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[The Way Things Break] Willful Idiocy: Unpacking Lomborg’s Climate Nonsense: I wonder how future juries might view the actions of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, who, in full knowledge of the realities of climate change, continue to preach their gospel of denial in the service of Big Oil dollars. I wonder what sentences judges might hand down at future international criminal tribunals on those who will be partially but directly responsible for millions of deaths from starvation, famine and disease in decades ahead.
[CLIMATE-L.ORG] WMO Secretary-General Outlines Efforts to Counter Climate Change ...: 11 July 2008: In a speech delivered during the conference The European Union (EU) and its Overseas Entities: Strategies to Counter Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss,” which was hosted on Reunion Island, Mauritius, from 7-11 July 2008 .
[buddeblog] Environmental Focus for Smart Grids: This is primarily due to rising concerns relating to climate change and CO2 issues and the utilities are now in a race to upgrade their decades old infrastructure to make it more intelligent and efficient.
[SHALIN] Forest Dwellers- issues: Deforestation is a crisis for Kenya and the Globe in general and with a direct impact on local livelihoods, and global climate situation and security. Proposed solutions at a National level on climate change must take into consideration elements that pose a serious threat to indigenous land tenure and human rights.
[Welcome to Packwood Vacations] Biodiversity at Greater Risk As Climate Changes: The destruction of reefs has further complicated the matter and has produced devastating impact for Kenyan economy that is reliant on tourism. Marine- based tourism in the country accounts for more than two-thirds of the sector as a whole, according to government sources.
[Wednesday-Night] Africa: economies & governance: Politicians, donors and businesspeople with African investments increasingly claim that conditions on the ground are improving: economic policies are improving, economies are growing faster, the region is more politically stable and governance is getting better. Some of these assertions are broadly or partially correct, but the World Bank’s 2008 report on governance indicators””Governance Matters””suggests that, on governance at least, such optimism should be tempered, since African aggregate indicators worsened some 7.6% between 1996, when the governance indicators were first compiled, and 2000.
[Climate Crisis Coalition - Daily News] Weekend Summary: This campaign of obfuscation and intimidation included doctoring Congressional testimony on the health effects of climate change; ordering the EPA to recompute its numbers to minimize the economic benefits of curbing carbon dioxide;
[olyecology weblog] 374 - Earth's Tree News: We reject mainstream environmentalism -- where what is asked for is insufficient even if fully achieved -- for a revolutionary spirit of ever increasing pressure upon criminal Earth destroyers. First we ask, then we protest, then we obstruct and perhaps sabotage, and if and when every offer to embrace sustainability by the elite has been rejected, we must be willing to fight.
[Ann Fuentes - Photographer] An article from National Geographic, “”We need to start thinking ...: “Climate change now represents at least as great a threat to the number of species surviving on Earth as habitat-destruction and modification,” said Chris Thomas, a conservation biologist at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom .
[The G Spot] Veepstakes-o-rama: Despite an otherwise admirably progressive record, as a member of the House in the fall of 2006 he voted for the Military Commissions Act, which tried to take habeas corpus away from the prisoners in Guantanamo and also attempted to give torture by American officials the retroactive cover of law.
[northstarxo] 7-6-08 Show on HAZMAT Preparedness - What is HAZMAT and what can ...: The leaders of the world's two largest economies also touched on climate change, North Korea's nuclear programme and aid to Africa. The leaders of the G8 -- Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Russia and the United States .
[olyecology weblog] 365 - Earth's Tree News: GetUp campaigns co-ordinator Ed Coper said the result came after a poll a week ago found 61 per cent of Australians opposed the mill. "The Bartlett Government has an unequivocal statement from the Tasmanian people -- do not use our taxes to fill the coffers of a corporation that has already benefited from disproportionate government support," he said.
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