A man and two children after a huge tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma, near Oklahoma City, May 20, 2013.
Winds of up to 200 miles per hour (320 kph) flattened entire tracts of homes, two
schools and a hospital.
A man and two children after a huge tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma, near Oklahoma City, May 20, 2013.
Winds of up to 200 miles per hour (320 kph) flattened entire tracts of homes, two
schools and a hospital. |
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Why did you cut the trees down, Grandma?
This is a conversation between a grown up girl and her grandmother.
The grown-up girl is presently living on the Earth plane.
Her grandmother is now residing in that area of the spiritual heavens where she finds herself capable of existing.
Why did you cut the trees, Grandma?
Well, they were a bit of a nuisance. One of them would drip.
Did you not think of us, Grandma?
Think of you?
Yes, about our future?
Of course I thought about your future, my love.
Why, didn't I care for you when your mother went to work? You were only three when I started to care for you during the week. Of course I thought about the future. I thought about when you would be grown up. When you would marry, wondering whom he might be. When you would have children of your own, and if I would get to see them.
Why did you cut the trees down, Grandma?
Because they were a nuisance. I wanted everything to be nice, you know. The neighbours complained too. They said the trees were a bother, blocked the light, though I didn't think that was true.
Did you not look at the television programs grandma, when the environment programs came on?
We watched television a lot. Oh, did we watch it a lot. I think we must have watched television five or six hours a night. And we always kept it on for you. We thought it would comfort you, having the background noise you know. Your mother thought that. And it did often. So you would be at peace, you know.
You were a terror, my child. Always into something. Always doing something. If we put on the television, well, we could park you in front of it, at least for a brief time.
Did you not look at the television programs, grandma?
Which programs, my love?
The environment programs, grandma?
Those...to be truthful we always changed the channel when they came on. We wanted murder, and the police dealing with it. People killing each other. All that was much more interesting then the environment programmes. They were boring really.
The year you cut the trees, grandma, the winds were getting stronger — Oklahoma had their strongest tornadoes ever that year.
I didn't know that?
Did you think of all those people who would be killed grandma?
Killed. You mean in the war, my love, the war against Iraq; the war against the Palestinian people...and there was that country, Lebanon wasn't it, or was it Syria? I did watch some. You couldn't avoid it.
But I didn't want to watch what was happening. Why the people were being killed. That was the government's job. I wanted to avoid it as much as I could.
Terrorists they said, though I think the government made much too much of that.
After all my mother — your grandmother — had been through with the European... that big war... and your great-grandfather killed in that other big horrible war over there... he was only twenty-five.
I could never understand why our government kept bombing, killing, injuring, as we... another people... quite so you didn't want to think of it you know....
Did you think of all those other people who would be killed, grandma?
Other people who would be killed?
Those who were killed later, with the winds.
The winds, child?
Yes, when the winds came.
As the winds came and blew down the houses, the screams of the people in the smaller places, then the winds growing stronger,
In the towns, up to the cities the screams now, do you hear the screams where you are grandma?
Do I hear them? I don't know about that, child? Do I want... It's not the same... a lot has happened since I passed on... passed from your world, my love.
Weren't you warned, grandma? I thought they were telling you?
I didn't listen, child.
What are we going to do, grandma? We are here in this underground shelter. They say the wind overhead has reached 600 kilometres an hour. It is tearing down everything, grandma. We are going to die, I think. We will be running out of food soon. There is little water.
I am so sorry, my love.
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Brazil: Amazon rainforest deforestation rises sharply
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Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest has increased almost sixfold, new data suggests.
Satellite images show deforestation increased from 103 sq km in March and April 2010 to 593 sq km (229 sq miles) in the same period of 2011, Brazil's space research institute says.
Much of the destruction has been in Mato Grosso state, the centre of soya farming in Brazil.
The news comes shortly before a vote on new forest protection rules.
Brazilian Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira said the figures were 'alarming' and announced the setting up of a 'crisis cabinet' in response to the news.
"Our objective is to reduce deforestation by July," the minister told a news conference.
Analysts say the new figures have taken the government by surprise.
Last December, a government report said deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon had fallen to its lowest rate for 22 years.
However, the latest data shows a 27% jump in deforestation from August 2010 to April 2011.
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The biggest rise was in Mato Grosso, which produces more than a quarter of Brazil's soybean harvest.
Some environmentalists argue that rising demand for soy and cattle is prompting farmers to clear more of their land.
