Climate change has the potential to affect every human, every other animal, every insect and every plant on this planet. It has the potential to kill hundreds of millions of us - through famine or natural disaster.
- Bishop Hill blog - Black in pay of green?
Black's Whitewash reckons he has evidence that while reporting from Rio for the BBC, Richard Black is also working for a green NGO. There is certainly evidence that the BBC World Service were to be approached by NGO Stakeholder Forum about getting training and that they subsequently budgeted for a BBC Environment Correspondent to work for them in this area during the Rio conference.
As did many others, CAGW skeptic Joanne Nova took umbrage with a recent Nature "science" article that was loaded with variations of the term 'climate change denier'. She wrote an excellent letter to the lead author of the article, challenging his ignorance and biases. Below is a brief list summarizing her letter's main points that most skeptics believe/accept, plus additions by 'C3':
[May 2012]: UN chief asks youth to ‘make some noise’ ahead of Rio+20 conference
“The truth is I am disappointed with the negotiations. They are not moving fast enough. That is why I need you,” Mr. Ban told students attending the 13th Annual Global Classrooms International High School Model UN Conference, taking place at in the General Assembly Hall at UN Headquarters in New York, on Thursday evening. “When I say make some noise, I mean raise your voices. Demand real action. Shame those governments into doing more.”
World carbon emissions: the league table of every country | Environment | guardian.co.uk
The world emits 48% more carbon dioxide from the consumption of energy now than it did in 1992 when the first Rio summit took place.
...China - the world's biggest emitter of CO2 - has increased by 240%
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