Italy G8 summit key to global efforts [to turn climate fraud into another $200 billion in cold, hard cash]

Another thorny issue for developed countries is how to channel money and technology to the poor to help deal with climate change, as an estimated 100 billion to 200 billion U.S. dollars will be needed to support developing countries to tackle climate change.

The EU has urged the leading economies to split the bill based on their historical emissions and current wealth, but the bloc members have so far failed to agree on how to split the bill among themselves.

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The EPA hides a report about global warming. It is July 5 and I woke up to frost on the windshield. This has been the coldest July in years

Extraordinary climate "solutions" presented for the Manchester Report | Environment | guardian.co.uk

If Wolff's plan sounded like something from the fringes of science fiction it was positively conservative next to Stephen Salter's scheme for reflecting more of the sun's energy by increasing the earth's cloud cover. By spraying a fine mist of seawater into the sky. From a fleet of remote-control wind-powered ships! "If you could build 50 a year you could hold the fort until something like cold fusion was working," Salter concluded brightly.
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The panel, which included Dan Reicher, Google's head of energy and climate change initiatives, Bryony Worthington, energy expert and founder of the Sandbag campaign, and low-carbon expert Chris Goodall, also heard solar proselytiser Jeremy Leggett make the case for photovoltaic energy. Thanks to technological developments, photovoltaic power would cost as little as conventionally generated electricity in the UK by 2013, he claimed.

Not all the ideas proposed relied on technology. Psychotherapist Rosemary Randall described her Cambridge-based project to reduce people's carbon footprint by engaging them in a series of 'carbon conversations'. She was puzzled by the fact that people who accepted the threat of climate change still didn't change their lifestyles accordingly.