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Kyoto 10th Anniversary / Bangkok Sinking

Associated Press - Dec 11th
The Kyoto global warming pact - which marked its 10th anniversary Tuesday - was brokered under vastly different circumstances from those facing negotiators this week as they map out an agenda for a successor agreement.
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The Kyoto pact requires 36 industrialized nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 5 percent below 1990 levels between 2008 and 2012. Australia announced last week it would join, leaving the United States as the only major developed economy to have rejected it...Read More..


To inspire your commentary here is a video of Bangkok sinking, it's from Al-Jazeera English. I know some of the commentators don't like Al-Jazeera (shocking), so here is a raw video of the sinking streets of Bangkok, here is also some related literature from American sources... Time.com, usatoday.com.

A group called OECD released some some interesting details and graphs about who Climate change will effect in monetary and population terms. MSNBC Reports.
PARIS - The number of people threatened by coastal flooding due to climate change could more than triple by 2070 and the value of exposed property could balloon to $35 trillion, according to a report released Tuesday by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development...Read More...


Top 10 Most Cities Likely to be Impacted.
1. Calcutta, India
2. Bombay/Mumbai, India
3. Dhaka Bangladesh
4. Guangzhou, China
5. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
6. Shanghai, China
7. Bangkok, Thailand
8. Rangoon, Myanmar/Burma
9. Miami, USA
10. Hai Phong, Vietnam

Top 10 Populations exposed
1. BombayMumbai, India
2. Guangzhou, China
3. Shanghai, China
4. Miami, USA
5. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
6. Calcutta, India
7. New York, USA
8. Osaka-Kobe, Japan
9 Alexandria, Egypt
10. New Orleans, USA

Top 10 Most Financially exposed Cities
1. Miami, USA
2. New York, USA
3. New Orleans, USA
4. Osaka, Japan
5. Tokyo, Japan
6. Amsterdam, Netherlands
7. Rotterdam, Netherlands
8. Nagoya Japan
9. Tampa/St. Petersburg,USA
10. Virginia Beach, USA

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Mo Rocca appears on a bunch of shows, including CBS News Sunday Morning (with the indescribably wonderful Charles Osgood), The Tonight Show on NBC, and NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! He's a sometime judge on Iron Chef and was featured on Telemundo's Amore Descarado. Last year he starred on Broadway in the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. His expose "All the President's Pets" was published by Crown in 2004.



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Mo Rocca appears on a bunch of shows, including CBS News Sunday Morning (with the indescribably wonderful Charles Osgood), The Tonight Show on NBC, and NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! He's a sometime judge on Iron Chef and was featured on Telemundo's Amore Descarado. Last year he starred on Broadway in the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. His expose "All the President's Pets" was published by Crown in 2004.

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