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Bradford Plumer relays the implications for women if and/or when the time comes that humans must adapt to climate change.

From Be Nice and Share by Brad Plumer:

“[T]he testimony of Lovelock, Hansen, and the rest of organized science makes it very clear that it would be a wise investment, indeed the wisest possible investment, to spend large sums of government money to hasten this transition to solar power. Where should it come from? One obvious candidate is the Pentagon budget, now devoted to defending us against dangers considerably less threatening than climate change.”

The irony of our situation is that we are better informed today than we have ever been. It’s like existentialism writ large.

What the Bilal Hussein detention reveals about the Bush administration

Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change: Sir Nicholas Stern, Head of the Government Economics Service and Adviser to the Government on the economics of climate change and development, is delighted to present his report to the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the Economics of Climate Change.

Talking Points Memo:

Here’s the story of another member of Congress who went to the floor of the House on Abramoff’s behalf to denounce a teenager filipino girl who was held captive as a sex slave on the islands. This stuff isn’t just about misfiled disclosures and skyboxes. It’s real dark.

Update here. Earlier here, here and here.