Tag / Global Warming
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India’s Balancing Act
India has one of the largest populations in the world. With a country this size, many aspects of development and growth in the economic sphere become complicated. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, India is the third largest carbon emitter, behind the United States and China. However, its per-capita emissions are far lower than…
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White Man’s Burden 2.0
BY GABE RUBIN Sebastião Salgado has a bit of a primitivist fetish. In his latest project, an expansive installation at Madrid’s Caixa Forum, the celebrated photojournalist tries to capture the Earth’s most breathtaking landscapes in places like the Sandwich Islands and the Amazon in order to draw attention to their fragility and impending destruction. Given…
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Winning Warsaw: Poland’s Paternalism Hosts UNFCCC Negotiations
BY CAITLIN LEE At the opening ceremony of the 19th Conference of the Parties (COP19) as part of the United Nations Framework Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) in November, Hanna Gronkeiwicz-Waltz, Mayor of Warsaw, introduced a short video produced for the Polish Ministry of the Environment to rally UN delegates to “win the Warsaw opportunity” by…
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No More Doom-and-Gloom
We must take immediate action to drastically reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. The burning of dirty coal and oil is causing global temperatures to rise, which will lead to catastrophic climate change. Weather patterns will change. Famines will become more common. Polar ice will melt and sea levels will rise. Coastal areas will become uninhabitable.…
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The Media's Lies About Climate Change
In 2007, the Nobel Prize winning UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an international scientific body that reviews and assesses studies related to climate change, released a report that stated, “Warming of the climate system is unequivocal. Most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due…
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Spin Till You Win: Chapter 3
Strategy Memo Author: Andrew Ellicot Topic: Extended Summer Effect Discussion The climate debate is over. The implementation of the term Extended Summer Effect has been a huge success. Our initial response dominated coverage in the news, with an effective presentation. Continued use of the term will guarantee victory in the debate over the issue, and…
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Spin Till You Win: Chapter 1
The phone rang and Alex Ramirez woke with a start. The blue tinged light told him it was a horrible predawn hour. The clock on his nightstand told him it was 4:12 am. He glanced down and realized that he had again passed out while changing the night before, leading to that unpleasant sensation in…
