SANJAYA DHAKAL
Although the share of this small and impoverished Himalayan Kingdom, itself, in the global emission of the Green House Gases (GHGs) is almost nil, the consequences of global warming and climate change are more sharply felt here with the receding snowlines, Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOF) events, flash floods and so on.
Aug 3 04
All of a sudden, we are at reality time. Ignore the scare depicted in the recent film, "Day After Tomorrow". Ignore even Prof. Lovelock, declaring his support for nuclear plants to stop global warming. Without all that, your own experienece will tell you that we have hotter days, longer summers, scantier rainfall and floods spreading wider.
By Alex Kirby
BBC News Online environment correspondent
Livestock needs a lot of water
World water supplies will not be enough for our descendants to enjoy the sort of diet the West eats now, experts say. The World Water Week in Stockholm will be told the growth in demand for meat and dairy products is unsustainable.
A death sentence here and abroad
by Leuren Moret
Saturday 21st August 2004
“Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” - Henry Kissinger, quoted in “Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW’s in Vietnam”
Vietnam was a chemical war for oil, permanently contaminating large regions and countries downriver with Agent Orange, and environmentally the most devastating war in world history. But since 1991, the U.S. has staged four nuclear wars using depleted uranium weaponry, which, like Agent Orange, meets the U.S. government definition of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Vast regions in the Middle East and Central Asia have been permanently contaminated with radiation.
VICKIE CHACHERE, Associated Press Writer, Monday, August 16, 2004
Driven from splintered trailers, roofless condos and powerless suburban homes, Hurricane Charley's hungry victims sweated through long lines Monday to find food, showers and drinking water three days after the storm left their lives in shambles.
Barbara Winslow and her fiance were sitting in a van with five antsy children in a thunderstorm waiting for a chance to collect diapers, food, water and ice at a National Guard comfort station.
"After you live through it, you can't imagine how desperate you get," she said. "You don't have anything. If the end of the world came tomorrow, this is what it would look like."
Sun Aug 15, 6:35 PM ET
By Michael Peltier
PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (Reuters) - The death toll from Hurricane Charley climbed to 16 on Sunday as thousands left homeless in southwest Florida sorted through wreckage and President Bush rushed in to view the devastation.
The fiercest hurricane to strike Florida in 12 years, Charley's 145 mph winds destroyed mobile homes, ripped roofs off houses and damaged tens of thousands of other buildings when it smashed ashore on Friday.
Kolkata, Aug 04 : West Bengal Water Investigation and Development Department Minister Nandagopal Bhattacharjee today said the state government will introduce a bill in the winter session of the Assembly for conservation of ground water and surface water.
PROUT Editor's note: The article on Contai Basin Planning provides concrete strategies for preparation during times of flooding.
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DHAKA, Aug 2 (IPS) - Although water levels in some of Bangladesh's overflowing rivers started dropping several days ago after sweeping away homes, crops, roads, bridges and schools, relief agencies warn the flood situation in most of the country's affected districts is still alarming with many Bangladeshis in dire need of emergency aid.
by David Jhirad, World Resources Institute
August 03, 2004
Critics who have dismissed the recent report commissioned by the Pentagon, An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security, should instead view it as a clarion call. Small risks which can result in catastrophic consequences - even if they cannot be precisely quantified - should not be ignored. Neither should the government use it as excuse to postpone effective action.
