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A Sad Earth from Chicago

December 12th: EU Council’s agenda is on the crisis and the Energy-Climate package. Poland, Germany and Italy are pulling back against getting a binding greenhouse gases emissions reduction objective. This is so tiring. All these short-term political visions. Do everything you can so as to not do anything. Don’t change anything.

Tiring. Just like all this people who act like they don’t know what it is about, like they don’t understand that we are facing an urgency. However it would probably be a solution to the crisis: “the green upturn”. So tiring. So tiring that people dither over what seems to me to be so obvious. Or am I crazy? Naive? Why isn’t it obvious? Really, there is enough information about global warming in the world as of today so that nobody can say ”i don’t know what the problem is with global warming”. Refusing to act against the climate change induced by our societies on our planet is consciously authorizing the death and misery of hundreds of millions of human beings.   …Woah. Now I feel better.

Read why scientists are running scared from :

• Keeping temperature rises below 2 degrees,
• Ensuring global emissions peak in the next ten or fifteen years,
• and Driving them down by at least half of 1990 levels by 2050…

In direct from Bali.

Read on digg.com :

AUSTRALIA has ratified the Kyoto Protocol.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd signed the instrument of ratification of the Kyoto Protocol in his first act after being sworn in as the new Prime Minister this morning.

I hope some other government follows this example …

read more | digg story

In the 2 weeks to come, I’ll be following for you the very important conference taking place in Bali between all countries that are part of the climate change mitigation effort. I hope I’ll be able to outline the main points of progress and I’ll try to make it so you can read only the text in bold, in order to make this big political talk a little bit more concrete and understandable for all of us, ordinary humans!

Coping strategies for the South (click to go to the article)

Describing progress so far, UNFCCC Executive Secretary, Yvo de Boer, said that things are “looking good.” He pointed to the first meeting this afternoon of the contact group, an initiative of Conference President Rachmat Witoelar, which will discuss ways of reaching a future climate change agreement and how this agreement should be structured. In this context, Mr. de Boer stressed once again the fact that the Bali Conference will not finalize a post-2012 climate deal, but can ”put in place a two-year process to work towards such a deal.”

While there is major focus at the Conference on the future, Mr. de Boer highlighted the importance of maintaining a balance between future and current issues. (more…)