Media coverage rarely connects the unfolding cataclysms with the climate change that fuels them. We can't guarantee that any specific disaster is caused by our warming atmosphere, but considered together, they fit all the predicted models.
Media coverage rarely connects the unfolding cataclysms with the climate change that fuels them. We can't guarantee that any specific disaster is caused by our warming atmosphere, but considered together, they fit all the predicted models.
"Is this global warming?" "Is climate change to blame?" "Is the weather getting worse?" These are big -- almost existential -- questions. I suspect they are a polite way of asking, "Is this our fault?"
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When major news breaks, people who are not regular news viewers turn to CNN for what they think is important. Now, if CNN could only find a way to make more of their news seem important, they might provide real competition to Fox.
As the interim pastor of Peace Lutheran, I stay in Joplin only three days a week, commuting from my home in Kansas City, Mo. So I rode out the tornado in the motel basement. The motel was south of the storm's path.
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I've never been in a war zone, but I've a feeling tornado-damaged Joplin is as at least as bad as the worst of war zones. One looks at the total devastation in awe.
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Mrs. Thomas would have received a certificate and a copy of the winning essay. The auditorium in which that ceremony was to take place is no longer standing.
Politics is probably the last thing on the minds of those of us watching the news over the past week with mind-numbing images of a leveled Joplin, Missouri. And yet there is a political subtext to these scenes.
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"People and animals face so many uncertainties when they are experiencing a disaster. It is crucial that others who can help, do help."
The damage from disasters lasts long after their stories fade from headlines. This response will require a long-term commitment -- a commitment that's already been made by members of Feeding America.
The tornado in Missouri is just a horrible event, no doubt about it. The crazy weather in the world and the possible connection to a global warming c...
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It's smarter to repeat to yourself the mantra that no single weather event can ever be directly tied to climate change. Just be careful to make sure you don't let yourself wonder why all these record-breaking events are happening in such proximity.
The Federation of Southern Cooperatives and other community-based organizations have emerged as critical bridges between resources and tornado victims in rural areas.
A new Duke study found that drinking water near fracking sites had average methane levels 17 times higher than normal. Meanwhile, the Obama administration formed a blue ribbon panel to look into fracking safety.
Many will come to their churches looking for answers to the question, "Why?" I wonder what their pastors and priests will say to them.
The huge tornado that cut a swath through Tuscaloosa and into North Birmingham was off our scales to measure the intensity of such events; now we are measuring it by human loss and suffering.
The overwhelming violence of the storms -- and their lack of distinction between believer and non-believer -- has served as a catalyst that encourages people of different faiths to work together.