A “synthesis” report on the climate prepared by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is being released today by UNSG BAN Ki-Moon, who decided soon after his election that taking on global warming and other signs of climate change would be lofty but not too controversial goals for his term in office. The [...]
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Here, we are told, there are other problems that are bigger, more important, more pressing than pollution and the environment. “Politics”, for example, is both the explanation of what is wrong, and of why we can do nothing about it. Yet, every hour of every day, the problem is growing. Who do Palestinians think is [...]
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The announcement, widely predicted, is just in. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, jointly, to the UN Panel on Climate Change and to former U.S. Vice President Al Gore.
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Time Magazine has an appropriately sceptical and sarcastic account of yesterdays “high-level” meeting at the UN on how to stop or stall climate change: “Though political awareness of the need to grapple with climate change was clearly at an all-time high — scores of national leaders don’t suddenly convene at the U.N. without a decent [...]
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A guest writer in Haaretz says that “According to UN Relief and Works Agency’s reports of the past few years to the UN institutions in New York, the situation of the sanitation infrastructures in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip is one of the worst in the world”. Read the whole Haaretz article here. [...]
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The Associated Press is reporting today that “Arctic ice has shrunk to the lowest level on record, new satellite images show, raising the possibility that the Northwest Passage that eluded famous explorers will become an open shipping lane. The European Space Agency said nearly 200 satellite photos this month taken together showed an ice-free passage [...]
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In a country that opened a new international airport (Ben Gurion) almost two years ago without proper working sewage infrastructure — and it is still not installed — it has to be said that environmental awareness is not a top priority. No time, say some. Security is more important, say others. Well, I’m sorry, but [...]
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Humans survived, but Neanderthals disappeared from Earth more than 20,000 years ago. There is a new theory that Neanderthals were made extinct not by competition with Humans, but by climate change. Does that mean that humans can continue to live with climate change? Dave Mosher. LiveScience Staff Writer, writing on LiveScience.com, reports that a team [...]
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This article asks real questions about the manipulation of climate change — real though global warming undoubtedly is: Whistleblowers Get Kiss-Off: Pro-Man-Made Global Warming Crowd Will Do Anything to ‘Sex-Up’ the Threat by Licia Corbella – February 11, 2007 – The Calgary Sun http://calgarysun.canoe.ca/NewsStand/ News/Columnists/Corbella_Licia/2007/02/11/3587074-sun.html “It’s too bad the world’s media doesn’t hold the UN’s [...]
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The name says it all – both the “intergovernmental panel” part, and the “climate change” part. The U.S. administration calls the report useful — but sees no use in talking about carbon emissions (the subject of the Kyodo Protocol, which the U.S. refuses to sign on to. The main point of the Kyodo Protocol, trading [...]
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