Sunday, October 18, 2009

BBC - London - Places - London after climate change?
Titled 'London Futures' the exhibition visualises eight scenarios of a London effected by extreme climate change.
Major parties are polluting the climate change message
The danger is that the central message - that the science of global warming is immutable - will become blurred. It is now up to the Greens to keep the central message alive, that solutions to global warming are not amenable to political compromises.
CTV News | Climate change dispute a 'fake debate,' expert says
But James Hoggan, a veteran Vancouver public relations executive, says many of the naysayers are groups with legitimate-sounding names that are actually funded by industries that would suffer economically by climate change legislation or other efforts to curb global warming.

"What I would call them is Astroturf groups," Hoggan told Canada AM earlier this week. "Basically fake grassroots groups of unqualified scientists saying that climate science is questionable."
Climate Policies Won’t Limit Warming to 2 Degrees, U.S. Says - Bloomberg.com
Oct. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Current policies to fight climate change in China, India, the U.S. and other major carbon-dioxide emitters aren’t enough to limit global temperature increases to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), a U.S. envoy said.

Major developing countries are moving in the right direction to contain global warming, Todd Stern, the U.S. delegate to a 17-nation conference on limiting climate change, told reporters today in London. Even so, the trend in greenhouse gas emissions is still too high, Stern said.
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“It’s inconsistent with the facts to conclude that the U.S. is the problem or that the U.S. isn’t moving rapidly,” Stern said. While the U.S. has no definitive emissions reduction goal, he pointed to proposed legislation that would enshrine cuts from 2005 levels by 2020.
Climate the major hurdle in fighting poverty: Muhith :: Bangladesh :: bdnews24.com ::
"Global climate change poses the greatest challenge today in our poverty mitigation efforts."

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