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India's green mission caught in funds' crunch (June 5 is World Environment Day)

The Green India Mission has stopped as there are no funds coming

Billion-Dollar Decisions Held up by Poor Use of Climate Data, Insurers Say - Bloomberg

Since the 1980s, there are fewer days annually on which tornadoes occur, but on the days that tornadoes do occur, they are “explosive and catastrophic,” Beatty said. The group is finding that the risk is changing, he said. “Large tornado outbreaks are becoming the norm,” he said.

Noam Chomsky: Humanity Imperiled

the United States, the richest and most powerful country in world history, is the only nation among perhaps 100 relevant ones that doesn’t have a national policy for restricting the use of fossil fuels, that doesn’t even have renewable energy targets.

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THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR MITT ROMNEY, PLUTOCRATS WOULD BE SETTING ENERGY POLICY. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! Billionaire activist to target Obama supporters in anti-Keystone effort.

Report on ICLEI conference – Mission Bonn

Outside of the bizarre discussion of urban farming, much of the rest of discussion in Bonn centered around climate change. ICLEI’s president, David Cadman, recklessly kicked off the conference making a pointed (and scientifically illiterate) connection between Hurricane Sandy, the tornadoes which recently devastated Texas and Oklahoma, and global warming. This outrageous link was reinforced somewhat shamelessly by other speakers throughout the day (as seen in CFACT’s video here). The backdrop of cataclysmic climate change colored virtually all presentations and drove much of the discussion, with the notion that cities had to be prepared for an obvious coming apocalypse. The fact that there has been no global warming for the past 16 years, and that virtually all climate models have proven poor indicators of present trends, received no mention whatsoever. To raise such a point, of course, would have been akin to blasphemy at this conference.