Conference's green Top 10 - News - Manchester Evening News

A TWO-day brainstorming conference in Manchester, to find the best ideas for tackling the world's most pressing problem, global warming, has come up with a green Top 10.
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The conference was held at Manchester's historic town hall, and the city was chosen as venue for the project as the world's first great industrial city, and therefore arguably the birthplace of man-made warming.

The top ten suggestions chosen included harnessing solar power from the Sahara and other desert regions to provide electricity to population centres thousand miles away using high voltage direct current cables.
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Also on the list is the idea of generating heat from below ground to create electricity by the use of enhanced geothermal systems, known as EGS. The idea involves drilling bore holds through the earth's crust to a depth of a few kilometres, and pumping water down at high pressure.
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The top 10 list also includes investment in family planning to slow population growth. The report says that the global population is expected to rise to around nine billion by 2050, which will make it more difficult to reduce global emissions to a sustainable level.

JOEL CONNELLY, Seattle PI: Global warming deniers are [allegedly] on thin ice

How, then, do we get doubters to understand a threat to the earth?

They might just listen to a new Kool-aid drinker, who is decidedly not a "liberal?"

"Water resources and climate change are subjects of great importance for the whole human family," Pope Benedict XVI declared 18 months ago. He warned against "poisons and pollution" that will harm future generations.

In a new encyclical "Caritas in Veritate" (Charity in Truth) released last week, Benedict XVI again takes up the subject:

"We must recognize our grave duty to hand the earth on to future generations in such a condition that they too can worthily inhabit it and continue to cultivate it."

Here is a man who can speak without error. He is, of course, speaking the truth.

Still, I expect e-mails debunking Caritas in Veritate as "junk theology."

IAN WISHART: Global Governance on climate agenda

MISSION INCREDIBLE
Clark tasked to pave the way for World Government

Media commentators missed the big story in Helen Clark’s appointment to the United Nations Development Programme. As bestselling “Air Con” author IAN WISHART explains, she takes the helm in the UN’s number three position just as the UN pitches to become an overarching world government, with real executive powers and effective control of the armies of all UN members. Clark didn’t join the UNDP to concentrate on third world charity work, but with a much bigger brief:

“What is at stake is to launch a reform process of the general UN system in view of fostering a new global agenda and building a New World Order.”

They could be the utterings of a raving conspiracy nut. Or perhaps the writings of one of those intellectual villains from any one of a dozen James Bond movies. But they aren’t. Instead, these are the words of one of the world’s major lobby groups – a collection of world leaders and left-wing politicians who meet each year for global conferences and policy initiatives. They call themselves Socialist International, and that paragraph kicked off a major 40 page briefing document that appears to set the stage for a new role for the United Nations: turning it into a full-fledged world government.