Taxpayers Get $96 Billion Bill For 2012 Extreme Weather = One-Sixth of Non-Defense Discretionary Spending @ Climate Progress
It’s time for Secretary Kerry to step up against Arctic drilling. Call the Secretary now to remind him how important it is to stop oil drilling at the top of the world @ Greenpeace USA
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UN Secretary-General warns: “Economic losses from disasters are out of control” @ UNISDR
The United Nations today issued a stark warning to the world’s business community that economic losses linked to disasters are “out of control” and will continue to escalate unless disaster risk management becomes a core part of business investment strategies.
UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, said: “We have carried out a thorough review of disaster losses at national level and it is clear that direct losses from floods, earthquakes and drought have been under-estimated by at least 50%. So far this century, direct losses from disasters are in the range of $2.5 trillion. (…)
U.S. Groundwater Losses Between 1900-2008: Enough To Fill Lake Erie Twice: Groundwater depletion in the United States has accelerated over the last decade, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, contributing to both localized problems and global issues, like sea level rise @ Circle of Blue
Anticoal activists block path of freighter @ Boston Globe
Half of Germany’s 63,000 Megawatts of Renewable Energy is Locally Owned @ Institute for Local Self-Reliance via Germany Renewable Energy industry
Taxpayers Get $96 Billion Bill For 2012 Extreme Weather = One-Sixth of Non-Defense Discretionary Spending @ Climate Progress
For Insurers, No Doubts on Climate Change: natural catastrophes across the United States pounded insurers in 2012, generating $35 billion in privately insured property losses, $11 billion more than the average over the last decade @ New York Times
Banned on the Hill: Graphic Book about Secret Govt Censorship in Canada: Help spread the word about artist Franke James’ true story of dirty oil and government censorship in Canada @ Indiegogo
Then and now: The Main Rongbuk Glacier in the Himayala region photographed in 1921, left, and in 2009 by the GlacierWorks team
Mount Everest is LOSING its snow and ice as researchers find glaciers in the region have shrunk by 15% in the last 50 years @ Daily Mail
