Green groups split on Danish idea

The Politico by Eamon Javers | Nov. 17, 2009 (News Report)

U.S. environmental groups are split over how to respond to the Obama administration’s decision to go along with a Danish proposal not to push for a binding global climate agreement at a United Nations conference in Copenhagen next month.

The global environmental group Greenpeace blasted the move, calling it a sop to President Barack Obama’s political vulnerability. “Danish Prime Minister [Lars Lokke] Rasmussen has become complicit in a U.S. ... Full Story »

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Subjects: World, U.S., Politics, Sci/Tech
Topics: Environment, Foreign Policy, Lobbying, Climate Change
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Posted by: Posted by Derek Hawkins - Nov 17, 2009 - 3:20 AM PST
Reviewed by: Derek Hawkins (review), Kaizar Campwala (review), Norman Rogers (review), Fabrice Florin (review)
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Edited by: Derek Hawkins - Nov 17, 2009 - 7:53 AM PST
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Kaizar Campwala
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 by Kaizar Campwala - Nov. 17, 2009

Lacks the context provided by the E & E piece (see links).

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Derek Hawkins
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 by Derek Hawkins - Nov. 17, 2009
Derek posted this story.
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Fabrice Florin
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 by Fabrice Florin - Nov. 17, 2009
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Norman Rogers
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 by Norman Rogers - Nov. 17, 2009

It's difficult to rate journalism that resides in a fantasy land. The Chinese are never going to stop burning more and more coal every year. Ditto the Indians. Thus CO2 control is a fantasy - so why waste ink speculating about it? Global warming is another fantasy - a pure product of junk science by environmental fanatics searching for a disaster to make themselves be relevant.

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