Every week Daily Kos diarists write scores of environmentally related posts. Many of these don’t get the readership they deserve. Helping improve the odds is the motivation behind the Green Diary Rescue. In the past seven years, there have been 218 of these spotlighting more than 12,000 eco-diaries. Below are categorized links and excerpts to… Read more »
Posts Tagged: faster
ABC News: Vatican Trial Balloon Shot Down ‘Faster Than Old-School Nun Might Rap You On The Knuckles’
ABC News reporter David Wright chose an odd metaphor to describe criticism of the possible timing of the selection of Pope Benedict XVI's successor. Wright, speaking live from the Vatican on today's Good Morning America, reported that yesterday the Vatican spokesman had floated a trial balloon suggesting that the conclave to choose a new Pope… Read more »
Study: Sea Levels Rising 60% Faster Than UN Predictions
President Obama has made noises about pursuing carbon taxes in order to curb global warming. Now, look for that noise to increase. A new study contends that sea levels between 1993 and 2011 rose 60% faster than predicted previously by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The report suggests that over the next… Read more »
Researchers: Sea levels rising 60% faster than previously expected
It’s gotten to be a frequent occurrence over the past few years. Dire predictions about the course of climate change and its impacts turn out to be more dire as new data become available. What was expected to happen eventually is happening faster and more extensively than forecasters had thought. New research published Tuesday has… Read more »