Archive - Jul 2009

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Real Time U.S. National Debt Clock
The National Debt Clock is a billboard-sized running total display which constantly updates to show the current United States gross national debt and each American family's share of the debt. The National Debt Clock It is currently installed on the western side of One Bryant Park, west of Sixth Avenue between 42nd and 43rd Streets in Manhattan, New York City. It was the first debt clock installed anywhere.

WHAT IS THE NATIONAL DEBT TODAY?
$23,116,130,259,152
That's $70,008 for every single person in America.
America's growing debt is the result of simple math — each year, there is a mismatch between spending and revenues.

U.S. National Debt is $11.5 trillion (updated 1 July 2009) and has continued to increase an average of $3.91 billion per day since September 28, 2007! Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper called the U.S. deficit "dangerous". Canada's deficit is short-term and not structural.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper called the U.S. deficit "dangerous"  read more »

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The ocean is warming about 50 percent faster than reported 2 years ago, near the worst-case predictions of the 2007 report by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The heavy rain & severe flooding paralyses central Europe: houses were swept away by rising floodwaters. In England and Wales, around 5 million people in 2 million properties live in flood risk areas.

Rising ocean temperatures near worst-case predictions

The ocean is warming about 50 per cent faster than reported two years ago, according to an update of the latest climate science. A report compiling research presented at a science congress in Copenhagen in March says recent observations are near the worst-case predictions of the 2007 report by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In the case of sea-level rise, it is happening at an even greater rate than projected - largely due to rising ocean temperatures causing thermal expansion of seawater.

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