Paul Malouf

Stephen Harper s’excuse d’avoir échoué dans la lutte aux changements climatiques…

Welcome to Copenhagen! Greenpeace: Climate Rescue Weblog

Aged Obama Poster Says “I´m Sorry” For Not Doing More in Copenhagen: TreeHugger

Canada’s Image In Tatters Part II: They Export Asbestos When It Is Banned At Home: TreeHugger

“we could have stopped climate disasters but we failed”: Copenhagen airport Greenpeace USA Blog

Environment Story of the Year: Martin Hickman: “Palm Oil” The Independent
The winner was considered by the judges (Foreign Press Association) to be a truly important story, the result of hard graft, investigative reporting. It was well researched, highly relevant to the reader and with a real impact that would make people think about its subject.

Martin Hickman @ The Independent ~ The guilty secrets of palm oil: Are you unwittingly contributing to the devastation of the rain forests?: Does your shopping basket contain KitKat, Hovis, Persil or Flora? If so, you may be contributing to the devastation of the wildlife-rich forests of Indonesia and Malaysia, where orangutans and other species face extinction as their habitat disappears. (…)

ACCIÓN/ Activistas de Greenpeace en la Torre de Belém (Lisboa): El Blog de Greenpeace

Environment correspondent Richard Black @ BBC ~ Major sea level rise likely as Antarctic ice melts

Green technology correspondent Alok Jha @ Guardian ~ Antarctica may heat up dramatically as ozone hole repairs, warn scientists: As blanket of ozone over southern pole seals up, temperatures on continent could soar by 3C, increasing sea level rise by 1.4m

Science Editor Steve Connor @ The Independent ~ Melting ice sheets threaten defences: Sea levels could rise by as much as 1.4 metres (4.6 feet) by 2100 – more than twice previous estimates – according to new studies showing that one of the Antarctic’s massive ice sheets is more vulnerable to melting than previously thought.

Environment Correspondent Louise Gray @ Telegraph ~ Sea level rise will double due to melting of Antarctica: Sea levels could rise more than twice as fast as previously predicted due to melting ice caps around the south pole, according to the most comprehensive study into how climate change is affecting the Antarctic.

Antarctique: trois degrés de plus d’ici la fin du siècle: Le continent antarctique, à l’abri du réchauffement à cause du trou dans la couche d’ozone durant 30 ans, devrait atteindre 3 degrés d’ici à la fin du siècle, selon un rapport d’experts publié à six jours de l’ouverture du sommet de Copenhague sur le climat: La Presse

Melting Polar Ice Will Raise Sea Levels Over 4.5 ft by 2100: TreeHugger

Hannah Devlin and Robin Pagnamenta @ Times Online ~ Major cities at risk from rising sea level threat

Sea levels will rise by twice as much as previously predicted as a result of global warming, an important international study has concluded.

The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) calculated that if temperatures continued to increase at the present rate, by 2100 the sea level would rise by up to 1.4 metres — twice that predicted two years ago.

Such a rise in sea levels would engulf island nations such as the Maldives in the Indian Ocean and Tuvalu in the Pacific, devastate coastal cities such as Calcutta and Dhaka and force London, New York and Shanghai to spend billions on flood defences.

Even if the average global temperature increases by only 2C — the target set for next week’s Copenhagen summit — sea levels could still rise by 50cm, double previous forecasts, according to the report. (…)

George Monbiot @ Guardian ~ Canada’s image lies in tatters. It is now to climate what Japan is to whaling: The tar barons have held the nation to ransom. This thuggish petro-state is today the only obstacle to a deal in Copenhagen

When you think of Canada, which qualities come to mind? The world’s peacekeeper, the friendly nation, a liberal counterweight to the harsher pieties of its southern neighbour, decent, civilised, fair, well-governed? Think again. This country’s government is now behaving with all the sophistication of a chimpanzee’s tea party. So amazingly destructive has Canada become, and so insistent have my Canadian friends been that I weigh into this fight, that I’ve broken my self-imposed ban on flying and come to Toronto.

So here I am, watching the astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation turning itself into a corrupt petro-state. Canada is slipping down the development ladder, retreating from a complex, diverse economy towards dependence on a single primary resource, which happens to be the dirtiest commodity known to man. The price of this transition is the brutalisation of the country, and a government campaign against multilateralism as savage as any waged by George Bush.

Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada. Unless we can stop it, the harm done by Canada in December 2009 will outweigh a century of good works.(…)