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Energy and Global Warming News for June 27th: Dust-Bowl-ification spreads to southern Italy; Clean energy by Nobel Prize-wining Grameen Bank; DC Metro crash symptom of crumbling infrastructure

Posted on June 27, 2009

It's my birthday (how coincidental!), and I'm on a rare plane trip (from a peak oil meeting more on that later), so this will be the only post today. And yes, this is really yesterday's other news. Dust-Bowlification is predicted to happen all over the world see NOAA stunner: humanity faces permanent Dust Bowls in Southwest and around the globe. But it's happening some places now:Deserts crossing MediterraneanThe Sahara Desert is crossing the Mediterranean, according to Italian environmental protection group Legambiente which warns that the livelihoods of 6.5 million people living ...

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