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Rice Opens Climate Change Conference
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ABC News' Kirit Radia Reports: The State Department is hosting a two-day global conference on climate change, something President Bush called for months ago. The world's largest economies are in attendance to explore ways to reduce greenhouse emissions while protecting growing economies, something that the Kyoto agreements, set to expire in 2012, were criticized for not balancing enough.
Just days after the UN Climate Conference, Secretary of State Rice opened the State Department's conference Thursday morning, saying that global warming is a global problem on the scale of weapons proliferation, the spread of disease, and transnational terrorism.
She said, "We agree that climate change is a real problem and that human beings are contributing to it. The best science tells us exactly this."
The secretary outlined three principle goals for the conference: to agree on long term greenhouse gas reduction goals; to establish national targets and programs to reach the broader goal, saying that this is not a one size fits all approach; and to work with private industry to develop new energy technologies.
Rice added that there is a need to forge a consensus on how best to address climate change, while protecting economic growth in growing countries. She pledged the cooperation of the United States and acknowledged the nation's contribution to climate change thus far.
While inside the State Department leaders stayed focus on business, outside, it got a bit colorful. Protesters stormed the perimeter of the State Department, resulting in the arrest of 47 people, according to State Department Deputy Spokesman Tom Casey. The demonstrators were blocking the entrance of the building and after being asked to move three times, guards from the Federal Protection Service, which provides protection for US govt buildings, arrested the protesters.
President Bush is slated to address the conference Friday.
September 27, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (5)
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It is good to see this Administration actually acknowledge that global warming is a problem and increase attention on it in that way, but it would be better if we joined the rest of the world in the ongoing process of actually doing something about it, not just waste eveyone's time with another meeting about "goals."
Posted by: jock59801 | Sep 27, 2007 3:11:48 PM
There is no such thing as greenhouse gases with a magical power to control earth's temperature. I realize many climatologists cannot understand physics, but the process they believe in violates the laws of physics and thus cannot exist.
Posted by: Reason McLucus | Sep 27, 2007 7:25:41 PM
Reason - you keep right on arguing for the deniers. You're a real asset for them.
Posted by: Christine | Sep 28, 2007 12:59:38 PM
While this administration is acknowledging that global warming is a problem, their Energy Plan includes over 150 new or expanded coal-fired power plants. They are drilling for oil and natural gas on protected habitat of endangered species, delisting the endangered gray wolves, the grizzlies, and placing more species at risk because of the mining, oil and gas and timber industries.
http://www.nrdcactionfund.org/campaigns/wildlife/save-endangered-gray-wolves.html#
http://www.npca.org/media_center/press_releases/2003/page-27600196.html
Furthermore, this administration calls nuclear power, part of their energy plan, an alternative fuel and gives lip-service--more R&D for actual renewable sources such as clean wind, solar, and biofuels, which could save the planet and the children of all species.
Posted by: Susan | Oct 2, 2007 10:36:03 AM
Anthropogenic Warming (A.W.) is not established to the extent many think...
A consensus is not a substitute for a proven event. The probabilistic modeling used to predict climate changes are scenarios and only as good as the parameters & defined variables in the model. Case in point: The Sun, the pro- Man induced global warming camp claims to have accounted for Sun's effect by measuring Radiant Output. They totally exclude on these models, the strength of the Sun's Magnetic Field which impacts on the ability of cosmic rays interacting with the Earth's atmosphere & the resulting generation of clouds in the atmosphere Sunspot activity also strongly correlates with levels of Carbon 14 and Berrylium 10 isotopes found in tree rings and ice cores. Therefore, accurate, long term reconstructions of sunspot activity can be made with low margins of error. The reconstructions of sunspot activity correlate strongly with almost every reconstruction of global temperature.
Posted by: A Rosario | Nov 5, 2007 8:23:49 AM
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