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NYC Hospitals Lose Power Once; in Gaza, it is a Constant Crisis
Hurricane Sandy knocked out electricity to New York University’s Langone Hospital, which had to evacuate its patients. Bellevue Hospital also had to be cleared and the patients sent elsewhere. This story is a horrible one, and one’s heart goes out to the patients, already ill, who lost electricity under these frightening circumstances and had to […]
NASA Scientist: We face a Planetary Climate Emergency
NASA scientist James Hansen explains that we are facing a planetary emergency and that the public is still largely unaware of how menacing it is. The danger is that we could pass tipping points, such as melting of ice sheets, which could lead to rapid increases in sea level. —– Cole: If the public understood […]
Tired of Bronco Bama & Mitt Romney: Sensible but Cranky Little Girl in Colorado (video)
Colorado mom captures little daughter’s frustration with the length of the presidential campaign. Back story here.
Top Five Signs of Capitalist Dictatorship in the Romney Campaign
The mainstream media and even Democrats have been slow to call Mitt Romney’s deliberate falsehoods “lies.” But after just calling them what they are, it is also important to analyze their meaning. Lies on Romney’s scale do not simply show contempt for the intelligence of American voters. They show contempt for democracy, and display some […]
Bahrain King forbids Protest Rallies
The Kingdom of Bahrain has banned all public demonstrations and rallies, in a strike against the Shiite Wifaq Party, led by cleric Ali Salman. The king of Bahrain and most of his high officials are Sunni, while about 60% of the population is Shiite (their proportion was even greater before the government bestowed citizenship on […]
Syrian Regime flies 60 bombing Raids against Rebel City Quarters
The Baath regime of Bashar al-Assad spent the final day of a supposed 4-day cease-fire on Monday intensively bombing its own cities, with fighter jets flying dozens of sorties against rebel positions. Some bombs were so powerful that they kicked up mini mushroom clouds. Neighborhoods of the capital, Damascus, were bombed, as were rebellious cities […]
Romney Ridiculed ‘Rising of Seas,’ Pledged Deep cuts to FEMA (Videos)
Mitt Romney makes fun of President Obama’s pledge to slow the rising of the world’s oceans, caused by climate change, and his Republican audience tittered. Instead, Romney pledged to “help you and your families.” In general, more moisture in the air and higher ocean temperatures, both of which help hurricanes be more damaging, result from […]
Top Green Energy Good News Stories in Honor of Frankenstorm
While storms and hurricanes are normal, Frankenstorms are not. Global climate change caused by human dumping of carbon dioxide into the air causes severe weather. We can only hope to slow down the processes whereby more and more extreme weather is produced by more and more carbon dioxide. In the meantime, we have to go […]