Thursday, January 07, 2010

2020 visions : Article : Nature
Global governance
Jefrey Sachs
Director, the Earth Institute

By 2020, the world needs an effective system of global governance for managing sustainable development.
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Finally, global financing for poorer countries must improve if international agreements on climate, land use and biodiversity are to succeed. The record of aid delivery to poor countries is dismal. Rich countries regularly promise support that never arrives. Two proposals have been made that could improve things: a small tax on cross-border financial transactions, and a global levy on carbon emissions. Both should be implemented alongside more traditional forms of aid to secure a more reliable source of development finance.
The greatest threat of the 21st century: not AGW but Eco-Fascism – Telegraph Blogs
Peter Spencer is an example to us all. I’m not suggesting we all go on hunger strike but we ought surely to emulate his clear-eyed courage in facing up to the greatest menace of our age. That menace is not, of course, the illusory threat of AGW which our governments so cheerfully use to fleece us and impose control of over us. That menace is eco-fascism. It’s real, it’s terrifying and it’s time we fought back.
Investors.com - Salazar Slips Energy Policy In Reverse
Energy: As energy prices surge to uncomfortably high levels, a top administration official wants to make it harder for U.S. companies to get more oil and gas. Once again, we're shooting ourselves in the foot on energy.
Global Warming Hysteria: Leonard Nimoy Warns Against “the Coming Ice Age” in 1978 » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog
Those bad winters seem like the current one. Oh, oh!

Dr. Stephen Schneider, who appears at the end of the video to worry that the cure for the ice age might be worse than the disease, is now a global warming alarmist. Ha!

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