Polar Ice
Today in a side event at the Bella Center, Al Gore updates recent studies by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program and Norwegian Polar Institute suggesting that the northern polar sea ice has been retreating dramatically and may be gone in the summertime by 2014, much earlier than foreseen by a US government agency just eight months ago. Although there is wide consensus that this will occur by 2025, many scientists take the position that this newly developed scenario is a possible, but not probable in their minds.
Today in a side event at the Bella Center, Al Gore updates recent studies by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program and Norwegian Polar Institute suggesting that the northern polar sea ice has been retreating dramatically and may be gone in the summertime by 2014, much earlier than foreseen by a US government agency just eight months ago. Although there is wide consensus that this will occur by 2025, many scientists take the position that this newly developed scenario is a possible, but not probable in their minds.
Poor Nations in Day Long Boycott
African nations joined by 135 other countries including India and China boycotted today’s talks in Copenhagen charging that developed nations were conspiring to reduce their commitments to greenhouse gas emission reductions. Informal talks resolved the impasse and negotiations resumed in the late afternoon.
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