Friday, December 10, 2010

OMNI/CCTF'S NEWSLETTER ON CLIMATE CHANGE: 350 PPM edited by Dr. Robert McAfee

Here are the topics in the latest number. For the full articles go to
http://www.omnicenter.org/350-ppm-home/
1. Cancun climate change summit: scientists call for rationing in developed world. Global warming is now such a serious threat to mankind that climate change experts are calling for Second World War-style rationing in rich countries to bring down carbon emissions.
2. The decision by the British government to allow exploration wells to be drilled in deep waters to the west of the Shetland islands raises an increasingly insistent question:. Why are we prospecting for new oil anyway?
3. Climate change will cost a billion people their homes. A special report released at the start of climate negotiations in CancĂșn, Mexico, revealed that up to a billion people face losing their homes in the next 90 years because of failures to agree to curbs on carbon emissions.
4. White House Science Czar seeks to 'de-develop the United States' using 'free market'. Controversial White House Office of Science and Technology Director John P. Holdren told CNS News earlier this week he would use "free market" principles to implement what he called a "massive campaign" to "de-develop the United States"
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Dick Bennett
STOP Wars and Warming
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