Hugo, Obama and moving on to the next last chance to save the planet next year Mexico

 

 UNEP sponsored Animal Rights Movie Posters Cast Humans As The Bad Guys

 http://www.ecorazzi.com/2009/12/17/animal-rights-movie-posters-cast-humans-as-the-bad-guys/

As well as your daily dose of Copenhagen capers, the Czar Wars also brings you a couple cautionary tales of current (foreign) government tyranny too far to the right...

A Draconian Step in Uganda

http://townhall.com/columnists/MichaelGerson/2009/12/18/a_draconian_step_in_uganda

When 'Spiritual Elevation' Is the Law

http://townhall.com/columnists/SuzanneFields/2009/12/18/when_spiritual_elevation_is_the_law

And in Copenhagen, its beginning to look a lot like Christmas but not much like global warming in the rotten talks in Denmark...

Obama's speech at Copenhagen disappoints

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/18/obama-speech-copenhagen

Global Wealth Can Heal the Planet

http://townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/12/18/global_wealth_can_heal_the_planet

Shakedown in Copenhagen

http://townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2009/12/18/shakedown_in_copenhagen

Russians exposes CRU's use of Russian temperature data distorted

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100020126/climategate-goes-serial-now-the-russians-confirm-that-uk-climate-scientists-manipulated-data-to-exaggerate-global-warming/

Hugo Chavez quotes and video at Copenhagen:

http://yesbuthowever.com/hugo-chavez-copenhagen-8136340/

COPENHAGEN (YBH.ME) – Below are some of the more interesting quotes from Hugo Chavez's 20 minute speech at the U.N. Climate Change conference in Copenhagen today.

Mr. Chavez was warmly received and some of the quotes below received enthusiastic applause from the audience in the hall:

"If the climate was a bank [the west] would have already saved it."

"The destructive model of Capitalism is eradicating life"

"I don't think Obama is here yet. He got the Nobel Peace Prize almost the same day as he sent 30,000 soldiers to kill innocent people in Afghanistan.

"[Copenhagen is ] not democratic, it is not inclusive, but isn't that the reality of our world, the world is really and imperial dictatorship…down with imperial dictatorships"

"Our revolution seeks to help all people…socialism, the other ghost that is probably wandering around this room, that's the way to save the planet, capitalism is the road to hell….let's fight against capitalism and make it obey us."

Mr. Chavez reportedly received a standing ovation for his last remark.

COP15: Its a riot, and so much more...

Obama's Great Temptation

http://townhall.com/columnists/VinceHaley/2009/12/15/obamas_great_temptation

Climate Change: The Bell Tolls For Thee
http://townhall.com/columnists/HarryRJacksonJr/2009/12/14/climate_change_the_bell_tolls_for_thee

Climate Power Brokers and Influencers: 10 People Who Count at Copenhagen
By: Peter Lacy, Accenture
http://www.fastcompany.com/article/climate-power-brokers-and-influencers-10-people-who-count-copenhagen

The New Socialism
http://townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/12/11/the_new_socialism

Chinese official calls US negotiator irresponsible
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091211/ap_on_re_eu/eu_climate_china_us

Global warming as a political tool
http://townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/12/11/global_warming_as_a_political_tool

Getting it on for the good of the planet
The Greenpeace Guide to Environmentally-Friendly Sex
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/eco-sex-guide

Kevin Jennings, Safe Schools Czar
How a Harry Hay acolyte came to be in charge of America's public schools
http://www.beaufortobserver.net/Articles-c-2009-12-10-240846.112112_Kevin_Jennings_Safe_Schools_Czar.html

Feinberg's fine line
Pay master caps midlevel execs
http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/1209/feinbergs_fine_line_ad9da687-af3d-445d-83ec-f45a4323c089.html

Scientific Fascism at Copenhagen
http://townhall.com/columnists/RachelAlexander/2009/12/14/scientific_fascism_at_copenhagen

US-China showdown looms over climate talks
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091215/ap_on_sc/climate

Emperor Obama's Health Bill Has No Clothes
http://townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2009/12/16/emperor_obamas_health_bill_has_no_clothes

Czarina Browner's EPA end-around on Congress as COP15 opening salvo

COP15 starts with a bang and tightly choreographed announcement from U.S. Energery Czarina Carol Browner's controlled U.S. EPA.  Greenpeace is urging the Emperor that it gives him justification to move ahead with a binding agreement at Copenhagen without Congressional Cap and Trade approval.

