Posted by msrb on December 15, 2008
Ecosystems stretched to the breaking point, unemployment soaring, poverty line beckoning …
The compassionate, environmentally conscious President-elect Obama will have orchids flown in from half away across the world for his inauguration!
The cost of Obama inauguration may exceed $50million dollars; however, the government will have spent millions more on security!
President-elect Obama, who has vowed to adopt an aggressive approach to global warming and the environment …
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama (L) speaks during a meeting with former Vice President Al Gore in Obama’s transition office in Chicago December 9, 2008. Obama said on Tuesday attacking global climate change is a “matter of urgency” as he talked about the problem with Gore, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the issue. REUTERS/Jeff Haynes (UNITED STATES). Image may be subject to copyright.
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Posted by msrb on July 2, 2008
Could When Will Food Riots Break Out Across the U.S.?
Accelerated land degradation threatens food security of a quarter of the world’s population: FAO
An Egyptian rice farmer shows his drought damaged rice crop and cracks in the rice terrace soil caused by more than 30 days of no rain in a village near Balqis, northeast of Cairo June 14, 2008. REUTERS/Nasser Nuri. Image may be subject to copyright. See MSRB Fair Use Notice!
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Posted by msrb on June 21, 2008
The Best Caption Competition Winners:
– There’s no war here.
– Don’t trouble me with national emergencies, I have a war to fight.
– Our troops need all the money we can send them to fight the enemy over there.
– Don’t be sissies! This is nothing like the 1993 deluge.
President George W. Bush talks to the media after viewing receding floodwaters on Normandy Drive in Iowa City, Iowa, USA, on 19 June 2008. EPA/MATTHEW HOLST / POOL. Image may be subject to copyright. See FEWW Fair Use Notice!
“They all told us, `The levees are good. You can go ahead and build,”‘ said Parks, who did not buy flood coverage because her bank no longer required it. “We had so much confidence in those levees.”
“People put all their hopes in those levees, and when they do fail, the damage is catastrophic,” said Paul Osman, the National Flood Insurance Program coordinator for Illinois. “New Orleans is the epitome; a lot of those people didn’t even realize they were in a floodplain until the water was up to their roofs.”
This used to be a road, and we parked our trucks right there!
Volunteers sandbag a building submerged in Burlington, Iowa June 15, 2008. Officials moved paintings, books and documents out of harm’s way on Sunday as record flooding in parts of the U.S. Midwest partly submerged the University of Iowa campus in Iowa City. REUTERS/Eric Thayer (UNITED STATES). Image may be subject to copyright. See FEWW Fair Use Notice!
“We reported to the president in ’94 that the levee system was in disarray, the levees were not high enough to take care of any potential problem. People didn’t understand their flood risk and there wasn’t good co-ordination across federal, state and local governments,” said Gerald Galloway, a professor of engineering and flood control expert.
“The same thing applies today,” Galloway said. “It’s amazing that in the face of [Hurricane] Katrina and now this particular challenge that we continue to relearn the same lessons.”
Galloway’s recommendations to improve the levee system were basically ignored. He said that he’s experiencing much the same response now from officials as in 1993.
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