climateprogress.org - 4/13/2009
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Drought, fires, killer heat waves, wildlife extinction and mosquito-borne illness — the things that climate change models are predicting have already arrived there , [scientists] say.
That’s the subhead on a stunning L.A. Times piece, “ What will global warming look like? ...
latimes.com - 4/9/2009
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latimes.com —
Reporting from The Murray-Darling Basin, Australia -- Frank
Eddy pulled off his dusty boots and slid into...
a chair, taking his place at the dining room table where most of the critical family issues are hashed out. Spreading hands as dry and cracked as ...
(more)
What will global warming look like? Scientists point to ...
latimes.com - 4/12/2009
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latimes.com —
A result of climate change? "You'd have to
have your head in the bloody sand to think...
otherwise," Eddy said. They call Australia the Lucky Country, with good reason. Generations of hardy castoffs tamed the world's driest inhabited continent, created ...
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What will global warming look like? Scientists point to ...
smh.com.au - 4/7/2009
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smh.com.au —
Sydney Morning Herald: THE amount of water flowing
into the stricken Murray River between January and March...
was the lowest for that quarter in the 117 years that records have been kept. An unprecedented drought has thrown the river system into ...
(more)
Australia: Murray flows lowest in a century
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Absolute must read: Australia today offers horrific glimpse of U.S. Southwest, much of planet, post-2040, if we don’t slash emissions soon
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Drought, fires, killer heat waves, wildlife extinction and mosquito-borne illness — the things that climate change models are predicting have already arrived there, [scientists] say.
That’s the subhead on a stunning L.A. Times piece, “What will global warming look like? Scientists point to Australia,” which opens starkly:
Reporting from The Murray-Darling Basin, Australia — Frank Eddy pulled off his dusty boots and slid into a chair, taking his place at the dining room table where most of the critical family issues are hashed out. Spreading hands as dry and cracked as the orchards ...
Harbingers: Australia and Andean glaciers and oil peaks, oh my!
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... Absolute must read: Australia today offers horrific glimpse of U.S. Southwest, much of planet, post-2040, if we don’t slash emissions soon: ...
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