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A Sea Change On Climate Change?
Global Warming could drive millions more Mexicans into the United States in search of work by 2080 due to diminishing Crop Yields in Mexico, a study released Monday showed. "Depending on the Warming scenarios used and adaptation levels assumed ... Climate Change is estimated to induce 1.4 to 6.7 million adult Mexicans (or two percent to 10 percent of the current population aged 15-65 years) to emigrate as a result of declines in agricultural Productivity alone," the study said. Global Warming...

Climate change and immigration: Warming linked to possible mass Mexican migration to U.S.
Climbing temperatures are expected to raise Sea Levels and increase droughts, floods, heat waves and Wildfires. Now, scientists are predicting another consequence of Climate Change: mass migration to the United States. Between 1.4 million and 6.7 million Mexicans could migrate to the U.S. by 2080 as Climate Change reduces Crop Yields and agricultural production in Mexico , according to a study published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The number could...

Global warming undeniable: scientists
AP Scientists from around the world are providing even more evidence of Global Warming. "A comprehensive review of key Climate indicators confirms the world is Warming and the past decade was the warmest on record," the annual State of the Climate report declares. Compiled by more than 300 scientists from 48 countries, the report said its analysis of 10 indicators that are "clearly and directly related to Surface Temperatures, all tell the same story: Global Warming is undeniable." Concern...

Conversations can 'couple' brain patterns
Princeton, N.J., July 27 (UPI) -- Some people in conversation with each other truly have a meeting of the minds as their brain patterns fall into step with each other, researchers say. Scientists at Princeton University in New Jersey performed MRI brain scans of volunteers as they listened to a woman recounting a story and discovered a "coupling" phenomenon, a study published by the National Academy of Sciences said. The scans showed that the listeners' brain patterns tracked those of the...

Global Warming Means More Illegal Aliens
From the very scientific Scientific American : Climate Change May Mean More Mexican Immigration A reduction in crop yields could spur even more migration from south to North, a new analysis finds By David Biello    July 26, 2010   Climate Change’s impacts on crop yields may force as many as seven million Mexicans to emigrate to the U.S. over the next 70 years, according to research published July 26 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . The...

Study: Climate could drive immigration
Los Angeles, July 26 (UPI) -- Scientists are predicting Climate Change could prompt mass migrations into the United States. A study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says between 1.4 million and 6.7 million Mexicans could migrate to the United States by 2080 as Climate Change reduces crop yields and agricultural production in Mexico, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday. The figure could represent 10 percent of the current population of Mexican ages 15...

America - where dreams come true
It seems like only yesterday when I was a very young boy living in a little village in Mexico called Calvillo, in the state of Aguascalientes. I remember that every Sunday morning, after church, I would run to the outskirts of my village and sit on an old tree stump. With my eyes squinting from the early sunlight - sitting on my wooden throne - I loved watching an endless caravan of human cargo approach my village from the north. I would sit, daydream and wonder: How far north does one have to...

* Here's Where to Hear a Radio Commentary by Me (Newly Broadcast by my Local NPR Station)
This Friday, a commentary by me was broadcast on my local NPR station. Some of the main ideas in it will be familiar to long-time readers of NSB, but this concise rendering of them -and one of the ideas- is new. To give you an idea of the topic, I will simply quote here the first (rather long!) sentence: Have you ever wondered why people who are willing to spend hundreds of Billions of dollars every year to protect the United States against any possible threat from an external...

climate reconstructions and future climate projections
What would be the consequences for the estimations of future Climate Change if the reconstructions of the Climate of the past few millennia were wrong? Since estimations of future Climate Change are presently solely based on model simulations, they would not need to be modified. However, past reconstructions do have a subtle and, for many perhaps surprising, implications in the understanding of global Climate, and in this sense they also project into the future. Projection of future Climate...

WMRA: The Warrior Ideal of Manhood and Global Warming (2010-07-23)
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Malaysia may close more dive sites
AFP Malaysia may close three more popular dive sites in the South China Sea that have been hit by coral bleaching blamed on Global Warming, an official said on Wednesday. Last week authorities announced the closure of nine dive sites on the tropical islands of Tioman and Redang until the end of October in an attempt to relieve stress on the fragile marine ecosystems. The two islands are located off the East Coast of Malaysia in the South China Sea. Marine authorities said they were studying a...

Migration Troubling, Especially in Michigan
"Cry me a future/Where the revelations run amok/Ladies and gentlemen/Lions and tigers come running/Just to steal your luck." — From "Especially in Michigan," by Red Hot Chili Peppers. United Van Lines has released mid-year data on where it takes its clients to and from in the 48 contiguous states. Once again, Michigan finds itself in the number one position. That is, 61.6 percent of all Michigan-specific UVL traffic is outbound. Fortunately, this is down from 70 percent during the same...

Study: 10 pct. of Mexicans may emigrate to US due to climate change, decreased crop yields
"Depending on the warming scenarios used and adaptation levels assumed... Climate Change is estimated to induce 1.4 to 6.7 million adult Mexicans (or two percent to 10 percent of the current population aged 15-65 years) to emigrate as a result of declines in agricultural Productivity alone," the study said. Researchers led by Michael Oppenheimer of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University estimated the sensitivity of migration to Climate Change and...

