Tuesday, December 07, 2010

News bites: The Green Energy Collapse | Watts Up With That?
From the GWPF, a collection of headlines
Kenya to set up climate change panel
“When you see leaders coming here and convening small meetings with others before moving on to the bigger negotiating table, they are doing it because they know what is good for their country and they want to persuade others to accept it. We are here to seek what is good for Kenya. We must never lose sight of that,” Odinga said.

Earlier, the Danish Minister for Climate, Energy and Gender Equality, Lykke Friis, pledged that her country will support Kenya’s position at the talks, saying climate change will be a major area of collaboration between Kenya and Denmark.
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At climate [hoax] summit, they're feeling like deserted islands - latimes.com
"But pledges mean nothing," said Jumeau, who also serves as Seychelles' ambassador to the United States. "Bring something that lands on the table with a clunk."
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Gregarious and intensely on-message, the former newspaper editor and natural resources minister is an old hand, having navigated previous conferences in Bali; Poznan, Poland; Bonn; and Copenhagen. "If we don't solve climate change, nothing else matters," he said, "because many of us will be wiped off the face of the Earth."
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Island states, most of them in the tropics, are forging alliances with Greenlanders, Inuit and native Alaskans. "It's simple," Jumeau said. "As the poles melt, we drown."

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