An annual two-week luxury climate negotiation excursion for nearly 25,000 government diplomats, bureaucrats, and environmentalists in Bonn, Germany ended on November 17. If one is to believe the PR hype coming out of the conference, the attendants made significant progress concerning how to account for and report domestic greenhouse-gas emissions and progress in their efforts to rein in coal use. However, the truth lurking behind the hype is if one believes humans are causing dangerous … [Read more...]
Wealthy Countries Resilient in the Face of Extreme Weather
Since 1900 the number of deaths from natural disasters, including floods, hurricanes/cyclones, earthquakes, and tornados, has fallen dramatically, even as the number of reported occurrences of such events increased due to improved telecommunications and technologies to track and report such events, broader news coverage, and the globalization of international aid. Even as global population has grown from fewer than 2 billion people in 1900 to more than 7.4 billion people today, the number of … [Read more...]
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