Weather & Climate

Top 10 Extreme Weather Events of 2008
By Stan Deyo — The year's most extreme weather events
Dec 29 2008, USA (STAN DEYO.COM)

The world has never seen such freezing heat
By Christopher Booker — Global warming... along with unseasonal snowfalls and plummeting temperatures
Nov 16 2008, LONDON, ENGLAND, UK (TELEGRAPH)

California Climate Disruption Costs: billions and trillions?
By Margot Roosevelt — Eroding beaches, disappearing snowpacks, subdivisions decimated by wildfires -- climate change in California could be expensive
Nov 13 2008, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA USA (LA TIMES)

Don't Go It Alone: America’s Interest in International Cooperation
By Better World Campaign — U.S. Global Leadership to Safeguard our Climate, Security, and Economy
Nov 10 2008, WASHINGTON, D.C., USA (BWC)

Weather, Sun Activity & Earthquakes
By NowAndFutures — Up-to-the-minute reports, warnings and statistics
2008, USA (NOWANDFUTURES.COM)

Extreme Weather

Atlantic Hurricane Season Blows Away Records
By Seth Borenstein — Relentless Atlantic Hurricane Season Sets Records With Repeated Pounding of U.S. and Cuba
Nov 27 2008, WASHINGTON, D.C., USA (ABC)

CSU Hurricane Forecast Team on Target for 2008 Season
By Emily Narvaes Wilmsen — Team accurately predicted a well above-average hurricane season for the Atlantic basin for 2008
Nov 19 2008, FORT COLLINS, COLORADO, USA (COLORADO STATE UNIV)

Extreme Weather Brings Agricultural Disaster in Utah Laura Hancock
By Laura Hancock — Drought, high winds, fire and freezeing temperatures prove a deadly combination for Utah crops
Nov 04 2008, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, USA (DESERET NEWS)

Disasters kill more in 2008 than in tsunami: UN
By News Staff — Natural disasters claim a high death toll in 2008
Aug 22 2008, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND (AFP)

Earthquakes

More Shakers Sunday Across Quake-Riddled State
By Jason Kobely — Series of tremblors after a 6.2 struck off California's northern coast
Nov 30 2008, TRONA, CALIFORNIA, USA (ABC NEWS10)

Government warns of "catastrophic" U.S. quake
By Carey Gillam — Geologists project damage potential for quake in the New Madrid Seismic Zone
Nov 29 2008, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, USA (REUTERS)

California Gets Ready for Largest Earthquake Drill in Nation's History
By Science News — USGS prepares for the Great Southern California ShakeOut
Oct 29 2008, LOS ANGELES, USA (UPI.COM)

Worldwide Deadly & Destructive Earthquakes
By U.S. GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY — Chart of worldwide earthquakes between Magnitudes 6 and 8 show tremendous increase in recent years
2008, WASHINGTON, D.C., USA (.GOV)

Global Warming | Global Cooling

Economic woe a 'Sunday school picnic' compared with climate: May
By News Staff — World leaders should not forget the "real meltdown" caused by global warming in the midst of spreading economic woes
Dec 05 2008, TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA USA (CBC)

Message to Obama: Cure Economy or Climate
By Shikha Dalmia — Employing the only proven weapon for lowering greenhouse-gas emissions... a massive recession
Dec 03 2008, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA (HAWAII REPORTER)

I Would Be More Worried About Global Cooling
By Sean Maher — Why are ice glaciers from Alaska to Norway thickening in recent years? Why has their flow rate declined?
Dec 03 2008, LONDON, ENGLAND, UK (SEEKING ALPHA)

A Modest Proposal for Solving Both the Economic and Energy Crises
By William Tucker — The economic crisis meets the energy crisis, with dwindling oil supplies with global warming
Nov 17 2008, ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA, USA (AMERICAN SPECTATOR)

New Ice Age Predicted -- But Averted by Global Warming?
By Mason Inman — Present carbon dioxide levels may be sufficient to prevent formation of ice sheets
Nov 12 2008, WASHINGTON, D.C., USA (NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC)

Science Proves Warming of Antarctica
By Environmental News Network — For the first time, scientists say they can directly attribute warming in both the Arctic and the Antarctic to human influences
Nov 12 2008, FAIRFIELD, IOWA, USA (ENN)

Life After Peak Oil

America's Perfect Storm: Transition to Survival After Peak Oil Hits
By Frosty Wooldridge — A “Perfect Storm” gathers on the horizon as Peak Oil, Economic Instability, Climate Change and Hyper-Population Growth collide within the United States
Nov 26 2008, USA (OPED NEWS.COM)

Life after (peak) oil
By Canavan & Hills — Rethinking priorities and kicking the fuel habit
Nov 12 2008, DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, USA (INDY WEEK.COM)

What Will We Eat as the Oil Runs Out?
By Richard Heinberg — Four simultaneously colliding dilemmas, all arising from our relatively recent pattern of dependence on depleting fossil fuels
Dec 2007, SEBASTOPOL, CALIFORNIA, USA (RICHARDHEINBERG.COM)

Water Depletion

AWRA Releases Conclusions of Fourth National Water Resources Policy Dialogue; Urges New Administration & Incoming Congress to Address Growing Challenges
By American Water Resources Association — Report focuses on water issues: climate change concerns, aging water resources infrastructure, and changing population demographics
Dec 03 2008, MIDDLEBURG, VIRGINIA, USA (MARKET WATCH / WJS)

DWR warns of drought, water rationing in 2009
By Sarah Kay Hannon — Projections show that in 2009, California could look like the early, parched 1990s — or even worse
Nov 20 2008, NEW YORK, WASHINGTON, D.C., USA (CAPITAL WEEKLY)

Tropical ocean dead zones could increase 50 percent by 2050
By Jeremy Hance — If carbon dioxide levels continue to rise as expected, marine dead zones in the tropics are expected to increase by 50 percent in just over four decades
Nov 18 2008, USA (MONGABAY.COM)

Crisis feared as U.S. water supplies dry up
By News Staff — Government projects at least 36 states will face shortages within five years
Oct 27 2007, WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA, USA (MSNBC)

Water depletion the next looming crisis
By Barlow & Schindler — Humans are polluting, depleting and diverting finite freshwater supplies so quickly we're creating massive new deserts and generating global warming from below
Mar 21, 2007, WEST OTTAWA, ONTARIO, CANADA (CANADIANS.ORG)

Land Degradation

Rifts and Shifts
By Clark & York — Getting to the Root of Environmental Crises
Nov 2008, NEW YORK, USA (MONTHLY REVIEW)