UN Global Warming Conference: Ted Turner Urges World to Follow Chinas Lead and Institute Global One-Child Policy

``If they would rather die,'' said Scrooge, ``they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population
Dear Ted -- If you are so concerned with over-population why don't you do the Earth and ALL of us a favor and take Dickens' advice? Globe and Mail : Ted Turner urges global one-child policy to save planet SHAWN McCARTHY Climate Change and population control can make for a politically explosive mix, as media mogul Ted Turner demonstrated Sunday when he urged world leaders to institute a global one-child policy to save the Earth’s environment. Mr. Turner spoke at a luncheon where Economist ...

Turner Urges Global One-Child Policy to Save Planet
Climate change and population control can make for a politically explosive mix, as media mogul Ted Turner demonstrated Sunday when he urged world leaders to institute a global one-child policy to save the Earth's environment. Mr. Turner spoke at a luncheon where Economist Brian O'Neill from the U.S.'s National Center for Atmospheric Research unveiled his study on the impact of demographic trends on future greenhouse gas emission, a little-discussed subject given its political sensitivity. Mr. Tu...

Ted Turner, Father of Five, Calls for Global One Child Only Policy
Ted Turner, a father of five, is calling on world leaders to impose a one-child policy similar to China’s on us little people. Climate Change and population control can make for a politically explosive mix, as media mogul Ted Turner demonstrated Sunday when he urged world leaders to institute a global one-child policy to save the Earth’s environment. Mr. Turner spoke at a luncheon where Economist Brian O’Neill from the U.S.’s National Center for Atmospheric Research unveiled his st

Ted Turner Calls for Global One-Child Policy Like Chinas
Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, called on world leaders Sunday to address the Global Warming crisis by drastically reducing the number of people on the planet. Maintaining that the very future of humanity was at stake, Turner urged immediate action: “If we’re going to be here [as a species] 5,000 years from now, we’re not going to do it with seven billion people,” said Turner, who went on to propose the immediate Adoption of a global one-child policy. The media mogul has...

A warning at climate talks: Glacier melt speeding up
CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — The lives and livelihoods of people in South Asia are at "high risk" as Global Warming melts Glaciers in the Himalayas, sending floods crashing down from overloaded mountain lakes and depriving farmers of steady water sources, U.N. and other international experts reported Friday. Worldwide, "since the beginning of the 1980s, the rate of ice loss has increased substantially in many regions, concurrent with an increase in global mean air temperatures," the U.N. Environme...

Ted Turner urges global one-child policy to save planet
Source: The Globe and Mail Climate Change and population control can make for a politically explosive mix, as media mogul Ted Turner demonstrated Sunday when he urged world leaders to institute a global one-child policy to save the Earth’s environment. Mr. Turner spoke at a luncheon where Economist Brian O’Neill from the U.S.’s National Center for Atmospheric Research unveiled his study on the impact of demographic trends on future greenhouse gas emission, a little-discussed subject given its

Ted Turner urges global one-child policy to save planet
Last updated Sunday, Dec. 05, 2010 10:53PM EST Climate Change and population control can make for a politically explosive mix, as media mogul Ted Turner demonstrated Sunday when he urged world leaders to institute a global one-child policy to save the Earth’s environment. Mr. Turner spoke at a luncheon where Economist Brian O’Neill from the U.S.’s National Center for Atmospheric Research unveiled his study on the impact of demographic trends on future greenhouse gas emission, a...

Don't Teach College Economics Students Global Warming Denial
Think slowing Climate Change will cost a lot of money? Think again. As most Economists will tell you, the costs of not acting to slow Climate Change are far scarier. Unfortunately, you might not realize that if you are a college economics major. In fact, you might not even believe that Climate Change is happening at all. At least that's true if you are studying from one of five popular college economics textbooks that recently received a "Not Recommended " grade in The Sightline Institute's revi...

Ted Turner Urges World Leaders To Adopt China's One Child Policy On Global Scale
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Experts: Glacier melt speeds up, risking lives
CANCUN, Mexico — The lives and livelihoods of people in South Asia are at "high risk" as Global Warming melts Glaciers in the Himalayas, sending floods crashing down from overloaded mountain lakes and depriving farmers of steady water sources, U.N. and other international experts reported. Worldwide, "since the beginning of the 1980s, the rate of ice loss has increased substantially in many regions, concurrent with an increase in global mean air temperatures," the U.N. Environment Program ...

Experts: Glacier melt speeds up, risking lives
CANCUN, Mexico (AP) - United Nations and other international experts say the lives and livelihoods of people in South Asia are at "high risk" as Global Warming melts Glaciers in the Himalayas. The glacier melt is sending floods crashing down from overloaded mountain lakes and depriving farmers of steady sources of water. The U.N. Environment Program says that worldwide, "since the beginning of the 1980s, the rate of ice loss has increased substantially in many regions, concurrent with an increa...

Global warming? Cool!, climatologist says
Global warming isn't such a bad thing, a leading Russian climatologist told a conference last week. The effects of rising temperatures will save on heating, increase farm production and open northern sea channels, said Vladimir Klimenko of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, according to a Moscow Times article. On the downside, several Siberian and Far Eastern Russian cities will have to be rebuilt, Klimenko conceded in his report to Russian and German scholars at a conference sponsored...

Cancun climate talks surmount key stumbling block
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon headed to Cancun to offer a personal push in the Final Four days of the 194-nation conference.CANCUN, Mexico -- Talks in Mexico on a global climate agreement appeared Tuesday to get past a key stumbling block after China showed flexibility on allowing international verification of its efforts. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon headed to the beach resort of Cancun to offer a personal push in the Final Four days of the 194-nation conference, where a positive atm...

