Tuesday, September 22, 2009

UK Indymedia - Vicious personal attacks on Tamsin Omond
Dumping horse manure on Jeremy Clarkson's front lawn was a brilliant stunt.
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What Tamsin Omond, Climate Rush and other have managed to do is make protest a class act, not class in terms of social divide but class in terms of style.
If you want to watch Obama’s big UN climate [hoax] speech Tuesday morning « Climate Progress
The webcast will be here: http://www.un.org/webcast/.

Obama should be speaking round 9:30 am EDT depending on length of ceremonial opening. Many of the other speeches –IPCC head Pachauri, China President Hu Jintao Nobelist Wangari Muta Maathai — are also must-see.
On Global Warming, an Ambitious Agenda - washingtonpost.com
De Boer has appeared visibly despondent during the negotiations' tensest moments and chastises rich governments for not providing enough aid to poorer ones and U.S. environmental groups for saying the world might need to wait another year to agree to a final climate deal. De Boer, who often speaks in analogies, says these nongovernmental organizations "would like to have this baby a year late. As everyone knows, carrying a baby for nine months is a lot. I've been carrying this baby for two years, and to ask me to go a year over is a bit much to ask."
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"The science has been a continuous driver, but underneath that, if we have to move to a low-carbon economy, how can we move in a way that won't leave us unemployed with all the lights turned off?" [Achim Steiner] said.

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