JusBringIt
02-21-2009, 07:40 PM
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/500/south_africa_flag1.jpg Lake Victoria in nearby Uganda, at 31,000 square miles is a vital source for the Nile River, and lake level had dropped 10 feet in the past six years — a loss blamed in part on GW. (news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090221/ap_on_sc/af_climate_stranded)
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/art-sea-ice.jpgCharles J. Hanley - Yahoo News (news.yahoo.com)- Feb 21, 2009
Will our human ingenuity be enough to let us live a life of “glad we did” instead of “woulda, coulda, shoulda”? --Ed.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa – If we don't deal with climate changedecisively, "what we're talking about then is extended world war," the eminent economist said.
His audience Saturday, small and elite, had been stranded here by bad weather and were talking climate. They couldn't do much about the one, but the other was squarely in their hands. And so, Lord Nicholas Stern was telling them, was the potential for mass migrations setting off mass conflict.
"Somehow we have to explain to people just how worrying that is," the British economic thinker said.
Stern, author of a major British government report detailing the cost of climate change, was one of a select group of two dozen — environment ministers, climate negotiators and experts from 16 nations — scheduled to fly to Antarctica to learn firsthand how global warmingmight melt its ice into the sea, raising ocean levels worldwide.
Their midnight flight was scrubbed on Friday and Saturday because of high winds on the southernmost continent, 3,000 miles from here. While waiting at their Cape Town hotel for the gusts to ease down south, chief sponsor Erik Solheim, Norway's environment minister, improvised with group exchanges over coffee and wine about the future of the planet.
"International diplomacy is all about personal relations," Solheim said. "The more people know each other, the less likely there will be misunderstandings."
Understandings will be vital in this "year of climate," as the world's nations and their negotiators count down toward a U.N. climate conference in… http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090221/ap_on_sc/af_climate_stranded
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/art-sea-ice.jpgCharles J. Hanley - Yahoo News (news.yahoo.com)- Feb 21, 2009
Will our human ingenuity be enough to let us live a life of “glad we did” instead of “woulda, coulda, shoulda”? --Ed.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa – If we don't deal with climate changedecisively, "what we're talking about then is extended world war," the eminent economist said.
His audience Saturday, small and elite, had been stranded here by bad weather and were talking climate. They couldn't do much about the one, but the other was squarely in their hands. And so, Lord Nicholas Stern was telling them, was the potential for mass migrations setting off mass conflict.
"Somehow we have to explain to people just how worrying that is," the British economic thinker said.
Stern, author of a major British government report detailing the cost of climate change, was one of a select group of two dozen — environment ministers, climate negotiators and experts from 16 nations — scheduled to fly to Antarctica to learn firsthand how global warmingmight melt its ice into the sea, raising ocean levels worldwide.
Their midnight flight was scrubbed on Friday and Saturday because of high winds on the southernmost continent, 3,000 miles from here. While waiting at their Cape Town hotel for the gusts to ease down south, chief sponsor Erik Solheim, Norway's environment minister, improvised with group exchanges over coffee and wine about the future of the planet.
"International diplomacy is all about personal relations," Solheim said. "The more people know each other, the less likely there will be misunderstandings."
Understandings will be vital in this "year of climate," as the world's nations and their negotiators count down toward a U.N. climate conference in… http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090221/ap_on_sc/af_climate_stranded