Great article, thanks.
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Occupy Wall Street protest: NYPD accused of heavy-handed tactics
Force criticised by protesters, who claim they were deliberately led on to road before being penned in and arrested
Ed Pilkington in New York
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 2 October 2011 12.34 EDT
"The New York police department has come under criticism for heavy-handed tactics during the Occupy Wall Street march over Brooklyn bridge, after more than 700 protesters were held for several hours..."
Saturday Night Fever With Occupy Wall Street: 700 Arrests, Were Protesters Tricked by Police?
"...The good news passed along was that there have been events in 27 cities to support this movement..."
Democracy Now September 30, 2011
Inside Occupy Wall Street; A Tour of Activist Encampment at the Heart of Growing Protest
I am still slogging through Paradise Plundered, Fiscal Crisis and Governance Failures in San Diego . Not "slogging through" because it is not well written, or difficult reading, but because it brings up anger and frustration. The kind of frustration being highlighted by the Occupy Wall Street protests.
Anti-Wall Street protesters vow to keep up fight
Ed Pilkington in New York
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 2 October 2011 12.34 EDT
"The New York police department has come under criticism for heavy-handed tactics during the Occupy Wall Street march over Brooklyn bridge, after more than 700 protesters were held for several hours..."
Saturday Night Fever With Occupy Wall Street: 700 Arrests, Were Protesters Tricked by Police?
"...The good news passed along was that there have been events in 27 cities to support this movement..."
Democracy Now September 30, 2011
Inside Occupy Wall Street; A Tour of Activist Encampment at the Heart of Growing Protest
I am still slogging through Paradise Plundered, Fiscal Crisis and Governance Failures in San Diego . Not "slogging through" because it is not well written, or difficult reading, but because it brings up anger and frustration. The kind of frustration being highlighted by the Occupy Wall Street protests.
Anti-Wall Street protesters vow to keep up fight
Saturday, October 01, 2011
California To Quit Foreclosure Settlement Talks
There is not enough informatio
"Harris said the pending deal is "inadequat
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With Deaths of Forests, a Loss of Key Climate Protectors
With Deaths of Forests, a Loss of Key Climate Protectors
By JUSTIN GILLIS
NYT
Published: October 1, 2011
"...In the 1950s, when a scientist named Charles David Keeling first obtained accurate measurements of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, a mystery presented itself. Only about half the carbon that people were releasing into the sky seemed to be staying there....
...As best researchers can tell, the oceans are taking up about a quarter of the carbon emissions arising from human activities....
...It is mainly trees that have the ability to lock carbon into long-term storage, and they do so by making wood or transferring carbon into the soil...
..If a forest burns down, for instance, much of the carbon stored in it will re-enter the atmosphere....
...Forests are re-growing on abandoned agricultural land across vast reaches of Europe and Russia. China, trying to slow the advance of a desert, has planted nearly 100 million acres of trees, and those forests, too, are absorbing carbon.
But, as a strategy for managing carbon emissions, these recovering forests have one big limitation: the planet simply does not have room for many more of them. To expand them significantly would require taking more farmland out of production, an unlikely prospect in a world where food demand and prices are rising...
...Warmer temperatures are causing mountain snowpack, on which so much of the life in the region depends, to melt earlier in most years, he said. That is causing more severe water deficits in the summer, just as the higher temperatures cause trees to need extra water to survive. The whole landscape dries out, creating the conditions for intense fires. Even if the landscape does not burn, the trees become so stressed they are easy prey for beetles...."
I'm really glad I only had one kid and my siblings had none. When I hear people talk about having a half dozen kids and craploads of grandkids I think "Idiots."
By JUSTIN GILLIS
NYT
Published: October 1, 2011
"...In the 1950s, when a scientist named Charles David Keeling first obtained accurate measurements of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, a mystery presented itself. Only about half the carbon that people were releasing into the sky seemed to be staying there....
...As best researchers can tell, the oceans are taking up about a quarter of the carbon emissions arising from human activities....
...It is mainly trees that have the ability to lock carbon into long-term storage, and they do so by making wood or transferring carbon into the soil...
..If a forest burns down, for instance, much of the carbon stored in it will re-enter the atmosphere....
...Forests are re-growing on abandoned agricultural land across vast reaches of Europe and Russia. China, trying to slow the advance of a desert, has planted nearly 100 million acres of trees, and those forests, too, are absorbing carbon.
But, as a strategy for managing carbon emissions, these recovering forests have one big limitation: the planet simply does not have room for many more of them. To expand them significantly would require taking more farmland out of production, an unlikely prospect in a world where food demand and prices are rising...
...Warmer temperatures are causing mountain snowpack, on which so much of the life in the region depends, to melt earlier in most years, he said. That is causing more severe water deficits in the summer, just as the higher temperatures cause trees to need extra water to survive. The whole landscape dries out, creating the conditions for intense fires. Even if the landscape does not burn, the trees become so stressed they are easy prey for beetles...."
I'm really glad I only had one kid and my siblings had none. When I hear people talk about having a half dozen kids and craploads of grandkids I think "Idiots."
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