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Sea Level Rise Speeding up as Humans burn more Fossil Fuels
TeleSur | - - The rise in global sea levels has accelerated since the 1990s amid rising temperatures, with a thaw of Greenland’s ice sheet pouring ever more water into the oceans.…
Climate change victims need official refugee status: Oxfam
By Marion Candau | EURACTIV.fr | translated by Paola Tamma | - - With the COP23 climate conference ongoing in Bonn, Oxfam published a troubling report on people displaced by climate change.…
If Trump were really President, he’d Forgive Puerto Rico’s Debts and Rescue it
By Juan Cole | (informed Comment) | - - I'm not sure what Donald Trump thinks the job of president consists of. One task is to swing into action when 3.4 million…
How Colonialism, Inequality turbocharge Caribbean Hurricanes
By Levi Gahman and Gabrielle Thongs | (The Conversation) | - - Hurricane Maria, the 15th tropical depression this season, is now battering the Caribbean, just two weeks after Hurricane Irma wreaked…
Much of U.S.’s Puerto Rico “Destroyed” by 138 mi/hr Storm, Pleads with Trump for Aid
By TeleSUR | - - Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello has asked U.S. President Donald Trump to declare the island a “disaster” area. Hurricane Maria tore across Puerto Rico as the strongest…
Those 90 Companies that Caused Climate Crisis? They Should Pay for It
By Sarah van Gelder | Yes! Magazine | - - The companies responsible for the climate crisis should cover the costs of fighting wildfires and recovering from hurricanes. Pacific Northwest forests are…
GOP Mayor of Miami to Trump: ‘If this isn’t Climate Change I don’t know what is’
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump may be provoking a big exodus of Cuban-Americans in south Florida out of the Republican Party. His attack on DACA or Obama's…
Gov. Rick Scott enabled Irma’s Fury through Climate Denialism & Should Resign
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Florida Gov. Rick Scott did not cause Irma, but he enabled the Frankenstorm. Before becoming governor in 2011, Scott had been an entrepreneur…
Is Deregulation behind explosions at Texas Chem Plant, polluting of Air and Water?
By Jake Johnson, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org) | - - "People don't know what's seeping into their air and their homes." "Now the thing's exploded, and people don't know what's seeping…
Trump’s offer to Harvey Victims (Cartoon)
Paul Jamiol | ( Jamiol's World) | - - Via Jamiol's World