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This happened in Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland. Beautiful to say the least... wish we could do that sort of thing here in the states, but unfortunately it's too damn hot and dry!
Anyway, this should keep the UFO enthusiasts busy for awhile.This happened in Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland. Beautiful to say the least... wish we... more
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Latest News Updates Today Izabela Lukomska-Pyzalska, a former Playboy model, has taken over Warta Poznan, a polish soccer club. Warta Poznan, a struggling first division soccer club in Poland, received what they hope to be the solution to their problems on the pitch: former Playboy model Izabela Lukomska-Pyzalska.Latest News Updates Today Izabela Lukomska-Pyzalska, a former Playboy model, has taken... more
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A Polish politician has criticized his local zoo for acquiring a "gay" elephant named Ninio who prefers male companions and will probably not procreate, local media reported on Friday.
"We didn't pay 37 million zlotys ($11 million) for the largest elephant house in Europe to have a gay elephant live there," Michal Grzes, a conservative councilor in the city of Poznan in western Poland, was quoted as saying.A Polish politician has criticized his local zoo for acquiring a "gay"... more
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I fall into the latter category as does the WWF, Greenpeace, and other environmental organizations.The EU-s socalled 20-20-20 plan to decrease emissions by twenty percent by 2020 and have twenty percent renewable electricity by that time is a farce. I truly do wonder if these leaders are actually reading anything regarding the current effects of climate change on this world now besides their own profit reports. Getting only twenty percent of renewable electricity in over ten years time is simply not good enough and sets a lower bar for other countries.
Now, I know there are certain industries that must be shielded by the rich politicians who make their bread and butter by allowing them to keep polluting, but when will there be a meeting of this nature that actually addresses the moral implications of climate change instead of only the monetary ones? I also read up on the outcome of this meeting and the global water crisis was apparently absent. How can you hammer out a deal on climate change and not even include what is currently happening regarding potable water sources and melting glaciers that supply that water that threaten the supply to billions of people?
I am disappointed with this outcome, and wondering just what will happen between now and December 2009 to keep the expectations low. How many coal plants will go online in that next year? How many millions of tons of Co2 pollution will be spewed out all over this world? How much more rainforest will be lost to multi nationals looking to grow corn for ethanol and beef for McDonalds? How much more will the sea levels rise threatening people in Bangladesh and other outlying areas in the world? How much more water will be polluted thus decreasing the potable water available to a growing population? How many trees will be cut down to assauge our rapacious and consumptive lifestyles? And how much longer will we have to hear that Obama is suddenly the climate savior of the world while this world continues to melt around us?
We need action NOW. We need targets set NOW. We need real commitments NOW. I think the only ones satisfied are those who want people to think they hammered out an environmental agreement while knowing all they did was buy more time to keep this all going to still preserve their status quo at least for another year.I fall into the latter category as does the WWF, Greenpeace, and other environmental... more
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The annual UN climate change conference ended shortly before 3:00 am today in Poznan with a commitment from governments to shift into full negotiating mode next year in order to shape a effective international response to climate change, to be agreed in Copenhagen at the end of 2009.The annual UN climate change conference ended shortly before 3:00 am today in Poznan... more
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Representatives from three leading international solar companies and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) - Dr. Zhengrong Shi, Suntech's Chairman and CEO, Jeremy Leggett, Executive Chairman of Solarcentury, Mike Ahearn, Chairman and CEO of First Solar, and Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director - gathered at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland to propose the rapid implementation and expansion of policies designed to support the growth of the solar industry and the global adoption of solar technology as a major contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction in support of global climate goals.
The four representatives stated that solar technology is already a cost-effective alternative for generating electricity and countries world-wide should immediately revise energy development plans to include a higher proportion of this clean and sustainable energy source: "Solar technology is no longer a niche energy solution, but is already reaching the scale and cost points to fundamentally change the way we generate electricity. As a result of substantial investments over the past 5 years, the solar industry has dramatically improved solar technologies and established roadmaps for further cost reductions. In fact, electricity generated from solar installations is already reaching parity with peak energy and retail energy prices in many regions."
