Cookie Jill rounds up the environmental news otherwise unseen:
climate scientists underwhelmed by copenhagen accord. – top climate scientists said saturday that the eleventh-hour political deal hammered out at un talks in copenhagen falls perilously short of what is needed to stave off catastrophic global warming- afp
copenhagen summit ends in blood, sweat and recrimination. – gordon brown and barack obama did their best to put a positive spin on it, but copenhagen was a disaster- london daily telegraph
‘toothless’ climate deal struck by superpowers. – president barack obama said that an “unprecedented breakthrough” to curb greenhouse gas emissions – including a mechanism to verify compliance – was achieved, after a frenzied day of diplomacy at the un climate talks. – edinburough scotsman
climate leaders: the rhetoric vs. the reality. – they had been urged to side with the angels but ultimately, base political instinct seems to have prevailed among the world’s most powerful leaders as they sealed a climate pact among themselves, sparking fury elsewhere. – afp
one planet, different worlds. – all eyes in copenhagen were on china and president barack obama friday night, but no event captured the discord, mistrust and distance separating all sides at these climate talks than a pair of press conferences held simultaneously at the bella center earlier in the afternoon. – daily climate
poorest of the poor ask why copenhagen failed to listen. – it’s hard to see how the copenhagen accord delivers justice to people in poor countries that are least responsible for climate change but suffer its impacts right now. – sydney morning herald
Go. Read the rest. And remember, climate change isn’t happening.
It’s sixty degrees (and overcast) on my front porch… at 4:20 in the afternoon of the nineteenth day of December at four thousand feet above sea level just fifteen miles stones’ throw from what were once profuse glaciers close enough to the forty-fifth parallel as to call it half way to the north pole!
Sheeshyau, climate change isn’t happening.
nonny mouse: Climate change is a hoax, they’re shouting from their soap boxes. Agenda 21 is just a smoke screen designed to enslave the Third World, and global warming is fraud, a steekin’ fraud, I tells ya, run by the Illuminati and the Rothschild dynasty and aliens from Alpha Centuri in a vast conspiracy with Big Business and Pharma and corrupt politicians to control the world’s resources in a scam for world domination! Global warming is a natural phenomenon, they’re insisting, 30,000 scientists have iron-clad proof () that it’s all been propaganda designed to frighten us. CO2 is caused by tectonic plate shift, or the earth’s axis tilting, or sun spots, or Urban Heat Island effects, or water vapor, or cows farting. () It’s a natural cycle – we went through a Little Ice Age in the Holocene then global warming in the Middle Ages (), and volcanoes spew out more CO2 than humans do (). Anyway, modeling the environment is too vast, too vague, too complicated, not even scientists can agree with one another; we just aren’t capable of adequately simulating the atmosphere or understanding climate change.
Just exactly how is right around 5 p.m., pickup trucks, cars and two SUVs turn off the highway … like something out of Mad Max? You been takin’ racism lessons from The Bullshiten or something?
You’re heart’s in the right place, but, ahhh… you could’ve picked a better opening paragraph.
I think you owe The Rainbow a public apology.
I will for the foreseeable future vote against any incumbent elected official.
Gentlemen, door. Door, gentlemen… get the fuck out. NOW!
No worries, they’ll move here … LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California’s two main river basins and the aquifers beneath its agricultural heartland have lost nearly enough water since 2003 to fill Lake Mead, America’s largest reservoir, new satellite data showed on Monday.
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The amount of water available in the state’s two biggest river basins, the Sacramento and the San Joaquin — both of which drain California’s Sierra Nevada mountain range — has diminished by more than 30 cubic kilometers since late 2003, the study found.
That’s nearly enough to fill Lake Mead on the Colorado River in Nevada, a major water source for Nevada and southern California. Two-thirds of that loss, the rough equivalent of 8 million Olympic-sized pools, was groundwater.
Thirty-nine Democrats and every Republican in the House voted to default on America’s debt today. The Y2K nuts had it right: it was the end of ‘America’.
Oral Roberts, daughter-fucking right-wing christian scum.
Burn in the hell of your own fantasy.
