Youth to mobilize against climate change [realism] in 100 cities – UN

23 August 2009 – Youth-organized rallies will be held in 100 cities across the globe to push governments to 'seal the deal' on an ambitious agreement to curb greenhouse gas emissions later this year, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced today.

The largest-ever youth climate change conference, organized by UNEP and drawing some 800 young people, wrapped up in Daejeon, in the Republic of Korea, today, with participants pledging plow ahead with efforts to ensure that global warming remains an international priority, with just over three months remaining until negotiations on a possible new pact end in Copenhagen, Denmark.

“The young people of the world are the generation that will inherit the transformational decisions governments need to take in less than 110 days time,” said Achim Steiner, UNEP's Executive Director.

Biggest gathering of green activists - but where will it be?

A patch of land at an undisclosed site near London will host a green gathering this week as thousands of climate change activists receive text message alerts about the location of what is likely to be this year's largest environmental demonstration.

[Did your cell phone charger cause Indian rainfall to fluctuate by five entire percentage points?]

Summer monsoon months between June 2000 and 21 August 2009 registered only 8,124mm of rainfall, 5.5% short of the decadal normal of 8,900mm.

[Report from Greenpeace "Arctic Sunrise"]

The ship has just scraped past an ice berg. Chunks of ice are on the deck. They are rock solid. We wash the snow. It glints in the sunlight. We leave it on the deck and several hours later, it is just the same. It has not melted a bit.