UN climate summit seeks clarity

This year's round of UN climate talks are opening in Poland with nations attempting to set the terms of a new deal on all aspects of climate change.

The talks, in the city of Poznan, mark the halfway point in a two-year process agreed at last year's UN conference.

The meeting will not produce a new deal but is likely to clarify what countries are looking for on issues such as emission cuts and forest protection. Full Story »

Posted by Leo Romero
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Subjects: World, Politics, Sci/Tech
Topics: Global Warming, United Nations, Climate Change
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Posted by: Posted by Leo Romero - Nov 30, 2008 - 8:52 PM PST
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Edited by: Derek Hawkins - Dec 1, 2008 - 12:55 PM PST

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by Leo Romero - Nov. 30, 2008
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by M. Simon - Dec. 1, 2008

It leaves out the salient fact that the climate change seen in the last 30 years may be entirely natural. It also leaves out the fact that even the IPCC expects further cooling until 2015.

Climate change hysteria is a wallet extraction scheme designed to destroy first world economies. We could achieve the required CO2 reductions at 1/10th the cost with no hit on industrial production by planting trees as Freeman Dyson proposes.

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