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GOP Protest Builds Against EPA Regulating Greenhouse Gases | SolveClimate.com

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

‘A storm of Republican protest is erupting over the Environmental Protection Agency’s finding that greenhouse gases pose a public danger, with the latest wave coming from a state among those most at risk from the effects of climate change.’

via GOP Protest Builds Against EPA Regulating Greenhouse Gases | SolveClimate.com.

Loans to Boost Nuclear Industry Seen Coming Soon – CNBC

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

‘The Obama administration is poised to announce loan guarantees to help kick-start the country’s nuclear power industry, which hasn’t built a new plant in more than three decades.Congress authorized $18.5 billion for nuclear loan guarantees in 2005, hoping to revive development of the carbon-free source of energy. Investments in nuclear power have dried up on soaring costs following the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island.’

via Loans to Boost Nuclear Industry Seen Coming Soon – CNBC.

Senate Democrats to W.H.: Drop cap and trade – – POLITICO.com

Monday, December 28th, 2009

‘Bruised by the health care debate and worried about what 2010 will bring, moderate Senate Democrats are urging the White House to give up now on any effort to pass a cap-and-trade bill next year.’

via Senate Democrats to W.H.: Drop cap and trade – – POLITICO.com.

Video – COP 15 Followup – Dr. Helen Caldicott, “False Promises of Nuclear Energy”

Monday, December 28th, 2009

Copenhagen, Dec 12, 2009

Dr. Helen Caldicott delivered the keynote address at a talk entitled “False Promises of Nuclear Energy” in the Liva Weel room in the Bella Center as part of the COP 15. The event, sponsored by Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Women in Europe for a Common Future (WECF) along with several international partners, also included testimony by panelists Nadezhda Kutepova, Kaisha Atakhanova, Olga Podosenova, and Karin Wurzbacher. Helen Caldicott also spoke later in the day at the conclusion of the large climate march through Copenhagen.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Report by James George

VIDEO – COP 15 Followup – Youth Climate Protestors Expose the FOX News Polar Bear Skeptic Coverage

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

Copenhagen, Dec 18, ~ 1 a.m.

Youth Climate Protestors, during their sit in at the Bella Center in Copenhagen calling for a “Fair, Ambitious, and Legally Binding” COP15 agreement, explain all about FOX News and the Climate Bear Skeptic.

Video – COP 15 Followup – Bob Corell – Sea Level Rise Already Commited

Friday, December 25th, 2009

Copenhagen, Dec 14, 2009
After a press conference on the report “Melting snow and ice” commissioned by Al Gore and Norway’s minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre, Bob Corell, who is both on the Task Force and a Scientific Contributer to the report, answered a few more questions. Here he states that due to heat already in the oceans, sea levels will rise, even if all emissions were to be completely cut. The troubling implication is that island nations are going to disappear.

Beef group challenges U.S. EPA climate finding | Reuters

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

‘WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A beef industry group has challenged a ruling by U.S. environmental regulators that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health, saying the move would hurt agriculture.’

via Beef group challenges U.S. EPA climate finding | Reuters.

Video – COP 15 Followup – Dec 13 Rajendra Pachauri Address at Bright Green

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

Copenhagen, Dec 13, 2009

Rajendra Pachauri spoke at the Bright Green Center after U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu. Of note was his support grass roots action near the very end of part two.

Part 1

Part 2

“All of this will only materialize if we have large scale grass roots action.”

Report by James George

Obama says disappointment at Copenhagen justified | Reuters

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

‘WASHINGTON Reuters – President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that disappointment over the outcome of the Copenhagen climate change summit was justified, hardening a widespread verdict that the conference had been a failure.’

via Obama says disappointment at Copenhagen justified | Reuters.

Copenhagen Decoded | Mother Jones

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

‘Late on Friday at the climate summit in Denmark, President Barack Obama announced the Copenhagen Accord, an eleventh-hour deal with the United States, China, India, Brazil and South Africa that broke a seemingly intractable impasse in the negotiations. But after the president boarded Air Force One—hoping to reach Washington before an approaching snowstorm—negotiators for 193 countries fought bitterly about the agreement through the night. In the small hours, a handful of nations—including Venezuela, Bolivia, Sudan, and Nicaragua—refused to sign the pact. Exhausted negotiators, some looking ready to keel over at any minute, railed and pleaded to no avail; a Venezuelan delegate even cut her hand to emphasize her opposition to the deal. In the end, the holdouts could not be won over, and so the summit’s final statement does not adopt the Copenhagen Accord, but merely “takes note” of it. What does this nebulous pact actually mean—and what happens next?’

via Copenhagen Decoded | Mother Jones.