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Guilty plea in bird deaths at wind farms a first | UTSanDiego.comWASHINGTON (AP) — A major U.S. power company has pleaded guilty to killing eagles and other birds at two Wyoming wind farms and agreed to pay $1 million as part of the first enforcement of environmental laws protecting birds against wind energy facilities.
GREENPEACE FIGHTS BACK… OR SOMETHING. — wireless77.comif you have problems with the Russkis rig why didn’t you bring the case to the Seabed Disputes Chamber? Why didn’t you take legal action in the first place, instead of swarming onto the rig to set up a banner while videoing and photographing the whole thing?
It is actually a tough question to answer as the logical explanation is that Greenpeace wants publicity. Publicity brings in the bucks. Publicity, in a nutshell, is the life blood of Greenpeace.
Twitter / LFFriedman: Stern - "astonishing" to hear ...Stern - "astonishing" to hear China say comittments apply only to developed countries. "I feel that I'm going into a time warp." #COP19
Western Herald – New York Times reporter lectured at WMU about media bias, used global warming as a case studythe predictions he made in a 2006 article about a drought occurring in the Middle East and the melting of the Arctic Ice, happened years later.
‘Delink business from global warming issues’ - The Economic TimesFor the first time since the UN-led discussions started over climate issues in 1992, richer nations have recently shied away from their pledges to rein in emissions.
PJ Media » UN Climate Delegates Failing Everyone, Developed and Developing AlikeYes, climate change and extreme weather events are a constant threat to human societies and nature alike. But the proper response is to prepare for these phenomena as best we can, while continuing to fund scientific research so that someday we may be able predict what, when, and where extreme events will happen. Stopping such phenomena from occurring, the main focus of today’s pointless and expensive UN FCCC meetings, is science fiction.
Canada Leads Race to Climate Disaster | DeSmog Canada[Warmist Elizabeth May] "There is an election coming in 2015. We have to make climate change the key issue."
Polish 'Bad COP' feared after ministerial sacking | EurActiv“It is pretty clear that the Poles have an interest in slowing things down,” one EU source told EurActiv. “They’ve even said so to us quite bluntly. It shows that their motives for hosting this conference were not to save the climate but rather to slow down the process of doing so.”
The Green MEP Bas Eickhout agreed, pointing to a general feeling that as chair of the COP19, Poland was steering the climate summit off the rails, with help from countries such as Australia, which have blocked discussions on loss and damage.
“What’s going on is ridiculous,” Eickhout said over a line from Warsaw. “On Monday, Poland hosted a coal summit. On Tuesday, Tusk opened a plenary promoting shale gas, a fossil fuel, and on Wednesday, he fires the COP president, who is also climate minister.”
Typhoon Haiyan: turning point in how West thinks about climate change?Disasters in Southeast Asia have gone global before, as I learned in researching the eruption of the Tambora volcano in Indonesia in 1815. Mount Tambora's massive detonation, the largest in thousands of years, threw the global climate system into chaos. Crops failed from Indonesia to Ireland, and millions of desperate refugees poured into the cities. Famine-friendly diseases, typhus and cholera, spread like wildfire. In an ultimate measure of desperation, some parents killed their own children out of mercy (tales of post-Tambora filicide are told from Bali to China to Switzerland).
Even in the U.S., where a much-feared famine was largely averted, thousands of people fled the Tambora weather of freezing New England for the promised land of the frontier.
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...The alternative -- a world of hundredfold Haiyans and exhausted human beings -- is too gruesome to contemplate.
Articles: A Carbon Tax on Everything -- Really, Robert?A tad blithe, Robert. Where's your cost-benefit analysis? How could you possibly arrive at one with so many imponderables, uncertainties (by your own admission), and doubts surrounding global warming (or climate change, or whatever the de jour tag is)? You wish to levy a carbon tax -- however "modest," though undetermined -- on virtually everything American society produces and consumes? Shamefully reckless.
Donald Sutherland hopes Hunger Games inspires real revolution - Yahoo Movies UK"I hope that [young people] will take action because it's getting drastic in this country,” Sutherland told the Guardian. “Drone strikes. Corporate tax dodging. Racism. The Keystone oil pipeline. Denying food stamps to ‘starving Americans’. It's all going to pot. "It's not right. It's not right."
Ban Ki-Moon Scolds Rich Countries Backtracking on Climate - BloombergSome developed countries “that are supposed to be taking leadership are now backtracking,” Ban said at UN climate talks in Warsaw today. “That’s quite disappointing. We have to take urgent action.”
The comments were meant to goad envoys from almost 190 nations at the meeting to step up their efforts to cut fossil-fuel emissions blamed for damaging the atmosphere.
IISD RS @ Coverage of Selected Side Events at the Warsaw Climate Change Conference, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 - Day 8, Warsaw, PolandUN Environment Programme (UNEP) Executive Director Achim Steiner welcomed participants. COP 19 President Marcin Korolec highlighted the UN system as a catalyst in mobilizing sustainable development, outlining linkages between the post-2015 development agenda process and negotiations under the ADP. He highlighted the work to be done in the next week towards an ambitious global agreement that addresses the defining issue of our era and ensures it does not undercut sustainable development.
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres said this has to be the development banks and the UN’s obsession, stressing the world is running out of time. She called for moving to a meaningful and technical draft agreement, calling for “just doing it.”
[Oct '13] Debunking the U.N. Climate-Change Conspiracy - NationalJournal.com"Here's the simple truth. The U.N. does not do anything that its member countries don't want to do. Period. There is no such thing as the U.N. being a super-national authority imposing anything on governments. It just doesn't exist.
[Dec '12] UN Summit Fails to Enact “Complete Transformation” of the WorldThe United Nations Climate Change Conference in Doha, Qatar, concluded on Saturday, December 8, accomplishing somewhat less than “a complete transformation of the economic structure of the world,” a goal that conference chief Christiana Figueres had announced at the start of the global summit.
In which I get a pink badge! – elizabethmaymp.ca – November 19, 2013I started out early, memories of the appalling arrangements in Copenhagen left me not wanting to take any chances in a cold city. In Copenhagen at COP15, we had to line up and wait outside for hours (day after day) in the bitter cold. Just to be on the safe side, I got to the huge stadium in Warsaw, converted to a convention centre for COP19, at 7 am and only had to wait outside for a half an hour before security guards decided we should be allowed to wait inside where it was warm.
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As previously arranged through email messages, I met with the Deputy Minister of the National Environmental Agency of Afghanistan and head of his country’s delegation, Ghulam Mohd Malikyar. He took me back to registration to request I be listed as a member of his delegation.
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Today, I also pinned on one of the small red fabric circles worn by delegates to identify as fasting in solidarity with the head of the Philippines delegation.
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As for me, between jet lag and fasting, and trying to concentrate and do my work, it’s been a long day.
November tornado outbreak in the quietest tornado year on record sign global cooling has begunLast year November to April snow extent in the hemisphere was the highest on record. We started faster this year than last. 4 of the top 5 snowiest winters on record have occurred in the last 6 years. UKMO, NOAA, UCS all had predicted snow would be decreasing a decade ago due to warmer conditions. Temperatures have not warmed for 16 years and cooled since 2002 globally.
Warsaw—Day 6: Prepare Now for 4°C Rise - Truthdig[Mark Maslin, professor of climatology at University College in London] “We are already planning for a 4°C world because that is where we are heading. I do not know of any scientists who do not believe that..."
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