Conservatives missing boat on climate change

I was shocked and dismayed that the Harper government did not think that it was important to send an official representative to the International Climate Change Conference in Geneva recently.

The Daily Star - Opinion Articles - Can the Mideast manage climate change?

The amount and quality of available scientific data on the global impact of climate change, I rediscovered at a seminar organized by the Danish Foreign Ministry in Copenhagen this week, is staggering. The debate that swirled around the issues of climate change and global warming just two or three years ago has vanished. There is much more certainty now on the nature and extent of the changes to the Earth’s climate that can be attributed to the impact of human activity, mainly the burning of fossil fuels that emit greenhouse gases.

US says differences in global climate talks narrowing

“There was some narrowing of differences” Stern said, but did not offer specifics.

2004: Hunting Somber Relics of the Cold War in Antarctic Ice - New York Times

Even now, buried somewhere under 100 feet of snow and ice, still unrecovered after 58 years, lie the bodies of three American servicemen, casualties of the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union on the world's most frigid and remote continent.
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''This wasn't just a routine task for us,'' said Capt. Christian Aldunate, the senior Chilean pilot on the recovery flight. ''It was a challenge to find clues that could help locate the plane, even though we knew it would be almost impossible to get at it because of the ice and snow that had piled up over so many years.''