The new European Union president is President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic, and he does not believe in climate change. He thinks that it is a dangerous myth, who is this guy George Bush? Sorry that’s unfair to George Bush because he believes in climate change.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5430362.ece

It is the most dangerous type of person who will consult the consult of a few rogue scientists while ignoring the vast consensus of the majority. Science isn’t faith, you don’t choose which part of it you want to believe. It comes as a whole. You can’t rely on science for every part of your daily life, to fly you across the globe, to watch your satellite television, to save your life on a hospital bed, but then choose to ignore it when it becomes an inconvenience. That’s foolish, but unfortunately the world has many foolish people and we are all paying the price.

Check out this blog on BBC, it’s pretty interesting:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/richardblack/

Check out the Arbor Day Foundation’s website where you can have trees planted in the name’s of loved ones. It’s a gift that gives for a lifetime.

http://www.arborday.org/shopping/giveatree/giveatree.cfm

If you need convincing:

‘As the trees grow and prosper, so does the meaning of your gift.

Over the course of 50 years, a single tree can generate $31,250 of oxygen, provide $62,000 worth of air pollution control, recycle $37,500 worth of water, and control $31,500 worth of soil erosion.

Your trees will be silent sentinels, honorable monuments, and for decades to come, active participants in nature’s plan.’

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081214/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_climate_new_partners

It’s good that people are finally coming around to the idea that going green doesn’t mean losing jobs or hurting the economy.

Good news coming out of Brazil this afternoon. The Brazilian forestry service have announced plans to cut deforestation in the South American nation by 70% over the next decade.  They’re doing this in partnership with a new Amazon fund in which first world nations can contribute financially to the conservation of the rainforest.

I think it’s good rich countries have finally lived up to their monetary obligations. The Amazon rainforest is important to the world and the world should share in the cost of its protection.

Check out the following link if you want to know more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7759192.stm

When G8 leaders met in July in Japan, in part to decry the rising price of grain and rice — convening one day after U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, a G8 member, advised British citizens to buy less at the grocery store in order to economize — they had a six-course “working lunch” with two wines, followed by an 18-course dinner with six wines. Even considering a ceremonial Japanese meal consists of many courses, this seemed to be Marie Antoinette territory. Menu items included caviar, “almond oil foam,” winter lily bulb, “kelp flavored beef” and “hairy crab bisque soup,” which must be really rich since “bisque” means “shellfish soup.” The wines, paid for by taxpayers, were usually expensive; for example, a Ridge Monte Bello 1997, which sells for about $125 per bottle. News reports said California wines such as the Ridge were specially flown to Japan, again at taxpayer expense, for the heads of state and their assistants.

After the bisque and champagne, the G8 leaders announced to much theatricality that greenhouse gases would be reduced 50 percent — but not until 2050. That is, current leaders will do nothing, leaving all real work to their successors. But while demanding that somebody else cut greenhouse gases, the G8 leaders were perfectly happy to burn fossil fuel to improve their dining experience. And the bold G8 declaration that somebody else will act against greenhouse gases 42 years from now? It’s nonbinding.

- By Gregg Easterbrook, Page 2

You Can Help Stop Global Warming Today
The most effective way to fight the global warming crisis is to stop eating meat, eggs, and dairy products. Please also take a few moments to encourage Al Gore, the most prominent voice in the fight against global warming, to add going vegetarian to his list of solutions to our climate crisis.

Hey so you should be concerned with global warming, in fact we all should. Let’s talk about this;

With the current rate of greenhouse gas emissions & the newfound phenomena of global dimming. The earth’s temperature can be expected to rise by three degrees Celsius in the next twenty-five years.

At said point in temperature rise, Greenland’s ice fields will start to melt. Once the ice fields start to melt, nothing could ever be done to reverse their melting. If Greenland’s ice fields melt, sea levels across the globe can be expected to rise anywhere from six to eight metres. This of course would mean that once the ice fields started to melt, a large number of the world’s major cities would be living on borrowed time.

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