climate change articles 12/05 -- overview & links:

can be found at: http://www.esnips.com/web/climatechangearticles/

this group of files contains:

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****file #1**** ap article on clinton speech at montreal 12/9/05
from: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051209/ap_on_sc/climate_change_clinton

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relevant links to the uk independent series on "climate change" 12/3-4/05
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article330866.ece
note: from what i can tell these articles were available sunday & monday [12/3/05]
-- after that there is a fee to read them.
as you'll see on the "lead article" below ..... articles that have been copied
are indicated by a ****file #xxx*****

1) --leading article: the road to destruction [december 4, 2005]

http://comment.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/article330837.ece
it is as if we were living on two planets. here, in the real world, the evidence
that global warming is already doing immense damage to the earth is mounting with
terrifying speed. in the past two weeks alone, we have learned that the greenland
ice cap appears to be on the point of irreversible meltdown, that the kalahari
desert is to double in size, that sea and bird life has collapsed dramatically off
the us pacific coast and that the mighty gulf stream (which keeps britain
habitable) has abruptly weakened. this year is expected to be the hottest ever,
and hurricanes are breaking all records. it is impossible to dispute the
conclusion last week of the environment secretary, margaret beckett, that this is
"the greatest threat facing mankind".

but over on the other planet - in montreal, where 189 nations are meeting to work
out how to combat the threat - the issue is being tackled with all the urgency and
productiveness of a more than usually constipated parish council discussing how to
celebrate the queen's putative centenary. no one expects an outcome that remotely
begins to address the gravity of the crisis; the best that can be hoped for is an
agreement on more talks next year, and even that will be hard to achieve. there is
no chance of any decision on concrete action. here is mrs beckett again, having
apparently travelled from one planet to the other: anyone suggesting that the
conference should agree to binding pollution reduction targets when the ones
agreed under the kyoto protocol run out in 2012 is, she said, "living in cloud-
cuckoo-land".
[continued .... fee required]

2) --climate change: time for action

[see ****file #2**** -- time for action]
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article330863.ece

3) --ten things that the government can do...

[see ****file #3**** -- things to do]
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article330866.ece

4} ...and 10 things you can do at home

[see ****file #3**** -- things to do]
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article330867.ece
5} --climate change/opinion: 'drastic measures required'
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article330865.ece

6} --profile --james lovelock: the green man [gaia hypothesis]

http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/article330903.ece
one of the most famous scientists on the planet has often been seen
as a maverick by the green movement .... [support of nuclear power as
sole viable alternative to global warming]

7} --protesters from 30 countries unite to fight global warming

[see ****file #4**** protestors unite]
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article330864.ece

8) --in the middle of the desert: a monument to ecological folly

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article330893.ece

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*****file #5***** -- nytimes on climate change

nytimes 'week in review' article on montreal conference

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/weekinreview/04revkin.html

"on climate change, a change of thinking" by andrew c. revkin. december 4, 2005

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