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Posts in November 2009

• Shame on the EU

  Andy Rowell

  Nov30

  The European Parliament’s delegation to Copenhagen has its reputation in tatters after it has emerged that the far-right, racist leader of the British National Party, Nick Griffin will be part of the official delegation. For anyone who may have heard Griffin’s repugnant racist views on immigration or the holocaust, it will come as no surprise…
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• Copenhagen: Watch Out for the Small Print

  Andy Rowell

  Nov27

  You are going to start having to be a skilled mathematician and serious spinwatcher to wade through the political commitments being made before Copenhagen. Take China’s announcement –which is being hailed as significant as it is the country’s first ever carbon reduction commitment. The country’s Cabinet has pledged to reduce CO2 per unit of gross…
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• Obama off to Copenhagen, but is it too little too late?

  Andy Rowell

  Nov26

  President Obama has ended weeks of speculation by finally announcing that he is going to Copenhagen. For that he has to be congratulated. The fact that he is the first American President to attend the US climate meetings is also a positive step too (although it does not say much for his predecessors).

• Obama Official Slams “Poison Politics” of Oil Industry

  Andy Rowell

  Nov25

  We have always known that the oil industry and the Republican Party make close bedfellows, but now Obama’s Interior Secretary, Ken Salazar, has launched a stinging attack on the oil industry saying it was acting “like an arm” of the Republicans. He lambasted the industry for issuing “untruths” about the Obama Administration’s oil and gas…
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• Beware Sceptics Bringing “Balance” to the Climate Debate

  Andy Rowell

  Nov24

  The climate sceptics are riding high this week as the leaked emails from the University of East Anglia continue to make news. Riding the crest of the wave is the ex-British Chancellor Nigel Lawson, who is rapidly re-inventing himself as a climate sceptic cause célèbre. The timing of the leaked emails this week could not…
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• Sceptics and oil lobbyists “putting world at risk”

  Andy Rowell

  Nov23

  Slowly there is some political progress as we edge towards Copenhagen. Some sixty five world leaders will attend the Copenhagen climate talks, although whether Obama actually attends is still anyone’s guess. Moreover over the last fortnight, three big countries have made major new pledges to cut their carbon emissions.

• Shell Tells Senate: You are Hypocrites

  Andy Rowell

  Nov20

  We are used to calling Big Oil hypocrites, saying one thing and doing something completely different. But yesterday, it was their turn to stick the label on the politicians during an influential Senate hearing into the emotive subject of off-shore drilling. Executives from two major oil companies told Congress they were hypocrites for locking up…
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• A Medal for Exactly What, Mr. President?

  Andy Rowell

  Nov19

  Increasingly it looks like Barack Obama will make only one trip to Scandinavia next month – and that is not going to be to Copenhagen and the climate talks. Instead he will be going to Oslo to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize. And, although its only an hour by plane to Copenhagen, where dozens…
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• “We’re at the top end of the IPCC scenario”

  Andy Rowell

  Nov18

  Whilst most people are trying to keep rising temperatures to 2°, the bad news is that we are on course for the worst case climate change scenario of massive 6° by the end of the Century. Such a rise – which would be much higher nearer the poles – would be totally and utterly catastrophic…
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• The Angry Mermaid Strikes Back

  Andy Rowell

  Nov16

  All the news reports this morning are that a deal at Copenhagen is dead. Barack Obama has said that we had run out of time to secure a deal in December. This will please the corporate lobbyists no end.  The longer they can delay action on climate the better. But now Copenhagen’s iconic mermaid is…
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