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EUobserver / Europe offers €7 billion for third world climate cash

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - European Union leaders have agreed to offer around €7.2 billion to help developing countries deal with the effects of climate change over the next three years.

After a hard push by the Swedish presidency of the EU at a summit of the bloc's premiers and presidents in Brussels on Friday to get every single member state on board with a contribution to the pool of money, by mid-morning, each capital had signed up with a figure, even if from some of the poorer countries the amount was only symbolic.



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One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Fri Dec 11th, 2009 at 02:00:47 PM EST
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The Climate in Brussels: Europe Turns Up the Heat on the US - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
European Union leaders meeting in Brussels have agreed on funds to help the developing world address climate change and demanded the same from the US. German Chancellor Merkel also says that Washington's emissions reduction pledge doesn't go far enough.

(That's all nice, but what about giving out bank data?...)

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by DoDo on Fri Dec 11th, 2009 at 02:01:07 PM EST
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Or climate data...

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Sat Dec 12th, 2009 at 07:41:27 PM EST
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What's your problem with giving out climate data?

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by DoDo on Mon Dec 14th, 2009 at 04:31:44 AM EST
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And how is not/giving out climate data turning up the heat on the USA?

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Mon Dec 14th, 2009 at 04:33:09 AM EST
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A part of the CRU controversy is about how leading climate researchers are withholding the data/source codes they use in their models. Not even what's used in peer-reviewed articles is released. Supposedly it has something to do with the data being proprietary and the scientists jealous over their work, but I still find it quite unreasonable.

What would happen in physics or economics if someone claims some earth-shattering theory and then reguse to provide the data?

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Mon Dec 14th, 2009 at 02:58:59 PM EST
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And what does this have to do with turning up the heat on the USA? Or the release of bank data to the USA?

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by DoDo on Mon Dec 14th, 2009 at 03:54:24 PM EST
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