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Water at core of climate change impacts say U.N. experts - Water is the essence of all life

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We are mostly made of water. By polluting the water of the earth, we pollute ourselves. And composting toilets are far more hygienic than spreading fecal matter around in precious water, and they are vastly more energy efficient. Switching over to a composting system is the kind of *social innovation* people can undertake for themselves. The capital cost would be... read more

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The main impact of climate change will be on water supplies and the world needs to learn from past cooperation

Desertification, flash floods, melting glaciers, heatwaves, cyclones or water-borne diseases such as cholera are among the impacts of global warming inextricably tied to water. And competition for supplies might cause conflicts.

“It has an impact on all parts of our life as a society, on natural systems, habitats,” he told Reuters in a telephone interview. Disruptions may threaten farming or fresh water supplies from Africa to the Middle East.

Adeel noted efforts to manage water supplies by counting how much water goes into products — from beef to coffee.

One study showed that it took 15,000 litres to produce a pair of blue jeans, he said. Making industries aware of water use could help shift to conservation.

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End tax breaks for polluters to cut budget deficit, thinktank urges - Looks like a no brainer

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Call for cap on aviation emissions

Ministers could save £12bn of public spending over four years by clamping down on tax breaks and support for polluting oil exploration, cement, aluminium and transport, according to a report from green campaigners this week.

With all three major parties committed to cutting the projected £178bn budget deficit, and to a low-carbon economy, a report by the high-level Green Alliance thinktank argues that many spending cuts could achieve both ends. Perhaps the most controversial suggestion is to halve the £10bn national and regional roads spending budget.

Other proposals include ending the zero value-added tax (VAT) rate for aviation and shipping, and reducing tax breaks on oil and gas exploration and the Climate Change Levy for big energy users such as cement and aluminium companies, saving more than £5bn.

“We’re saying, let’s look at expenditure which goes to support a high-carbon economy – often a lot of the expenditure is not consistent with a low-carbon economy.”

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Posted by Open Intelligence  2 days ago

Sarah Palin calls for ‘revolution’ in speech to tea party - US needs Fourth Party of the Open Minded

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Now the real need is a self-organising movement for people who are not slaves to vested interests or ideologies who want to adapt intelligently to changing conditions. Surely, Ralph Nader and Ron Paul would join together to provide the movement with the necessary electoral machinery. I really feel sorry for Obama, but open minded people need to move on. Social me... read more

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The US is “ready for another revolution”, Sarah Palin told conservative activists last night in a keynote speech to the first national tea party convention in Nashville which also roundly condemned Barack Obama.

“This movement is about the people,” the 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee said last night to cheers. “Government is supposed to be working for the people.”

Palin suggested that the party should remain leaderless and cautioned against allowing the movement to be defined by any one person. “This is about the people” and “it’s a lot bigger than any charismatic guy with a teleprompter,” she said, a dig at Obama.

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Posted by Open Intelligence  2 days ago

Peoples World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth’s Rights - Equal rights for all

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There is very little mainstream reporting on this important event. The most deadly sin is human Pride (which comes before a fall).

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Bolivian President Evo Morales announced the objectives of the “Peoples World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth’s Rights,
1) To analyze the structural and systemic causes
agree on the project of a Universal Declaration of Mother Earth Rights
To agree on proposals
related to:
- Climate debt
- Climate change migrants-refugees
- Emission reductions
- Adaptation
- Technology transfer
- Finance
- Forest and Climate Change
- Shared Vision
- Indigenous Peoples
4) To work on the organization of the Peoples’ World Referendum on Climate Change
5) To analyze and develop an action plan to advance the establishment of a Climate Justice Tribunal
6) To define strategies for action and mobilization to defend life from Climate Change and to defend Mother Earth’s Rights.Read more at bsnorrell.blogspot.com
 
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Posted by Open Intelligence  2 days ago

Climate scepticism ‘on the rise’, BBC poll shows - Asking divisive questions

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Closed questions, such as, Climate Change - True / False / Don't know, yield nothing but division. Open questions, such as, Climate Change - What is your experience, yield data which has the potential for synthesising new categories of thinking and questions. If people would admit they don't have the answers, they would become open to more questions and the learn... read more

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“It is very unusual indeed to see such a dramatic shift in opinion in such a short period,” Populus managing director Michael Simmonds told BBC News.

Of the 75% of respondents who agreed that climate change was happening, one-in-three people felt that the potential consequences of living in a warming world had been exaggerated, up from one-in-five people in November.

And only 26% of those asked believed climate change was happening and “now established as largely man-made”.

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Posted by Open Intelligence  3 days ago

How to talk about climate change - Overcoming frustration and anxiety

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I know what he means! The solace is physical activity caring for the natural world around. Every tree planted or coppiced is a step on the path to sustainable living.

