Thursday, July 16, 2009

Lake Huron nears average level - Owen Sound Sun Times - Ontario, CA
A comeback in lake levels over the past few years has Lake Huron and Georgian Bay quickly approaching its average for this time of year.
Has John McCain Gone Cool on Global Warming [Hoax] Legislation? - NYTimes.com
Sen. John McCain once reveled in his stance as a maverick of the Republican Party on climate change. Now, as the Senate prepares a new bill, the party's 2008 presidential nominee has people wondering whose side he's on.
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Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), McCain's partner in the climate debate dating to 2001, said too many other issues have been on the front burner and the two have not spoken at length about global warming since last November's presidential election. But Lieberman, the Democrats' 2000 vice presidential nominee and rumored to be on McCain's short list for the VP nomination last year, said that he would soon make a push with McCain as part of a broader effort to rally moderate senators on the issue.
I Have A Dream: no more flights! | spiked
twentysomethings, two people dressed as jesters, and rather shabby, bearded men with their wives in tow looking like they’d taken time out from a fishing trip. Their banners uniformly declared ‘Climate Emergency! Put people to work to cut carbon now’. Rather oddly for people deeply concerned that an emergency is taking place, everyone seemed remarkably chilled out. With the exception of buck-toothed fellow who shrieked, ‘Climate Change spreads disease! It spreads vermin!’. He was promptly - albeit politely – silenced by the chair.

Once the pretend government spokesman had been dutifully booed off by the audience, those who truly recognise the extent of the climate emergency were given their chance. Somewhat appropriately, after the opening speeches, the climate did actually change and heavy rain started to fall.
India: Government official suggests that the country is "a climate sceptic"
NEW DELHI - India’s poor will have enormous problem in arranging their livelihood due to climate change, and it will be better the country stops being a climate sceptic, a government official said Thursday.

“There is enough scientific evidence to corroborate the fact that climate change poses unprecedented risks to both human life and in fact, to human civilisation,” New and Renewable Energy Secretary Deepak Gupta said at a conference on climate change.

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