EPA: Greenhouse gases endanger human health

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091207/ap_on_bi_ge/us_epa_climate

WASHINGTON – Officials tell The Associated Press that the Environmental Protection Agency has concluded greenhouse gases are endangering people's health and must be regulated.


The EPA will announced its findings at a news conference Monday.
The announcement is timed to boost the Obama administration's arguments at an international climate conference — beginning this week — that the United States is taking actions to combat global warming, even though Congress has yet to act on climate legislation.


Under a Supreme Court ruling, the so-called endangerment finding is needed before the EPA can regulate carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases released from power plants, factories and automobiles under the federal Clean Air Act.




UN climate conference opens with pressure on US
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091207/ap_on_sc/climate
excerpt...
Climate activists in Copenhagen said the decision could help the Obama administration move ahead on climate policy without waiting for action from Congress.
"The question is will they use it that way, or are they using it as a bargaining chip to threaten action, and get Congress to act instead," said Damon Moglen, of Greenpeace USA.

Earth's Next Last Chance

http://townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/12/06/earths_next_last_chance

...But Copenhagen also is prologue for the 2010 climate change summit in Mexico City, which will be planet Earth's last chance, until the next one.

Global Warming in the hot seat

http://townhall.com/columnists/KenConnor/2009/12/06/global_warming_in_the_hot_seat

U.S. Energy Czar Says Domestic Legislation Key to Cleantech

http://cleantechbrief.com/node/1145

December 7, 2009

On the eve of the UN climate summit in Copenhagen, U.S. Energy and Climate Change Czar Carol Browner told a DC conference that while international agreements are important, domestic climate change legislation is crucial to greater investment in clean technologies.


Speaking at the Innovation Economy Conference in Washington, DC, Browner said:
"We need to give the private sector rules of the road and standards so we can start to see investments. It's through comprehensive reform that we will send the right signals to investors."


Browner said companies need to know about new energy consumption rules and carbon reduction targets to manage their businesses, as do entrepreneurs planning to launch new and innovative cleantech ventures.


Browner said that about $80 billion in stimulus funding has been earmarked for green and renewable energy technology, and all programs supported by these funds have been oversubscribed.


"It shows the private sector is willing to make investments, but with the economic conditions and tight capital markets, we need to create an environment where there is a guaranteed return on those investments," she said. "We haven't quite gotten there yet."


Browner is the former head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.




Five AIG Execs Say May Quit Over Pay: Report
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/12/07/business/business-us-aig-pay.html




The Supreme Case Against Sarbanes-Oxley
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704431804574539921864252380.html?mod=googlenews_wsj


Obama Logo on school supplies
http://news.aol.com/article/missouri-schools-complain-over-supplies/805769?icid=main|main|dl1|link7|http%3A%2F%2Fnews.aol.com%2Farticle%2Fmissouri-schools-complain-over-supplies%2F805769

C0P15 begins

Warm-mongers again stress false sense of urgency to push through psuedo-science that a warming trend exists and that man's carbon dioxide emissions is causing all glaciers to melt.  The giant sphere-shaped nuclear furnace is the sky probably is apparently a constant controlled temperature that could in no way lay to waste any plans of man to allegedly control 2 degrees celsius.

Want to make God laugh?  Tell him your plans.

"Truth harms no cause that is just" - Ghandi

The best last chance: UN climate conference opens

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091207/ap_on_sc/climate

Real sciences news, not climate science fiction

Experts: Man controlled robotic hand with thoughts

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091202/ap_on_he_me/eu_italy_robotic_hand

Paving the way for Annakin and Luke.

Czar Wars Casualties: Head of Climactic Research Unit at University of East Anglia

Fallout Over "ClimateGate" Data Leak Grows

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/12/02/taking_liberties/entry5860171.shtml

Excerpts:

Ripples created by the disclosure of global warming files now being called "ClimateGate" continue to spread, with congressional attention growing and the head of a prominent climate change group stepping aside.

