International Climate Talks Moving Backwards…
It appears that work on an international climate change treaty continues to go poorly. Last week international leaders met in Germany, but progress is reported to be moving very slowly -- with one U.S. envoy saying the talks are slipping backward:
"At this point, I am very concerned," said U.S. negotiator Jonathan Pershing. "Unfortunately, what we have seen over and over this week is that some countries are walking back from progress made in Copenhagen, and what was agreed there."
The Christian Science Monitor reports a few bright spots, but overall things are dim.
…While the Senate Stalls and the Planet Suffers
Last week the Senate again delayed any movement on legislation that would increase clean energy, fight global warming and help prevent any more BP oil disasters from happening again.
Meanwhile, the planet continues seeing terrible weather events – from massive flooding in Pakistan, to huge wildfires in Russia, and more. Even a huge piece of ice broke off from the Petermann Glacier in Greenland.
How bad does it have to get before we take real action on global warming?
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