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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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Rising CO2 could cause catastrophic sea level rise finds Antarctic study - Telegraph

  • during the last period of high CO2, 125,000 years ago,
    temperatures were up to 10.8F(6C) higher than present day levels.



    Such a hike in temperature could lead to a rise in sea levels of between 13 to
    20ft (4 to 6 m) over hundreds of years as the ice sheets melt.

  • the study suggests that current high levels of CO2 could also
    cause a rise in temperature
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20 Nov 09

Novel Analysis Confirms Climate "Hockey Stick" Graph: Scientific American

  • Tingley’s result resembles the same basic hockey-stick shape as previous reconstructions, except that it has more variability in the past

War Is Peace: Can Science Fight Media Disinformation?: Scientific American

  • “The increasingly blatant nature of the nonsense uttered with impunity in public discourse is chilling. Our democratic society is imperiled as much by this as any other single threat, regardless of whether the origins of the nonsense are religious fanaticism, simple ignorance or personal gain.”
  • The rise of a ubiquitous Internet, along with 24-hour news channels has, in some sense, had the opposite effect from what many might have hoped such free and open access to information would have had. It has instead provided free and open access, without the traditional media filters, to a barrage of disinformation.
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19 Nov 09

Surviving winter in Copenhagen » Camp for Climate Action

  • The secret to dressing warm is to trap static warm air using several layers of insulating clothing.
  • Firstly an absorbent but low cotton content garment should be worn next to the skin that can draw sweat away from your body should you have become too hot at any stage of the day.
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18 Nov 09

6 Ways Social Media Can Enhance Your Business | pamorama

  • If you want to succeed on the Web, a solid social network presence is required.
  • The nature of the back and forth dialogue on social networks enables you to engage and turn around negative reviews and comments — this communicates that you listen to your customers and value their input, and acts to enhance your reputatuion.
16 Nov 09

Palestinian farmers denied access to water in disputed West Bank

  • Palestinian farmers contend that Israel is attempting to dry up their lands and drive them away in order to establish more settlements in the region
  • "This is an organised Israeli policy designed to prevent the development of the Palestinian economy - knowing that agriculture is a major sector within the economy."

SNS.sy | ترجمة | Israel's theft of Lebanon water is continued

  • "The Israeli enemy always seeks to steal our waters, and the damage inflicted on farmland irrigated from the Hasbani River Basin, and the drought we suffer from today are the result of the 24-year Israeli occupation and its excessive and total use of that basin's resources,"
  • Israeli bombing during the 2006 war on Lebanon had deliberately targeted the Al -AssiRiver dam project, which irrigated 7,000 hectares of land, as well as a hydroelectric station in South Lebanon
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