[Wash Times] Earth isn’t the only planet grappling with climate change, although this other orb doesn’t have much in the way of fossil fuel emissions or a 97 percent of scientific "consensus" on global warming.
Newly published evidence suggests Mars is experiencing global warming as it emerges from an ice age.
The red planet, which moved closer to the Earth on Monday than at any other time since 2005, has retreated from a glacial period that would have covered large areas in white before the thaw about 370,000 years ago, according to a study published Friday in the journal Science.
The research was conducted using an instrument on board the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter that allowed an unprecedented examination of "the most recent Martian ice age recorded in the planet’s north polar ice cap," according to a NASA press release.
Research was led by planetary scientist Isaac B. Smith at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
"We found an accelerated accumulation rate of ice in the uppermost 100 to 300 meters of the polar cap," Mr. Smith said in a statement on the SRI website. "The volume and thickness of ice matches model predictions from the early 2000s. Radar observations of the ice cap provide a detailed history of ice accumulation and erosion associated with climate change."
[IOL] Berlin - The Dalai Lama said in an interview published on Thursday that Europe has accepted "too many" refugees, and that they should eventually return to help rebuild their home countries.
"When we look into the face of every single refugee, especially the children and women, we can feel their suffering," said the Tibetan spiritual leader, who has himself lived in exile for over half a century.
"A human being who is a bit more fortunate has the duty to help them. On the other hand, there are too many now," he said, according to the German translation of the interview in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
"Europe, for example Germany, cannot become an Arab country," he added with a laugh, the daily reported. Obviously he's not visited the Netherlands or The Hague recently.
"Germany is Germany.
"There are so many that in practice it becomes difficult."
The Dalai Lama added that "from a moral point of view too, I think that the refugees should only be admitted temporarily".
"The goal should be that they return and help rebuild their countries."
Germany last year took in 1.1 million people fleeing war and misery in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries, but the flow was reduced sharply by the decision of Balkan countries to close their borders to people travelling through Turkey and into northern Europe.
The Dalai Lama also said in the interview, conducted in Dharamsala, seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile in northern India, that he hopes to one day return to Tibet.
"Maybe in a few years," said the 80-year-old.
"If an opportunity for my return arises, or at least for a short visit, that would be a source of great joy."
Thousands of Tibetans have fled their Himalayan homeland since China sent in troops in 1951, and many have settled in India.
[DAWN] ’INTERESTING’ times are upon Pak-US ties again. A US drone strike killed Mullah Mansour in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... ; the proposed US F-16 sale to Pakistain formally expired. The B.O. regime failed to convince politicians on Capitol Hill to allow use of US public funds to complete the transaction and Pakistain refused to pay for them in toto; and the US Congress is moving to put further Haqqani network-related conditionalities on assistance to Pakistain.
Obvious commonality here: the US stance on Pakistain is hardening again. What’s up?
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[Wash Times] Earth isn’t the only planet grappling with climate change, although this other orb doesn’t have much in the way of fossil fuel emissions or a 97 percent of scientific "consensus" on global warming.
