A quick note to readers: I’ll be traveling a bit in the next few days and will post when I can. Before I head out, I wanted to share this speech that John Kerry delivered today on the Bali Climate Change Policy:
John Kerry, who represented the United States Senate last week at the international climate [...]
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The WaPo has an in depth piece on the Bali Climate Change talks and John Kerry’s role representing Congressional Democrats at the talks. Kerry, was the “sole standard-bearer for Congress” at the talks, although “about a dozen senators and House members had planned to attend. The WaPo noted that “most are stuck in Washington dealing with [...]
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Al Gore told CNN today that there were no “campaign plans in his immediate future,” but he also said, he hadn’t “ruled out getting back into the political process at some point” — and “if he did return to political life, it would be to take another shot at the White House. ”
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The U.N. Climate Change Conference began in Bali today. Delegates from over 180 nations are participating along with observers from intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations. The purpose of the Bali conference is ”to negotiate a new pact to succeed the Kyoto protocol, which expires in 2012.”
Among the non-govermental participants at the conference will be a group of islanders [...]
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The man whom the people elected in 2000 to be president was in the temporary residence of the man whom the Supreme Court anointed.
President George W. Bush hosted former Vice-President Al Gore, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and five other Nobel laureates, Nov. 26. This annual handshake photo-op has been an American tradition.
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During a hearing on Climate Change on Tuesday, Senator John Kerry pressed Paula Dobriansky, Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs on whether the Bush Administration will mute the urgency communicated by a new IPCC summary report on climate change, scheduled to be released later this week in Valencia, Spain. Dobriansky said that [...]
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The WaPo has a piece today about the ‘08 Democratic candidates and the climate change issue and how it could be a risky issue for the candidates. Among the contentions is that implementing changes could be costly and that could alienate some voters. However, the WaPo notes:
The issue has turned into a Democratic primary litmus [...]
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