(1) the 1993 tv movie, "The Fire Next Time" - the year is 2017, and the unrelenting heat wave and coastal flooding brought on by the greenhouse effect are ravaging the earth. While scientists and politicians argue and lay blame, ordinary citizens pay the price for a world sickened by pollution and economic disaster(library summary) - prescient, isn't it?
(2)60 minutes 8/19/07 - documenting 50% loss of an antarctic penguin population - from warming causing a loss of the krill on which the penguin newborns depend -
(3)see Elizabeth Kolbert's recent book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: man, nature, and climate change, and her series of articles on global warming in the New Yorker issues of 4/25/05, 5/2/05, 5/9/05; and 1/9/06 and 11/20/06 -
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)