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Cartoon: Running out of time
Mark Wilson is a New York political cartoonist and illustrator who lives in the Adirondacks. He publishes under the pen name Marquil.
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Cartoon: How can we prevent global warming?
Mark Wilson is a New York political cartoonist and illustrator who lives in the Adirondacks. He publishes under the pen name Marquil.
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McKinstry: After Sandy climate change cannot be ignored
Photo credit: Darren McGee
Today’s conversation: cleanup.
Tomorrow’s should be a bit more extreme: the weather.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, in today's Hurricane Sandy presser said extreme weather is a reality, so it must be part of a “longer conversation” when rebuilding New York’s vulnerable infrastructure.
“The frequency of extreme weather situations is way up,” Cuomo after taking an aerial view of the damage...
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"There has been a series of extreme weather incidents," the governor said at a news conference on Tuesday as officials discussed the aftermath of the storm. "That is not a political statement. That is a factual statement. Anyone who says there’s not a dramatic change in weather patterns, I think is denying reality.”
Mark Wilson is a New York political cartoonist and illustrator who lives in the Adirondacks. He publishes under the pen name Marquil.
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Keeler: Hunker down for Hurricane Sandy and contemplate climate change
Photo credit: Newsday / Arnold Miller
In too many past storms -- nothing close to hurricane intensity -- our development has lost power after four consecutive raindrops.
So we confidently expect to be powerless before too many more hours have gone by. That means juicing up everything that can be juiced—cellphones, laptops, an iPad—so we can at least read during the inevitable protracted darkness. Another thing to do in the dark:...
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