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18 Dec 09

FT.com / US & Canada - Climate seen as security issue

  • “I saw a clear connection between our counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism work and our dependence on oil and petroleum products from places in the world that often exploit that dependence,”
  • the Taliban’s leading source of funding, as I understand it, is private donations from people in Gulf oil states who have made that money selling oil to us. We saw that that money recycled right back to insurgent activity,”
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15 Dec 09

Do the right thing | Blog | Ode Magazine

  • the widespread resistance within governments and industry to seriously tackle global warming reminds me of the resistance to the abolition of slavery. It is the same fear.
  • ultimately, the abolition of slavery triggered one of the most successful economic eras in history: the Industrial Revolution
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The war against warming : article : Nature Reports Climate Change

  • the UK government then unveiled a glossy, colour-coded map detailing how global warming could lead to water and food shortages, extended drought, mass migration and violent conflicts, if action to curtail greenhouse gases wasn't taken at the upcoming Copenhagen summit
  • "incremental, and at times, abrupt, climate change is resulting in an unprecedented scale of human misery ... with consequential security implications that need to be addressed urgently"
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Climatologists under pressure : Article : Nature

  • If there are benefits to the e-mail theft, one is to highlight yet again the harassment that denialists inflict on some climate-change researchers, often in the form of endless, time-consuming demands for information
  • The e-mail theft also highlights how difficult it can be for climate researchers to follow the canons of scientific openness
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30 Nov 09

Tolerance.ca® - Global Warming will increase War in Africa

  • quantitative evidence linking climate change and the risk of civil conflict
  • climate change could increase the risk of African civil war by over 50% in 2030 relative to 1990
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28 Nov 09

Connie Hedegaard: Time Is Up - The Deadline Is Copenhagen

  • We can choose to go down the road towards green prosperity and a more sustainable future. Or we can choose a pathway to stalemate and do nothing about climate change leaving an enormous bill for our kids and grand-kids to pay.
  • According to the International Energy Agency every year lost to inaction will cost us 500 billion dollars.
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Carbon pricing is planetary Russian Roulette - The Ecologist

  • How do you price the tonne of carbon that, once burned, tips the balance and triggers catastrophic, irreversible global warming?

    This question is phrased to give scope for only one answer: there is no price and therefore carbon markets are pointless.
  • how effective is pricing in carbon markets?
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25 Nov 09

'Copenhagen Diagnosis' offers a grim update to the IPCC's climate science | Environment | guardian.co.uk

  • the climate situation is much worse than the IPCC has so far reported
  • sea levels could rise and methane-laden arctic permafrost could melt much sooner than the panel had anticipated
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