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- The Greening of Stephen Harperby John Allemang Ignore the Arctic’s melting caps The warnings on the weather maps, The ozone layer’s gaping holes, But Stephen, don’t ignore the polls. When worried voters all go green, A nation’s leader must be seen To turn his platform on a dime And shift convictions just in time To save, if not the polar bear, At least his party’s market share. Your climate’s changed, ...---READ-->>
- 1000 Years of Global WarmingFEB. 2, 2007: WorkingGroup 1 of the UN Intergovernmental Committee on Climate Change today issued its Summary for Policy Makers, summarizing the main conclusions of the major report on the Physical Science Basis of climate change that will be published in the spring. Among the most important conclusions: global warming is real, it’s happening faster than ...---READ-->>
- Venezuela – An Ecologically Sustainable Revolution?By Zoe Kenny At a meeting in Brazil on April 26, 2006, plans moved ahead between Venezuela, Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil for a major transcontinental oil pipeline. The pipeline would be 10,000 kilometres long and would link the four countries plus Paraguay and Uruguay. Venezuela’s socialist President Hugo Chavez said the pipeline would be integral to economically ...---READ-->>
- Taking the Monbiot Challenge: The Global Emergency of Climate ChangeA number of books have on climate change hit the shelves over the past year, but perhaps the most important of the recent titles on this subject is George Monbiot’s Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning (Random House, 2006). Monbiot, a widely read columnist with the UK Guardian, delivers a clear and stark ...---READ-->>
- Confronting the Climate Change CrisisPoliticians and oil companies are jumping on the green bandwagon, but they have no solutions to a crisis that is rooted in capitalism By Ian Angus This month, we’ve been treated to the bizarre spectacle of George Bush and Stephen Harper each declaring their deep concern about “the serious challenge of global climate change.” The U.S. president ...---READ-->>
- Carbon Trading: A Corporate Scamby Patrick Bond, Rehana Dada & Graham Erion With climate change posing as one of the gravest threats to capital accumulation – not to mention humankind and our environment – in coming decades, it is little wonder that economists such as Sir Nick Stern, establishment politicians like Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown and US Democrat ...---READ-->>