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Newsletter #159 Friday, November 08, 2024: (full newsletter)

Boletín #159 viernes, 08 de noviembre de 2024 (haga clic aquí para ver el boletín completo)

 

CDC: New COVID and Pneumonia Vaccine Advice

Looking for an On-Island Vaccination Source?

Bad Weather Driving: Prepare. Protect. Prevent.

 

CDC: Consejos sobre las Nuevas Vacunas de COVID y Pulmonía

¿Buscando donde se pueden Vacunar en la Isla?

Manejando en Mal Clima: Prepárese, Protejase, Prevenga

 

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Global Warming Moves us Closer to the Ultimate Disaster

By John Cornelison on 1/11/2012 1:34 PM


Doomsday clock moves closer to midnight Numerous articles (including USA Today’s) note that scientists have moved the hands of the doomsday clock toward midnight – as a visible metaphor for our lessened security due to our fuelish ways.  It is notoriously hard to change our social (i.e., automotive) ways, but the consequences of our not taking a long term view are increasingly resulting in massive storm and economic damage today to societies across the globe.

Disaster risks are judged by multiplying the estimated...
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Cost of Global Warming Apparent as US Reaches 12th Mega-Disasters in 2011: each over a Billion $

By John Cornelison on 12/8/2011 8:43 AM


Graphic from IPCC's CBS notes that this year’s 12 disasters costing over 1 billion dollars each surpasses the number seen during all the 1980’s – even with inflation adjustments. In associated reports they note that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s...
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