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[People Port] White House Surprised By Credit Given It For Climate Change Solutions: Washington, DC- (People Port) The world is understanding how serious we are about climate change, energy and disease. Part of a White House press briefing covered the story.
[Worldwatch Institute - China Watch, Food, Renewable Energy, News, Natural Disasters & Peacemaking, e2 - Eye on Earth, News Story, Commentary] Guest Opinion: Global Warming Twenty Years Later: Other species attempt to migrate, but as some are extinguished,their interdependencies can cause ecosystem collapse. Mass extinctions, of morethan half the species on the planet, have occurred several times when the Earthwarmed as much as expected if greenhouse gases continue to increase.Biodiversity recovered, but it required hundreds of thousands of years.
[NDN Blog - NDN Blog] Zakaria: Power Failures: Zakaria is right to suggest that America do what much of the rest of the world seems to know we must: restore American leadership globally by comprehensively tackling climate change and reforming energy policy. He also knows that by doing so, we will address demand for fossil fuels, and fundamentally alter the current energy and economic paradigms.
[SWJ Blog] 8 July SWJ News, Op-Ed, and Events Roundup: India’s prime minister went to the Group of 8 summit meeting in Japan on Monday with his government intact and enough political strength to complete a landmark nuclear agreement with the United States, ending months of speculation that either his government or the agreement, on which he has staked his reputation, would collapse. The prime minister, Manmohan Singh, told reporters traveling with him to the summit meeting that his administration would “soon” complete an agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, though he did not offer a date, his spokesman, Sanjaya Baru, said here.
[Global Dashboard] Kicking Kyoto: Now you may wish to argue that EU emissions would have risen faster were it not for Kyoto, or that prospective EU policies will quickly reverse the increase in emissions among EU 15 members excluding the UK and Germany. But it seems to me that unless you are prepared to argue that Kyoto had something to do with Margaret Thatcher’s politically motivated dismantling of the coal industry in the 1980’s and the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc, you ought to concede the point that Kyoto, and Kyoto motivated policies have, to date, failed to reduce EU emissions.
[NDN Blog - NDN Blog] Wise words about the common challenges facing all of us: Meanwhile, climate change and environmental degradation threaten the future of our planet. Growing populations and rising wealth place unprecedented stress on the earth's resources.
[The Interstitial Species] Numbers racket: Why the economy is worse than we know: Bush, came into focus in 1990, when Michael Boskin, the chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers, proposed to reorient U.S. economic statistics principally to reduce the measured rate of inflation. His stated grand ambition was to move the calculus away from old industrial-era methodologies toward the emerging services economy and the expanding retail and financial sectors.
[SWJ Blog] 7 July SWJ News, Op-Ed, and Events Roundup: Gunmen opened fire on people leaving a mosque in Mogadishu on Sunday night, killing one of the country’s senior United Nations officials and wounding his son and another man, a witness and a family member said. Attacks on officials, including those working for the United Nations and international aid agencies, are common in Somalia, where Islamic militants have vowed to fight an insurgency against the country’s weak government, which is supported by the United Nations.
[Climate Crisis Coalition - Daily News] Weekend Summary: [Speaking on climate change, he said, ”˜There’sa lack of leadership in Washington, DC But while Washington is asleep at the wheel, the cities are leading.’” US Mayors Resolve to Avoid Burning Tar Sands Oil. ENS, June 29, 2008.
[SWJ Blog] 18 June SWJ News, Op-Ed, Blog, and Events Roundup: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres says there is a threat of further increases because of multiple conflicts, bad governance, competition for scarce resources as a result of climate change and instability generated by food and fuel price rises that have hit the poor. The
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