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Bundesregierung lamentiert über Klimakatastrophe und boykottiert Tempolimit mit irreführenden Fakten.

https://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741681471ms45

https://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/17212911.htm
https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/12/1148/


Informant: binstock

Says Beckett
https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/11/1111/

As Tamil militant planes flew sorties over the national capital of Sri Lanka last week, the attention of political leaders was diverted from a worse disaster unfolding on the ground - flash floods, attributed by scientists to climate change.

https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050907EC.shtml

by Desmond Tutu, Black Agenda Report

Climatic events can undo decades of development for the world's poor.
https://ga3.org/ct/Ip20pgF1tXHZ/

https://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2075288,00.html


Informant: binstock

Around this time each year, thousands make the pilgrimage to the Antelope Valley to see California poppies shining in the fields around Anne Aldrich's Lancaster home. But not in 2007, as Southern California is poised to experience its driest year on record.

https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050807EC.shtml

When one of Asia’s leading institutions says it’s serious about funding the solutions to climate change that makes us happy. But when we discover that this commitment goes no further than a glossy brochure, we can't let that pass.

https://www.greenpeace.org/seasia/en/news/the-asian-destruction-bank

Governments are running out of time to address climate change and avoid the worst effects of rising temperatures, an influential UN panel warned yesterday. Greater energy efficiency, renewable electricity sources and new technology to dump carbon dioxide underground can all help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the experts said. But there could be as little as eight years left to avoid a dangerous global average rise of 2 degrees Celsius or more.

https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050707EB.shtml