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The region from Mexico City to Acapulco has no detail beyond the lowest zoom level.

The United Nations Security Council has declared that global warming is a threat to world peace and stability, in what has been greeted as a diplomatic triumph by the current council chair Germany.

The declaration means UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon will take global warming matters into account in his reports in the future. Although this in itself does not mean that specific action will be taken, it will give global warming a far greater profile.

German diplomats said they had been patient and had worked hard to get all 15 members of the Security Council – the most powerful body in the UN – to sign up to the declaration.

“The Security Council is concerned that the loss of land of small island nations from a rise in sea levels could have security policy consequences,” says the statement.

http://www.thelocal.de/politics/20110721-36443.html

 

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/07/21/mass-extinction-caused-by-earths-burp/

Radiative transfer models show that methane could increase by 10X, and still have almost no effect on temperature. Having an idea pop into your head is not evidence of a “likely result.”

Democrats erupt over latest plan on debt ceiling

Many worry that Obama might retreat from his demand that revenue increases, opposed by Republicans, be part of any plan to slash the federal deficit.

http://www.latimes.com/

No new taxes? Oh the unimaginable horror.

Record heat, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, typhoons, volcanoes, millions starving, drought, floods. March was 11 degrees above normal. Temperatures for the year were 3.4 degrees above normal.

Prior to Hansen’s 2000 data corruption correction, 1921 was the second hottest year on record in the US – after 1934.

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