PLANET IN PERIL

DIGITAL JOURNAL - May 2011 Australia’s Climate Commission states action to battle effects of a warming planet has “never been more urgent” than now, with huge... Details here. ==== PLT: Here in Manitoba, Canada, flooding has been unprecedented by any measure; depth of water, area affected, human suffering and economic damage. Yet governments, politicians, business and sadly way too many individuals, (all aided and abetted by timid media) just don't get it. They refuse to admit it even MAY be anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change at work here. Or they hide behind the ever-weakening argument that "you can't tie any given weather disaster" to global warming. HELP! I'm beginning to think there is no hope! l.p. ======= Ani Hubba Bubba · Winnipeg, Manitoba you are absolutely right! I couldn't agree more with you!! Watching what's happening in Manitoba is devastating. We have to wake up! NOW!  

DIGITAL JOURNAL - June 6 - '11  Oslo - More than 42 million people world-wide were forced to flee due to a series of climate change-related natural disasters in 2010, more than double…. Details here.

Paul Loeb HUFFPOST GREEN - 06/ 6/11 Following the weather is beginning to feel like revisiting the Biblical plagues. Details here. A wildfire sweeps over Alpine, Arizona, burning 120,600 acres by Saturday. Courtesy of Common Dreams

Nick Young - Greenpeace - 6/6/11 Today an Amsterdam court judge turned the tables on Cairn Energy. Details here. Greenpeace protesters spent four days in a survival pod attached to the the Leiv Eiriksson rig.  (Photograph: Steve Morgan/Greenpeace) 

Winnipeg Free Press - 06/6/2011 WINNIPEG - Lake Manitoba is now expected to hit 816.5 feet in July, almost a foot higher than previously forecast.  Details here. A farmyard somewhere between  Twin Lakes and Delta Beach.    (MIKE DEAL / Wpg. Free Press)

By: David Schindler - 06/2/11 Wpg. Free Press - View From the West. The Manitoba government is to be congratulated for its announcement this week that its policy for Lake Winnipeg will focus on aggressively reducing phosphorus inputs to the lake. Details here.