Phil Jones, the head of the Climactic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, said on Tuesday that he will relinquish his post while the U.K. school conducts an investigation into allegations of scientific and professional misconduct.

...

The reverberations have extended beyond the campus of the University of East Anglia and the CRU. E-mail messages from Michael Mann, a professor in the meteorology department at Penn State University who has argued that mankind is threatening "entire ecosystems with extinction in the decades ahead if we continue to burn fossil fuels at current rates," appeared in the leaked files. Now Penn State has opened an investigation into Mann's work, and the U.K.'s weather agency has been forced on the defensive as well.

More on the topic:

All the President's Climategate Deniers
http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2009/12/02/all_the_presidents_climategate_deniers

Seeing No Evil On Climate-Gate
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=513989

Czarina Carol Browner

http://biggovernment.com/2009/11/27/climate-czar-browner-what-conflict-of-interest/

Well, here's yet another thing the unconfirmable Obama "Climate Czarina" Carol Browner got around disclosing thanks to, and one more reason for being stuffed into, a position of influence through the backdoor of a phony job not subject to Senate confirmation, even while lording over Senate-confirmed constitutional officers:

She was on the board of one of the leading carbon offset trading companies, APX.

That makes for one really big conflict of interest in her role guiding the administration's efforts to regulate carbon dioxide and force emitters to buy CO2 ration-coupons.


So, add this to her work for the Albright Group which is "secretive about its clients" (SourceWatch), violating a federal judge's order to preserve documents by wiping computers clean while at EPA (sound at all relevant these days?), and her board membership for the Socialist International's "climate" project.
Other than those I can't think of too many reasons Obama wouldn't want her subjected to disclosure requirements and scrutiny.

CRU and IPCC "complete rubbish"

http://townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2009/11/30/global_warming_consensus_garbage_in,_garbage_out

Excerpt:

As Air Force One heads to Copenhagen for the climate summit Dec. 9, it will presumably not make a U-turn while flying over the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at University of East Anglia near Norwich, England. But perhaps it should.

The 61 megabytes of CRU e-mails and documents made public by a hacker cast serious doubt on the ballyhooed consensus on manmade global warming that the Copenhagen summit was called to address.

The CRU has been a major source of data on global temperatures, relied on by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. But the e-mails suggest that CRU scientists have been suppressing and misstating data and working to prevent the publication of conflicting views in peer-reviewed science periodicals. Some of the more pungent e-mails:

"I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow -- even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!"

"Can you delete any e-mails you may have had with Keith re AR4?"

"I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline."

"The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty we can't."

 "I'm getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU temperature station data. Don't any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act!"

You get the idea. The most charitable plausible explanation I have seen comes from The Atlantic's Megan McArdle. "The CRU's main computer model may be, to put it bluntly, complete rubbish."

New Anti-Semitism Czar, Hannah Rosenthal

New Anti-Semitism Czar, Hannah Rosenthal
http://www.ou.org/public_affairs/article/61277

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=117540

Emperor To Act Alone, Ignoring Congress

The Audacity of Tyranny, closing out The Czar Wars Episode One (Year One) with a bang...

Obama to vow greenhouse emissions cuts in Denmark

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091126/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_copenhagen

Excerpts...

WASHINGTON – Putting his prestige on the line, President Barack Obama will personally commit the U.S. to a goal of substantially cutting greenhouse gases at next month's Copenhagen climate summit. He will insist America is ready to tackle global warming despite resistance in Congress over higher costs for businesses and homeowners.

Obama will attend the start of the conference Dec. 9 before heading to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize. He will "put on the table" a U.S. commitment to cut emissions by 17 percent over the next decade, on the way to reducing heat-trapping pollution by 80 percent by mid-century, the White House said.


....


Still, there is widespread disagreement over the cost to consumers.
Obama's promise of greenhouse emissions cuts will require Congress to pass complex climate legislation that the administration says will include an array of measures to ease the price impact.
....
(Environmental Czar) Carol Browner, Obama's assistant for energy and climate change, on Wednesday a cited a Congressional Budget Office study that said there would be $173-a-year estimated cost to the average household by 2020 if greenhouse gases were cut by 17 percent by then from 2005 levels. But the CBO analysis also said that if the cost-blunting measures in the legislation were not taken into account, the cost to households could jump to $890 per household


....


