UN world food summit opens in Rome
The United Nations opened its world food summit on Monday by saying that a climate change deal in Copenhagen next month is crucial to fighting global hunger as rising temperatures threaten farm output in poor countries.Russia's Medvedev warns of climate catastrophe | Green Business | Reuters
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Ban said the issues of climate change and food security are interlinked. "There can be no food security without climate security," he said, adding: "We must help the most vulnerable to adapt."
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned on Monday that climate change posed a "catastrophic" threat in some of the sharpest comments yet on a subject the Kremlin has often seemed reluctant to confront.Australian gov't rejects opposition amendments on climate change legislation - People's Daily Online
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In the past, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had appeared to shrug off the threat from climate change, joking that Russians would welcome warmer weather and would need to buy fewer fur coats.
Some prominent Russian scientists argue that climate change is a natural phenomenon.
Australian Climate Change Minister Penny Wong on Monday warned the government would not agree to all the changes suggested by the Opposition in its emissions trading scheme legislation.450 more lies from the climate change Deniers « Greenfyre’s
Straw Men (and outright lying)
The premise is that that certain things like the Medieval Warm Period or greater snow accumulation are evidence against climate change when they are not. The only thing they are evidence of is that the person making the claim is utterly clueless about climate science.
greefyre is wrong.
ReplyDeleteEnergy & Environment is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary academic journal (ISSN: 0958-305X)
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http://www.ebscohost.com/titleLists/eih-coverage.pdf
His “refutations” are links to blogs, realclimate wiki and youtube, which is laughably bad. Any disputes with the papers would be published in the peer-reviewed literature, he failed to provide this and if he gets around to it, I hope he doesn’t forget to include the replies from the original authors (though I suspect he will).