yasha
09-05-2009, 09:30 AM
After visiting the ice caps near the North Pole, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (http://www.un.org/News/ossg/sg/pages/ban_ki-moon_bio.htm) gave a worried statement, urging industrialized nations to get their clean energy act together, for the sake of the environment, and more immediately, for the life on the planet.
http://www.un.org/sg/images/ban_ki-moon_portrait.jpg
Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, photo source: UN
''I am very much alarmed and surprised to have seen these glaciers all worn,'' Ban Ki-moon told the reporters there with him, 1000 kilometres from the North Pole, before quoting the prestigious journal Science. ''Unless we take urgent action to stem this trend, we may be virtually [sea] ice-free by 2037, even by 2030.''
For Ban, the expedition was the latest stage on a kind of promotional tour for action on climate change. Hence: "We have a moral political responsibility for our future and for the whole of humanity, for even the future of our planet.''
Source: http://www.theage.com.au/environment/stumbling-to-copenhagen-20090904-fbe7.html - Stumbling to Copenhagen, by Adam Morton, The Age (Australia), September 5, 2009
After returning from his voyage to the cold north yonder, there was a flurry of rhetoric from the halls of UN power. Nations such as China and Australia have offered to up their use of clean energy sources and renewable energy technologies such as Solar, some say they'll use 20% Solar power by 2020, while others are singing praises about clean coal and other legacy technologies (http://cleanenergyforums.net/forumdisplay.php?f=5).
Whatever the outcome, the apathetic might just say that a warmer earth climate will not bother life on Mars. For the rest of us, the time to implement clean energy into our every day lives is now.
Related URL:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_Ki-moon - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon (Wikipedia)
http://www.un.org/sg/images/ban_ki-moon_portrait.jpg
Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, photo source: UN
''I am very much alarmed and surprised to have seen these glaciers all worn,'' Ban Ki-moon told the reporters there with him, 1000 kilometres from the North Pole, before quoting the prestigious journal Science. ''Unless we take urgent action to stem this trend, we may be virtually [sea] ice-free by 2037, even by 2030.''
For Ban, the expedition was the latest stage on a kind of promotional tour for action on climate change. Hence: "We have a moral political responsibility for our future and for the whole of humanity, for even the future of our planet.''
Source: http://www.theage.com.au/environment/stumbling-to-copenhagen-20090904-fbe7.html - Stumbling to Copenhagen, by Adam Morton, The Age (Australia), September 5, 2009
After returning from his voyage to the cold north yonder, there was a flurry of rhetoric from the halls of UN power. Nations such as China and Australia have offered to up their use of clean energy sources and renewable energy technologies such as Solar, some say they'll use 20% Solar power by 2020, while others are singing praises about clean coal and other legacy technologies (http://cleanenergyforums.net/forumdisplay.php?f=5).
Whatever the outcome, the apathetic might just say that a warmer earth climate will not bother life on Mars. For the rest of us, the time to implement clean energy into our every day lives is now.
Related URL:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_Ki-moon - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon (Wikipedia)