Thursday 16 May 2013

In the Backyard: Climate Change Special

Given the level of US opposition to the ideas of anthropogenic (human produced) climate change, it is somewhat ironic that the American village of Newtok in Alaska is on the verge of being washed away (www.guardian.co.uk/environment/interactive/2013/may/13/newtok-alaska-climate-change-refugees). It will be gone by 2017. It is even more remarkable that the event cannot even be ameliorated by monies from the US disasters fund which is reserved for hurricanes, earthquakes, bush fires, whirlwinds etc. Melting of the permafrost and the loss of land to increased volumes of water coming down rivers appear not to count at present.

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