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Climate saboteurs shiting from deial of global heating

samedi 12 juillet 2014 à 14:00

Climate saboteurs are shifting from denial of global heating to minimizing the expected consequences.

It's a delaying campaign to keep the money flowing unabated to fossil fuel companies as long as possible.

Nanomaterials

samedi 12 juillet 2014 à 14:00

Nanomaterials: a new range of substances that might be put in food, and some of them might have toxic effects.

A given chemical in the form of nanoparticles might have different effects from the same chemical in a different form. It could even depend on the size of the nanoparticles being used. I suppose most chemicals that are ordinarily nontoxic will not be toxic in nano form either, but there will be exceptions to stumble upon.

US gov't refuses to repudiate torture

samedi 12 juillet 2014 à 14:00

The US government refuses to repudiate torture, and continues to practice it, and US mass media treat it as admirable.

Parts of Miami Beach are regularly inundated

samedi 12 juillet 2014 à 14:00

Due to global heating, parts of Miami Beach are regularly inundated.

The Turkey Point nuclear plant will become an island, and will be vulnerable to a Fukushima-type disaster.

As the sea advances, millions of people will have to leave Florida, perhaps in a few decades. The Florida Keys may be submerged during this century.

I suspect that Florida land interests are behind Florida politicians' denial. Fools continue to buy buildings that are likely to be drowned, while somebody else extracts profits to move out of Florida before everyone else wakes up to it.

In 50 years, when the price collapses, will those fools' heirs sue Senator Rubio's heirs?

Caliph of ISIS may have been radicalized in US prison

samedi 12 juillet 2014 à 14:00

The Caliph of ISIS may have been radicalized in a US prison in Iraq.

One can say this serves the US right, but Iraqis do not deserve the oppression of ISIS.