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Deal or No Deal at COP15?
Copenhagen, Out of the Frying Pan, Pt. 5
Lessons Learned From Tobacco Control Should be Applied to Climate Policy
The approach the world has taken to tobacco control holds many lessons for the COP-15 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. A newly-published article in The Lancet (available with free registration) summarizes the many similarities between tobacco control and climate policy, and how the lessons learned from tobacco control can be applied to the way countries approach climate policy.
This Week's Highlights--Climate and Wall Street
This week the Center for Media and Democracy is highlighting commentary and news about the climate change conference in Copenhagen and the continuing issues coming out of the financial crisis.
Needed: A Size Cap on Big Banks
One of the major flaws with the financial reform bill that passed the House last week is that it does nothing to stop behemoth banks from growing even bigger.
Bank Reform Passes, Is the Party Over?
Today, the House voted on a long-awaited financial reform package. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced: "The legislation says very clearly to Wall Street: the party is over." But is it?
Who'd Pay for Rupert Murdoch's Climate Change Skepticism?
The climate change skeptics may be a lonely lot in Copenhagen, but no one disputes that they have had an effect, however hard to quantify. British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, recently cautioned against the public being distracted by the "anti-science, flat-earth climate skeptics" while Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, derided them as being the "comfortable bedfellows of the global conspiracy theorists."
While very few of the skeptics have any scientific credentials in climate sciences, that doesn't prevent them gaining significant coverage in pockets of the mainstream media? Why is this the case?
Rising Tides, Slow Food & Global Warming
Copenhagen, Out of the Frying Pan, Part 4
Allow me to apologize for the delay in filing this report, but as we were walking back to our base in Christiania, we were blocked by shoulder to shoulder police and their vans. Christiania was again under siege, and I haven't been able to get to an internet access until now. My next report will have some general information about this amazing phenomena called "Christiania", this city within the city. Tonight, I'll play a concert there and see how things have settled since the rather large battle last night.