Montana Quake/ Ebola FUnding/ US-China Climate Change

Missoulian: Magnitude 4.0 quake shakes northwest Montana

M3.7 - 51km W of Lakeside, Montana

Missoulian: Ebola workers ask Congress for help
Chairwoman Mikulski Statement on Funding Request from White House to Fight Ebola Here and Abroad
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), Chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today issued the following statement on the President’s request for emergency supplemental funding to address the Ebola outbreak:
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Chairwoman Mikulski Announces Full Committee Hearing on the U.S. Government Response to Ebola Outbreak
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Wednesday, November 12, 2014, at 2:00 p.m., U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), Chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, will hold a Full Committee hearing on the U.S. Government response to the Ebola outbreak.
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Missoulian: US-China climate deal aims to prod others to act
Climate Change And President Obama's Action Plan
“The latest report tells us that those who deny climate change are playing with fire. And all of the evidence that has been predicted for the last 20 or 30 years is not just coming back the way it was predicted; it’s coming back faster and it’s coming back with bigger consequences than were predicted.

For anybody in public life, the warning is clear. It means the precautionary principle has to be applied, and you need to take steps to deal with them. Scientists now predict that by the end of the century, the sea could rise by a full meter. Now a meter, 39 inches, may not seem like a lot to everybody here, but I got news for you: It is enough to displace hundreds of millions of people, and it is enough to throw a multi-billion dollar monkey wrench into the global economy.”