But others see a direct link between the jump in deforestation and months of debate over easing an existing law on forest protection.
"You have 300-400 lawmakers here in Brasilia sending the message that profiting from deforestation will be amnestied, that crime pays," Marcio Astrini from Greenpeace told Reuters.
"The only relevant factor is the Forest Code. It is a gigantic rise."
The Chamber of Deputies has delayed voting on the Forest Code amid at times acrimonious argument but could consider the issue again next week.
The Forest Code, enacted in 1934 and subsequently amended in 1965, sets out how much of his land a farmer can deforest.
Regulations currently require that 80% of a landholding in the Amazon remain forest, 20% in other areas.
Proponents of change say the law impedes economic development and contend that Brazil must open more land for agriculture.
However, opponents fear that in their current form some of the proposed changes might give farmers a form of amnesty for deforested land.
The changes were put forward by Aldo Rebelo, leader of Brazil's Communist Party (PCdoB) and backed by a group in Congress known as the 'ruralists' who want Brazil to develop its agribusiness sector.
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Amazon destruction speeds up Deforestation underestimated by at least 60% Drought in the Amazon basin |
Ozone (Dobson units)  110 220 330 440 550 Arctic ozone levels March 19 2011 and March 19 2010 |
| Arctic ozone layer at lowest recorded levels March 2011 extending into April 2011 March 31st 2011 Arctic ozone depletion in the stratosphere had been destroyed by 40 percent. The previous record of Arctic ozone depletion in winter was 30 percent. Reduction of ozone in both the Arctic and Austral winters is a natural event due to the cooling of the stratosphere and other factors such as long-wave emissions. Heat emmisions rising from Earth if prevented from reaching the stratosphere due to gasses in the troposhere cause the band of ozone within the stratosphere to cool more severly. This cooling destroys more ozone and prevents ozone from rebuilding.
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Arctic Ozone Loss 2010 and 2011 compared
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NASA Confirms Arctic Ozone Depletion Trigger
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UVC in the 10 to 290 nanometer band UVB, 290 to 320 nanometers UVA, 320 to 400 nanometers |
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Gulf of Mexico is dying
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More serious implications for the world - Gulf loop current failing.
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April 2011 Deadliest on Record for Gulf Sea Turtles
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And so it creeps |
Why Is Damning New Evidence About Monsanto's Most Widely Used Herbicide Being Silenced?
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Published on Wednesday, May 9, 2012 by CommonDreams.org
NOAA: US Experienced Warmest 12-Month Period Since Records Began — 117 Years
Common Dreams staff
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Newest monthly climate report shows 12-month period and year-to-date periods warmest since recordkeeping began
The U.S. has experienced the warmest 12-month period since recordkeeping began in 1895, according to the newest monthly 'State of the Climate' report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The NOAA reports that in the period from May 2011 to April 2012 the nationally-averaged temperature 2.8°F above the 1901-2000 long-term average.
The first four months of the year were 5.4°F above the long-term average, also the warmest such period since recordkeeping began.
www.commondreams.org Independent, non-profit newscenter since 1997 |
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Mother Jones extensive coverage of toxicity in Gulf caused by BP
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Gulf of Mexico Sea Floor Fractured
Oil and gas still seeping unabated
The Gulf of Mexico disaster has not gone away.
In fact, it has grown exponentially since the main stream media stopped talking about it.
According to the Gulf Rescue Alliance, an organization composed of scientists, medical professionals and seafood industry professionals, among others, the problem cannot be simplified to the damage already caused by the oil spill.
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Not only is oil spill still happening but the Gulf of Mexico’s sea floor has grown more unstable since the explosion in 2010
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Judges stealing people's homes
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The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic, and the pustules of pellagra swelled on their sides.
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
And money that might have gone to wages went for... guns, for agents and spies, for blacklists....
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John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
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Judges stealing people's homes
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Bank of America
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Alien abduction continued
With additional insert — Playing the Game
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From The Gulf Stream To The Bloodstream
THE VIDEO BP DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SEE!
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| Why did you cut down the trees, grandma 2003 — 2007 He doesn't know if the stratosphere will continue to cool, or if ozone levels will return to levels of the past, or if the increasing stress of unstable monsoons and floods, of drought bowls, of vast wind forces, will continue in their exaggerated patterns The huge expanse of western Siberia is thawing for the first time since its formation, 11,000 years ago Typhoon Wipha Why did you cut the trees grandma |
Africa rain forests cut and destroyed Earth's most beautiful work, the forests of Africa |
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