Obama climate scam envoy: Time to act on climate change - Yahoo! Finance

"We are very glad to be back. We want to make up for lost time, and we are seized with the urgency of the task before us," Stern said to loud applause from the 2,600 delegates to the U.N. negotiations.

They clapped again when Stern said the U.S. recognized "our unique responsibility ... as the largest historic emitter of greenhouse gases," which has created a problem threatening the entire world.
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Stern said no one on his team doubted that climate change is real. "The science is clear, the threat is real, the facts on the ground are outstripping the worst-case scenarios. The cost of inaction or inadequate action are unacceptable," he said -- a total change of tone from his predecessors.

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Cannot believe that a woman in her IET class just compared big foot sightings to global warming.

Saving the planet too costly for Phoenix « Seeing Red AZ

Last year Phoenix was considered a key city for Earth Hour because it was one of just four major cities to participate. This year those plans were curtailed. City buildings will be mostly dark, but that’s simply because it’s a Saturday night.

“What happened last year was it cost us about $3,000 to turn off all the lights,” said Scott Phelps, Mayor Phil Gordon’s spokesman. “We have a budget issue.” Phoenix is joining in on the event, he said, but it will not go out of its way to go dark.