Cluster bomb ban treaty approved
More than 100 nations have reached an agreement on a treaty which would ban current designs of cluster bombs.
More than 100 nations have reached an agreement on a treaty which would ban current designs of cluster bombs.
Early birds at the University of Copenhagen, talking already about the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change scheduled for March 2009 (only 9 months to go…).
The Preliminary Programme is available and I cannot see anything to be optimistic about. First of all, the one all-science Parallel Session (#1: Exploring the Risks: Understanding Climate Change) shows little chance of understanding much apart from all that may go bad with climate change itself. Not a single topic on anything good that may come out of a warmer world, heaven forbid!!
Even more worrying, overall proper “Science” does not appear to be central to the conference. There are many topics that more properly fall under “Policy”, “Politics” and “Management”.
What are those doing in a meeting aiming “to provide a synthesis of existing and emerging scientific knowledge necessary“, is anybody’s guess: or a sign that too many AGW scientists really cannot extricate themselves from climate activism.
And that’s a way of debasing their own science.
Per quanto mi riguarda, la polemica sugli inceneritori, dal punto di vista scientifico, dovrebbe chiudersi oggi stesso. Chi non mi crede, si rilegga lo studio InVS.
The Washington Post wakes up to the vacuity of so many anti-climate-change initiatives: “On Climate, Symbols Can Overshadow Substance – Lights-Out Event More Showy Than Practical” – by Shankar Vedantam
[…] the modern environmental movement […] has become a crusade that is partly moral statement and partly fashion statement. Earth Hour, Earth Day and the Miss Earth beauty pageant — “saving the planet, one pageant at a time” — generate lots of publicity, but they also tend to prompt people and companies to choose what looks good over what works.
[…] “Solar panels are popular because you can see you are doing something — and your neighbors can see it, too.”
[…] The behavior of individuals, companies and nations is largely determined by structural factors, not personal choices.
[…] When it comes to turning off lights, for example, Earth Hour would have produced far more energy savings — although no cool photos of darkened cities — if it had asked people to save energy during the late afternoon, rather than at 8 p.m.
Ricevo e rimando:
L’Istituto sull’Inquinamento Atmosferico del CNR, attraverso importanti contributi dei principali esperti della materia, intende contribuire alla discussione sul cambiamento climatico d’origine antropica nei grandi centri urbani, (urban warming) che solo negli ultimi anni ha assunto entità tali da coinvolgere tutti noi in modo diretto, con impatti rilevanti anche sulla salute umana. Abbiamo quindi il piacere di INVITARLA all’’evento:
IL CLIMA URBANO: DIAGNOSI E PREVISIONE
Giovedì 12 giugno 2008, presso il CNR, P.le Aldo Moro, 7 , 00185 Roma.
Il programma e le indicazioni per l’iscrizione sono disponibili all’indirizzo http://www.iia.cnr.it/clima_urbanoLa partecipazione è gratuita. Per esigenze organizzative, chiediamo la cortesia di inviare l’adesione quanto prima.