Archive for December 1st, 2015

How ISIS & Boko Haram Profit From Climate Change

Daily Beast: In the dark early hours of this Monday morning, the presidents of the United States and France stood together with the mayor of Paris on a mostly empty Paris boulevard. Barack Obama, François Hollande and Mayor Anne Hidalgo each placed a single, simple white rose among the wreaths and flowers and French flags, the photos of victims and the votive candles at the makeshift shrine before the Bataclan concert hall where terrorists murdered 90 of the 130 people they slaughtered in coordinated attacks...

See How Climate Change Could Drown Cities Around World

Time: This week, 150 nations have gathered together in Paris for the 21st Conference of the Parties to discuss combating climate change. But the global leaders aren`t the only ones voicing concern. The research group Climate Central released images of an artist`s impression of climate change`s possible effect on cities across the globe. Before and after pictures predict that cities such as Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro could be heavily immersed in water if the world was four degrees warmer. Watch the...