Climate Change Update: Al Gore Compares Climate Change To Civil Rights Fight | FoxNews.com

Al Gore Compares Climate Change To Civil Rights Fight | FoxNews.com: "“And we still have racism, God knows, but it's so different now and so much better. And we have to win the conversation on climate.”

Gore also wants people to give up meat and go organic to combat global warming.

"Industrial agriculture is a part of the problem,” Gore said. “The shift toward a more meat-intensive diet,” the clearing of forest areas in many parts of the world in order to raise more cattle and the reliance on synthetic nitrogen for fertilizer are also problems, he added.

Gore advocated organic farming and relying on “more productive, safer methods that put carbon back in the soil” to produce “safer and better food.”

Gore also railed against the mining industry, calling mountaintop-removal mining a “horrible practice” that is “just incredibly harmful to the environment and to people.”"

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Climate Change Update: El Nino weather patterns in the Pacific Ocean double the risk of civil war across Africa, Asia and the Americas

Radio Australia:Pacific Beat:Story:Link between climate change and conflict: HARPER: Historians have suggested that changes in climate may have contributed to the collapse of various ancient kingdoms. Now, researchers at Columbia University are looking at whether unusually hot and dry weather conditions contribute to civil war today. A new study has found El Nino weather patterns in the Pacific Ocean double the risk of civil war across Africa, Asia and the Americas.

The report's lead author is Solomon Hsiang.

HSIANG: What we found was that when we look at tropical countries, when the globe is in its cooler and wetter La Nina state the risk of conflicts throughout the tropics was about 3 per cent per year. So that means three out of one hundred countries were to be expected to begin a new civil war. But when the global climate shifted into it's hotter and drier El Nino stage the risk of civil war rose to about 6 per cent. So that's actually a doubling. And this is actualy a very large effect in absolute terms. What it means is that about one out of five civil conflicts since 1950 were in some way influenced by El Nino.

Wellness Tip 4d Changing Climate: Increase your Vegetable Intake & prevent Lifestyle Disease

From nature’s garden: Simple way to a healthy body - www.daily.bhaskar.com: Vegetable like bitter gourd are very effecting in fighting stomach worms and tomatoes increases blood and makes your skin glow. Lemon helps improve digestion and spinach makes our bones stronger.

Apart from these, green leafy vegetables are a rich source of iron and should be included in our diet.

Cucumber purifies blood and improves blood flow. Garlic helps reduce chances if blood clot and heart diseases.

Climate Change Update: The Center for Public Integrity: SLIDESHOW: A guide to the Republican candidates' views on climate change

The Center for Public Integrity: SLIDESHOW: A guide to the Republican candidates' views on climate change: Many if not all scientists and climate specialists agree that the Earth's climate is changing and that humans have driven those changes. Both the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the U.S. Global Change Research Program , the leading international and domestic climate research organizations on climate change, report similar conclusions. "Global temperature has increased over the past 50 years," noted the U.S. research program in a 2009 report . "This observed increase is due primarily to human-induced emissions of heat-trapping gases."

Of the front-runners, only former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has gone on the record as accepting climate change; he stresses the importance of reducing pollution that contributes to global warming. Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry take the opposite view, criticizing the EPA, which Bachmann vows to shut down except for overseeing conservation. Congress and President Richard Nixon, a Republican, created the agency in 1970, in response to growing public demand for cleaner air, water and land.

Wellness Tip 4d Changing Climate:Be holistic! Go on a macrobiotic diet

Natural Foodie: Macrobiotic classes help make healthy food a habit | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram: Silverman describes the macrobiotic diet as such: "Eliminate sugar, dairy and meat. Eat brown rice. And eat a lot of fresh vegetables."

Sounds fairly simple. But for those who follow a macrobiotic lifestyle, it's not just about eating certain things and avoiding others; it's also about seeking out food that has balanced energy.

"It's looking at food not just as carbohydrates and proteins," Silverman said. "It's looking at food as energy."

Using the macrobiotic spectrum of yin and yang, sugar and alcohol are considered extreme yin, and meat and dairy are considered extreme yang. In the middle are cooked whole grains, beans, vegetables, seaweed and fish.

Silverman said well-known macrobiotic teacher Michio Kushi once said to her: "When you eat whole foods, you think holistic. When you eat processed food, you have fragmented thinking."

Climate Change Update: 32 percent of respondents in a Post-ABC News poll said global warming should be a high priority for Obama and Congress

Huntsman, Romney believe in global warming, but not action - The Fix - The Washington Post: While a majority of Americans support environmental regulation, in January of this year only 32 percent of respondents in a Post-ABC News poll said global warming should be a high priority for Obama and Congress. The same number told Gallup this March that they see it as a serious threaty.

“I would be surprised if President Obama talks about the science of climate change in the 2012 campaign,” said George David Banks, a senior staff member for Republicans on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Just believing in global warming is risky territory for Republicans. Backing environmental regulation would be a dangerous leap in the primary with little hope of payoff in the general election.

Climate Change Update: Despite Rick Perry, consensus on climate change keeps strengthening - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post

Despite Rick Perry, consensus on climate change keeps strengthening - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post: American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, UC Santa Barbara’s William Freudenberg gave a presentation in which he revealed that “new scientific findings [since the IPCC] are found to be more than twenty times as likely to indicate that global climate disruption is ‘worse than previously expected,’ rather than ‘not as bad as previously expected.’ ”

Granted, it’s always possible that what’s going on here is that, as Perry has charged, “there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling into their projects.” Though that theory’s looking weaker by the day, too: The National Science Foundation, for instance, just wrapped up its inquiry into Penn State climatologist Michael Mann, one of the central figures in the Climategate flap. Fox News had earlier trumpeted the NSF inquiry as the “final say” on Mann’s research. And what did the NSF conclude? “Finding no research misconduct or other matter raised by the various regulations and laws discussed above, this case is closed.”