"Now is the time for world leaders, businesses and communities to build the platform for solar to be adopted on a much greater scale. This will not only improve energy autonomy, but also serve to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and deliver an economically viable solution to climate change. We believe that the global climate change deal agreed to in Copenhagen at the end of 2009 should include concrete targets and policies for a rapid transition to solar in the coming decades."
The group encouraged the adoption of a set of major climate and energy policies to enable solar to make a significant contribution toward GHG- reduction and economic-development goals, including:
+ Stringent, ambitious, international and national carbon regulation policies;
+ Enforceable renewables mandates with a solar carve out or credit multiplier for solar energy;
+ Near-term incentives that could include feed-in tariffs, partial rebates, tax credits and/or property-based loans;
+ And favorable net metering, interconnection, permitting and land-use policies.
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He continued: "When you consider that in Europe around half of all emissions come from buildings, directly and indirectly, you get a sense of how excited we are about our industry's ability to contribute in the fight against global warming. Solarcentury will be publishing a book next year presenting a vision of the future, and mapping the emerging solar revolution. We are calling it "The Solar Century," because that is what the twenty-first century has to be. We're proud to be doing this from the UK, not traditionally seen as the hub of solar power innovation. The future can be bright if governments understand the opportunities and help unleash the potential of solar."
He continued: "Led by California and New Jersey, over half of the states in the U.S. have adopted renewable portfolio standards, which together with favorable tax incentives and other policies, has emerged as an important driver in increasing solar power generation.
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For solutions we need to look up, not backward.Representatives from three leading international solar companies and the United... more
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And what will come from Poznan? Nothing significant to address climate change as it must be addressed now.... so we will sit for another year waiting for Copenhagen for a bunch of rich people to get on jet planes to pollute the air again to sit at a meeting saying the same thing as this year as people worldwide continue to suffer the effects of climate change as the Arctic ice continues to get smaller. If there truly is a God, it boggles my mind why it would deign humans as the species responsible for the stewardship of this planet. We are FAILURES at it.
From the article:
In the third part of our series on the eve of the Poznan conference, we look at how climate change is already changing ordinary people-s lives from Australia to Brazil.
Joao da Antonio-s eyes are full of tears. If good rains do not come, he says, he will pack his bag, kiss his wife and two children goodbye and join the annual exodus of young men leaving hot, dry rural north-eastBrazil for the biofuel fields in the south.
Da Antonio, 19, can earn about £30 a month for 10 hours gruelling work a day cutting sugar cane to make ethanol, and more than a million small farmers like him migrate south for six months of the year because the land can no longer support them. Tens of thousands a year never return, forced to move permanently to Sao Paulo or another of Brazil-s cities in search of work.
Life here is one of suffering, Da Antonio said. I will do anything to earn some money. None of us want to die, but the lack of water here will kill us.
Around the world, millions of people like Da Antonio are feeling the force of a changing climate. As UN negotiations towards a global climate deal continue in Poznan, Poland, this week, evidence is emerging of weather patterns in turmoil and the poorest nations disproportionately bearing the brunt of warming.
While rich countries at the talks seek to set up global carbon trading, using financial markets to tackle - and profit from - climate change, poor countries want justice. They are seeking environmental justice: money to adapt their economies to climate changes they did not cause, and technology and resources to allow them to escape poverty while preserving their forests and ecosystems.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/10/poznan-brazil-climate-change-environmentAnd what will come from Poznan? Nothing significant to address climate change as it... more
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As ministers and officials gather in Poznan one year ahead of the Copenhagen summit on global warming, the second part of a major series looks at the crucial issue of targets.As ministers and officials gather in Poznan one year ahead of the Copenhagen summit on... more
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I truly think that before we as a species can confront climate change effectively, we have to realize the interdependent world we live in. We have to see that though we live in the United States that what we do affects people on the other side of the world, and vice versa. We have to realize that the decisions we make and the actions we take will have a lasting effect on future generations.
