Saturday, July 10, 2010

An interview with Yvo de Boer, the United Nations' former climate-change [scam] chief
It's hard to imagine how [Obama] could have gotten more curveballs in the first two years of his administration, with the economic crisis and the health-care issue. What gives me confidence is there's lots of people with their heart in the right place. I also think he has his brain in the right place.
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[Q] Where do you think the environmental movement is at this point?

At the end of the day, if the situation is that a significant portion of the people in the environmental movement believe the green [economic] growth story, but an even more significant number of people outside the environmental movement don't believe the green growth story, then it's just not going to happen. Very few governments are going to be willing to run their countries into the ground to save the planet.
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[Q] You got a send-off in Bonn in June from people in the nongovernmental organization community. They sang a song to the tune of "My Favorite Things" that included lines such as "Keeping Al Gore out of the Bella Center" -- where the Copenhagen talks took place. Is that really one of your favorite things?

I certainly never kept Al Gore out in the cold, and I put a lot of effort into getting him in. There are a lot of people who talk over your head [in the climate debate]. He talks right in your face.
June 2010 Almanac Numbers - [For the month, Cold Bay, Alaska was even colder than usual]
Cold Bay - In June saw 1.45'' of rain and had an average high of 49.1 degrees. In an average year Cold Bay has 2.89'' of rain and the average high is 50.8 degrees. Cold Bay lived up to it's name and set a new record low for June 3rd of 32 degrees. No record highs were set in June 2010.

Kodiak - In June saw 4.22'' of rain and had an average high of 53.3 degrees. In an average year Kodiak has 5.38'' of rain and the average high is 54.5 degrees. Kodiak set a new record low for June 9th of 36 degrees. No record highs were set.
Stella McCartney’s Jumper Dress Of Joy | Very Blog | Very.co.uk
...the busy fashionista has just become one of the patrons of environmentally concious charity Meat Free Monday. As the name suggests, group members campaign to get everyone around the world to give up meat for one day a week.

However, it’s not a campaign to make everyone vegetarian but more of a bid to do something about climate change as livestock are responsible for 18% of Greenhouse gas emissions as opposed to vehicles 13%.

Stella revealed: “If everyone gave up meat on a Monday it would be more effective than everyone stopping driving their car on a Monday.”

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