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It remains a mystery as to the nature of the evidence or reasons underlying James Lovelock's statement that he was 'alarmist' about climate change. Unfortunately, these statements are inconsistent with up-to-date climate data sets “It is unthinkable that that a civilization which placed a man on the moon and explored the solar system cannot find the will to protect its own planet.
The recent scientific literature suggests that the permafrost is poised to be a major amplifying feedback if we are self-destructive enough to ignore yet another dire warning and stay anywhere near our current path of unrestricted carbon pollution Humanity finds itself at a crossroads: Why should we only respect the laws of human beings and not those of nature? Why do we call the person who kills his neighbor a criminal, but not he who extinguishes a species or contaminates a river? Why do we judge the life of human beings with parameters different from those that guide the life of the system as a whole if all of us, absolutely all of us, rely on the life of the Earth System?
Ms. Fatima Rabab, Regional Coordinator & Advisor for SA, International Organization for Migration (IOM), Bangkok called on H.E. Mr.Ahmed Saleem, Secretary General, on 8th May 2012. Dr. Rinchen Chophel, Director General, South Asia Initiative to End Violence Against Children (SAIEVAC), met the Secretary General on 27th April 2012. H.E.
The 36th sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) and of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), the fifteenth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA), the seventeenth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP) and the first session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) will take place concurrently from 14 to 25 May. All sessions will be held at the Maritim Hotel in Bonn. New!
This image could be seen today by thousands and thousands of London’s commuters as they opened up their newspapers today. This information advert was posted by the UK’s biggest water company in an attempt to win over London’s population to save water in the light of the severe drought huge parts of England are currently facing. After leaving the tube and being greeted by horrendous rain it doesn’t come as a big surprise that many Londoners were muttering, “Drought? What drought?!” to themselves while unpacking their umbrellas.