Recent Votes

• Civil Disobedience = Tasering

  All the stories and headlines on people being tasered and I see no discipline of the police or follow up stories indicating there was a happier ending to the sensationalized piece that would make popular certain articles, videos, or news segments.

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• Worries About Water as Chinese Glacier Retreats

  Source: NPR Topics: Concerts

  The Mingyong glacier, China's lowest, is retreating at a rate that astonishes scientists. The glacier helps feed rivers that deliver water to hundreds of millions of people — and no one knows what will happen as it continues to melt.

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• China: Sacred Glacier Threatened by Climate Change

  Source: nature.org

  A glacier on one of Tibetan Buddhism's eight sacred mountains is receding at an historic pace due to climate change, a new study finds. The Mingyong Glacier, considered sacred by Tibetan Buddhists, is melting due to rising temperatures that are double the average global trend

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• What Will it Take for Countries to Stop Deforestation?

  Source: nature.org

  Coming out of Bali are details on a new plan to address the largest overlooked contributor to climate change – the destruction of forests. Right now, developing countries earn more from cutting forests than from keeping them standing.

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• EU tells US to 'wake up' over climate change

  Source: Guardian Unlimited

  The war of words between the US and the EU over climate change policy escalated today as the EU threatened to boycott US-led talks on the environment if it continued to block emissions targets.

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