Global Warming/Climate Change

[Toedancer]

The knuckle draggers say to Oppositon, pay for yourself, if you want to go to Koyoto in s. africa.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/tories-bar-opposition-mps-from-official-delegation-at-climate-talks/article2238545/


NO opposition is Allowed. Period. I think Ms. May will be there tho. As for the rest, who knows? Isn't Enviro Minister Kent just a dear?

[lagatta]

I'd LOVE to see MPs Megan Leslie and Claude Gravelle punching through the ReformaTory climate denial bullshit - I hope it is feasable to send them down to the conference in South Africa.

They are travelling down to Washington now:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/bound-for-us-ndp-critics-vow-to-tell-whole-story-on-alberta-oil/article2236613/

[Boom Boom]

Megan Leslie has been in Washington for two days now, and gave CBC's P&P an interview last night to respond to Joe Olver's attack on her. She said there's virtually no Canadian opposition to the pipelines there - just an immense Canadian lobbying effort for Keystone XL. She spoke to Nancy Pelosi's office and a few others.

[sparqui]

I heard about this on the am radio news. They added that the opposition parties will pay their own way to South Africa.

[Holly Stick]

The IPCC released a special report today - The Special Report for Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) :  http://www.ipcc-wg2.gov/SREX/

Some articles about it:

http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2011/11/ipcc-extremes

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15745408

http://www.sei-international.org/news-and-media/2154

[Holly Stick]

Expect more extreme weather in Canada:


http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Nations+anticipate+more+climate+extremes+Panel/5734173/story.html

[Holly Stick]

So more emails stolen from climate scientists have been released before the Durban meeting, just like the bunch released before Copenhagen in 2009. They are probably from the same group of stolen ones used for "Climategate" since there are no recent emails.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/nov/22/fresh-hacked-climate-science-emails

[Toedancer]

This is wunderbra!    Occupy Durban.
Former president of Costa Rica calls on countries most affected by climate change to refuse to leave talks until progress is made


 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/nov/24/climate-change-occupy-durban-talks

[Holly Stick]

It's great to see some push-back on that, Toe! 


I just went and posted that link in a few places. 

[Boom Boom]

On CBC today: 1) a town in Texas is having its water supply dry up. 2) Mexican farmers are suffering their worse drought in 70 years.

[Antonia]

If I had loads of money, I'd be buying real estate in Detroit and Buffalo. Southerners will soon start migrating to the Great Lakes.

[Toedancer]

That's interesting. Detroit? Buffalo? Why do you think this?

[Boom Boom]

Northwest Oyster Die-Offs Show Ocean Acidification Has Arrived   The acidification of the world's oceans from an excess of CO2 has already begun, as evidenced recently by the widespread mortality of oyster larvae in the Pacific Northwest. Scientists say this is just a harbinger of things to come if greenhouse-gas emissions continue to soar.

[Antonia]

That's interesting. Detroit? Buffalo? Why do you think this?

Fresh water. The South West US is drying up.

[Boom Boom]

That's interesting. Detroit? Buffalo? Why do you think this?

Fresh water. The South West US is drying up.

Texas in particular. I read last week of a town in mid-Texas that is very quickly running out of water and is desperate for solutions. You can imagine how much fresh water is used by refineries and by fracking. They're drying up - and it's their own damned fault. And they want our water, too.