UN climate chief doubts full treaty this year - Yahoo! News

AMSTERDAM – The U.N. climate change chief says reaching a final global warming treaty will be impossible this year, but that the principles of that accord must be determined at a conference in December.
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De Boer said in a conference call Wednesday from Bonn, Germany, that poor countries should get at least $10 billion (euro6.7 billion) a year, starting immediately.

Rallies call for action on global warming - Nova Scotia News

According to The Canadian Press, Canada had the second largest number of events worldwide, behind the United States.

In Wolfville, a crowd of about 200 — some dressed in costumes, others in life-jackets — marched through the town to draw attention to their cause.

They Might Simply Stop

If the Democrats want to avoid a repeat of 1994 or 2006, they’d be wise to stop chasing imaginary enemies and start addressing the main problem, which, as Galston notes, is the very real potential that voters will, in elections next week and in 2010, send them a message that they’ve “gone too far.”

[Ignoring the CO2-phobic advice of Hansen, Pachauri, and Stern et al]: Burger King Japan selling Windows 7 burgers | Electronista

Microsoft has taken the unusual step of promoting Windows 7 in Japan with Burger King's launch of a Windows 7 Whopper. Fitting in with the software theme, the burger stacks seven patties in an otherwise normal Whopper and measures 5.1 inches tall. It also has an appropriate 777 yen ($8.53) price.