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In the foyer of the conference centre at the Hotel Maritim in Bonn, Germany, where the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held international climate change negotiations last month, some intrepid soul had strung up a massive banner, perhaps to help negotiators keep the bigger picture in mind. "Survival is not negotiable," it read.

But it seems the message did not get through. David Turnbull, executive director of Climate Action ­Network International, said there has been a dramatic lack of progress in formal discussions and no tangible results. "This is a very large gap between what's on the table and what's needed to avoid catastrophic climate change," he said.

Jakarta may rent out uninhabited islands to ‘climate refugees’

JAKARTA, May 6 — Indonesia is considering renting out some of its uninhabited islands to international communities which might be displaced by rising sea levels, reported the Jakarta Post yesterday.
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“We have detected around 20 islands which have disappeared due to, among other reasons, rising sea levels prompted by climate change,” Syamsul was quoted as saying.

“However, we constantly discover new islands.”

HuffPo’s Gillian Caldwell [Campaign Director for 1Sky] has come out of the closet. She’s suffering from “Climate Trauma”. | GORE LIED

I have spent my lifetime face to face with some of the most brutal and inhumane acts ever committed, but nothing has been as traumatizing for me as trying to get action to tackle the climate crisis.

As a long time human rights defender and prior Executive Director at WITNESS, I helped produce and direct films on rape as a weapon of war and amputations in Sierra Leone’s recent bloody conflict, I conducted an undercover investigation into the Russian mafia’s involvement in trafficking women for forced prostitution, I investigated hit squads in apartheid South Africa, and I spent countless hours in editing rooms watching first hand images of death, destruction, and devastation.

But spending my days and nights trying to get our country to tackle global warming is more emotionally demanding than any job I have ever done.

Study: Many pastors say global warming not manmade

Sixty-nine percent of pastors who strongly agree that global warming is real and man-made speak to their churches about the environment several times a year or more.

Far fewer pastors who are less inclined to agree global warming is a real and man-made issue speak about the environment frequently. Speaking to their church on the environment several times a year or more occurs among 36 percent of pastors who somewhat agree that global warming is real and man-made and among fewer pastors who somewhat disagree (26 percent) or strongly disagree (17 percent).