Activists plan to muddy energy meeting

MONTREAL - Environmental activists are expected to try and muddy the start of a major energy conference Sunday, staging a beach party with participants tarred up as would-be victims of an environmental disaster.

Members of Greenpeace and 30 other green groups are expected to stage the fake beach party to draw attention to what they say is the “dirty energy that accelerates climate change and contaminates our environment.”

Yechury backs Pachauri on nuclear power

New Delhi, Sep 12 (IANS) R.K. Pachauri, whose UN panel on climate change has shared the Nobel Peace Prize, Sunday described nuclear power as an important source of India’s future energy needs. Extending unusual support to him was Communist Party Of India-Marxist leader Sitaram Yechury.
“Nuclear energy is definitely going to be an important source of energy in the future,” Pachauri said on the sidelines of a function here.

Backing him, Yechury agreed that it is the future power generator.

“I am not against nuclear power, three generations down the line, it will be the main source of power,” he said.

Improved warnings means fewer being killed by natural disasters

But, will climate change reverse those gains?