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'Where is the sense of urgency? We need somebody to take charge. We’ve had an earthquake followed by fire, then a tsunami, then radiation, and now snow. It’s everything. 'There is nothing left. The world needs to step in. Where are the Americans? The Japanese are too proud to ask, but we need help and we need it now.' In one of the shelters for the evacuated, Motoko was worried for her daughter Yukiko, a teacher missing with her class of children. She told the Standard there is still no official list of those who have been evacuated: 'For all I know my daughter thinks I’m dead and I have no way of knowing if she is alive because mobile phones here don’t work here. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1366934/Japan-earthquake-tsunami-10k-missing-Ishinomaki-death-toll-set-hit-25k.html#ixzz1Guq1M64t

Boreal Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia : "Until a few million years ago, the global climate was warmer than at present, especially at higher latitudes, and many temperate-climate species were distributed across North America and Eurasia via Alaska and Siberia. The sharply cooler climate of the past few million years [the ice ages] eliminated a temperate-zone connection between North America and Eurasia, but common Laurasian origins and a long history of temperate-climate land bridges account for the botanical similarities between the temperate floras on the two continents. So a global warming would be a return to the usual global temperature?