Climate change equals more Mexican migration: study
By Maggie Fox , Health and Science Editor Washington | Mon Jul 26, 2010 5:30pm EDT Washington (Reuters) - Continued Climate Change will drive Mexican farm workers to migrate to the United States in greater numbers, environmental experts predicted on Monday. For every 10 percent of lost Crop Yields, 2 percent more Mexicans will leave and most will try to come to the United States, Michael Oppenheimer of Princeton University in New Jersey and colleagues predicted. The study touches on two...

Tories attack Ignatieff’s national-unity refrain
A s the Harper government gets thumped over its decision to scrap a mandatory Census Conservative Strategists are trying to turn the channel, accusing Michael Ignatieff of “playing with fire” and “recklessly” making every issue into one of national unity. In a memo circulated Tuesday to MPs and supporters, the Tories note a “disturbing trend” on Mr. Ignatieff’s part as they document the number of times he has talked about national unity as he tours the...

Voluntary census deletes questions about unpaid work
S tatistics Canada has removed questions about unpaid work from its replacement questionnaire for the contentious long-form Census – an omission critics fear will lead to misdirected policy for seniors, women and Children. Industry Minister Tony Clement has repeatedly defended the government's decision to axe the mandatory long Census by saying it will be replaced by a voluntary survey that asks the same questions. But the voluntary survey, called the National Household Survey, is not an...

Notes on Climate Change
The first is basic economics. When the problem is resource scarcity, companies and individuals have a powerful incentive to become more efficient. It keeps their costs down ... But Global Warming is different. The fact that Carbon Emissions are Warming the planet doesn't make it more expensive to produce those Emissions. So companies do not have an ever-increasing incentive to emit less - the way they would if the problem were, say, a lack of oil. Global Warming doesn't solve...

Op-Ed Columnist: The Right and the Climate
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Weather or Not there is Climate Change
© Tom Toles Yes, I know that weather is not the same as Climate , but since conservative pundits repeatedly called Global Warming a big Hoax every time there was a Snow Storm last winter , I wonder if they are saying anything now that this year is turning out to be the Hottest in recorded history . © Dan Wasserman  If you liked this, you might also like these related posts: Climate Change Denial

Judge Blocks Parts of Arizona Immigration Law
By MIRIAM JORDAN A Federal Judge blocked key sections of Arizona's tough new Immigration law on Wednesday, granting the Obama Administration's request for an injunction based on the belief that Immigration matters are the purview of the Federal Government. View Full Image Associated Press Two woman walk along the U.S.-Mexico Border showing graffiti that reads "the walls" in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, Tuesday, July 27. U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton agreed to enjoin several provisions,...

Police Interview Al Gore in Sex Assault Case, Says Report
NEW YORK (CBS) Portland Police questioned former U.S. Vice President Al Gore in San Francisco Thursday regarding renewed allegations that he sexually assaulted Massage Therapist Molly Hagerty in 2006, according to t-v station KATU. On July 1, Portland Police re-opened their investigation into the red-haired masseuse's claims that Gore, who was in Portland as part of a Global Warming speaking tour, attempted to sexually Assault her during a Massage at the posh downtown Hotel Lucia on Oct. 24,...

Conservatives praise three provinces for introducing cap-and-trade system
T he federal Conservative Government says it is pleased to learn Canada’s three largest provinces are working independently with two U.S. States to introduce a cap-and-trade system that would put a Price Tag on Greenhouse-gas Emissions. But critics say the Government is happy only because the provincial action will reduce the pressure for a national cap-and trade program – something that would not play well in Alberta. It was announced on Tuesday that Ontario, Quebec and British...

Right Movement - Wrong Slogan?
Michael Medved writes that if Conservatives want to succeed in taking our government back, we need to drop the popular but misguided slogan about "taking our country back." [...] Yes, an arrogantly incompetent president has combined with a corrupt collection of Nanny-state, leftist hacks to grab (temporary) control of the Washington levers of power, but that doesn't mean that America itself has been seized or stolen. Clear-thinking Conservatives can never lose sight of the fact that the...

Video: Liz Cheney praises righty blogs, tears into Obama at Red State conference
Verrry shrewd positioning here by LC, ingratiating herself with the rightroots ahead of a possible congressional run. She was always going to do well with online donations given her Grassroots popularity, but the more she courts bloggers the greater the odds that she’ll be the first Republican in a House race to make big bank on Internet contributions. Not that the daughter of Dick Cheney really needs small-money Donors, but every bit helps. Watch the first half of the first clip for...

Why the Left Hates Conservatives
to anonymous comments by angry leftists on conservative blogs — such things exist on the right as well — but to mainstream, elite liberal Journalists. There is simply nothing analogous among elite conservative Journalists. Yes, nearly all Conservatives believe that the Left is leading America to ruin. But while there is plenty of conservative anger over this fact, there is little or nothing on the right to match the Left’s hatred of conservative individuals. Would mainstream...