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10 Years or Less: Remembering and Learning from Katrina |
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10 Years or Less column September 2, 2006 Remembering and Learning from KatrinaBy Mike Tidwell and Ted Glick
How’s this for poetic justice? In future years, the White House and all those federal agencies which acted so slowly after Hurricane Katrina smashed New Orleans last August, leading to an unknown amount of unnecessary death and suffering, will probably find their own D.C. offices threatened by catastrophic flooding from monster storms. They may be hunkering behind massive levees and fantastic floodgates, harried by the annual threat of Katrina-scale hurricanes.
Because one year after the great catastrophe in Louisiana, this much is clear: it’s coming to many more U.S. cities. |
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10 Years or Less: Fire and Heat |
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10 Years or Less column August 15, 2006 Fire and HeatOnly a fiery grassroots rebellion in the USA will end global warming and the runaway wildfires and heat waves now afflicting our nation.The summer of 2006 has brought both record-breaking heat waves and a record-breaking number of wildfires across the western United States. How bad has it been? So bad that ultra-conservative religious broadcaster Pat Robertson said two weeks ago on his “700 Club” show that what is happening this summer is “making a convert out of me. We really need to address the burning of fossil fuels.” |
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10 Years or Less: G8 Leaders: How Low Can They Go? |
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10 Years or Less column, July 21, 2006 G8 Leaders: How Low Can They Go?It was the big news coming out of the Group of Eight summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, early this week. George Bush and Tony Blair had an unscripted conversation over Monday lunch without knowing that a live microphone was picking up their words. Their conversation was being transmitted to, in the words of the New York Times, “gleeful journalists.” |
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10 Years or Less: Stop the NOAA Cover-Up! |
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10 Years or Less column July 10, 2006 Stop the NOAA Cover-up!We have a prediction: the National Hurricane Center and its parent group, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, are wrong. They are predicting for this year “13 to 16 named storms, with eight to 10 becoming hurricanes, of which four to six could become ‘major’ hurricanes of Category 3 strength or higher.” These were the words of Conrad C. Lautenbacher, head of NOAA, at a press conference at the National Hurricane Center on May 22, about a week before the beginning of this year’s hurricane season. |
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10 Years or Less: No More Waiting |
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10 Years or Less column June 27, 2006 No More Waiting: Pearl Harbor II is happening now. Let’s Fight Back Together!Have you seen Al Gore’s film, “An Inconvenient Truth?” If so, you will understand what you are about to read. If not, you must go see the film today. Your life depends on it. |
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