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Durban Climate Talks: 5 Things To Know

First Posted: 11/28/11 11:36 AM ET Updated: 11/28/11 11:36 AM ET

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Mother Jones:

What a difference two years makes. Heading into the 15th Conference of the Parties, the annual United Nations confab on climate change, hopes were high in Copenhagen that world leaders would hash out a new international agreement on how to address rising temperatures. Now, two years later, many of the same questions remain as negotiators arrive in Durban, South Africa, this week.

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What a difference two years makes. Heading into the 15th Conference of the Parties, the annual United Nations confab on climate change, hopes were high in Copenhagen that world leaders would hash out ...
What a difference two years makes. Heading into the 15th Conference of the Parties, the annual United Nations confab on climate change, hopes were high in Copenhagen that world leaders would hash out ...
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Steven Earl Salmony
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07:40 PM on 12/07/2011
A Quartet on Thinking Globally and Acting Locally:

http://www.7billionactions.org/story/1187-steven-earl-salmony
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KkmFuM77qU
http://www.truth-out.org/marching-cliff/1323195281
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XQIxr4gRQM&%3Bfeature=player_embedded
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CanadaStan
Cogito ergo spud, I think, therefore I yam
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11:13 PM on 11/28/2011
Wow!
What a pack of lies!
Obama to the rescue?
Sorry, he was laughed out of there.
China has a massive investment in clean energy?
In a word, no...

I couldn't read any farther, I was laughing too hard.
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