World-News

The Associated Press' Seth Borenstein reports, "For the first time, more than 200 of the world's leading climate scientists, losing their patience, urged government leaders to take radical action to slow global warming because 'there is no time to lose.'"

https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/120607EB.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Seth+Borenstein

https://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1691459,00.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock

Glenn Hurowitz, Grist, reports; "Indonesia is the world's third-largest global warming polluter, behind the United States and China, and just ahead of Brazil. But in Indonesia, like Brazil and the rest of the tropical world, pollution isn't coming from factories, power plants, or cars like it is in the industrialized world. Instead, almost all of it is coming from the rapid burning of the world's vast tropical forests to make room for timber, agriculture, and especially palm oil plantations. (Despite its green reputation, palm oil is anything but: a recent study in Science found that palm oil, like other biofuels, produces two to nine times more greenhouse gases than regular old crude oil because of the forests and grasslands destroyed for its production.)"

https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/120507EA.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=tropical+forests
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=timber
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=palm+oil
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=biofuels
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Hurowitz

https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Toll_Of_Climate_Change_On_World_Food_Supply_Could_Be_Worse_Than_Thought_999.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock

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World Faces Food Shortages
https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/04/5597/

https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2994650.ece


Informant: Teresa Binstock

Stephen Leahy, Inter Press Service, reports: "Expanding European forests absorbed 126 million tons of carbon dioxide from 1990 to 2005 - equivalent to 11 percent of European Union emissions from human activities - while a UN target to plant one billion trees mainly in Africa has been surpassed."

https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/120307EA.shtml

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Plant trees, lots of them, you can never plant enough!
https://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3515163/



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Leahy

https://globalnation.inquirer.net/cebudailynews/news/view_article.php?article_id=104535


Informant: Teresa Binstock

https://globalclimatecampaign.org/

Spread the word: climate march Saturday
https://www.avaaz.org/en/virtual_march_bali/8.php?cl=40917812&signup=1

Internationale Demonstrationen gegen den Klimawandel, 8.Dezember 2007
https://globalclimatecampaign.org/index.php?lang=de