Phi Beta Iota: We love this, even though it is very time and bandwidth intensive. As voice to text matures (China is rreported by Atlantic Monthly to be much further ahead than Google) it will become much easier to aggregate citizen views into the Global Game, and to create a “level playing field” for true democratic self-governance acrosss all issues and boundaries–it's called Panarchy.
Last week, we announced the CNN/YouTube Climate Debate in Copenhagen, an effort to make sure that your voice is included in the climate debate – and that your questions are posed to decision-makers on an international stage.
These leaders will include Kofi Annan, Thomas Friedman, Yves de Boer, and Bjorn Lomberg.
To submit your question, upload a short video of yourself posing the question and submit it here: www.youtube.com/cop15. We've already seen some top-notch video questions like this one from Mo in Florida who is concerned about the cost of going green:
A place to encourage our understanding of space
in the fluid flow of nature.
Is it possible to understand what gets in the way of human understanding?
That is the question we are asking ourselves as we invite you to participate in the development and communication of a natural awareness that we call ‘inclusionality'.
We think that inclusional understanding , a natural capability that can be “re-awakened” in all of us, can radically transform the way we think, feel and behave, enabling us to live more harmoniously in sustainable dynamic relationship with our living space and one another.
General Barry McCaffrey, USA (Ret)Afghanistan Trip Report
After Action Report–General Barry McCaffrey, USA (Ret)
Visit to Kuwait and Afghanistan 10-18 Nov 09
11 pages
Extracted points
01 Phenomenally useful report with too much cheerleading. This is a 10-year regional war, State Department and AID are pulling out for next several years (too dangerous), costing us roughly half per day what we paid for all of WW II per day. Allies not really showing up and being effective, less the British.
02 Talked to Generals, Ambassadors, and Ministers–no Captions, no village chiefs. Nothing in her on intelligence, glosses over the C4I and protocol issues (see Journal: Beyond Weber to Epoch B Leadership).
03 Achilles' heels are multiple: 90% of the logistics come through Karachi, Pakistan and then overland. Without fire support and aviation this war is lost. Taliban now up to battalion-sized operations and believe they have high moral ground and time on their side. 100% US movement by air. (See Review: Firepower In Limited War; aviation sounds like a repeat of Viet-Nam; only thing keeping logistics open are the same decision made by NVA in Viet-Nam and by Iran-Syria in Iraq: better to let the Americans bleed themselves to death than cut their main supply line.
COPENHAGEN – December 8 – As the Copenhagen Climate Talks get underway and hopes of a meaningful deal continue to fade, a global protest is building against the failure of world leaders to make progress on this critical issue.
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…up to 50,000 expected on the streets of New Delhi
Phi Beta Iota: India is joined with China and Brazil and Russia in opposing climate change controls that will diminish the prospects of the poor. If the 50,000 materialize, they will have been paid to show up and clueless about the facts.
A major split has emerged between developing countries at the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen over the best way to help the most vulnerable countries.
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Police fear an international extremist group may also be on its way to Copenhagen to commit acts of violence.
* Facts about Global Warming Reality Check
* The IPCC 2007 Forecast
* Impact Assessment Needs
* How to Identify Bias
* IPCC Forecast Vs. Reality
* Forecast is Not Huge
* Was the Earth Warmer before?
* What Should We Do?
* What Should We Not Do?
* Issues of Disagreement?
* Skeptics View of Consensus?
* Consensus View Of Skeptics?
* Is Global Warming Bad?
* Polar Bears/Polar Ice?
* CO2 so high we can't breathe?
Al Gore has responded to the Climategate emails scandal by doing what he knows best, skirting the truth and making statements that have no correlation to actual known facts.
In an interview that will air on MSNBC at 1:00 pm ET today, Al Gore rebutted Sarah Palin'sWashington Post op-ed and Facebook postings that question the science on climate change given the “Climate-gate” controversy.
In response, Gore said that “the deniers are persisting in an era of unreality. The entire North Polar icecap is disappearing before our eyes… What do they think is happening?”
The G77's chair, Lumumba Stanislaus Di Aping of Sudan, went on the attack again today, telling journalists that the Danish text “seemed to secure 60 per cent of the global atmospheric space for 20 per cent of the world's wealthiest nations”.
“We absolutely recognize our historic role in putting emissions in the atmosphere, up there, but the sense of guilt or culpability or reparations, I just categorically reject that,” Stern said in response to a reporter's question.
