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Climate News Recap

May 11, 2007

Climate Change Could Lead to Global ConflictThe Guardian. Quotable quote: Darfur is to a large extent a “struggle between nomadic and pastoral communities for resources made more scarce through a changing climate”.

One-fifth of Amazon’s rainforest ’savannah by 2099′ – SciDev.net. And this is just due to climate change–it does not include human deforestation.

OPEC Says Biofuels Could Make it Rethink Investment – Reuters. This sounds like a threat to cut back production in the face of the growth of alternatives. I don’t buy it. More likely is they would increase production to hurt competitors like biofuels.

Spain says CO2 emissions falling for the first time – Reuters. Good news in one of Europe’s fasting growing economies, one that is far from meeting its Kyoto target.

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