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Thursday, February 01, 2007

Hell, high water & corporate profit

From the World Glacier Monitoring Service comes the latest in a long line of dire warnings. Thanks to climate change, mountain glaciers are shrinking three times faster than they were in the 1980s. Across America, two distinct sounds are heard: a collective yawn and the clacking of keyboards as another million words are written to cast global warming as a tree-hugger conspiracy.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is also about to release a major report that declares human-induced climate change is happening and must be addressed. IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri says the report “embodies substantial new research, it addresses gaps that existed in our knowledge earlier, it has reduced existing uncertainties. I hope policies and actions will be formed to address the problem.” As reported by BBC News, the IPCC report will identify human activities as being “principally responsible for the climatic changes observed around the world.”

Read climate change article here