Changing Climates | CommonDreams.org

Leaders of the rich, capitalist countries may wish to cocoon themselves away to discuss climate change. But that's becoming increasingly impossible in our wired global village where most of the villagers have figured out that climate change is about a lot more than rising temperatures. It's also about the stark divisions between rich and poor, haves and have-nots, the 1.1 billion who live on less than a dollar a day. It's also about trade, aid and Third World debt; famine, hunger and untreated disease. It's about violence, prisons, occupation and war; economic exploitation and profits; the heedless destruction of wildlife and forests; the loss of indigenous cultures. But most of all, climate change is about the struggle for justice.

John Prescott: United States as much to blame as China for climate change talks failure - Telegraph

He also criticised United States President Barack Obama for saying in his speech at the talks that there had been “two decades of talking and no action” over climate change, adding that while America may have done little, China and Europe had signed the 1997 Kyoto protocol and “followed a lot” of its policies.

Matthew Yglesias » The Frustrating Politics of Climate Inaction

It is difficult to deal with and passage of an economywide cap does seem unlikely. But, again, it’s only difficult because Senators are making it difficult. It’s only unlikely because Senators are making it unlikely. If these guys don’t want to vote yes on a clean energy bill, then they should say what their reasons are, not engage in this kind of odd prognostication as if they’re detached observers of the scene.

'Nightly News' Proposes 'Geo-Engineering' Atmosphere as Solution to Climate Change | NewsBusters.org

Should mankind engineer nature as a "last resort" to halt global warming? On NBC's Dec. 26 broadcast of "Nightly News," network correspondent Donna Friesen floated several means by which man could not only alter the weather, as the Chinese did in Beijing for the 2008 Summer Olympics, but the entire earth's climate.