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Thursday, December 08, 2011

Senator Boxer Sends Message on Climate Change to the Durban Conference (Dec 7, 2011) - YouTube

As the United Nations climate change conference continues in Durban, South Africa, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, held a press conference to discuss climate change and the need for international cooperation. She also addressed claims made by climate change deniers (Dec. 7, 2011).

Freezing temperatures have growers working overtime | Fresno, California

That protection hasn't come cheap. Nilmeier uses wind machines to prevent his oranges from frost damage. The machines run on 15 gallons of propane fuel an hour. "I've got 6 of them out there and we've been averaging about 8 hours of wind machine running per night. So I'm looking between 16 and 17,000 dollars a night," said Nilmeier.

...The citrus industry is estimated to be worth more than $342 million in Fresno County according to the Agriculture Department. The County's citrus industry loss more than $117 million in the last major freeze in 2007, a financial tragedy growers don't want to see again.

Borah presents to U.N. climate panel | Middlebury Campus

At the conference, speaking to negotiators from over 194 countries, Borah, as an official representative of international youth, was able to take advantage of the rare opportunity for non-negotiators to express their ideas and opinions to the negotiations.
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In response to Borah’s address, Schumann Distinguished Scholar Bill McKibben said, “It’s awfully good to see Middlebury students continuing to play such a big role in international events. I’m pretty sure that if you took a poll at Durban you’d find more Middlebury graduates per capita than any other school. They’re all doing their best to overcome the power of the fossil fuel industry, which is still blocking change.”

How do brainwashed college students qualify as official representatives of international youth? At Durban, how many official representatives were there for all of the world's people who scoff at the global warming hoax?

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