Climate Change and the Failure of Market Mechanisms. Patrick Bond: Carbon markets failing and Durban Green Climate Fund doomed - up to activists now - Transcript PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network.
I'm Paul Jay in Washington. The COP17 climate change negotiation conference that was in Durban is now over. Canada just a few days ago announced it's actually pulling out of the Kyoto agreement, and Russia then came out and backed Canada's move. End. Where is the Urgency About Climate Change? Additive threats from pathogens, climate and land-use change for global amphibian diversity : Nature. Taking the pulse of a shrinking glacier. F. Croxatto The San Rafael Glacier is shrinking fast. The Exploradores Glacier in southern Chile is riven with cracks that form vertical cliffs of luminescent blue and indigo ice. A constant sound of running water rises from the rivers snaking beneath the 20-kilometre-long frozen mass that sweeps down from Mount San Valentín.
The scene is stunning. To understand why this is happening, scientists must measure the various processes that affect glaciers — not an easy task in this frozen wilderness. Image Slideshow Caves, cracks and cliffs in the Exploradores Glacier become rifts of rich, luminescent blue.F. Keystone pipeline the clear winner in GOP debate. WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Keystone XL pipeline was the clear winner in Thursday's Republican debate, garnering wild applause as the candidates blasted President Barack Obama for delaying the $7-billion project.
A decision from the White House on the pipeline, which would carry crude from Alberta's oilsands to refineries in Texas and elsewhere on the Gulf of Mexico, was expected this year. But last month, the State Department ordered further reviews that would put off a decision on the controversial project until after the 2012 presidential election. If built, it's estimated it would create 20,000 construction jobs right away and 100,000 indirect jobs once it's fully operational.
During Thursday night's GOP debate in Iowa, front-runner Newt Gingrich called it "utterly irrational" to delay the pipeline given the jobs it would create. Gingrich also said he favours a Republican move in Congress tying approval of the pipeline to a payroll tax cut extension that Democrats have been pleading for. Warming Arctic Permafrost Fuels Climate Change Worries. Durban Climate Conference Ends In More Inaction. Zombie Agreement From COP 17.
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Bolivian ambassador to the UN): Millions will suffer as Durban climate change conference fails - Transcript PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay in Washington. Capitalism vs. the Climate. Denialists are dead wrong about the science.
But they understand something the left still doesn’t get about the revolutionary meaning of climate change. There is a question from a gentleman in the fourth row. He introduces himself as Richard Rothschild. He tells the crowd that he ran for county commissioner in Maryland’s Carroll County because he had come to the conclusion that policies to combat global warming were actually “an attack on middle-class American capitalism.” His question for the panelists, gathered in a Washington, DC, Marriott Hotel in late June, is this: “To what extent is this entire movement simply a green Trojan horse, whose belly is full with red Marxist socioeconomic doctrine?”
COP17. 20111202COP17_06H00.pdf (Objet application/pdf) 357429 (Image JPEG, 800x525 pixels) CMP7 - What is COP17/CMP7? What is at stake in Durban? Challenging climate apartheid. In downtown Durban, the climate negotiators have settled into their beachfront hotels, ready for the official UN climate negotiations. Already, voices speculate about cracks in the existing negotiating blocs. Will the developing countries hold together all the way? Will the so-called emerging economies flex individual muscles?
But as the technical negotiations begin, I want to focus instead on two events that moved me deeply. Both communicated the people’s desire for climate justice. ‘We are here to fight genocide; we are here to fight ecocide,’ he said, speaking at the Kwa Zulu Natal University, home to civil society in Durban during the talks. He was addressing an animated crowd who had gathered to greet the Caravan of Hope. The second inspiring event of the past week was the ‘We Have Faith’ rally at Durban Kings Stadium. Tutu said that although some people may ‘go first’, others will also be sure to be hit.
Global Day of Action rallying call as thousands expected to join Durban climate march. As world leaders struggle to reach agreement at the COP17 negotiations, the COP17 civil society committee (C17) is issuing a rallying call to all South Africans to join civil society, organised labour, faith-based organisations, artists and musicians in a peaceful march through Durban on Saturday 3rd December. Ordinary people from across Africa and the World are coming together to make sure their voices are heard. Some of those most affected by the impacts of changing climate will be taking part in the march including peasant farmers from across the continent and hundreds of women from South African rural communities.
C17 Global Day of Action committee convenor Desmond D’sa: “World leaders are discussing the fate of our planet but they are far from reaching a solution to climate change. If they fail to make progress we will see drought and hunger blight our country and continent even further.