OfficialWire: Hindus Extol Church Of Scotland For Responding To Climate Change Urgently

Hindus have applauded Church of Scotland for stressing “urgent action to respond to climate change” and promoting “a more equitable and sustainable use of energy”.

Obama's UN pick makes a promise

President-elect Barack Obama's nominee for United Nations ambassador, Susan Rice, on Thursday vowed to get tough with Zimbabwe and revive US leadership globally with an emphasis on beefing up peacekeeping capacity.
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While promising new U.S. leadership at the UN on climate change, nuclear proliferation and human rights, Rice also vowed to strengthen UN members' ability to train and equip peacekeepers for global hotspots.

Interesting paragraph from Lomborg

Make no mistake: global warming is real, and it is caused by manmade CO2 emissions. The problem is that even global, draconian, and hugely costly CO2 reductions will have virtually no impact on the temperature by mid-century. Instead of ineffective and costly cuts, we should focus much more of our good climate intentions on dramatic increases in R&D for zero-carbon energy, which would fix the climate towards mid-century at low cost. But, more importantly for most of the planet’s citizens, global warming simply exacerbates existing problems – problems that we do not take seriously today.