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Global warming hits home
Posted by Salon: Andrew Leonard on October 30th, 2012
Salon: In the middle of Monday night`s Eastern seaboard chaos - the power transformers exploding in sheets of white light, the drowned carousels and vanishing boardwalks - I saw a photograph posted on Facebook so arresting I tweeted it instantly without thinking.
The picture showed floodwaters pushing through the closed door of an elevator shaft into the Hoboken PATH station. The image captured the sheer terror and sense of helplessness provoked by rising floodwaters more succinctly than hours of cable...
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The Texas climate change solution: God
Posted by Salon: Andrew Leonard on April 21st, 2011
Salon: After months of a historically unprecedented drought, devastating wildfires are raging across more than a million acres of the state of Texas. Republican Gov. Rick Perry's response? He's officially declaring the next three days as "Days of Prayer for Rain in the State of Texas." WHEREAS, throughout our history, both as a state and as individuals, Texans have been strengthened, assured and lifted up through prayer; it seems right and fitting that the people of Texas should join together in prayer...