Saturday, May 30, 2009

Groundhog Day: Climate talks to begin grappling with treaty text - Taiwan News Online
Climate negotiators reconvene this week to work on the text of a new global warming treaty, now a draft riddled with conflicting options that demonstrate deep divisions on how to tackle climate change.

Delegates from 174 countries and 230 nongovernment interest groups meet from Monday through June 12 in Bonn, Germany, in the second of five negotiating conferences to culminate with a final agreement being adopted in December in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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With so many holes in the agreement remaining to be closed, doubts have been raised that the deal can be done by December in Denmark.

"There's going to have to be a lot of work after Copenhagen, no matter what," said Alden Meyer, of the Washington-based Union of Concerned Scientists. "But the question is whether we can lay out the aggressive, ambitious and equitable elements that we need to get a political agreement _ and then fill in the details afterward."
Groundhog Day 1993: Movie and film review from Answers.com
...he wakes up the next morning with the strangest sense of déjà vu: he seems to be living the same day over again. The next morning it happens again, and then again. Soon, no matter what he does, he's stuck in February 2, 1992; not imprisonment nor attempted suicide nor kidnapping the groundhog gets him out of the loop.

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