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[VMVZ News] Global warming to deplete Great Lakes even more: Meanwhile, eight U.S. states and two Canadian provincesbordering the lakes should enact a compact to preventdiversions of lake water to an "increasingly thirsty world,"Buchsbaum said. All but three states have passed the compact,after which the federal governments of both countries would beasked to ratify it.

 [Climate Crisis Coalition - Daily News] Daily News: By Andrew Stern, Reuters, May 29, 2008. “Global warming will likely drain more water from the Great Lakes and pose added pollution threats to the region’s vulnerable ecosystem, .

[Open Left - Front Page] Global Suicide Pact: Darfur Engine, Pt 2: This month's National Geographic[3] notes that global warming induced climate from increased carbon dioxide is already burning away the water stored in the glaciers of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau that feeds China's Yellow River, with over 3,000 of 4,077 lakes in one county there having dried up. They profile a Tibetan herding family that lost the better part of the animals that supported their nomadic lifestyle during the drought and had to accept a resettlement package from the Chinese government, because they simply couldn't support themselves anymore.

[Great Lakes For All] Great Lakes facing a one-two punch: protection standards, a legally durable and enforceable ban on diversions, and a regional governance mechanism with the authority to adaptively manage the Great Lakes based on the best available science. Before climate change puts even more stress on our water resources, the region’s political leaders need to approve the Great Lakes compact to be better prepared for the coming water crises.

 [Louis J. Sheehan] origins: "The Unknown Black Book" is the first publication of materials excluded for political reasons from "The Black Book," a collection of survivors' testimony that was compiled toward the end of the war but then ran afoul of the Stalinist regime -- even after it was heavily censored -- and fell into political limbo for decades. The project traces its roots to February 1942, when the Soviet government established the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC) in an effort to drum up international support as the Red Army struggled to withstand the onslaught of the German Wehrmacht.

 [kevin young] SELECTED WRITING SAMPLES 2002-2007 by Kevin Young: After the breakdown of the Franco-Russian alliance Napoleon mobilized an army of 600,000 hoping to crush the Russians just inside their borders. The Russian army had other ideas, retreating repeatedly and drawing them deeper into both their territory.

 [Coyote Blog] Phoenix Envy: Annual variations certainly affect it, but no one, and I mean no one, has created a climate model with the resolution to say that if there is substantial global warming in the future,the effect on the Colorado River flow will be X or Y. Even the IPCC admits it really doesn't have a clue how world temperature changes might affect river flows, or the water cycle in general. 

 [OLYecology weblog] 245 - Earth's Tree News: 23) The deputy director FPF vide his letter dated March 14 had furnished a detailed enquiry report to the chief conservator of forests, Jammu. The then range officer, Gandhri, Mohammed Iqbal Sohail had ”˜engineered’ a cloudburst showing that 560 trees (37,000 cubic feet) in compartment numbers 55, 56, 57 and 58 were washed away in the natural calamity, which according to him happened on August 11, 2002.

 [Climate Crisis Coalition - Daily News] Weekend Summary: “The most inconvenient truth about global warming is that we cannot stop it. Please don’t mistake me for a skeptic. I’m fully persuaded by the evidence that climate change is real and serious”¦ The gases that are warming the Earth have ...

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