Sunday, January 31, 2010

Poor response to climate [scam] deadline
Just 19 countries out of 193 have sent letters of intent to the United Nations to be part of a global climate change accord, the UN's climate chief says.
Sundance has new breed of climate [hoax] films
In a rather fitting Darwinist turn, "non"-fiction films about the environment are evolving.

The mutations are evident here at the Sundance Film Festival, considered by many as the Petri dish that spawned a subspecies of documentary when Al Gore and Davis Guggenheim's An Inconvenient Truth premiered in 2006 sounding the alarm on climate change.
Cold weather in Germany causes damages for billions of euro
Berlin. Cold weather that snarled up traffic in Germany could have serious impact over the German economy, experts from the DIHK institute warn, cited by AFP.
“The German economy could lose around two billion euros due to the severe winter”, leading economist Folker Tier says in an interview for a daily newspaper. The expert warned that the blanket of snow covering the whole country would hit the economy, freezing construction activity and disrupting supplies.
Global body can't improve climate | The Australian
But UNEP is a weak institution, with a small staff and budget - just over US$270 million in 2006-07. That may sound a lot but by UN standards it is paltry. The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation gets about US$900m ($1.01 billion) a year and the UN Development Program about US$5 billion.
Climate Observations: NODC Ocean Heat Content (0-700 Meters) - 2007, 2008 & 2009 Corrections
GISS projected a significant rise, while the observations have flattened significantly in recent years

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