The president's first trip to Copenhagen — just last month — was less than fruitful. He made an unsuccessful pitch for the 2016 Summer Olympics to be held in Chicago.

The moral relativism of science, the search for truth and climate change...

Christian Science Monitor Coverage:
Amid charges of global warming hoax, new warning on climate change
(aka more pre-Copenhagen warm mongering)

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1125/p02s01-usgn.html

Excerpt:

What the controversy really shows is a desire on all sides to maintain a myth about how science is conducted, says Daniel Sarewitz, co-director of Arizona State University's Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes.
"Both sides want to maintain this idea that science is this pure thing, this source of clarity, exactness, and truth. Of course, it isn't," he says. "It's a human endeavor, a social endeavor. The people who do it are people full of imperfections."
None of that undercuts the weight of evidence on global warming, he adds.


(end excerpt)


Official: Obama going to Copenhagen climate summit
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091125/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_copenhagen

Forget Hail to the Victors, Bow to the Buckeyes!

Casualties of Czar Wars Update

Third (or fourth, though Rattner's departure as the first Car Czar appears to have been voluntary) reported casualty in the Czar Wars, White House communications director Anita Dunn is out, joining Green Jobs Czar Van Jones and NEA(rts) spokesman Yosi Sergant who were asked to fall on their light sickle.  As with Van Jones, credit/blame is being directed at self-proclaimed Book Czar Glenn Beck.

http://townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2009/11/12/she_is_gone

Excerpt: Well, that did not take long! Just weeks after initiating a war of words with Fox News and being exposed as an admirer of Chairman Mao's, Anita Dunn, the White House communications director, is stepping down. I intimated as much a couple of weeks back, when I lumped her in with two other Obama administration zanies who were forced to resign -- environmental czar Van Jones and National Endowment for the Arts spokesman Yosi Sergant.

Now the U.N. has czars...
"We have a deal at Copenhagen" says UN's climate czar
http://www.nrc.nl/international/article2412933.ece/We_will_have_a_treaty_at_Copenhagen,_says_UNs_climate_czar

White House promotes Czar Wars for Halloween

Hopefully you all caught Gibbs dressed as Vader (messenger/spin doctor of the Emperor) with his son dressed as Boba Fett for Halloween.  I loved the Storm Trooper over the Emperor's shoulder while he handed out candy to the visiting kids in a socially just manner, no doubt.  More beggars on the White House visitors log isn't usually news unless they stop and smile for some great Czar Wars themed photos.  The MSM followed right along as the Today Show also celebrated the Czar Wars, even had a Yoda and an Ewok.

Narcissist in Chief plays with his balls

Sorry for the crude title but the pictures say it all.

News on the Energy, Education and Healthcare Fronts

Energy, Public Education, and Healthcare updates

Energy

G20 fails to reach pre-Copenhagen climate finance deal
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/ts_afp/financeeconomyg20britain

Senate Democrats advance climate bill without GOP
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091105/ap_on_bi_ge/us_climate_bill

Negotiators scale back UN climate pact ambitions
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091105/ap_on_re_eu/climate_talks

Surprise: ABC's Sawyer Hits Gore on Profits From Global Warming, Plays Glenn Beck Attack
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2009/11/03/surprise-abc-s-sawyer-hits-gore-profits-global-warming-plays-glenn-b

More on your energy czar
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/12/12/crooked-carol-browner-obamas-ethically-challenged-energy-czar/

Education News:

Like Obama, Home schoolers probably not celebrating the wall coming down in Germany, either.
MUNICH, Germany - Increasing custody cases in Europe are proof that officials there have declared war against home schooling and parental rights, according to some residents.
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2009/November/Parents-Targeted-as-Europe-Cracks-Down-on-Home-Schooling/

http://www.ed.gov/programs/racetothetop/index.html

Obama's $4.35 billion "Race to the Top" grant competition to spur educational innovation not loved by unions.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/24/AR2009092403197.html

http://www.barackobama.com/issues/education/
excerpt:

