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Originally posted here: We Have Not Inherited the Earth From Our Ancestors, We Are Stealing It From Our Children
You can view the entire scene on YouTube Randy Malamud at the Huff Post says we really are in the end times, Dave Roberts at Grist more or less concern trolls the show, and Eli, Eli is with Ugo Bardi , at Cassandra’s Legacy who points out that So, we have always been careful to follow the instructions: avoid scaring people, avoid looking like scaremongers, avoid even hinting that things may be worse, much worse than anyone could imagine. We have been careful to end all warnings with a list of solutions; saying that, sure, it looks bad, but the problem will go away if you just insulate your home, buy a smaller car, and turn off the lights when you leave a room. What we need is just a little bit of good will.
Read more here: In the Beginning. . it was deja vue all over again
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This really rocked Tony Abbott’s boat, as reported in the Sydney Morning Herald Mr Abbott gave an impassioned defence of coal and, reportedly, argued against inserting a line in the communique recommending the abolition of fossil fuel subsidies, an objective of the G20 for many years.
Tweet Somebunny on the inside has been feeding the Guardian drafts of the G20 communiques. Â The part on climate change started out a week ago as We support strong and effective action to address climate change, consistent with sustainable economic growth and certainty for business and investment.
Its most recent article, " Thai Power Firm’s Business Tactics ‘Use Burma’s Weak Laws’ ," is a typical representation of these efforts. It reports that:  One of the chief financiers of hydroelectric dams planned on Burma’s Salween River is accused of investing in countries where there is “oppression and limited transparency†in order to achieve its objectives
Tweet The well named Hockeyschtick (did Eli say something about nyms?) has pulled a piece out of either by Herman Harde. To set the stage, Harde, of course, is a professor at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, aka the Bundeswehr Univesitaet. His presence there also is at least a strong clue about who invited Murry Salby to give a talk last year and Harde is a luminary in the German denial of the possibility of really bad climate change group EIKE.  Eli wrote something about this in 2011 when Harde was all the rage, but Ceist has noticed a few things, about the latest, namely that it is spreading like Ebola amongst the blogs of denial of climate change, now known as the blogs of denial of the possibility of really bad climate change, or DPPRBC for short, so Eli thought he would take a look
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