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- Health Care: “Climate Change Will Ride Across This Landscape as the Fifth Horseman”Excerpt from a lecture entitled Climate change and health: preparing for unprecedented challenges, presented by Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization, in Bethesda, Maryland on December 10 As the climate scientists tell us, even if greenhouse gas emissions were to stop today, the consequences will be felt throughout this century. In the language ...---READ-->>
- Biofuels – A New Threat to Climate and Climate JusticeText of a flyer distributed by Biofuelwatch at the UN climate talks in Bali. “The biodiversity and livelihoods of Africans should not be considered expendable for the cause of climate change solutions.” African Biodiversity Network “We have very serious concerns over nuclear energy, genetically modified trees, carbon capture and storage and biofuels for environmental and safety ...---READ-->>
- Suckered Again: The Bali Deal is Worse Than KyotoBy George Monbiot, The Guardian, December 17, 2007 ‘After 11 days of negotiations, governments have come up with a compromise deal that could even lead to emission increases. The highly compromised political deal is largely attributable to the position of the United States, which was heavily influenced by fossil fuel and automobile industry interests. The failure ...---READ-->>
- Trying to Square the Climate CircleBy William Bowles, Creative-I Sink or Swim – The ‘choice’ apparently, is yours according to Hilary Benn, but only if you can breath under water and swim Here, in the UK we have a minister for the environment, Hilary Benn is his name, son of doyen of the ‘left’ of the Labour Party, Anthony Wedgwood-Benn, whose swings ...---READ-->>
- Brazilian Indigenous Peoples Protest Agribusiness and BiofuelsRainforest Action Network reports this protest in Brazil, Thursday December 14 “Rainforest Action Network (RAN) issued its support for a major protest of US Agribusiness and biofuels expansion staged by the Mobilization of Indigenous People of the Cerrado (MOPIC) in Campo Grande, Brazil. More than 300 MOPIC members representing more than 35 distinct Indigenous cultures attended ...---READ-->>
- Indigenous Peoples Condemn Exclusion from Bali TalksStatement of the International Forum Of Indigenous Peoples on Climate Change at the High Level Segment Of the 13th Conference of the Parties Thank you, Mr. President Chair and delegates On behalf of the International Forum of Indigenous Peoples on Climate Change (IFIPCC), I would like to draw your attention to the fact that more than 80% ...---READ-->>
- Hoodwinked in Bali on Carbon Creditsby Daphne Wysham The Nation, December 12, 2007 Nusa Dua, Bali It’s the second week of the UN Climate Change Conference and the air is heavy with humidity, but despite being the rainy season, it hasn’t rained heavily in weeks. The rooms in the conference facilities where people are clustered around computers feel like saunas, an appropriate thing, ...---READ-->>
- Ross Gelbspan: It’s Too Late to Stop Climate ChangeBeyond the Point of No Return By Ross Gelbspan From Grist Ross Gelbspan is retired from a 30-year career as an editor and reporter at The Philadelphia Bulletin, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe. He is author of The Heat Is On and Boiling Point, and he maintains the website heatisonline.org. As the pace of global warming kicks ...---READ-->>
- Poor Hit Hardest by Climate ChangeBy Michael Casey Associated Press BALI, Indonesia — Surrounded by rising seas and short of water, the glitzy city state of Singapore has built one of the world’s largest desalination plants and is paying Dutch experts tens of millions of dollars to devise ways to protect their island. Bangladesh, meanwhile, is digging out from a cyclone that killed ...---READ-->>
- Climate Change Debate Fuels Greenwash Boomby Pratap Chatterjee from CorpWatch, December 11th, 2007 On the Indonesian island of Bali, thousands of senior government officials are negotiating a plan to slow global warming. The meeting, which will focus on how to limit the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change, will run for the first two weeks of December and include 192 countries. ...---READ-->>
- Climate Protests Around the WorldReports on the December 8 International Global Warming Protests are starting to arrive. Daniel Tanuro, the ecological correspondent of La Gauche, newspaper of the Belgian Socialist Workers Party, sent C&C a report on a successful action in Brussells. See below. Size estimates for the protest in London England range from 5,000 to 15,000. Derek Wall of ...---READ-->>
- Bog Barons: Indonesia's Carbon CatastropheBy Fred Pearce From New Scientist, December 1, 2007 I am standing in the heart of the world’s second largest tropical peat swamp, the Kampar bog in central Sumatra, watching the swamp’s water drain away along a small canal. Across the western side of the bog there are dozens more drains. The peat bog is bleeding to ...---READ-->>
- Up In Smoke: A Decade of Canadian Inaction on Climate ChangeThanks to Oil Sands Truth for drawing this article to our attention. It originally appeared in Vue Weekly, “Edmonton’s 100% Independent News and Entertainment weekly.” By Scott Harris A decade after the international community agreed to the Kyoto Protocol, and five years since Parliament ratified the agreement, there isn’t a lot of good news about how ...---READ-->>
- Indigenous Peoples Protest Exclusion from Bali TalksNusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia- Indigenous peoples representing regions from around the world protested outside the climate negotiations today wearing symbolic gags that read UNFCCC, the acronym of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, symbolizing their systematic exclusion from the UN meeting. Yesterday a delegation of indigenous peoples was forcibly barred from entering the meeting ...---READ-->>
- Bali 2007 – Voices from the South Demand Climate JusticeBy Joan Martinez-Alier and Leah Temper Joan Martínez-Alier is president of the International Society for Ecological Economics. Leah Temper is a doctoral student at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Kyoto has failed. Despite so many admonitions from the IPCC, the reality is that emissions of carbon dioxide in the world are going up by over 3 per ...---READ-->>
- Ottawa’s Greenhouse Gas Policy Will Reward Tar Sands Companies for PollutingI wrote about Canada’s fraudulent global warming plan in May, added some more data a week later, and then wrote an expanded article that Canadian Dimension magazine published in September. The story just keepsw getting worse. A new analysis shows that the Harper-Baird plan will produce windfall profits for the worst greenhouse gas emitters in Canada. The ...---READ-->>
- Australian Government Lied About Greenhouse Gas Emissions(How long will it be before we read similar reports on the Canadian government?) From The Canberra Times, December 4, 2007 The Howard government misled the United Nations over the scale of its efforts to tackle climate change and meet its Kyoto emission reduction targets, according to senior government sources. They claim Australia’s greenhouse emissions were "considerably ...---READ-->>
- Report Exposes Flaws and Fraud in Kyoto's "Clean Development Mechanism"The Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is set to provide massive subsidies to hydropower developers while increasing greenhouse gas emissions, according to an investigation by International Rivers. As of November 1, 2007, 654 hydro projects had received or applied to receive carbon credits from the CDM. If approved, these credits would provide hydro developers ...---READ-->>
- Quebec Socialists Critique EcoliberalismA presentation from the conference “Vers l’écosocialisme?” held in Montreal on November 10, organized by Gauche socialiste and Masse critique. Que proposent les écosocialistes ? En premier lieu une lutte au gaspillage. En ce sens, il faut aller au-delà des ajustements proposés par les écolibéraux. La solution n’est pas une « limitation » générale de la ...---READ-->>
- As Climate Disasters Accelerate, the Poorest Are Hit HardestAn excerpt from “Climate Alarm: Disasters increase as climate change bites,” a new report published by Oxfam International. Climatic disasters are on the increase as the Earth warms up – in line with scientific observations and computer simulations that model future climate. 2007 has been a year of climatic crises, especially floods, often of an unprecedented ...---READ-->>