And the Nobel Prize for Climate Change Goes To…

Alfred Nobel.

When Swedish chemist and inventor of dynamite Alfred Nobel died in 1896, he left his considerable fortune to fund annual prizes given to individuals who had conferred “the greatest benefits” to humanity during the previous year. But his vision only included five fields deemed worthy of recognition at the time: chemistry, physics, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace. Later, Sweden’s central bank also created a sixth prize in economics in his memory.

Nobel wasn’t prescient. He couldn’t have foreseen the that climate change would become the defining crisis of future generations, one that would call on the courage, insight and ingenuity of our most brilliant scientists, inventors, advocates and political leaders. Helene and Raoul Costa, a French couple now living in Seattle, want to recognize achievements in climate change — and they think Alfred Nobel would have approved.

Read the Nexus Media story by Marlene Cimons - “And the Nobel Prize for Climate Change Goes To…”

Wondering ends - the 'aliens' are us!

by Robert McLean

Mark Bittman - the
New York Times.

My early teenage years were punctuated by thoughts about the inability of world’s nations to focus on any one thing, mainly working together, sharing and peace.

It always seemed that a threat from outside earth, that is extra-terrestrials and now that has happened, but not as imagined by a young boy, rather it is an attack from within – an attack that many don’t see or can’t admit to.

The idea of linking climate change to aliens is discussed by Mark Bittman in a comment piece in the New York Times headed: “The aliens have landed”.