copenhagen
CHINA WILL NOT BE DOING ANY CLIMATE-Y DEAL-MAKING: “In a potentially serious blow to President Obama and Democrats in Washington, who had been counting on a deal coming out of the climate conference in Copenhagen, China has signaled that it is not interested in making any deals, but rather hopes to put out ‘a short [...]
COPENHAGEN LEADERS MAKING INSANE AMOUNTS OF PROGRESS ON CLIMATE CHANGE: “Breaking news: U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsak announced Wednesday the United States would provide $1 billion over the next three years to preserve tropical forests overseas.” Global temperatures have already dropped ten degrees! [Washington Post]
California’s governor Arnold Schwarzenegger insulted an unemployed private citizen named Sarah Palin during his speech in Copenhagen today. Ms. Palin, a freelance writer who has recently gotten a few opinion pieces published and thinks she might be able to leverage this into a column for the Daily Beast, does not believe in global warming. Well! [...]
Illinois’ Thomson Correctional Facility, 150 miles outside of Chicago, has won all the Guantanamo detainees! Thomson can choose to receive the prisoners in a lump sum or in installments paid out over the next forty years. [Washington Post] China will not let any other country keep tabs on its carbon emissions, which is a thing [...]
So many important environmental goings-on are happening, in Denmark! Naturally, everyone in Congress is suddenly interested in climate change legislation now that a field trip to Europe is involved. (This is the entire raison d’etre behind Latin Club, in high school.) Watch now as legislators bitterly and publicly argue about who gets to go with [...]