POPULATION CONTROL IS FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Five-Time Father Ted Turner Calls for One-Child Policy
POPULATION CONTROL IS FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Five-Time Father Ted Turner Calls for One-Child Policy. You know, I had an idea for a Carl Hiaasen-type novel in which ecoterrorists go around visiting poetic-justice punishment on environmental hypocrites. Alas, I don’t have the talent to pull it off, but I keep seeing real-world examples of the sort of hypocrisy that inspired the concept. ...

Bolivia Alleges U.S 'Blackmail' At Climate Change Negotiations
Should the rights over water resources be returned to the S'gor state govt? Cancun, Mexico, 7 DECEMBER, 2010: Bolivia alleged that the United States was using "Blackmail" tactics at Climate Change negotiations to force other countries to accept its position. "We are not sold to anyone. We are not bought. We are not scared," Bolivia's Ambassador to the United Nations Pablo Solon told reporters at a press briefing here. Solon said that the integrity of the negotiations at the current Cancun 16th U...

Chinese cities can be model for low carbon
Published: Dec. 7, 2010 at 2:54 PM Cancun, Mexico, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- The low carbon growth successes of some of China's largest and fastest-growing cities can serve as a model for other cities worldwide to reduce Greenhouse Gases, says a new report. The report by the Climate Group outlines how China's city governments have developed low carbon strategies, including rolling out industrial and domestic Energy Efficiency measures, investing in low carbon transport projects and promoting urban renewab...

Cancun Climate Change Conference: Illegal Immigration Caused By Global Warming
The UN junk scientists meeting this week in Cancun released a study that claims that illegal Immigration is caused by Global Warming. It all makes sense now. Just when you think you’ve heard everything, we’re told that impoverished Mexicans are fleeing north to escape Global Warming. Despite the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920), vast natural resources and bright, hard-working people, the host country for the Cancun climate summit remains impoverished. Wealth and power are still concen...

More Nations May Pledge Carbon Limits at UN Talks
CANCUN, Mexico -- More countries are expected this week to pledge specific actions to limit Carbon Emissions over the next decade, in what would be very good news for arduous negotiations on a climate-change agreement, host country Mexico said. As the talks began their second and final week Monday, delegates said the 193-nation conference was moving toward decisions on practical steps to help countries fight Global Warming, especially developing nations under severe threat from changing climate ...

More nations may pledge carbon limits at UN talks
** CORRECTS NATURE OF THE EVENT ** Members of the group World Wildlife Fund stand around a map made of candles during an event to make a call for a strong deal to leaders joined at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010. The slow-moving U.N. talks on combating Global Warming took a step forward with revised for a $100-billion-a-year climate aid fund and other issues for debate by the world's environment ministers this week. More countries are expect...

UN climate talks move into decisive phase
CANCUN, Mexico - U.N. climate talks moved into their decisive week Monday with the agenda dominated by future cuts in Carbon Emissions and keeping countries honest about their actions to control Global Warming. Government ministers arrived in force to begin applying political muscle to negotiations that in the past week have narrowed some disputes, but which are likely to leave the toughest decisions for the final hours of the 193-nation conference on Friday. Delegates were feeling pressur...

Tough UN climate talks move into decisive week
CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — U.N. climate talks moved into their decisive week Monday with the agenda dominated by future cuts in Carbon Emissions and keeping countries honest about their actions to control Global Warming. Government ministers arrived in force to begin applying political muscle to negotiations that in the past week have narrowed some disputes, but which are likely to leave the toughest decisions for the final hours of the 193-nation conference on Friday. Delegates were feeling pre...

U.N. climate talks move into decisive phase
CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — U.N. climate talks moved into their decisive week Monday with the agenda dominated by future cuts in Carbon Emissions and keeping countries honest about their actions to control Global Warming. Government ministers arrived in force to begin applying political muscle to negotiations that in the past week have narrowed some disputes, but which are likely to leave the toughest decisions for the final hours of the 193-nation conference on Friday. Delegates were feeling pre...

Video: How to explain Milankovitch cycles to an anti-science Congressman in 30 seconds
This is an excerpt from Skeptical Science by John Cook about the inimitable Professor Richard Alley, who was grilled last month by Dana “Dinosaur flatulence” Rohrabacher (R-CA).  Alley was asked to explain in 15 seconds why climate has changed in the past and how we know humans are causing it now when they didn’t back then. I’ve long been a fan of Richard Alley. Not just because of his rendition of Geoman, possibly the nerdiest song in the history of science [reposted below].

AGW Today: Marshall Islands Could Disappear Due To Sea Rise
CANCUN, Mexico - Encroaching seas in the far Pacific are raising the salt level in the wells of the Marshall Islands. Waves threaten to cut one sliver of an island in two. “It’s getting worse,” says Kaminaga Kaminaga, the tiny nation’s Climate Change coordinator. Two things to pre-notice: if all the Glaciers and ice are melting, and they are composed primarily of fresh water, wouldn’t that mean the seas are getting less salty? Second, remember that thing about...

Climate summit in Cancun intent on progress
Cancun, MEXICO - The U.N.-sponsored climate talks, which began here a week ago, entered a new phase Monday, as delegates and high-ranking ministers from nearly 200 countries settled into vast, sunless meeting rooms, intent on restoring the credibility of a process aimed at slowing Global Warming. While last year's climate talks in Copenhagen produced little despite attracting more than 100 heads of state, some experts suggested this wonkish two-week meeting in a resort better known for colleg...