I do believe that any climate treaty that comes out of Poznan which leads to Copenhagen must address the responsibility of rich nations making the most global warming pollution. It also must address the fact that India, China, and other developing nations looking for the same economic prosperity the US and other rich nations have can also have it by using alternate energies. They would actually fare better than the US has in regards to also providing the primer for a sustainable world. China especially must be made to see as well as the US that this is not a game of you go first or we will do nothing. This is not or should not be about political powerplays. The ability of the human species and other species to sustain themselves on this planet is at stake. That should supercede any political backbiting and competition.
And we can no longer state that there will be casualties as a result of the effects of the climate crisis in the future. This is the future. We are experiencing that future right now, and we cannot shirk our moral responsibility to those nations whose people do not make negligable amounts of emissions but yet suffer the consequences of our behavior.I truly think that before we as a species can confront climate change effectively, we... more
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Today begins the second round of climate talks by the UN in Poznan, Poland in an attempt to come to an agreement regarding limits on greenhouse gas emissions on the road to Copenhagen in December 2009. Last year, the talks in Bali had people hopeful with actually little to anything of substance happening, and nothing concerning water as a human right or as part of the climate agenda was addressed.
Now, once again the opportunity exists to bring forth water and safe access to potable water as a chief concern in Poznan. However, reports claim that due to a worldwide financial crunch there is not much hope for the outcome of these talks to produce much of substance regarding the environment as a whole, let alone place water as the priority it must now be.
This is what happens when you place the fate of the planet in the hands of a few politicians and corporate benefactors who only see profit coming from the climate and water crises. When the melting of the Arctic is only seen as another opportunity to plunder the very oil that has exacerbated the melting in the first place over doing what is morally right to preserve our planet for all, it speaks volumes about what these governments really consider important.
Around the globe we see millions of people suffering from the effects of unnecessary diseases due to unpotable toxic water. We see girls being deprived of an education because they must spend hours everyday in dangerous conditions fetching water for their families, many times water that is polluted and in short supply. We see glaciers worldwide melting at an unprecedented pace breaking all scientists predictions, thus placing billions of people worldwide at risk of dwindling water supplies which bring with it famine, disease, privitization of water by multinationals, and the poverty that keeps those in third world countries at the mercy of those very multinationals and the governments that cater to them.
How this current global crisis regarding water and water access could not be a top priority of such a meeting only proves that these meetings are not for the benefit of the environment or the people as a whole. They are for the benefit of the governments looking to gain profit from the misery of others. It is all well and good that organizations such as the one mentioned in this article wish to bring the water crisis to the attention of these meetings. However, I believe it is only through citizen activism that this will be given the attention it deserves. Leaving it only in the hands of those who precipitated the financial crisis to begin with and the climate change we now see causing repurcussions worldwide will not do anything for the over one billion people who need access to clean water now.
It must be us who brings this to fruition. Through our words, our actions, our activism, our caring, and our standing up to the governments seeking to ignore this the most crucial environmental issue of the 21st century.Today begins the second round of climate talks by the UN in Poznan, Poland in an... more
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OneWorld and OneClimate's window on the UN Climate Change conference in Bali, as seen on MTV.
Virtual Bali aimed to open up participation to people from all over the world through the virtual world of Second Life.
In the end we had people from all over the world, including Mexico,Japan, Turkmenistan, England, Germany, Canada to name but a few.
To find out more on the work of OneClimate visit http://www.oneclimate.net
To watch more great videos and to submit your own please visit: http://tv.oneworld.net
This film was produced by Element
www.element-tv.net OneWorld and OneClimate's window on the UN Climate Change conference in Bali, as... more
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