The Solution
1 (of 3) Improve K-12 schooling:
We will recruit an army of new teachers and develop innovative ways to reward teachers who are doing a great job, and we will reform No Child Left Behind so that we are supporting schools that need improvement, rather than punishing them.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/Education/

Heathcare News:

House health bill unacceptable to many in Senate
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091109/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul

In Fight Against AIDS, Kenya Confronts Gay Taboo
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1936514,00.html?xid=rss-world-yahoo

New Czars alert

Art Czar, Rocco Landesman

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aeH7K_mVsqq0

Tobacco Czar, "Bopper" Deyton

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20091109/NEWS01/911090305/1008/Tobacco+czar+maps+new+agency+s+path

NEWS, NYT 1975 - delanceyplace.com 11/3/09 - global cooling

In today's excerpt - in the 1970s, the science pages of The New York Times, Newsweek, and other publications sounded the dire warning of impending global cooling. Headlines from The New York Times of the period included "International Team of Specialists Finds No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend in Northern Hemisphere," and "New Studies Point to Ice Age Again." The excerpt below is from a New York Times article titled "Scientists Ask Why World Climate is Changing; Major Cooling May Be Ahead." There were, inevitably, dissenting voices: "There are specialists who say that a new ice age is on the way - the inevitable consequence of a natural cyclic process, or as a result of man-made pollution of the atmosphere. And there are those who say that such pollution may actually head off an ice age. "Sooner or later a major cooling of the climate is widely considered inevitable. Hints that it may already have begun are evident. The drop in mean temperatures since 1950 in the Northern Hemisphere has been sufficient. for example, to shorten Britain's growing season for crops by two weeks. ... "The first half of this century has apparently been the warmest period since the 'hot spell' between 5,000 and 7,000 years ago immediately following the last ice age. That the climate, at least in the Northern Hemisphere. has been getting cooler since about 1950, is well established - if one ignores the last two winters. ... "From the chemical composition of Pacific sediments, from studies of soil types in Central Europe and from fossil plankton that lived in the Caribbean it has been shown that in the last million years there have been considerably more ice ages than previously supposed. "According to the classic timetable, four great ice ages occurred. However, the new records of global climate show seven extraordinarily abrupt changes in the last million years. As noted in the academy report, they represent transition, in a few centuries 'from full glacial to full interglacial conditions.' ... "In a recent issue of the British journal Nature, Drs. Reid A. Bryson and E. W. Wahl of the Center for Climate Research at the University of Wisconsin cite records from nine North Atlantic weatherships indicating that from 1951 to the 1968-1972 period surface water temperatures dropped steadily. The fall was comparable, they reported, to a return to the 'Little Ice Age' that existed from 1430 to 1850. ... "There is general agreement that introducing large amounts of smoke particles or carbon dioxide into the atmosphere can alter climate. The same would be true of generating industrial heat comparable to a substantial fraction of solar energy falling on the earth. The debate centers on the precise roles of these effects and the levels of pollution that would cause serious changes. ... "The observatory atop Mauna Loa, the great Hawaiian volcano, has recorded a steady rise in the annual mean level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, amounting to 4 per cent between 1958 and 1972. That, however, was a period of global cooling - not the reverse, as one would expect from a greenhouse effect. ... "If worldwide energy consumption continues to increase at its present rates, catastrophic climate changes have been projected by M. I. Budyko, a leading Soviet specialist. He says that the critical level will probably be reached within a century. This, he has written, will lead to 'a complete destruction of polar ice covers.' Not only would sea levels rise but, with the Arctic Ocean free of ice, the entire weather system of the Northern Hemisphere would be altered." Walter Sullivan, "Scientists Ask Why World Climate is Changing; Major Cooling May Be Ahead," The New York Times, May 21, 1975. To visit our homepage or sign up for our daily email click here To view previous daily emails click here.

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India and China not on board the Copenhagen Express

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=510152

China, India Cancel Out Copenhagen

Posted 10/23/2009 06:44 PM ET

Climate Change: With less than two months to go before the big Copenhagen Conference on global warming, two major nations have said "no thanks" to the no-growth agenda. For that reason alone, so should we.

Following a deal signed late Thursday between China and India, anything we might agree to do in Copenhagen is likely moot anyway. The two mega-nations — which together account for nearly a third of the world's population — said they won't go along with a new climate treaty being drafted in Copenhagen to replace the Kyoto Protocol that expires in 2012.

