Former Greenpeace Co-Founder Praises US for Rejecting Kyoto CNSNews, December 8, 2005 A founding member of Greenpeace, who left the organization because he viewed it as too radical, praised the United States for refusing to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. "At least the [United] States is honest. [The U.S.] said, 'No we are not going to sign that thing (Kyoto) because we can't do that,'" said Patrick Moore, who is attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Montreal.
ANALYSIS: Killing Kyoto National Review Online, December 7, 2005 At this year's UN climate conference in Montreal, there's a seriousness of purpose and an acknowledgement of difficult realities that's unprecedented. At this conference, demands for unrealistic and economically harmful cuts in greenhouse gases, such as those outlined in the Kyoto Protocol, have been blunted. Instead, consideration is being given among delegates, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), bureaucrats, and politicians to bolstering adaptive capacity.
ANALYSIS: Culture Shock in Montreal Tech Central Station, December 8, 2005 As one of the very few scientists at the UN's eleventh Conference of the Parties climate meeting (COP-11), I feel like an outsider. That's because I am. The army of thousands in attendance (international delegates, NGOs, and all manner of stakeholders in the climate change issue), have little interest in knowing how certain or uncertain the science of global warming is. All these people know - or need to know - is that the "glaciers are melting," it's getting "hotter every year", and "climate change is killing people now" (all of these are direct quotes from presenters).
ANALYSIS: More Than One Best Way Tech Central Station, December 7, 2005 The goal of the Asia-Pacific Partnership for Clean Development and Climate Change (AP6) is to address climate change by focusing on creating and deploying technologies that emit less greenhouse gas such as carbon dioxide. The AP6 appear to be aligned with the new proposals for combining economic development and climate policies being offered by various participants in the Montreal conference. For example, the environmental think tank the World Resources Institute issued a new study that focuses on how to boost the economic growth of poor countries while simultaneously helping them improve their energy efficiency.
ANALYSIS: An Unethical Environment? Tech Central Station, December 7, 2005 The single most important underlying theme that unites critics of affluence is a misunderstanding of basic economics. I'm not talking about the intricacies of economic theories and their associated technical buzzwords. I'm talking about concepts that are so basic to the health and happiness of a society that they should be taught in every high school -- perhaps before.
US Experiences Record Low Temperatures AP, December 7, 2005 Bitterly cold air poured southward across the nation's midsection Wednesday, dropping temperatures to record lows from Montana to Illinois. The mercury dived to a record 45 below at West Yellowstone, Mont., the frequently cold spot at the west entrance to Yellowstone National Park, the National Weather Service said. The old record for Dec. 7 was 39 below, set in 1927.
CNSNews, December 8, 2005
A founding member of Greenpeace, who left the organization because he viewed it as too radical, praised the United States for refusing to ratify the Kyoto Protocol.
"At least the [United] States is honest. [The U.S.] said, 'No we are not going to sign that thing (Kyoto) because we can't do that,'" said Patrick Moore, who is attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Montreal.
ANALYSIS: Killing Kyoto
National Review Online, December 7, 2005
At this year's UN climate conference in Montreal, there's a seriousness of purpose and an acknowledgement of difficult realities that's unprecedented. At this conference, demands for unrealistic and economically harmful cuts in greenhouse gases, such as those outlined in the Kyoto Protocol, have been blunted. Instead, consideration is being given among delegates, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), bureaucrats, and politicians to bolstering adaptive capacity.
ANALYSIS: Culture Shock in Montreal
Tech Central Station, December 8, 2005
As one of the very few scientists at the UN's eleventh Conference of the Parties climate meeting (COP-11), I feel like an outsider. That's because I am. The army of thousands in attendance (international delegates, NGOs, and all manner of stakeholders in the climate change issue), have little interest in knowing how certain or uncertain the science of global warming is. All these people know - or need to know - is that the "glaciers are melting," it's getting "hotter every year", and "climate change is killing people now" (all of these are direct quotes from presenters).
ANALYSIS: More Than One Best Way
Tech Central Station, December 7, 2005
The goal of the Asia-Pacific Partnership for Clean Development and Climate Change (AP6) is to address climate change by focusing on creating and deploying technologies that emit less greenhouse gas such as carbon dioxide. The AP6 appear to be aligned with the new proposals for combining economic development and climate policies being offered by various participants in the Montreal conference. For example, the environmental think tank the World Resources Institute issued a new study that focuses on how to boost the economic growth of poor countries while simultaneously helping them improve their energy efficiency.
ANALYSIS: An Unethical Environment?
Tech Central Station, December 7, 2005
The single most important underlying theme that unites critics of affluence is a misunderstanding of basic economics. I'm not talking about the intricacies of economic theories and their associated technical buzzwords. I'm talking about concepts that are so basic to the health and happiness of a society that they should be taught in every high school -- perhaps before.
US Experiences Record Low Temperatures
AP, December 7, 2005
Bitterly cold air poured southward across the nation's midsection Wednesday, dropping temperatures to record lows from Montana to Illinois. The mercury dived to a record 45 below at West Yellowstone, Mont., the frequently cold spot at the west entrance to Yellowstone National Park, the National Weather Service said. The old record for Dec. 7 was 39 below, set in 1927.
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