Climate Rage

Rolling Stone by Naomi Klein | Nov. 11, 2009 (Opinion)

With Copenhagen now likely to begin before Congress has passed even a weak-ass climate bill co-authored by the coal lobby, U.S. politicians have dropped the superhero metaphors and are scrambling to lower expectations for achieving a serious deal at the climate summit. It's just one meeting, says U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, not "the be-all and end-all."

As faith in government action dwindles, however, climate activists are treating ... Full Story »

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Randy Morrow
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 by Randy Morrow - Nov. 24, 2009

Ms. Klein discuss the idea of "climate debt", an idea being increasingly embraced by less developed countries, and an idea the repubs and the right will never go along with since it will cost the US a lot of money.

Todd Stern, the chief U.S. climate negotiator, has scoffed at a Chinese and African proposal that developed countries pay as much as $400 billion a year in climate financing as “wildly unrealistic” and “untethered to reality.”

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