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What
Good is the News? - Conde Nast Portfolio - Opinions on the shape of the
earth differ, but the world is round and warming. Time for journalists to quit
falling back in cowardice on the dicta of their profession, stop being played by
interests, and tell the audience, as best they can, what's actually happening
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Doom
Avoidance : Ed Miliband Invites Protest
Ed Miliband wants a Climate Change social movement, and it is
going to appear in force, but it won't look the way he wants or expects. In the
interview article below notice that Ed Miliband is going to publish a Climate
Change manifesto shortly, outlining the UK negotiating position for the December
United Nations Climate Talks. That means that the UK negotiating position for
Copenhagen in December has already been decided. And judging by the various
decisions on Energy and Transport over the last few months, that negotiating
position will fail to address the full scale of Climate Change. And that means
there is no point in a social campaign to urge the Government to act
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The
environment is a spiritual concern - Guardian
The Catholic Climate Covenant campaign is a natural step as it
links the effects of climate change to the needs of the vulnerableAny climate
change campaign is shrouded in an air of guilt and accusation because they are
designed to make those of us who live in comfort and plenty feel badly about our
lifestyles. The aim of all the climate campaigns is to get people, mainly in the
developed northern hemisphere, to reduce the amount of energy we use, change our
eating habits and generally use and consume fewer resources so that those living
in poverty are not burdened further with the effects of climate change.Of course
the message is right.
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Gore:
Partisan Row Over Climate Must End - TIME
Former Vice President Al Gore, a leading voice on climate
change, urged lawmakers Friday to overcome partisan differences and pass
legislation to curb greenhouse gases.
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CHILE:
Scientist Warns of Threats to Rock Glaciers - IPS
SANTIAGO, Apr 24 (IPS) - A new government policy on glaciers
adopted by Chile "is a step forward, but it doesn't resolve all of the
problems," German geographer Alexander Brenning, who blames mining
companies for threats to this South American country's rock glaciers, told IPS.
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Forest
Fires Largely Overlooked by Climate-Change Modelers - Bloomberg
April 24 (Bloomberg) -- Forest fires worsen global warming and
make it harder for societies to adapt to drought and higher temperatures,
scientists said
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Time
to come clean on coal - Independent
It is little wonder that ministers are so attracted by the
promise of "clean coal". Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology
fitted to a new generation of coal-fired power stations in this country would
answer three of their prayers at once.
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Gone:
Mass Extinction and the Hazards of Earth's Vanishing Biodiversity - Mother
Jones
Gone: By the end of the century, half of all species on Earth
may be extinct due to global warming and other causes. Who will survive the
world's dwindling biodiversity, and why?
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Bolivia:
water people of Andes face extinction - Guardian
Climate change robs Uru Chipaya of lifeline that had sustained
them for millennia. Its members belong to what is thought to be the oldest
surviving culture in the Andes, a tribe that has survived for 4,000 years on the
barren plains of the Bolivian interior. But the Uru Chipaya, who outlasted the
Inca empire and survived the Spanish conquest, are warning that they now face
extinction through climate change. The tribal chief, 62-year-old Felix Quispe,
62, says the river that has sustained them for millennia is drying up. His
people cannot cope with the dramatic reduction in the Lauca, which has dwindled
in recent decades amid erratic rainfall that has turned crops to dust and
livestock to skin and bones
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