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...message really got through. Though expectations for the annual summit weren't high, thanks in part to a leadership vacuum in the U.S. and the nagging distraction of a worldwide financial meltdown, neither were its accomplishments. More optimistic observers pointed to pledges from individual developing nations to cut their carbon emissions; under the Kyoto Protocol, those countries aren't actually required to take any concrete action on climate change. Mexico should take a bow - America's significantly poorer neighbor promised to cut carbon emissions 50% below 2002 levels by 2050, far in excess of anything the U.S. has pledged. India...
Protest Watch. Members of Plane Stupid, a grass-roots environmental activist group, camped out on the runway of London's Stansted airport early on Dec. 8, shutting it down for several hours, in protest of its carbon emissions. More than 50 flights were canceled and some 100 flights were delayed. The group says its next target is Heathrow - in disapproval of the addition of a third runway at the urban airport. Plane Stupid won't say when the protest will go down. Stay tuned. (See 10 things to do in London...
...Americans began to worry that Congress would never get anything done. And then, about two weeks before the Global Carbon Report was released, the bottom fell out of the economy...
...morning of the first presidential debate, more than two months ago, the Global Carbon Project released a 578-page report to little fanfare. Had anyone been paying attention, even this historic election would have paled in comparison to its warnings. And, as preoccupied as we are by the economic crisis today, it would be a colossal mistake to ignore them...
...Carbon dioxide levels are now higher than they “probably [have been] during the last 20 million years.” And, the report noted glumly, with China and India consuming more and more, the problem is getting worse instead of better. The new data shows that CO2 levels have only risen faster since the turn of the century. So much for compact fluorescents and hybrid Priuses—apparently, the world is still going...