Comments on: Bill Clinton vs. The World Bank http://climateprogress.org/2007/09/27/bill-clinton-world-bank-global-warming/ The Latest on Climate Science, Solutions, and Politics Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:50:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Paulina http://climateprogress.org/2007/09/27/bill-clinton-world-bank-global-warming/#comment-5864 Paulina Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:57:31 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2007/09/27/bill-clinton-world-bank-global-warming/#comment-5864 Joe-- I was wondering if the CGI press release statement re 1Sky seems felicitous to you. http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?&pid=1694&srcid=1665 1Sky Working with partners 1Sky will raise $50 million to advocate for a simple set of goals and policy proposals to improve the federal government’s policies on climate change. All partners working in this coalition are committed to making the US government develop climate change targets that match those of the European Union. The EU is committed to reduce green house gas emissions by 20% compared to 1990 levels. This seems to be an odd way of putting it, since the purpose of 1Sky appears to be to cut through the confusion and delay and be very clear on what the goals are. 1Sky's goals for the US are very clearly stated (although some questions remain to be clarified; I'll be happy to list those later). http://www.1skycampaign.org/ The CGI press release is missing a critical number, namely the *time-frame* for the reductions! It's 20% compared to 1990 levels, BY 2020!!! AKA, for the US, 30% by 2020, compared to current levels. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.) Thanks, Paulina Joe–

I was wondering if the CGI press release statement re 1Sky seems felicitous to you.
http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/ NETCOMMUNITY/ Page.aspx?&pid=1694&srcid=1665

1Sky
Working with partners 1Sky will raise $50 million to advocate for a simple set of goals and policy proposals to improve the federal government’s policies on climate change. All partners working in this coalition are committed to making the US government develop climate change targets that match those of the European Union. The EU is committed to reduce green house gas emissions by 20% compared to 1990 levels.

This seems to be an odd way of putting it, since the purpose of 1Sky appears to be to cut through the confusion and delay and be very clear on what the goals are.

1Sky’s goals for the US are very clearly stated (although some questions remain to be clarified; I’ll be happy to list those later).
http://www.1skycampaign.org/

The CGI press release is missing a critical number, namely the *time-frame* for the reductions!

It’s 20% compared to 1990 levels, BY 2020!!!

AKA, for the US, 30% by 2020, compared to current levels. (Please correct me if I’m wrong.)

Thanks,
Paulina

]]> By: Aleithia http://climateprogress.org/2007/09/27/bill-clinton-world-bank-global-warming/#comment-5865 Aleithia Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:29:18 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2007/09/27/bill-clinton-world-bank-global-warming/#comment-5865 Big Developers are losing sleep at night worrying that "climate change funds will come at the expense of development." Oh, boo hoo hoo. These people run on the assumption that they can get away with a tangled web of predatory lending, corrupting government officials, destroying lives, property, and the environment, war-mongering, and endless, endless expansion, growth, and - that pervasive term, "development." Read, "Confessions of an Economic Hitman," to get the gist. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that ENDLESS expansion - - - can't be done. Their goal is shortsighted, to understate it. They should be jailed, and made to pay for their mass genocides and other crimes. And most importantly, they should CLEAN UP THEIR MESS. Undo all that growth and "development" they've been guilty of, in the past. Big Developers are losing sleep at night worrying that “climate change funds will come at the expense of development.”

Oh, boo hoo hoo.

These people run on the assumption that they can get away with a tangled web of predatory lending, corrupting government officials, destroying lives, property, and the environment, war-mongering, and endless, endless expansion, growth, and - that pervasive term, “development.” Read, “Confessions of an Economic Hitman,” to get the gist.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that ENDLESS expansion - - - can’t be done. Their goal is shortsighted, to understate it.

They should be jailed, and made to pay for their mass genocides and other crimes. And most importantly, they should CLEAN UP THEIR MESS. Undo all that growth and “development” they’ve been guilty of, in the past.

]]> By: David B. Benson http://climateprogress.org/2007/09/27/bill-clinton-world-bank-global-warming/#comment-5872 David B. Benson Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:15:49 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2007/09/27/bill-clinton-world-bank-global-warming/#comment-5872 It certainly appears that the World Bank is sooo 20th century and ought to go the way of the dinosaurs... It certainly appears that the World Bank is sooo 20th century and ought to go the way of the dinosaurs…

]]> By: Olin C. http://climateprogress.org/2007/09/27/bill-clinton-world-bank-global-warming/#comment-5878 Olin C. Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:45:39 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2007/09/27/bill-clinton-world-bank-global-warming/#comment-5878 Dear Aleitha, I think I'm in love! What are you doing for dinner? :) Dear Aleitha,

I think I’m in love! What are you doing for dinner? :)

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