Posted on 05/13/2007 9:29:24 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Bloomberg To Host International Climate Summit
POSTED: 11:44 am EDT May 13, 2007 UPDATED: 11:48 am EDT May 13, 2007 NEW YORK -- As cities all over the world consider how to address climate change, a global summit of leaders including former President Clinton and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will convene this week to trade ideas.
Mayors and governors of more than 30 localities from Colombia to South Korea, along with CEOs from a number of international companies, will join Clinton and Bloomberg for the conference that begins Monday evening and ends Thursday.
The gathering is known as the C40 Large Cities Climate Summit and will be the second of its kind; the first was held in 2005, when representatives from 18 cities met in London.
The theory behind it is that cities must play a major role in reversing climate change -- they cover less than 1 percent of the Earth's surface but are disproportionately responsible for polluting it, contributing 80 percent of greenhouse gas emissions.
"Cities must take responsibility for our contribution to global climate change," said Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who is one of the participants. A spokeswoman said he will announce his own city's carbon-reduction plan on Tuesday in California before traveling to attend the conference.
Greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, methane and other gases, essentially trap energy from the sun. In a city like New York, the operation of buildings, which consume electricity, natural gas, fuel oil and steam, contribute an overwhelming majority of emissions.
At the conference, delegates "will share best practices, identify collaborative projects and chart future actions relative to reversing dangerous climate change and realizing economic development benefits," organizers said.
Clinton is also expected to make a major announcement involving a cross-section of attendees.
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For God’s sake....these Maroons can not predict when it will rain accurately in the next day or two here in Florida!!!
Or for that matter whether a storm wil become a hurricaine.
If there is a problem it is caused by large cities.
Pres Clinton is too smart to buy any of the pseudo-science, but he is very smart about finding the political advantages.
Clinton is also expected to make a major announcement involving a cross-section of attendees.
But But the taxpayer pays. It don’t cost us.
Forget personal power promotion, personal financial gain, and a driving compulsion for personal legacy, these people are finely tuned to what is soon to be the demise of humankind in total.
Humanity...
What we need to focus on for humanity's sake is the loss of common sense which in the past has been a major part of humanity's ability to survive.
Power mongering financiers don't spend their lives focusing on weather issues.
...and Bloomy is a Republican....right...../s
I own the Brookyln Bridge, anyone want to buy it????
LOL!!!
duh, I keep forgetting.
Latest Weather Channel Headline:
CLINTON AND BLOOMBERG GET COZY WITH GORE’S GLOBAL FLATULENCE!
ROTFLOL
“Dumb and Dumber”!
LLS
“Perhaps Clinton can tell us where in New York the City Of New York throws its trash....about 11,000 tons a day”.
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