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I am talking about the difficulty of expressing the truth—or what I think is the truth—about how imperiled our country and our world is right now. The news is unwelcome, it makes for deadened conversations, it furrows brows and it irks people. Responses to the bad news on the environment and the economy range from denial to rage to hopelessness. Many good folks do not think about this stuff, or change their lives in accordance with the new reality, because they have no idea what to do in the face of cataclysm.

I have found solace in the words of Dmitry Orlov
the voices of truth relieve our anxiety that the liars are right and we are crazy. The truth, however awful, is safe and real. The other reason we can embrace the truth is that it allows us to move past denial into action
We may have to spend much of our energy finding food and water, maintaining our homes and taking care of our families; we may have to school our own children, tend to the ill
But it’s our spiritual workRead more at energybulletin.net
 
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Posted by Open Intelligence  3 days ago

Everybody Off the Beach! - Hyperinflation could hit Japan first

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Who’s next?

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“Japan Deflation Hits a Record Pace,” reported the BBC. Prices in Japan were falling faster than they ever had since they began keeping track in 1970
We don’t know how this will turn out. Could it end in hyperinflation? Maybe.
For every yen the government squeezes from its taxpayers, it returns more than 2 yen in public spending.
The more the government tries to stimulate spending by running deficits, the more people try to protect themselves by saving.
Their fiscal stimulus no longer stimulates. Their monetary inflation no longer inflates.
Fiscal stimulus hits a new record, right along with deflation.
The Japanese were recently among the champion savers of the world. Directly or indirectly, these savings financed the government’s stimulus efforts.
The typical Japanese person looks forward to his retirement with a mountain of savings in his backyard. He believes he still has his cake. The government, however, has eaten it.
Desperate people try to get rid of paper. They want something solidRead more at dailyreckoning.com
 
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Posted by Open Intelligence  3 days ago

Ready for the Bust in the Economy - Best cartoon I’ve seen in years

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Goldman Sachs won’t be able to make record profits borrowing from the taxpayer and using the money to inflate stock market prices for their own profit.

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Economic Cartoon

We won’t know for sure until tomorrow. If tomorrow is another bad day – as it probably will be – then it will be clear that the last stage of the bear market has arrived. This should be the final drop…when stocks should go down to their ultimate bear market low.

Where will that be? We don’t know. Maybe Dow 5,000. Maybe lower. One way or another every major bull market needs a major bear market.
If this bear market is going to correct the entire bull market from 1982 onward,
it has to take prices back to the levels they were when it began
…or about 2,500.

Another way to look at it is to ask ourselves what the Dow of ’82 would be today, adjusted for consumer price inflation. We don’t know the answer to that either…but we’ll guess that it would be about 4 times what it was then – or about 4,000.

So, now we have a range… We know roughly where this market could be headed – if it is the yang we’re expecting. Read more at dailyreckoning.com
 
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Posted by Open Intelligence  3 days ago

Arctic climate changing faster than expected

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The trend is towards accelerating climate change. Canada single-handed makes the situation much worse by its tar sands emissions, and its wholesale destruction of the boreal forest, the greatest carbon sink in the world. Then there is the matter of igniting the methane time bomb as the tundra melts.

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Climate change is transforming the Arctic environment faster than expected and accelerating the disappearance of sea ice

The research project involved more than 370 scientists from 27 countries who collectively spent 15 months, starting in June 2007, aboard a research vessel above the Arctic Circle. It marked the first time a ship has stayed mobile in Canada’s high Arctic for an entire winter.

Models predicted only a few years ago that the Arctic would be ice-free in summer by the year 2100, but the increasing pace of climate change now suggests it could happen between 2013 and 2030, Barber said.

The Arctic is considered a type of early-warning system of climate change for the rest of the world.

(Climate change) is happening much faster than our most pessimistic models expected,” said David Barber, a professor at the University of Manitoba
We know we’re losing sea ice
“What you’re not aware of is that it has impacts on everything else that goes on in this system.”Read more at www.reuters.com
 
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Posted by Open Intelligence  3 days ago

Loss of species hits economy; new U.N. goals needed

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It’s an obscene argument on which to base a policy, but achieving some kind of perceived mutual interest between humans and the rest of creation is always worth a try, I guess.

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Losses of animal and plant species are an increasing economic threat and the world needs new goals for protecting nature after failing to achieve a 2010 U.N. target of slowing extinctions, experts said Friday.

Losses of biodiversity “have increasingly dangerous consequences for human well-being, even survival for some societies,” according to a summary of a 90-nation U.N. backed conference in Norway from February 1-5.

Damage to coral reefs in the tropics, creeping desertification in Africa or felling of the Amazon rainforest were among threats to wildlife and so to human livelihoods.

A U.N. summit in 2002 set a goal of a “significant reduction in the current rate of loss of biological diversity” by 2010. The United Nations says the world has failed.

“Urgent action is needed to address the loss of biodiversity, especially to avoid tipping points,”
human activities had raised the pace of extinctions to 100-1,000 times the background rate over the Earth’s history.Read more at www.reuters.com
 
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Posted by Open Intelligence  3 days ago