Last week, LBN had all sorts of environmental doomsday news. This week

[zonkers]

I don't see one. News cycles so strange. Also, it always bothers me that all news slows to a crawl at night and on weekends. News should be popping 24/7 like Vegas. Just a few observations.

[BuyingThyme]

1. I think last week was supposed to be the End, also.

Some guy quit his job, and everything.

I wonder what that guy's doing now.

[Erika]

2. Yeah, where is the Rapture?

Gog and Magog battled. W has been the solicited and ordained hero of the Rapture group, but nothing has happened.

We need answers.

[neweurope]

3. Oh, here's one: One fourth of all bird species are endangered.

German link, sorry:
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,425014,00.html

One fourth! Every year one species of bird will die out. Up until now scientists have thought one would become extinct every four years.

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[Up2Late]

4. You must have missed this from "The Guardian" about the "Climate Porn"

'Climate porn' blamed for global warming 'despair'

Matt Weaver
Thursday August 3, 2006
Guardian Unlimited

Government and media organisations were today accused of undermining efforts to tackle global warming by using alarmist language that amounts to "climate porn".

The "apocalyptic" way in which climate change is often portrayed in the press and on government websites succeeds only in "thrilling" people while undermining practical efforts to tackle the problem, according to Labour's favourite thinktank, the Institute for Public Policy Research.

It analysed reports of climate change in 600 articles, 90 television adverts and news clips, as well as websites run by government and green groups.

A report on the project, published today, found that the issue was discussed in wildly divergent ways, and it argued that this meant the message to the public on climate change was "confusing, contradictory and chaotic".

(more at link) <http://politics.guardian.co.uk/green/story/0,,1836545,00.html>

Here's a link to the Report that is refered to by The Guardian: <http://www.ippr.org.uk/ecomm/files/warm_words.pdf>

<http://www.ippr.org.uk/latestnews/>