Obese People Create an Extra Billion Tons of CO2 Each Year, Warn Experts

Researchers are increasingly warning that the obesity epidemic is contributing to global warming, with potentially devastating consequences for people and habitats around the world.

World Climate Report » “AP IMPACT: Statisticians reject global cooling”

...Borenstein opts to run a story primarily focused on various people struggling to explain why the decline in the earth’s temperature over the past 8 years really isn’t global cooling.

This biggest message from Borenstein’s article is that global warming proponents are starting to get irritated at the earth’s lack of cooperation. Especially with big national and international negotiations taking place on actions aimed at reducing the rate of global temperature rise. If the earth’s temperature isn’t rising along with greenhouse gas emissions as expected, then why all the bother?

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Climate activists Lesley Butler and Rob Bell (R) "sunbathe" on the edge of a frozen fjord in the Norwegian Arctic town of Longyearbyen April 25, 2007. The activists are warning that global warming could thaw the Arctic and make the sea warm enough for people to swim and sunbathe in.

On Copenhagen, Un's De Boer and Sachs Dubious, Off Message on Upbeat Seal the Deal: Investigative Reporting from the United Nations

NITED NATIONS, October 26 -- UN climate negotiatorYvo de Boer was quoted in the Financial Times last week that "a fully fledged new international treaty under the [UN framework] convention [on climate change] - I do not think that will happen. If you look at the limited amount of time remaining to Copenhagen, it's clear."

Monday at the UN, Inner City Press asked Janos Pasztor, Director of the Secretary-General's Climate Change Support Team, how what de Boer said is consistent with the more upbeat "Seal the Deal" message emanating from the 38th floor. Video here, from Minute 50:05.

"We discussed it with Mr. de Boer extensively afterwards," Pasztor replied. "Not everything he said was quoted. His message is total consistent." Pasztor added that they will go for an ambitious agreement in Copenhagen. We we cannot get a legally binding treat, he said, they we'll do it later.

When Inner City Press asked Pasztor if the UN is claiming de Boer was misquoted by the FT, he did not say yes; So apparently de Boer was read the riot act, and told to get back on message.