Copenhagen Climate Summit

Help Wanted: Mexican Drug Kingpin

Norm Stamper | Posted 12.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mexico City, Arturo Beltran Leyva, Cartels, Juaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, Assault Weapons, President Felipe Calderon, U. S. Drug Officials, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, Tijuana, Cuernavaca, Drug Prohibition, Beheadings, Los Zetas, Ramon Arellano Felix, Mexican Drug Kingpin, Carnage, Supply and Demand, Copenhagen Climate Summit, War on Drugs, Politics News
Norm Stamper

Mexico's drug-related violence will not end with the death of drug kingpin Beltran Leyva. Until we recognize that the U.S.-led global war on drugs is the systemic cause of the carnage, violence will intensify.

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All Real Scientists Are Climate Skeptics

Peter Kelemen | Posted 12.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change Science, UN Climate Change, Copenhagen Climate Summit, Climate Change, Climate Skeptics, Green News
Peter Kelemen

The emails stolen from climate researchers at East Anglia University and released online may say a lot about some scientists, but they also reveal much about the dangerous political atmosphere.

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The US Chamber of Commerce Is Killing the Copenhagen Climate Treaty

James Hoggan | Posted 12.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Brian Flannery, Center for Public Integrity, Lobbyists, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Exxon Mobil, Green, Chamber of Commerce's Institute for 21st Century Energy, cop15, International Chamber of Commerce, Copenhagen Climate Summit, Nick Campbell, General, Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability, Astroturf, Global Warming, Oil Industry Lobbyists, Bingos, Green News
James Hoggan

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has already done everything it can to kill the chances of a legally binding agreement emerging from the Copenhagen climate change summit.

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Climate Denial Industry Costs Us $500 Billion a Year

James Hoggan | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Chamber of Commerce, Clean Energy Policy, Climate Change, Environment, World Energy OUtlook, Sustainability, American Petroleum Institute, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), Climate Denial Industry, cop15, International Energy Agency, Global Warming, Copenhagen Climate Summit, Green News
James Hoggan

Nearly all point the finger at the US for delaying a global agreement on climate change. But if they want to find the real culprit, they have no look no further than the US coal and oil industry.

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Why Developing Countries Cannot Afford Failure in Copenhagen

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Politically Binding Agreement, Climate Change, Environment, Green, European Union, Sustainability, Barcelona Climate Talks, Copenhagen Climate Summit, Global Warming, G-77, Green News
Brendan DeMelle

In contrast to the developing world's clear, specific position, the E.U. seems to act as if these climate change negotiations just started, as if talks haven't been going on for years since Kyoto.

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