According to the recent Multi-Sponsor Surveys’ 2009 Economic Impact Market Segmentation Study Gallup Survey Group, Princeton, NJ, 49% of employed adults expressed worry about potential job loss, while 32% admitted to “significant” financial troubles.

But amid numerous reports of havoc and despair created by the current economic climate, Howard McIlvain, a local small-business entrepreneur here in Phoenix, reports a very different experience during this recession.

White House issues dire climate report [Shared via AddThis]
The Arizona Republic offered this story on Wednesday’s front page:
Hotter summers, shorter winters, more intense storms, deepening droughts and melting glaciers add up to one clear conclusion, scientists said Tuesday:
Earth’s climate is already changing, and the effects will grow worse if the threat is ignored.
The scientists made [...]