The Indypendent » Bolivia Organizes Counter-Copenhagen Summit

The World Peoples’ Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth Rights will be held in Cochabamba, Bolivia, from April 20-22. Climate change is a pressing issue in Bolivia where retreating glaciers threaten the future of the Andean nation’s water supply.
...
They will also seek to develop strategies to push developed nations to make deep cuts in their carbon emissions and pay their “climate debt” to poorer nations like Bolivia that are least responsible for the climate crisis but will experience the brunt of its impact in the coming decades. Climate justice advocates say developed nations should provide hundreds of billions of dollars per year in financial and technological assistance to help developing countries adapt to the challenges posed by climate change.

Texas: Local crops hurt by prolonged cold temperatures

Freezing weather destroyed Rohrer's entire peach crop in 2008 and 2009 with losses totaling $50,000 for both years combined.

BP. Conoco, Caterpillar Quit Climate Action Group - HUMAN EVENTS

BP America, ConocoPhillips and Caterpillar were the largest companies to withdraw from the group this week revealing a refreshing new boldness from companies once browbeaten by radical environmentalists into supporting “global warming” legislation.

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), top Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said he wasn’t surprised by this turn of events.

“With cap-and-trade virtually dead this year and the credibility of the UN’s global warming science collapsing, it is no surprise that companies are questioning whether job-killing global warming legislation -- no matter how beneficial to their own bottom lines -- is really a sound policy after all,” Inhofe told HUMAN EVENTS. “They apparently now see that it’s not..."

A Minute With: Leonardo DiCaprio in Shutter Island | Reuters

Q. You have been writing blogs and campaigning heavily for years now. Do you want to be the next Al Gore, do you think of yourself an environmental crusader?

A. "Crusader, that summons up images of a man with a sword on a horse (laughs). I took up the issue 10 years ago and I have seen massive progress ever since Al Gores's documentary. And I have also seen the issue ignored and re-ignored.

"Until we as a country start moving in a positive direction, I am going to continue to do that because we really are the ones. We and China need to set the example for the rest of the world to follow with clean energy and green technology."