Spills on black ice send hundreds to hospital | citizen-times.com | North Carolina

ASHEVILLE — The snow of the worst winter storm in more than decade may be melting away, but not before lingering black ice sent hundreds to the emergency rooms with injuries from falls and accidents.

Kyoto Protocol on Life Support for Another Year | SolveClimate.com

Rajendra Pachauri, who heads the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), called Kyoto "sacrosanct" for certain countries.

"Even if the new agreement goes by another name, the essential features of Kyoto Protocol must be preserved," he said.

New climate pact will be ‘firmer’ against defaulters: Pachauri

[Pachauri] Kyoto Protocol did not work as it does not have provisions for stringent measures against the defaulters.

Editorial: Why Mugabe Should Not Have Been At Copenhagen | Features | Peacefmonline.com

That Robert Mugabe should lead an entourage of sixty Zimbabwean technocrats on an expensive frolic to participate in discussions on global warming in Copenhagen is a grave travesty of justice.

How a man under ‘EU sanctions’ can evade arrest for crimes against ‘nature and humanity’ is only explainable by the mysterious world of United Nations protocol.

Copenhagen failed to bring smile in the face of a little girl Severn Suzuki

‘I am afraid to go out to sun now because of the holes in the ozone. I am afraid to breathe in the air now because I don’t know what chemicals are in it’ said a 12-13 years old Severn Suzuki expressing her concern over the issue of climate change across the globe. ‘Now we hear of animals and plants going extinct every day, vanishing forever. Now, in my life, I have dreamt of seeing the great herds of wild animals, jungles and main forests full of birds and butterflies. But now I wonder if they were even exist for my children to see’, said Severn Suzuki asking delegations from across the globe, ‘Did you have to worry of these things when you were of my age?’

Severin Suzuki 1992 | Being Present For The Future

Severin Suzuki Speaks at Rio in 1992
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I am afraid to go out in the sun now because of the holes in the ozone. I
am afraid to breathe the air because I don’t know what chemicals are in
it.