They're basically saying no to anything that forces them to impose mandatory limits on their output of greenhouse gas emissions. Other developing nations, including Mexico, Brazil and South Africa, will likely reject any proposals as well.

The deal was already in trouble. Three weeks ago, the Group of 77 developing nations met in Thailand to discuss what they wanted to do about global warming. Their answer: nothing.

William Hawkins, writing in the American Thinker, quotes a piece in China's Science Times journal that sums up how China — and other developing nations — feel:

"Why do the developed countries put an arguable scientific problem on the international negotiations table?" the article's author, Wang Jin, asks. "The real intention is not for the global temperature increase, but for the restriction of the economic development of the developing countries."

They see clearly what the rest of us seem to miss — that, for all its bad science, the Copenhagen Conference is about the world's Lilliputians tying down its Gullivers, not about global warming at all.
So, thanks to China and India, Copenhagen is dead — just as Kyoto was when it was signed in 1992, though no one knew it at the time. Without them, no global treaty on climate change will be workable.

The two nations are not only the world's most populous (with, together, more than 2 billion people), they are also the fastest-growing major countries. China is now the world's No. 1 emitter of greenhouse gases, and India is catching up fast.

Even with their participation, Copenhagen should have been a non-starter for the U.S. Indeed, the main reason for the greenhouse gas deal, all but admitted to by its major participants, is to cripple the U.S. economy — the most successful economy in the world.

True enough, as green critics keep saying, we produce nearly 20% of the world's CO2 and other greenhouse gases with just 5% of the world's population. But our GDP of roughly $14 trillion is nearly 25% of the world's total — in line with our gas output.

http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2252249/aboard-copenhagen-express

Update on the Copenhagen Express this week.


http://mrpgreen.blogspot.com/2009/09/train-from-kyoto-to-copenhagen-to-raise.html

Paris/Nairobi, 24 September 2009 - The International Union of Railways (UIC), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the global conservation organization WWF today launched the symbolic one-month and nearly 9,000 kilometre-long train journey from Kyoto to Copenhagen to document the impacts of climate change and raise awareness of low-carbon transport solutions.

The project is done in partnership with the Seal the Deal! campaign led by the United Nations to galvanize political will and public support for reaching a comprehensive global climate agreement at the UN climate change conference (COP 15) in Copenhagen in December this year.

Train operators from around the world will participate in the Train to Copenhagen campaign with the aim of raising awareness of transport's influence on climate change.

Coverage of the India and China pact at businessgreen.com including The Emperor's Administrations attempt to "breathe life into the moribund negotiations to seal a global treaty on climate change in Copenhagen in December"

http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2251737/india-china-ink-climate-pact

http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2251356/aims-bilateral-climate-change

exerpt:

The Obama administration is hoping to win new commitments to fight global warming from China and India in back-to-back summits next month, the Guardian has learned, including the first Indian emissions trading scheme.

The US hopes the new commitments will breathe life into the moribund negotiations to seal a global treaty on climate change in Copenhagen in December, by setting out what action each country will take. But many observers say such bilateral deals also risk seriously weakening any Copenhagen agreement by allowing the idea of a global limit on greenhouse gas emissions to be abandoned.

Miss Earth Coming in November aboard the Copenhagen Express

http://helloskyblu.blogspot.com/2009/10/9th-miss-earth-2009-beauty-pageant-will.html

Miss Earth 2009, the 9th edition of Miss Earth beauty pageant, will be held at the Boracay Ecovillage Resort and Convention Center, in the Island of Boracay, Philippines on November 22, 2009.The Miss Earth winner serves as the spokesperson for the Miss Earth Foundation, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and other environmental organizations.About 90 contestants from different countries and territories are expected to compete in the event. At the conclusion of the competition, outgoing titleholder Miss Earth 2008 Karla Henry of the Philippines will crown her successor.

Hey wait a minute, I thought was supermodel Gisele Bunchen's new gig, spokeperson for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)?  Maybe this is the secret identity of one of the other memebers of GiGi and the Green Team?

Bolt kicks of "Long Run" to save the Planet:

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32792&Cr=unep&Cr1=