Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Leaders lag on climate change - The Sarnia Observer - Ontario, CA
Woolley led a condensed presentation Tuesday that mirrors Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" seminar, which was the basis of a hit documentary in 2006.

For all the converts in recent years there are still a surprising number of people that think climate change is rubbish, Woolley said.

"Unfortunately, this can't be ignored."
Twitter / Ranvir Gujral
Watching hannity and rove dispute the possibility of climate change. What is wrong with these lunatics? Fox news hates our grandchildren.
Wolverine [blames your cell phone charger for Ethiopian farming problems]
[Actor/non-climatologist Hugh Jackman] addressed the U.N., discussing his trip to Ethiopia last year and highlighted the affects he saw on the climate change on the poor in this part of the world:

“On this trip it really gelled for me that you can’t separate the issues of climate change and poverty. They are inextricably linked. Having been to Ethiopia and seen these farmers, seen the battle they face from what is a problem that the developed countries have brought on many of these developing countries, there is a justice, there is a gap we need to fill.”
Johann Hari: It Is Five Minutes To Environmental Midnight. We Need To Act - Urgently
We are - at the same time - thrillingly close and sickeningly far from solving our planetary fever. The world's leaders huddled in New York City yesterday to discuss man-made global warming, in a United Nations building that will soon be underwater if they fail.

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