Climate change to make one billion refugees-agency – Reuters. By 2050 (if we fail to take action soon)! Quotable quote: “A world of many more Darfurs is the increasingly likely nightmare scenario.”
Drive to cut emissions creates jobs engine – International Herald Tribune. Preventing catastrophic global warming will create a lot of high-paying jobs.
Bloomberg and former President Clinton to host international climate summit this week – AP. The second meeting of the “C40 Large Cities Climate Summit” will focus on actions local communities can take.
Spy Chief Backs Study of Impact of Warming – New York Times. More on Jack Bauer, climatologist. Interesting factoid: “Even as Congress was debating whether to order a national intelligence estimate, intelligence agencies had already planned to include a discussion of global warming in a report next year on the main security challenges facing the United States through 2025.” So the contrived conservative kerfuffle last week was exactly as meaningless as it seemed, thanks to a rare showing of intelligence by our intelligence agencies.
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