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for anyone interested in war and peace, social and economic justice news:
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/11/headlinesHeadlines 12/11/09
US Criticized for Rejecting Climate Reparations
Here in Copenhagen, the Obama administration is coming under criticism for refusing to acknowledge a climate debt to poorer countries suffering the brunt of global warming. This week US climate negotiator Todd Stern “categorically” rejected calls for climate reparations to developing countries. On Thursday, Bolivia climate negotiator Angélica Navarro responded in an address before the alternative summit Klimaforum.
Angélica Navarro: “Whatever amount of money you give me, it will never—and I repeat—it will never compensate a single glacier that will be lost in Bolivia, a single species that will be lost in one of our rainforests. This is not about money, because we are not beggars. We are just asking for reparation by developed countries so they pay us their debt.”
Study: Ocean Acidification to Rise Absent Emissions Cuts
In other news from Copenhagen, ocean scientists have released a report showing the world’s seas are growing increasingly acidic from storing the main greenhouse gases causing global warming. Carol Turley of the Plymouth Marine Laboratory said oceans are seriously threatened unless emissions are reduced.
Carol Turley: “The oceans have already taken up 25 percent of the CO2 since the Industrial Revolution because of its vastness. And when you add CO2 to sea water, it becomes an acid, a mild acid. So the oceans in the last 200 years have become 30 percent more acidic, and that’s lowering the pH. The projections are that by 2060 it will become 120 percent more acidic, unless we do something about it, unless we reduce our CO2 emissions.”
...much more...
---here is an excellent weekly news show:
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www.theglobalreport.org
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