Climate change to hit Pacific islands food security
Posted by Xander in Headlines on 26. Nov, 2009 | 2 Comments
Svetlana Kovalyova
Reuters
November 26, 2009
Rising sea levels, ocean warming, cyclones and droughts caused by climate change is set to hit hard food security in the Pacific islands, the United Nations’ food agency said, urging governments to take immediate actions.
Climate change is expected to act as a “threat multiplier” in the Pacific region, home to 14 Pacific [...]
Aussie MPs Revolt Over Climate Change Laws
Posted by Xander in Headlines on 26. Nov, 2009 | 3 Comments
Ian Woods
Sky News
November 26, 2009
Australian politics is in turmoil because MPs and senators are refusing to back action on global warming – on the eve of the Copenhagen Climate Change summit.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd regularly says his hot, dry country would be among the first, and the worst affected, by rising temperatures.
But he is meeting [...]
Browner Shrugs Off Hot Debate on Climate Change Emails
Posted by Xander in Headlines on 26. Nov, 2009 | 1 Comment
Jonathan Weisman
The Wall Street Journal
November 26, 2009
White House energy and environment czar Carol Browner tried Wednesday to shrug off the swirling controversy over purloined British emails suggesting collusion on the part of climate scientists trying to stoke up fears of global warming. She hadn’t read them, she said, and besides, only a few have come [...]
Climate protestors face sleeping in prison gyms
Posted by Xander in Headlines on 26. Nov, 2009 | 2 Comments
The Copenhagen Post
November 26, 2009
Prisons prepare for an influx of detainees during the UN Climate Change Conference happening in two weeks
Overcrowding in the country’s prisons means protestors arrested during the climate conference will be held in uncomfortable conditions.
Climate activists are gearing up for the UN Climate Change Conference in two weeks, but face harsh jail [...]
“Climategate”: Peer-Review System Was Hijacked By Warming Alarmists
Posted by Xander in Headlines on 23. Nov, 2009 | No Comments
Steve Watson
InfoWars
November 23, 2009
One of the most striking revelations to immediately emerge from the “climategate” scandal has been references to efforts by scientists espousing the human-caused warming theory to exclude contrary viewpoints from important scientific publications.
Among the thousands of emails and documents hacked or leaked from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University last [...]
Leaked emails mark dangerous shift in climate denial strategy
Posted by Xander in Headlines on 23. Nov, 2009 | No Comments
Mark Lynas
Guardian.co.uk
November 23, 2009
The theft and web publication by climate change deniers of private emails from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit is an extremely worrying development in the tortured politics of global warming.
Although high-profile individuals have been targeted and unfairly vilified before – Pennsylvania University’s Michael Mann comes to mind, with his [...]