[I guess Waxman-Markey passing the House didn't convince them to commit economic suicide]: India rejects Danish climate proposal
NEW DELHI — India Tuesday rejected a Danish draft proposal on climate change which seeks to cap emissions, widening the gulf between rich and poor nations ahead of next week's Copenhagen talks.Oil still fuels the green state of Denmark - The Globe and Mail
In 2008, for every dollar of exports in the clean-tech and electricity category, $6 worth of exports in the fossil-fuel category left Denmark. On the export front at least, Denmark is still very much an oil economy.[Toronto: Lack of global warming is tough on zoo elephants] - The Globe and Mail
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But coal, the dirtiest of the fossil fuels, is still the most popular electricity-generating fuel. Last year it supplied 48 per cent of Denmark's electricity, a ratio that has varied little this decade. Since coal plants are used as backups for wind generators when the wind doesn't blow, the plants are unlikely to be phased out.
Hard choices to be made after demise of fourth elephant in four yearsGlobal Warming Will "Wipe Out Billions"
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Julie Woodyer, a former OSPCA investigator who is now campaigns director for the watchdog Zoo Check Canada, said Toronto's northern climate is ill-suited for elephants despite the Toronto Zoo's mixed indoor-outdoor enclosure.
Why half a billion survivors at 4C, 5C, or 6C? Why not three quarters of a billion? I want see the raw data. It wasn't deleted, was it?
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