two million years, according to scientists. In the Arctic, melting sea ice during recent summers has allowed a passage to open up from the Pacific ocean into the North Atlantic, allowing […]
By Niamh Anderson18 September 2011 FOR at least three decades they have made the waters off the west of Scotland their own, delighting visitors and residents alike. But now it seems the country’s only resident pod of killer whales is doomed to extinction and pollution could be to blame. The nine whales have failed to […]
[Desdemona weighed in on this sort of geoengineering scheme a few years ago: So the leaders of men conceived of their most desperate strategy yet.] By Steve Connor, Science Editor14 September 2011 A disused airfield in Norfolk will become the focus of a controversial scientific experiment to see whether it is feasible to engineer the […]
By Ed Ballard 19 August 2011 Emma Summerfield returned home on a rainy November evening in 2009 to find her vacuum cleaner afloat on a rising tide in her cellar. Hours later, her 18th century mill-house in Cumbria, northern England, was six feet deep in water. When the water receded, it left rooms wrecked, walls […]
Karl Marx was right that globalization, financial intermediation, and income redistribution could lead capitalism to self-destruct. By Nouriel Roubini15 August 2011 NEW YORK—The massive volatility and sharp equity-price correction now hitting global financial markets signal that most advanced economies are on the brink of a double-dip recession. A financial and economic crisis caused by too […]
By George Monbiot, www.guardian.co.uk 8 August 2011 Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a year, after which no one will ever eat fish again. Almost everywhere fish stocks are collapsing through catastrophic mismanagement. But no one in the rich […]
By Nouriel Roubini7 August 2011 The first half of 2011 showed a slowdown of growth – if not outright contraction – in most advanced economies. Optimists said this was a temporary soft patch. This delusion has been dashed. Even before last week’s panic, the US and other advanced economies were odds-on for a second […]
