The WWF’s Supermarket Offensive « NoFrakkingConsensus

WWF Romania director Magor Csibi makes it clear, at the beginning of this report, that the fact that large supermarket chains are expanding the size of their market is a big concern. How is that any of the WWF’s business?

Moreover, he seems to think that the primary job of supermarkets is not to give consumers what they want at a competitive price but to worry about the political subtext of their inventory.

Whistler Mountain in BC Canada | Ice Age Now

Look at the piles of snow left over from last winter!

New tree ring analysis lowers global warming temperatures - National Paeleontology | Examiner.com

“The researchers have been able for the first time to precisely demonstrate that the long-term trend over the past two millennia has been towards climatic cooling.” The cooling trend is attributed to the gradual changes in the position of the Earth relative to the sun and an increasing distance between the Earth and the sun.

Paying for climate change: UN finance workshop day 1 | RTCC - Responding to Climate Change

Well known development economist and advisor to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Jeffrey Sachs kicked off today’s proceedings.

He called for a strong price on carbon, which would mean big polluting industries paying a set figure for each ton of carbon that they emit.

“The world will need to find a way to overcome the US and a few other countries resistance to carbon pricing,” said Sachs adding that that price needed to be between $30-50 per ton. The price on the EU-wide carbon trading scheme is around $10.