I’m Still Here
The CBC reports that G7 leaders put G8 on hold ‘until Russia changes course’. Russia says that it doesn’t care that the showcased meeting in Sochi won’t take place, because they didn’t really want to be part of the ‘club’ anyway.
Vlad is letting the testosterone get the upper hand. Leaving the status of the Crimea unsettled was a better outcome than making it part of Russia. Putin has significantly reduced his ability to sway Ukrainian policy by removing all of the pro-Russian voters in the Crimea. This was badly handled by a man who should have known better.
The BBC reports on Dissent among scientists over key climate impacts report.
Actually this is just the summary of the report on the impacts of climate change, and some of the people who worked on the report think the summary is ‘too alarmist’. The purpose of this report was to list the possible problems if nothing is done to ‘fix the problem’. The US Pentagon already lists Climate Change as a major threat to peace and security in the world, so the IPCC report isn’t covering any new ground, it is just concentrating on specific problem that have already occurred, and pointing to other potential problems if nothing is done.
